Zekiran_Immortal

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan View Post
    good point...



    I've never actually seen that but that does sound creepy. I think next Halloween, when I'm not so keen on getting the rare zombie invasion and we're chok-a-blok with the event, I may just fly around a bit to see that...
    You think, "oh gosh the zombies are coming! I know, I'll be safe up on the War Wall!"

    AND THEY CRAWL THROUGH THE WALL'S LEDGE.

    Seriously, best event ever.
  2. As a 60 month vet you get access to actual travel powers at level 6 when the pools open. No OTHER pool powers that way, but the 4 travels.

    And there are a lot of us, actually...

    But yeah you can still get a reasonable ability to get around at level 5 or 6 doing mayhem/safeguards, and if you act appropriately polite and sensible about it you can just get on a supergroup with a teleporter setup.Travel is not an issue, really.
  3. [quote=Neg_rogue;2184560]
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    Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal View Post

    I guess you missed the part where I said I'm trying to catch up to my friends?
    Sidekick, and then SOLO some. It's not that hard. Make your OWN teams. Dont' just stand there broadcasting. Find the right level area, open your "find team" tab and start sending tells politely. there are teams.
  4. [quote=Neg_rogue;2184510]I know, sorry. It's just I usually play only with my brother and some other RL friends but they're all higher level than me so I'm having to play catch up and it's really frustrating.[/quote

    Sidekicking exists since early on in the game. use it.

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    Before I could get to lvl 20-30 in 2-3 days. Now in the same amount of play time it's more like...

    Day 1: lvl 10
    Day 2: lvl 12
    Day 3: lvl 14
    Day 4: lvl 16
    Looks like a good plan of keeping you playing the game, to me. besides, WHY do you "need" to rocket through the levels?

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    Of course, it may just be like that on villain side which I am unfamiliar with because I've only really ever played heroes. If I was playing on hero side again it'd probably be a lot faster.
    Why do you need to go faster on the side of the game where the stories are all uniformly better and more fun to go through?

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    I got on for an hour last night and broadcasted in Port Oakes and didn't get anything, and was surprised to find I was really the only person looking for a team at all.
    Then broadcast is your least useful tool like someone else said. If you're just here to piss and moan about it that's nice, but... you ask in your thread title if the game got slower. No, it didn't.

    We've had several changes to Xp curve, reduced debt, the addition of the AE, AND patrol xp. All those things make leveling easier. But again: if you're trying to play the game, don't try and speed through it. At least enjoy the first time around if you're not playing villain side much. I've finally started enjoying my redside ride, and note my join date. Villains stuff is way better written, and they would like to keep you playing / paying as long as possible. Thus... Why speed?
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Imoba Strife View Post
    That would look interesting 300ft in the air...

    Try flying while there's a Zombie Apoc on. They do that. It's spooky.

    Of course, then they *fall*, but...
  6. Zekiran_Immortal

    Travel Powers

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Imoba Strife View Post
    And my archery blaster can attack himself to an arrow using some rope and fire himself into the sky!

    ...

    *cough*

    ...


    No? aww
    lol archery.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Demoth View Post
    Well, mainly this was posted to warn the developers not to listen to the small but vocal minority that wants to nerf the AE and force more super grouping into the game.
    ... I have no idea where you're seeing this happening, because it certainly isn't in THIS game.

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    Now would be the worst possible time to cave to the people whining about not being able to find PUs anymore.
    There have been plenty of whiners here about exactly that. The fact that they're outnumbered often 10-15 to one by people who can list off many things they're not doing or doing wrong, means that no one really takes them seriously already.

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    I also feel that many new players have been lost to this game because it does start out pretty difficult for a new player.
    Again: THIS game?!

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    Leveling to 14 is the most tedious part of the game, constantly running out of endurance and having to street travel with sprint.
    If you redefine "tedious" as "lots of fun dinging every couple minutes" sure. ... If you didn't use sprint while fighting, you wouldn't run out of endurance. Problem solved. next!

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    You really do not feel like a super heroe at this point.
    I do. You must not be playing something you *enjoy*.

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    A few wrong choices in powers and now the new player is looking at what seems forever to get his travel power and stamina. No respec until 24.
    But to a new player they neither know nor care whether their choices are "wrong". Plus, doesn't matter: you screwed up at level 6! oh noes! ... START OVER. DING, done! back to 6 in less than an hour. As for stamina: don't need it. Not everyone "needs" it. If you do, you probably will want to ask around for help on your builds.

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    For veteran players this is all meaningless. But I do feel it's the first 20 levels or so that should be made even easier with architypes like brute and scrapper pretty much hand held in the direction of stamina and a travel power each level.
    I'm a 60 month vet, and I start the game at level 1 just like someone who's picked it up off a shelf. Why is it meaningless?

    ** Yes, I have several vet reward powers that I love to use at early levels - and whenever a newcomer sees me using them, they ask how I got it, and then they're hyped because *they can eventually get one too*.

    Again: if you NEED stamina, you're not playing well.

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    Let people coming out of CO start soloing around quickly with actual super powers and not constanty resting for endurance.
    ... Champions Online hasn't even exited beta yet and has a long way to go before people that are IN it think it's worth having live. How about let them kill their own game and play experience, they'll find out about this game soon enough. Or, of course, *come back to it* like most of them doubtless will.

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    This would tend to retain many more of them.
    Again: let the other game sink or float on its own merits.

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    Maybe get rid of training enhancements and just replace em with DOs then drop SOs to 18.
    Now THIS I agree with. Enough with the trainings.

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    And explain to new players about the 3 enhancement cap. Something that major should be documented in game. Perhaps even a easy to obtain and solo respec quest at level 12, and bumping stamina over health in the fitness pool.
    The raw numbers are right there in front of you when you place enhancements, or hadn't you noticed that? been there a while in fact. Plus, it IS explained in the game. You just have to actually think to LOOK for that and there it is.

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    I think a problem with this game is it seems really tedious for the first 20 levels
    For YOU.

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    and then, if you made your build right, it totally kicks ***.
    My builds kick *** right off the character generator. I don't know what you're doing to gimp yourself in those first bunch of levels, but I use them to learn how I'm going to slot and make future improvements with the next bunch of powers I get. The powers are all listed right there in your power tab, you know. You can always *look at those* before assigning your next slot or power...

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    I personally have a few friends who have tried this game and did not continue past the first 20 levels.
    Their loss, but I strongly suspect that you had a hand in complaining about those early levels to them and may have tainted their own experiences... Everything you've said so far, tells me you hate playing this game until you've got an "I Win" button. It's got nothing to do with teaming and nothing to do with CO, it's all about you don't seem to know how to slot, use your endurance enhancements wisely, and try rushing up to the middle of the game before you're really happy with what you've made.

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    It would not effect overall balance in any way to simply make the lower and tedious levels into easy mode.

    Just some thoughts...
    They already ARE tremendously easy. With the leveling curve in the mid and later levels now, with reduced debt, with PATROL XP especially... You can breathe hard on the keyboard and level. Whatever it is you're doing, I don't think you've got it down very well. You might consider heading up into the archetype sections and asking for some build assistance.
  8. Zekiran_Immortal

    CoH vs. HL2?

    While I do see the similarities, they ARE also both trying to get across the "evilbadnastyfascists" of their respective universes. Plus, the original 2004 logo for COH's guys is very different and much closer to the earthly nazi sign than the newer Council one.

    >_> oh how I wish someone'd make a Gmod/AE combination... And we need crowbars in this game.
  9. You can select between the different sword models in ice and fire I believe, it's a start.

    Patience grasshopper. They know.
  10. It's just you. I think they're behind her body by a little.

    She would make an interesting foil / enemy / friend? to my Winter's True Spirit who is an ice/kin spirit and summoned/reawakened when the Winter Lords attempted to take over.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    Awww, I think they're just trying to get to the bus on time! If there ever ARE busses.
  12. Yea it's definitely still there. Sometimes Imageshack and Photobucket have issues. Also, sometimes photobucket and imageshack are forbidden on 'company' type computer networks...
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by IanTheM1 View Post
    Doesn't Guild Wars allow you to re-do your powers/stats whenever you're in a town?

    Of course why this turned into an argument of precedent I'm not quite sure.
    From the OP's first statement:

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    It'll take people a whole five seconds to figure out where this idea comes from, but frankly I don't care.
    They're using a game that hasn't yet even come out of beta, for comparison to something that we already have plenty of and better forms.
  14. I barely even know how to FIND the palace, lol. If folks are on teams, there could be an overseer (lol shards) to keep watch on their powers in the team window?
  15. YES. This would be good, I know that some folks have to change their settings if they want to play in, say Grandville, and that'd make a great QOL for them. Even if it still had to take the logout time, restarting by itself would be perfect.
  16. The "shape" of the nose SLIDER is a wedge. And no it doesn't look anything like "a nose"

    However, given that it's 'using whatever we've got' there ARE some ways to really make a great looking character.



  17. Well, it's not a qol if it involves lots and lots of programming - which this would - but the idea's been brought up time and time again. It'd be fun but really a single-person sg base is *not* hard to make, and you can rp the rest.

    Heck the other day I was playing with a guy on a trial (though he'd played before, and his bro deleted the account so no vet rewards for HIM) and we went into the Hollows. I was on my first 50, and it was hilarious becuase he was finishing up Flux's arc - and in character, ever since the Hollows opened, Retail Retali8r (my 50) has lived up in the 3rd floor apartment over where Flux *used* to stand. They moved him, she was disappointed. I flew around the windows a while, it was nostalgia
  18. But just because you've see it in another game (I don't see which game? please do define which one?) doesn't mean that the engine for this game can handle it - or that it's any kind of reason to do so. Go up and read War Witch's explanation again. It's not an awesome idea because it adds nothing, and done improperly if it WERE to change anything and not be only a potentially client-sided event, it WOULD cause difficulty on a lot of lower end systems and with people who have slower connections.

    "A lot of people who complain about lag" you say - yes, yes indeed.

    And they too pay their 15 bucks a month to be able to play. So, if it adds or changes nothing, and it would take up lots of dev time to implement: it's not a good idea at all.
  19. So I think we have a "none" on that 'precident for allowing full playbox respec before trying it on live character'?
  20. Zekiran_Immortal

    Life time access

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    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    *coughhellgatelondoncough*
    I mean of games that ACTUALLY SHIPPED... That was just... a money sink. A gullibility tax.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    For powers, I believe it's because some powers just look flat out terribad with some colors
    This. It's been said several times as well, on my video thread as well as other places: they don't want pee-ice or blood-ice. It's just something that would be distasteful in so many ways, they decided against allowing it.

    Perhaps at some later time we'll get a variety of other options for each: crystals or ice or blobs of snow, etc.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by joefrompa74 View Post
    yeah i agree with you, some rain/thunderstorm and wind blowing leaves would be nice.. and i don't think there would be lag they added snow for winter games and its fine.

    No, they never added snow in the air. For the duration of the winter event the first year it was run (notice that it wasn't run this way again) they replaced the zone bg's basically, they didn't ADD anything. And yes, it would lag.
  23. >_> I've never heard of anyone with this problem. Maybe you should be more specific and ask around in the tech area about it. I've done it, never had a big problem with lag. Everyone's rig and connection are different, running different background programs and the like. So... your issue is not universal, and might be solved some other way than possibly making changes that might MAKE any bugs or problems universal...
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit View Post
    There's burritos?
    There was a time when the stores images were overwritten by the El Super Mexicano restaurants. The interiors were the same, but they didn't have the sign, it was the food place sign instead. Thus, gags about buying certain enhancements at a fast food place... badump bump?