BellaStrega

Well, it's the truth. I am a nerd. And a geek. But at least I'm a snappier dresser than the stereotype.

Yeah, the attempts to cram the invention system into the game's fiction were awkward and clumsy at best.

Crafting is usually meant to be part of the economy, although in some games it can often become tedious and expensive relative to the benefits it provides.

"Cortosis weave."

Fair enough.

Johnny caused invuln to get nerfed or invuln caused Johnny to get buffed? WHICH REVERSE?

I'm just saying, I like fighting elite bosses that don't have purple triangles. Your statement that you barely notice their presence shouldn't necessarily be the defining anecdotal experience for fighting them.

Correlation ain't causation. Just because you post in a thread that gets dev attention doesn't mean you are responsible for sparking a dialogue with the devs.

A lot of people posted in this thread, with concerns on both sides of the argument that are worth discussing. You're just one guy.

Being as I play characters that use and rely on control, I do notice it. Which is why I mentioned it. That you don't notice it doesn't make it irrelevant for anyone else.

Name some, as I don't recall ever seeing any.

Throw impale in there.

I don't really mind this, and characters seem to gain some reflection of their capabilities in cut scenes (like one character of mine telekinetically trashing a pair of blast doors) even if they're not workable in gameplay most of the time.

This has no relevance to what I said. CoH devs aren't going to change things without reason or justification.

My point is that people who disagree with the requested change have nothing to prove. The game is fine, working as intended. It's people who want to fight AVs in DA who need to make their case. People in this thread will agree or disagree, but ultimately, none of us is going to make any decisions about the content except the one regarding whether or not we make use of it, and with which characters.

It actually is progress, just uneven. Some things are retrograde (the way they do quest hubs) and others are actually new and innovative (implementing a single-player storyline for every class). There are also numerous quality of life improvements in various features that exist in other MMOs that do make getting around easier.

I'm not a Lucas slave and I'm not a die-hard Bioware fan, but the laser sword MMO is actually fairly good. They need to improve it a lot in the near future, however.

My problem would be if the EBs are then like other demoted EBs - that is, having AV resistances and purple triangles. I actually like the lack of such things in the DA arcs. Such a change could change things for everyone else.

Recruit him into the Green Lantern Corps. His job is to turn yellow things into not yellow things.

At least for the era in which he existed.

Like I said...

I am not arguing that all of the EU fiction is good (although some of it is - it depends a lot on the writer and editor, and it is not uniquely bad compared to original fiction). What I am saying is that licensed fiction has to go through a lot of hoops and approvals to fit the timelines and expectations that are consistent with the property. Fan fiction does not have to fit an existing structure, nor are there expectations of particular professional standards. I have done licensed work, as have many people I know personally.

Calling it licensed fan fiction is downright ignorant.

Edit: Since I do not believe your involvement in this discussion is even within spitting distance of "good faith," my responses aren't for your benefit. I don't respect you enough to even try to care about changing your opinion. I just want to post factual information to counter your nonsense.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Which is an interesting take, because KOTOR's only real departure from the backstory is having different characters and the in-game dates. Other than that, it's Star Wars. The other game is much the same - it fits the source IP in every way but the date (and much of the source IP is set within a similar time period).

I think that the backstory/setting is the least of the game's issues, and is likely one of the reasons it is doing as well as it is. Getting away from the purely inflammatory label of "licensed fan fiction"*

Huh, weird. I do get the MMO conventions in the other game, but I also do get the feel of the intended IP.

CoH is not that far removed from many MMO conventions as it stands. It does tend to make characters far more powerful than other games, whereas the other game in question tends to fit into the "three minions = one hero" formula someone said this game was designed around. Which is something most people haven't really mentioned.

The other game actually lacks a lot of MMO conventions as well, although different conventions, and it adheres to many very closely - more closely than CoH does. One being that in the other game, you can fight multiple mobs at once, even if not nearly as many as CoH.

It's not really a refuge for me. I haven't touched any other MMOs in well over a year, nor really many single player games (I played DA2 in January and a lot of Space Pirates and Zombies before that). I decided to check out what CoH looked like now and I really enjoy it. But I am simultaneously enjoying that other game.

* Something like this could only be said by someone who has never worked on a licensed IP before - I've worked with Buffy and Warcraft, among others, and had the acquaintance of someone who was writing a trilogy of Star Wars novels, and the process is generally fairly stringent and rigorous, and they won't hesitate to rough you up a bit (metaphorically) if your work doesn't fit their universe. In the case of Star Wars, the writer in question was told he couldn't use the word "toast," it had to be fried Alderaanian bread or some such thing. Which was weird, because "toasted" was used in the first movie, but whatever.

This isn't really my experience at all - I love playing Jedi and using lightsabers. I love playing any class in that game, really. Except maybe gunslingers.

The point I was making is that argument was made about KOTOR when it was announced: "Using an era from the comic books is a mistake. Departing from the movies will kill it." Hence its runaway popularity.

The problem with this particular MMO isn't the time frame, I don't think, not on a global scale. It's that it borrows from design trends that are a few years old without doing much to streamline many of those trends.

I usually forget I'm playing an MMO on that other game, for what it's worth. It's largely a single-player experience for me. With chat features.

This is all nothing but rationalization and excuses. If the damage scale is too high for scrappers, it's definitely too high for ATs that have a lower base damage scale, especially since the point of a lower damage scale is that their attacks are not intended to hit as hard, or to balance damage around a mechanic like Fury. Speaking of which, Fury throws your entire explanation about brutes out of whack, since brutes are able to approach and rival scrapper damage due to having the ability to buff themselves and having a high damage cap when teaming.

Also, throw spines does the same damage that foot stomp would do in a scrapper's hands.

Also, titan weapons/whirling smash on scrappers is a 15' AoE.

All I ever wanted was an animation pass.