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Originally Posted by dbuter

I think the world is ready for City of Heroes 2. It needs better graphics, vastly improved gaming engine, more customizations, etc. CoH is a great game, but it is REALLY showing its age.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I'm not actually trying to rib on the guy. Not this time, anyway. For the first time in the SSAs, I saw someone acting better than the bottom-of-the-barrel incompetent tool that I'd come to expect of the Freedom Phalanx. The Statesman was calm, controlled and coordinated. He acted like a hero, like the hero he SHOULD BE! I was amazed at that, genuinely. Once upon a time, I asked for ideals in this game, and in his final moments, the Statesman does act like one. I find that commendable.

The thing, though, is I'm not sure I can follow his logic all the way through, even with your explanation. He flew away so he wouldn't murder somebody, I get that. But once he cooled off, why NOT call the team and say "Hey, folks, I'm in Europe. I picked up Darrin's trail. Just thought you should know I'm not dead yet." Even if the guy felt like he didn't need any backup - and with his power, that's understandable - why NOT fill your team in on your investigation and ask them if they haven't, by any chance, uncovered evidence that Darrin Wade knows how him? You know, get all the information you can before you confront the guy who's been taunting you.

What I'm saying is it seems like the Statesman is being pulled in two different directions with this arc. He's heartbroken and irresponsible, but then at the same time, he's really not. I can see him being either one or the other intermittently, but he can't be both at the same time, and at the time when he's NOT heartbroken, they why is he still acting distant? I'm not even talking about issuing an apology or calling for backup. Just pick up a phone and go "Hi, I'm in Italy about to attack Wade. Tell me everything you've learned about him so I know what to expect."

It makes sense for the Statesman to not call for info or backup mostly if his judgement is compromise, which it really isn't right at the end, is what I'm saying.



I have one of those, but it only helps with simple NPC dialogues where I can infer its context just from the text. However, because NPC chatter often comes out in a jumbled order AND in that particular fight where each comment corresponds to what happened in the actual battle, it's just impossible to follow any of it. Like I said - that's nine characters, each of which says about five or six lines of text, all of which get recorded out of order in my NPC Dialogue tab, and it's just a monumental chore to read. I mean, I can read the text, but I can't understand it and I certainly can't appreciate the wit behind it when combat is long since over.

It seems to me like whoever's writing the NPC speech bubbles and captions is doing so as if the game has live actor voice-over so you can absorb the words without having to take time away from fighting. Thing is, the game DOESN'T have voice-over narration, and someone of limited cognition like me can either fight OR read, so anything that is said in a fight, I'll probably miss, or if I try to read it, I'll probably die. If it's just one speech bubble, I can manage, but if there are multiple of them coming from multiple sources, it's just overwhelming.

The funny thing is that it's significantly harder for me to just read the frikkin' text than it is to beat the people who are saying. And that just isn't right.



OK, I admit. This had me laughing out loud

It's funny, because it's true. Ouroboros, the Midnight Club, Vanguard, they're all accepting genuine villains in their ranks. And I don't mean anti-heroes, I mean player villains from red-side. Not only that, but this drive to find the middle point between heroes and villains, rather than providing an experience that appeals to both, just ends up providing an experience that appeals to neither.

See, it can't be all bad because then heroes would refuse to do it, so content has to be hero-centric. But it can't be all good because villains would feel out of place, so all the contacts are largely heroic, but they're complete ******** about it. Levantera, for instance, spends half her time telling you you're cooperating with villains and the other half acting like a villain trapped in a hero's storyline. Similarly, we have Mender Tesseract, a complete and utter *****, in an organisation our heroes are supposed to be working with. Feh!

So, yeah, having a villain in your world-saving super team does seem to make sense when you put it like that.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

They could also add pvp elusivity to defense sets in pve, if that's even possible. Don't get me wrong, I'd just as soon see the defense sets all get buffed with non-defense mitigation or other tools to bring them on line with the other sets that are now adding soft-capped defense on top of their already solid non-defense mitigation.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

So all we need to do is encourage more comic book artists to google search women's bodies, and problem solved.

Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad

All this is true. Though I wouldn't have thought 'women are less able to tolerate it', as it's false. It's also not what I got from the article. Rather, I think the perceived damage comes from the possibility that these oversexualized images may influence a man's image of women. Hence 'objectifying', 'demeaning', 'man's power fantasy'. A man influenced by these sources who treats women in a certain way as a result of this influence *is* being sexist.

I think you're right and the definition does need to be revisted more often - people (including me) associate it with being similar to racism: a person who writes racist propaganda is a racist, a person who reads it might not be, a person who is influenced by it is.



When I was growing up and collecting comics books both my sister and mother found the way women were drawn in comics as 'childish' and 'silly' over 'insulting', so I personally have always assumed that's the default position of most women (as perception is heavily influenced by familiarity). As a result I, too, consider the way women are drawn in comics to be 'silly' over 'sexy'. It's the way they're often written or the situations they're often subjected to that I consider 'sexist'.

At this point, I can all but guarantee that in just a few paragraphs you'e put more thought into said thesis than the guy who parroted it for his article (it's not his thesis - writers and stand up comedians have been joking about it for years).

Originally Posted by Twigman

Personally, I think they should combine the [toggle] AoE with the [toggle] ranged and add a new power to it. Maybe a Per enemy Res bonus. Like an inverted invuln. Basically a AoE.

This same concept applies to a regen as well. Both those sets need an AoE so they are useful tanks.

They could combine fast healing and the recovery into one power to make room.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Pretty much what the title says;

Level 1 - Focused Fighting
Level 2 - Focused Sense
Level 4 - Dodge
Level 10 - Practised Brawler
Level 16 - Evasion
Level 20 - Lucky
Level 28 - Agile
Level 35 - Quickness
Level 38 - Elude

Putting it bluntly, having a total AoE hole in a set that focuses purely on positional defences is daft and annoying in equal measure, given that AoE covers not just ranged AoE but melee as well, the supposed focus of a Scrapper.

Brutes get their Evasion at level 20. Tanks get theirs at 12, for heaven sakes. Yes, they have defence as their primary, and it has a taunt aura baked in, but what possible logic dictates it equal that Scrappers and Stalkers have to wait 34 levels before they get actual AoE protection? Stalkers at least have hide, and Lucky is baked into their version of Evasion. Scrappers get up to a measly 7% at level 28, before finally getting Evasion at 35.

Given that defences have changed a lot since their creation, and that currently everything SR apparently does 'well' looks to be overshadowed by pretty much every other set (WP; has high defences, regen and resistances. Shield; comparative defences, better offence. Invulnerability, even, can get massive defences with some IO slotting, although admittedly thats not a base layer to work off)

So, would it really be a bad thing to give SR it's main defensive powers at a more sensible level?
Just my 2 inf.

Originally Posted by Lulipop

Though if I was a Super Heroine, unless I was meeting with the Queen or a President/World Leader, I don't believe I'd find that more clothing means a more professional look, or more appropriate. Even then, due to being able to crush said person with ease I wouldn't over dress due to their titles. I'd be respectful to a certain degree, but I wouldn't make myself uncomfortable.

Guys writing those comics just envision a super heroine based off the Media and what sells. Everyone knows that sex truly does sell, especially to the younger crowds. Why not make a beautiful woman, well to put it nicely, sexy? I just don't see why it should be called sexist when aquaman swims around in biker shorts or some type of Chasity belt only. That character, and others, like Conan, were drawn by men. Does that make the creator homosexual? Does that make him wrong? Why not if he isn't? Heroes have always been seen as spandex, and cleavage. Not business suits (in battle), and carrying a briefcase of arrest warrants for villains. Meh~eh.

Originally Posted by Agonus

Originally Posted by TeChameleon

I don't know. The costume could work with some minor tweaking- I like Punky Yang conceptually, but the leather-armour-belly shirt just looks so incredibly silly to me that I have a hard time getting past it. Maybe a jean jacket..?

Originally Posted by Codewalker

They need to rethink that. She's not acting like an 18/19 year old in the Faultline arcs and LGTF, and she's definitely not acting like a 23/24 year old in the leaked arc.

Either drop the retcon and go with physical appearance (13/14 in Faultline, 18/19 "now"), or rewrite the character to act her age.

Originally Posted by Xzero45

How? If her explanation worked, she would instead have a big blank white space there instead of a big hole. You sew an emblem into the clothes, not into a hole you create for some absurd reason.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

I can't remember exactly the exact bonus damage, but I think body gives extra smashing damage, mind gives extra psionic and soul gives extra energy damage.

I think it is better to include Sky in the attack chain rather than trying to save 15% damage buff for other inferior attacks.

Originally Posted by Wavicle

For Martial Arts they could make it so for Stalkers the first Storm Kick within 2 seconds after a successful hit with Eagle's Claw is a small cone. That way it's strategic.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

1. I think Body form only gives up to 15% with 3 stacks, not 20%. (Unless they've changed it recently??)

2. While it is true that not using Sky Splittery or Eye of Storm keeps 15% damage buff on you, you have to consider that releasing SS also gives more damage? This number SS - 3.036 - 184.18. Does it include that extra damage?


3. You can't reliably build Focus with attacks that have recharge less than 8s. I've tested this in beta. This means you don't really need to push Assassin Strike's recharge that low because you may not get 3 stacks. Missing an attack also doesn't give Focus.