Creole Ned

Balron has a level 39, 40, 50 and two 45 level characters? If that is even remotely close to being accurate, I'd suggest a wee bit of burnout might be occuring here. A break from the game may be a good thing at this point. Maybe even an intervention.

I have played a *lot* of this game and I've still only taken two characters past level 20. I can't even fathom playing enough to take multiple characters into the 40's.

I'm not interested in PvP, myself, and even if I was, I never got CoH with the expectation that it would be added anytime soon.

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The Outcasts are throwing around lots of powers within one single group... Hurricane, Lighting, Fire and Ice, not to mention Shockers healing! This is a big departure from the Game As We Knew It(TM).

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This is certainly a thorny issue for the devs. The game has sets of villains and as you play, you learn what to expect from each group. The changes in Update 2 made to existing villains were significant (even beyond the stuns many complained about) and I think a lot of people felt forced out of their "comfort zone" in fighting them. Players get used to things being a certain way and changing them, especially when the change is not perceived as for the better, results in a degree of alientation.

Myself, I would prefer to see new villains brought in with the additional powers rather than altering or adding more powers to existing villains. The problem with that is it takes a lot more work for the dev team to come up with new models, textures and so on.

By responding to the complaints quickly and effectively, I think Cryptic has demonstrated that they are willing to admit mistakes, fix them and move on. They definitely deserve kudos for that. No one likes admitting to mistakes.