EvilRyu
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Quote:Also I have been to Mc Donald's where they have closed the drive thru as well as not having things that are listed on their menus. So try again.Originally Posted by Tourettes
This isn't going to be a rant...but it's certainly not pleasant to hear. (Could not find a forum to post dissatisfied issues w/ the game, so if a Mod sees this and wishes to put it in the proper place please do so)
Live Server Publishes. Why so many of them? And who gave them my work schedule? Seems EVERY SINGLE TIME I have some hours to play w/o kids, the wife, or work...there's an unexpected 4 hour maintenece, or live server publish. Wait...don't they have a once a week Server Maintence? Oh yeah...that's Thursdays.
Honestly, I cannot WAIT for my subscription to go "Free" because I love this game. Really I do. But it NEVER fails to piss me off to a degree it's hard to describe to any person who doesn't have rage issues when random LONG intervals of playtime are interrupted for no real reason.
I worked for a game company for a while. They had a policy that NO ONE would dare break. All patches went in on patch day. PERIOD. There had to be some kind of EPIC flaw in the game or exploit that hundreds of people were using to usher in a "hot fix". Most games are like that. Know why? People will not continue to pay for something that's not available to them at their convenience. Imagine if McDonalds closed all their drive thru's. Think people would still go there if it was a sit down only restaurant? Only die hard fatso's and parents.
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Quote:I think your being extremely hard on the devs. They hardly patch come paired to some games. Rift patches almost daily and forces manditory respec if such patches change the powers significantly. How would you feel if CoX did that? And those guys have a smaller dev team than we do as far as I know. Seriously you just need to open up more time you are available to play and keep in mind **** does happen from time to time that needs patching.Originally Posted by Tourettes
This isn't going to be a rant...but it's certainly not pleasant to hear. (Could not find a forum to post dissatisfied issues w/ the game, so if a Mod sees this and wishes to put it in the proper place please do so)
Live Server Publishes. Why so many of them? And who gave them my work schedule? Seems EVERY SINGLE TIME I have some hours to play w/o kids, the wife, or work...there's an unexpected 4 hour maintenece, or live server publish. Wait...don't they have a once a week Server Maintence? Oh yeah...that's Thursdays.
Honestly, I cannot WAIT for my subscription to go "Free" because I love this game. Really I do. But it NEVER fails to piss me off to a degree it's hard to describe to any person who doesn't have rage issues when random LONG intervals of playtime are interrupted for no real reason.
I worked for a game company for a while. They had a policy that NO ONE would dare break. All patches went in on patch day. PERIOD. There had to be some kind of EPIC flaw in the game or exploit that hundreds of people were using to usher in a "hot fix". Most games are like that. Know why? People will not continue to pay for something that's not available to them at their convenience. Imagine if McDonalds closed all their drive thru's. Think people would still go there if it was a sit down only restaurant? Only die hard fatso's and parents.
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Quote:Quoted as the Gospel.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Riiiiiight. So the MMO you previously subscribed to is now allowing you to come back and continue playing *without* having to pay anything and you're ******** that they're not giving you all the stuff you used to have when you *were* paying them?
People truly astonish me sometimes.
This is one thing that gets me on this whole f2p business. The non-payers have absolutely no right to complain about anything. -
Quote:^^^This. I wouldnt even bother doing an upgrade because the cost can easily meet or exceed what a new system is going to cost.Originally Posted by SliceNDice
you won't notice much of an improvement with just the 2gb memory upgrade. add in a video card you will see an improvement, but really not much.
probably just save the money you would spend on buying these parts and put it towards something better might be the best thing to do, because then you are $45 to $100+ closer. -
For the most part it does not do anything unless you have buffed hps to begin with. Usually if your health is that low to have that level of resistance to begin with, the next hit will still kill you anyways. If you play a brute or tank or have tons of set bonuses/accolade powers for HP then it actually works out alot better and actually matters.
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WW employees get a 5 finger discount. Just how do you think the items on the black market get here.
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For me I hardly ever see large inspirations unless its an av kill at the early levels. Once I am above 20 or so I start to see large inspirations on boss kills.
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Quote:I kind of wish it made things harder. Its been way too boring since they wussified the respec trial many years back.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Just one other thing I thought of:
Never believe anything anyone tells you in game about how CoH works, because most of the time it's wrong
Or, more specifically, double-check anything anyone tells you in game about how CoH works because as with any game there's a huge amount of misinformation and misunderstanding out there. The old classic being "Don't click the glowies on the Respec trial, it makes the final room harder", which of course it doesn't, but it persisted as "fact" for years (and probably still does). -
Quote:^^^This definately. You can pretty much do almost anything with little to no support. There are maybe one or two things that would take way too much time to do with no support but everything else is definately doable. Lastly if you want to be the best that you can be definately use Mids and real numbers in game to maximize your build potential.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
There is no "required" team makeup; you can have an All Blaster team, an All Tanker team, a 7 Storm Defenders and a Scrapper Team (If you hate the scrapper ).
Just about any combination of powersets and archetypes can complete just about any challenge in the game (with a few extreme exceptions) as long as the players know what they're doing and have reasonable builds.
Also, Mids, Mids, a thousand times Mids. -
Quote:The best debuff is dead mobs, so all that is a wash when it comes down to it.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
Because a defender has better buffs and debuffs.
Because a defender gets its support powers sooner.
Because a ... oh hell with it, just go look at the other "Corruptor vs Defender" thread in the Corruptor forums. Or was it Defender?
EDIT: Particularly, look at this post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...84#post3896784 -
Quote:I agree there definately.Originally Posted by Vel_Overload
I agree only from a Corruptor > Defender point of view.
Controllers and Dominators are have different playstyles entirely.
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So after a clean install and updated drivers it runs slower is what your saying? Have you checked for malware? If this system has not done much since install and its slower I am not sure what else to check for.
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Quote:Well considering the whole game would not work at all if you werent paying I think its fair. The whole point of this is to get people to wanna sub or pay more money and they give them too much that defeats the purpose of that.Originally Posted by Ardrea
I also think the disabling of existing IOs is a bit harsh for a returning veteran on premium. It might be better to disable -slotting- IOs instead. A premium would be able to use existing IOs already in their powers, but not be able to slot new ones overtop the existing ones, or slot IOs in new characters. I see this discussed in game a lot too, and it really is putting off some returning vets.
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For stalkers in general you might want to go for set bonuses that give damage. It makes a significant impact as well but do this only after you have soft capped or go for the other needed stuff to help out your secondary.
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Slot it like you would a regular attack with a long recharge and moderate end cost. Aside for the interupt period the power has it can be used as a regular attack now so there is no reason not to slot it as such.
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Quote:Costumes are fine as I have several homage characters that never got genericed. I usually name them something close to what they are so people know it. For instance I did He-man with the new barbarian costume set. I named him the Eternian Prince. Everyone knows he is He-man and the name is not copy righted.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
All I have to contribute (after those well thought out posts above), is to be careful with your costume, name, and character description. It would suck to go through all the work to get it all just the way you like it, and for you to get Generic-ed because you "ripped off" a copyrighted intellectual property.
Others I have ripped of are
Emo Farm Boy SS/WP Brute- Clark Kent from Smallville
Emo Martian Mind/Psi Dom- Martian Man Hunter from Smallville
Emo Archer Arc/TA corrupter- Green Arrow from Smallville
SheWhoMustNotBeNamed- I think you all know who this is.
MakeMeFeelGood Demons/Pain MM- Halle Berry
Legendary Sannin Ninja/Thermal MM- 5th Hokage
Absolute Pwnage EM/WP Brute- Lil Mac from punchout
Kenja No Ishi Ele/Stone Dom- Edward from FMA
Dirty Razor Nin/Nin stalker- Ryu Hyabusa
Equalibrium Constant DP/Kin corrupter- that dude from equalibrium with the guns
Golden Sentai WM/SD brute- Gold Ranger
Warrior Spartain DB/Elec- Kratos from God of War
These are just a few I have done with nice costumes. Others I have seen that are still around were a female version of Robin spelled Robyn, female wolverine, Powerboy male version of powergirl (weird I know), Prince of Asguard-Thor rip off, Apophis goauld done as a warshade, Selmac Tokra done as a peacebringer. -
Here is a thought. Since WP has stolen so much of Regen's thunder what about taking part of it back? I was thinking maybe its possible to spec a regen in such a way that its closer to WP. While I know defense wont be possible without broadsword or katana I am just going to forgo that part since its just a cruch that makes the set not look as bad as it is and work on resistance and regeneration as well as HP. In a sense what I want to try is to get enough passive regeneration that it equals a fully saturated RttC when instant healing is not in use. Essentially I do not want to use instant healing unless I just absolutely have to. While I have seen how most folks say get as much recharge as you can that does not do a whole lotta good when we have so much -recharge right now. Its to the point where red side is just a freaking death sentence for any regen. This build I am trying work on will be for hero only brutes that will do most end game stuff aside from the incarnate trials. So you guys think this will be a waste of time or even possible?
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Just how many are there now and where do you get them and lastly what are the restrictions on the rewards from them.
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So when will it actually be free to new players? Can you give a rough date on this? Like by december? I know a few people who want to join but they want to try it out first. I would just send a trial to them but that option got removed on the account screen.
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Quote:I see that but the devs have tendancy to do a blanket fix to all the powers and not just specific ones, which end up having to be corrected later. I just want to make sure its not all critters.Originally Posted by all_hell
The notes specify Mission Architect.
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Can anyone verify this only applies to AE critter and not all critters. Its bad enough we deal with this kind of reduction of XP for Mogged critters, I would hate to see this apply to all critters with revive.
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Works just fine on mac no issues except for that market thing. Currently running Lion on mine. Just keep in mind if your buying a mac book pro you might want to wait a few weeks they are doing a refresh on the hardware soon so to ensure you get the latest and greatest I would wait. I sadly bought mine recently so I am going to miss out on the upgrade. If your going with a mac mini then that works just fine since they just did the refresh back in July. And if worst comes to worst and you still have problems you can always install windows on mac hardware. Its easy to get windows 7 for $30 these days.
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Ninjas are gonna need resistance and healing regardless of how much -tohit or defense you have. Its best paired with thermals unless you want to have a much harder time. Resists are needed so they just dont outright get 1 shotted and the heals are good to patch them up as needed.
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Let me just throw this out there. Aside from a few measely TFs and the alignment power why on earth would you not want to go full hero? Redside has always been depressing and not as rewarding as blueside. Besides being a full hero or dare I say it full villain allows you to get the merits that can be used for cheaper recipes.
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Quote:Basically after the creation of the VEATs the game changed. VEATs broke the mold pretty much. There is no excuse or reason why support ATs have to be crippled. The VEATs paved the way for the dom revamp. As a result of that and the addition of the judgement powers it pretty much made blasters loose alot of their purpose when everyone else on the team can nuke too. So if support ATs are doing so well why not allow pure damage to be so much better.What needs to happen is give them the huge damage increase. I do not see blasters leveling faster simply because they are going to still die alot. Faster level speed is going to easily be countered by more debt they get. I will admit the new defiance has helped alot but its no where near enough for the squishieness they must endure.Originally Posted by Obitus
That about sums it up.
The thing that's funny is that CoH is one of the few (only?) MMOs out there that doesn't have high-end boss fights where DPS is heavily emphasized. So the damage-is-the-only-rewarded-attribute thing holds true for most of the game, but there's really no content that emphasizes damage as a specialty. I tend to think that a huge boost in Blaster damage, a boost that corresponds with and compensates for Blasters' defensive shortcomings, would break the leveling curve in typical or low-end content, but it would still only make Blasters competitive with buff/debuff in terms of team attractiveness at the high end. It would even be unlikely to make Blasters (unreservedly) the best soloists, though they probably would be the fastest to level.
Anyway, yeah, I agree with your assessment and understand why Blasters are unlikely to get a significant offensive boost anytime soon. What I don't understand, though, is why at this late point in the game's development -- when we have Dominators and VEATs and whatever else running around at comparable-to-Blaster levels of damage output on top of massive advantages elsewhere -- it's somehow forbidden to give Blasters some sort of defensive/utility/whatever boost.
I also don't understand why ranged damage still pays such a high premium. Blaster ranged DPS is by no means uber; depending on what set you play, it can be rather anemic in the grand scheme of things. It's only when you consider things like AoE or melee attacks that Blasters really begin to shine offensively, and those aren't strengths universal to the AT -- nor is the AT, ironically, particularly well-suited to leverage AoE damage even ignoring survivability, given Blasters' general lack of options to prevent scatter.
(Yes, I've considered taking Provoke on my Fire Blaster. )
This is all barely relevant though. Apologies for the tangent. Nukes obviously pay too high a price for the damage they do. The fact that they basically force you to be detoggled, on top of the 6 minute recharge timer and the 20-second recovery debuff, seems gratuitous in an age when mezzes no longer even detoggle player characters. Personally and for what little it's worth, I'd be happy if the crash were simply reduced to 99% of your end instead of 100% -- but there's no good reason not to see nukes improved more than that.
One of the biggest mistakes in this game that I wish they would address in CoX 2 if we have one is that they get rid othe grand canyon size gap in soloing speed where its not justified. I think this as a whole has lead to the infinite spiral of nerfs we have had over the years. Players should play sets for the look and feel of it all not because one solo's so much better than the others. Kill speed should only be drastically different in the case of blasters simply because they are naked in terms of defense compared to the other ATs. Blasters should be the only ones with huge gap in solo or kill speed. Lastly the debt system should have been made to scale based on how survivable you are. Tanks should get more debt for dying than say blasters. And also for the love of Gawd make debt actually mean something instead of being so watered down like it is now.