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Quote:Originally Posted by Fulmens
I haven't tried the Barracuda SF.
But this makes me laugh and laugh:
My first Manticore took seven hours. Zero defenders, zero controllers [well, one who we lost in the first 15 min], one server crash, one power outage to the house where 3 of us were playing.
Truly we've lost our edge.
Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
I once ran a Dr. Q TF that took something like 8 hours. Of course that was like 5 years ago before IOs, most temp/veteran powers and the like. At this point I can't really remember the last time I ran a TF/SF that took much more than 2 hours. Often times they're more like 1 hour without even seriously trying to rush through them. Basically seven years of experience has its advantages.
Is it possible that our past experiences with 7 and 8+ hour TF's have left us jaded when we see comments about 3 hr TF's? Are we the old geezers tellin the younguns how good they have it because back in the day we had to have a full 8 man team walk 5 miles uphill in the snow barefoot just to start a TF?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
Now I won't be as brutally harsh about it as Forbin_Project was, but I do believe people who think specific ATs are required on certain TF/SFs have, at the very least, not considered there are multiple ways to accomplish the same goal. *shrugs*
Well, I've never pretended to have any skills in diplomacy. I've always just said whats on my mind, tho I've always been willing to apologize if someone convinces me I was wrong. -
Quote:I'm sorry you feel that way Larker, because I didn't mean for you to take offense. I just feel certain that the devs went out of their way to make sure that players can complete the games content without being forced to rely on having a specific AT to finish anything. Tho I'll admit I can't say that for the new incarnate stuff as my graphics cards died mid December and I haven't been able to do that content.Originally Posted by The_Larker
Wow FP, gonna have to disagree with you on this.I've ran every tf/sf in this game and been successful on everyone except the 'Cuda.I've also tried running it 3x and failed each time for various reasons and one of them being that we didn't have the necessary AT to get Reichsman debuffed.
Each of these 3x I have had a solid team buffers,debuffers,damage,etc.One time our main debuffer was getting undue aggro from the mob and I couldn't taunt fast enough without them getting killed.(repeatedly)
Another time Reichs kept targetting my mm over and over again(repeatedly), the first time I forget thinking we lost 2 key members due to rl aggro(hubby and wife).
I've been able to finish a LRSF with only a stalker,brute,kin corr, and a mm and sometimes only had 2 ppl to finish a few others.I pride myself on my ability to defeat the best this game has to offer.Even though the 'Cuda in my mind is a black mark on my reputation in this game.
So now my question, does this mean I'm a poor player too?
Because, in those instances I got fed-up and tired of trying to defeat something that seemed impossible sure we could have finished it but, who wants to be on a 3 hr tf?
I gotta admit FP this is perhaps the only time that I feel that you really said something out of turn.Maybe I'm looking too much into it or maybe you meant someone specific.I hope cuz I tell ya brother I just felt like I got smacked in the face.
Now please don't confuse what I said about requiring an AT with teams being harder when players disappear for whatever reason and the remaining players are forced to take up the slack. Disappearing players can easily screw up the remaining members ability to complete a TF.
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Quote:I've been playing 7 years and I have never run across a TF/SF that required you to have a specific AT in order to complete them. In my experience only poor players use that as an excuse for not being able to finish things.Originally Posted by Hube02
Not only should the TF/SF tell you how many players is required, but when specific ATs are required in the mix to have a prayer of completing it, that information should be plainly and easily available. There is nothing at all like starting something and wasting hours only to find out that you didn't have a chance from the very beginning.
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Quote:Are you kidding? There's got to be at least half a dozen TV tropes that would justify it happening.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Yes, in the REAL world. But in this TV fiction this doesn't happen. And if it did it wouldn't make the news as Flemming controls it. I don't know about you but I don't search YouTube for unreported news stories.
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Quote:Exactly. There are far too many sources of information out there for Flemming to control it all, and far too many idiots with camcorders and nothing better to do than videotape stuff.Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Flemming may control all the media in town but does he control everyone else? When I wanted to find out what had happened to a restaurant I frequent after driving past and noting that the corner of the place was all boarded up, I turned to the Internet. I didn't find the story in the local media but I did find a first hand account by someone who had been eating in the restaurant when someone pulled into a parking space without slowing down and plowed through the corner of the restaurant before stopping. This included a number of pictures of the aftermath.
We live in a time where almost everyone has a cell phone and almost all cell phones have cameras. Few things of note happen without someone being on hand to take a picture of it which is why we're starting to see things like laws against taking pictures/video of police officers performing their duties.
Just tonight there was a story on the local news taped by some A***ole who stood filming an old woman being attacked by 3-4 street punks. -
Quote:I wasn't thinking about the train. The Cape should be getting tons of press after thwarting Dice and saving all those people from the explosion in the skyscraper.Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Gotta cut them a little slack for the train given that everyone on it was in costume and there was at least one other person dressed as the Cape. But yeah, people in general on the show act like idiots. Of course people on most TV shows act like idiots so that's nothing new.
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Quote:Agreed.Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Yeah, that bothered the hell out of me too. As well as a few other things. First, his kid is supposed to be like 10, but acts, talks, and looks like he's closer to 13 or 14. Second, I hope that second kid was only temporary to bring humor to this last episode, cause I know he's going to get on my nerves. And finally, when The Cape's kid is talking to his mom about trying to catch The Cape on webcam, and she says he doesn't exist. How is that possible?
This dude has appeared out in the open two of the last three episodes, teaming up with Fleming to stop the train, and then save him from an assassin. You mean to tell me not a single member of the press was around to take a picture, or that no one in Palm City has a cell phone camera? The Cape should've been plastered all over the news by now. Or at the very least be a much-talked-about urban myth.
The way the Cape keeps stalking his family is getting on my nerves. If the bad guys can take pictures FROM OUTER SPACE of him outdoors following his family around then the neighborhood watch can see the creepy guy in the hoodie that always hangs around in the shadows watching a certain house or hanging out near the school and playgrounds. Also if he's gonna hang around his family so much the odds of him getting spotted by someone who will recognise him go up astronomically.
I think someone is secretly contaminating the city's water supply with stupid juice cuz the whole cast has done some dumb things. -
Quote:Waiting at the end of a dead end street for the assassins to send more flying machine guns? (They didn't know the baddies couldn't send more. They didn't even know at that time the Cape was tagged with a locator beacon.)Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Or maybe they were staying there to wait for whoever sent it to show up and try finding them again? If you spring a trap, sometimes it's good to figure out who laid it.
If you are going to try to catch the person chasing you, you don't stay out in the open. Instead you set up an ambush by hiding where you can see them arrive but they can't see you.
The Cape is not only a cop who has been trained on how to do stake outs but ex military where setting up ambushes is part of the training. -
Quote:While that does draw a certain amount of confrontation I don't think it's anywhere close to the hostility I've seen in threads about the topics I mentioned. Some of those were down right nasty. I know for a fact at least one person got multiple forum accounts perma banned when the devs dropped the hammer on the first AE exploits and she came to the forums to vomit her venom and bile over getting punished and then started hopping accounts when the Mods enforced the forum rules on her.Originally Posted by McBoo
Or a swinging travel power!
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What the heck is wrong with Orwell? Did she take stupid pills this episode. No wait that's not fair she'd been doing stupid stuff all along.
Okay she and the Cape are confronted by a remote controlled vehicle that is trying to kill them and after the Cape takes it out both she and the Cape spend hours studying the vehicle in the exact spot where it crashed???
WTF?!?
Hello . . . Earth to dumb hot chick . . . you are supposed to be the paranoid computer geek. Start acting like it. Have you never heard of GPS? The assassins know exactly where their deathbot crashed. Get the frak out of the motherfrakking alley and take the damn deathbot underground where you know the damn thing can't be traced. You already know that concrete messes with it's signals when you ran into that short tunnel in the park.
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Much like PvP if vehicles aren't designed into a game from scratch then adding them later is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Sure it can be forced but it may never work right.
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Quote:After reading Grouchybeasts responses I'm getting the impression the OP may be on the EU side. Is the Mentor Project on their servers as well as the NA ones?Originally Posted by Ironblade
If you have any trouble finding the post about the Mentor Project, just follow the link in my signature. The Project has a global channel where we EXPECT to have new players with lots of questions.
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Quote:Not sure why that happend to you, but about Going Rogue or GR as it's abbreviated. When and if you get it make sure you upgrade your account so you get the benefit of both editions of the game.Originally Posted by ItsJames
WOW GUYS... O___o
I cannot be more thankful. Its great help
Ive just finished making my character went to play the tutorial level in Paragon city and was told i needed to enter the disk :S
And then it didn't work.
Would you recommend i just buy going rogue (digitally) and then play and there and learn?
Now people who didn't have a pre-existing account who got GR are required to make their first character a Praetorian which is the new "neutral" faction. (They haven't decided to become a hero or villain yet.) Once that first character is made they will then be able to make regular heroes and villains. You don't have to play the Praetorian if you don't want to. You can start making heros and villains either right after character creation or after you complete the Praetorian tutorial. I'm iffy on that part.
If you want access to the Going Rogue content and side switching features then you must buy Going Rogue otherwise you won't be able to participate in that aspect of the game. -
Quote:Doesn't just apply to video games. A friends daughter grew up with us playing our RPG's and table top mini games like Warhammer and she developed one hell of a backbone and didn't take sh** off of anyone including us.Originally Posted by Rylas
I'm not a parent, but I thought it pretty cool seeing video games being shown in such a good light. Of course, it could just be that dads who spend time with their kids make their kids happy, no matter what they do.
Girls Who Play Video Games With Dad Are Happier
Haz I bin scooped?
Of course the fact that we were all a bunch of foul mouthed veterans who religously gave each other a hard time while taking no lip off of any smartmouth stranger may have had a lot to do with it.
When she became a teen and started dating her idea of a fun Friday night was to bring her "boyfriends" to our weekly gaming sessions and drop him in with the sharks to see if he was good enough to get along with us. I can't guess how many losers we scared off for her.
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Been playing 79 months here so I think this is a great game. Hope you like it as much as I do.
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I'm sorry to /unsign this one but I think you are going to find that many people are of the opinion that leveling in this game is already ridiculously easy and it doesn't need to be made easier.
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Quote:I didn't say you did. The OP said he thinks respecs should be changed because he feels he needs to respec because of Fintess becoming and Alpha slots. Then you agreed they should be redone because of Fitness becoming inherent and players returning to the game.Originally Posted by Auroxis
Where did I say you have to respec?
With inherent fitness, more people are using the respec system, and therefore more dev attention should be spent looking at the respec system.
I merely pointed out that people don't need to respec just because Fitness became inherent. The devs didn't change how the Fitness Powers work. Swift, Hurdle, Health, and Stamina still work the same as they did before I19.
I'd also argue with the idea that just because someone is returning to the game doesn't mean that they need to respec their characters. If they are happy with their builds they can leave them as they are.
Now this doesn't mean that it wouldn't be nice if the respecs were adjusted to make them easier to use, it just means that I think they aren't very good for making a change. We can come up with better reasons than that. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
and if they could fix the part where it dumps everything on your trays, that would be the best possible thing i think they could do with it
Not saying I like it but I think that's working as intended because they have always had a specific /command to clear the trays. If it was broken they wouldn't have had the foresight to create the command.
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Quote:No one "has" to respec just because Fitness became inherent.Originally Posted by Auroxis
I think it's something that's definitely worth a look at, especially with inherent fitness and returning players.
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Quote:It was the first week that GR was launched. The previous time they allowed free transfers was during the Winter Event. They started it in December 2009 and carried it over until February 2010. GR was originally intended to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2010 but was delayed until August.Originally Posted by Bossa_Nova
They weren`t given to us with the purchase of GR. When the expansion was released there was a window of time in which you could transfer your toons for free. If you missed it, you m issed it.
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Quote:I'm sorry to hear you could have used a couple of transfers but missed out on when they were given. It always sucks when things like that happen. I and others agree with the Vet Reward idea, and we said as much in other threads on this topic.Originally Posted by angelo55
I've looked at all these complaints and I've played Triumph both Hero and villain. And villain sucks there. But not nearly as bad as the Guardian server! Holy mother it's so dead there. I've made three villains and one hero there. Hero is a Emp healer and still can't find any one past his his twenty's and frankly I could care less any more (he's boring). My villains I enjoy but be damned if I can group at east twice a month with any of them! Brute, Coruptor and a Veat. The Veat is 30 and the other two are stuck at at 27 and 28. Im tired of solo play. If I turn up the lvl restrictions I tend to get debt more often then playing at "even" lvls and just being a slow grind.
Now, I don't need free transfers handed out. What I would like is the idea for Vet rewards: Every two years you get (1) transfer token per server you have a char on. Of course this might even be doable at every year actually.
And I read there where free transfers given out. But I've been off for over two years and do you keep your transfers like respecs or loose them because I'd sure like to move off of guardian. I looked for the server channel for guardian and I can't seem to get a invite for it let alone find any one who will talk about it on the server?!
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Quote:Reminds me of a story someone posted just after GR went live. The team was in Praetoria and when one player realized another player was on a Stalker he started giving harassing him and demanding he be kicked from the team because Stalkers are villains and can't be on a heroic team.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
If this were to happen than people would be doing daft crap like "STF lf stone tanker MUST BE MUTANT!" and other guff.
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Any tips with Malta. I hate Sappers.
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Quote:The devs decision to minimize the impact Origins have on the game was the correct thing to do and it's too late to go back and screw things up now.Originally Posted by opprime28
So, thoughts?