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I played your arcs in the past and they were not better than these.
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Quote:This is a case where they can actually back up their words and prove to us they can write a better arc with better characters instead of hiding behind a keyboard and ranting because a preposition is in the wrong place for 3 pages.Since when are Sam and Venture people being paid by Paragon Studios to write arcs?
So I'm saying it: put up or, heaven forbid, shut up. -
Quote:And there is the problem: they weren't fun to YOU.Would that they were fun missions, but that's the final nail in the coffin - they aren't fun.
I had a blast doing them as a level 50. I liked the new characters. I liked interacting with people doing actual villainous things for a change in Mercy Isle. I liked that there was a telegraphed twist at the end instead of just another Longbow EB like so many villain arcs have.
I'm sorry it didn't meet some huge checklist of expectations you had in your mind, but you are but one player. And I am one player. So both of our opinions cancel each other out.
Also: you have spent longer ranting about this arcs than it takes to actually play them. You could have spent this time doing something, you know, fun. Unless ranting about insignificant things is how you find fun. -
Or maybe you giving it unnecessary scrutiny is the problem?
I'm sorry, Venture and Sam, but you guys aren't the barometer for how the normal playerbase will like and accept these arcs.
It was never set up as a "DO THESE ARCS AND YOU WILL CHANGE CLASSIC ROCK FOREVER" type deal where you leave knowing the game in and out. They were set up as arcs that put you headfirst into story arcs with different kinds of objectives (which they have), different kinds of boss encounters (which it has), and also sends you to some places that a lot of new players might not know about.
Sure, you and Sam know where to go to change your mission difficulty. But maybe the new players coming won't. And this teaches them at just the right time in their leveling career to use it so they aren't putting themselves on +4/x8 at level 4.
May I recommend you guys write a better arc? Because I have yet to see anything you two have written that's even on the same level of fun this arc provided for me. -
Crosscut just might be my new favorite character in the game.
His speech patterns and mannerisms are not unlike the wrestler Goldust. I'd imagine this would be what Goldust would have been like if he was still in the WWE around the time of Saw and Hostel.
But I also liked Zeph as he seemed to be written from Daniel Way's "How to write Deadpool Dialogue" manual. The fact that this game is actually making "blow" jokes to me is a nice change of pace, since for years this game has been less risky with its T-rating than iCarly is on Nickelodeon. -
Wow.
Just wow.
Really now? We're going to have people (or just Sam) posting 3 page long rants about spelling or syntax errors, some of which were probably intentional to set characters up?
I ran both arcs with my badger character and enjoyed myself. I'm sorry, Venture and company, but not every. single. arc. in this game needs to be a matter of life or death, especially a how-to arc at the beginning of the game.
The villain arc did something that City of Villains never was able to do before: it made me feel like the Arachnos/Chosen One stuff mattered but that doesn't mean I get to be a Mary Sue right out of the box. These are villain characters. Them calling me a n00b or an idiot or trying to set me up the bomb is to be expected. Yes, the twist at the end was telegraphed almost from the first mission, but that doesn't mean it's not miles above what we did have before: aimless missions that randomly sent you to fight Snakes one second, Infected the next, then Arachnos. -
I thought the Shooting Stars are was pretty great, considering what passed as story telling in the early levels of the game pre-Freedom. If I were joining the game for the first time, this arc would really make me feel like I was part of an established supergroup, especially that last heroes vs. villains face off.
The characters, though, are definitely playing on the various aspects of the playerbase.
And I can see why Flambeaux went emo and then ragequit: Twinshot effectively kills their supergroup at the end just because of her own past. I would imagine that Flambeaux is quite needy emotionally and the Shooting Stars were there to absorb most of that for Paragon at large. With no supergroup to pal around with anymore, she broke mentally. -
Oh, and then I found out you had to do all the new Atlas Park arcs to get Savior of Atlas Park, and I was like:
Then I did it and I was like:
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At first I was like this:
Then I was like this:
Then I joined an Underground Trial that failed at the first WarWalker and I was like this:
Then I continued playing for another 2 hours until it was 4 AM, which meant:
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Quote:I would send any information you have to Zwillinger or any other community rep in the community digest. Maybe also send it to Second Measures or Positron (if he's accepting PMs).Yes, I know, /bug. I have done that. It's still there.
I don't know whether I could use this to crash the server (or client). I don't really want to find out.
There is a bug in a few places in the game, among them the auction house, which could cause arbitrary hunks of memory to get overwritten in... well, let's just say I hope it would only affect the client. (Would be most obvious when bidding on things or listing them.)
Is there some way to get a bug report to someone who knows what a stack is and why it is bad to treat a random hunk of it as an address and write to that address? I'm trying to find the line between "make it clear that this is serious" and "avoid giving bad people any ideas".
The community reps will definitely see it as soon as possible and alert the devs. But if a dev catches it at the same time, you just might get yourself Bug Hunter. -
Also: the Star Trek animated series was just added to Netflix instant if you are so inclined.
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Oh darn it all to heck, I just logged in, accepted the EULA and then was alerted to the fact that I lost my right to party.
Well... what can I do? Fight for my right to party? Like that'll happen. -
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Quote:I'm going to assume he didn't camp Friggin' Taser because I got to it first or he's some kind of misguided fan of my style of posting.What the hell man? Was I not cool enough for you to steal my name?!?!?! I'M COOL! MY MOM SAYS SO!
Edit: Or he fails at life and camped Friggin' Tazer. -
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Just great, Westley. By reinstalling the game and accepting the new EULA, you just gave up your right against self incrimination. Damn you NC Soft Circa 1984!
And yeah, I jumped on Exalted pretty quick and name camped Friggin' Taser just to be safe. -
Quote:Oh crap, I just logged in and accidentally accepted the new EULA and received an email saying I just lost my 19th Amendment. I guess I'll never have the right to vote as a woman.I'm strongly considering sucking it up now though, at least for one day, just to try the Philotic Knight the way he was always meant to be from the start: a Force Fields/Fire Blast defender.
It is tempting to give up my rights to finally see that.... seven years later... -
I was leading a team of 5 level 50s using Ouroboros to do TwinShot's first arc last night to get the new badge.
At the end of the arc, after I called in the last mission and we were out of TF mode, it turned out that only I, the mission leader, got the badge. No one else on the team did.
Also: Germinator Terminator seems to award almost randomly to people who fight the Seed of Hamidon. I'm going to guess it's not adhering to the current GM damage requirements to earn the badge. -
Just make sure the race doesn't go over any bodies of water.
Years ago a friend of mine had an idea of doing a level 1 race from City Hall to Portal Corp. We planned for it for months on how the best way to do it would be. Ultimately we decided everyone in the contest had to be in a group with a judge who can watch what route they are taking and making sure they aren't being TP'd.
Then logistics like hospital taxis threw even more cogs into the mix and we ultimately just let the idea pass. -
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Quote:Auto Assault?Agreed. The OP's drama notwithstanding, it is entirely rational to object to granting a corporation unlimited snooping privileges in my personal computer. I'm somewhat appalled by the number of people who disagree.
I remember at the launch of another NCSoft title* an anti-cheating utility was required to install/play the game. It required full admin rights and total control of the computer. The fact that it was a third-party outsourced app was almost as disturbing as it's invasiveness.
*Which we will not name, but may have included classic MMO design, pretty wings, and lots of grinding. -