Ironik

Me too.

Which is idiotic.

That was just my starter set. I've expanded since then.

No it's not. It's like complaining about food poisoning at Benihana's.

You know, legitimate, but what did you expect from a crappy place like that?

Lens flares are a tool. They can add emphasis during an action sequence. Abrams uses them all the time. It's like how Zack Snyder abuses slow motion and Michael Bay blows stuff and Tony Scott uses colored filters. It's painful after a while. Know how those kids always write things with alternating upper and lowercase? tHaT's WhAt WaTcHiNg OnE oF ThEsE mOvIeS iS lIkE aLl ThE fReAkInG tImE.

After a while you just want to slap them.

I tried clicking on the image, nothing happened. Hence my question. See, this is why Twitter sucks and everyone needs to stop using it.

Why even be adjunct? Just join him up, already.

I said some time ago that full boosters would probably be several multiples of 400 -- 2400, 3200, etc. -- because otherwise VIP players would just get the packs once a month or once every two months. People said that was crazy. It's just good business sense to break the individual items up into one- or two-dollar purchases with a discount given for buying the whole pack. But that discounted rate needs to be $15 to generate decent revenue.

This is the main point, I think. The isles aren't all alike yet they feel all alike. In CoH you go from Galaxy or Atlas to either Kings Row or The Hollows and it feels like you're in an entirely different place. Follow on to Steel, Sky and Talos and again, despite the repeating art assets, they feel unique. Only Grandville feels distinct to me.

I have the same problem with Praetoria -- despite the architecture of the zones being quite different, I often forget where I am because it all sort of runs together. It's a subtle thing and I'm not sure what it is, exactly. Maybe it's the first impression as you zone in or something.

True dat. Somebody in the Keyes I ran tonight was saying something about "If you have a <technobabble> but don't know how to use it, give it to me."

When, exactly, am I going to find time to look for that? We've got 30 seconds before something kills us and I have no idea if I've even gotten one of whatever that is. There are things flashing all over the place and I lose 50% of my health every minute. I've got too many things to track and too many things to click. It's almost like it's designed expressly for Tanks who can ignore the massive attacks. But more than once my Blaster got knocked to the ground by a giant laser beam and some robot chick with a katana came and jammed it into my crotch until I was dead. And they want me sorting through temp powers for some gizmo?

If that's the case, I retract that part of my statement, I haven't done one in five years due to freespecs and Vet rewards. I do remember that when we had an issue the game told us. And some things were really obvious, like losing your shield caused you pain. Add that to the list of things that need to be better communicated.

The beam part is actually fine. Giant letters flash on the screen screaming at you to GET OUT OF THE WAY!!! Sometimes you make it, sometimes you don't. Big whoop.

What bothers me is that going by what information I get from the game, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. I just do whatever the leader is saying and hope for the best. But the people barking orders are making assumptions, too. Tonight in a Keyes the guy was saying "Attack the doors! Attack attack attack!" So we're attacking and suddenly everyone gets really mad at me and another player with cries of "Watch your dots!" and finally "Stop stop stop!!!" It took me a minute to figure out that "dots" were "DoTs". I was thinking, "Uh, I'm a Fire Blaster, I'm dee-oh-tee 24/7 here." The other guy getting reamed was a gravity Controller, so same problem.

Now as to WHY we had to knock doors down to 10% of their health I have no idea. And I was not enjoying the thing so much that I didn't ask because I honestly DO NOT CARE. I just hit the stupid queue for "First Available", show up, throw fire at **** and hopefully get yet another mysterious reward token that I can trade for a costume piece. As soon as I get said costume bits and auras, I'm never doing another stupid iTrial ever again. If free2players ask me if it's worth going VIP to get the end-game content, what do you suppose my opinion will be? The people in this thread are paying customers, many of whom are intensely disliking this stuff. Word of mouth is a deal-maker or deal-breaker so it behooves the Devs to sort this stuff out.

Want to make iTrials epic and complicated? Fine. But make sure every single thing a player needs to know is spelled out for them IN THE GAME. And not when 30 giant robots are shooting them in the face. Before that.

I'm one of those crazy people who think that everything you ought to know to play a game should be contained within the game.

Therefore the Incarnate Trials are badly designed. Or at least badly written.

I have never had trouble with any of the TFs I've played except the Cimerora one, which suffers from the same over-complicated and under-communicated issues the iTrials have. The respec trials, Holiday missions, regular TFs... all perfectly explicable, but the iTrials are like little kids playing soccer: they all clump up in one area, someone kicks the ball away and they run en masse to where the ball is.

Dude, you're a beer-drinking squirrel. Your gender hasn't even come up yet on the list of questions we have about you.

Wait, the lore is ambiguous?! Oh no, that's totally... expected, really.

Well okay then. Carry on, Mister Lothic.