Johnny_Butane

I'll settle for a dev chiming in that changing the set is even on the table.
Because by this point I'm starting to think they're dead set on the +Res and they've shafted Tankers, again.


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Indeed. The proc being a stackable -Res debuff to enemies to build off of Bruising was something I suggested earlier.


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I'm saying Tankers should get something that improves their offense as well, like all the other melee ATs got.


I'm also saying +Res is a joke. It favors some power sets over others and it's not going to help a Tanker against things that are really a threat to their survivability. The Keyes pulse, sword bombs and the like. Those things IGNORE damage resistance.

I don't advocate anything defensive for the Might of the Tanker set, but if I did, it would be a Chance for Self Heal which I think would be more fair to each set than +Res.


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Yes.

No.


"Roughly 5 times per minute"


No.


Yes.


Yes. Up to three times.


And Controllers were designed to CONTROL, yet they get a damage proc.
And Dominators have their attacks in their secondary power set, just like Tankers, yet they get a damage proc.


Also, Stalkers get one that allows any attack a chance to put them in Hidden, and Khelds get one that buffs all of their forms.



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Watch as rocks just appear in your hands with the magic of Handwave Technology(TM).

This wondrous tech also currently allows:

-Electric attacks and fire aura attacks to work underwater.
-Dual Pistols, Assault Rifle and Thugs never have to carry ammo or reload.
-Calling a satellite strike on your location...in a cave. In another dimension. A thousand years in the past.
-Mail boxes and cardboard boxes to be poisoned to death.
-Swords, knives, bats and railway signs to be stored invisibly behind your back.
-Small characters to carry around five metric tons of various "salvage" inconspicuously.
-And much much more!



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In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids

No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge

Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan...




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I agree. Aeon City is like four identical generic buildings in an unrealistically large plaza. It should be more built up and dense with a similar feel to parts of the revamped Atlas, but with dirtier corners and alleys.

(old)Haven is too uniform. All the buildings look the same and are of similar height. It's got some of the worse geometry clipping and performance issues in the game besides Mercy because they overlapped whole buildings inside each other trying to attempt some variation.

I've always found Primeva lacking. It's mostly the limitations of how they used to(still) do forested areas like this as Perez. Like Perez, it's got some navigation issues and mission doors that are sometimes impossible to find.

Again, I agree. Parts of the zone look far too industrial. The Carnie town in Fortunes Wheel could stand to be more lively with some music and lights at night and such.

The Flop, the Hard Way and to a lesser extent, Jackpot all look too similar, just with varying levels of destruction.

-The grassy area that runs directly east of Jackpot turned into a boardwalk area with cheap tourist shops, ocean front hotels and the like.

-The Flop should be re-imagined as the closest thing to a red light district we can have in a game that's 'T for Teen'. St. Martial is supposed to be a den of vice, after all.

-The Hard Way frankly needs content and a reason to exist. I don't think I've ever had a mission send me there, and there's not much there but Wailers and Freaks standing around.


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Ever go there in a zombie invasion with the red sky?



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Then stop throwing garbage on the ground, villain!

Because when you get a bunch of super powered C-list d-bags in one place, constantly jockeying for power and turf, you get a slum.

It's pure crab mentality. Or in this case, spider mentality.



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http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Bruising

Depends how you define "new" and "inherent".

It's a toss up if you consider Issue 18 still new.
And I have trouble calling it an inherent; I don't think it's on the AT screen or even mentioned in game at all.



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I have to warn you and Djeannie.

When I post advocating a change, the amount of sense I/it make(s) added to the number of people who agree with me is inversely proportional to the chances of the devs listening.




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Here's another question:

Why should we be forced* to take a power that is more or less made obsolete by the power we actually want just to get that power we want?


*Yes, you have the option to Grant Ivis. Setting aside arguments about the GI's merit, it's still a power pick wasted on a power you may not even want and will never use. That's wasteful and a stupid, un-fun choice to make players decide on the lesser of two evils.

IMO the prerequisites on pool powers are unneeded and are just an annoying restriction that doesn't add any fun to building a character. They should be removed on ALL pools and the only restrictions be the number of separate pools you can dip into and the level you can take the powers.


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The second you show your closed "beta" at a public convention, that goes right out the window.



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I disagree. A blaster with access to Rage, Hand Clap and Foot Stomp would have more mitigation than any of the existing Blaster secondaries perhaps barring /Ice.

Generally, Blasters getting access to all the existing Melee attack sets would be better than they are now.
IMO, another case of the devs dropping the ball with AT design.



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We're running out of forum lines? What about the strategic reserve? Or the Northwestern fields that haven't even been tapped yet?

Good thing my sig point is classed as a 'light truck'.








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It was still some time between when took it out and when they actually told anyone, and between when they told people that the rest of the system would be spread out the way it was (which was already planned long before they made that vague unveiling).

I doesn't matter what their intentions were, it still looks bad and causes unnecessary grief and drama.


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OK, see, this is where bad things and Fail happens. Allow me to explain.

If someone allows a person to believe something as fact when they know isn't true and they still don't correct them, that's bad.

A while back, Positron unveiled the Incarnate system during a presentation about Going Rogue with little more than "Ta da! Incarnates! And you'll need Going Rogue of course..."
He neglected to elaborate further. He also neglected to correct the people who honestly assumed the Incarnate system would be launched *with* Going Rogue, or that it would be released piecemeal over several years.

For over a year, he nor or anyone else on the dev team, corrected the countless threads by people who were stating how much they were looking forward to GR and the Incarnate system. Until a month before Going Rogue was to launch, after most people had already put their money down, did he "clarify" at last, that none of the Incarnate system would by in GR at launch and that it would in fact be spread over several years.

This irked a number of people, understandably. It seems impossible that Positron and every other dev and community team member missed ALL those threads over that previous year and only thought to clear things up at the proverbial 11th hour.


Now, to the point.
SDCC didn't happen a year ago. It happened a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I've counted at least four or five threads about the travel power changes, each reporting that similar changes were also made to the other pool powers too. This got people excited. They will now be disappointed to learn the truth. The disappointment can be proportional to the amount of time they were under the misconception, so at this point in time, not a lot of damage done.

So...if there are any other widely reported misconceptions or false news reported about any aspect CoH: Freedom I strongly suggest they be squashed sooner rather than later. These misconceptions should readily jump out to anyone reading the player created topics on the subject if they are in fact in the know, like a dev or community member.

Additionally, the gag order on players in the Closed Beta isn't helping; the sooner you guys go open beta, the sooner people can stop biting their tongues and the sooner people gain access to the facts for themselves. Just saying.



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None of the servers are especially empty and you can team even off peak hours if you know where to look.

The fact of the matter is, as the game gets older the playerbase gets more introverted because the people who persist stand out more from the people who are just passing through; you know who's in for the longhaul and people naturally gravitate towards friends they think will stick around. Players have formed their cliques and tight mini-communities on every server, but it does not mean they don't welcome outsiders. It does mean you have to make the effort to introduce yourself, join the right chat channels and know where people congregate in every sense.

In short, it's not so much the population has gone down unacceptably, it's that the population has become more focused and formed little orbiting communities that don't spend most of their time in Atlas Park Broadcast.


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