Jophiel

Any mission where the objective surprise changes from "Click the glowie", "Defeat the Boss" or "Rescue the person" to "Hahahaha... I really meant Kill All" deserves to be punched in the neck.

I'd like to know this as well. Not from a "This is hard" perspective, although it is annoying, but... what are those? I'm guessing it's not really a spa or a trout farm. Cooling tanks for the equipment? I hope that's not their drinking water with a werewolf sitting in the middle of it.

If I'm going to work a job, it'll be one that helps pay my mortgage.

Well, 100% of used needles are pointy so not getting stuck is pretty much luck. I wouldn't say that 100% of the user base is jerks. Or 50%. Or 10%. In fact, I remember the real noteworthy jerks primarily because they stand out, not because they're the norm.

Anyway, I've noticed a lot more blind SG invites lately. I don't know if it's because returning players are looking to fluff up their long abandoned SGs or what. For the last couple nights, I've gotten a blind invite from a team member nightly although none have copped an attitude when I declined it. Had they actually asked first and gave any hint what their SG was about (even "we just like to have fun") I may have been amendable to joining.

...when that's obviously not a problem with the AE system that'll level adjust you for any of its content if you need adjusting.

I suppose I'm sounding nit-picky but I always hope to see CoH presented in the best possible, and accurate, light.

The Perplex pattern is another one. A bright green or blue pattern against a black base gives a neon effect.

The Lord of Lemurs demands tribute!

Personally, all my natural characters shoot guns anyway

I don't see where assuming you're sword slashing hydraulics or tearing out wires is a different "amplification" than imaging giant towering infernos that don't exist but that's just me. Just as the game says you're kicking the robot in the toe, it also says you're shooting little poofs of fire. I wouldn't assume you're luring things into mine shafts but I think there's a middle ground between that and "stand in one spot and mechanically punch it in the knee until it's dead". But if you don't enjoy imagining that, I guess there's no harm done since you can always play more fantastic origins.

Well, we do have traps & devices.

In comic terms, I would assume the "natural" hero would take down a Warwalker through either devices or through actions beyond the game such as the ever famous "jump on the robot, punch through access panel and tear out wires until something breaks" maneuver. In a game where we accept that we "arrest" criminals by setting them on fire or irradiating them (or "save" an office building with multiple applications of fires, floods, ice & earthquakes), I think we can make allowances in the other direction. Sadly, unlike potentially making new DP animations, making "jump on robot and tear out hydraulics" animations isn't especially practical but I don't think that's cause to dismiss the origin.

I've done it with a fire hose, thanks.

Bullets aren't connected to the machine gun but Cyclops' blasts are shown as a continual beam. And pointing a fire hose at a wall will absolutely cause pressure to force the nozzle (i.e. his head) backwards.

I could be missing details about Cyclops but you picked a couple really bad examples for making your point.

But I'm already "super" in that I can fall off skyscrapers without being turned into a red stain, I can be shot in the face by shotgun-wielding Hellions, battle extradimensional demons, stand next to suicide bombing zombies and survive, run at 16mph without trying, jump eight feet into the air without effort, etc.

I can play a "super" lumberjack and cleave straight through a steel constructed, machine gun firing and giant blade swinging Nazi robot with a logging axe so why does it have to extend to me first hopping around, spinning the axe over my head, pirouetting and then hitting the robot with the axe (to compare to DP animations)? Was I previously not "super" enough and goofy animations made me more so? My super lumberjack isn't super unless he's a super ballerina-lumberjack? Because that really detracts from "Super Lumberjack" fun in my book.

You can also have someone be "super" and not be a gun-ninja. Maybe my character is an Empath who has healing super powers but carries a gun because it's hard to heal someone to death when attacked? Or maybe my character's "superness" comes from their ability to protect themselves via powers or technology as they stand there and lay down the bullets. Saying "Well, you're super" is a pretty limiting excuse for what should be a very creative game.

That's it for me as well. I have a hard time getting anything started in the D because all the tiny little personal canons just seem overwhelming. Also, roleplaying dating or deep personal drama doesn't really interest me much these days but that seems to be what goes on when you're all just standing around. I suppose I'd really rather RP-along on some missions where you're doing something besides staring at one another doing the drink emote but that doesn't seem to happen much.

Edit: I posted this without reading the rest of the thread and it seems I'm not alone in my opinion but didn't mean to repeat what others were saying already.