Judgement_Dave
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Maybe just allow confusion powers to be cast on Turndown Girl.
Maybe followed by fortitude and stamina on the pair if all goes well.
Actually, given the desperation and how long he's been in the cold, a slow may be required. -
Quote:Good question.Originally Posted by OV_ohms
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Quote:Likewise.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
One of the first things I was told way back when i started was that Coyote, the NPC in the Hero tutorial who sends you on your very first instanced mission, was originally a character of a beta Player who was suffering from some debilitating disease, and who sadly passed away, and so the Devs put his avatar in the tutorial as a mark of respect.
I've always thought this a very sweet tale (apart from the dying part, obviously), and I always dwell on it for a second whenever I meet Coyote in the tutorial (I always do the tutorial). It strikes me now that it may just be a myth, of course.
I was wondering, with the new tutorial zone Galaxy City On Fire or whatever, will they be firing Coyote?
I for one hope they move him into the new tutorial zone.
Eco
Coyote was one of the first things I thought of when I heard of the new tutorial.
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Quote:If we didn't suitably subdue them then any nurses/deprogrammers wouldn't be able to handle them.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Why do we need to set them on fire, slice them up with katanas, electrocute them and smash their heads in with maces before we teleport them to safety?
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Quote:I may have missed it if it has been said, but do we know where the 'defeated' escaping prisoners get sent? If we've not been told then maybe we are porting them somewhere for deprogramming.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
Instead it is just full of ******** non-game activities like putting escaped non-combatant prisoners back in their fascist-state brainwashing mind-control-prison by punching them repeatedly instead of, oh, I don't know, rescuing them and bringing them back to Primal Earth for deprogramming.
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Quote:Much prefer these Mo-style runs - which are by-far the most common style on Union. Though it's fairly often the case that NS doesn't get pulled between the bivouacs - leaving squishies a little more exposed to tower-fire.Originally Posted by Zortel
BAF, Union Style:
Wait for people to zone in.
Trigger Cutscene
Defeat 40 War Works.
Everyone goes to Bivouacs, draw Nightstar between them, defeat her.
1 Team goes North of Tennis Courts, 2 Teams go South, to choke points.
Defeat Escaping Resistance.
Go to BAF main building.
Fight Siege in entrance. Once Defeated:
1 Team Stays and fights Siege there.
1 Team goes to 9CU/Vicky Spawn point to defeat spawns
1 Team goes to fight Nightstar at Bivouacs.
Sync their HP at 20, then at 10, then at five. Wait for new spawn of reinforcements.
Add team burns down 9CU/Vickys, both teams take down their AV.
With luck, Trial completes. Bonus Astral Merits for taking them down without dragging them to the Tennis Courts, for not touching the gun tower controls, hopefully for not letting any mindwash prisoners escape, and hopefully for having no adds about on defeat of Nightstar/Siege.
Bam. One BAF, Union Style. Tennis courts? This ain't Wimbledon.
Been dissappointed on the few BAFs I've done on Defiant that they tend to run the more boring and slightly safer tennis-court AV-pull style. -
Quote:<Dons old-style debt flat cap>Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
I can't understand why anyone is bothered about dying anyway? It's not like there's a long corpse-run or negative XP or whatever. It's trivial.
Back when I were't lad we had real debt - permadebt - not this nansy-pansy thing the kids call debt nowadays.
An' we 'ad no fancy-smancy patrol xp to remove it.
Kids today. Don't know they're born. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
For chaotic, well - compared to the other trials, it felt far less organized and organize-able. Lambda? Outer ring, turrets, inner ring, guard, get your assignment, get stuff, beat on Marauder. BAF? Rather easy to define stages and locations. Now, yeah, Keys has reactors... and, bunkers... and a yard... but it doesn't feel as stage-able to me. It's less well defined.Keyes appears simple enough and does have defined stages with identifiable tasks - better than Lambda imo as the yard/turret clearing is done to different degrees by diferent leagues - but it's so new that there's a lot of headless-chickenism going on. Give it a couple of months and there'll be enough people running around with MoKeyes.Quote:Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself
Another thing about all the trials is that they tend to be confusing, chaotic affair when they are new. Once people know them, a common strategy develops and everyone knows what to do without being told. This in turn makes things confusing for anyone who hasn't done them, since leaders often don't bother with giving directions. If you do a Lambda or BAF, therefore, be sure to let your team mates know you are new and need to be told what to do.
If you want to try a trial but can't handle chaos then avoid any trial that isn't at least a month on live.
Although, as cat states, once people figure out how to do a trial then there's possibly less communication and it can be more confusing for a newbie-trialler as the leaders start to assume that everyone knows the 'accepted' solution and associated terminology. -
Quote:Fixed.Originally Posted by Abraxxus
Right after defeating the Security Guard, the league leader should make the announcement "If I see you doing any emote in the Marauder cut scene, I will kick you immediately"
On my 1st or 2nd trial I got caught in the background (turning the corner from the road onto the bridge) whilst superspeeding back from hospital. It's not right to kick immediately for accidentally being in the cutscene whilst doing their best to participate fully.
Anyone caught doing any emote in the cutscene is obviously a different matter. -
Quote:Some of the Union ones I've been on are quite organised but there's still enough that are pretty much as Dechs described.Originally Posted by CBeet
I'm a Unionite
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Yet to try a Keyes, but if it's like that then may have to before it's too late. -
Quote:You're right - it may take a HUGE development timeframe, longer than the six, nearly seven MONTHS since the live introduction of the Incarnate system.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
It's been six, nearly seven MONTHS since the live introduction of the Incarnate system. This request has not been fulfilled in any meaningful way despite the HUGE development timeframe.
i.e. Even if PS decided to implement a solo or small team Incarnate path six, nearly seven MONTHS ago they may not have been in a position to move staff onto it straight away and it may take more than six, nearly seven MONTHS to design and implement once resources are available and commited.
And I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't drop everyone off all other content/development to 'fix' this ASAP.
What we are seeing now was in internal test over a year ago. They may have missed something that you want but they're better doing it right than just putting in a quick fix that may just end up annoying as the current situation.
Of course, they may already have something planned and in testing - maybe even for the past year or so...
But as ever in software development (and many other pursuits): Cheap. Fast. Right. Pick any two. -
Quote:Yup - that's a pain.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
If the healers can see the person getting disintegrated. As a healer, I simply cannot see the disintegration aura. I've repeatedly asked that the player be highlighted in the league/team window so that they can be targeted by healers.
It's often the case that I can see the text saying who is being disintegrated (though even that goes a little quickly when you're in a PuG and don't 'know' half the names) but can't spot them to target them in time.
A highlight would help, or a little more warning/time between ticks to let me scan the names of the other 23 players in the league.
It's ironic that this trial seems to like having characters with power to heal others, but one of the main reasons for this is so unfriendly to single-target heals. -
Quote:You've never completed a single trial despite (presumably repeated) attempts of these team pursuits with some guy barking orders in your ear?Originally Posted by Irresponsible
Not for me. Did you miss my comment about my total suckage? Don't think I've completed a single trial and the utter failures have discouraged me from making many attempts.
Have you considered that it's not actually your fault (past picking a team/league consisting of the sort of bozos who get off barking orders over chat)?
Get a league of reasonably competent players who try their best using ingame chat and most trials will succeed (and probably be far more fun than being ordered about by captain shouty). -
Only done one run so far, but didn't spot that happen - where is he getting stuck? And which phase?
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Every trial/TF seems to get called 'too hard' or needing specific powers on launch day and for a few weeks after.
Every trial/TF later seems to have multiple ways to success once people get used to it.
There's nothing in Keyes that can't be countered in several ways -be it incarnate abilities, insps, healing powers - hell even aid other/self or personal witch temps.
It's good to see that the old style of a challenging AV equalling mega-HP and regen has finally gone and the newer trials/TF big bads have a wider variety of interesting powers/tactics. -
Are we to assume a spouse and offspring that you actually like?
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Quote:That's looking good to me - thanks for mentioning it.Originally Posted by Pious
What are people planning with hotels? I feel most comfortable going with the same as last time Paragon Hotel and they're only asking £50 for Saturday night.
Anyone out there able to say what times it's planned to start/end? -
Quote:That doesn't really travel well outside NA.Originally Posted by Steelclaw
* Out of date pop culture reference lost on anyone under the age of thirty.
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Quote:Does locking teams in a league affect this? (I honestly have no idea exactly what locking or the LFG queue should be doing)Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
On Union it is the same, a big fat no, it's virtually useless since all the trial runs are premade and the LFG tool won't simply just add in a few members if the trial is a few short and will only fill a trial up to minimum team size, never over that.
I ask partly as every trial I've been in (enough Lambdas to fill my xp and about 4 BAFs, all on Union) the league leader has requested the teams be locked before starting.
The queue doesn't seem to work as well as other games queues I'm familiar with (mind you, iirc,other games tend to auto-enter you into instances if you don't quit the queue whilst CoX auto-cancels so maybe we've gone for a unique implementation). -
JD cleared for takeoff.
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Clearly mrs JD is all too happy to be rid of me for a weekend. -
Ooooh! Ooooh!
Can I book a tentative 2 days with own laptop please?
I'll double-check with mrs JD before making it a 'definite'. -
Quote:The announced solution affects the minimum number of player accounts but may affect more than the minimum number of players.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Actually, see my post above. The "fair" solution as proposed by Tyger affects more players. Tyger's proposal is a perfectly valid one, but it affects more players. The announced one has an air of unfairness in targeting just one set of players, but it does affect less players which makes the statement above valid. Of course, renaming all the NA accounts rather than the EU accounts affects an equal number of accounts, which is the minimal number.
Consider a name clash caused by a inactive trial account on the NA side and an (active or temporarily inactive) full account on the EU side.
- renaming the EU side affects 1 player.
- renaming the NA side affects none.
Stripping out trial accounts that have been inactive for a reasonable time period* would ensure the minimum number if players affected.
*I'd have thought most trial conversions happen within a month - but they'll have all relevant data on this. -
Quote:Whilst any solution is likely to upset someone, I'd like to know if there's a proposed solution to the trial account issue.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
I have 3 accounts on my NC master account. One is this one, two are trial accounts (one is a US one). The inactive US trial account I know for a FACT has the same global name as this one, though the login name is different.
I don't want that inactive US trial account taking my name.
What is going to be done about people with mutliple accounts?
What is going to be done about inactive accounts?
What is going to be done about trial accounts (inactive or active)?
Many EU players have set up a trial NA account at some point, and it's galling to think that much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth may be caused by players having created their own name clash with a dormant trial.
IIRC many EU players set up NA trials when NC (pretty much) closed the Brighton offices, as it was thought that the EU servers may have followed and NA trials were a way to 'reserve' your global... Ironic.
Think I'm in that boat myself... -
Quote:Was this necessary around Valentine's day - a celebration of love?Originally Posted by Avatea
Always include a Server in your signature (to distinguish between homonyms);
Some of my best friends are homonyms. -
Quote:A gun that uses womble spoons as ammunition?Originally Posted by Steelclaw
* finds a temp item (gun most likely) that turns out to be a one-shot Hamidon killer