Mirai

Incarnate slots are character progression. Incarnate costume pieces are fluff. Even if I unlocked them, I tend to doubt that I'd use them on any of my 11 level 50 characters.

Yes. Positron says:

"When we first started working on the Incarnate System we knew that it needed a certain amount of awesome attached to it in order to get people interested in actually doing it. If there were not specific rewards tied exclusively to the system, then people will simply continue to do “whatever is easiest” to attain the new rewards created for it."

That kind of thing never works on me. For example, I never used Shivans because I don't want to bother with PVP zones. None of my characters unlocked the Croatoa witch hats or Roman armor. Attaching "awesome" doesn't get me interested in doing it; it just serves to rub some shine off my admiration of the developers.

Say, we still haven't seen that guy in this thread, have we?

Here he is.

Well, sure. For a lot of people, this is cool stuff. For me, this stuff looks to be a bunch of worthless garbage. But if it keeps the population up and the game going, that's okay.

I do tend to wonder if the devs will ever be adding anything I'll be interested in someday. Well, it's not like there are any other superhero games I'm interested in these days.

****** cop! William Shatner can make anything work.

Yes. Things are worse. And no word from Sony on why.

If I could access my account, I'd have canceled it by now. (I was planning on doing that before the downtime, but I had been giving them a chance to amaze me with information on new updates. They amazed me, but not in the good way.)

Personally, I wouldn't dismiss the system without trying an improved version of it.

The main problem I have with their system is that whoever set the default proportions must be thoroughly demented! It takes me a lot of tweaking to make the proportions look reasonable... or even somewhat human. Sure, it's easy to create something bizarre looking, but it's hard to make a good looking human character. That makes it hard for me to judge the system. (Well, plus I don't like the graphics style.)

Funny, I always saw it as the other way around. My defenders needed the build tweaking and threat selection to solo at a reasonable pace. Plus a lower (-1) difficulty setting is helping my defenders now. I suppose play style has a great deal to do with it, as my blasters didn't get killed any more than my other characters on average.


And more hero groups for villains to fight. For CoH 2, I mean. There just aren't enough hero groups for villains to fight in the current game.

Hmm. I thought that datamining was showing blasters got killed more often, not that the were slower. But you would know. And of course getting killed a lot will slow you down a lot.

Hmmph. I'm a casual player, but I admit my play style isn't very conventional, what with the single target damage approach and standard difficulty settings. It's really hard for me to imagine blasters soloing slower than defenders or controllers. My only characters who can go as fast or faster than my blasters are scrappers and brutes.

(Although... my Mind/Energy Dominator has been right up there ever since Domination got changed.)

??

No, I don't get that. There must be some build I'm overlooking. My blasters have always soloed significantly faster than my controllers, and I've been soloing the vast majority of the time in this game for seven years. My Ill/Rad Controller is better at fighting elite bosses and certain other tricky situations, but is still generally slower.

But personally I don't think all classes should be expected to solo at the same rate. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind a classless system.


A big thing I'd change for CoH 2 is how the elite bosses are handled. I'd make sure they were generally used in a climactic fashion, rather than sprinkling them in often for no good reason. I'd also make sure they don't present roadblocks for solo players. (For example, make an NPC helper available when facing a particularly tough EB.)

Is Del Rey still publishing manga? I haven't seen them advertising anything lately. Kodansha is starting to publish in the US now, under the Kodansha Comics banner, and I notice that they've taken over publishing Negima from Del Rey.

Sad to hear about Tokyopop. They've been struggling for a while. Viz better keep going, because they're publishing Claymore, and that's my favorite ongoing manga series.

Oh, yes, Issue 4 was definitely good for costumes. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. One of my best costumes was a direct result of Issue 4. That leaves Issue 20 as easily my least favorite update.