Mr. NoPants
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Quote:One of my friends used tog et angry at console games and throw the controller at the system to reset it. I started to go "HULK SMASH" when he did this.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Heh. So I got anonymous negative rep for not thinking LOLBAT is funny, which, I suppose, fair enough; the rep mechanism is a pretty blunt tool, give a griefer a hammer and he'll grief some nails with it. What gets me, though, is the part where Noël Coward calls me "the guy who doesn't like anything". How'd you get from not thinking an overcooked extension of an Internet meme that wasn't really all that funny in the first place still isn't funny to not liking anything? I mean, as alterations to the camera angle of life go, that's a pretty dramatic dolly zoom. I like plenty of stuff! Tic Tacs, for instance. And Matchbox cars. And Saul Rubenstien's Discount Task Force. Oh, and War Witch. Definitely.
This led to the following converstaion:
"HULK SMASH PUNY GAME!"
"What Hulk really want is Hulk's own degree from MIT for electronic engineer"
"What?"
"Hulk...Hulk smash..."
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Quote:I didn't know you were psychic. I'll tell my wife she was wrong and wanted fly not SJ on her demons.Originally Posted by ToySoldierZolgar
This example is not a valid one.
Yes, there are species of birds which have wings but cannot fly.
But 99% of people who make characters with wings intend them to be able to fly. Ergo it falls under the same heading as "My character is *blah* and doesn't need to breath." -
I think we just need some regular old shorts added to the costume list for guys.
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You can click the banner icon int he navi to get it marked as a target, this means you can just go down the line from red down.
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I'll pass along the secret of wealth that was given onto me:
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Removing articles of clothing will reduce the banners HP!
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Quote:I prefer my idea, auto buff that says you got magiced on entry. Hell if we have allies down there they could auto magic all heroes who enter their realm so they can get support. The people they are fighting extend the same courtesy to villains.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Apart from not drowning to death in the hypothetical fully-underwater zone.
... I think the thread has just come full circle.
They'll have to have an NPC who sells aqualungs to the PCs that don't have water breathing, like the guy who sells Raptor Packs to the people who can't fly in the Shadow Shard.
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It would work a lot better if the game didn't make you visible/targetable until the client said ready then it could do the load in animation and you could go.
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Quote:Ha expand on my "idea" while in underwater zones you have a temp power which says "You've been given this enchantment to ensure you can function underwater." The power only actually gives you a fly ability that has sprint speed to simulate buoyancy.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Why should I have to sacrifice a power selection (and a pool selection) just to "realistically" depict a character wearing a self-contained powersuit? Or being undead? Or alien? Or Aquaman (well, okay, Aquaman has power selections to spare, he's useless)?
So much in this game is left to the player to decide - why does your character fly, how does she shoot fire blasts, where does her power over radiation come from - so why do you find breathing underwater to be the line drawn in the sand?
Now how to help super speeders out.... -
Quote:You get what you pay for. You paid for a new account you get treated like it's a new account.Originally Posted by Jags_Powar
Some people have posted here that I'm "whining" because I want to be entitled to veteran rewards on both accounts that I own etc.
That being said: please read the entire post before you reply.
I never said I was entitled to get my veteran rewards on a second account and keep my first account. My EU account has since expired and I only use my US one. I simply think that the master account should be what accrues the veteran awards, not the individual accounts. -
Entrance to zone has an NPC whose dialog says "If you aren't able to survive for prolonged periods underwater our mages will enchant you when you enter".
Now we can all be buoyant and water breathing! -
What's your global P_P?
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If you crit with absorb pain do you do double damage to yourself and not heal for twice as long?
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Since defenders have AR now we need a rifle base buff set ^_^.
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Quote:So stealing that one.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
I'm still trying to make "we investigated the *crap* out of them" into a running meme.
I think that's called flanking...Quote:Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
Once, me and a team were doing a mission. (I forget which one.) But one-half of the team accidently got separated from the rest. Then the other half engaged a mob, and the lost half somehow managed to engage the same mob from the rear. I call this the "Sandwich Maneuver." -
Quote:Your point scars me...could my pantless heroics stop amusing my wife one day?Originally Posted by Mandu
I'll probably get all sorts of hate and negative rep dumped on me but I found the arc extremely boring. Exactly the same thing I would expect to find if LOLBAT were expanded to a monthly comic book. Some things were meant to be epic and lengthy. Others were meant to be a few panels of hilarity.
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Quote:I only see the number in the first one myself...Originally Posted by Moiread
I can't see anything in number 5. Is that bad?
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Quote:The AI not following if you get too far ahead is WAI.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I say it's a cheat because you're having to game the system to overcome shoddy design and emulate good design. If you could bring C'Khelkah and Arons to the exit and have them leave (like the briefing suggests you should be able to), then bringing them to the door and leaving them IS the right way to go. As it stands, though, you have to cheat the AI into intentionally losing sight of you so they don't follow, thereby manually overriding the "Working As Intended" solution. Yes, I fully realise that the WAI solution is bad, but effectively hot-wiring the system to avoid it IS a cheat.
Of course, I'm not saying we should stop doing it. On the contrary, they should fix the mission so that that's the "correct" way to go. -
This is only a test.
Had this been an actual emergency this post would have been followed by DOOOOOOOM! -
I don't get why people rag on the guard the magic mushroom exit mission, I can solo it on my MA/Inv (I think he's invulnerable) scrapper. All you do is run back and forth between the two entrances they use and hit them before they get there. You won't get them all but you don't need to.
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Quote:Most people won't bleed to death if you pull out all their teeth but they would rather have a guy dressed in day glow untie them before that happens.Originally Posted by Slashman
On the subject of frequency of death...
I think that people die a lot more often than BABs is giving the impression of.
As I understood it, the medical teleportation network is exclusively for heroes and special law enforcement agencies.
If, in fact, the threat of death was so very diminished, the whole idea of needing to protect citizens with such fervor that you'd don a costume and assume a secret identity would be almost laughable.
There are several missions where death is most certainly featured and a real threat if you're just a civilian. Like Vahzilok. Finding all those bodies in that mission where you get some influence for clicking each one doesn't point to a nice, safe haven when danger threatens civilians. There are at least 15 bodies in that mission. If you consider that that is typical for a Vahzilok operation...the numbers really begin to add up.
There are many more missions where dead people are prominently featured and there is no indication that they were ever a part of the medical teleportation system.
The truth is that if the world were truly so safe in COH, heroes would be out of a job for the most part. Why would you need to rush in and save a bunch of kidnapped scientists from the Clockwork, if the most that would happen to them is a near-death experience?
I love BABs and his work and presence on the forums. But I think he may have flubbed a bit on this one.
I think consulting Manticore on the lore side of things may be a better bet. But that's only IMHO... -
Quote:The rusted blade may not be as sharp as the katana but it is nice and jagged and does look like it could cut as well as a broad sword ^_^.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Personally, I'm fine with a wooden sword in Katana even if it doesn't have a visible sharpened edge. It's close enough to where I can look the other way and say "Eh, whatever." It still looks like a sword sufficiently well. It's no less odd than the rusty sword which doesn't have a blade at all. But that's where I draw the line - it has to resemble a sword, or cut and be handled like one.
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Quote:The comic book puts the Cyrus thing past the Rikti invasion. Also Dr V. doesn't use parts that old since full on rot would make them useless. Then there is the whole CoT thing....Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
What are the timelines for many of these dead people?
I know Cyrus Oliver Thompson is in a flashback TF, but can't see a definite timeframe for it. And we can't assume that the flag flying from City Hall in the TF is made from Statesman's cape.
The hospital teleportation network was created from recovered rikti technology. This happened sometime during/after the 1st rikti invasion of 2004. So anyone 'killed' before that time could easily have been properly killed, dead-as-dead-can-be unless some other tech/magic/mutation/alien interference/wizard did it.
IIRC the teleport to Zig network was decsribed as a modification of the hospital teleportation network, and so certainly didn't precede the hospital network and may have come quite some time later.
I don't recall it being established at which point the hospital network wasr rolled out beyond Paragon, so presumably CoV entities (potentially including scrapyard) may have died since it was introduced to Paragon.
There's also the odd occasion where the hospital teleportation network is suppressed/breaks down.
Of course you shouldn't really worry about occasional hiccups with the hospital/Zig networks - or worry as much as you do about a perp dying from a heartattack from the sheer shock of being confronted by kid gloves-wearing hero...
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On the whole wooden sword=sword thing.
If you want wood swords to do lethal damage it needs an edge...so it's just a different material. We have a way to show different materials in game...it's called Weapon Customization!
So here is your lethal damage boken:
Now if you want a nice round edge boken like you normally see so you can have a nonlethal weapon you'll need a set that doesn't do lethal damage. -
Quote:I wonder if this could be fixed if when they became untargetable they tripped the same code that makes game AI go "Lets ignore the sleeping/stunned guy while we have other targets".Originally Posted by Dr_Ohm
Then there's the 74 ambushes that get sent after you. You tend to do these missions at the point where CoT have Ruin Mages, which are hard to deal with quickly, so the next ambush hits you before you've finished with the last one. Especially when Lady Jane dashes off after a Spectral that only she can see, as you point out.