MrCaptainMan

Lol I've already got Nutripaste down as a definite for VEI 8, especially after the fun he had with Tangled.

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I assume you mean 'mission' when you said 'act', here.

If the increasing of our slot filesize maximum is a forerunner to them one day increasing the allowable number of missions per slot, then when it happens you'll be in an enviable position. You'll then have a whole slew of 'new' arcs to play and enjoy, as the MAuthors of currently multi-slot arcs combine their disparate sections into one slot to free up their others for writing more stories. Their works will then fit into your classification of what 'a complete story' is, without having to change their narrative in any way at all.

Everybody wins!



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Ooh, yes, lol I was ranting and throwing my arms up the first time I played this map, and then when i found the sewer entrances, I had another little tantrum, because i entered sewer number 1, saw that it led up, exited and entered sewer number 2, and then did the same with sewer number 3. I spemnt ages trying to work out which one would be best to go up first! LMAO

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Be Pure.

Be Vigilant.

Behave.



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Well I only have experience with a month of WoW a few years ago, WAR for a week or so about a month ago, and now a week's worth of AION.

Oh, hang on, I also subbed to EvE for a year, too. I'd say 'I also played EvE...' but I didn't really, I just sat in my starter ship listening to EvE Radio and chatting to people lol.

But this bot thing was an eye-opener to me, honestly. /shudder If it ever happens in CoH...I'd be heartbroken, but I'd probably leave.

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Why don't other games have this attitude? I am absolutely baffled by what other games' players will put up with. It's like they think it's normal.

I wish NCSoft would advertise CoH. It does everything so much better.

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From my perspective, that 'big prominent' building is hidden away in a corner. I'd say the other building to the right is more prominent - and it's even visible from the entrance point.

And in contrast, lol, I never had any difficulty with the TV building roof. It definitely sticks out from the other buildings in that map, and I didn't even know you could get up there via the door, as I've only used Flyers and SJers so far for that mission (Of course, now that I think about it it makes sense).

Just goes to show that what's obvious to some is not to others - all the more reason to inform in advance about such things, and to do so in ways which hopefully aren't jarringly hand-holding to those Players who already know there's a door there, or an objective here, or what have you.

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I think it's because it's easy to miss the actual mission in canon that uses it. I first found it when i was designing a mission for The Audition. Ironically, that map would have been perfect for what I had in mind, but it needed a glowie to spawn, and the glowie just wouldn't, in test. Of course, i was only running around the outdoor bit; the glowie was very probably spawning every time inside the building.

I'm not certain, but I can only think of three outdoor maps that contain an indoor section too OTTOMH - that one, the WB one (I think its WB?), and the Shadow Shard Nemesis base one (Which has a waypoint leading to its door I believe, so it might be considered different). Perhaps a lot of people try clicking doors in outdoor maps for their early outdoor instances, and then stop bothering after three or four make them erroneously assume that ALL outdoors are like that.

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The Audition's unlikely to get a Venture Review, then.

Which is a shame (well, as far as I'm concerned anyway); I am intrigued by what you would think of it.

Still, can't be helped, eh?



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Definitely.

And 5 things I've realised this week that CoH already does that other MMOs should do if they want me to sub:

1. Knockback with ragdoll animation. My MA scrapper is just so much fun. No matter how impressive a game's attack animations are, or how awesome its sound effects are, having the mob stay in exactly the same position/pose for the entire fight going through the same 'being hit' reaction animations isn't good enough. Seeing a mob get punted across a room to dangle over a bannister absolutely adds to the immersion and sense that I'm in a 'realistic' world. But far more importantly, it makes me giggle like a loon and it's just frankly AWESOME.

2. Collision detection. I'll never complain about being pushed out of the way by a civvie or getting stuck behind an MMs minions again. If CoH didn't have collision detecytion, we'd all be in a weird 'phased' state and be able to overlap each other, and mobs too, and that would look and feel wrong.

3. Extensive narrative delivery. Briefings, entry popups, clues, dialogue, more clues, bio fields for mobs, objects, glowies, allies, hostages, escorts, more clues, exit popups, system messages, and more clues allow so much actual story to be told. "Hey, $Heroname, go over there and defeat 20 Hellions, because they're [doing something bad]', followed by the killquest, followed by "Well done, $heroname, here's your inf!' everytime with precious little other story would steal much of the goodness from CoH for me.

4. Instances. I am so glad that when i first encountered Frostfire, it wasn't in an open-space non-instance with dozens of other heroes wandering in and out, some on my team, some solo, some on another team. I remember that first Frostfire mission I did. There were 6 of us. Just us. It was fantastic. And when we got to the last room, there he was, Frosty, and his minions, in that room alone, waiting for us. I'm so glad we didn't have to wait for a group to finish him off and leave, and then wait for another minute for him to respawn for our go. I know that somewhere else in the Hollows there's another team beating up Frostfire when I'm doing it, but I don't have to watch them, do I?

5. Varied objectives. I wasn't here for CoH's launch, so I can't comment on what was available then, but now, look what we can do! Defeat X of mob Y is here, a staple of MMOs since the dawn of time, but they're in a minority, I'll tentatively claim. We can Clear All, Click the Glowie/s, Defeat, Rescue, Escort or simply Free someone, we can Smash things up, Go On Patrol, Explore, and Rob Banks or Stop Them Being Robbed. We can Go Skiing, MAKE OUR OWN QUESTS, marketeer and craft if we want to, and we can even swap our spandex for a tux for when we need to Attend a Diplomatic Party. In fact, about the only thing I can't do in CoH...is kill pigs.

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Ah, cool.

Yes. it is indeed a loosley connected series of vignettes. I intended it to be akin to one of those 'anthology' movies that were vaguely popular in the 60s and 70s. (albeit they were in the horror genre).

Glad you had fun anyway.

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Thank you, Mr Squid. According to my play count, you are the first person to play The Audition since before this competition started.

Your PM for Part 1 was very nice, thanks. You PM for Part 2 was quite perplexing, though. Was there a problem?

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Exactly. I don't know why other games dont have this metric, tbh. Giving us

a. the ability to easily defeat one even con mob and
b. the ability to outrun aggroed mobs pretty easily

sort of guarantees a non-annoying start to the game.

CoH has ruined me for other MMOs.

Aion is gorgeous tho, i'll give it that.

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