Nalrok_AthZim

Thank you for updating this.

I have several characters for you.

Many posters have stated their victory over this mission with various powersets. Hell, an Earth/FF controller pulled it off. A Rad/Rad defender pulled it off. I did it with a Pistol/Kinetic Corruptor!

It's not a matter of what you're using, it's a matter of how you're using it. That's it. End of story, no matter what you want to believe.

If you know what you're doing, you can handle it.

I still didn't get any solid "I'm leaving" or "I left" from the posted link.

The Coming Storm is clearly on it's way.

/target_name sapper

Ah, I see. Well I wouldn't call that a crash, just the endurance usage involved with activating it.

The system used for coloring power is entirely different from the system(s) used to create and implement animations. Wanna know how I know that? In the old I16 beta threads there was a thread discussing the mechanics of Light and Dark power color options. Color is different from animation. The reason coloring powers was such a daunting task had to do with alpha values and transparency, plus the revamp it took to all the game's core files in order to allow that level of change, all lumped on top of changing the way powers called for execution of their visual effects.

The animations we have now have been in place since the launch of CoH and the launch of CoV, with the exception of certain powersets such as Dual Pistols, Kin Melee and the like. I know how animation works, and believe me, you can animate in a number of 3D applications and export them into a number of engines so long as you have the right codec.

If you already have all these animations that are native to your engine/game, why on earth would it be MORE difficult to adjust their animation times and apply them to new powers?

The short answer is, it wouldn't. Crafting entirely new animations, however, requires more time to complete; this is why the new animations we have now feel like such a rush job. Two new animations in Mind Control? You can't tell me that's a mark of completion.

The only way your rebuttal would make any sense is if there were separate colors that existed before I16. Since there were not, and powers called upon a specific graphic file when using the particle generators associated with their respective sets, you'd be incorrect in relating custom power colors to custom power animations in the way you chose.

EDIT: You can try telling me there were custom colors in place before they were implemented, such as Luminary's Blue Energy Melee, or the Legacy Chain's White Energy Blasts. Again, these were entirely separate powers that used data files entirely separate from the player-accessible versions of Energy Melee and Energy Blast.

Active Defense doesn't have a crash. o_O

I understand that, and that's pretty fair. I can do both, so I do both.

Allow me to specify:

I'd rather RP during/between battles in a mission or converse with others in an open zone than sit in a VG/SG base for 4+ hours and not exercise my character whatsoever.

/e walllean needs a break, guys.

Allow me to sum it up:

"Waaah too hard. Fix."

I've done that tip mission on a slew of characters; never had an issue.

"I've done all I can, lad."

Despite this being against forum guidelines...

QFT.

Prove it.

Remember when Flares from Fire Blast used to be the overhand 'praise Jesus' animation? They changed that to the same animation used in Charged Bolts from Electric Blast. Also consider that the old Flares animation is the same animation used for Sonic Siphon/Fulcrum Shift. Energy Torrent and Spectral Wounds share the same animation. Hell, every animation in this game is almost invariably used on another power save for the ranged weaponry sets. At some point there will be a crossroads between them that would allow them to be ported to other powers.

A chunk of the current animations share the same run time as other animations, and could easily be interchanged. No new animations would need creating, tweaking, fine-tuning and reviewing; they would just need to change the speed at which they fire off and possibly iron out any deficiencies caused by said speed change. You'd effectively be eliminating the creation/fine-tuning processes involved in totally new animations and only needing to work on lining them up with the cast times of the power they're going to be applied to.

Throw whatever game jargon you want at me; I have a degree that backs up the last paragraph and I've done work almost exactly like that in the Unreal Engine. Sure, this game doesn't run on that specific engine but from my past experience it's not too terribly different.

Expect a G-invite from @Insane V; no better way to welcome than to offer you RP and gaming fun. (That means I RP and play the game to my fullest ability! A lot of times those two are mutually exclusive.)

lol mount joke

My Dark/Dark/Soul Brute is a god of ST damage. While he only has two 'big' hitters in Midnight Grasp and Siphon Life, I get quite a lot of use out of combining the DoT's in Gloom, Midnight Grasp and Shadowmaul.

Now, there's a power in the first Incarnate mission that basically adds 321 damage to every tick of damage you do. I think it's called Core Paragon Resonance or something similar. Coupling that with all the ticks of damage put out by my favorite series off attacks, I could usually melt the echoes in that mission in about 6 seconds flat.

Glorious, I tell you.

Someone in Beta threads (hell, maybe it was you Sam) suggested that Mind Control's Levitate get a new animation: A slight upturn of the head.

The thought gave me goosebumps. Personally, I love the one-handed Psionic Dart animation and wish it was applied to more powers, such as Mind Probe, Telekinetic Thrust, and Subdue.

Of course it can't tank anything.


It can tank everything.

Pardon?

Yeah I know man, you really need to team up to take on network problems.

/reading fail

That's why I left my last one, since all they did was base-sit.