Nethergoat

I've run it a couple of times and it was pretty fun.


I'll point out that the thematic underpinnings of the event make it a perfect candidate for 'return engagements', under the guise of WEEKEND DOUBLE FEATURE or what have you.

A CoV minus the pervasive influence of Arachnos would basically be a new game.

While I'm with you in spirit here Sam, I just don't see it ever happening.

Good stuff everybody, thanks for the feedback!

/signed

this annoys me on my Field Crafter every time I open the interface.

Okay, here's a question:

I have a problem with my screenshots.
I have a widescreen monitor.
If I take a screen & alt-tab to look at it, it comes out fine.
If I quit out of the game however the screens get compressed- they are no longer widescreen, but square.

That happened to my Ray screens above, but this is what I can't understand: how is that possible when I alt-tabbed, 'saved as' with Irfanview, uploaded to Imageshack & posted here without quitting the game.

When I posted them they looked fine.
When I checked back this AM, the were compressed and square.

HOW, LORD? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!

GRRR.

Well, I'm getting a new (to me) vid card from a friend next week, maybe that will solve the problem. It should also let me run Ultra Mode, which should be fun.


So last night the wife was out on the town with some friends & I found myself with a big chunk of free time. After I put my son to bed I logged in to do a little marketeering and maybe catch on with a TF. Having run a couple of Manticores this week I was after anything but (it's less irritating on a good team, but still not anything I'd chase after).

I was on with my level 39 grav/ta controller Bad Guy Controller when someone advertised a Posi 1. Why not, I thought- it's fun & should get me up to 40.

Another weird team- a tank, two brutes, two controllers (me and a fire) a Kin defender, a scrapper & a corrupter. Are people becoming allergic to ranged damage or something? I was tempted to swap out for my fire/fire blaster but didn't want to lose my spot- the guy leading the team seemed a little squirrley. Plus, any chance to level a grav/TA must be seized with both hands.


I haven't actually played this guy in I don't remember how long- at least a couple of years. He was originally a duo parter with my pal's fire/mace tank (this was when Burn was making everyone run away) which is how he got to level 39. He's weird, but super fun on teams- the LFG channel may mean he gets more play time. He's slotted for my own entertainment, not necessarily for efficiency- I stuck as many procs as I could in his various AoE debuffs. He's packed to the gills with Achilles Heels and various others.

Anyway, it was a fun, pretty quick run until we got to the final mission.
This chat exchange will tell anyone who's run the TF how it went:

leader: okay, don't touch the door yet.
(insert anarchy and chaos)
brute: Uh, sorry, I didn't see that until I opened the door.
leader: great.


So, predictable team wipe.

But it led to a really fun fight once we re-grouped, with a veritable Super Sized logjam of ambushers outside the door. I grabbed a couple of Team Inspirations from my email & filled the rest of my inventory with giant defenses & accuracies from base storage, and once we cleared out a space at the foot of the stairs the melee began in earnest.

Total anarchy, super fun.
We lost the brute and scrapper, but eventually whittled the mass of foe down to a managable size. With my big yellows I was able to land stuff even through the overlapping bubbles and a steady stream of purples kept the various ghosts and demon lords out of my grill (he's got Hover with a stealth IO slotted and spends most battles hanging out over the action just out of melee range).

Tactical Note- when you're a flyer, Entangling Arrow is a really great power- after this particular fight I found myself thinking 'geez, I should find some slots for it!'

Headed inside, didn't have much trouble with the spawns in the atrium, then it was time to fight our dopplegangers.

This is pretty much the only 'boss fight' in the entire game I have wired- you all gang up on the squishies one at a time, then beat down the hard targets once you have numbers on your side.

Alas, this particular team didn't get the memo.
As we were standing on the stairs working out tactics, the brute went all Leeeeeroy Jenkinssssss on us and bum-rushed the enemy. I stayed where I was, figuring we could just let him get killed then TP him back for a rez and debriefing, but *everyone else* charged in after him so I thought "what the heck!"

It was a horrible mess & another team wipe, of course.
We were actually holding our own until the /kin started speed boosting our adversaries...ugh, what a mess.


As with the the ambushes outside, once we regrouped things went much better. I nabbed another couple of team inspos, we chose our target to start out on (the kin, of course) and with this tiny bit of organization were able to saunter comfortably to the finish line.


Not exactly efficient, but our two major screw ups led to one of the more fun battles I've had in recent memory, so no complaints.


One question about my grav: occasionally I'd bonk people with a telephone pole, or dumpster and I'd get an IMPACT! notice over my targets head- what the heck is that? Some kind of damage bonus, I assume, but of what nature?

The greatly improved cast time on said power is greatly appreciated- things still died before my rusted out car got to them, but with much less frequency than in the olden days.

So, another night, another fun TF. Got a level, made some friends, picked up a couple of badges.

easy enough to delete the garbage as I go.

what I would like is a 'recycling bin' at various locations throughout the game where people could drop off their unwanted recipes and other players could root through looking for usable stuff....but that isn't very practical either.

apropos Sam's novella, the Ten Best Closing Lines of Books.

Most of my $$$ is tied up in bids on crappy purples right now, but I scrounged a couple billion out of the couch cushions to feed the INFcinerator.


Wheeeeee!

thanks Organica!


here's a couple quick snaps of Cathode Ray- doesn't look as good as he does in game, but my comp would blow up if i tried jacking the quality up any higher.



and with beam rifle drawn (thank you, Celestial Armor!):

Hah!!

okay- but if you need some extra PM me your global and I'll send it along.

Welcome back!

They've always talked to the community, which wasn't necessarily a good thing. =P

What's impressed me lately is they've kept up the communication but combined it with increased professionalism. Managing to interact without antagonizing is a skill I respect, being such a failure at it myself. =P