NightshadeLegree

I might.

If I can be bothered keeping my sub active for one more month I'll qualify for the tier 2 loyalty anyway. I say if because it's been what... 5 months since the announcement with no new information at all. Even allowing for said announcement being put out too soon that's a long time.

I really really hope whatever gets shown at Hero-Con is worth that wait.

Personally I wasn't overly impressed by the article. It seemed to trot out the tired old "CoH will get killed by CO and DCUO" argument that's been getting kicked around these forums forever, despite CO shaping up to be, at best, the WAR to CoH's WoW, and DCUO shaping up to be... I don't know what... Sidekicks Online?

The biggest real threat to CoH right now is if Going Rogue gets a lukewarm reception. Problem is there's lots of ways it could get just exactly that.

BaB was only slightly surprised when people complained that the new customised Granite obscured their costumes...

Just so long as there's someone at the first look preview of Going Rogue who can provide a word for word transcript of everything that's said, and HD recordings of any and all video footage.

That's not too much to ask, is it?



(Although it would also be nice of the devs to throw out a couple of screenshots or something for everyone to over analyse in a speculative frenzy for the next few weeks...)

Mayhems are awesome - some of my favourite content in the game - and side missions only add to the awesome.

Safeguards are not awesome, unless you do the sides, in which case they become... well, still not awesome, but alright.

That's solo. On a team I'll go with the flow, though if it comes to a vote I'll vote to do the sides unless the team is so incompetent I can't wait to get out. That's unbearably incompetent only, since a mildly incompetent team can be quite amusing in the chaos of bank missions.

My vote goes to Clamor. I mean, you just know she'd be up for anything...

Well... I'm loyal to CoH in the sense that I've renewed my subscription in each of the last two months despite not actually playing much, but that's down to the promise of early(ish) access to the Going Rogue beta.

Recently I've been playing mainly WoW, which is probably heresy in the eyes of some people.

/me hides from the torch and pitchfork wielding mob

How about this thread?

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MM soloing Ghost of Scrapyard, with video.

It's been a little less than two years. I saw a few when I was on my trial account last August, but haven't seen any since, and I've had a full account since October last year, so I guess August of September last year was the end of them.

Positives - It's an active event that requires you to move around - makes a nice change from the Invasions where once you're at the gathering point you basically don't have to move from it at all.

Negatives - Judging from the difficulty one group of 6 or 8 50s I was part of had in taking down one banner, this event is going to be pretty hard for low-pop servers, especially off peak hours. At least if the Rikti attack Port Oakes and my level 9 stalker is the only villain in the zone I can score a few kills towards the Rikti Invasion badges - minions at least.

/shrug. It's very much a team event, and good fun for higher levels. I can't imagine my lowbies will be attempting much banner hunting though. Thankfully there's still ToTing and zombie invasions.

Renamed but otherwise recycled mobs are... eh... well it gives us something to fight I guess, but some of the groups seem a bit random, like an AE custom enemy group. A bad AE custom enemy group.

Vampire Lords in Trick or Treating seem buggy.

Every other enemy appears to be spawning correctly, but I've had 2 doors in Grandville that have spawned lone Vampire Lords, who have proceeded to just stand there doing nothing, ignoring my character, even after I hit them with Provoke.

After a couple of minutes of doing nothing the door opens again and they run back inside. I'll continue ToTing in GV to see if this continues to happen.

Edit: Just got another - spawn of 1 Werewolf and 1 Vampire Lord. Werewolf attacked as normal. Vampire Lord did nothing until one of my pets punched him, then he ran a short distance away, stopped and turned to look at me but did not attack. If I shot at him he ran, if I didn't he stood still. After a couple of minutes he ran in a different door and despawned.

I imagine I'll play around with side-switching but only if it's rigt for the character (and I'm not even a RPer) and I am looking forward to Dual Pistols.

Mostly though I'm really looking forward to the new zones and story arcs. If GR's story and mission content meets (or better yet surpasses) the standard of some of the other newer stuff (the ITF, the Oro arcs, the heroside Midnighter missions) then I'll be a very happy villain.

Yes, villain. I do play heroside, but being able to play redside ATs in Paragon City won't lure me away from the Rogue Isles.

I just think of it as the bot taking the 'protector' part of its description very seriously and running in front of me shouting "Stay back boss! I'll hold him off!"

I'd like my bots to get a new power that enables them to jump in front of me to take incoming fire, in slow motion, while shouting "Nooooooooo!"

Can I agree with both sides of the 'new players will enjoy it because it's new/no they won't because it's boring' debate?

New players will enjoy it because it's new to them: Agreed. About this time last year I was on my trial 2 weeks. I ran around Atlas Park fighting Hellions and giggling madly every time my NRG/NRG blaster KB'd one halfway across the street or over a wall. I knew NOTHING of the game mechanics and when I ran into my first purple conning Fallen Gunner all I could remember was some bit of the tutorial that said foes that conned purple were incredibly powerful. Lord Recluse himself couldn't have given me as much of a fright as this guy did.

Were the missions banal and repetitive? No! I had a 60's superspy inspired scrapper (MA/SR) and her very first mission had her beating up Skulls in a dance club - Yeah baby yeah! Then onto the next, with hordes (it seemed like hordes) of uniformed fascist goons in a warehouse. Yup, even beating up Council was thrilling back then.

I accepted an invite to a sewer team and was absolutely stunned when I first saw someone using an AoE (I think it was Energy Torrent) on a close packed group - BOOM! So much damage! Fancy costumes, amazingly varied powers, great animations, hilarious enemy dialogue, the 15 minutes I spent fighting one Headman Gunner during a completely unexpected Rikti invasion... It was great. All of it.

But...

No they won't, because it's boring: Agreed. I had fun heroside, but I played a lot more villains. At the time I got my first 50 villain my highest hero was 15. When I did go back and run heroside I went via the Hollows and Croatoa, and this and a couple of TFs meant I didn't really run 'classic' hero content until the late 30s... and the terminal boredom of The Terra Conspiracy (aka Defeat all DE then do it again, and again, and again...) slowed my levelling of that character to a crawl.

I had a fun and varied early hero experience in AP, the Sewers and the Hollows and a bit with a team in KR. Had I went the regular contact route... I'd have still enjoyed the fun of my characters and all their fancy powers, but the endless zone hopping and identikit missions of classic heroside content I do find a little wearying now, and might have then.

PLing isn't the answer (for me at least) and to be on topic for a moment I'm not at all sorry the Age of AE is apparently over, but I can see why people do it. A better answer would be to redo the older hero content, but I guess that's on the back burner until GR is out, if not longer

I don't 'get' PLing. I really enjoy the early levels on a new character, especially if they have powerset(s) that are new to me. Sure, the enemies are the same, but discovering new ways to smack them around is always fun.

I admit 16 to 22 can be hard going - when the pre-SO end crunch hits hardest, and isn't made any easier by my refusal to build toward getting stamina at 20 if there are more fun powers to take (and there always are) - but that only adds to the satisfaction later on when the character becomes a lot more powerful.

I can't really disagree with this, or something like it. It does seem that looking for the last minion in the cargo ship is almost an obligatory part of the mission (so much so I'm usually a bit shocked when I beat the boss in the final room and actually get the Mission Complete message right away.)

Plus it would take the pain out of that horrible horrible mission where you have to hunt down 12 (?) captive mages being guarded by Malta in Oranbega. On a timer...

The devs have stated that the minimum TF/SF requirement prevents people from taking on a challenge that would be too big for one or two players, yet with I16 we now have the option to set any mission at +4/x8 which, for most characters, would be far more difficult than anything in a TF other than an AV, and there's no warnings about doing so.

I'd love to see all of the TFs/SFs handled the same way as the Oros - no minimal team size and an option for solo players to fight EBs instead of AVs.

Not because I can't run them otherwise - despite being in no global channels on any server I've run a fair number of the TFs just through being invited to PuGs. Simply because I don't like the way many TFs are run - too quick, too easy and the story is usually IMPOSSIBLE to follow if you don't have the star.

As a technical/gameplay challenge TFs/SFs are enjoyable. As stories they absolutely suck, because 9 times out of 10 it's only when the TF is over and I have time to read up on it in the wiki that I find out "Oh, so that's why we were doing that..."

It probably won't happen any time soon, but this is the QoL improvement I crave most from this game.

Well there's no harm in asking...

The top two on my list are the Assassin Strikes for Energy Melee and Dark Melee, which not coincidentally are the same, and so goofy looking I can't bring myself to play either set. MA has already been given an alternative AS, so I'd love to see these two given the same choice.