Obsidius

Honestly, although the tone is harsh, I have to agree with the above.

Although I wouldn't break up a duel in a PvP zone, I would have to agree that I'd hardly have room to complain if it happened to me. It's a PvP zone, after all. I could have an uninterrupted duel in the arena if I wanted.

Really, I think the only "bad form" is TPing someone into a large mob or a group of mobs with no intention of attacking them personally, just to watch the person get defeated with debt. Although it would certainly teach one to carry some oranges around

Whatever the bug is, it must be a major one if a reversion is required. Otherwise, they'd leave it in-place and fix it with the next patch.

Some may think it odd that a large bug slipped through on a patch that's been on Test for two weeks. However, I know from my own experience that many "testers" have been recovering from Issue 12 beta burnout, so the Test population has probably been pretty light. Additionally, if it's a base, market, global chat, or SG issue, those are even harder to test, since those aren't persistent with a character copied over from Live.

Still, I'm curious as to what could have been so major a reversion was required...

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For those folks that have a COH/COV account there is a special item attached to your VIP pass so make sure you stop by early to ensure you get your badge.

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Hmmm. I sure hope this isn't a code that can be input in your account to unlock some item.

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Lighten up Francis It's probably just some schwag, like they gave out at the M&G. Maybe one of those capes or something.

Wow, I might actually go this year instead of putting it off

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If at all possible, please post a transcript (or download) for people who had to work and couldn't attend.

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I think a download would be kinda hard as it was a screen showin Posi playin the game live and speaking answerin questions people posted in the IRC which Lighthouse was monitoring. Maby a transcript would work better.

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If someone FRAPP'd it, it wouldn't be too hard. Just a big WMV file

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That was a pretty sweet program watchin someone play the game live. More should be done with that in the future. Plus Posi kinda answered my question about the shield powerset.

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Yeah, we think it's pretty cool too. If anyone has any ideas for using Dyyno's streaming technology with the game or something they would like to stream that they think would be interesting for the rest of the community (that is of course CoH related) please send me a private message.

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Integrate live play/ PvP events into the web page! Pimp that web space out!

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Not to sound mean but if you are going to be changing animations and such (See: Adding Casting Time) then you should simply do a global sweep and look at ALL animations and change them for balance reasons. I think it is unfair (And NO I do NOT play Stone Melee) that you change some animations (Stone Melee, Fire Sword Circle) and not others.

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When you can magically make it so that all of this power checking can be done for one patch, get back to us.

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It should be all or nothing not picking and choosing. It only creates envy between powersets where you got Energy Transfer sitting as God on Mount Olympus laughing at the other powersets.

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Hyperbole much?

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Why do minor bugs take higher priority over balance reasons?

Why correct bugs (That are essentially nerfs) when you have SERIOUS balance issues with animation times in sets? It once again creates unfairness between powersets.

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If they are working on something that's related to the schedule and happen to find a bug, should they not be allowed to fix them then and now, instead of waiting for a month and forgetting about it or having it drop off a list?

Please Ultimus, stop brow-beating us with armchair development. Or go bowling with P_F. Either one would be fine.

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I noticed that you didn't answer my question. Not real surprised that my question was ignored just mentioning it.

For those that may have missed it my question was: How do you expect to sell advertisement in the game when bugs cause the game to keep crashing?

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Heh, you burn all your bridges with your incessant snobish posts and then expect priority help? Good luck with that!

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How about doing what everyone else does, and talk to Support instead of wasting your time (and the devs' time) complaining on the forums? It's easier to track bugs with tickets as opposed to vague wording and conceit.
My ad for P_F: GO PLAY WoW!

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Wow. I'm really disappointed.

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Nothing new there.

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Zing! <finger guns>

See what I did there?

Don't forget to tip your waitress!

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Oh but they imcreased the animation times on Stone Melee for no reason, what a great waste of time.


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Or so they can fit the Stone melee animations in with the upcoming Shield defensive set. But dont take BaBs word for it at all.

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Also, notice how he didn't mention anything benificial to Stone Melee - it's all doom and gloom

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Sweet, they didn't fix the bug with enemies running from players that's been in the game for years.

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That's not a bug. Just like the French, enemies will run away like little girls when they are getting pummeled.

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Or the icon bug that's bugging the hell out of anyone who doesn't solo 24/7.

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I'll give you that. Annoying? Sure. Earth-shatttering? Hardly.

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Oh but they imcreased the animation times on Stone Melee for no reason, what a great waste of time.

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By fractions of a second. And there was a reason (read some of BAB's posts for once). Get off the molehill; you're crushing it.

Je suis desolé "monsieur".

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^ One of the best things I ever did on the forums ^

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Question on this change.

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Vanguard Merits now will display ‘Merit Awarded!’ instead of ‘Salvage Found!’ when they are awarded to a player.


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Did they at least change the color on them? It wasnt the salvage found message that made players angry but more so the orange color making them think they really got rare salvage. If they are still going to be orange then this change essentially did nothing for us players.

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Changing the color is biased against color blind players.

But seriously, if you can't be bothered to read the big flashing text (regardless of color), TS.

"Did nothing for the players"? Speak for yourself you cantankerous fool

Thanks for the much-appreciated foreknowledge LH

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Will old Trial Accounts be reactivated, too?

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Never. Only standard accounts AFAIK.

Also: I hear Triumph has a low population, semi-competent playerbase >.>

Another good issue Chase & Cinder.

So much stuff to pack into one comic!

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Obsidius, it sure could be worse but not by much. Why not fix the issue instead? I think most of the players were begging for the VEATS to be more customizeable. Unfortunately, we just received a collective kick in the junk!

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Well, at least changing the look of VEATs wouldn't and doesn't require Power Customization (which would be the only way of changing the look of Kheld Dwarf & Nova forms).

Mind you, I'm not against your proposal. In fact, I heartily agree that more costume options would go a long way towards making the VEAT uniform look better. Why can't I have my helmet off like other notable NPCs?

But this is all in the realm of Jay, and from personal experience, he's a very tough nut to crack once he's made up his mind. Perhaps we can soften him up with some NIB (new in box) action figures

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Obsidius, are you suggesting two wrongs make a right?

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Not at all. Merely "it could be worse"

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I dunno about you guys but I think the VEATS costumes fail in a big way. They look great and all but the generic look and everyone having that look was just silly. If you were on last night you saw nothing but VEATS running around Mercy. They all look alike! We're all generic looking...we all look like NPCs. It's really sad. It's a shame we can't combine some of those cool costume pieces of the VEATS with the regular stuff. Instead we have almost zero flexibility with the costume and it looks ridiculous. I can't wait to level to 10 so I can get some better threads.

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OTOH, they are still much better than Kheldian Nova and Dwarf forms that, being powers that overwrite your avatar, have zero customization options. At least VEATs can change their costume's colors

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JLove loses sexy points for making the female Widow boots a clunky heel rather than a stiletto. Bad JLove. Bad.

The new patterns are nice though.

The Roman styles are worthless, as far as I'm concerned, since they're tucked into the back of a TF. No sexy points there.

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Also, as noted in previous issues, Jay designs costumes, but doesn't handle how they're given to players.

Please don't penalize the Jay Sexiness Points based on costume rewards

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Should Wolf Spiders be able to access the Crab and Bane options from the start? I don't usually want less choice, but it seems wrong in this case, and hamstrings the potential awesomeness of when you actually get to level 24.

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That's a known bug.

Also: Jay is sexy, regardless of how much I rib him over jet packs and other stupid stuff

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I'm really surprised that all the effort was spent on making an entirely new zone, and then putting almost no content into it. One series of "talk to these people" so-called missions, one contact spitting out repeatables, and one TF.

I was disappointed that I exhausted everything outside of the TF in less than an hour. You'd think with how much it was hyped this was the reconstruction of the Parthenon or something, but it turns out to be seriously underwhelming.

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But you're always disappointed

To the point, I believe Hero 1 said in an interview that they spent a lot of time working on the Midnighters and the Time's Arrow TF, meaning they didn't have much write-up time for other activities in the zone. He also mentioned that it would be very likely that they will return to Cimerora in the near future to expand the content and story, as part of the "coming storm."

IMO, this is the "Issue for Altitis", what with Power Proliferation and VEATs to play with. But I digress from the OP.

The zone itself is beautiful. War Witch has outdone herself. The TF is epic. As a WS player, the storyline is not only enthralling, but also ties in nicely with the background of my WS character. And you can even swim underwater in one of the maps, which begs the question "What's up the devs' sleeves?"

Very interesting indeed.

IMO, the cake was serverd undercooked to compete with the new bakery in the next town over. Delicious, but with a bit left desired as far as final touches go.

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