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Wait ... did they really filter that because it looks kinda like BS? It's the only reason I can think of.

You do realize that I was using goodness as an example since it was mentioned in the thread yes? I'm sure I've used it at some point before though too, but that's aside the point, since I've used 'heaven' before as well (and others ... not always because 'god' didn't work). "Thank the Lord," sounds odd to me though, "Praise the Lord," would work for certain character types (that I've not used). It's really an issue of voice when you get down to it.

I'm still somewhat confused as to why some words are filtered out, god especially. If nothing else, its annoying to have to talk around the word when you have an arc where the main villain is stealing artifacts in order to become a god and it cuts down a bit on the insane monomaniacal comments available.

Most of the filtered issues are easy enough to work around honestly. The problem with a lot of these problems is that the filtered word often conveys a stronger of sense the matter than most of the work-arounds. For instance, "Thank god," always sounds more grateful or emphatic than, "Thank goodness," to me (unless the person being saved is a virginal damsel in distress, or a southern belle I suppose).

Which makes me sad, because the Coralax are awesome.

/dev makes for a very methodical and slow soloer. While it is quite safe, it's a very different feel than soloing a /em, /ice or really any other secondary. You can easily solo just as well by taking a primary that offers a lot of active mitigation (like ice or energy) and taking a solid damaging secondary to help with the more difficult enemies.

Well, the lifetime of the game. Could be years or it could be less.

Personally I'd say CO will be around a while. Sure it has its problems, but it's certainly not a bad game.

But isn't calling it a 'sniper ranged nuke' a bit disingenuous? The information I can find on the power has it doing every-so-slightly less damage than a normal snipe power, but doing it as a fairly nice AoE. Nukes do even more damage than a snipe (considerably more if they get off their extra procs of damage).

Doesn't mean that LRM isn't a very nice power, just that you might be stretching a bit.


Personally I've never been a huge fan of flame mastery. Not because bonfire, char or fire shield are lacking in any way, but because I have problems with RotP. Sure it's a nice handy power, but I'd rather have a power that will keep me alive instead of one that will bring me back after I'm dead.

Both RotP and FoN can help prevent team wipes, it's pretty much just a matter of taste on your part.

Yea. I tend to do small teams and solo myself, so Power Push is one of my single favorite powers in the set. Not only is it a great knockback power (which I love) I can easily keep almost any one enemy in a group out of the fight for however long I want. There's a couple notable exceptions but for the most part I knock down one enemy and while it's on its back I take out one of the minions then re-knockdown whomever I hit first as they're getting up and just rinse and repeat.

Sure, it's no hold, but it works surprisingly well on a lot of bosses out there.

I don't use it much at all when I'm on larger teams though.

That's pretty much how they worked it over in DAoC with the clustered servers. Seemed to work fairly well, all things considered.

I think the problem is that your initial post doesn't look like you want anything cleared up.

When I read it the key points that stand out to me are your acknowledging that it's been planned here for a while, but the timing is suspicious and that it was a CO idea first.

No request for clarification, just an expression of suspicion and disappointment.

Though I'm not sure if that would mean that they're cool ideas, that they're working on them, or that we're actually going to get them.

I've never been too terribly fond of The Hollows personally, but I love Faultline.

Don't forget. They also specialize in removing people's ankles and deforming their feet, making them unable to move any faster than a lumbering shuffle.

It really all depends on what you consider a 'massive update'. Are you talking systems or content. I think most people tend to talk content (I know I tend to think of it that way). For instance, I would have classified I9 as a 'smaller' update than I10. I know it was smaller system wise, but there was much more to do.

I've had a vague sense of dissatisfaction with this year's updates so far mostly due to the fact that while they used to (generally) alternate content heavy and system heavy issues this year's releases have all been pretty content light.

So as for me, I'm sincerely hoping that I17 is content heavy, no matter how light it may be as far as new systems go.

According to the GR FAQ you will need to have access to a current CoH account in order to use the expansion, though I would hardly be surprised if there wasn't a separate boxed set that included the main game also available.

Well, Anti-Matter at least has an orbital lab that I think it his 'lair'.


Anyhoo, if the expansion doesn't have multiple zones it'll pretty much be a waste in my opinion. One zone and a new system is an issue really. Of course, if it's just one (or even only a couple) new zones I'll be highly surprised.

A new boxed expansion indicates the intent to provide a significant amount of new content in both systems and new areas/missions. They've said the thing's going to be set in Praetoria, sure, but it's a whole world, I figure they're likely to at least give us one Paragon zone and one Rogue Isle zone to show us how 'different' the world is, and that's at the very least.

I don't know, I guess it's just when I think boxed expansion I think multiple areas and things to do, it's generally the norm for games from what I've seen.

There's actually an interesting, and rather longish post towards the (current) end of the thread discussing the evolution of British English in rebuttal of some of the comments there. It's a little snarky, but fairly civil overall, and most importantly interesting (to me anyway, but I find languages interesting so ....).