Peacemoon

Great video, it all helps!

Just to add, I think everyone who has put hundreds of hours of playtime into this game will be just as devastated as me. I actually joked that I would come back and play CoH again soon, as not been online for a while.

Thanks I will look into that!

First I'll say, I don't play CoH anymore, but I played it on and off since it was new. I bought CoV, and Going Rogue and lots of other stuff from the store.

I'm so sad to hear that CoH is shutting down. I felt compelled to write this post even though I don't know what to say. All I will say is I had some amazing times on CoH, I made some amazing characters, great adventures and epic memories I will not forget. I always thought CoH would have a big enough population to maintain itself in some capacity - obviously I was wrong. Just want to say, thank you so much to everyone who ever worked on this brilliant game and everyone else who played it and made it so alive. I will always remember CoH fondly.

P.S - is there some kind of Cohpedia we could make to preserve our characters?

I love Black Scorpion, finally a dev who is giving the support powersets some much needed love. For too long all the attention has seemed to be on the overly glorified blasting/melee powers, in my opinion!

Great guide

This is great news, thank you!

Does a dmg proc function if its in Lightning Storm? I.E every time it strikes there is a 20% chance for the mob to take more damage? Sometimes these procs work strangely with pets.

I think the argument is the wrong way round.

Its not that we have become too powerful, but that there isn't a new tier of content to work on which takes into account the Incarnate stuff. As a result, we keep running old content which we have effectively "out leveled".

Hopefully Paragon are working on more content directed at more powerful characters.

Something else I hope will help people. "Paragon Police" was not an offense after more testing I have done.

The problem with my arc is 2 of the minor bosses were called "Agent Johnson" and "Special Agent Johnson", however no orange warning flag appear until I actually clicked into those boss's individual settings. Once I had clicked in to that boss, the orange copyright flag appeared with "Infringement: Agenet J" or something like that. So I changed them to Agent Roberts and it has since worked perfectly.

If you are having problems and it isn't telling you why, click through each individual detail and it might highlight something in the process. Hope that helps someone!

As for some constructive advice for anyone reading, what I've done is made a copy of the arc under a different save, and tinkered with deleting all the missions bar 1 and then if that wont publish I know that there is a problem with that mission and can keep adjusting it till its fixed. Repeat for all 5.

The problem is that I thought canon stories were supported?! How can they be if the mentioning of Paragon, Vahzilok and who knows what else is invalidating them? I could go through the arc and try my best to correct it, but I have no idea where to start. Its very long and contains a lot of canon stuff. If I attempt to republish at it fails, then all the changes I've attempted are lost.

Just resubscribed to find my arc unplayable! Can't express how unhappy I am.

It was only when I went to edit it and find out why it wasn't working I realised that because my custom character is from a custom group called "Paragon Police" it wont play. How dumb is that?

So reluctantly I changed it to simply "Detective" but it still wont allow me to play as something in the field name is forbidden - but it does not tell me what it is or where the field name is. How am I meant to figure it out?

Writing and creating stories is the best thing CoH offers to me, no other game does anything like it. I can't tell you how annoyed and upset I am to find this. Even more so when I look at the date of the original post, which was 3 weeks ago.

I think its part of online culture these days and not just related to CoX. The more the devs increase the tools and ease for people to find teams, the less tolerent they will be of mistakes or inperfections.

Also for CoX in particular, the game is much easier these days with people quite happy to run at x8/+0, so why struggle at +3? Also its very easy to pick up another team; there is much less tolerence for failure, which is a shame.

Yeah I wish even more groups got some new enemies, heres hoping!

Oh and on that note, 30-40 Crey could use a serious overhaul. Skulls are more dangerous then their scientists.

Can I just say, I think hoarding up on temporary powers like Shivans, Nukes, HVACs really goes against the spirit of the game. CoX is the only game I know of that would accept such rampent misuse of powers in order to bypass the tactics/strategies needed to kill an encounter; where tactics/strats are even necessary and its not just a mountain of regen to climb over. Seriously I would have expected these powers to have been shot down years ago.

So should the devs balance encounters with these powers in mind (i.e, making them required), or should they disable them and balance them without them? Personally, I think it should be the latter, but I guess people love farming their shivans.

Because that is the bigger picture which people seem to miss as they rant about "OH NO MY NUKES ARE GONE!"

Having said all that, the devs are also doing it wrong here. Make a decision based on the principle and stick to it. If you think that in principle Nukes and Shivans shouldn't be used as a cheap work around for difficult trials and TF's, then surely the devs should disabled across the board; not single out individual fights. This is just a ridiculous situation where it seems the devs are too afraid to make the right call and balance accordingly and so we are left with these silly exceptions.

Although changes to Gravity's animation are in the pipeline somewhere. Castle said in GR beta that they were going to look at the set's animations. So hopefully the case of "dieing before wormhole has finished activating" will be a thing of the past.

Freezing Rain is better, because I play Storm :P