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Some days, keeping the encyclopedia of CoH knowledge in my head to feel like I'm not screwing up feels more like work than fun.

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They need to blowout info into the game. Unhide everything. Frankly 99% of the people I know that play this game NEVER read the forums. All they do is ask me for info because they have absolutely no clue about the specifics of the game.

My best example of this is Shadow Fall. It grants both resistance and defense right? I tell my friend -- don't bother slotting it for defense. She says why? I tell her its because the defense value is miniscule, the power is about the resistance.

How would she know that if I didnt tell her? She WOULDNT.

I really don't see how this isn't like priority #1. I'm sure Jack's learned that hiding the numbers was a failure, it just motivates people who like to dig to find and expose them. So there are a bunch of us who ar ein the know because we SEEK it.

But those who play and don't read up know almost nothing about the games specifics. I'm not even sure the game tells you about ED.

The game should give you a prompt if you try to 4 slot for damage or something.

6000 views for a thread about Doc Brainstorms feet? .....ridiculous :P

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And we are planning on attaching rares to these trials? My complaint about attaching these things to them (As Brainstorm said) is that I can complete these things WAY faster then any team can. I did in fact solo the City of Villains COV respec trial with my Brute in less then 25 minutes. (I think it was just a little over 19 minutes) Other SFs I've all soloed in COV in less then 30-40 minutes.

Ultimately, this means that if any of these Trials/TFs have rare recipes/salvage it will become VERY common by farmers. All a person needs is either a couple friends or dummy accounts to start the SF/Trial. Remember, Brainstorm also said that there is no specific enhancers tied to a SF/Trial. This means pick the easiest one and farm it with a single character.

I hate to say it but this means we need to either buff Arch Villains where they cannot be soloed anymore or limit Shivans/Nukes to PVP zones.

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Not this guy again...

According to Lighthouse, sometime this week. Unspecified when.

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No problem. But if for some reason it doesnt come Friday, don't kill me! :P

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It won't make Friday. It's out to the following week now. The feature will likely make it to our French and German players and will need a spot of time for translation. At least, that's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it!

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D'oh. Consider me corrected! Well there you have it.

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Hi guys, im from CoH WarCry. Assuming there are no hitches, you can expect it up by Friday.

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ooh, thank you very much for the update!

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No problem. But if for some reason it doesnt come Friday, don't kill me! :P

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So is the Q&A done yet or is it still in the works?

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Hi guys, im from CoH WarCry. Assuming there are no hitches, you can expect it up by Friday. The person who would be posting it up is out of town at the moment and will be back on Friday, so I speculate that is when you'll see the new Ask a Dev.

I'm speculating a bit since I don't know for sure if Cryptic sent us back the material (since the guy is away, I cant confirm.)

This is only going to hurt many peoples egos and pad others'. I love your artwork but this needs to be presented differently.

It currently comes off as elitist, and will only create a popularity contest.

I consider my villain famous in his own concept -- why isn't he there (aside from the fact its a heroes shot :P)? Because I haven't had countless images commissioned for him?

You get the point.

This should've been presented as a "groupshot of all my friends" as that is what it really is. Or maybe a groupshot of the forum cartel or something like that..

I don't mean to be a jerk as I love all the artwork, I don't get involved with the politics of the forums and all that. I come by here to look at the great artwork you guys put up.

Just wanted to give my 2 cents on the way this is presented.

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Hey All

Well I like to share piece that I recently got completed. This piece is based on Jim Lee's cover to Batman #613. I'm a fan of the Dark Night. So it was fitting to put my Missy K with Batman.

I was able to get Martin Montiel of Mexico (Top Cow) to create a piece for me. I also got Garrie Gastonny of Indonesia to color.

Here it is the forum friendly version of:

Missy K & The Dark knight

Enjoy

Ollie & Missy K

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It looks awesome. I love Batman.

My Claws/Nin Stalker Sygma Se'Ven

And my Dark/Dark Stalker Blinded Seraph Blinded Seraph 2

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I can't blame people for bashing on Posi when the first Red name post outside of "I'm locking this thread" is 4 words.

But now people actually do get the dev take on Dominators and DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM hits.

For the 2007 awards I nominate the Dominator forum for the Best Drama in a Forum award

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Most of them are right though, Positron while I respect him a lot isnt the "Word of God" he made a post and everyone here is obviously giving him a bit of a reality check.

Maybe he already knows these things and the 'tweaks' they plan address them and you're all jumping the gun? Perhaps. Maybe not -- if he doesnt, and hes now reading this thread, he should know now. Perhaps, however unlikely he'll actually address some of the responses.

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Whats all the stuff on the ceiling in the control/meeting room? Howd you do that? :P

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Thats the AES, tier 3(?) control item. It expensive and BIG...but oh so pretty

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We just qualified for it last night but I don't think I have anywhere to put it...

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It requires the 3,950,000-Prestige Control room, so most SGs don't have somewhere to put it offhand. Oh, and it requires large amounts of rare salvage.

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They really need to heavily nerf base costs. Way too restricting, either that or buff prestige gain...

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Honestly I think it's pretty fair, we have one in our base too.
If the prices were cheap and easy to get it wouldn't be 'special'.

You think that's bad, the fusion generater is 7.5mil, but with a higher amount of damage it can take and sheer size I think it'll be worth it (after we upgrade to a secure plot).

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You think its fair because you probably have 70 members in the VG. Not everyone does, but not everyone is a SMALL Vg either. What about medium VGs? You're either small or large in this game. Thats how the #'s are skewed. They ramp up insanely so that only LARGE extremely active VGs can really partake in most of this content. What if I dont want to run a McVG with 70+ people who don't know each other? I still want to have a great base for my medium-ish VG.

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Whats all the stuff on the ceiling in the control/meeting room? Howd you do that? :P

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Thats the AES, tier 3(?) control item. It expensive and BIG...but oh so pretty

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We just qualified for it last night but I don't think I have anywhere to put it...

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It requires the 3,950,000-Prestige Control room, so most SGs don't have somewhere to put it offhand. Oh, and it requires large amounts of rare salvage.

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They really need to heavily nerf base costs. Way too restricting, either that or buff prestige gain...

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Whats all the stuff on the ceiling in the control/meeting room? Howd you do that? :P

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Thats the AES, tier 3(?) control item. It expensive and BIG...but oh so pretty

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We just qualified for it last night but I don't think I have anywhere to put it...

With Issue 7 providing some new cosmetic / functional base upgrades I went through our current base and gave it a bit of a facelift. We (Arachnos Elite) are an Arachnos themed VG on the Virtue Server

The Arachnos Elite

Here are some screenshots from the base renovation:



Porter Room Angle 2

New Workshop Closeup

Entrance Room

Medical Ward

Meeting Room

Workshop Diff Angle

Control Room

Porter Room Angle 1

Raid Porter

Base Entrance 2

More Workshop

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THE BLACKGUARDS BASE

The Portal Room

Workshop I (the alcoves house Salvage and Inspiration Storage)

Hospital

Energy Room

Teleportation Room I

Teleportation Room II (Grandville)

Workshop II

Meeting Room I View II

Control Room/Meeting Room II

Enjoy.

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Whats all the stuff on the ceiling in the control/meeting room? Howd you do that? :P

As much as I think these guys are cool they seem to trivialize the need for actual heroes. Or at least, as MANY heroes as are present in Paragon City.

I would have instead implemented mob group Supergroups of heroes for these missions.

Only complaint I have is lack of destructible environments WITHIN the side missions, like breaking out of the PPD, you should be able to destroy the desks and all that in collateral damage as you're fighting the cops on your way out of the station. Same for the bank and all that..

I think we've beat this one dead guys. Let's just wait for a Dev to respond and see what he/they have to say about what we've brought up.

I wish I had that. I've been leveling my main since October and hes only lvl 31 *sigh*

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How the hell are people level 40 already? ITS ONLY BEEN OUT 3 DAYS!

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Heh, thats the power of hi-level friends and newspaper mish's :P


*note to self: Get new friends*


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I still don't get it. What does it matter if you have high level friends? They can SK you to get the most XP but youre still gonna only get +3 mission bonus and stuff...

How the hell are people level 40 already? ITS ONLY BEEN OUT 3 DAYS!

P.S. Wee sounds like Chain Induction is lame too, this is like the most disappointing new set since Trick Arrow :P (except trick arrow looks cool even though it sucks)

Can someone please post screenshots (preferably) of Chain Induction or describe in depth what it looks like?

I'm hoping at least TWO powers in this set look cool (Jacobs Ladder being the only one that looks cool thus far)

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Can someone confirm that TS has been changed to more of a 5.4ish BI attack? I am actualy kinda worried about the set now, because it doesnt sound like its gonna get a big single target attack (9ish bi) anymore if TS has been lowered from the blaster version...

That or LR will really be a nova type attack, which would suck too since that has hideous regcharge. Sounds Like Elec might wind up more of a pve set and kinda bleh in pvp with so much aoe and no good single target attack...

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Yeah TStrike is pretty weak, overall the set is pretty weak. I fight on my own and I don't feel like a Brute. When I play my low level Energy Melee I just run thru Mercy beating on all the high level Arachnos stuff there and just destroying things. This guy really doesnt dish out enough damage or build fury fast enough from what I can tell 10 levels in. TStrike is great for soft control, kb/kd and disorient, some aoe dmg, and ok single dmg. But its no KO Blow or Heavy Mallet...

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Flash Arrow (and Smoke and Smoke Grenade and a couple Temp Powers) is setup to not alert the AI when it is used on them.

Now, that isn't as simple or cut and dried as it sounds. It is still an attack. As such, it causes suppression on all powers that have such -- including stealth and related powers. It sounds like what is happening is something like the following:

1) Player clicks attack button; animation begins; suppression begins.
2) Target "sees" the player, and the critter is "aggroed"
3) Animation finishes and all attributes are applied.

In that example, if the player were outside the critters normal perception range, they would not have aggoed, even though they attacked. If, however, you are within normal aggro range, and using Stealth powers to offset that, then as soon as the stealth suppresses, you've already got aggro.

Now, all of that said, it is possible what I've outlined above is NOT what is happening and there is a bug involved. In testing this over the next few days, pay close attention to how this works, and keep the above sequence in mind. If that does not match what you are seeing, let me know.

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Can you please address the possibility of TA ever getting a massive buff to its debuffing capabilities? Since it has absolutely NOTHING else to it?

The fact we can even debate between Smoke Grenade vs Flash Arrow is an indication of a serious problem with the set. There should be no contest, Flash Arrow should be heaps better than Smoke Grenade, Smoke Grenade is in Devices a Blaster SECONDARY, Trick Arrow is a Defender PRIMARY, and has no buffs or heals, it should be the Debuff Master in COH. Since thats all it does...

Goofy made a pretty good post making a case for the TA set a few posts up, you don't even have to respond to mine, instead address his :P