Rush_Bolt
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Everything goes well with Traps. There's synergies with it and every available blast set. Just pick one that looks neat and run with it.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
And what difference does that make? I saw them rendered in-game, and, shockingly, they look exactly like their matte paintings, which were no doubt made after the in-game models.
And how much of that did you see? I had to watch the movie something like three times just to spot what's in the background, and in the end... It's just more white buildings. I guess I might be excited about them once I'm in-game looking at them for myself, but seeing split-second glimpses of them is hardly news. Especially considering this whole place looks like the mock-up of Praetoria they've been showing around since very much the first day, that place with the tall tower and plaza in front of it.
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Really, I get that it's "something new," but are we really THAT desperate for more Going Rogue stuff that we'll jump at what is literally and figuratively NOTHING? Maybe I'm biassed, considering the zillions of "Where's mah GR info!?!" threads a few months back did little more than irritate me. Maybe I'm immune to hype. I don't know. But if this were another trailer, a developer walkthrough, a movie that breaks at least a minute's worth of footage, maybe I'd be excited. But a 6-second spin around two characters that have no business standing back-to-back? Ugh...
This is the equivalent of that Half-Life 2 pre-alpha that got leaked, like, a year before the game's release, only it's even LESS./Inigo MontoyaQuote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
No, I'm not. You could turn it into a semantic argument, but it doesn't change the fact that this movie is quite literally nothing. It's empty space. It's dead air. Six seconds of nothing. Just like a person can speak for hours and hours and end up saying absolutely nothing (I should know), so this "video" is nothing. There's picture on it and there's a timer ticking, but there's nothing to see. Just in the same way as a person saying nothing is technically speaking words, he's still saying absolutely nothing.
You could have posted six seconds or random pixels or six seconds of RickRoll and it would have been the same effect. You could have posted six seconds of the Invisible Man in outer spate and it would have been about the same.
Seriously. I don't mean to crap on people's parade, because more Going Rogue information is always cool. But I'd literally have appreciated a single high-res still screenshot of the two more than that "video." -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by GreenFIame
this rep System they have up is a joke.
EDIT: I know it's dumb, but I have to say the neg rep this got gave me a laugh. Thanks, anon.
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Quote:I don't have one and I can see it fine.Originally Posted by Smersh
I ain't making a damn Facebook account just to see a video.
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Well helloooo, Maelstrom.
Praetoria's lookin' nice. Like the Emperor Cole statue they've got in the back. -
Quote:And even before they opened the RWZ up to all, the hike to the IP Icon was always much safer and easier than the Steel Canyon branch.Originally Posted by Scarlet_Hand
Um...actually I did not know that...which means that poor controller I created who had to run up to Steel and died 3 times did so in vain...oh well.
If they were to ever make Galaxy into a shopping district like zone an Icon would be a must though just to fit the concept.
A quick run through Kings Row and past maybe three spawns in IP and you're there. -
Quote:I doubt this would be true.Originally Posted by Power_NA
That way everyone will know how to play
And I doubt a 5 minute delay in potential PL-ability would do anything.Quote:and they can't PL themselves right away.
This seems like a solution in search of a problem. And it's not even much of a solution. -
Quote:Makes sense.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
And then there's the building in Atlas Park near the station that is built ON TOP OF A TUNNEL! Apparently, buildings in Paragon City have no foundations, they're just plopped onto the ground, and no-one worries about putting a 50-storey monsters entirely over a tunnel. Mind you, that that building's actual footprint is narrower than the four-lane tunnel beneath it...
Remember, everything in Paragon is also built on top of ginormous sewer tunnels which are on top of ANOTHER set of ginormous sewers which are on top of a sunken city.
Not to mention all the caves.
Really, that anything over 2 floors is standing in Paragon is a monument to her civil engineers. Either that or they all hired Bloody Stupid Johnson.*
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I still like it.
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Quote:Who's saying "all"? I think the popular sentiment here is "some" followed closely by "any."Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
First of all, I want to cast my vote AGAINST "more glass towers." Glass towers are boring. They have one shape - a box - and one finish - mirror-surface glass. You think zones look repetitive now? I shudder to think what they'd look like if they were all turned into glass towers. I'd much sooner see a city built out of architecture reminiscent of the Chrysler Building, the World Trade Centre or the Empire State Building than a whole city of Sears Towers.
Also, not all glass towers look alike. There are at least 5 in this picture. None of them look alike. -
Quote:Oh yes, this!Originally Posted by Rodoan
In that regard, would like to see some ethnic sections of the city. A Asian district, like a Chinatown with strung paper lanterns, banners, and cheap plastic toys in all the windows. Possibly close to a major concentrantion of Tsoo. (Yes, I'm aware they are Hmong and not Chinese, hence the "Asian" comment). Maybe even an homage to the Blade Runner movie's downtown look.!
I've long wanted to see the cultural enclaves that should be seen in a city the size and age that Paragon is supposed to be. -
Building-wise, I think the one thing I'd really like to see is more unique structures.
Sure there's a badge marking where the Paragon Times used to be published in Faultline (maybe still is, haven't checked in a long time), but the building itself looks identical to every other one of that type. No signage, no satellite dishes that one would expect on a news media HQ, nothing to distinguish it from all the other buildings.
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Quote:Eh. The CoH2 info's been up and around so much it's left the "Scooped" section and dove right into the "We know" setting.Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
Scooped! By me no less. I mentioned this in the other CoH2 thread actually.
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First I've heard of Cryptic having anything to do with CoH2.
I can either:
1) Chalk it up to bad reporting and believe every other source on CoH2 thus far
or
2) Believe Cryptic's in some sort of Machiavellian plot and going up against NCsoft for reasons unknown -
Quote:Wut?Originally Posted by Chocolate_Bacon
If the powers are too bright and happy go with WS and take hover
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Welcome!
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Quote:Stuff, Things and Goodies.Originally Posted by Le Blanc
Anybody heard what is going to be in it? The last announcement is up to 31 pages, and I am not wading through that mess to find out. Anybody know off the top of their heads?
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Quote:Nah, only Magic (Apprentice Charm) and Technology (Taser Dart) do Energy. And no Origin power does Fire.Originally Posted by JamMasterJMS
hah, i feel like an idiot.
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Quote:As in if it gets hit by... um, Ice Storm? Nothing. OSA ignores it.Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe
What if it gets hit by a non-igniting aoe?
Let me put it this way: OSA (or rather, Oil Slick Target, the targetable and killable pseudopet) has 10000% RES to EVERYTHING except Fire and Energy. You cannot hurt it at all with any damage other than Fire or Energy.
EDIT: I was off by a 0. It's not 1,000% RES. It's 10,000% RES. -
Quote:That's because the Mutant Origin power does Toxic damage.Originally Posted by JamMasterJMS
I teamed with a TA/ defender maybe 3 nights ago, everytime they'd use OSA id try to light it with my mutant temp power.
In 2 or 3 missions I never managed to get it lit.
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Quote:no uOriginally Posted by Maiev
And then you go and write up three more paragraphs over nothing just like I said you'd been doing.
Stop it.
Seriously, Sam's propensity for wordiness is rather endearing. And he posted those paragraphs because people asked for it. -
Oil Slick is just the biggest diva ever. It's incredibly finicky. Look at it wrong and it'll be all "Oh no you di'nt!" and refuse to light.
And then it'll just play mind games with you; lighting once, then not for the next 5 or whatever.
Tch. Oil Slicks. -
TOs normally do not drop past 25, yes. Same goes for DOs past... I think it's 35?
Anyway, sometimes contacts will give TOs instead of what they should be giving out. I know Montague Castenella loves to hand out a TO when you finish the Hero Midnighter arc, the cheapskate. -
Quote:Actually, it has. You're just using an out of date URL.Originally Posted by WarronPeace
According to City of Data (which hasn't been updated for Defenders having Traps, but has the Corruptor version, so I looked there. Acc should be the same)
Here's the current CoD link. -
Quote:It's the morbid curiosity of trying to understand a mind radically different from your own.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Explained above. I guess more people cared than I expected
And now that I've read through it, I can kinda see where you're coming from. The numbers (and the detectives, and a bunch of the other in-jokes) don't really bother me mostly because I just don't care. But you do, so hey. I'm sure there are things I care about but you don't.