Samuel_Tow

Personally, I feel that having a European version of the game is a mistake in itself. I can't speak for the logistics benefits of having one, but I DO know that the localization benefits are nigh-on meaningless. All that does is split the player base.

Hell, I feel hunting enemies in a specific ZONE is a mistake, but that at least is doable. But ever since the Hollows was introduced, this terrible, ***-backwards idea of hunting enemies in a specific area within a specific zone has cropped up from time to time, seemingly ALWAYS forcing you to hunt enemies where they're too high level for you. To my eyes, this is just bad design, because it serves almost no purpose, but rarely fails to be horribly irritating.

I think one of two solutions will mitigate the horror that is acquiring a suit of Vanguard gear.

Either:

Make the Vanguard unlocks account-wide, so even if they're a pain to get, at least you're getting some serious return

or

Combine all Vanguard pieces into a single pack and make that a single purchase. It may be expensive, but at least you get everything then.

I actually have to vote against this, myself. This is already the case based on what powerset you pick, and that's about as much "fine-tuning" as I'd like to see. For instance, my Fire/Fire Brute chuckles at Infernal and his meagre damage, while my Electric/Electric Brute quakes in his boots. Then on the other hand, he can get shot at by Rikti Dropships and not even notice.

Personally, I don't find the system in City of Heroes particularly simple or easy, and I'd rather not make it any more complicated or any harder. Customization is good, but simple gameplay is better. I tried the Champions Online way and I was not happy. I am SICK SICK SICK of stats, and I'm really glad we don't have them.

*edit*
We don't have stats as a pool of values we can add points to directly. We still have stats, but they are largely constant, only temporarily modifiable by our powers.

That actually sounds like the mechanic behind the old TFs, which would always scale to the cap of their level range regardless of who was on the team. Then again, I would have expected that to SSK everyone up to the level of the mission, anyway. Understandably, hunt missions don't scale, but I can't imagine why the indoor mission would have spawned so high level.

I apologise if this is has been addressed before (I suspect it has been) but I couldn't get any results out of Search, and I at least think I'm relatively up on current events.

But, really, did something change about spawn rules? When the new difficulty settings were announced, I generally wanted to keep things as they were, which the system promised to let me do. I usually played on Tenacious/Malicious. That is gone now, but, technically, all that difficulty setting was was even con, I'm as good as a team of two, I want to fight bosses, but I don't want to fight AVs. That's all it really was, even before the custom settings. So, naturally, I switched to that come I16 and expected to see afterwards what I'd seen before on Malicious/Tenacious.

This... Hasn't exactly happened. I had the spawns the old Level 2 difficulty generated almost memorised, but right now I'm seeing spawns I've never seen before. What's more, I keep seeing the same spawn over and over and over again - two lieutenants and two minions, arranged sort of in lieutenant/minion pairs. Now, typically, before I'd see either a lieutenant and four minions, or two lieutenants and ONE minion. What I'm seeing is neither. In fact, this SAME setup is what I see in +1 spawns, as well - two +1 lieutenants and two +1 minions. This is rather SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous than what I was facing before. +1 spawns on Tenacious/Malicious never went above one +1 lieutenant and one +1 minion, and that was rare. Most often, they'd be just one +1 minion.

I AM seeing a lot of boss spawns, as well. More than I remember, but they are in exactly the setup I remember them being in - either even con boss plus even con minion, or +1 boss alone. But I just spent an entire missions fighting the Family, and all I ever saw was that same one spawn I'd never seen before over and over, sometimes even con, sometimes +1.

Mind you, it's not just that it's harder than I remember it that bugs me. It's just... Boring. Before, I had variety. Some spawns were big, some were small, some were high level, some lower, some had lieutenants, some did not. But a full mission of exactly the same setup of enemies in exactly the same arrangement grates REALLY fast.

I should note, by the way, that spawn sizes were bigger towards the end of I15, possible from the launch of I15 or even the launch of I14, I don't remember. Instead of a lieutenant and four minions, I'd see a lieutenant and FIVE minions, and instead of five minions alone, I'd see SIX minions in total. I can't remember if it was "instead of" or "in addition to," but I DO know I've not seen this particular spawn composition before I16.

This is CoV-side, by the way, and spawns have been really weird in CoV since its inception. I've posted a lot about the "two minions standing side by side, punching their fists" bug where THAT was what a mission would spawn all over the place, and I have not seen these since I16, so I suspect some kind of change has occurred to spawn generation in general. It doesn't seem to be acting quite right, though.

Here's another one: Stalker Broadsword Hack immediately after a Placate won't animate.

Character model: Male

Character powers: Broadsword/Super Reflexes Stalker

Relevant powers: Placate followed by Hack.

Bug Description: When I activate Placate and queue up a Hack after it, the attack activates, does its damage and plays its effects, but it does NOT play its animation. This is perfectly replicable and occurs every time. It does not appear to happen with Slash, however, and I don't have access to other Stalker Broadsword attacks at this time to test it with.