SmegHead

I have to disagree. I have a ice/elec blaster and back before fitness was inherent I skipped it on the blaster so I could fit in all the powers I wanted in sirens call. I focused on +end, +recovery and +movement speed. It had almost no recharge, wasn't a fotm build, had not one purple and was inferior to almost every IO build I went up against, yet I routinely came out on top. Map knowledge and evasion "skills" were much more important back then. Now your only resort is to phase/hiber due to travel suppression.

Turn of enemy broadcast. 50% of that problem solved. Turn off hero as well while in zone and you have a 100% fix. You could also just ignore the people that offend you. The devs already gave us tools to deal with this and everyone is most welcome to use them.

See above.

I agree.

Why have a giant open PvP zone if you plan on standing in one spot to mash buttons?

And anyway from what I see there is a active fight club type of PvPer on freedom. If you want the stand still type of fight (boring IMO) they are readily available in RV and SC.

No the devs knowingly killed pvp. I think it was lighthouse that screwed up and in so many words told us the changes weren't made for pvpers, they were made for the people that don't pvp. They knew it would infuriate the current PvP crowd but they did it anyway in hopes to bring in more people to pvp then they lost. It had the opposite effect and within months the PvP community as I knew it was gone.

As far as IO's go I've seen people with SO builds tear IO builds apart. Skill still mattered after IO's. After i13, not so much. The whole point of i13 was to balance the playing field and make it easy for the people that couldn't take the time out to learn how to pvp. By doing so it made the game less fun for current PvPers and drove them away.

Again, if the zone chatter bothers you so much you have the ability to turn it off. Thats how they do it in WoW, its just that here you have the option to turn it off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn8DQCtv0Bs

Yeah, but all they would have to do is drop some other pack to make the same profit. Stuff that already exists, like say, a new set of armor *hint hint*. And as a bonus they would avoid some customer dissatisfaction which is also a good way to make more $. Keep subscribers happy and they will most likely spend more.

Either way I wouldn't be mad if it was released as a pay for item, but to be completely honest I would rather keep them as exclusive pieces. Not everyone has to have everything. Let the people that were able to stay subbed have something the others cant and not just be a badge. I personally see nothing wrong with that.

Not really. Those costume parts are also available free in game to anyone that wants them. These are much more exclusive.

What does this mean exactly? Some type of event?

EDIT: Never mind, I read that weird the first time. I've got it now.

I don't know about you, but I've owned at least a hundred games in my life, and I've maybe read the manual for a half dozen of them. A lot of people are like that. Call me lazy call me daft, I just do it that way and it isn't wrong just because you say so. Is reading the manual before playing a game the best way to do it? Yes. Do people always do things the best way.... hell no. Just go play the game for a day you can see that. These improvements are for those people and as one of them I gladly welcome it.

And lets face it, the portals are still in god awful places even with the tunnel system in beta. The fact that they even made the tunnel system and the whole "LOOK HERE! THIS IS WHERE YOU GO!" pop up tell me that. Both would be unnecessary if they were in better locations. That is all I was saying here at first. Stop putting new zone entrances in crappy places. With the invention of the tunnel system it wont really matter anymore. I'd still rather have nice custom areas or to have all of the portals stationed in the, you know, the portal corp... but this'll do.

Well, blame me then because I jumped in head first. I just wanted to play a game not learn stuff. In fact when I first bought CoH and got it home I was mad when I found out I had to pay a monthly sub. I was a complete MMO noob.

Anyway it doesn't matter. People have options now, and that is a good thing in my book. Giving new players (and current players like me *derp*) easier ways find zones is a great idea IMO. I'm glad they saw it the same way and didn't have the opinions of most in this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9bd-OocLqY

Now, yes. When I first started the game, no. Like I said, I was 3 months into the game before I knew FBZ existed.

Either way I was a day early on posting this because it has already been addressed in the announcement today. The devs seem to have gotten a lot of feedback saying the same thing I am right now since it has already been put in place. Either that or they have common sense...

O really? I'll have to look into this. Any links you can throw at me?

(I guess this is the downside of not playing beta.)

Does FBZ get one of those now too?

This is more for new players then it is vets. CoH was my first MMO and I was lost about a lot of things when I first played. Not to mention I didn't really care and just wanted to play. I learned as I went and that took time. Getting to level 20 is trivial now and expecting new players, especially younger ones to fully understand the whole contact system in a day or 2 is little much. But if they happen to pass by a portal on the way to the hollows they might be a little more inclined to check it out before they can fully grasp the game and its contact system.

Yeah I understand that its cheap to slap a portal up, but when you look at where they put them its like "wha..?" The entrance to Pretoria for instance. Its tucked back in a corner next to a guy puking. FBZ? Hidden in one of the 6 portal corp portals with no clear marker.

I don't mind the abundance of portals so much as I do the strange places they choose to put them.

I don't play beta so I really know very little about nightward. I wait for it to hit live to actually play. Its that much like croatoa huh?

I never said it doesn't work, it just doesn't work as well in teams. Not as well as the beam rifles nuke in the same scenario. Trying to time RoA for baf prisoner spawns is luck at best. I have more success spamming explosive arrow and fistful than I do firing off RoA any day during a trial. In fact trying to rely on RoA would hinder my damage in most team settings.

With that being said, I don't like beam rifle. I have one sitting at 50 that I will most likely transfer to another server to make room. On the other hand I love archery. But I see beam rifles nuke as the better choice for teams over RoA in almost every situation from my experience. Just click on the baddie and fire away. No location AoE to worry about and the animation time is faster. By the time you get your RoA off most of the mob would have already been hit by Beam Rifles nuke and cleared up by the team.