Starsman

Is he the one that is afraid of clowns? I thought that was Castle but I may be remembering the conversation the wrong way around...

It would had been great to have some Joker inspired sets. Clown/Carnival summoning obviously would be the top of the list, but alsow would have loved Trick Melee (things like hand buzzer) and Toy Blast (full of giant boxing gloves, caltrops like power with jumping winder teeth jumping in the "patch" etc.)

BP, since you are here, I MUST ask: Was Clown Summoning, or a Carnival Summoning primary for masterminds ever seriously considered?

Was CoH also canceled in that parallel universe? If not, maybe we can somehow crack open a gateway between both realities via her command prompt allowing us to migrate to a land where CoH is not at risk!

But to get Kinetic Assault, you would need more ranged attacks than the current Kinetic Melee has... so... you also were working on Kinetic Blast?

I rather would have love to see independent Water and Lightning blast sets, with the Lightning set being much different from electric melee by using attacks more like the ones used by the Lightning Storm pet.

I don't know... she is not exactly ugly but... It's like looking at my mother... Maybe if you are in her age range she may look 5 to 7 years younger than the average... but wine? nah.

Just thought something that may make more sense than this...

If we were getting Rad melee, and rad armor, and we already have rad blast...

It just makes sense we got quickly a Rad Assault and a Rad Manipulation set.

Soooo... water control... water melee... hydro armor and hydro assault?

I would picture an AT with Assault sets more likely.

Hey! Give me a break! Not my first language! Last red-name to do that at least did it via PM...

So you did not denny it being about ancillary pools... for publicly making fun of me you owe me a reply here!

You mean 4 more with actual work done on them? Not just planned? If so: DARN you guys were getting bussy!!!

"expansions or modifications".... wait... epic pools? More pool powers? no... because just tanker controller dom blaster... New Ancillary pools then maybe? Patching a few conceptual holes in those?

Since the introduction of GR, with brutes and tankers in either side, the threat mechanics became a bit more important.

Not all brutes want to play tank, and given they do more damage than tankers, it's good to have an idea how to get aggro away from the brute (besides using taunt-the-power.)

At least that was a concern I had at first, I later realized that most brutes in game will gladly tank... Thats why I quit once GR came out and coming back nearly 2 years later depressed me a bit... no one was bashing or complaining, but no matter what class I played, if there was a brute in the team, he was the one doing the tanking.

Anyways, now Im derrailing the thread

In this game, threat per target is a bit irrelevant. Taneker or brute, they will get the aggro of whatever they hit (for damage) away from other players. The complexity of threat in this game comes on AoE threat management. Either taunt auras (that should they do no damage dont really work well... unlss they debuff like there is no tomorow) or your primary attacks.

Due to this, I always considered AoE attacks, especially early in the game, are extremely important for tankers. If this game survives, I think I would love to see tanker damage boosts to involve increased AoE capabilities via some sort of splash damage mechanic.

I think I was 6 last time I saw it. Revealilng my age, that was 29 years ago. Dont remember the movie but still remember the black hole phobia. :/

Well I do also remember Maximilian and the floaty robots, but what kid would not remember that? I forgot about the glass faced robots until I searched that up now.

So other than all these bellow this message... what else? I am now finding it hard to believe you had time to even think further beyond that? I think a combo of the ranged attacks in Beast Mastery plus some melee attacks from Savage Melee would had make my dream dominator power come true:

Bestial Assault!

Interestingly: quite a few devs were CoH players themselves. Recall quite a few stories about the game design intentionally attempting to prevent a game like CoH at launch, where tankers would herd maps, etc.

They also wanted a much more action oriented game, so they did a game that felt more like a brawler. Some of the core ideas were not bad at all.

Maybe some one had a conceptual idea on how it would fit in the game. Maybe the original idea was never for survivability to be tied with the powers at all, that your survivability would be entirely gear based.

Their concept of single-element might had worked fine in another game, but it's hard to see why they stuck to it for DCUO, where they have heroes like Superman commanding multiple elements (Wind, Heat and Cold on top of strength.)

My guess: they didnt realize how unfriendly it would be until they got too far along development. By then, there was no way to change things enough to accomodte it. I think thats part of why they ended up creating the Iconic power pool.

As I mentioned: it was in their list. They just never seemed to be able to shoe-horn the concept into their power structure, at least not with the time they had. How do you make a full Invulnerability tree that has an advancement similar to the other types? How do you turn it into an offensive tree?

This is not guessing, they actually said it in beta.

I also remember the lame answer: "just pick any set, ignore the special powers and use iconic pool to build your supermanish clone for now."

I am shocked they have not done it yet. It's hard but not impossible to come up with answers to what I said above. Nit pick: the light set is obviously derived from green lantern, but not meant to be related. It's supposed to just be light.

Oh another grudge with DCUO: no power customization! Really?!

I was already sub hard but I'd definitively spend money to buy every power set I don't have unlocked. Likely do the same with costume pieces I don't own, if only as a way to inject some money into the new venture.

I don't think Marvel is gunning at CoH or the traditional MMO market. I think they are gunning at the Leage of Legends model. The game will likely launch with a roster of characters and over time they will sell you "digital action figures" to play with inside the virtual world.

I didn't say to ignore the past, but y ou cant use GW1 as reference due to how much more complex GW1 is.

Also, you cant look at the past on business desissions when the current model business for the company has drastically changed since then.

Tell that to all the employees reviewing the company badly, and tell that to Paragon Studios.

To be clear: short term past behavior (since the present is the past by the time it hits our brain.) Look at the mothership. Look what it is doing currently with all its IPs. Don't use references from what they did 5 years ago. Think 1 year ago tops.

Correct me if I'm wrong in this, but that's just a player front conceptualization on what Mez Resistance ends up doing.

My guestimation is that Mez Resistance is instead just accelerating the mez-wear-out timer while it's active.

Pseudocode example:
If you have 100% mez resistance only for 2 seconds, just because you got hit by a mez during that window does not mean the mez will now last half the duration. It will just be accelerated deterioration during that time.

Same goes for recharge buffs vs power recharge.

Again, this is a guess, it's how my abandoned attack chain calculator evaluated both these effects (and recovery and regeneration ticks.)

You can do that for Acrobatics. Castle did a one time experiment/exception when he nerfed the power, and allowed players to slightly increase a portion of the magnitude buff by slotting KB enhancements into the power.

I think their achiles hill there was to force elements into the archetypical roles. It became a bit puzzling how to add some sort of "Might" element that would expand beyond simply a tank/defense tree/mode within their setup. Recall reading mentions during beta that it was something they actually wanted to do.

Thanks to EvilGeko I got into DCUO beta. I actually dig the art style of the game, the only thing I hate is player faces. NPC faces are gorgeous, but the faces they give players make me think players are fighting the urge to take a dump. That and the character creation GUI is a pain in the rear.

But overall the game had some very cool ideas, especially the idea of weapon + element combinations. They did mess it up once they gave everyone the ability to get any weapon after creation, then giving stat perks for players grinding up through every single weapon tree, sort of forcing everyone to use every weapon. That killed a bit the variety of who you wanted to be. Starsman holding a hammer? Or a gun? Just to get some stat? Absurd.

But should you see past it, I like the Justice Leage Unlimited feel of it. I don’t feel I’m exactly my own solo hero there, but I do feel like the next best thing: a member of the most epic super hero team in the planet.