StormSurvivor

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Frosticus View Post
    Yes it is slower now. They also reduced player accuracy...again.
    I don't want to sound like that guy who's just looking to argue, but do you have a post to link to, or somewhere in-game I can look? I haven't seen this anywhere but here, and am terribly curious.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_HR View Post
    Is this a suggestion or a general discussion????
    First one, then the other.
  3. StormSurvivor

    Bad Team Bingo

    I was so pumped earlier. I happened to find myself a dreadful PuG of four. Level ten, doing some missions in Kings.

    I hate to say it, but the Bingo card was way above them. I was so pleased I might actually have a chance at doing okay at Bingo, but they were the type of bad that asks 'wher are u guys' every time we enter/leave a mission/zone. We had a suicidal blaster, lots of dreadful typing, and despite my friendly attempts to help, a team pretty much entirely incapable of using the nav system or team window. One guy kept asking me, personally, for a tp, even though I told him last time that I didn't have it, and our controller would run wildly into rooms, waiting about twenty seconds before fighting back. The defender on the other hand kept asking me what power I'd just used, and then would sometimes ask where I had bought it.

    I only got two squares, which after that team seems impossible. I'd have loved to have a pure empath rocking the aura, a suicidal scrapper, all lead by a slow-travelling peacebringer who insisted we needed a Granite. But we're just not all that lucky.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    OK, StormSurvivor, GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
    I'm apparently still there, because I thought, "Decorum? Get out my head!"

    Now I'm just scared.
  5. I'd definitely like this. I'm familiar with the system enough that I usually have some idea how the following encounter's going to go, but that's beside the point. When I'm playing on a character who can't solo elite bosses on some regular story arcs, the 'This guy's tough. You may wanna bring some team-mates' line in the mission briefing text is greatly appreciated, because then I can just choose not to accept the mission. If I played through four missions through Ouroboros and then found out that there was an EB in the arc, I'd be pretty bummed too.
    Totally /signed.


    Also,
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I thought maybe they meant they wanted an epic warning about how dangerous the mission could be - like just before you enter, Rularuu comes running out of the mission door screaming "Don't go in there! Don't go in there!"
    I laughed so hard at this. If anything, I'd way prefer this over a little textual warning.
  6. Spoilers, in case you really expected otherwise, silly reader.





    Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    What does he do in the new arcs? Is he the one giving us the letters? The one responsible for protean?
    In a conversation between Protean an an off-camera voice, Protean asks, 'Who should I look for in Praetoria?'. They reply, 'Mr. G will be waiting for you.'

    This seems to link up in my head as the note writer, as they do mention possibly recruiting Protean. I thought it would definitely be a new character, but that article does seem to hint that we'll be suprised.
  7. Mr. G's name is mentioned in one of the new arcs. I've been looking through the real names of many major characters, and I'm pulling loads of blanks. The only possibilities I've seen thus far are those whose real names we do not know; the Clockwork King, Hero 1, Viridian, etc.

    I'll probably keep looking further, because I'm a little too excited, but I doubt it's going to be that easy.
  8. Nice little read.This reassures me that the most fun I'm going to have is when I bump into a new contact or enemy, glance over their name a couple of times, then gasp and bounce cheerfully once I realise who they are.
  9. StormSurvivor

    The Lore Wiki

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Street_Wolf View Post
    I honestly think CoH has too many wikis as is, and I'm not a fan that the OP has made another.

    It can be confusing enough for me to find the up-to-date Wiki, let along for a new player. The last thing we need is another wiki.

    I don't mean to be a downer, but why again can lore just not be added to the current CoH wiki? Why not make it a central source of information instead of having to browse 2 or 3 different wikis to look for something?
    This is where I think I'm sitting in this whole thing. I'm not trying to deter the OP from carrying on, because their mind's made up and I've no issue with that. I just think that a more useful solution would have been to get some people dedicated to updating ParagonWiki with lore information. Even if they make a copy of some pages, such as "Lord Nemesis: Lore", and store it all there. I think that as much information at one source is a great idea, and even though I only use it infrequently, the Titan Network is doing a wonderful job with that at the moment.

    I was even a tad uneasy when the Ouroboros Portal opened up. It's something I'm sure I'd be a little more active with if more people moved over from their respective server handbooks, and if a more uniform page setup was determined. I can't feel myself settling in when every page has a different style of character box. But until then, having at least three character databases makes me feel less inclined to use any of them.
  10. Wow, some congrats are in order. I was totally lost with this one.
  11. I'm not personally expecting the mutation booster soon, because when War Witch said they would try to get it to use before GR, I interterpreted it as "it's gonna be close". This is just a hunch though, and it could be very soon indeed.

    I do remember that the Martial Arts pack was sprung upon us entirely by suprise. Nothing publicly on test, nothing on the website before the release, and no warning that it was coming. I even remember that people on Union had bought the booster and told everyone on the server chat channel about [Ninja Run] about twenty minutes before there was anything official on the forums.
  12. StormSurvivor

    Bad Team Bingo

    I love this. I think it'll always just be 'PuG bingo' in my head to justify all the 'is that actually bad teaming?' arguments, but I do have a question;

    If we're actually playing this as a game, (which I'd love to), does each card last one playing session, one team, or as long as we need? I do like a challenge, but I don't want to cripple myself by making it just too hard.

    Edit!: is "y u did it" meant to represent someone not understanding and constantly asking about something, or just bad grammar alone?
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Weatherby Goode View Post
    Pool and A/PPP customization:

    This is probably the single most requested animation/FX related issue right now. Please let it happen sooner rather than later
    This is my biggest animation recommendation right now. I've just started up a new scrapper, and her ideal travel power would be SuperSpeed. However, I can't stand how it or Hasten looks. I even hate how Hasten sounds. I've picked them both up in the hope that power pool customisation is somewhere down the line, but I'm really tempted not to use either unless the team really need me to SS to the mission.

    I'm not sure if my other request belongs in this thread or the costume one;
    New Aura Options

    Specifically, the ability to use all existing auras as combat-only auras (even if we still have to wait until level thirty), and the ability to use a subtractive/pigment palette when colouring them. Now we can have subtractive powers, the existing auras aren't as fitting as they used to be.
  14. I'm one of those that prefers it without the prompt, although the ability to set it as an option would be fantastic.

    I'm fairly sure that they didn't just bring it back for the lulz. They removed the prompt because it could be used to exploit the buff and get them all. I'd imagine they just removed the prompt to put a stop to it for the time being, and have now fixed it and put it back as it was.

    I could however be totally incorrect.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by damienray View Post
    So far I've noticed that today's patch turns shadows "on" if you had them disabled. Confirmed on two accounts so far. Anyone else ?
    It shifted my shadow setting from spot shadows to low-quality shadow maps. Just as performance-breaking for my computer as I remember, so I changed it right back.
  16. I think I'll keep the patch notes for this patch locked away for the next time that I hear that the devs never fix anything.
  17. Actually, while we're on this topic, why is it we had different updaters to begin with? Not different executables, I get that. But why do the americans get the pictures that change with updates (last time I checked), while the Europeans get the rather dull perma-'Statesman vs Recluse' text-filled version?

    I mean, is it possible that our updater update's taking longer because they're shifting ours about to be prettier? It's a slim chance, but I think I'll go on hoping.
  18. I really don't intend to be arguing here, but:
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rpgguy View Post
    I really don't understand why you keep providing ncsoft with money and in turn keep the servers alive.
    Because I want to carry on playing the game I've loved for five years?

    I think that some people are really getting way too worked up and... (Gah, I can't think of the word. Maybe I'll edit it in later) about it, but I certainly agree that the inequality is getting out of hand. I can understand it with competitions and such because Paragon Studios have to jump through half a dozen extra legal hoops to get it to us, but the updater?

    However, I, like Golden Girl, remain optimistic. We're a dying breed and we need to keep at it to survive.
  19. StormSurvivor

    g-a-y supergroup

    Oh yeah, and on the note of 'straight-acting';
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie View Post
    The most offensive terminology ever invented imo!
    This. Always thought of it as one of the most offensive terms I've heard. I was gonna bring it up in my previous post, but I didn't just want to sound like someone who was just trying to start an argument. I can see where people who use it are coming from (including some of the gay community), but I really, really don't like it.
  20. I got very, very excited.

    Then I was sad.

    Then the happy came back.

    All is well.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    Romulus is a past version, not an alternative dimension version
    I'm still hoping that Cimerora is actually part of an alternate dimension. The major characters there just look too similar for me to take it seriously as our past.
  22. StormSurvivor

    g-a-y supergroup

    Hmm. Well, while this thread's still unearthed:

    As a gay man, I've always been one for just hanging out with the people I like, regardless of sexual preference. I am by no means suggesting that people who are in gay SGs are discriminating against straight people, but I like the company of a group of people composed of all different kinds of sexual preferences. I think it's because I've spent my whole life wishing that I wasn't treated any differently from anybody else; I've no desire to make that separation myself.

    On the note of gay parades, I wouldn't dare go to one, personally. I feel no need to show off that I'm gay. I do however, live in one of those places where being gay is still really, really frowned upon. I've received more drink cans being thrown at my face than I've actually consumed, and I've been pushed into a couple of shop shelves because I was holding hands with another guy. I understand that not everywhere is like here, but some people really don't know how lucky they are to be able to be themselves outside.

    Second edit: I'm totally clueless what I should be doing with the word g-a-y here. Everyone's saying how it's censored, but I can read it on here just fine. I'm sure my post would make sense full of bleeps anyway.
  23. I just thought I'd pipe in to say that the OP by no means represents the EU community as a whole. I'm a happy EU player who doesn't really share the feelings of the OP.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree View Post
    It was the first thing I did notice

    I like Domi's current look - easily my favourite of the Praetorians - so I'm happy if it doesn't change. Here's hoping they utilise the new whip animations from Demon Summoning to give her some cool new attacks though.

    Really looking forward to this.
    I too, wouldn't mind if her 'style' wasn't changed. I am just hoping that she gets herself a resolution increase to be on par with the rest of her dimension.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blood_Beret View Post
    3:00 point in video...

    4 new power sets, each at gets something.

    DP (Blaster, Corruptor, Defender?) (I play mainly villains)
    DS (MM)

    I thought Kenetic Melee and Electric Control was I19 not with Rogue? Are there other power sets not mentioned yet?

    KM (Stalker, Scrapper, Brute, Tank)
    EC (Controller, Dominator)
    Electricity Control and Kinetic Melee are Going Rogue too.

    Dual Pistols: Blaster, Defender, Corruptor.
    Electricity Control: Controller, Dominator.
    Kinetic Melee: Scrapper, Tanker, Stalker, Brute.
    Demon Summoning: Mastermind.