TwoHeadedBoy

If by stuff for free to have fun, you mean beta quality access to the paragon market for everyone... Cringe. The workaholic min/maxer inside of me would probably have a heart attack if all of a sudden the game was full of freely purpled, decked out characters with everything +5 boosted at no cost to the user. I want my mains to go out with the integrity they earned. I don't want it to be eclipsed by a Paragon Point free-for-all.

Freitag you should go work for Cryptic, and bring all of Paragon with you.. Or as much of them as you can. Go. Hunt. Give Champions Online an Incarnate system.

Some of us just want to keep playing and enjoying the game while we still can. I mean, I sign the petitions, I like the things I'm supposed to like on social media pages- Including the CNN articles, etc. But I do not think there's a realistic hope for COH to be saved. The best case scenario I could see is someone hacking out a private server, and I have no interest in playing an illegal version of COH without the awesome devs and legitimate community that made the game what it is.

It would also be great if the game wasn't freaking ending.

For what it's worth you were complaining, but you were also saying a bunch of nice things in the process. That's easily overlooked, since yeah- A lot of COH players are pretty upset and prone to criticize Champions at the moment. We all love this game but some of us are handling it differently than others.

This to me is pure class, and a perfect example of why I'm moving to CO.

How many WoW Devs do you see doing this?

What about SWTOR?

DCUO?

TSW?

No?

None of them?

The Champions community, including their Dev's, players and community team are bending over backwards to make us feel comfortable and welcome in their game.

Granted there are going to be some trolls, but hell.. I play on Freedom. I'm used to trolls.

I've seen a COH thread stickied on the CO forums. I've seen this CO player post here. I've seen Back Alley Brawler post here. All going out of their way to be welcoming and polite.

They're hosting an official "Welcome to Champions" event for COH players in early December, endorsed by a red name within about 3 posts. Good luck finding that anywhere else.

Oh man. So much simultaneous win and nostalgia.

Well if you're looking to get some mileage out of your Warshade before the doors close and participate in our fun community, feel free to join us on Protector next week for Kheldian Fridays. We also have a Kheldian Fridays chat channel that we use.

AH! That's just spooky timing

I am excited!

And I don't care what anyone says, those graphics look super sweet to me.

This is... Pretty annoying to think about. I wonder if they have a decent petition feature at least for subscribers... If GM's are able to access chat logs and respond to situations promptly, this shouldn't be as much of a problem as it seems like it is. I doubt that's the case though, since "deputizing" every single player sort of implies a low level of in game moderation presence to begin with. Cringe.

Eh? I already said I thought it was more stylized. I'm not trying to debate you or change your mind, just giving my opinion. The opinion here being that it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Maybe it wasn't that one. I don't know. It was one of those random hero zones that hardly anyone uses and isn't even connected to the train. And it looked like what was probably an awesome game world around the time the original Playstation came out. The silliness was only tacked on when I observed the contrast between my character's completely modern and pretty sweet looking costume and his surroundings.

Actually if I'm remembering correctly (I've been reading so much about CO the last few days that I might be suffering from information overload) on a Free Form character you can switch between builds on the fly with a 10 second (?) cooldown. This means that the same character can somewhat fluently switch between different passives, roles, etc.

The closest thing it reminds me of in COH is Kheldian forms, but with a 10 second minimum to spend in each form (so no MFing Warshadin.')

I cringe more at how big his windows are scaled. And the fact that he doesn't have his combat attributes up. I guess he's kind of a badass for playing without inspirations though.

The AT's in CO work differently in COH. I've been doing some research, and have come up with this impression:

Each Archetype is like a preset build in City of Heroes. So, for the sake of this example (might not be accurate) The Inferno is a Fire/Fire Blaster. Archetypes also appear to have a set progression of powers, so you can't choose what you get at what level.

On the other hand, you *can* add stats to different powers to alter how exactly they work. It seems sort of like slotting enhancements in COH- A damaging hold can be slotted for either hold, damage, endurance reduction or all of the above, and you can decide how many slots to devote to what. I think it's a bit more involved than that in CO though, ie: You can sort of choose which secondary effects certain powers have.

Now, this is all for the preset Archetypes. They also have a "Free Form" system for their equivalent of VIP players that allows you to pick all of your powers and even choose from completely different "powersets" as we understand them. So if we had something like that in COH, you would basically be able to make a "Titan Weapons/Fire Blast/Invulnerability" "Free Form AT."

While the AT's seem much more restrictive than our AT's are, their Free Form system seems much, much more loose than anything we have access to.

(Anyone with actual experience playing CO, feel free to correct anything I might have gotten wrong. I've been doing research but haven't actually started playing yet.)