TwoHeadedBoy

Are you sure about this!? Because I've literally combed through the options, looking for a way to get rid of it. This could be a case of "THB is wrong about something," hardly the first time. But I really don't think it's the case- I would love to be proven wrong though.

Stop quoting on the bottom, IBTT! It's so rude! What the hell man! Rabble!

Ohh, adding something to the channel is a good idea. *high five.* It would be nice to get at least a chunk of the core KF's crew over there so we can all stay in touch/keep playing together once COH is gone.

It's in my signature but I'm @oneheadedboy in CO.

And you're totally right about the title- Free Form Friday just rolled off the tongue though.

Re: Equivalents.

For anyone toying with the idea of moving over to CO but not sure about free form, there are a couple of Archetypes similar to Khelds.

The Radiant is light themed.

The Void is negative energy themed.

If you are willing to tackle the free form learning curve, you can make something drastically more similar to a Kheldian. Switching builds on the fly means that you can have the equivalent of a tri form Kheldian, though a Nova costume would be pretty tough to replicate. Doom said he had some luck coming up with a Black Dwarf look though.

Also, The Rush of Battle from the Vindicator tree is very similar to stygian circle (but less OP.)

Hold down left mouse to spin the camera around.

Oh, and here's another cool picture of my guy meditating by a volcano. Just because.

Assuming people are still logging into COH at that point. I thought it'd be best to start scheduling our CO trajectory ASAP since the COH population has been dwindling more and more rapidly since the announcement. I'm worried that if we don't start moving people to CO as quickly as possible, we'll lose all of our familiar faces because no one will know what the plan is.

It's obviously up to Stone though. Shrug.

You mean like if you came back to COH without paying for it and couldn't use your Kheldians, Controllers, Masterminds, Crabs, IO's or Incarnate powers anymore? Or the Auction House? Or global chat channels? Or join Super Groups?

I think CO is less restrictive for free accounts, but unfortunately they also seem to have a community mentality that they don't want to pay for things. In COH the attitude has always been the "Shuddup and take my money" approach. In CO, they farm to convert in game money to CS money. They do surveys to get free CS money. This attitude is even perpetuated on their forums, and it makes me feel awkward. I've always been willing to spend money on games I like, because I'm happy to support something I enjoy. That always seemed to be the primary attitude here in COH, but not so much over there, which is puzzling. It really is a great game.

+1. I lost it.

No, I'm saying that it doesn't entertain me in this format. I love literature, I read quite a bit. It's sort of hard to go from Infinite Jest to "Defeat the super villain on screen bad guys" and still presume to take the latter seriously.
So when Bad BaB chugs a beer and flexes his muscles, you actually take it seriously? :|

When Captain States-'Merica gets killed by that level 20 contact in the purple jumpsuit, you actually think it carries emotional weight?

When Sister Psyche takes an arrow to the knee.. er, chest, you're actually more concerned about her dying than you are about how in the HELL she managed to "threaten the lives" of everyone in Paragon city when:

A.) You can't even target citizens!

But even if you could...

B.) She was WAY past the target cap!

COH thinks its stories matter. I like that CO knows better.
Well then maybe you should start reading books. I'm sure you'll be able to appreciate video games more when you need a break from literature.
This just in: The sky is also blue! But for the record, it's more like comparing the most pristine fruit in the world to something that anyone could make a strong case for being inedible.
I never got into comics myself. I did grow up on super hero cartoons though, and I've always thought it was a neat environment. I'm sure that Freud would have an explanation for this.

I just like gameplay, but environment is important to me. Story is sort of relevant to that- I like the superhero world, I don't like dragons or epic asian quest worlds. But I also don't care about the involved lore or bad guys, lol. I play games for fun. In CO, I like beating up guys in purple hats, I like beating up robot cowboys, I like beating up mechanical sharks. It's campy and fun.

The general gist of the story is summed up in the cut scenes anyways. This isn't exactly Kierkegaard- You're a super hero and you fight generic evil bad guys for great lol's, comical moments and entertainment.

I've always been annoyed by the COH lore crowd, even though I love COH. I mean, to me, it's a fun super hero game. The intelligent, involved aspect of the game has always been end game character building since I started playing. I think I have a decent understanding of COH lore, but I only picked it up by accident while playing a fun video game. It's just not important to me.

If I wanted to become involved in the content of great walls of text I would be reading Kafka, not the dialogue in super hero video games. At least CO doesn't make the mistake of taking itself too seriously in that respect, and I'm very grateful in that respect. It's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

Personally I never sit down and read everything in any game, I just scan the text enough to know what the objectives are if it isn't glaringly obvious (which nine times out of ten, it is.)

That's all well and good on an end game build. But my free form character with basic gear drops in CO was soloing +3 level mobs in the equivelant of say, x5 groups at level 20. I've never made or seen a character in COH running only SO's that can comfortably solo +3x5 at level 20 (excluding Claws/Fire only running juiced up advantageous AE farm maps.) And CO doesn't even have inspirations. I soloed all the comic books and adventure packs from 20-25, again with basic gear. I've never soloed TF's in COH during that level range using only SO's, and even if I did it would have taken twice as long and been twice as tedious with less than half the production value in the content.

I never had any trouble with it on my Void AT and my free form guy without a passive at that point in the leveling phase. The latter uses targeting computer as his passive on his main build too, and I've been doing well with that up to level 34 so far, shrug... In the lower levels I always blocked before the higher rank enemies used their bigger attacks. It shows an icon several seconds before they que the attack on you.

If you're not silver you can also skip the tutorial and start at level 6 though. Getting from 6 to 10 takes, what.. 15 minutes max?

So when does Free Form Fridays start? My guy in Champs will in all liklihood be 40 by next weekend. Let's do this!

I have been leveling with Bionic Shielding- That combined with Force Shield essentially means that in a tough situation when I over aggro, I can simply hit my heal, block, and have both my health and energy fully restored about 2 additional seconds into the onslaught. At this point, I can charge up my AOE and be done with the whole mess in a matter of seconds.

It's always nice to have a backup plan. In COH, it was a tray full of purples. In CO, it's just picking the right powers and/or having another build to fall back on.
For what it's worth, I was annoyed by some things at first too. I saw you in the CoX channel asking about a certain mission in the Desert or Canada I think, where the objective was to find underwater glowies. For what it's worth, you CAN set waypoints on your map by simply clicking the mission in your log on the side, observing that this automatically centers your mini map on the waypoint of the mission you clicked, setting the point by left clicking it (missions are presented on the map in the order you've set them in your mission log- 1 being the primary. These numerals will coincide on your mini-map. Also, they have circles around the vicinity of the mission objectives, reflected on the map) and following the arrow (keep it in the middle) on your mini map, since sometimes missions don't give the overhead arrow even when you make them primary.

When it comes to knowing to go into the water in this specific mission, the mission dialogue text tends to be very specific or at least give strong hints as to what your objective is and where you can find it, if it's not glaringly obvious. A lot of this is just getting used to the game. I just figured out that I could press F12 to re-arrange my UI a week or so ago, and I've been playing for almost a month.

You're playing free form right? Get a good block power, an active defense and slotted passive. At level 20 I was able to take on groups of 5 +3 enemies on my ranged damage build (Granted a lot of that was one shotting or near one shotting everything with Ricochet Throw before I even aggroed them half the time.) I feel like characters are much more powerful before the level cap in CO as opposed to leveling characters in COH. Now at level 33 on my second tank build with regen as my passive I haven't found much I can't handle, albeit with slower clearing speeds. Being able to switch between builds on the fly is a godsend in that respect though.

That's fair.

What about masks? I think the faces are more customizable in CO personally. I love the age/scruff/scar etc. effects and the sliders for proportions feel much more extensive to me.

It doesn't have to be a waste- Dwarf can take steadfast KB or +def and glad +def, and dwarf step adds a mule for a -KB IO. I've also built s/l softcapped Kheld builds that only used human form but took dwarf for kinetic combat mules.