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The Kahn and Barracuda TFs can be started with four players. I find it hard to accept that they are that much easier than the Winter Lord's realm. And it's worth mentioning that there's no warning on them that four is a bad idea.

When, exactly, did Leia ever inquire after either parent? Leia actually remembered her mother when asked about her parents, but never mentions her father at all. When did Luke inquire about his parents? Oh, right, when other people told him about his father. Why do we suppose they talk to Luke about his father? Perhaps because his father was on their minds because he became a force of evil and terror known galaxy-wide, and was still so.

Honestly, some of these so-called examples are intellectually insulting. Sometimes, a cigar really is a cigar, and all that. People need to not see conspiracies, or in this case, politically incorrect motivations, in everything that remotely fits the mold. Doing so honestly does a disservice to efforts to expose serious examples of things like racism and misogyny where they truly do apply. Can "real" social issue seep into more generic media? Of course, and we should be on the look out for it. Seeing it everywhere is not a useful approach. Edit: And I believe anyone seeing it in Star Wars, of all things, truly is seeing it everywhere.

Yes, it could. I know it could, because I was there for some of the times it was. Could everyone achieve that? No. That's not the point.

The complaint is not that we should be able to succeed at anything with 1-2 players. The complaint is that we should be given the chance to try, no matter how unlikely we are to succeed.

If the devs feel that a team of less than 12 is unlikely to succeed, simply put that on the content in big, red letters.

She was choked to death, not dismembered. If you've even looked at the image that follows this trope's discussion on the internet (almost every one has the frame where he discovers her body), you can see her in there. There's no indication of dismemberment.


What? Anakin had lost it at the point where he did that. How is she the platform that launched anything for him?

Uh... Why is that an "improvement" to either BS or DB? The only case where I can see anyone worrying about lower-level foes is when empowered by the Alpha Slot level shift. The effect you're describing is not significant against just -1s.

I concur.

There are other more practical examples. In the Keyes iTrial, I know people who Shockwave WarWorks off of the reactor platforms to release terminals for temp power use. That isn't working any more.

No, not typically. I have seen this for a long time now if defeated foes land on a railing or sometimes a sharp corner. I saw a foe land in a light fixture and act that way a couple of days ago, but I just chalked it up to that past behavior. Stuff that lands on floors and the like seems pretty normal to me.

I should point out that Health does not benefit from +Heal bonuses of the sort IOs have given in the past. Perhaps this one is special, but absent a reason to think it is, I wouldn't count on it.

Edit: Double scooped.

That page is pretty awesome.

The existence of things that are "bought only" is not "pay to win".

"Pay to win" implies that the things you can buy out-of-game put you at or near the pinnacle of performance, are are possibly only available as out-of-game purchases.

Being able to buy the same things everyone else can earn in game is not "pay to win". Being able to buy perks that are unique to store purchases but don't make a character meaningfully more powerful than a character equipped entirely with in-game gear is not "pay to win".

I do think there can be downsides to putting all CoH gear in its out-of-game stores, but they are not "pay to win" concerns, per se. I also understand the desire to avoid slippery slopes, but I think some people have far too binary and hyperbolic a response to this sort of thing.

If the AT IO sets had Ultimate bonus scales and proc rates, then yeah, I'd be concerned. As it is, they're (mostly) nice sets with some unique benefits. That is not "pay to win" by any stretch.

Not with me, you won't. I'm not going to kick someone who comes on my team equipped with KB. I'll kick them for being a tool with it, though.

Well, people have reported Knockout Blow just making things fall down in place. I haven't tested that one myself.

Given that, though, I am confused by the comment that this would make BS better. There's no KB in it unless you hit underlevel foes with Headsplitter. I don't even think it knocks -1s back.

Oddly I can't see any difference with my BS character. He still knocks stuff up in the air. Overall, this bug confuses me greatly.

Noted.

I just tested. My own testing shows it does not affect normal (non-AE) door missions, on entry or exit. For long-lasting buffs that aren't insprirations, it only affects AE missions on exit, not entry. (Any exiting of the AE mission applied, not just mission complete.)

I tested using Barrier.

So I'm not seeing a major imposition on most folks. It seems quite the edge case to be concerned about non-farmers who are trying to stack buffs through zoning after exiting a mish, and even then, in the AE only.

Frankly, as oddball as that combination of factors is (on exit only in AE only), I'm not 100% sure that one's not a bug. Paranoia about it being an anti-farming measure of some sort is reasonable, but I really not sure what that particular one does to usefully hinder farming.

The goal is to win the fight. For a great many, but not all of us, the goal is to win the fight as efficiently and/or quickly as possible.

If I am on a melee character, in the least annoying case, a single knocked-back foe is one I would need to chase down in order to do additional damage to. Imagine it's the last target. Instead of being able to damage the foe at the same time as the ranged character, I now must instead chase it around, leaving only the ranged character's damage contribution. This is inefficient.

In far more annoying cases, such as radial KB of an entire spawn, the effect denies many melee characters of their most efficient ways of dealing damage: melee-range PBAoEs. Now they must resort to chasing down individual targets, which is less time efficient than attacking the foes en masse. It can also deny sets of some of their self buffs; some of these are mitigation tools which may not be needed (Invincibility, Rise to the Challenge), but some are offensive tools that could speed the battle (Soul Drain, Against All Odds).

It's not about competition against teammates to see who can defeat more mobs fastest, it's about defeating mobs as effectively as possible. Obviously, it's not reasonable to get worked up every time the optimal scenario doesn't arise, so please don't erect a straw man about that position. Occasional knockback, even massive radial knockback, isn't going to ruin anyone's day. However having to experience it throughout a story arc or TF, especially when it's used unwisely, gets old, and trains people who care about the efficiency of their melee characters to be wary of letting it happen again.

The reports are that it affects inspirations only.

There's a thread on this in the AT & Powers forum. Basically, some folks have latched onto dev posts about some powers, at least, which have KB being considered a balancing factor against their other stats. The perception of actual disadvantage of knocking or spraying foes around is considered on some (but probably only some) powers. These posters believe that either an option to suppress KD simply will not be allowed by the devs, and/or that other posters should not be allowed to campagin for it unchallenged, because it would be unbalanced if it was granted.

Note that I do not hold this position. I am simply explaining it as I understand it.