Umbra

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

How could CoH2 possibly be in their interest to develop? Right now they've got the most robust super hero game that has ever been made by anyone in terms of breadth and variety of content and systems. Why would they decide to not only start from scratch but essentially start competing with themselves in a rather narrow market segment? Better graphics? Ultra mode and the zone updates have shown that they can do that without making a new game. Ultra mode and the zone updates have also shown that there's a significant portion of the user base that's running the game on TI-86s and wouldn't be able to play a new game with newly high system requirements.

I have no idea if it was as successful as they projected, but Freedom has already significantly increased this game's revenue. In response to that they've been developing content for this game at a rate unlike any previous point in its existence. To repeat: why, then, would they dump a large amount of money into developing the same thing but with less content that fewer people could play in a now-more saturated market?

Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme

Who needs perfect form when you've got the sort of back-up he does?

Originally Posted by Olantern

I went to the midnight showing last week, partly because I was up anyway. It wasn't the book, which is one of my favorites. I went in knowing it could never live up to that, and so I wasn't disappointed. Indeed, I found it very entertaining.

The high point for me was the portrayal of the Green Men, almost exactly as I had imagined them. I understand the director was primarily an animation guy, so I suppose this makes sense.

The low point was the performance of the actor who portrayed John Carter. Aside from his just being rather wooden, you know something's off when a character who proclaims himself a Virginian at every possible opportunity is the only character in a scene without a Southern accent. Again, with a director unused to working with live actors, this, too, makes sense.

A disappointing but extremely necessary point to make the movie work were the changes to the villains, Carter's transportation to Mars, and even Carter's backstory. I can't imagine a film audience, or even a literary audience, for that matter, accepting these things in the form Burroughs wrote them originally (villains as almost unnoticeable characters, totally unexplained, and being a mysteriously ageless soldier, respectively, for those who don't know the novels). Story conventions have just changed too much over the past century. I was disappointed to lose the original version here, but I thought the changes were handled well.

On the last point, (the literary) Carter's unexplained agelessness, my personal pet theory has always been that Carter is, in fact, the basis for the legends of the god Mars himself. Burroughs never gives any hint of having even thought of this, let alone written it into a story, but I still enjoy the idea. What do you think?

Originally Posted by Mandu

I absolutely loved it. I felt like a kid again.

Take this with a grain of salt though since I grew up reading Burroughs and have probably read the mars series 10 times at least.

As a fan of the series though I have to say they did a wonderful job of adapting it.

Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight

I did explain my point. Devices can lay out 1600 points worth of damage that all happens in the span of 2 seconds which prevents virtually all retaliation. The problem is that it takes 2 minutes to set that up.

Any blaster primary with decent AoE can do the same in about 30 seconds but you face ALL the return fire.

Its a trade off of 4 times longer for near complete safety. With IOs and/or inspirations you can achieve near perfect safety with the second case and get the job done in 30 seconds.

No amount of IOs and inspirations can make devices do 1600 damage in 30 seconds because of recharge time, animation time, and interrupt time + Time Bomb's Delay.

Now if you look at all that correctly you can surmise that as long as you play ??/devices with a primary that has good AoE (like Fire) you can almost completely ignore your secondary. Which you can. You can play Fire/Devices and only ever use Web grenade which you have to take and Caltrops to keep the baddies out of melee range and do just fine.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

Well, I'll tell you something. At the studio they're working on project separate from CoH:Freedom. All indication is that it's "an exciting new IP."

So NOT CoH 2.

Now, I have to think twice about dumping any more of my money at the market, because despite the apparent wild success of CoH:Freedom, maybe I begin to wonder that not all of my money is going to support CoH, or even to help develop a game I'd want.

So until they come clean about their big secret project, or announce their intent to develop CoH 2, I'll be hard pressed to open my wallet any more.


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Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

Is the only answer to these questions these days MOAR power creep. Yup, it appears so.

Originally Posted by Mister Gerald

So far, all the suggestions I'm seeing here amount to: make snipes do something other than, you know, snipe. Good luck with that. Oh, and tripling the damage so as not to "waste" Aim and Build Up? People would still use Aim and Build Up on such a power. I know I would.

Personally? I like snipes just fine the way they are, long activation times and all (also a datamine point).

Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight

Double their recharge, triple their damage. Boom they are fixed. They are used as an every spawn opener, they'll one shot a lieutenant without wasting Aim and Build Up, and they are still not likely to be used when the battle comes closer.

No one is likely to use them as their only attack and stay permanently at a safe range as that would make leveling slower than ??/dev.

Originally Posted by TGIA_

A power that takes a few seconds to set up and can be interrupted, then 15 seconds before it goes off?

In what perfect world is this useful? Something that does moderate aoe damage with the same recharge that can be used instantly would be 1 million times as useful.

Originally Posted by magikwand

I like powerset proliferation, but this scenario goes well outside of the definition of that. I consider proliferation as taking a powerset like Force Fields and porting it to an AT that doesn't have it like Corruptors. Anything else doesn't really fit the bill of proliferation, as it has been demonstrated up to this point.

Originally Posted by magikwand

End thread. Those ATs are ranged/support or support/ranged. I don't think they need this.