Xzero45

Battalion are, to my understanding, like the Covenant from Halo; a mix of different alien species all working together towards a common goal. Except in this case it's because one dominant species or entity has "consumed" the other species' Wells, thereby enslaving and brainwashing the defeated species and making them part of the collective Battalion.

The Shivans are simply the Battalion's scouts, though they weren't always this way. The ones that fell on Bloody Bay were from when the Shivans had their Well and weren't controlled by the Battalion. The Neo Shivans that landed in Galaxy City, however, have been conquered and mindlessly work for the Battalion. The Neo Shivans actually seek to eliminate the original Shivans now because they're not part of the Battalion, causing the originals to become passive and cooperate with Earth forces.

TL;DR - Run Drowning in Blood, talk to the ally Shivans you rescue. They tell you important stuff. Also make sure to talk to Prometheus after you've run Incarnate trials, as he'll eventually start talking to you about the Battalion.

Use a gamepad if you have one, turn off Comic outlines, ignore reading the storylines, and turn off voice overs. All those things make the game pretty tolerable for me, at least.

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I didn't say it wasn't. Again, the point I've made twice now is it's just mimicking all the grinding aspects other MMOs follow while further enforcing that DBZ-esque power creep. That wasn't the only path CoH could've taken, though. We could've easily gotten dedicated level 50 content instead, that actually pushed all the abilities we've earned throughout the game while giving us real challenges. Giving us OP powers, making everything a grinding trial, introducing loads of new currencies, and sending the solo/small team players a big "Eff you" didn't need to happen at all to create a good end game.

Because for starters it completely invalidates everything heroes worked towards. All Tyrant's gotta do is say "sorry" and we'll let him off the hook for everything he's done? Why should we even bother fighting crime, then, if a villain can murder countless people but will only get a slap on the wrist?

And no, no other major villains have been redeemed because it'd be a dumb idea to do so. All the prominent masterminds and archvillains are pure evil or have killed far too many people to ever have their hands washed clean. This includes Tyrant. Out of everyone in this game, Scirocco's the only villain that would ever make sense to be redeemed, purely because he's been written as the reluctant villain since day one. If they tried it with anyone else it'd be just as awkward and silly as when they were going to redeem Marauder, a man who slaughtered countless people just for being weaker than him, and make him Paragon's next big hero.

Since you're not at all reading what I'm actually telling you, I'll just drop this here.

That's nice you have an opinion and all, but coming in on threads about stirring hope and happiness and being a general Debbie Downer just makes people dislike and ignore you.

Social skills, brother. You don't have them.

You just love pissing in the Cheerios, don't you?

Did you even read what I wrote? I didn't say "We didn't need more end game, we're fine with what we have." I said "We need more 50+ content that pushes and challenges us, not a million new levels and powers to make us godly and all powerful while trivializing everything else." I never said end game was bad, I said the methods most MMOs use to create endgame were bad, and CoH didn't need to follow those same methods.

While we're at it, would Lord Recluse, Nemesis, Rularuu, Hamidon, and Requiem be redeemed, too?

For 50 dollars per slot, that is not an option for anyone with any sanity.

May as well make a list of what you'll actually miss. I'm surprised you even played CoH at all.

The reason he brought that point up was because Paragon Studios actually tried getting two other game ideas off the ground (one of which being CoH 2), however NCSoft didn't approve of the ideas and dismissed them. So yeah, the games didn't fail since they didn't even exist, but the publisher wasn't fond of the ideas. However NCsoft did approve the third game, which became known as their Secret Project.

And honestly, I'm of the opinion that CoH wasn't failing, but NCSoft couldn't/didn't want to focus it's effort on it any more. It happens. They already have other games that are far more successful in Korea, with a new game launching that's pretty popular in both Korea and the US. So it's not far fetched that, despite CoH's success, NCsoft just wanted to focus energy elsewhere. After all that IS what they said to begin with.

Just 'cause everyone else does it one way doesn't mean that's the best way, or how others should do it. Considering all the other stereotypical MMO molds CoH made a habit of breaking, you'd think they would continue that habit and offer a more unique experience and not go with the typical DBZ-esque end game. We didn't need more levels and powers to gain in order to become gods, we just needed more content that really challenged us and made us use all the abilities and experience we gained on the trip to 50.

IMO the Well storyline in and of itself was just stupid from beginning to whatever end they were gonna roll with. Transcending the Well is, to me, just the equivalent of going super saiyan 2; you've reached ultimate power and defeated the ultimate threat, but now there's even stronger ultimate power and even stronger ultimate threat, and be careful sneezing because you'll destroy an entire planet.

That's probably a good thing for them. Otherwise half their roster of sig characters would be killed off for no reason while story lines would go everywhere but forward.
Totally agree about the art style. But if you've got a gamepad try using it. It makes playing CO more enjoyable, although you still gotta use your mouse for navigating certain menus.

Someone who doesn't understand logic and will not budge on their personal opinion no matter what.

You just did bother with that nonsense reply by quoting it and commenting on it.

Not a bug, dood. That's just bad luck.