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If the entirety of the game itself was not terrible...
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Quote:Nah, it wouldn't.Originally Posted by Positron
I just looked at the thread and... yeesh, I am thinking I should have limited it to one per post... that might slow you all down a little. -
"Hrm, my shoulder has been kind of sore lately. I think I'll hack off one of my legs and see if that helps."
Logic. NCSoft does not haz. -
Quote:You heard it here! I25 launches on Halloween with a huge event!Originally Posted by Freitag
Just to be clear, we didn't say there'd be nothing for Halloween :-).
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Quote:Jack is an idea guy. That's where he should stop.Originally Posted by Kirsten
You know, for all the grief people give States, they tend to forget, there would be no City of Heroes if not for him. Yeah, he made a lot of sketchy design choices, but he's still become a bit of a Scapegoat Creator. [/devilsadvocate]
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Quote:That's my biggest pet peeve about the costume creator too.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
"Once upon a time?"
You still can do it. Makes it rather annoying when I want some of my characters to have a white T-shirt to either have it be a grungy T-shirt or have to give them a bit of a tan on that outfit.
Ah well. Dang it's nice going back through all of these posts and screenshots, just nodding and chortling at the memories. -
Quote:It's much more enjoyable to read with those adjectives though. Well, to me, that is.Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl
Highlights added by me.
Unnecessary adjectives, all. Maybe it's the journalist in me. -
I take breaks and play other games but always come back because this is where a handful of my friends are.
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I skipped the leather and chain mail so I nabbed it today. Stuff every week is good.
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The title seems to say "Thanks for this awesome pad thai ... but I wanted pizza." Regardless. Buh-bye thread.
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I remember when fighting him in his Patron arc would crash the zone (which was always Sharkhead), every time, guaranteed.
Guppy's come a long way. -
I enjoy Synapse more than either Manticore or Citadel. Now, I'm not saying that all 3 don't need to be redone. They do. All of the legacy TF's need to be redone with the new design philosophy and tech.
Maybe we'll see them each get redone once every few issues. -
Complaining about Citadel? You've never done the original Posi I take it?
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Quote:Katie is/was horrible and people were only running it constantly because it was 10 minutes long.Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
I don't exactly recall the chronology, but I'm pretty sure the Katie Hannon Task Force was the first TF added to the game that was actually fairly decent (I miss when everyone was running it constantly!).
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Quote:I LOL'd.Originally Posted by DLancer
Prometheus will open a portal to another parallel world, this particular one unlike any seen before. You'll be deleveled to level 1 and find yourself in the land of Ascalon.
Ascension is when we cross the sea to the Crystal Desert to gain the favor of the gods, beat our doppleganger and Ascend to level 20. At that point we'll be able to take on the Mursaat in the Shiverpeak mountains and finally free Tyria from their Tyranny! -
I'd love to be able to pick and choose which powers I take from a pool with no restrictions. I don't mind nabbing boxing even though it will get no slots and never be on my tray. That's the deal with pools. You want the "good stuff" you have to take something else.
Pre-req's on pools are fine IMO; they're a good thing.
As for changes to Tough or Weave, Arbiter Amish did say during the Coffee Talk where these changes were announced that those two powers are good as they are. Honestly who can argue (reasonably) that either of them need a buff at all? -
I have to agree with the folks that have run, or at least understand, the numbers (Arcanaville, Dechs, etc). We'll see how far this creeps, but there is a good chance for massive imbalance. I hope that will be caught by the PTB or that folks on the Beta server will be able to adequately abuse and thus show the potential problems.
I'll wait and see. -
Yeah I laughed at that email when I got it earlier this month as well.
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Quote:Who's Hero 1?Originally Posted by Angelxman81
I want Hero 1 back with a upgraded costume as sustitute for Ms Liberty in Atlas Park as trainer.
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Quote:Yes. They are no longer ***-tastic useless sacks of ****. Now they're fun and useful.Originally Posted by Ultimus
So I haven't played a Stalker in years maybe since like slightly after Issue 6. This was back when their criticals only occurred on Sleep / Held mobs. They have definitely been improved a ton since then and I am surprised there aren't more.
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Quote:Time travel. We're meeting a PEcho from before his death.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I realise that this seems like a vanity project, but I've still decided to go over SSA2.1 with a fine-tooth comb and list any potential technical errors I find about it. This isn't an attempt to "hate" on the arc as so far, I actually rather like it, but Arcana advised me to make a list of my complaints, so here I am.
Mission 1
*Right off the bat, why is Professor Echo in this arc? In case you need a reminder, when we last saw Professor Echo in the 15-20 Echo down the Aeons arc, he DIED. Professor Echo was speaking to a much older Dr. Aeon who escaped to play a part in Time After Time, while Professor Echo stayed behind and fought to the death. This isn't even one of those ambiguous "defeated" moments. His death was pretty explicit. So why is he still alive?
In my mission when I arrived at his final location he and his shivans had just finished beating up a squad of Longbow.Quote:*Why are Longbow soldiers ignoring Professor Echo? I know the mission suggests they're looking for him, but it's not like the man is hiding. He stands in plain sight yelling loud enough for me to hear him through a double door, yet people 20 feet from him don't know he's there? Why not do a repeat of the Brass arc and have the man show up with Shivans or something else he's cloned or reproduced? Like Storm Elementals called something else? ... Which he apparently has with him at the end.
Meh. Doesn't bug me. /e shrugQuote:*Serious dialogue crime here. Professor Echo asks "Has historical time travel as an investigative tool even crossed your mind?" and my only response is "No... Well, not until now, I suppose." Oi... Let's review. By this point, Xanta has travelled to ancient Cimerora to discover the history of MoT, travelled back in time to gather information from the 5th Column in the past, defeated a Rikti commander in order to investigate the consequences in the future and... Oh! Gone to the end of time to give Ramiel that crystal to bring back and unlock her own Incarnate status. But no, time travel never crossed her mind. What is this I don't even... Why not just add an extra option which says "Yes, it has crossed my mind, but what are you talking about, exactly?" and have Echo explain it? It stops our characters from making continuity-breaking statements.
Echo mentions this during his dialogue.Quote:*How does City of Heroes handle time paradoxes? History causes Echo to travel back in time and in the process creates the history which sent him back in the first place. So which came first - the chicken or the egg? I'm not asking for a physics lecuture on relativity theory and manifold mathematics, just an off-hand explanation of how that works, or at the very least an admission that this shouldn't have happened. Time travel is a can of worms if you don't impose some kind of ruleset to it.
I had Lts in my spawns (just one plus a couple of minions) and as I had said above they attacked Longbow and myself.Quote:*The Shivan spawns on the last floor are bugged. They're doing the OOOLD CoV thing with just spawning two minions side-by-side punching their fists as can be seen in some custom maps from the Rikti War Zone still. It's not a big deal since there are only about three of those spawns, but still.
The Talon of Vengeance Clamor and whichever psychic you have with you tells us that Pandora's Box is opening at the end of SSA2.1. That's not common knowledge and even at that point it's still just a myth.Quote:*Maybe I've just forgotten SSA2.1, but when did we find out that this whole thing is the fault of Pandora's Box and when did we find out what it is? If I'm travelling back to when it was first opened, as so far seems implied, wouldn't I need to know more about it? And if it's known that it was Pandora's Box, then why is Antonio Nash insisting that whatever did this to the Trolls, it wasn't Superadine? If we know it was the Box, then isn't it obvious this wasn't Superadine? Or am I reading something wrong?
How do you know Positron? How does anyone know you? Did you tell Antonio your name or did you do those ancient missions that he used to give? Why do people talk to that nutjob on the pedestal in Atlas?Quote:*Why does Antonio react to Professor Echo like he knows who that is? The good Professor's only call to fame was disrupting Arachnos operations on the Isles and then dying. I don't recall him being a major player in Paragon City. I'd suggest swapping his reference to "Professor Echo" to "this Professor Echo" or even "this Professor Echo person." And, come to think of it... Echo never introduced himself. In the Isles, it's Brass that first brings up the name as some sort of moniker that the man is known by, but in Paragon City, the name is never mentioned until Nash first blurts it out. Did I just happen to read the name floating over the man's head? Are those actually real in the world of City of Heroes? I thought they were just part of my UI.
But you weren't going to time travel until someone time traveled back to find out how you time traveled so far... but you weren't going to time travel until he came back to find that out... For a non-nerd/theoretical temporal physicist it can be confusing. Like a smartphone to our parents.Quote:*Antonio Nash brings up the problem of confusing time travel, but what confuses him is the concept of predestiny, rather than the concept of a temporal paradox. I know the man is not a physicist, but he's still a scientist - chemist, I believe - working on the physiological effects of Superadine on the human body. He ought to be learned enough to spot a closed circle of events spawning each other with no outside catalyst to start it in the first place. -
We never saw the real numbers, but does it break any CC or just apply MagX resistance for an instant?
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Quote:And here I thought they just made a competent leader that actually accomplished things. The opposite of what primal has.Originally Posted by Party_Kake
The comparison of Tyrant to Hitler began when the character was conceived. They made him into a Hitlerized Statesman. If you object to that, you should probably complain to the designers who chose to make him that way. Complaining to/about Golden Girl here, for that, is just nonsensical.
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I'm only fully incarnating (ie: done all trials successfully and T4 in all slots) 4 characters. A handful of other will get their T3 Alpha, but the vast majority of my characters are retired at 50.
I look forward to new slots and new trials the same way I look forward to new powersets and such.