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Ya know, im wondering about this. The comments from herocon seemed to indicate the full allocation of resources is going towards going rogue right now, so while i cant say id be thrilled with waiting that long for a new issue, that is what I am putting he realism of my hopes on. If there is an issue 17, I'd assume it is being done with minimal resources. expecting 2 new zones and powersets, more than there have been in the other issues till now, strikes me as setting yourself up to be disappointed, your call, but be prepared for the realistic result.
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a blaster, cowgirl themed. If i can get the name, going with Vaquera Salarosa. yes, i liked kill bill's soundtrack.
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Quote:is she singleAnd a friend of mine who is Chinese really hates it said that she comes from the Far East. Her standard non polite reply to that is "East of what, your backward continent that didn't get printing or gunpowder until a 1000 years after we invented it roundeye?" She can get away with that because she's tiny, cute and adorable.
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Quote:my take as well, i find them to be fairly good to paragon, maybe i missed some bashing, or some 4chan rejects in the comments section, but they generally seem happy to put up any reasonable content sent to them.Massively gives CoH regular coverage and have hit all the highlights in the last month (viz. the recent double XP weekend, Going Rogue beta keys at Hero Con, guest author AE missions, the new Halloween event, Hero Con's contests, and schedule). They even ran an item in which another MMO site did a compare & contrast piece on CoH vs. CO and concluded the former was the better game. Massively being a few days behind the weekend wrap-up doesn't sound like a snub, especially if NC Soft's marketing department is still working on the post-con press kit.
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Well, i too was thinking that the stereotypical ninja are already pretty kitted out, so unless its just a fancier version of existing bits, im hoping its some outfits with some kaji writing on them, it would really be nice if we got Japanese chest symbols and i'd kiss jay on the face if we got the ability to place symbols on our backs.
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well, my take is you cant please everyone. if it helps, martial arts 's older animations, nor the recently released ones, really dont show the style combination i have conceptualized for rian's training. but ya know, you just cant please everyone, and the modern gunfighting style players who are shooting(HA!) for an equilibrium/matrix/maybe some ghost in the shell style over the top gunfighting would be just as stifled by your concepts as you currently feel by theirs, its just how life goes really. and please dont take it the wrong way, but are cowboys and english duelists really as popular in the current nerd pop-culture world as the over the top fun fu styled ones? with limited resources come choices, and these choices always are going to leave someone feeling upset, but for te cowboy thing at elast, i have seen enough trick-shooters decked out in western trappings who would probably use and hit targets with a variation of the presumptive tier 9 nuke, so is it that far fetched for a cowboy, depends on perspective, really.
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Quote:while i really think you are streaching, even for you, by saying that the last 6 issues were bad, considering the ncsoft thing happened after issue 12, can you care to guess what the art and level designers were doing when not providing a significant number of costumes, new storylines and new maps and tilesets for issue 13-16? Because they hired a lot of new people and we still didnt get many of them, so what would YOU think is going to be in going rogue? either they were all doing nothing or were working outside of their usual jobs, which seems unlikely if ncsoft would probably have noticed, or we are getting over a years worth of development time in those areas in gr.Considering how light everything has been these days I would be shocked if there was really that much extra stuff to do. Personally I feel they have only got one chance at this otherwise thats pretty much it for me. The past 6 issues have been garbage, I say this because I know the devs can do alot better than this.
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given the investment of resources, it certainly wouldnt be good for the company if it was poorly recieved. it also wouldnt be well recieved by the ncsoft overlords. It is definitly the next big thing and could really help the game, or be a indicator of serious problems, but its best not to try and make snap judgments so far away.
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man i wish an mmo would finally be able to make one, i understand that there are a significant numbers of issues that would have to be addressed to do it, but i wish it could be done. not sure i see it happening here though.
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i would be amazed and hostile if they didnt. seems these days sets get ported to all relevant ats. with the notable exception of stalkers and shields, beyond that ranged powers go to ranged characters, buffs tend to go to buffers,et cetera, and older sets seem to being proliferated to that point as well.
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Quote:first of all, smart move calling it the herd spirit, make yourself look reasonable and not an arrogent elitist, good move. second of all, my contention is that you are suggesting that the video is" the best gr has to offer" nowhere is that suggested or justified, this is just what was cleared for information now.All I said is that the spiffy new kewl and brand new thingies Going Rogue will mostly be about are over rated, at least from my point of view. That if the video that I quoted in my first post is showing the best Going Rogue has to offer (Ultra graphics, Praetoria and 2 new powersets).
I don`t think I`m being unreasonable saying that I`m not impress based on what I have seen. I did try to explain why and lots of people don`t agree. Thats ok, doesn`t matter that much. To me it matters that GR is a payed expansion and I can make a very big list with already existing stuff that could have been improved/fixed. If I would have heard Positron saying that there will be base raids , new customization improvements and other stuff I already mentioned I would have said Great, just what I wanted. Giving me something I`ll never use like super graphics just makes me say "meh".
If it makes any of you feel any better, I am sorry for not following the herd spirit on this one. But i`m optimistic.
I'm also unsure of your grasp of the degree of the graphics updates, dismissing them as just reflections. one of the most common dismissals of the game has been that it looks like a 5 year old game, to continue to hold ground in the mmo marketplace, they had to upgrade the graphics, and to be blunt, among people who have proven they know what they are talking about, such as billz, their reaction means a great deal more because they actually have a better grasp of the technical aspects of it than i do.
Finally you go back to the "list of improvements not added" again, how do you know? did we know about ssk before i16 went live? did we know about pvp ios before that issue went live? or the badge bars finally giving us numbers rather than vague bars? no, qol issues and smaller improvements come up over time and are almost never in the initial feature list, and keep in mind, we still have no official feature list.
so I will give you one thing, if the expansion were only what we have seen in this video, yeah, i'd be disappointed, but experience tells me that they never give us an exhaustive list of features of major releases before closed beta even starts , so i feel that its reasonable to assume that we haven't seen anything yet. if you have relevant experience that contradicts this, please share, but i would think id remember something like that. -
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mage, you are just being unreasonable here. we have no idea if anything is going on with pvp, we dont know what costume bits are coming(outside of the clockwork stuff) they talked about a segment of the features coming, not all of them, we got a window of stuff coming apparently half a year off. I ask again, do you really think this is it? there will be more things, these are the big bullet points that marketing has cleared, that is all. be a little more patient before saying how disappointing it is.
also, tamp down the hyperbole, there is no tf currently that takes 6 hours to complete at level 12(some shard tfs need fixed, but they arent at level 12) and all of the current tfs introduced since issue 2 have been far more concise. people have been clearing posi a hell of a lot faster for quite some time, so claiming an outlier time just is silly. similarly, if it takes a team half an hour to drop a av, then that team has issues of coordination, or the av needs looked at individually. saying untrue things like this just diminishes your point and makes you look uninformed in your opinion. -
i will say though, since my tank is 8 feet tall and uses tech wings, and i had to make a second wingless costume fast because it is really hard to see in the caves. just my experience, but it does seem to indicate a problem with it. if they can find a fix though, it would be cool, i do like it in champs.
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you will still complain
the today's info is workin for me a bit more. elec control is one of my big wants, and i do really like that buildings are no longer random assignments, entering a cave in nerva to find a bank was just really really weird. also, hmm a mention of ninjas in relation to the next booster pack.. you have this anime fan's attention. Honestly, they have enough for most traditional ninja looks, outside of maybe the gauntlets. so other asian looking costume bits? kanji chest symbols? my credit card would burn through the internet.
oh and jay, if you read this, please make this stuff tail compatible, not being able to use the martial arts robes on any of rian's dragon looks kind of hurts. they are so good and i'm limited by having a tail. -
Quote:maybe, i got more of a minority report vibe from the seers. but again, i love how clean and organized the badguys are, my biggest gripe is when they do an "evil" world and its dark and depressing and covered with skulls and such. Once power is achieved, it would make more sense to use every outward appearance that things were better and would make the general populace happy than go around menacing people with a skull codpiece...though that is fun to wear at formal events at times.Yeah, it looks like they are going from a Dr. Evil version of Tyrant and his world, to a more Facist Stepford Wives-type reality, showing the reality of what happens when "Justice and Order" go TOO far.
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today was the first day of a two day event describing a expansion several months down the road. Do you really think this was all that is going to be in gr? REALLY?
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amen, one thing that the halloween event is driving heavily home is that we dont have the population to be compartmentalizing several servers, 2 sides and instanced content without making the game look like an absolute graveyard.
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I was thinking of you when the updates were tweeted
. anyhow, as per the demons, yeah, they look nice, they kind of look like the bipedal but different stance for monsters that i have wanted for some time, usually in the form of raptor-like dinos. It appears i will be making my first mastermind to go beyond level 10. also, i love how clean and pristine the outfits of the "bad guys" look, It reminds me a bit of aeon flux. Also, it is an interesting possibility that the resistance may well be bizarro freakshow. you figure that in this world they are anarchistic rebels, in a full on fascist state, they would naturally gravitate to the resistance, wouldnt they?
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Quote:like i said, time to get a new g-cardYou shouldn't, according to the tweets,
"Minimum specs for the game won't change, and you can run Going Rogue without Ultra mode, but you can turn on Ultra mode with high-end video cards"
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Quote:I would be hesitant to claim anything about anyone's intelligence on this, that is a good way to turn the conversation hostile, i will say that a lot of mmo's at the time this content was introduced had content this tedious and annoying, and back then, it was still bad, but more common for the genre. That said, this thread proves that the devs are darned either way in this case. some people are shouting to revamp the stuff, and some are shouting to just ignore it and add new stuff, no matter what is done, it will start a tantrum from some group.No, the programmers weren't smart enough to give you an option of NOT going to visit these contacts. I don't think that would take much effort... just offer, "You can do a real mission, or go see this contact." Old contacts offer two options on a regular basis, it shouldn't have been hard to do.
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ok, need new graphics card then, thats it.
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Quote:63 monther here,This for the uber vets! I class these as players who have like a 48 month badge and higher!
for these uber vets, i have 3 question! what toons have you been playing for all this time? have you played one from when you started till now? whats your favourite build?
1. a large variety, my main is a ma/sr scrapper that i enjoy running, though i have about 60 characters all told. lately have been running a night widow and a crab soldier with friends.
2. rian is a reroll, originally i had strange issues with logging in, but the only difference is he is blue skinned rather than bright yellow and has different horns. so his current incarnation is 6 days short of launch. my main redsider, violet tendencies, is from launch of cov though.
3. im a fan of dominators, they are fragile, but the tools at their disposal for damage and control make them enjoyable and unique. night widows are pretty solid too. Scrappers are fun, but not a lot of variety to play really, run in and beat the heck out of everyone. -
i guess thats the thing, it really isnt providing much of a benefit at all though, and it will require coding work that has the standard risk of breaking something else, as well as disrupting an established meeting place for players, all for an, i'm sorry, but its a very minor inconvenience. I keep trying to see this from your perspective as a situation of other players being rude but it really just seems like something easily adjusted for.