rian_frostdrake

when i delete them or quit the game. beyond that they still come out for thematically appropriate events and badges.

well, the short answer is, we defeat opponents, not kill them, in fact, we often get to chat with them post fight in the clues section, and often fight them again and again. The longer answer is that having heroes defeat bad guys with weapons that should be killing them is a time honored tradition in comics, cartoons and movies. outside of the original comics, the ninja turtles rarely killed, despite using a pair of katanas, shuriken, and several other weapons that should rip opponents apart. gi-joe (the cartoon at least)reach absurdist comedy with how a full military engagement could have no fatalities whatsoever. and the reason for that is very likely the reason for why coh is as it is. weapons look cool when used correctly, if all katana was was swatting people with the flat of the blade, it would look cumbersome, but some people, myself included, feel a little queasy at the idea of disemboweling someone over a purse snatching, so the devs pretty much lampshade it by mentioning defeats. If youd like to use my justification, the mediporters can restore heroes from any form of damage instantaneously, after beating a bad guy down, who is to say that you dont toss a bunch of portable detention mediporters and port the beaten enemies into a modified version that ports them safely, though under a power dampening field, into the zig? Its a game, the descriptions are your own, even on seemingly brutal sets like assault rifle and thorns(rubber crowd control bullets and acupuncture accurate spine shots). as another option, as gg said, there is the martial arts set, overlooking the trauma that kicking a person hard enough to launch them across a street would cause, you cna pretend you are using a nerve point paralysation technique and all the baddies are merely sore after a mission.

so far gor my very old grav/forcefields controller from 15-18, got my ice/storm from 26-28 got a level on my brute, and got 2 levels on my bs/shield scrapper. not bad overall.

I am with you sammy, the alternate animations were the most important thing issue 16 did for me, of a list of several good ones. For one thing, it means the game has another dimension to expand, if each power can be reanimated, then the systems flexibility can allow it to refresh even old content. Also, lets face it, people wanted street fighting, making another unarmed smashing set and keeping it distinct would have been a challenge, this was definitely the best way of handling things.

but now babs got a special little annoying dragon on his (forum)shoulder, because you cant just give me a hit of the good stuff and leave me hanging. My ideal would be fore there to be sets of animations based on several martial arts. my usual suspects are a "movie kung-fu"set, that would consist of several open palmed strikes and circular kicks. a"muai thai" set which includes conventional boxing strikes and the instep using roundhouse kicks that thai kickboxing is known for(for the eagle's claw, i envisoned a flying knee strike, similar to sagat's tiger knee). a capoeria styled set with fast, acrobatic spinning kicks and few hand techniques. and finlly a korean set(the name is a bodge, its based on tae kwon/tang soo/hwarang do) the default animations are close to this already, but as i have made several posts on the subject, they miss key factors, like proper turning of the supporting foot, proper chambering of the knee and hip rotation, and a lack of a real snap-back post strike for crane and storm. so a real tae kwon set would fit my personal preferences strongly.


now i wonder if we will have an option of changing some of the elemental strikes...maybe some kicks...i know a good dramatic kick for thunderous strike would make my dom happy, and once epics are addressed, my defender too. we can color the swooshes of the martial arts effects already, so i hope it is possible.

yeah, the ring sword is something i have been bugging for a while. it reminds me of the chinese broadsword (Dao), not a perfect match, the hilt isnt curved, but its close enough for me to be happy. this game has a lot of japanese options, and i am quite happy for it, but for characters with chinese characters , those would be nice, even cooler if babs would modify them and make then nine ring broadswords.

the ice sword is good, and really i am hoping that one side effect of issue 16 is that we will soon see as many options for the elemental weapons sets as we currently see for the conventional ones. that would be one of the 3 great perks of i16 for me, so heck yeah on the ice sword, space robot 5 would gladly have that on one of his costumes. the coralax stuff would be nice too, but since i dont have any macers, im not as excited as i am for the Dao and the ice sword.

yes, If they do the distributed perks thing again, I will look for the best one for my interest, but there is absolutly no question whatsoever that i will be getting this, and getting it as soon as possible.

better to take our conceptual medicine now rather than go live too awesome and have a reduction later i guess.

oh, and if you can check the forums, going rogue info should be hitting around the 24-25th, i know you were interested in that.

ah good, was going to tell you to try the stone doms, they are muy fun, but you appear to have already found that little chestnut.

getting some sleep.

mmos have a natural tendency to lead to people acting in a tribalistic fashion, defend the ingroup and trash the outsiders. combined with the inelegance of most gamers in online communications, really its somewhat expected. As it stands we will have a better idea of where coh stands in about 2 weeks. till then its all just guessing.

/sung.. she's got legs..and absolutely nothing else.

i like side missions on both sides, they allow a sort of variety to the game from the standard beat everyone up and click one glowie missions we tend to get, plus the badges look cool, so you may not be the only one, but you are one of the only ones i have heard of.