rian_frostdrake

funny thing too, a choice between fighting warrior bosses or freaks, id always go for freaks. warrior bosses do obscene damage.

agreed entirely, and i can be snarky, so i always apologise when i dissappoint my legions of fans

I DO have to address this though. color customization(and animation customization, people keep ignoring this, and it is quite a big thing really, something the new kid cant do to the level coh can) are more to me than just aesthetic options. They are a sign to me that the game that is admittedly aged at this point still has the capacity to grow significantly and that the developers have the resources and skill to cause that growth. To me thats a great deal bigger than letting rian finally punch, and giving violet better looking thorns. If anything the willingness to invest the resources shows quite the opposite of a dying game, if the game were dying, they would just focus on tossing us more low hanging fruit each issue to keep us placated, a game that is sticking around for a while is one that reinvests in growth, so i am afraid that you and i make a significantly different read on the issue.

well, i will sadly have to dissapoint you on the snark, as im feeling quite chipper today, but do you consider going rogue an issue? If so, then i would be forced to assume that our next "issue" will be where a lot of the mission creation resources seem to have been focused, and I am expecting quite a lot , both in terms of missions and costumes, at least in line with cov. If its is less than i will outcomplain pretty much anyone, but i suspect i wont be.

yeah, thats why i added the not sure why now bit...and don't call me shirly

sometimes you just get a crop of twits, i have been fortunate in this regard(or possibly the twit in question, though not in this way.) but pk may have just had a bad run of teammates.

like i said, i love exemping my 50's though. that many slots running really low content where the difficulty is set for someone with basic slots=steamrolling.

heck, their parking lot isn't even safe, level 52 death mages just sauntering around. I nag our security guy if i smell a skunk :P

exacerbate, this makes it sound like you just frustrated it

not at all, blended fighting styles have been asked for since one of the heroes introduced in the korean coh launch used a pistol and katana together. plus, due to the popularity of movies like the matirx and equilibrium, the martial artist who uses firearms and unarmed strikes together is one in the public mind, and lets not even get into anime gun/fighters. the general suggestion is usually taking some martial arts and some utility powers and making a secondary for blasters, expect to see more of that when dual pistols come with going rogue. There is also a smaller group who want a martial arts/gun mix for a dom assault set for natural doms. frankly im all for martial arts for anything(because it ups the chance of babs making more anims for it) so yeah, sure, tanks and brutes too.

I have got to say, I agree that the issue definitely is a draw to older players, but i find some of your conclusions odd, or at least born of strange expectations. This issue addressed something we have been asking for since issue 1, and was at one time suggested would be in issue 3, so as a longtime player, yeah, i can understand where you are going with that, but im not sure what you expected would bring in new players that was overlooked. A new player would have quite a lot of existing content to go through, and outside of the low level hero stuff, most of it is quite good. If anything repetitious content is more the complaint of long time players who complain that the game is repetitive, and im not sure how tossing a few new arcs out there is going to solve that.

You do recall that after issue 10 came out, and that was one of the better story moving issues released, there were complaints that people had gone through all the content in a night, and now there was nothing to do. the fact that mmos cannot crank out distinct content as fast as players can consume it is just a fact of life. ma was an attempt at fixing that, and as someone who just plays the ones that look like they have good stories, it was mostly successful. Yes some people exploited the skewable rewards and steps were and continue to be implemented to curb that, but if you arent looking very hard to be offended or to pretend to be oppressed, there is good, clever content on there. but that is all secondary to the other reason people who say the game is repetitive leave, and thats because there are only so many ways to work with the existing tools to make missions, ma has helped show that, and while some clever sorts have found ways of doing clever things with it, there are a limited number of ways to tell a story and set quest objectives, coh is far from alone in this regard, it is kind of the curse of the mmo industry, but for some the instancing makes it feel more apparent..and im not sure something ever can fix that, its either a like it or dont thing, what did you expect them to add that would address that?

In my view i16 showed something very important, that the game which was regarded by many within the community and outside of it as aging and stuck in its limitations had the resources to go in, fix up the code and improve to the point that it took a competing game's(or as some wags had taken to calling it, coh2...feh) bullet point of customizable powers and did a better version of it (more color options, changeable melee animations, colors tied to costumes).

for me, and hopefully for interested onlookers that showed that coh is still a growing and vibrant franchise that has the resources to make fundamental changes to its structure to accommodate the playerbase, rather than a game content to rest on its hardcore base and slowly slide into oblivion while newer games steal its thunder. My admittedly silly analogy is that coh is now the 40 year old cougar that hit the gym and looks better in tight jeans and a low-cut shirt than its 18 year old college girl competitor, and thats what it needs to be.

as someone who wouldnt mind making a stoner but hated granite covering up my character, i'd be down for it.

thats a bit extreme, outside of some the comics states is rarely protrayed as a tyrant(and a great deal of the comics portrayal may be linked to personal hang ups of the authors. small wonder that hickman's smoke and mirrors story was so popular with the fans, it wasn't written by a brooding adolescent with authority issues), and recluse is more of a violent social darwinist free for all where he can barely keep his subordinates from killing one another to the point of exhausting his troops. really, its only personal freedom for the strongest few, everyone else is boned, and in the case of weston phipps, any hope is actively suppressed.

where? where?

anyhow, yes, invasion code for those events should definitely be the standard. i agree entirely with it, more events would , in my opinion, make the game feel more "heroic" and redside should have targets of opportunity that would also be raid-coded.

use a different one already, the old one from your sig was good, but you are getting stale with this one