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Quote:you see, the problem with this rampant hyperbole is that it is completely and utterly a misstatement of the content of the new non-incarnate arcs, both of which have threads praising their writing and feel. Neither significantly fleshing out the story of how the medical porters work, and how equitably they are distributed, nor going into one of cov's big elemental monstrous forces is "saving wincotts" cat, and phrasing it like that just makes the opinion look like an ill-informed knee jerk reaction.Originally Posted by Toony
There were...like two arcs, some QOL stuff, badges, and filling out Praetoria.
I don't feel it's a far cry to say the main attraction of I19 was incarnates. There wasn't much else to it. And yes, the main story of the game was being told via a TF only Incarnates could really do. So I don't see how "Well...there may be an arc about saving Officer Wincotts cat!" is much reassurance. -
Quote:that is just a silly amount of inflexibility that ignores reams of cases where individuals from gang or other criminal related pasts in which they did horrible things turned their lives around and became strong role models for their communities who were able to demonstrate how to avoid their shortfalls. It damns salvageable people for a moral concreteness that one should have matured beyond by age 12, its an actively dangerous, short sighted moral stance.Originally Posted by Venture
Nope. There are things people can do that can never be forgiven. Sometimes things break in a way that leaves them unfixable, and you can do that to your own life. It's not even hard.
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we will have to see, i do not see the alpha content as being part of a paid pack, i think that was just a particularly snappy phrase. i do expect the booster to be, as all the boosters have, paid content though. i suspect it will be more in line with the mid issue release of the enforcer/jester pack or the February one some time ago that added the av to eb downscaling. they have, in the past, added content outside of issues, and i suspect this will be the case here.
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Quote:/rimshot.Originally Posted by Venture
I'd rather the devs didn't give us any bull.
try the chicken Parmesan.
on topic, well this is good news. the new booster does indeed look like something i will buy as soon as it is offered, i dont have any specific birds, but since i was part of the crowd that was asking for monster bits when the mutant pack came out, i'd pretty much have to buy it
. i assume the strike pack will have the rare and very rare alpha enhancers, eh im in no hurry there, i got my mains to 2 commons and an uncommon, so i'm quite content. really excited about the newsletter, and thats about all i know enough to say really, looks promising. It is funny that they called dcou a traditional mmo, given how adamant their devs have been about classifying it as a online action game, whoops.
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Quote:well, my bit of storyline spackle involves (as i planned on doing this with rian, who would be great with arctic breath, until i noted that scrappers get garbage stuff for patron pools and none of the cool brute stuff) a undercover storyline, backed financially by the freedom phlanx's substantial resources. lots of acting on the part of the "victims" some behind the doors dealings and payoffs to make some people get "killed off" all so that i can pop over, appropriate some power from the enemies, and then scoot right back over like a good little double agent.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
This is a role-playing observation, not a gameplay complaint. I'm happy with the gameplay.
I wanted my Ice tank to have Mako's Arctic Breath. It would fit perfectly into his character concept. So I figured that I'd move him redside, do Mako's patron arc, and move him back to blueside again (because the character concept *is* a hero.)
This would be the first character that I would have taken from hero to villain. (I've brought several back the other way.) I decided there were two ways I could roleplay his brief stint as a villain. I like the idea of him going undercover to infiltrate Arachnos, and a lot of his villainous deeds could be staged to trick Arachnos into accepting him. Alternately, he could be having a short mental breakdown during which he did some bad things while learning some new powers, like a vision quest gone bad.
I did not realize how bad.
At the moment he has finished 8/10 villain tip missions, causing him in the process to slaughter 'countless bystanders' at a parade, throw 'countless CoT' into damnation, destroy the souls of 'countless partygoers' at a Carnival of Souls bash, and also murder a new superhero and his aged aunt. Whoever wrote these arcs likes the word 'countless', and hates Aunt May, I'm guessing.
While I applaud the devs for giving us missions with *real* villainy for a change, it makes it difficult for me to rationalize my tank's conversion back to the light side. There's no redemption for a mass-murderer on this scale. Especially if I read the well-written after-mission texts that talk about how you rationalize your killings. It's also making me look sideways at any blueside villains I see, wondering if, before they became heroes, their bodycounts were in triple digits or 'countless'. The legal system in Paragon seems pretty lenient on genocidal maniacs.
I'm big on character concepts but not so big on roleplaying in CoH, and this is why. You have to perform some screwy mental calisthenics to make any character's plot arc in this game believable.
Right now I'm ready to consider the entire blue->red->blue arc to be a fever dream that happened to my tank while he was in a coma, or something.
Anyone have any other roleplaying ideas on how I could justify the descent and redemption of my hero?
I just wanted ice breath...I didn't want to hurt all those people...
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excited good, but just warning since some people get ahead of themselves and then go on screaming tantrums because the devs didnt follow through on something they never promised, thats all. it happens a lot round here
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we were discussing this in another thread, jay is very good at cryptic comments(he told us about the valkyrie costume set by referencing led zepplin's "immigrant song") so dont expect clear answers,, and that is probably why he is allowed to post this stuff, clear info would likely mess up marketing strategies of when the scheduled information is to come out,and could tip off competitors about coh's mid to long term plans. but if it takes a mixture of Robitussin and vodka to comprehend, then its all good. the bottom line is we will know only after it comes out, then we can look back and say "thats what the heck that meant" so dont consider anything here etched in stone, just bask in the unfiltered weirdness that is jay.
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ok so we learned that paragon has really lax drug testing standards.
well there could(but by no means is) have been hints of animalistic shapeshifitng, a beach bulkhead mission/area/event seemingly involving the resistance and the dev earth, a martial arts themed blaster secondary, a fight with praetorian hami. you could read anything into them, jay loves making vague hints, but then again, they really CANT say more than ncsoft lets them, so the vague stuff is as much as we can hope for realistically. -
well, the servers have maintined the same load indicators since launch of going rogue, indicating that some of the new mass attracted (or old returners) have stayed rather than just hanging out for their free month, the honeymoon has been going on for 5 months now, thats purdy. we also maintained server load during the beginning of December, when something big in the mmo world happened, though we cant say what, but y'all know what. so ya know, the next big thing is whatever was nda'd in the issue 20 beta, no idea what it was, im sure some have already set their expectations well past reasonable, but i suspect we will see something with it, they certainly seemed excited about it.
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Quote:I think so.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Clearly, a memorable avatar is key to being remembered on these boards. Will keep that in mind.
oh, and as schism and dumpb had hinted to, the forum rules enforcement has changed, almost no discussion of other games is allowed, be they mmos or single player console ones...i'm not thrilled about that, as there are a few i REALLY want to talk about currently, but just giving you the heads up. -
well warden, i was referring to this pic
but yours is pretty much what i was going for, the bustier/leather vest combo with the puffs at the arm tops. he does that and my card is flying, i have a few steampunk chars as well as a cowgirl concept in mind, and that would be pretty much exactly what i was asking for. so completely agreed, good find ps, can we do something like the skirt and pistol too? the rifle is nice as well.
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welcome back. ok first question, did you get the expansion? if so, quite a lot has changed. the highlights right now are Pretoria, which your earth prime characters can go back to for events with cute little rewards. there are also the new tip missions, i love them, really good for making your character really feel like a hero villain or some shade in between. finally is the big one if you have a 50 thats maxed out, if i remember your main was sabre justice, right? well, now you can go on a alternate series of enhancements that get progressively better. right now its a progressive series of super enhances, upcoming will be other things, at least one we know of is a "nuke" basically that you can unlock, the upper level of it is suitably pornographic. lets jsut say upper level teams for tfs are a lot easier to get. there is other stuff, like a new story arc for villains and one for heroes that came in issue 17 but thats the stuff i have been doing.
oh i remember you were a fan of tails the fox from sonic, the mutant pack, a purchasable option that includes a fluffy wolf like tail. -
Quote:the only reason i can is it reminded me veats have a storyline, i got so stuck on rwz runs and co op stuff, neither veat has done it for a long time. i really need to play it some day. heats re the same, i made a warshade last week, adn pretty much bumped into her contact, took me a sec to remember they had a separate story.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I'll give a dollar to anyone that can remember what this thread was actually about without flipping back to the first page.
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Quote:if that, a lot of the hardcore burned the bridge, they are gone and wont ever return. wasting money on pvp is wasting it for nothing, its dead, burn it down and salt the earth.Originally Posted by BigFish
500 players, tops, is in no way a "ton". Get over it, son
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when is the big-guy resubbing?
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Quote:you know, i know you are on my side here, but i always find it funny that people ignore how much just separating tails from belts opened up character costumes just because you could make new mixes. these would do liekwise, i hope they find a way finally.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Key points;
-Backpacks
-Not mitt hands and feet
-Better (and yes, animated) hair
-Better faces
-Asymetry
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Quote:he was actually on vitrue talking to players on new years, there was a thread about it.Originally Posted by Rubberlad
Wait, Jay still works for Paragon Studios? I thought he left (seriously).
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Quote:HELL YES!Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Hear that, Jay? Make more like this!
I'll let him know how much you dig it.
thats my unsubtle opinion. if he could make some magic themed stuff like it, as well as it with a closed back, it would be much appreciated.
oh and...space robot 5 compact costume
frostkat in battle armor
glasengel in cyborg gear
Ok, i really like the enforcer gloves too
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Quote:the crux of the joke was his language skills being at a 3rd grade level at age 16. though 14 fits as well. the general gist of the joke still works.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Or maybe i'm wrong, but i was pretty sure g_b is around 14 years old.
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Quote:go easy on him, Mrs Swanson was really tough for a 16 year old to deal with.Originally Posted by Ironblade
The word should be "they're".
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Quote:fixed, seriously, that is how it works. assuming that lack of evidence indicates a falsehood is a example of a fairly basic logical fallacy called denying the antecedant. if x then y, not x therefore not y. this is the origin of a great deal of poorly though out positions across a number of disciplines, but it is wrong, and promoting it is to promote poorly compsed logic. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/denyante.htmlOriginally Posted by RadDidIt
Marcian, the ole "no evidence to the contrary means it could be true" is correctly applied logic.
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a. its evil ryu
b.after hiring a huge number of employees a while ago, they laid off 8, including a very popular one who i liked very much as well. castle and ocho both phrased their exits as having job opportunities that will be advantageous to them, this is a mass exodous that indicates the closure of the game.but doomers gotta doom, see point a. -
ok, that was a little harsh, but really, come on, that ship has sailed, coh does not have the population to warrant significant investment in pv., its dead, those who still enjoy it will do what they do, but it just doesn't really matter.
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Quote:family is family, your reasons are understood, you have responsibilities and are a good man for standing up and doing the right but difficult thing. now get a character on liberty and look for the most garishly colored character there, my jokes are even more stream of unconsciousness when they are ad-libbed. admittedly a full 30% of them will make no linear sense whatsoever without a very specific perscription, but the others are good.Originally Posted by theOcho
Seriously though, there have been a few moments where I've second guessed myself. Opportunity only knocks for a short time however, and now is my chance to do the best I can for my family. I will indeed still be around but anonymously, so who knows if it's me you'll be chatting with! -
Quote:i blame his step-mother .Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Tyrant fears stairs,