rian_frostdrake

not arguing the point, and different playstyles are different, but it always strikes me as funny when people indicate they can barely log on for 6-12 hour sessions when i have not played over 4 hours a session in about 6 years. different mindsets, of course, but when the upset person plays more in a day than i(content person) play in an entire month, it just is a funny perspective.


EDIT: ok, maybe i did once do a over 4 hour session, was playing a sarah moore tf, i cant say that i really enjoyed playing that long. i prefer to play in smaller bites interspersed through other activities.

im lucky, not alot of ae noobs on liberty, and i usually AM the ego tripper.

it wasnt the best example, i know a lot of players, particularly defenders, who can do some nasty things to balance by stacking leadership and buffs. but i get her point, no example would have been totally safe(rian frostdrake actually enjoyed the ranged fear back in the day, it helped mitigate sapper alphas) some notables though. no epics can start in preatoria, that just makes sense really, i kind of wondered how they were going to handwave it otherwise. im interestd in the "gadget" type player thing they hint at, we kind of have that with traps and devices, but i will admit that the gadgeteering set is one of the things that i do like in co that you really cant do as well here, so it does interest me what they were thinking of.

you see, i'm actually insulted he went for pugs rather than the more obvious joke:P

i can see it being a good fit.

you know, in scribblenauts 2, they have shoggoths now. they had cthulu in the first, if i find out that nyarlathyotep is in the next one, im going to be very impressed in how utterly nerdy the developers are.

my spell checker just flipped me off.

the final 10 levels werent promised as part of cov? really? they didnt promise that you would have a full and comparable experience to hereoes? really? nonsense, it is the same thing. and again, it was widely known that ultra mode could come earlier than gr, heck, perfect pain(as i reference earlier) made several threads to that effect, if you werent aware of that, then that was really a case of consumer diligence. there was no bait and switch, and anyone who has been gaming for a period of time knows that timeframes can change, but at this point we are getting everything we had expected for gr when the pre-order was announced at the time gr launches, we simply are also getting a part of the eventual endgame with it as well, one that was not promised as part of gr at the time preorders started. if you can find me a quote saying that gr will be shipped with a new endgame, then please do so and i shall be thus contradicted, otherwise, you are complaining about a bonus.

if i recall it wasnt said during the presentation, but it was discussed and heavily passed around the community during the after presentation chatter. Perfect pain brought it up a lot, but im not sure if it was her they mentioned it to or someone else. as has been mentioned before, the final 10 levels of cov and coh were delivered in issues after their release, issue 7 took an ungodly amount of time, too. Also, lets not get too hostile about this with the "entitled" crack, they give you the option of getting it now and having the bonus of having the powers before everyone else. incarnates are not the focus of going rogue, they are a new system that we are getting a part of in gr and will actually be out in issue 19. gr will have all the content we had been told about, side switching, praetoria, the powersets, it will just have a bonus of a part of a system from issue 19. they arent entitled to anything(nor are you) they are offering additional value to a product and for an inexplicable reason, you are taking it as a rather personal affront.

one caveat, epic characters are strong, particularly when played correctly (kheldians are actually somewhat hard to get the hang of for some) but the epic refers to their storyline, do not expect them to be overly strong compared to regular at's, they simply have a storyline to them, they aint death knights. as i said, they can be extremely strong, both hero and vill though, just dont set yourself up for disappointment with overly enthusiastic expectations. just clarifying, thanks.

sorry, my bad phrasing there, i meant the girl, when she does the nuclear soccerball toss after focusing her chi in it, though he did kind of pull it off too.

this is one of my two concerns. forced teaming, while i can get teams, would force my friends to play outside of their comfort zone(duoing or three playering) and i'm not a fan of that. My second major concern is that one of two groups (at a minimum) is going to be ticked off by this. there are people who want endgame content to be bleeding edge hard(like wow was in the beginning, apparently) requiring prples, carefully constructed set bonuses and specific team compositions. and another, including myself, wants the game to retain its casual friendliness and allow some room for those of us who arent crunching numbers day and night. past evidence seems to indicate that soloability and casual friendliness are known by the devs that they wouldn't do such a 180 at this stage of the game, but ya never know, it can't hurt to reiterate how bad of a decision turning the endgame into a leet-loot showdown with forced teaming, juust in case.

where do i find the lost in kings row?

lf ae team.

i dont think they would do it that way. far more likely(and less likely to tread on religious ad irreligious feelings) to make them incarnates of some broad sphere of primal power, like fire or energy or even an abstraction like the war or love. just would seem to be less likely to go too heavily against the grains for players.

very much so, also the goalie from the movie "shaolin soccer"

while i think you sell natural subscription decline too short, The years of the freem 15 did tend to relegate the game to a much smaller scale, i agree with you entirely there. they did amazing things with what they had, and issue 10 was one of the stronger releases we had, but reality did keep the scope of things modest. also the long buld up to going rogue, while there were a number of qol improvements that made vets lives infinity easier (ssk, power and animation customization, patrol exp for those of us with jobs and personal lives springs to mind) I do think that it has felt like something of a holding pattern, and hope to see things change with post gr coh.