What is enjoyable about the Rikti Invasion?
By
Aisynia,
Posted on: 2009-07-17 20:56 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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... but when all it comes down to is finding a target you can attack then fingering your number keys like you're playing the guitar...
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Pets will always have a target if there is one available. For me, it's not stop action because there's almost always someone who has a Singularity, Dark Servent, Decoy, Imps, etc up and I just target through them.
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It's not a problem of not finding a target, it's a problem of finding a target you can ATTACK 
The Rikti have this annoying tendency to teleport in, then spend the next 10 seconds standing around intangible until I can actually attack them. Whether that's caused by server lag or an overly long lockdown on their teleport in animation I cannot say, but my henchmen are in the same boat - they pick a target and sit around waiting for it to "unlock." That's EASILY the most annoying part of the whole event.
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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Long Answer: This year and last, we scheduled time together as a group and head out into the great pea soup for a bit o' adventure. Maybe because we're on Virtue? The personalities. Their responses are priceless. The wild costumes and running dialogue in the /request and /broadcast channels made it a blast. We consumed the zone(s) we visited and one another's company and just had a blast.
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That's interesting. Any invasion I've been to has only ever seen broadcast of "$name lf invasion team." And speaking of costumes... Forget about seeing other people's costumes! I couldn't see MY OWN... Hell, I couldn't see ANYTHING aside from a sea of sprite effects. My experience with every Rikti invasion is a sea of special effects and absolutely nothing else.
As for the social aspect, even ignoring the fact that I've never SEEN any, is probably something that depends on the person. I remember being told about what a wondrous, exciting social experience Hamidon raids were... Until I went to one and all the "social" experience was watching a bunch of [censored] call each other names over broadcast when there weren't engaging in juvenile arguments. There's only so much "UR MOM!!!" I can take before I remove Broadcast from my tabs.
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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I sort of wish the Events would be expanded on beyond just Rikti and the occasional ZOMBEEEEEEEHS! Nothing fancy. Maybe just basic factions, like Freakshow or Carnies or something, could swarm a zone every now and then for no other reason than because they were bored and begin wrecking the place. Go get a shiny badge for stopping them.
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I sort of wish the Events would be expanded on beyond just Rikti and the occasional ZOMBEEEEEEEHS! Nothing fancy. Maybe just basic factions, like Freakshow or Carnies or something, could swarm a zone every now and then for no other reason than because they were bored and begin wrecking the place. Go get a shiny badge for stopping them.
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I wish events were more than "wave after wave of <insert enemy> spawns in and players have to fight them." Every frikkin' event we have is like that. That, or "one big enemy spawns in that players have to fight." Bo-ring! Take a cue from the Hellion Fires and give us events that aren't about beating up hordes of enemies. Instead, make us have to fight natural disasters. It doesn't have to be revolutionarily novel. If I can settle for a building on fire with lots of Hellions and Fires to "beat up," I'll deal with, say, spires of evilnessnessness sprouting all over a zone that we have to find and destroy. The Rikti bomb hunt, for instance, is one of my favourite activities. It doesn't involve massive power spam and there's an element of both exploration and excitement as you wonder if you can finish with this bomb before the one next to it blows up. If anything, when the Rikti beam down, they ruin my fun.
The Chistmas event with the presents wasn't a bad idea, though even that involved fighting hordes of enemies, as well as fighting off hordes of speed-clickers.
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This is also fun.
Recorded this last night.
The most fun I've had in a long time.
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Gah! Nice job. Lot of work for no reward, if I remember correctly
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Fun is it's own reward
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That is quoteworthy, smurch!
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It's a lagfest. I don't quite understand it but the kids apparently love it.
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Except it's not a lagfest for everyone. Certainly not for me. It's fast paced, fun and exciting. I don't have a top of the line machine, but I do spend a bit here and there to upgrade it from time to time. That's all it takes.
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In some of the busier zones you'll get server-side lag which has nothing to do with end users' computers. I noticed it in Cap Au on Friday and Saturday (to the point I just didn't go to invasions there) but didn't see too much in the other zones.
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This. Happens quite often in the raids on Virtue. High framerate, tiny green netgraph... and my powers take three times as long as normal to recharge and the only way to tell if they're up is to read the combat spam. Rikti raids with 1-2 teams together are fun. Raids with much more are 'put a PBAoE attack on auto and go do something else for 10 minutes.'
Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.
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... but when all it comes down to is finding a target you can attack then fingering your number keys like you're playing the guitar...
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Pets will always have a target if there is one available. For me, it's not stop action because there's almost always someone who has a Singularity, Dark Servent, Decoy, Imps, etc up and I just target through them.
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It's not a problem of not finding a target, it's a problem of finding a target you can ATTACK The Rikti have this annoying tendency to teleport in, then spend the next 10 seconds standing around intangible until I can actually attack them. Whether that's caused by server lag or an overly long lockdown on their teleport in animation I cannot say, but my henchmen are in the same boat - they pick a target and sit around waiting for it to "unlock." That's EASILY the most annoying part of the whole event.
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I agree. This is especially bad when spawns overlap - you'll be fighting a Rikti, Tab target switch, and you can't attack because that one isn't 'in' yet. Then you have to Tab around, trying to find one of the aliens that are blowing up all your stuff. Very frustrating.
Funny thing is.....
I hate the Rikti.
But.....
I love going on Pylon/Ship Raids in the RWZ!!
First time I ever did it when the issue came out it felt like being a part of a wierd "Independence Day" movie spin-off.
Granted....
I have to play the game in the game's "safe-mode".....
but it is still well worth it.
In my opinion from the opinion's I have gathered the last couple years not many people at all play in safe mode... ever.
Sadder thing was.....
a big chunk of them did not even know about the lil' box you can click when you start the game up to make the "safe-mode" version of the game load.
I found THAT to be very sad.
Otherwise.....
the Rikti Invasions in the zones are still cool to me.
But the Pylon/Ship Raiding in the RWZ will NEVER get old if the right amount of peeps continue doing it.
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Besides the accolade, the invasions are damn near unbearable.
They are cool the first few times, but after a while they just make me pop up the Ouroboros portal and get the hell out of the affected zone.
Plus, they are immersion breakers...
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What is enjoyable about the Rikti Invasion?
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Typing "/camdist 300" and watching a nonstop powerfest of fun.
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They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
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This is also fun.
Recorded this last night.
The most fun I've had in a long time.
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Gah! Nice job. Lot of work for no reward, if I remember correctly
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Fun is it's own reward