no brainer with cyborg pack?
By
Alvan,
Posted on: 2008-09-17 23:06 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.
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I have a Robot/Trap MM.
In deciding that I had gone the wrong way about a 52 Boss whom I couldn't quite beat and given up on trying. Rather than simply avoiding debt by running away only to be leaving the mission and going to the RWZ base for insps. I self detonated. I avoided debt, got a fast trip back to RWZ base for insps and looked cool in doing it because my bots look like they all self detonated as well.
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Personally, I think Self Destruct would be better if it where interuptable. Not only would that solve the problem of exploding even when dead, it would give the user the option to abort if the situation changed.
As for the costume, it can look very good, or it can look very bad. Because it is so busy, it works better on larger, bulkier base models, and also with more subdued colours. Thus it works better on male and huge than female.
Try combining Cyborg Cable chest detail and shoulders, and cyborg gloves with a bare torso, for a true fusion of flesh and machine.
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It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.
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Why does AR suck?
Seems fine for me.
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It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.
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Why does AR suck?
Seems fine for me.
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It's one of those general 'wisdoms' that may or may not be true.
More likely the player is more suited to other style blasters and thus find it sucks (when clearly, it spits. bullets... and fire, grenades, bean bags...)
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Now that I've had a chance to play about with the new costumes I'm very please (though disappointed that there is no monstrous legs option). The parts all work together very well (as they should) but more importantly also work well with the other costume pieces. This gos double for the the cyborg1 facepiece it can be used with the lower jaw cyborg piece to make a great Mask for all those Dr Doom, Man in the Iron mask, or simply horribly disfigured zombie lord hiding face inspired toons. Also if you have the samurai armour try it mixing in some of the cyborg bits for a tech samurai (the cyborg 1 piece and the samurai mouth guard are made for each other)
Aura's are ok only used the HUD on a live toon so far but will use the others eventually, it would have been nice if they had included a steam jet aura but that's just my personal wish (maybe well get a steam punk pack at some point). Also as a side note i hope the new HUD aura means well be seeing more 2 tone auras in the future
The emotes are fun and a nice little distraction while waiting for the team to gather (also any one know if its possible to use rest but do the shut down emote?).
As for the power which seems to be the majority's biggest problem with the pack its hardly game breaking yes it dose extreme damage but its not that extreme and the 10 second count down gives plenty of room for you to die first (I've yet to have it go off if I've died mid count down).
All in all I'm inprest it could have done with a we bit more polish to iron out the bugs some have had with it and missing out a cyborg legs monstrous upper piece is a big disappointment (tho they can make up for it by doing a upper and lower monstrous legs pieces 
) also some more man/machine blended pieces would have been nice
so a 4 out of 5 from me
so whens the next one out and whats in it
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I have a Robot/Trap MM.
In deciding that I had gone the wrong way about a 52 Boss whom I couldn't quite beat and given up on trying. Rather than simply avoiding debt by running away only to be leaving the mission and going to the RWZ base for insps. I self detonated. I avoided debt, got a fast trip back to RWZ base for insps and looked cool in doing it because my bots look like they all self detonated as well.
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Yes, this power really has brought the Death Taxi back from the, erm, dead. The Hollows revamp and flightpacks sorta killed it recently. Good to see it back 
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Damn you JD, now I really want to play a Paranoia / Cthulhu cross-over game.
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It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.
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Why does AR suck?
Seems fine for me.
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Had a bit of a fiddle with the costume pieces last night - they are very pretty indeed, almost to the point that it's tricky to use them with older, duller costume pieces. As pointed out above it's immediately obvious that bulkier characters benefit from these parts - I am looking forward trying it out on my brute-model, max-sized Crab Spider.
I have a range of characters that can benefit from these parts, though it's going to take time to work out some interesting combinations - nice tip on the Samurai armour, think there's probably room for blending in Vanguard.
Self destruct is a good laugh and made out of 90% drama - the warning klaxons and visual fx are great. It's particularly funny on low level Stalkers.
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You can't be ressurected after the Self Destruct. Hospital or Base.
There goes most of your argument.
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You can self rez or use a wakey.
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ok..... 
but that is a big bug
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Why does AR suck?
Seems fine for me.
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Because I think it sucks. Duh. I also don't like Parisians, the reduced amount of jam in Wagon Wheels and the illegality of randomly assaulting anyone wearing a hoodie. I can go all day listing stuff I think sucks if you want.
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What about stuff you like? Besides axes, gore and mayhem that is.
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What about stuff you like? Besides axes, gore and mayhem that is.
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I think you've exhausted them right there
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Not true. I like meat as well.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
Honestly, I was sold on this pack the moment I saw the HUD. It was a 'MUST HAVE' moment. I like self destruct, the animation rocks and I love the steam jets and also the way the explosion is HUGE compared to the average nuke. I did quite like being able to self-destruct then self-rez with Rise of the Phoenix, though that may be because I just love RotP... obviously it'll be changed, but hey it's fun.
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It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.
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It's fine as long as you don't combine it with /devices, which is a great shame because they gel together perfectly conceptually. I got my AR/Dev to 50 just before ED made it so boring to play I stopped bothering with it. Since then the inventions system has helped a bit but it still lacks the accuracy/damage of other blasters. Something that a handful of caltrops doesn't really make up for...
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Ok, 4 things, and you're done
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And I like you too.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
The truth comes out...?
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You can't be ressurected after the Self Destruct. Hospital or Base.
There goes most of your argument.
Besides it's unenhanceable (so, y'know, base acc), kills you and can only be used every 60 minutes out the box. Plus you have to wait 10 seconds between clicking it and it exploding - I doubt any mob that'd be troubled by the 500 odd damage it'll inflict will still be around after those 10 seconds are up.
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you can self res from it, with things fire of phoenix for example.
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I haven't been having any trouble with the servers at all over the last few weeks.
The only time I've been disconnected is Tiscali (insert a selection of colourful swearwords here) are a rubbish ISP and I'm so thankful i'll be rid of them next week.
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Omg tiscali too 
but lots of people in the sg who arent on tiscali get randomly disconnected a lot too lately
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The bugs with the pack that you mention are already fixed in an internal build.
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It's my professional opinion, as someone who writes software for a living, that it was a mistake to release this pack with said bugs. They really don't instill confidence in future booster packs, especially as the wedding pack was ALSO buggy.
These are not issue updates, they're pure eye candy. There is ZERO reason to release them until they work properly. You'd think NC would have learned this by now... 
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The thing im most anxious to know if how they will stop the bug that doesnt actually kill you, as you said with the +hp bug, but theres also the thing that you cant die in one hit by any attack, so if you use the power on full hp, nothing attacking you, you wont die but cant res either, you need to relog.
The best solution i can think of is get the attack to deal like 2 ticks of unresistable damage at like 3000 or something.
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It's perfect as power armour and that's how I've been using it. I just wish AR didn't suck so bad.
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It's fine as long as you don't combine it with /devices, which is a great shame because they gel together perfectly conceptually. I got my AR/Dev to 50 just before ED made it so boring to play I stopped bothering with it. Since then the inventions system has helped a bit but it still lacks the accuracy/damage of other blasters. Something that a handful of caltrops doesn't really make up for...
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It's odd 2008 (see sig) is an AR/Dev Blaster and having played him throug to 50 (started new years eve 2007 finished March 2008) I always find myself wishing I had the targeting drone on other builds. The accuracy it gives means you can still hit a triple vengenced Nemisis boss with a 95% chance of a hit, yes you've not got the damage bonus of other blaster secondaries, but you will hit. To my mind I'd rather hit and do less damage than miss and maybe have done more.
Of the other Dev powers though some really really suck (time bomb for one) others are very sitautional, use stealth to plant a mine near a target back up, lay another mine, backup lay another mine, back up drop caltrops and snipe target. very powerful as they run through the mines and a hail of bullets and the slow to a crawl through the caltrops, but useless in a team as they'll never wait long enough 
I just don't think its as bad as people seem to think, still each to their own.
hmm...just thought I'd let people know...self-destruct cannot be stopped..at all.
Was just testing it on my newly created AR/NRG blaster...she died before self-destruct went off HOWEVER...the whole lightning, steaming hissing AND explosion (missing graphics on the explosion) still went off but my body remained.
Very odd...looks like it can't be stopped no matter what.
Yes I bought the Cyborg pack for the simple reason I just love having all the costume pieces, made the above character 4 times until I settled on what I liked, decided to use just Cyborg upper arms, Cyborg shield shoulders, Cyborg gloves and cyborg boots from the set to give it a more...well..cyborg feel.
The entire set together doesn't really look Cyborg, looks more battle suit/power armourish in my opinion but hey the pieces are still very pretty.
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