The Land CoH Forgot

FloatingFatMan · 04-18-2009 06:18 PM

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His examples on roleplaying are rubbish, and there's no basic provision for walking in Champions Online from what I've heard and seen. Walking is something that goes very well with Roleplayers.

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Oh, you can walk alright.

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Golden Girl · 04-18-2009 07:29 PM

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His examples on roleplaying are rubbish, and there's no basic provision for walking in Champions Online from what I've heard and seen. Walking is something that goes very well with Roleplayers.

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Oh, you can walk alright.

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Does it look good?

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Mothers_Love · 04-18-2009 07:59 PM

I imagine it looks a little pedestrian.

Hero2 · 04-18-2009 08:11 PM

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I imagine it looks a little pedestrian.

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Boo! Get off!

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Golden Girl · 04-18-2009 08:13 PM

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I imagine it looks a little pedestrian.

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Boo! Get off!

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Do you want him to walk off or run off?

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Mothers_Love · 04-18-2009 10:41 PM

I think the pun-ishment should fit the crime - I'll slink off. Nightynight. .o/

Hero2 · 04-18-2009 11:25 PM

I would describe that as more of a slope than a slink.

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Arctic_Princess · 04-19-2009 01:29 AM

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Wasn't it said that when the Coming Storm arrives we'll all be kicking ourselves at the small clues/teasers that had been staring us in the face for so long but we missed them?

ok - I'm paraphrasing, but they said something like that - about the time of Faultline revamp iirc. It may not have been 'The Coming Storm' they said, but some big development is coming...

So it's still possible that the Rikti war, shenanigans in the ancient Mediterranean and people trying to alter/mess with time are all still threads that will pull together (hopefully in I15).

It's CoH only, but I'd expect the FL revamp could still be tied in to this (re: Moon and gravitational effects).

Even without these threads being pulled together into a steaming, kettle-driven plot of Machievellian cunning there has still been story content:
- Ouroboros brought in 3 mini TFs.
- RWZ brought in an enjoyable series of arcs and a darn fine TF
- Cimerora brought some throwaway repeatable missions and a darn fine TF

Okay, Cimerora/Midnighters brought had less than some might like (myself included) - but, IIRC, this was also used as a learning zone for some of the new hires at NCNC (as was). The sale of CoX IP, creation of NCNC, moving offices, finding/hiring/integrating new staff all takes time away from pure development (of both story and engine).

I15/16 are the telling issues for me. I actually think they've done quite well if I15 is as big as we've been thinking after reading redname comments in interviews... If they get back on track then they had a year of serious disruption and a 3-month hiatus to normal service due to MA.

I15/6 are the new-improved-team big-content issues that were probbaly planned for early and mid 2009 (before MA mucked up the schedule).

btw - don't forget that I14 was I13 part 2... I'd guess that by now if MA hadn't had to be bumped to it's own issue we'd already be on the believed-to-be-story-heavy I15...

And given that, I suspect that I16 is story heavy as well, as the story/developments of I16 would have been looking at being the closest issue to CO launch if the schedule hadn't been bumped by MA. Pretty sure that the devs will have been planning some cracking story developments to arrive around CO...

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I was intrigued by Sister Psyche's comments (IG) during the 'Origin of Power' arc (I was playing a mutant at the time so got the full SP from her). She talked about psychics and said that she believed that psychics were a separate origin in themsleves. She also mentions the Sybils/Cybils (whatever) as being the start of that particular origin and there's hints elsewhere that Ghost Widow is descended, like Sister Psyche, from the Sybils.

Mender Silos is Nemesis. It makes sense that he would do something like that, perhaps one of his complex plans ends up destroying everything and preventing him from being Ruler of the Cosmos? Ridiculous but then we are talking about a comic book/super human World.

And because it's the 5th Anniversary then the 5th Column will be coming. Whether or not storms are involved matters little. I think there's about as much a chance of plot threads being tied up and coming together as there is of this game lasting more than 2 years (DOOM! Hey, I'm not normally a doomsayer, just trying it out to see what it feels like).

To be hoenst I doubt most people will kick themselves and, yes, this is going to be a very scathing mass generalisation that won;t win me friends or influence people: the truth of the matter is i think most people on the EU forums have figured it out. And I think the developers say 'you'll be kicking yourselves' because the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

But I really want to see story progression too. And not via more Rikti raids please...

Cynic · 04-19-2009 08:53 AM

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I think the pun-ishment should fit the crime - I'll slink off. Nightynight. .o/

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To slink off do you need to be pushed down the stairs?

"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

Golden Girl · 04-19-2009 11:35 AM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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And said it wrongly

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Hero2 · 04-19-2009 11:50 AM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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And said it wrongly

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That's right, you said it wrongly. I think what you mean to say is, "Most americans are thick".

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Distrupto · 04-19-2009 07:25 PM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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And said it wrongly

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That's right, you said it wrongly. I think what you mean to say is, "All americans are thick".

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Fixed.

Golden Girl · 04-19-2009 07:28 PM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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And said it wrongly

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That's right, you said it wrongly. I think what you mean to say is, "All americans are the same as everyone else".

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Fixed.

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Thanks

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Maelwys · 04-19-2009 08:03 PM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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That's right, you said it wrongly. I think what you mean to say is, "All americans are fat, stupid and think that France is a third world nation".

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They also habitually butcher the English language (which, lets face it, is a wee bit of a [lady-of-negotiable-affection] already). And they're bad at Maths too. HINT: the guy with the most votes is meant to WIN...

And they invented the RIAA, which should be considered grounds for a lengthy public flogging.

Also, despite what they might have you believe, their national pasttime is actually played with Lawyers (which, incidentally, France abolished in 1789) instead of bats.

Golden Girl · 04-19-2009 08:25 PM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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And said it wrongly

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That's right, you said it wrongly. I think what you mean to say is, "All americans are fat, stupid and think that France is a third world nation".

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Fixed.

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They also habitually butcher the English language (which, lets face it, is a wee bit of a [lady-of-negotiable-affection] already). And they're bad at Maths too. HINT: the guy with the most votes is meant to WIN...

And they invented the RIAA, which should be considered grounds for a lengthy public flogging.

Also, despite what they might have you believe, their national pasttime is actually played with Lawyers (which, incidentally, France abolished in 1789) instead of bats.

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I thought it was saving Europe?

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Maelwys · 04-19-2009 09:56 PM

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the majority of players are American and, well, probably not that clever. There, I said it!

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And said it wrongly

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That's right, you said it wrongly. I think what you mean to say is, "All americans are fat, stupid and think that France is a third world nation".

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Fixed.

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Thanks

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They also habitually butcher the English language (which, lets face it, is a wee bit of a [lady-of-negotiable-affection] already). And they're bad at Maths too. HINT: the guy with the most votes is meant to WIN...

And they invented the RIAA, which should be considered grounds for a lengthy public flogging.

Also, despite what they might have you believe, their national pasttime is actually played with Lawyers (which, incidentally, France abolished in 1789) instead of bats.

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I thought it was saving Europe?

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They'd need to find it first.
On a real map, without using Wikipedia.

(Nice Godwin attempt though. That's the real reason why the Yanks were so late to join in during WWII by the way... they actually started at the same time as everyone else, it just took them a year or two to figure out that Hitler didn't come from some place in Wisconsin )

PRAF68_EU · 04-20-2009 08:18 AM

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And because it's the 5th Anniversary then the 5th Column will be coming. Whether or not storms are involved matters little.

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Blitzkrieg. I think most of the EU knows how that translates...

Play word association.

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Zortel · 04-20-2009 09:02 AM

Yet another invasion event going on for a bit too long than it should with no discernable affect on the city?

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TheMESS · 04-20-2009 11:19 AM

Well that'll be me happy then i like the invasion events

Hero2 · 04-20-2009 11:24 AM

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Yet another invasion event going on for a bit too long than it should with no discernable affect on the city?

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Yep, copy all Rikti invasion content (if we're lucky) and change the models to 5th column nazis, then do a search and replace on text "Rikti" to "5th Column".

This is the zenith of my expectations. Let's see something better, eh?

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Enforcer_EU · 04-20-2009 12:41 PM

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All I know is that I15 is going to be a make or break issue for me. If it doesn't come through with lots of additional content AND modernizing the game to compete with CO & DCUO, then I think I'll be calling it a day, at least for a while.

I'm not really playing at the moment, I'm barely even logging in and my posting in the forums has reduced a LOT in recent weeks. Effectively I'm taking a break as I'm just burned out on CoH and am waiting to see what NC come up with for the 5th anniversary event (if anything) and I15.

If they don't come through, then there's nothing to stay for, really.

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This is just odd. I was going to post an identical statement. I barely look at CoX now. I'm bored with the current missions and storylines and mission architect has never interested me. I did dip my toe in the waters but the terrible spelling mistakes and propensity to shove an AV into every arc just annoys me. There are so many missions to look through it is very hit and miss whether you get to play something interesting. Even the dev picks are a tad tedious.

the lack of new (dev created) content has been gradually annoying me more and more in the last year. Faultline was awesomes as was Rikti War Zone. Unfortunately you can only play awesome so many times before it becomes "meh". Few people pvp and the ones that do are unimpressed with the efforts of the devs to revamp the system. New arena matches might be well received by the handful of people who use them but most of us only go in to log out for the day job badge (which I also consider a complete waste of dev time. Day jobs were unneeded and are unnoticed except for the badges and the even easier levelling thanks to patrol xp).

I'm going to keep going till issue 15 but if it is poo content wise then I'll leave. I'm not being intentionally negative, but I've just got terribly bored after more than 4 years.