Discussion - Going Rogue and Paragon Team Update!

Yeah...real information please.

AE is nice and while there are nice arcs out there, I haven't played a Dev's Choice in a while. A lot of them have really annoying mobs and just haven't been very engaging. One of my all-time favourites is the Saul Rubenstein Discount Task Force, which had everything: humour, no really annoying mobs, no annoying unmentioned EBs or AVs and it was quick to complete.

Others I've tried had an EB (not mentioned by the contact) in the first room or so or just mobs with annoying powers...like overuse of end drain or -Defense abilities.

These days, I use AE to PL my alts to 20 or through the 30s before hitting the ITF circuit, which brings me to my next concern...end-game content itself.

If you look at the "End-game", it's basically 35+.

You have "Challenging End-game" in LRSF and STF (yeah yeah, some of us can whip these in 30 minutes...) and even Hydra can be challenging if people don't follow instructions. Then you have...the Shard TFs, which have nice storylines but are TOO DANGED LONG. Then you have Reichsmann TF, nicely paced but the last fight, heroside at least, is tedium in extreme. Just mashing buttons while a 250,000 HP boss goes down...not doing that a lot folks. While there may be an issue with the amount of debuffs available, making the end boss a large sack of hit points isn't the answer.

I'm crying for stuff to do with my purpled out alts. With the removal of the challenge slider for TFs (Just remove the ability to -1 them!) all I'm doing these days is ITFs, the occasional Positron/TF Commander run and a Respec every now and then.

This game has needed interesting End-game stuff forever. Heck, even some stuff specifically targeting high-end builds would be great, since at the moment AE is my only way of finding such challenges.

I got a second account a week ago and while I am running the contact arcs redside (which are generally great, Merit wise and story wise), heroside I see myself..."Well, I can go to Kings Row and do this Rescue Lost mission or...I can dual-box in AE and just PL to ITF level..." and that isn't a great place to be.

Give us stuff to do please...

Is this a hint of GR pretty pls
A War Witch Canadian themed TF */e drools*, oh don't forget to add Tim hortons to that TF, and a golden Toque for new costume piece sounds sweet.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! *gasp* Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
*inhale* *cough*

This is why I love working with Castle.

From what I understand, there's a reason there's not.

During CoV's development, they were focusing on leaner, tighter storytelling because people were complaining about lengthy, drawn-out arcs sending you to the four corners of the city, then to go looking for a few extra misplaced corners.

With CoV, they got exactly what they designed for. It's just that NOW, with the way the merit system focuses on "time spent", such short arcs simply don't deliver the amount of merits some of the "don't plan on anything for the next X hours" arcs blue-side do.

Look at the Barracuda SF (30 merits) vs the Khan TF (20 merits).

Why? Because you've suddenly remembered that cattle prod you have stowed under your desk?

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Hoverbikes in CoH/V? Is this official? Can someone please post a link from a dev confirming this? I may have missed it, but I haven't seen anything official on this.

Ashes to ashes,
Pheonyx

Since a Canadian is now in charge will there be more Canadian bits and pieces added into COH?

Maybe turning that donut store in Faultline into a Tim Hortons!

Or a lvl 1 mission where we find out why the Leafs stink so bad!

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You forget, War Witch is the only character in game that is in 2 places at the same time! Now you can see why she was promoted.

oh, we havent forgotten you my dear, Costume fanatics like myself are still stalking you from the minimum of the police mandated distances..now about going rogue, we are talking metric butt-ton of new costumes, including new monstrous bits... RIGHT??

They've hired someone to go through all the NPC dialog and add an occasional ",eh?" to spice it up.

What he said.
Da Boss don' wanna be dissapointed in 'choo. Capiche?

Just make the Mutant Pack and GR look good, and we can get on just fine

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

KA! HAHAHA!

Is that WW? I don't need to ask who the midg- er...fabulous person is...

*snirk*

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

DUDE! T-Rating! T-Rating!

As long as we don't refer to him/her as The TV (see definition 2).


...And hilarity ensued.

Haha... Because he's a hoser?

In all seriousness...
Is this a possible hint towards what will be in the Mutant Super Booster Pack??
Can we be Fleshy-Headed Mutants whom radiation has made an enemy to civilization??


Also... Dear, Lead Designer Miss WW,

I found a dead mouse in my CoH.
That means you owe me a free subscription, eh?

The Electric-Knight ______ Malfaz _____ Zox'Oculox

@Zethustra

"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan

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This guy is just the right level of demented. Cracks me up every time.

Actually, the Canadian element was one of the desirable parts of that OTHER game.

But it didn't last. Sure, I'm Canadian, but I live in California now. I don't WANT snow any more

Or Molson Golden. That stuff's nasty! Gimme a Kieth's and I'll be happy though....

I don't need to point out the fact that some of us forum goers have been pointing out the fact that players should not be so obsessed about spend their time power-leveling and farming because THERE IS NO END GAME in CoH.
Well, this pretty much kicks us someplace that might be censored if I use a term for the exact location.

We have been patiently explaining to players that they should enjoy the game as there is no need to rush to level 50. I guess this release bursts that bubble.

I would like to say -- as a veteran player that started in Issue 1 and has kept an active subscription since then -- that I do not feel that End Game content is critically important to the longevity of the game or the game in general. In fact, I think that End Game in itself says something with those two words alone.

I certainly hope that this does not mean the End of the Game as I love it.

It is my feeling that the community in CoH is different from that of some of the other large MMORPGs simply because there is no End Game. By-and-large the core CoH community has always been a friendly and helpful lot. I've seen that community take a lot of hits over the past year.
When the AE was released -- bent over with it's pants down on the ground --, a different sort of player was attracted to the game. I'm sure that some money was made by attracting the kind of players that this drew to the game -- like ravenous sharks -- and then hitting them with a 10-ton ban hammer once the cash was in hand. I'm not saying that this was intentional.
I'm saying that "critical" End Game content seems to be chumming the waters for that same sort of predatory player.

Like I said, I can't say that I think it bodes well for the game to attract this kind of player, but it is not my company though I would say that this is my game.

This is the only MMORPG that I play. I've tried and heard about others, but none of them were any good as far as I was concerned and the behavior of players as certainly part of the issues that I have had with some of them.

I love this game. CoH is my MMORPG.

I really don't want to see turned into a game that I detest and I decide to quit playing because the form of fun that I have come to love about this game is gone.

I do understand that some are very interested in profits, and the profits seem to be with the power-leveling farmers, noob-hating gankers, and RMT/goldfarmer-supporting L337 players.

In a 4-color world of superheroes, I often hope there is a chance to rise above this petty monetary system - but that is only because it is a dream world ... because in reality global capitalism sucks for a majority of the people on this planet.

Well, here's hoping for the best. Maybe this End Game content will be something that will bring a new sense of team play and bright tomorrow.

Maybe I'm just depressed in general today, but things suddenly seem a little darker to me...

Why? Rushing to 50 just to do the end game content is no different than rushing to 25 to do the Croatoa arcs.

I once said that rushing to 50 was like rushing to the end of your vacation. Knowing your friends were going to throw a party for you when you got back, does that add incentive to rush to the end of your vacation?

The target audience for this game are the people who enjoy playing the game. The people who do not enjoy playing the game but have a pathological need to create maximal barbie dolls in it as fast as humanly possible are not the target audience for this game, although we're more than happy to take their subscription dollars until they figure that out.

I don't tell people there's no point in rushing to 50 because there's nothing to do at 50. I tell people there's no point in rushing to 50 because level 50 isn't going anywhere and you should only be subscribing to the game if you actually enjoy playing it. If you actually enjoy playing it, its pointless to skip one part of the game to play a different part of the same game.

No disrespect to the devs, but there's no way they can make enough end game content to keep hard core players busy for very long. If you rush to 50 just to play the end game, you'll eventually run out of end game. And I'm already thinking about what I'm going to say to the first person who rushes to 50 to play the end game and then complains about not having enough end game. I hope you enjoy it when it happens: I'm putting a lot of thought into it.

So does that mean we're shifting the rating into A for Adult, then?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville 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.

Sorry man, you got troll'd. There's been absolutely no mention of such a thing (as you probably inferred by this point since no one has replied to your post in over 4 hours).

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!