Biggest Problems with the Game Today

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- PVP. I've said it elsewhere, they should, basically, give up on balance and drive the point home (with a piledriver if need be) that PVP is based around teams. Our last bit of "balance" pretty much killed off PVP - and if you want to run both PVP and PVE, use dual builds. It was a suggestion before, it's practically mandatory now. (Or you can just, oh, get PLd up to 50 for a PVP-only character.)

- Lack of any optional paths redside. Yeah, they compacted things redside - too much. I want to start in a different zone, someplace that doesn't look like a garbage dump. I'm sick to death of kalinda/burke, etc. Fortunately this will be addressed somewhat with GR... but I'd still like to see it 'natively' redside.

- VEAT arcs. Past 15 or so, they feel like they just rushed them out in a day or two. Not worth running.

- Enemy behaviour. Mentioned this in an "AI" thread, but why does Group B not react when one of Group A runs by, on fire, getting zapped, frozen, etc? You'd think they'd, oh, investigate instead of saying "Ahh, there goes Frank on fire, what a kidder. Oh, look, he's dead. Anyone for more coffee?"

- Nothing being done with DA.

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1. EU and US servers should be merged. EU players should be able to play on US servers and US players should be able to play on EU servers.

2. Enemy AI or should I say lack of it. Pac-Man had smarter AI and that was oh 30 years ago. How about enemies who are a little smarter? Like tough "tanks" who taunt tanks/scrappers to beat on them. Snipers who pick off squishes. How about enemy types who beat on certain characters, like an all girl villain group who prefer to beat on male characters.

3. A better search function so I can find people for my team. Like a filter to skip people already in a team for starters.

4. A server chat channel for teaming that doesn't have a limit on number of members.

A better team search would be great. It would be nice to be able to see if a team was looking for members for example.

More low end content for villains, especially the 'special' missions for VEATs. And more variety in missions - even something as simple as heroside ambushes in radio rescue missions

Without a doubt, my vote goes for PvP.

I will admit, the previous version of the PvP system needed some balancing. Masterminds were way OPed, and Doms were nearly extinct, etc. It wasn't perfect, but I felt it was fun, no matter what AT you played.

Then they implemented the changes. Not only were they stupid, but they were unnecessary. Look at the zone pvp now. 80% of the characters are blasters. 80% of those are a combo of fire or Psychic. And no matter what I play, or who I see, they get slaughtered.

MMs are worthless in PvP. I spend all the time getting set up, only to be destroyed in 5-7 hits from a blaster, while my bots take away maybe 1/8th of their HP. My brute tries to stand toe to toe with a blaster, only to fall in 5 hits.

Diminishing returns was dumb, the resistance nerf was dumb, the overall PvP change was dumb.

If the devs were willing to change a not broken PvP system into a broken one, why not fix the current build? Or does Castle's pride get in the way?

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The biggest problem Co* has is that I have to work and do other stuff which prevents me from playing it.

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To be honest, I don't really have any huge, breaking issues except the obvious ones:

1) Lag. Incessant lag in certain things, such as the valley in the ITF. I would simply *love* to mow down all those enemies "just because" but it'd just simply be horrible to do. Hami lag. Any of that kind. Power lags too.

2) The fact that unlike the ferries in Villains, the trains have to be *waited* upon incessantly... except the ones that are borked into never leaving, so they're always there. Like the Kings Row one is (was? don't remember just now.) Make up your minds, Devs... and I'd lean towards the 'always there' plan, myself. Or make the ferries actually move around. That'd be neat to watch... but take hours to play. Ugh.

3) The outdoors maps and map preview in AE are horribly broken in so many ways that it'd take too long to list, but suffice it to say that it's a gigantic deal in my book.

4) Zone toggling. That's just plain annoying... and potentially deadly.

5) Vet Buff pets are seriously weak, scrawny, puny little things, and need more Hit Points. Badly. I really wanted to say they're "weak ***", but the filter won't let me.

Honestly, that's all I got. Doesn't hinder my enjoyment, but it'd be wonderful if they were addressed sometime.

There's something wrong with the game today. I don't know what it is.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Biggest problem with the game today (in its literal sense, I mean for me specifically on this day) is all the damn 'DOOOOM!!!' threads clogging up the City Life forum.

I see no ships. CoH is still awesome.

Eco.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

To the OP's question.

My main complaints come down to exploits in general, AE farming, and farming. PL'ing has more or less been greatly diminished by the SSK system, but it still goes on in the AE. Though it doesn't have the results that it used to have, there is still excessive leveling going on due to AE missions constructed for that purpose.
I find this to be a shame as the AE is a very powerful tool for us to make some really cool missions.

I've seen an increased number of new players that are only here to get a 50 and find out how cool the end game is. This is disturbing to me because they are trying to blow through the game instead of taking time to enjoying it.
I'm not going to say that I don't like getting a solid team going and getting a couple of levels, but it just happens when everything falls together. I'm not going out of my way to get extra xp or level quickly.

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Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm IMO, the team formation in this game is one of the smoothest in any game. Our LFG tool rocks. It is not my fault if you (collective) don't take 2 seconds to set your LFG status and complain about not finding teams.

I can agree whole-heartedly on this.
Setting a flag and hollering out on channels is about all you can do to find a team, but the ability to find and sort archetypes/levels (and the search comments) make it very easy to find players that might be interested in finding a team.
Anyone flinging around blind invites left and right are not likely to get many other players to join them. Setting up a macro to send to tells to people is a snap. When you send a tell letting the player know what your team plan is and what level missions you are running, it is easy to get a team going - when there are people on to team with.

However, I have to say this. I was on a couple of servers early today where there were only 3-6 people below level 30 not hidden and majority of the players on were level 40+.
Players aren't going to have much luck trying to invite a player that is 10+ levels above them to a team.
Conversely, players that are 10+ levels below a team leader aren't likely to get invited to a team on the servers that I was on - regardless if they have their flags up or not.
They were lower population servers, but new players could get alienated by this and they may not have even looked to see how many characters were on for their level range. So you could set your flag and never get an invite because of your character has a low level.

At least one of these servers in the past where some players insist that other players use a personal global channel in order to join teams instead of using the systems that are already built into the game. Not inviting players because they are looking for teams using the methods build into the game alienates new players.
If we want this game to gain new players, we have to foster and mentor the new players and not ignore their presence because they aren't in-the-know.
I really don't want to hear how they could easily find out what global channel to use on their particular server on the forums, because it is known that only a small minority of players even go to the forums - let alone on any kind of regular basis.

Travel Suppresion... HATE it.

Lack of player impact to in-game world. After all these years nothing ever changes. Every year should have had a theme that culminated in a MAJOR event that altered the in-game world.

Lack of "threat", I'd to see the occasional skyscraper sized baddies tearing thru the city ripping it apart... and leave it damaged for a couple of days. As a non-combat diversion you could use your powers to help clean up and rebuild, plenty of history in comic book lore for that.

Game needs a dynamic map creator. It's time for underwater and space zones Devs. Oh and no more Banks/office buildings in caves...

Biggest problem...I'm not in the GR beta?

Yeah, I'll go with that.