Revamped Positron TF (Spoilers!)
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Ar_Kain,
Posted on: 2010-05-08 18:33 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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A high narrow ledge without a handrail - Dr. V knows all the right places for a villain to stage a showdown |
Originally Posted by Knightslayer
There's probably a few threads about this already, but a good thing deserves repeating right? (and I'm lazy)
Kudos on what you've done with the new Posi TF(s) Devs! The new maps are awesome (and the old maps decorated with new stuff) and the final fight against Dr. Vahzilok was EPIC! (seeing the hordes of suicide bomber zombies descent upon us both mortified and thrilled me :P not to mention a final battle on a high and narrow ledge? Can't go wrong there!) |
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He most definitely does!|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
A high narrow ledge without a handrail - Dr. V knows all the right places for a villain to stage a showdown
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The whole plot also reminded me why my heroes consider the good Doctor such a menace.
(Misguided, insane welldoer, mad scientists ftw!)
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ARGH! My sound was off out of habit! T.T|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The cutscene and the music is pretty epic too
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Ah well, now I know for next time...
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I enjoyed them, though the CoT in those still stink. 
My proud team of five were ambushed by three Ruin mages and I don't know how many ghosts when we entered City Hall. That bit had me wishing for Rise of the Phoenix, it did.
Still, the story lines make more sense or come out better, and it is much more atmospheric with all those map changes. It really does work pretty well (and there is a lot of good streamlining so you don't have to run all over, either).
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Also, it's been nicely retconned to tie in with the Faultline revamp, with the Clockwork talking about Penny, which helps to tie the general "timeline" of levelling closer together too - like the TF and the zone have similar level ranges, so for the ideal non-sk'ed play through of the content, you'd be doing the TF around the same time as you'd be doing the zone arcs.
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I loved the groups of CoT that came out to "greet" us at City Hall, felt like we really had to fight our way inside.
And I agree, the flow of the storylines is nice - I was quite pleasantly surprised when I heard them refer to "the Princess".
I can only hope that all the new TFs will be this great (including new Redside ones, please Devs? Pretty please?).
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The xp aint half bad either
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And within days people were trying to do speed runs.......
36 level 50's in various servers...haven't been here in a while. It's now over 50
So what? If they are playing it, and having fun, who cares if doing it as fast as possible is part of their fun experience?
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It generally brings the nerf bat down on the TF. |
Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
So what? If they are playing it, and having fun, who cares if doing it as fast as possible is part of their fun experience?
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Though I don't think Positron's has much too worry about that, the combined merit reward for part 1 & 2 is 26 merits IIRC.
And speedrunning it would still take far longer than a speed ITF.
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Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
So what? If they are playing it, and having fun, who cares if doing it as fast as possible is part of their fun experience?
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Maybe they could get a tag to identify them when you are assembling a group. Something like Speed Demon, Uber Farmer or Regressed Adult. It would be nice to be able to screen out adults who have regressed back to childhood where everything is Gimme Gimme Gimme.
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Unfortunately, doing so has denied both sides of railing kills.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
A high narrow ledge without a handrail - Dr. V knows all the right places for a villain to stage a showdown
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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
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Originally Posted by Ar_Kain
And within days people were trying to do speed runs.......
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I've done a LOT of posi tfs since its gone live and not one team i've been on have even mentioned speed runs.
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Sigh... Wish it was June so I could get a new computer to experience this!
Think this TF will still be new by then?
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Well, June's only a few weeks away, so I think it'll still be pretty new - plus, people have said it gives awesome XP, so I think that'll mean it'll be popular for a long time |
Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
Sigh... Wish it was June so I could get a new computer to experience this!
Think this TF will still be new by then? |
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I started both Posi TFs on a level 13 with full rest XP, and gained 7 levels by the time we defeated the good doctor. So yes, the XP was good!
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, June's only a few weeks away, so I think it'll still be pretty new - plus, people have said it gives awesome XP, so I think that'll mean it'll be popular for a long time
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New? No.|
Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
Sigh... Wish it was June so I could get a new computer to experience this!
Think this TF will still be new by then? |
Constantly in demand due to people (like me) who want Task Force Commander on every toon? Yes.
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to TO THE END!Villains are those who dedicate their lives to causing mayhem. Villians are people from the planet Villia!
There's probably a few threads about this already, but a good thing deserves repeating right? (and I'm lazy)
Kudos on what you've done with the new Posi TF(s) Devs! The new maps are awesome (and the old maps decorated with new stuff) and the final fight against Dr. Vahzilok was EPIC! (seeing the hordes of suicide bomber zombies descent upon us both mortified and thrilled me :P not to mention a final battle on a high and narrow ledge? Can't go wrong there!)
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