This is vaguely reassuring...

I'd rather the devs didn't give us any bull.

Wolf and cat heads. Nuff said.

No, don't even THINK about saying 'we already have wolf heads'. Those...things are not fit for use by anyone. They are hideously shite. End of.

Wolf and cat heads, please.

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.

BEAR.

I need to make my ursanthrope superhero.

Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!

This is a valid point. What MMOs could get away with 7 years ago is likely different than what they can get away with today. Then again my formative years for "video" gaming were set during the age of Atari 2600s, Apple IIs and Commodore 64s so frankly CoH even at the state it was in 7 years ago was quite impressive enough to me. These darn kids just think they're entitled to everything instantly anymore.

My main thought was that DCUO will be dinged by some people for having "lack of content" simply by being a brand new game. I think that's a generic criticism for almost any MMO (released at any point in history) just because no set of Devs can realistically launch a game with multiple years worth of content ready to go on Day One. *shrugs*

Everything I've seen/read of DCUO leads me to be unimpressed by it. The fact that it lacks CoH's 7 years worth of updates only further puts it at a disadvantage.

Although other games may look better (DCUO does, CO definitely does not) CoH has superior gameplay over both of those and far more interesting content. DCUO is essentially a generic Fantasy MMO with the serial numbers filed off, where they crossed out "knight" and wrote in "superhero."

People may decry what we're getting as "more of the same" but I disagree. Neither of the other games have anything resembling CoH's branching mission dialogue, limited though it may be. plus you can't fast-forward through any of the spoken dialogue in DCUO, so even if you've already heard it you have to listen to it all again. They also have the thrice-damned Travel Suppression which is actually (and I never thought it possible but they managed it) far more onerous than it is in CoH.

I totally agree. And DCUO's character creator is ridiculously limited and unbelievably clumsy to use. By comparison, CoH's is intuitive and elegant.

If CoH simply added fingered hands and blinking eyes, the characters would look 100% better, but I'm not complaining about what we have.

I personally think Travel Suppression in a game like this is a Necessary Evil.
Could it be implemented differently to serve its purpose better here? Probably.

But for a new game to make the ill-favored concept even MORE annoying instead of less is a monumental failure.
It leads me to believe if they've done something that obviously silly what other dumb things have they managed to do.

I have a list. But these posts will already get deleted for breaking forum rules. (Sorry, 5.)

I don't think we need Suppression in the PvE game and it's the thing I hate most about this game. Nothing else is as aggravating as that.

I've lamented their absence too, but given the amount of work they have to do, it's really expecting an awful lot for a working developer to spend the time it takes to post well-reasoned comments.

In most companies public posting is limited to management types and PR flacks who have the time and inclination to always be positive and not take it personally when vitriolic comments are being spewed about.

The semi-anonymous environment of the forums encourages certain people to say things that they would never say in person. A working programmer or designer just can't afford to waste the time and emotional effort it takes to respond to that kind of noise: they have projects to finish.

A company employee cannot post things that seem petty, or angry, or flip, or illiterate, or unintelligent, or insensitive. Neither can they divulge without management approval any information about future projects, or even projects that are in the pipeline and ready to ship within days. So for an individual dev, there's not a whole lot of incentive to post on the forums -- spontaneous posting online has a thousand ways of getting them in hot water.

The only upside to a working dev posting is the appreciation of the small segment of the playerbase that actually follows the devs in the forums.

We were really fortunate to have BAB and Castle, and it's too bad they've moved on. But it's really too much to expect working devs like them to spend their work or personal time to engage with us. It reflects well on the company that they gave BAB and Castle the latitude to talk to us this way. But it won't reflect poorly on the company if other devs don't step into their shoes, or if only PR/community types post on these forums. That is, after all, their job.

I would agree with you on the gameplay aspect, despite the notable lack of crafting, which is pretty much a staple in the fantasy games. The game focuses on weapons and armor, which is straight out of a fantasy RPG, and doesn't really resemble a superhero game. On the other hand, the writing is straight DC Comics style, and some of the top DC writers contributed to creating the stories. Plus the voice acting is great.

Now be sure to get that gear repaired regularly, because, you know, a broken costume will make any superhero weak.

There's a BIG difference between having 60 years of content and having 60 years of content IN-GAME.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

It's launching tomorrow.

...Whut?

Facts. Prove it, witch! *twitch*

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.

It was a joke about another thing coming out tomorrow and the word "bull", which can be added to another word, which can be used as a reasonably useful description of the state of the other thing which really shouldn't be coming out tomorrow

Yeah I did the same thing. I wondered wtf anthro meant in this context.
I mean we already have plenty of human stuff. I wanted some animal stuff.

Bah! Stop dropping the winky's when it counts, damn ye!

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.

It's from a more civilized age

I agree wholeheartedly about the NPCs. I know they are like that to reduce poly count and texture size, but we have examples of them being improved. Take a look at a lot of the NPCs in Praetorea, who are standing around doing emotes. Most but not all of them use player character faces. I don't know what the impact might be of upgrading the NPCs who sometimes wander en masse in Paragon and the Rogue Isles, but it would be nice to see.

Honestly, I don't have any real problems with our player characters. Not only do their faces not bother me, the mitten hands have never bothered me. The only hand examples I can concede look kind of lame to me are the hands of Huge characters, or sometimes regular male/female characters wearing thick gloves. These larger hands reveal the low poly count more clearly, and on top of it the textures giving faux depth between the fingers are stretched by the larger object size to a degree where your eyes can't be fooled by them.

Theyre not, positron stated that the rest of the alpha slot will be coming with I20

/rimshot.


try the chicken Parmesan.

on topic, well this is good news. the new booster does indeed look like something i will buy as soon as it is offered, i dont have any specific birds, but since i was part of the crowd that was asking for monster bits when the mutant pack came out, i'd pretty much have to buy it . i assume the strike pack will have the rare and very rare alpha enhancers, eh im in no hurry there, i got my mains to 2 commons and an uncommon, so i'm quite content. really excited about the newsletter, and thats about all i know enough to say really, looks promising. It is funny that they called dcou a traditional mmo, given how adamant their devs have been about classifying it as a online action game, whoops.

Pigeon Man has arrived in Paragon! The statues will never be safe again!