City of Villians: Unsung "Winner" in CoH Freedom Upgrade

Seriously, can someone tell me where these "MASS GRAVES" are, and how to play that arc? Cause that sounds interesting.

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Personally from someone that plays 99% of the time on redside I am very happy with the new changes.

In fact it's about time...I knew Longbow who are a paramilitary group of sticking their noses in everyones business would eventually show up in the Rogue Isles.

What did you seriously think Arachnos would do? Just take it? It is a war pure and simple, in rl you always hear about mass graves/executions/etc it is a war after all, and well Arachnos is ran by a super villain so expect the horror of it all.

I always thought the game was sort of sugar coating "evil" but now I am loving the new direction, I get to torture people, murder them (sry no tp --> hosp on that mish) and then turn around and kill some more.

Np here and alot of people I know are finally feeling like villains on redside and not greyside heroes. So my advice is simple don't like evil..then stay out of the Rogue Isles.

Basically it went from killing evil snakes to killing longbow.

There's really very little comically villainous or criminally enterprising about EITHER.

WHY CAN'T YOU GET IT RIGHT?

Villains want to rule, they want to kidnap, they want revenge, they want money, they want power. Killing snakes because kalinda wants us to, or blowing up a longbow base because they occupy a place you just moved to are both stupid and non-villainous.

Then the rest of the time outside of mercy is even worse, killing group after group of the same thugs heroes kill, with very little realistic motivation.

And you don't kidnap people in a longbow base or deep in a cave, you go to their fricken house or a nightclub or some shadey alley. Then you go to part 2 of your plan. What's that? No part 2?

I suppose some will say 'oh like you have a better way to do it'. I do, in fact, but I see no point in spending the time laying it out when it's been laid out by plenty of others and it's just ignored. They want to use the same systems they do in CoH for CoV, and nothing is going to change that.

You know, when CoV first came out, I didn't complain about this crap. To me, it was just another leveling game with a slightly darker tone, more RP possibilities, and pvp against heroes. Now that the latter is gone or of no interest to me, I can see why people thought it was such a pathetic experience.

Why not add a lower-level Crey with Paragon Protectors as a 'hero group'?

A couple of new Hero Groups within the Rogue Isles (perhaps some 'reformed' Crusaders and Destroyer-types) wouldn't go amiss.

I really want to try out a villain, however I just feel bad whenever I try that side of things XD I know it's sad and they're just pixels, but pixels are people too (sort of... a little... perhaps, but probably not >.>)

I don't know, I'm silly I guess. Even in games like Fable and Morrowind I felt bad if I so much as accidentally killed a civilian.

Despite the fact that my villain is an utterly amoral psychopath, I found myself doing the least evil things. I didn't harm the Longbow, only threatened him. I didn't kill Fire Wire, because I didn't think he was worth killing, and my character found his betrayal amusing. I only killed Lt. Harris because he attacked me first. I said to him that I thought he was deluded the entire time (truth) and then when he asked why I helped him, I said that he had no need to know. I loved that option, it was exactly how my character would have responded. I also saved the villain in the Longbow base after some long deliberation. I decided my character would probably Two-Face it. And so he helped me out in my final mission. I was actually able to Walk the entire time because all my minions took care of things easily

Overall, I liked how they dealt with the lack of instances. Unlike blueside, I thought they did it especially well, including how they slowly edged you up to Fort Darwin with those successive tasks. The only thing I find at all irritating was the fast respawn. Longbow are pretty tough, and my demons kept getting killed by being spawned on top of. All I have is Force Bolt so I couldn't exactly do anything about it.