Extremely Irksome Happenings

I was recently told something by a close friend about the recent launch of Freedom that has caused me grave mental and (in some cases) physical pain. It turns out that when the developers launched this new Freedom application, they did so without first wiping out all the sound effects and music cues from the game.

Listen folks: I don't play this game to hear "power effects." Have you heard hasten lately? I just assumed that with a large influx of new and returning players, the developers would see this oversight and correct it by making City of Heroes completely muted, allowing, nay forcing, all of you to do what I do: fumble around missions looking for the last glowing objective while listening to podcasts.

Now, I'm not saying I'm going to quit over this, because that's physically impossible to do with a free to play game. And I'm not even going to stop giving Paragon Studios and NC Soft my money every month. But I will be turning up my "Literature Review For People Who Own Dogs" podcast EXTRA loud the next time I have to disarm 10 bombs as a sign of aural protest.

I agree.

I also really thought they'd help me out here - I'm colorblind*, and I really expected that, with the launch of Free-to-Play, Paragon Studios would naturally republish the entire game in greyscale so that people like me no longer have to be taunted by other people with their fancy colors they've spent the last 6 years tricking out.

Grand show.

The devs are adding a button that turns off Friggin_Tasers sound. Soon™

I feel your pain, Feycat.

So I implore the devs to rethink Freedom. Sure, free to play is a great idea and all the new content is excellent. It's just the presentation that's wrong.

The public, as demonstrated by this thread, requests, nay DEMANDS, City of Heroes: Silent Movie.

Give us all the silent action packed missions we've come to expect, but just pause the action anytime something needs to be said so a tile card with narration can come up. This way people who hate sounds, are colorblind, or just miss the Vaudeville circuit can come and enjoy this game the way it should have been made in the first place.

Also, create a "Scamp" AT.

I remember when people used to consider this community to be "good"

Unfortunately they had to delay the muting of all sounds until work on the Visual Sound FX project could be completed. The art team is still struggling to select appropriate fonts to use for BAF! POW! and FREEEEM!

Me too. I actually liked their pizza. Subways is horrible.

At first, I thought it was a cross-post.

The ability to turn off sounds and colors, SensoryDeprivationTank, is an Tier 11 veteran reward. Hang in there.

--NT

One thing, developers. Do not give into temptation and go overboard with this new Silent Movie course of action. While you might receive the praise and admiration of the beltway and its various Magicians, tap dancers, and two man comedy acts, you have to play it cool.

Do not attempt too much, too soon, and introduce a Mummenschanz epic archetype:

I was saddened to learn that CoH:Freedom meant we weren't restarting the game from Issue 1.

Nice FT. Very nice.

Sadly, the original appears to be gone now. Anyone who hasn't been on the forums in the past couple hours will never know how truly epic this thread is.