Why do(es)......

1. The projectiles from Psi Blast move so slowly, when moving at the speed of thought is supposed to be so fast?

2. Mind control have no projectiles, but Psi blast does?

3. Blasters (which are supposed to be the king of damage) have a lower damage cap than brutes?

4. Char have a projectile, but Ring of Fire and Fire Cages don't?

5. Why does Sonic Blast take so long to animate when auctioneers can talk so fast?

6. Blasters (which are supposed to be the king of damage) have the same 100% damage buff for build up powers that Scrappers do, but Brutes have the same 80% value as Tanks?

7. Why does a CoH Bonfire fling things far far away when a real bonfire burns stuff up?

8. Why do Blasters have defiance normalized tier 1 and 2 primaries but have tier 1 secondaries that are all over the map as far as cast time, range, and projectile/no projectile goes?

9. Why does acrobatics prevent knockback when what it should do instead is let you land on your feet and just keep fighting?

10. Why do sleep powers and enhancements have really impressive and powerful names like "Mass Hypnosis", "Flash Freeze", "Induced Coma", and "Hibernation", but if you accidentally breathe on the sleeping mobs they come instantly and fully awake with out so much as a single yawn?

11. How does an itty bitty ring of fire stop things from being knocked back?

Anyone else have a list of CoH head scratchers? Stuff that just makes you say, "hey, wait a minute."

Personally, I prefer to ignore the scientific improbabilities and strange happenings, but things do get a little weird when you can 'arrest' foes by dropping all of your weight into a broadsword that connects with their skull.(As this would normally cleave their skull in two at the very least)

You can pass through the door out of the Lambda facility... except when it's open.

Why do the lasers from MM clanker bots shoot 100 yards, through walls, enemies, and connect with other mobs without aggroing them or dealing damage to them?

The projectile mechanics in general. More of a funny thing to me than an annoyance.

In particular, what happens when you get hit by a power that causes knockback while super speeding. The time it takes for the projectile to connect is calculated based on your location at the time the power was cast. When it strikes you, it also knocks you in the direction of the angle between you and the enemy at the moment of the original cast. This often results in suddenly getting knock backed toward the enemy that threw the projectile as you run passt them. And since the projectile animation doesn't change speed with distance, often several seconds after that, the projectile animation itself connects.

[However, the existence of this mechanic appears to be somewhat exploitable by players, because it is part of what lets you get away with queuing two powers back to back, and being able to hit enemies with the second attack who were actually knocked back out of the area by the first one. It's been a while since I played with this but I believe this is how it works.]

Why do enemies insist that I haven't a chance against them when they are paralyzed and on fire?

Given the results, why do all those street mobs insist on attacking every oddly costumed guy who wanders past? You'd think they'd desist after being beaten senseless the first dozen times or so...

In the Dmitri Krylov mission where you kidnap civilians and bring them to Vahzilok surgeons, why did one of them ask my seven foot tall flaming skull faced incarnation of wrath "Are you leading me to safety?" No, probably not.

Off topic but I do still laugh at the "range is mitigation" argument for blasters because I remember when it was exactly like that.

You could put a couple range SOs in your attacks. You edge closer to a group until you are just within snipe range. Hit build up and snipe. The Lieutenant drops and the rest of the group come running at you. Pick your next target and start firing. Then your next. Then and only then do you have to deal with the last two members of the group who have finally gotten in range.

Now you try the same thing and some guy instantly pulls out a pistol that has the same range as your rifle. Yes I know this was to prevent hover snipe because it was zero risk to reward but there are many other ways to earn zero risk to reward experience and all of them including the sniping are too slow to be worthwhile.



As for the "Why do". Why is it that when you rescue people they often thank you and say they can't wait to get out of there then they turn around and run deeper into the building? Did they forget their lunch? Do they have to clock out or risk being fired?

My spines/regen Masochism is a wolf headed, rag clad lunatic wrapped in barbed wire whose battle cry is "PAIN! Hurt me MORE!" When he killed some villains harassing a citizen she ran up and said "I hope my children grow up to be just like you!" Uh, lady; really?!

Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?

... Paragon City have countless bus stops, but not a single bus?

... the Blimp in Atlas Park *still* prevent me from hitching a ride on it?

... a GM with 10X my Hit Points run like a little girl when I shoot it?

... lone Arachnos and Longbow mobs conduct suicide attacks on bases in Bloody Bay?

... a hero run faster than he can fly - when aircraft, bullets, rockets and other
airborne projectiles can go supersonic but cars, trains and other ground-based
objects cannot?

... citizens in banks and offices run around liked crazed maniacs even after the bad
guys are arrested?

... an ambush know exactly where I am even when I'm completely invisible?

... mobs leap off buildings (to their deaths) when you hover just out of their reach?



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