CoH Tips Tricks and Secrets
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0:40 seconds. Okay, who else literally laughed out loud?
Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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There's also the Crafter's Cafe as another option for AE crafting.
Same map, but has NPC's and other shiny things in it for flavour.
On the subject of tips, a minor one that not many people seem to know about is regarding dropping Enhancements into the Market interface. If you've got a load of enhancements (not salvage or recipes) you want to drop on the market, then open up the market interface (using /ah if you've got it, a Went/BM representative if you don't) and simply Left click the enhancements in your tray.
They go straight to the market interface in the 'Stored' section and you don't risk accidentally dropping a potentially high selling enhancement on someone stood next to you.
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The above post may contain Cynicism, sarcasm and/or pessimism. If you object to the quantities contained, then tough.
cool tip
and the video was well done
I would happily watch more like that
Minute and a half for 'go to AE and load a craft map instead of running to Steel Canyon' was a bit much, but it's a good tip. I have been going to Steel Canyon lol...
You expected a 3 second video?
Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Don't know how many people know of this one. I was informed of quite recently is a way to hide all the powers from different armors like fire/ice etc. Even hides spines animations and the horrible glowing hands from hasten and feet from superspeed.
/macro FXoff "SuppressCloseFx 1$$SuppressCloseFxDist 255"
Creates a button to hide all the fx
/macro FXon "SuppressCloseFx 0"
To return the fx to normal.
For the people like me who prefer aesthetics now you can play fire/ice and get non shiny hasten hands!
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If you're talking about gameplay tips, it might be that there just aren't that many to share, and those that exist have little effect (I'm not convinced jousting PBAoEs actually does anything for a blaster compared to, you know, a proper defense build). This game is very easy, with simplistic mechanics and gameplay.
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Which PBAoEs are you talking about? Proper ones or cone ones? And I'm not sure what using such attacks have to do with survival.
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Or you can be cool like me and exploit that bug no-one ever wants to hear about, where if you're out of combat mode, use Build Up and start moving, you can keep using most of your melee and PBAoE attacks without being rooted, so long as they don't have unique activation sequences. This means pretty much all of Electric Manipulation, Mental Manipulation, Electric Blast and probably a few others.
Yeah, I'm tired of reporting this bug and having nothing be done about it, so I'll see about making it popular instead.
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Yes, the video was supposed to be fun as well as educational, or else it would have been 10 seconds of a black-on-white text screen. And even at a minute and a half, the speech bubbles still changed too fast for me to read them, so I had to rewind the video and pause it in a few places. This is why I don't like speech bubble spam in newer content.
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If it had been 3-10sec long, I would have said it was too short.
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This line of thought makes no sense without the hyperbole you two have put on it.
If it had been 3-10sec long, I would have said it was too short. ![]() |
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So how long would have been satisfactory for 'go to AE and load a craft map instead of running to Steel Canyon'?
Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Yes, the video was supposed to be fun as well as educational, or else it would have been 10 seconds of a black-on-white text screen. And even at a minute and a half, the speech bubbles still changed too fast for me to read them, so I had to rewind the video and pause it in a few places. This is why I don't like speech bubble spam in newer content.
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Speech bubbles work well when you design them correctly and manage every tiny bit of what they say and how they work.
For this game they work to reinforce the comic book stereotypes, and give the players a more immersive comic book feeling.
You'll notice if you open up a comic book, the speech bubbles are almost never as static as they are in this game though. The artists play around with them a LOT.
That being said, it might not be worth the effort to be quite so anal about such trivial aspects of the movie. it works rather well as a more humble approach to delivering its content.
you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you <3
Minute and a half for 'go to AE and load a craft map instead of running to Steel Canyon' was a bit much, but it's a good tip. I have been going to Steel Canyon lol...
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Showing that you go in the map and find the crafting table was very useful.
Taking the time to provide detailed information and making few assumptions is a very good way to make sure your intended audience understands the information you are providing.
So how long would have been satisfactory for 'go to AE and load a craft map instead of running to Steel Canyon'?
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SmegHead, I apologize for derailing your thread. I had forgotten that this was the interwebs and no level of reasonability exists here. By saying it was a little long in this setting I obviously implied that your video was an hour too long and should have been 3sec at most.
But it did seem to drag a bit...
*ducks*
I was disappointed that there was no Linkin Park, Evanescence, or Drowning Pool music in this YouTube video.
In all seriousness, I enjoyed the vid and was not aware of this tip. Thank you.
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I'm quite happy to use the /AH command whilst I'm in the university in Steel.
I feel all smug now
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Couldn't you, uh, go to Rikti War Zone to craft instead? Since Issue 10? I have no idea why people kept running across Steel Canyon. It was bad enough trying to tell them there was a tailor in Rikti War Zone too.
I'm quite happy to use the /AH command whilst I'm in the university in Steel.
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*clicks power, waits for Base list to load, chooses base, goes to crafting room, crafts with glee*
I was disappointed that there was no Linkin Park, Evanescence, or Drowning Pool music in this YouTube video.
In all seriousness, I enjoyed the vid and was not aware of this tip. Thank you. |
(actually it IS a rather nice song to wake up to in the morning)
[or fall out of bed to]
you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you <3
Couldn't you, uh, go to Rikti War Zone to craft instead? Since Issue 10? I have no idea why people kept running across Steel Canyon. It was bad enough trying to tell them there was a tailor in Rikti War Zone too.
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Of course, unless you had another reason to be in Atlas, you could just go to the Wentworth's in Steel instead, and be just across the street from the university. Using /auctionhouse in the university beats any of those (and using /auctionhouse with Field Crafter is better still), but "be a long-term veteran of the game" is pretty lousy as tips and tricks go.
/bind sysrq "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" /bind shift+sysrq "screenshotui 1$$screenshot"
(my favorite tip to share, I get a lot of comments on it every time screenies get discussed in global channels)
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I was kind of surprised at the lack of tip/secret videos on youtube for CoH so I decided to make a series:
(Youtube) City of Heroes - Tips & Tricks #1 - Craft in any AE
(Youtube) City of Heroes - Tips & Tricks #2 - Respec Tips
Do you have any so called "secrets" or "tips" that others may not know? If so post them here and spread the knowledge. If anything I can get some material for new videos
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