The CO Community & You

Apologies if this has already been posted.

I kept missing the 'Skip Tutorial' button at the final character creation screen because the play button is large and freem'd but it is there at the bottom of the screen. When you skip it you are immediately level'd to 6 and start in the Powerhouse.

Ok. The people in the CO costuming community came through.

Here's some preliminary templates for use in the CO costuming screen.

These are specifically designed to get as close as the CO engine will allow to the classic COH character proportions in the COH creator.

In other words - as the basic COH templates appear before sliders are applied.

Save these images into your CO screenshot folder and then when you go in-game, load them in the costume creator and see if this makes things better ok?

Let me know if you like it better, please? If you have any comments or questions, ask me, ok?

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Originally Posted by bluhman Males Slim -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646095.jpg Average -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646192.jpg Athletic -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646296.jpg Heavy -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646393.jpg Females Slim -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646962.jpg Average -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400647066.jpg Athletic -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400647155.jpg Heavy -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400647252.jpg (This is one physique that Champions just can't do unfortunately.) Huges Slim -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646548.jpg Average -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646637.jpg Athletic -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646710.jpg Heavy -- http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400646813.jpg A few comparisons/observations made between CoX and CO characters (as explained from the perspective of CoX): CO characters have comparatively much longer arms compared to CoX. Whereas a CO character's closed fist will likely reach about halfway down the thigh, CoX only reaches around the top of the leg/lower groin area. CO Characters also have very large hands and feet. Especially with feet, which have to be driven entirely down the slider to resemble anything from CoX. Related to that, CoX legs are more evenly sized as they go down the leg. In comparison, CO legs are much more curved. The same probably applies for arms, but if it does, it's not nearly as noticeable. The one thing that is completely unchangeable between the two games: The neck area of CO characters is much more curved. CoX characters (particularly males) have a much flatter shoulder line in comparison. There pretty much is nothing I can do about that.

If for any reason the above links are broken. Check out the original thread here:

http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/sho...81#post2414381

Been hesitant to mention this here due to some people's extreme dislike of Champions Online, but I thought it was worth a shot. I've been keeping a blog about my time in CO as a long term COH player that has found himself suddenly without a game to call home. Champions is the first visit, and I plan on investigating other titles like The Secret World down the road.

For those who are also searching and on the fence about Cryptic's 2nd super hero game, this might sway you one way or the other.

http://paragonrefugee.blogspot.com/

Nether, what are the overall specs on your computer?

Well, I'll keep playing until the lights go off or we get the word that The Great Ghu (or Elder God of your choice) has defeated the creeping black swarm Whose Name is Shutdown. In the meantime, I've been playing STO and CO again on F2P status, and have been enjoying them, STO especially.

As for moving a couple of heroes over to CO, well...

Moira awoke in a crater. This was the first thing she noticed that was a little unusual. Her body fairly hissed with pain as curls of steam and smoke rose around her from the glass-smooth 'bowl' of the depression she found herself in. Squinting against the bright light and wincing at the sound of nearby explosions and weapons fire, she looked over to see a similar glowing crater with her teammate Natalya "The People's Flame" Shilovna only just returning to consciousness, the tall blonde's uniform in barely-modest tatters.

Sitting up, Stern Impact looked around her. This wasn't Paragon City, not even close. A tall cylindrical glass and steel building was perched on a nearby hill, a massive defense cannon aimed at an alien vessel hovering over the city. The glow in the air around her wasn't the usual eerie comfort of the War Walls, but a containment field being projected from the otherworldly mothership overhead.

She only vaguely remembered what had happened. The Storm had Come at last, and she and the Flame had been frantically holding off assailants as civilians evacuated in the path of the Storm, which looked precisely like its namesake. A wall of roiling impenetrable black Nothing, shot through with eldritch fire and lightning, spreading over the entirety of Paragon City from ground to... well, wherever the sky ended. As it had closed in, she'd grabbed Natalya and focused all her remaining strength into a kinetic shift, attempting to teleport them to safety...

...Except nowhere was safe, not from that semi-sentient cloud of oblivion. Frowning against her throbbing migraine, she tentatively tested her powers, and found them... different. She could still manifest telekinetic force, but it seemed more focused now, her scientist's mind touching briefly on the idea of gravitic manipulation rather than sheer force of will. Looking over at her companion, she saw that Flame was having similar issues, her body intermittently wreathed in flames as her own abilities started to stabilize.

The most disturbing thing was, reality itself felt different, as if the rules governing the universe themselves had been altered. It was a sensation that she hadn't felt since she had first awoken in the embarkation room at Portal Corp eight years ago, and that by itself brought her to an even more troubling conclusion.

"Well," she thought to herself, "S'not like I 'aven't jumped dimensions before... Let's 'ave a lookabout an' see wot's wot."

Getting to her feet, Dr. Moira Stern steadied herself, her body finally beginning to obey her commands. Seeing figures flitting across the skies and running through the streets in a myriad of colors, she knew what was called for.

Helping her companion and friend to her feet, Stern Impact and The People's Flame turned to face this brave new world, that had such heroes in it.

I've been toying with the notion of a character (not any of my existing ones, as their stories are part of this game/world and rightly end here) who will be - after the fashion of Kal-El, certain Crisis survivors, etc - flung from this universe into that one. And who has to deal with the massive survivor guilt, among other things.

I'm simply going with the Earth-1 and Earth-2 solution with my characters, where there was always a version of them in every universe. There's no need dwell on CoH's tragic fate in character stories.

I'm honestly still mulling things over, so I may go with an Earth-1/Earth-2/Earth-ZZ/Earth-Pony solution as well. Still, inspiration struck, and I went with it for that little snippet.

The survivor guilt would make for some decent, if emo, RP potential, but it does have a strong potential to snowball.

I didn't mind Champions Online. I just felt it was pretty prejudiced against me. Ignoring the CoX-CO rivalry, the fact is, a lot of fights depend upon block, which doesn't work well for a latency like mine. It did some things right, like the Nemesis System, but the stories don't grip me, and I have a harder time levelling. As someone pointed out, the growth in powers is a hell of a lot slower, which makes it less interesting to me. I still haven't gotten anyone to the level cap, not even my Grimoire (Which I think is a really overpowered AT when there's no knockbacks or AoE involved).

All that said, DCUO is way worse. Customization in CO is at least nice and varied when you're a good level. DCUO has practically zero. Both in the powers and look department. The story ideas are interesting, but the gameplay is horrible, and character creation isn't just limited, it's badly explained too. Worse is that the respawn times on outdoor missions are so low, it's cruel.