Black Zot
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Quote:Here comes Bessie!Originally Posted by minotaur
why does animal assault conjure up an image some frenchmen, a catapult and a cow. -
Making it immortal *might* make it worth 200-300 PP. 800 is a ripoff even at 10x the buff.
Especially considering no hero or villain that wants to be taken seriously is going to let, as another poster put it, the Mayor of Munchkinland follow him around. -
Quote:Silly BrandX, you forgot that cybernetics require an intact spinal cord.Originally Posted by BrandX
Silly villian. You forget about such things as cybernetics.
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In "Pretender to the Throne", when my crab spider Cale Baumann beat down Kalinda for answers, he wouldn't have let her off so lightly. Oh hell no - she played him, Cale doesn't let stuff like that go.
After her admission that Recluse wanted to see how far Cale would go with the "Destined One" thing, he would demonstrate how far by disabling Kalinda's mediporter signal, then taking this already-battered Fortunata and beating her into a permanently crippled state before walking away. Any further villainy on Kalinda's part would be conducted from a wheelchair, if she survived. -
You're forgetting the part where EBs actually have stronger mez protection than AVs, which makes them more likely to steamroll ATs that depend on mez effects (trollers and doms).
Also, there's already too much NPC mez flying around, adding more is about as far from improving the game as you can get. -
Quote:Dunno about anyone else, but to me that image says : "City of Heroes: Freedom is Magic".Originally Posted by AlienOne
"Alien"
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Quote:No. No. No. No. And again NO. Mooks are there to be crushed out of hand, not to pose a threat - that's what bosses are for.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Would it be more fun to have spawns vary a bit more? Maybe 1/4 of spawns be +2 levels or be 50% larger?
Whatever idiot decided to give missions the ability to spawn mob levels and sizes other than the difficulty I select better hope I never meet them. -
If they don't port this over to all range-oriented pets after demonstrating they know full well how to make the appropriate coding changes, they might as well pull out a 60-foot-wide hand and slap the playerbase with it.
They've just killed their only valid excuse to not fix pet AI, at least with regards to the melee/ranged thing. -
Quote:A poorly written, poorly designed, and all-around asinine story arc that pits you against one of the game's most annoying enemy factions and has to be run with every single character you make if you have even the slightest interest in doing Cimeroran content (including one of the game's most popular pastimes in the ITF) or IIRC any of the other Midnighter arcs.Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
Wow, yes, how punitive. Only awarding the reward for a story arc to people who complete the story arc. Oh yeah, and anyone over level 10 can grab the arc at any time easily. God this is so onerous! When will the devs relieve us of this Sisyphean burden?
Outside of the Incarnate stuff, that's about as onerous as it gets in this game. -
My Merc/Time MM, Grav/Time Troller, Dark/Dark Stalker, Plant/FF troller, and Ice/Ice Dominator say hello.
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Kinda hard to justify zapping generic minions named after a group of cartoon characters who were themselves name-ripped from historical celebrities.
Then again, the company is based in America, the land where "litigate first, ask questions later" is the rule rather than the exception. -
Quote:This post exactly.Originally Posted by Mordakar
Paragon is producing a product. When a player decides said product is worth paying for, money changes hands. Assuming we're not interested in picking nits about attached legalities, responsibility to one another largely ends there.
Morality doesn't begin to factor in. One may love the game, but the studio doesn't love them back for it.
Paying for a game (or anything else) is pure economics. Morality and economics are utterly irrelevant to each other. -
Motion control in video games was a stupid idea, and now they're ratcheting stupid up to the next level.
There's no way they can make this work properly with an actual human test group. Anyone who's easily-distracted or has tunnel vision is going to be misclicking left, right, center, top, and bottom. -
Lament - To express sorrow over a situation.
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I don't think this is so much a spillover as it is legal hair-splitting over a few dollars. The company probably spent more on court costs than it stood to save on import tariffs.
Pretty sad when comic book continuity can impact real-world courts, though. -
Quote:Doesn't talk much, but when he does he demonstrates that he's smarter than most of the cast. If he does get beat on the head, he's got a very thick skull.Originally Posted by Dark One
Doesn't talk much either. About what you could expect from an AT what gets beat on the head all the time.
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Eh, Macintosh strikes me as more of a Tanker than a Brute. Solid as a wall, doesn't hurt anybody unless he's under the effects of a spell.
Super Strength for your offensive powerset either way. -
Quote:See my previous post. If it's possible for one person out of 8, 12, 20, or more to spoil the run for everyone, it most certainly is the devs' fault, because they made it that way.Originally Posted by Kisana
You are always gonna get people playing MMO's who dont like to organise and run things, but enjoy spoiling things for others - it doesnt matter if its a 20 minute incarnate trial, or a ten min DFB badge run, if they are gonna not listen and deliberately spoil the run for others they will do it no matter what the TF/SF/Trial is.
The devs cant be blamed - they have given us the tools to log our observations on people with the star ratings and that works for me
I use the player star ratings as a guide on who to invite and who not to invite to trials - I give people the benefit of the doubt with a one star and they get a second chance, two stars mean ok yeah we all make one or two mistakes, 3 stars/strikes and they are out and never to return it works for me
Imagine engineering a car with a feature, that, if activated, would immediately disable every other vehicle on the street. Would people absolve the auto maunfacturer of guilt? Hell no - they're the ones that gave one person the ability to screw over dozens.
There's a lot of features that developers won't implement because they know human nature will lead to using said features for large-scale griefing. And yet they designed TPN to be the most griefer-friendly raid instance I've ever seen. If the devs can't be blamed for that, then there's no such thing as accountability in CoX. -
Quote:You'd say that about a zone the devs added if it was nothing but steaming manure piles that added a constant DoT effect for standing within 1000 yards of them.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Praetoria is one of the best things ever added to the game.
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Quote:Rule #0: People are stupid and will take every available opportunity to prove it.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I'm not nuts about the fact that the trial has a mechanism that dumb people can fail for us. That doesn't mean I rag on the devs for putting that in. I'm going to rag on the dumb people, for not being able to handle such a simple mechanism.
Rule #1: Failure to take Rule #0 into account when designing any system will hurt a lot more people than you think.
If one person can manage to botch a trial for 20+ people, the devs screwed up. Period. -
Canonically, it's Scootaloo.
It can be anything you want when you're trying to duck the generic bat. -
Quote:Because Praetoria is a 3-zone example of just how badly the devs are capable of screwing things up, with a newer zone tacked on in a lame effort to try and savage said mess.Originally Posted by War-Nugget
I still personally like the Rogue Islands and Praetoria - plus Praetoria is brandnew, why would they ditch that? They just built it :-p
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Quote:Thank you for proving my point.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.
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I think it's pretty reasonable to extrapolate that the women I've met are not all from some specially-selected pool of trained crazies. My sample size might be small, but it's all the available evidence I have to work with.
The fact that a large percentage of those professing to be women online have the same hair-trigger reaction to anything short of fawning worship from men reinforces my theory. -
Quote:So we can expect a bunch of godlike stoners in our future?Originally Posted by PSLAnimal
It's Incarnate grass.
