IanTheM1

I'll admit, I'm willing to take cheap shots in this case.

No CoH makes IanTheM1 something something.

Too bad I17 did exactly that already.

This right here killed *all* of my enthusiasm for I17. Especially since I know that I personally reported the performance issues in Closed Beta, and there were ongoing mentions of it from others, without any dev response.

Missions are still playable, but it's incredibly difficult to actually make it across any zones, and it's just not worth the struggle.

As someone on an older machine who was supposed to be largely unaffected by UM, I'm very, very disappointed.

How would combat work on a motorcycle? How would strafing and turning work on a motorcycle? Would it be a good idea to let heroes run wild in a motorcycle inside of an office complex?

I can't really think of anything you'd specifically be doing in Grandville, outside of running arcs, and not even all of those actually keep you in Grandville. Maybe hunt Toxic Tarantulas? Of course, my villain who I'd get Heat Seeker on already has that badge..

Even so, it's less there's nothing to do in Grandville and more there's a whole lot else to do in another zone. Can't play the market or craft anything in Grandville, for one.

Isn't Cap more Science origin, with the super soldier serum and all?

I'd expect that kind of nonsense in some other MMO. I don't feel that players should be expected to camp a GM spawn just for a badge simply because it's programmed to be annoying.

Probably Scrappers. Possibly Tankers.

It's posts like these that show why it was a bad idea to create the Bug Hunter badge. See also: The old Dev's Choice badge.

Unfortunately the Paragon Times isn't available on the official site anymore, but I dug it up with the Wayback Machine.

From here, this is what I was referring to:

I think they didn't build any subways at all, on Statesman's word, hence all the trams.

The main problem is that a lot of those outdoor maps are re-used in different contexts. Putting some kind of tram depot at the entrance doesn't make very much sense if you're going to Praetoria via a Portal Corp. portal.

I could be wrong, but I think the map is outright disabled in an enemy base. Of course, I'm only basing this on the fact that it's what happens when you try to look at the map of a base that isn't your own.

Very much agreed. I know I've asked for a traditional witch hat a few times so that Katie Hanon wasn't the only way to get one.

I am a fan of the token concept, but it's not perfect either. I dislike the idea of having to create the character, receive the costume token, then get to an Icon to make my proper costume. Plus, I'd presumably have to use a free costume change token to actually do so. (Of course, I think that all unlockable costumes should also come with a free tailor token, but that's another thread.) That clunkiness is what has me leaning towards global unlocks.

An alternative would be to create a costume unlock bank on the character creation screen where you can pick any unlock tokens that are currently up for grabs on your account and instantly apply them to the character. But obviously this requires the most work out of any of the three options.


(Also, since they came up, I'm obligated to say: Rar, rar, Vanguard Merits, etc.)

That's largely City of Villains in a nutshell.

This is something that gets overlooked - some of the costume unlocks don't really make a whole lot of sense anyway. Most of the characters that I'd be doing the ITF with are not going to inexplicably put on Roman Centurion armor just because they received it. I'd much rather transfer that whole set over to some other character, whether via a recipe, a token of some kind, or just by making the unlock global so that I can make a proper Centurion character.

I actually like that idea, even if it's still a bit flawed - you're not unlocking the costume, you're unlocking the theme. For some that means just putting their existing character in Roman armor, for others it means being able to actually roll up a Roman character.

Weapon unlocks are similarly unfair and restrict even more concepts, notably characters that already belong to a particular faction. Good luck making a proper Family gunman or a Nemesis lieutenant when you have to go slog through repetitive hunts to get their respective assault rifles.

This has always irked me because they just re-used existing badges for all of the unlocks. Illusionist gives the Strongman Mallet. Unveiler gives the Nemesis rifle. Yet the enemies you're required to defeat don't actually use those weapons. So even if you wanted to justify it as "you're stealing their weapons"...you can't, really.