IanTheM1

Outright removed back around I15 or earlier, due to glowie placement problems. Rather annoying, that.

Some things I want to see:

1) Tweak secondary effects on AR to be more useful. Slug could have a slightly higher chance to knockdown and Buckshot should be significantly higher. Stopping power is the whole point of a shotgun.

2) Reduce some of the endurance costs for the set. I have no idea why Flamethrower costs so much, more than freakin' Total Focus! Compare to Incinerate from Fiery Melee, which has a much higher tick rate, but a surprisingly cheap endurance cost (yes I know that's partly because it's single target).

I'd also reduce Buckshot's cost, because it needs to be more capable as both an single target and AoE power. I'd also consider reducing M30 Grenade's cost as well.

3) Tweak M30 Grenade's damage type to something more useful. Smashing and Lethal is just brutal, pick one of them and add Fire.

4) I'd like to see something similar to the OP's suggestion for Ignite, but I'd rather it was just a much larger radius version of itself, otherwise with the same animation. Edit: Actually, I'd really like Ignite's animation to vary from Flamethrower's a bit more (use some of the FX from Melt Armor perhaps), but I'm definitely not a fan of the rocket idea.


I'd suggest something really crazy, like considering an across-the-board damage buff due to the commonality of Lethal resistance, but I somehow doubt that'll happen, sadly.

I believe I have a Brute who only has Ironwoman out of the 7 required badges, and it counts it, but I could be wrong and she has one of the others.

Try talking to her sister by the Atlas Park sewer entrance. As I recall, when the contact switchover happened, the patch notes mentioned being able to turn in old versions of the mission to her.

The space restrictions on the MA are not in place due to limited storage, they're about feasible bandwith usage.

Positron acknowledged that players want more space at PAX and is investigating possible solutions.

Dunno about 1, due to animation issues, but soooo /signed for 2.

Lesse...

1) Assembled Girl comes in three different flavors, but regardless she'd have significant +Lethal Resistance (being a cyborg covered in metal), and also have a small bonus to Psionic damage. Penalty-wise, she'd more susceptible to Fear and Energy damage.

2) Masked Bolt has a terrible fear of fire, from when his house burned down. (Fire damage gains a chance to Fear.) On the other hand, he has incredible technological prowess and Archery skills, and I could see him getting a reduction to crafting costs and a slight reduction to recharge time.

3) I have several characters who use either Dark powers or an equivalent opposite in the form of Holy powers (represented by Sonic Blast, Thermal, and Invulnerability). They would all either have a strength or a weakness to their opposite, I'm quite sure which.

I think back then it was mostly a matter of lacking anything better to put in those zones, or the non-existence of say, the Crash Site/War Zone, so the Rikti had to show up somewhere pre-I1.

On that note, it seems terribly strange that Nemesis doesn't show up in Founders'. It would fit his style, I think. Unfortunately I'm not sure what else you'd stick in FF. I could see changing Crey's level range and putting them in the Rikti spawn points and putting Nemesis where Crey once was, but then what to do about the Council? Their presence is equally pointless.

I'm thinking movie focusing on the Rikti War (though strong characterization would be a struggle; the trilogy idea is a good one), followed up by a modern-day, slightly more cartoony TV show focusing on a bunch of newbie heroes.

CG would be a strong possibility for both.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go rewatch all of the CoX trailers and keep on dreaming.

Flamethrowers are probably the worst offenders in terms of Longbow lore, with references to hiding them from the news cameras. Longbow shouldn't get to kvetch about Wyvern's shadiness when they spray napalm at fellow humans on a daily basis.

It's another sign of CoV's unfocused plot, or maybe just a weak attempt to pump Longbow up as an adversary by making them amoral hypocrites.

Of their existing units, I do love Eagles, Spec Ops, and Ballistas though.

I'm pretty sure any combat able entity is targetable simply due to the way the engine works.

I have an SR Blaster. (Archery/Devices)

I'm not a huge fan of pointless invasion events, but the core idea isn't unsound.

One of the big problems with CoV is that it was clearly written in some cases as though you had already played CoH (oh hey, so yeah, Hellions), and in other cases like you haven't (ZOMG A VAMPYRI?!).

What would go a long way to sprucing up CoV without touching zone design or mission construction would be to extend the level ranges of Wyvern and Legacy Chain, and completely revamp Longbow.

Why I hate Longbow is because they're basically recolored Council, but with inexplicable and inexcusably high resistance to S/L damage. I'd much prefer to see more superpowered Longbow agents across all ranks, instead of just the poorly balanced bosses, and fewer guys with guns. I'd also tweak their terribly outdated descriptions/names - Nullifiers don't come even close to nullifying anything until at least level 30.

I'm almost certain that buff powers will buff an invisible dummy entity within the customization screen itself. It's probably a little easy to miss, perhaps, but even so.

I don't see the point in recycling MM sets for villain groups, since all of them can be fought in some way or another in Scanner missions as it is. Why use generic Ninja if the Tsoo would add personality to a mission? I'd find missions of nothing but plain Mercs boring. I especially don't see where they would have a place in actual story missions.

The exception to this is that I would love to see the MM sets have equivalent villain groups for use in the MA, to represent an army of henchmen to carry out our player MMs' whims.