Johnny_Butane

No thanks.

You can struggle along with 7 others to bring down a villain that really has no business story or lore-wise being that powerful if you want to, but I don't. You have the entirety of the remainder of the game to do that.

But DA is dedicated to making our Incarnate characters actually feel like demigods. When a team of demigods get together, it should be a curbstomp.

Working as intended.



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Indeed. They did great work on Stalkers.

I look forward to the day the devs finally make the Tanker "a devastating hand to hand combatant" that "dishes out all sorts of damage" with a "powerful, but not exceptionally quick, offensive punch".

Because, you know, that's gonna happen.



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Since we can't sell or trade these, AFAIk, I'd love to be able to convert them into something. Yes, I know you can probably transfer them to an alt, but it's always nice to have other options.

Oh, and Vanguard merits too. I'm sitting on a ton of them and there's not enough Gr'ai Matter and Heavy Cores in the world.


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Here's an old gameplay demonstration from E3 2002.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3kW2Le9TJk



Some things to notice:

-Some building interiors were actually inside buildings and not underground. Watch how he exits the hospital.

-No mission contacts. You got missions from computers.

-Separate health and targeting for body parts for yourself and enemies. Head, torso, hands, legs.

-No movement suppression. "You don't get locked down in combat, you keep moving. You're going to be jumping and flying all around!" Yeah, that didn't last.

-10 years later, we're still in the same old 5th Column/Council bases with the same art assets. Yuck.

-Fly was actually fairly speedy compared to what it is now without Afterburner.

-A Boomtown-esque hazard zone with Freakshow used to be where the Hollows is now. I remember that from the very old promo comic that introduced Thunder-Head, Apex and War Witch.

-Check out that cloud layer in Steel Canyon. And the moon appears to be solid, and not the semi-transparent gob with stars visible behind it we have now.

-Players giving out missions? Outrageous! Oh Jack, you madman you.


It's clear they made a lot of compromises and discarded a lot of ideas that weren't bad. They were aiming in a different direction than they ended up, and I can't help wanting to try the game they had intended from the video. The one without movement suppression, ATs and slow clunky combat. Also it continues to shock me how little some things have changed, like outdated art assets, character models and animations. Because I look at how things are now, like the moon showing the stars behind it, and the stiff blocky run animations and our terrible mitten hands, and I just have to facepalm.

Mostly it makes me hungry for a CoH 2 that's probably never gonna happen.



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Meh. The game is only even just partially about comic book super heroes anymore. It's gotten so generic and all-encompassing I can't call it a superhero MMO. "Contemporary Fantasy" at best. Decide yourself that's a plus or a minus. I tend to feel the latter. I can throw a rock in any direction and hit at least a dozen MMOs about people swinging swords or shooting guns. For superheroes, we still haven't even gotten the basics right yet:
Lemme know when we can pick up and throw a car.



Back to the topic:
My #2 choice for most attractive would be Katie Hannon.

Of course I couldn't find a picture of her not looking down in her oversized hat.
For starters, she's got the perky goth thing down and for a gal over 200, she's pretty damn good looking. And if she can still be sunny and upbeat after all that time, we're getting into Manic Pixie Dream Girl territory.



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Makes me wonder if an Enhancement Attuner could be a profitable item for them to drop onto the market.



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Zwil, you're some 53 years late...




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Synapse looks really purple there.


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Because British accents are sexy, as are miniskirts and go-go boots, and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.


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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
Woodrow Wilson -


"Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — 'No, you move.'"
Captain America -



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