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'Bout damn time Sluggy got some respect.
Finally getting some DCs that weren't played out 4 months ago is a definite win. Looks like Doc Aeon has some good tastes. -
Quote:That's been happening pretty much since MA came out.Originally Posted by Lohenien
Currently shield using custom critters will not use Phalanx Fighting or Grant Cover on test. -
PPD should be the next HEAT, though the awakened branch would be pretty damn redundant as they don't do anything that a regular PB can't.
Quote:Where's our Blood of the Black Stream already, dammit!Originally Posted by LordXenite
I think that wouldn't be a bad idea, the more power-sets and ATs, the merrier (for both sides, obviously). I'd love a CoT shape-shifting AT on the red-side where you shift from Fire-Demon to CoT-Mage to Ghost.
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Quote:We can have as many trays as we want now on the screen at all times, the need for tray-swapping is pretty much dead.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Kheldians are the only form shifters. Kheldians are the only AT that loses performance when not using tray swapping keybinds. Kheldians are the only AT that benefits from tray swapping keybinds. Players may use the tray swapping because they don't want 3 trays on their screen, but they wouldn't become slower and thus weaker by not using them.
Nor have I ever bothered with keybinds beyond the default ones and never have I been accused of being slower than those who swear by them. Just because you're slow without them doesn't mean that everyone is.
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Quote:Maybe we have, but we just don't know their global names.Originally Posted by Baler
While I'm very familiar with Bill Willingham and actually did recognize Scott Kurtz's name I won't be really impressed by the guest authors until we get Arcs written by Jim Butcher, Gail Simone and Mercedes Lackey, all of whom have played/still play the game.
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Quote:Welcome to the Uncanny Valley.Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
I was playing around with the free character creator for Champions Online. I wasn't too impressed with the style - I thought most of the costume pieces were too big and blocky. And the women stick out their chest way too much. But I did like the asymmetrical options as well as the body sliders. Here's what I came up with:
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I'll be honest, none of the descriptions of these arcs makes me interested in playing any of them.
I've never heard of Bill Willingham either, or this "Rooster Teeth" fellow. Nor do I read PvP and the title of that one would make me skip right over it in a random arc search. -
Quote:Same here, character art is a luxury and not something that I can spare a lot of money on. I also would like to have a lot of it as I have a lot of favorite characters, so given the chance with a $50 budget I'd more likely go with 5 "good" $10 pieces than a single "excellent" $50 piece.Originally Posted by Kai
I'm a cheap commissioner, I'll be the first to admit that, I have a soft cap of $50 for a piece and no matter how good the art is, I can't and won't go above that so I do jump on sales when they happen for artists I like. Some of the results are worth way, way more than that and I feel lucky to have gotten it, but frankly if they charged what it was worth I would never be able to get it. So I'm all in favor of sales and deals
Exception might be if that single piece featured multiple characters, I'd love to have a big action scene or something like a TF2-style lineup. But for a single portrait it's just too much for me to justify spending that much on. -
Quote:As opposed to a team of VEATs, who can sleepwalk through everything.Originally Posted by LordXenite
Yes, but the AKT is the only team where if people don't actually work together, things become an Epic teamwipe pretty fast. Hence my interest in them.
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Quote:Which explains the insanely high reputation of a lot of rather jerkish people on these forums. Did you really think any of them were that popular for real?Originally Posted by Caemgen
Except... err, there are Rep Farming threads????
Now back to your regularly scheduled oggeling! -
It really could use an explanation. Sky Raider bosses are pretty silly, it's either a robot giving humans orders or a guy in a gunship who is inexplicably hovering inside an office building.
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With all the good arcs that have been submitted, at least something from here had better win or at least make runner up.
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Quote:And the Cavern of Transcendence map that it was based on.Originally Posted by The_Cheshire_Cat
Johnny's Hell is nice, it would also be nice to see the last map used in the Cap SF though.
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I and many others would also like the ability to set the spawn location of ambushes again. The patch notes claim that the option was removed because it didn't work anyway, which anyone with extensive experience of using ambushes in indoor maps knows is totally incorrect. If it was a couple of maps that had issues then fix those maps, don't break the feature for all the other maps that it did work on.
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Quote:AoE Sleeps are generally "Oh ****" powers reserved for when you're solo. On a team they tend to be less useful as inevitably someone will wake up the mobs the moment after you put them to sleep.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
AOE sleeps are, in general, the most skippable powers (everywhere but Mind, it seems. I seem to use it most there.) OTOH, if you have the power choice, a slot for acc and the slot for a chance for heal proc - you have a somewhat unreliable self heal. Still, yeah - skippable, in general
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Quote:Not to mention that the type of enemies that resist knockdown from things like Ice Slick and Earthquake also tend to resist immobilization anyway.Originally Posted by Mid_Boss
YES! There is no reason to take stone cages. It has the worst damage of any immob and it cancels knockdown which means your Earthquake will become pointless. Earthquake and quicksand keeps enemies in one spot AND keeps them from killing you. All cages does is "Hey, there's a mezzer! Let's kill him!"
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Was going to have a lot of quotes but the multi-quote feature has failed me again (stupid undocumented cap).
Khelds benefit from IO sets a lot. Perhaps more than any other AT really. They allow you to get by with less slots in some powers while still having better enhancement in them than you would with SOs or common IOs. Plus the set bonuses are active at all times across the build no matter what form you are in at the time. They don't have to be rares either, I slotted mine up almost entirely with uncommons at level 27 (soonest I can get level 30 IOs and many of my favorite sets start then) and it turned her into a beast compared to what she had been at level 26.
A Peacebringer can get away with being all human, but if you don't go tri-form with a Warshade then you are honestly gimping yourself for most of the game. Human-only WS doesn't really become viable until after you get Eclipse and slot it up.
It is my opinion that Khelds are somewhat underpowered, and it is also my opinion that VEATs are significantly overpowered. They should be closer to somewhere in the middle, but there are some significant differences that would make that balancing very difficult.
Khelds by design are meant to complement the non-epic ATs and as such get the best bonuses from them (although the status protection bonus is pitifully weak compared to the damage and resistance bonuses). VEATs are more designed to complement each other really. Sure they give those leadership benefits to other ATs but unless they have leadership as well they don't get anything back. Plus Khelds are designed to venture into the territory of other ATs without making them feel redundant while VEATs tend to trample all over some ATs (especially Brutes and Stalkers).
An aside on the stacking leadership: playing at the softcap is effin' boring in my opinion. It also cuts alot into the territory of anyone with a buffing primary/secondary.
As for desirability, after I've run out of non-epic ATs I'd rather invite Khelds than VEATs when given the chance. A large part of that is because I run into a lot of friendly Khelds while every other VEAT is a friggin' primma donna who thinks that the entire team is there to cater to them and that they don't need to listen to the leader at all because they're EPIC.
I don't care if your VEAT can solo +4/x8 missions, if you're going to be a jerk as well then your presence is not wanted. -
Quote:A baseball bat is hardly non-lethal when swung with enough force.Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
There is a baseball bat in the mace weapons-customization selections, so any reasoning behind not allowing batons or baseball bats for dual blades or katana are kind of thrown right out the window.
Bring on the non-lethal power-customizations for the more brutal power sets! -
Quote:Yep, that was originally to be the 2nd mission in "The Portal Bandits". When it was taken away I changed it to a regular map and used Crey Scorpion Tanks instead of 7th Gen PPs to give the impression that it was a special lab.Originally Posted by Obsidius
Frak, now they re-release the Hero lab, after I submit my arc for the contest
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Quote:They also create a lot of those really trampy costumes.Originally Posted by Solicio
Moral of the story--women play the game (I know, I've seen them), but no one believes this to be the case.
Etiquette Tip: Just because you're playing an Epic Archetype doesn't mean that you get to call the shots and can ignore the team leader. There are way too many n00bs out there with these characters who don't actually know how to play the game yet think that they are experts. -
Quote:Same for myself and "All Consuming". There is so little established canon for the Banished Pantheon that there is quite a bit of leeway.Originally Posted by The_Cheshire_Cat
I submitted D Minor for "in-canon", because it has Banished Pantheon in Dark Astoria, and mentions Mot, and that is the total extent of the canon that exists in game for that zone, so I could do basically anything and still have it be "in-canon".
Been there myself. I have a few old heroes whose backgrounds were completely invalidated by issue 10.Quote:Originally Posted by mistformsquirrel
Essentially I don't know if it'll qualify as "In-Canon"; but I figured that was the best category for it, and they do mention somewhere that "canon related" can involve expanding existing canon. Still, even if it qualifies I *strongly* suspect Going Rogue will invalidate it; as if we spend any time on War Earth I imagine the devs probably have a different vision of it than I do. -
Quote:You forgot "city of neo" when trenchcoats were announced.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
i understand that you are probably just being silly, but we have had the "city of drizzet" worriers with dual blades, city of "captain america" complainers with shields, even had some people scared of bows because everyone will just make legolas(apparently coh doesn't have much of a inu-yasha fanbase, i had a kagome alike in beta). and really, neither really stayed long. people do a dumb joke and move on, this should never be a real concern, so long as its far enough that nobody can get sued.
There are rubber bullets as well, still going to hurt but won't penetrate flesh. There is already the Beanbag power in Assault Rifle, which only stuns the target.Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
See, that's my BIGGEST problem with non-lethal force - taking lethal weapons and cheesing your way out of using them as intended. Shooting enemies' guns away, stunning them, blowing up vehicles as people clamber out, or out and out hitting people with your gun are just cheap. If you're gonna' use a gun, frikkin' USE it! Like I said, I don't necessarily need to see blood and guts and death, but any time I watch a cartoon or read a comic book where a character passes up a perfectly good opportunity to just shoot someone and instead tries to, say, shoot a rock high above so a boulder will fall down, or shoot a rope so the trap door under him will open, it just ruins my suspension of disbelief.
I am literally more willing to accept people getting shot and not getting injured too much (with the assumption that shooting them more will eventually have an effect) than I am to accept people perfectly capable of killing each other, yet not doing so in favour of more and more contrived ways to use lethal force to non-lethal effect. The aforementioned full-scale military battles ending up without a single casualty are just absurd, and it that REALLY shows especially in cartoons that try to avoid bloodshed. Even if they cop-out and call them "blasters" and claim they're non-lethal, they will STILL try to avoid depicting people shooting each other with them.
Bleh!
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Quote:I submitted one anyway since they never really defined exactly where the line is drawn between in-canon and original. I also figured that I'll have better chances with 5 different arcs submitted than submitting the same one for every category that it qualifies for.Originally Posted by PoliceWoman
Based on the sample taken here so far, it sounds like there's a lot of competition for the "heroic" and "canon" categories, and relatively less for "villainous" and almost none for "non-canon". If only I had a "non-canon" arc to submit! But by the official definition, I don't see myself writing "non-canon" arcs, because I really like my stories to have some connection to the actual CoH world.
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I only really had time to play for one day, in which I took my new Earth/Earth Dom from level 12 to level 32 and my Arch/TA Corruptor from 22 to 28.
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Quote:It asks for files. The *.storyarc is always needed, *.cvg. and *.critter only if you have customized groups and custom enemies. Nowhere does it say to attach folders.Originally Posted by Steele_Magnolia
Just as a note the contest submissions rules wanted folders attached. Yahoo doesn't attach folders, only files. Since this is my registered email, I attached the files and hoped for the best.
Also, if there is no custom villain group I hope I won't be DQ'd before the entry is even looked at since I didn't have one to attach. (It's a canon arc - no custom mobs.)
Very frustrating since I didn't realize I needed screenshots until I was ready to submit then had to rush through my arc and get them in time to submit.