LivingHellfire

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And if that doesn't work, put them on /ignore.

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*Giggle* Oh, if only it were that easy my friend.

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Unfortunately, some Fraktards have found a way around that with multiple accounts or characters...

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I think it's meant figuratively as the person you would be /ignoring would be someone who doesn't understand MMO's and likely doesn't play them. It's a joke.

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Well most people I know the issue isn't that I play a MMO, it is the monthly cost from their perspective, they always ask well how can you justify paying each month.

To this arguement I explain that I use to buy lots of games usually about $40 to $60/month minimum.

I don't do that anymore I pay my $20 (Canadian) per month to play COH so in essence I save at the very least $240 per year.

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I used to be of the opinion that MMO's were like buying an arcade machine and not putting it on free play and dumping quarters into it everytime you wanted to play, but the truth is that I'm such a voracious gamer that 24$ cdn is a whole lot cheaper than three or four games a month at 59.99.

I've seen a couple different Capt. Liberty's around, different spellings, y'know? This one I THINK is spelled Capt. Liberty and he would know me as either Ubiquitous or Cimmerian Fist. I don't think he every played with Liv.

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Heh. No no no... I came in with Wolf as in, he and I both joined the SG around the same time. He's a really good friend of mine and I still play with him (although I have to play WoW to do so.. ).

Yeah... he's not slow... he's just a crazy mother [censored].

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Oh.. well, dude, tell him I said hi.

And that's still crazy about you being in Jokers. I actually woke my brother up and told him to check this out.

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Madam Myst: Leader of The Jokers (first SG I was in). Hard [censored] chick that had a lot to learn about dealing with people and either hadn't figured out or refused to recognize that people that love you are the ones that will be devoted to you. However, she taught me how to play the game. She taught me tactics and strategy. What was wise, and what would keep me with a full debt bar. An excellent player (as I recall), if not the most patient. I'm still thankful for what she showed me.

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NO WAY!!

Are you serious?!

I remember her! I was IN that SG, bro! Remember Ubiquitous? Ill/FF controller. That was ME! Ubi was an alt I had when i took a break from my (then) main Cimmerian Fist (who I was playing as a break away from Liv)

Yah, Madam really meant well, but I think she confused being assertive with being a bully. Too bad because she really attracted some awesome people to the group. But it was damn fun while it lasted.

That's hilarious! Remember Capt. Liberty? That guy was awesome, real good guy. We had some real fun he and I.

That's too much!

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*cackle!*

That's insane. Yeah I remember. Geez us! Yeah I came in with Wolfenstein3d, Questor, Aximili, Angelus, and a handful of others. I stole them all and sent them to The Crimson Sun with Ele while I waited out the bitter end of the Jokers. At the end I was the last captain and I couldn't see leaving until I felt pretty sure her and Sappers were never coming back. Pretty sure they defected for EQ2.

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YOU WERE WOLF3D?! My brother was Stingblade! Kat/Reg scrapper, remember him? He's the one that convinced me to join my alt to the SG 'cause it was so hilarious.

OMG Man, you made me and my brother laugh SO HARD! You used to talk in caps all the time, it used to KILL us! We'd spend half the mission rolling around on the floor laughing at what you wrote.

Remember I had that bind where I would run in and use Flash and at the same time I would say in local "Say CHEESE!"? I remember one time I did it, and I'd been doing it for WEEKS with you on the team and you actually said "UBI YOU AR FUNNY YOU RUN IN AND SAY SAY CHEESE AND THEN FLASH"

I almost had a heart attack I luaghed so hard. My brother and I still talk about that.

Oh, that's awesome, man.

I guess it's cool that I tell you this now, but at the time we actually thought that maybe you were just... realy slow or something.

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Madam Myst: Leader of The Jokers (first SG I was in). Hard [censored] chick that had a lot to learn about dealing with people and either hadn't figured out or refused to recognize that people that love you are the ones that will be devoted to you. However, she taught me how to play the game. She taught me tactics and strategy. What was wise, and what would keep me with a full debt bar. An excellent player (as I recall), if not the most patient. I'm still thankful for what she showed me.

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NO WAY!!

Are you serious?!

I remember her! I was IN that SG, bro! Remember Ubiquitous? Ill/FF controller. That was ME! Ubi was an alt I had when i took a break from my (then) main Cimmerian Fist (who I was playing as a break away from Liv)

Yah, Madam really meant well, but I think she confused being assertive with being a bully. Too bad because she really attracted some awesome people to the group. But it was damn fun while it lasted.

That's hilarious! Remember Capt. Liberty? That guy was awesome, real good guy. We had some real fun he and I.

That's too much!

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you know, i did the usual when i got here today... search, keyword "borts"... and when i saw my name in a thread "who influenced you the most...?" i was expecting something a little more interesting... you disappoint me lhf!...

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And you're welcome.

After Shock - Taught me enthusiasm and sheer, unadulterated joy in the game and that you can always come home.

Feral Kat - I'm very badly behaved on the forums lately, but time was I was the ambassador for my SG. I know about diplomacy in person, but Feral Kat taught me diplomacy on the boards and in text.

Capt_Omega - Taught me what it means to be truly loyal to someone who's hand you've never shaken and who's eye you've never met.

Markus - Taught me that that just because you disagree vehemently with someone you love, does not mean that you love them less, or that you should treat them shabbily for disagreeing.

MissInformed - Taught me that true friendship transcends any environment and can be carried with you no matter where you go.

Laser_Judas - Taught me the finer points of humour in text.

Jack - Taught me how to properly apply "The Ointment"

Borts - Taught me that some communities, even online communites can be very much like family, no matter how unusual they are and that once a member of a family, always a member of a family, no matter what.

Loominal - Taught me how to treat a newbie so as to make them feel welcome and appreciated.

Syxxblade - Taught me loyalty in the face of overhwhelming fault.

DJ_Jester - Taught me that personal differences can be set aside for the good of community and that understandings are often merely a /tell away.

Krazed_Kaoz - Taught me that in the online world all that matters is your voice and your heart and that we are ALL heroes, equal and noble in mind and body and spirit.

Aleck - Taught me that not everything is as it appears and that one need not say anything to be truly heard.

Stampy - Taught me that family can sometimes be only a few keystrokes away. Thank you for inviting me to Team Awesome where I have met some truly remarkable people.

This is only a little of what I've learned in close to two years of being a member of this community and only a few names. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I sure as hell didn't come back for the game.

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Choosing your Inherent Powers at Character Creation you say?

BRILLIANT!

This is an awesome idea.

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And will NOT be listned to!

But go ahead and post it anyway, at least then we can't say we didn't try... again...

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Thread-Hijack--

LivingHellfire, it looks like you're coming out of a toaster in your avatar.

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Hehe... we better keep this short before the forum police gets here and insists that we take this to another thread. Heaven forbid a conversation evolve of all things.

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I am not sure what the irony is, please explain. I am not sure what attidude you think I have, please explain. I am not sure what I said has anything to do with what is wrong in CoH or the Developers, please explain.

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I didn't bother because I didn't feel that, at this point, even if I did you'd get it since you clearly have your head firmly planted in your hind end, but thankfully someone else did it for me.

Thank you, Foomf, you summed it up nicely and that's precisely what I was thinking.

Wow...

Just... wow

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As such you must prove it.

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Anyone else having memories of Circuit_Boi?

We don't need to. You're the one with limited experience, as so stated. We're all in agreement, you're the dissenter, you go prove it.

Actually, no, defiance has sucked since it's inception shortly after I5. The posts that you are finding are testament to that effect.

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As a developer myself, I find it hard to trust users on their statement of what is actualy going on and regularly rely on Historical data to prove or disprove said statements.

I have begun to try and search for it, but am getting frustrated because all of what I have found so far has been statements to the effect that Deffiance is bugged because of its effect, not an actual bug more a unsatisfied player.

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I cannot even begin to descibe the irony of this statement given your bickering with me over the last few posts. You and this attitude are precisely what I think is wrong with CoH and it's dev team. They're too wrapped up in their vision to understand that it's not just about the power being bugged (which, I gather, it is) but it's about the fact that we hate it! and it's not fun and that it's useless

Does it not occur to you that perhaps the sheer preponderance of posts may... y'know... indicate that there is in fact a problem?

Dude, look at the Phase Shift issue (the most recent one, as of a day or two ago), look at ED (yah, sorry, but it counts, whether you want it to or not) look at suppression, I could go on and on and on.

Fact is that I've TRIED to be a good boy, the way you're suggesting and be constructive, but the real issue here isn't the powers themselves, it's the fact that no matter how hard we complain or talk about it it won't make a difference, they'll fix it when they feel like fixing it. Period. You want a good example? Try the stupid pause after Ranged Shot in the Archery set.

You and I are in fact on the same side here, even though we're from differing opinions on how to deal with the problem. I encourage you to do the thing that you think will be constructive. Run the tests, post the numbers and so on. I won't tell you not to, I won't get in your way, but I ask that you please allow me the same courtesy when I post in a thread about what I feel is the major problem with the game, that being the very real perception that they're so mired in their "Vision" that they can't hear their client-base.

Because I realize what you're saying about a bloated thread is true, and because I realize this is a "Numbers and test results" thread I won't post any more about this particular vein in this thread. As you were.

Please see the post right above yours.

If this was the FIRST post about bugs with Defiance then I would have participated, or not, as was approrpiate, but in truth this is a VERY old issue. I'm just one of the few who have come to realize that we can post whatever we like and very little will be done about it.

And THAT is the problem that I choose to post about. Let's change THAT problem with this situation, then we can look at fixing the game proper.

You're right, though, this is derailing the thread.

I understand that mentality and I share it, but there are some things that should be considered before one comes down too hard on those of us who are embittered.

Firstly, this is not the first thread on this issue. Secondly, it is also not a new issue in terms of age. At what point are we allowed to become fed up with the situation?

Also, please bear in mind that this is not the first issue that has been complained about, criticised and tackled by the community, with numbers, with data and in good faith only to have their very real evidence and very real concerns ignored.

Lastly, something I'd like to point out is that I complain the way I do, sound jaded and bitter becuase... well, I am! But more than that, I complain about the way the dev team treats the community, with their tyrannical and almost draconian methods and approach to the way the game works, their roller-coaster design philosophy, their complete disregard for anything even remotely resembling a static game experience because I feel that that is the thing that needs to be changed and looked at more than any broken power set. Those things are the things that are causing the larger issues with the game.

I don't complain because I'm some bitter, twisted soul in my parents basement, I complain and am bitter because I care about this game and about the community and what may sound like bitter and jaded rhetoric to some, when it comes from me is actually a genuine attempt to improve the game and the community.

The proof is in the pudding. The fact is that this has been going on since they instituted it, they keep saying "it's working fine" and we keep saying "Yah, but it still sucks".

That's the indication that they don't care. I think the onus should be on them and their defenders to prove that they do care on this one. Fact of the matter is, if that can't be proven then it can be argued, by extension, that they don't actually care about anything we say and any changes that they make that correspond to our complaints are actually just coincidence.

Jaded, maybe, sure, yah, okay. Unfortunately, the saying is "It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you" and the same logic applies to being jaded.


Whatever, we're both off topic, we should probably keep this discussion for another time.

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Instead of wasting time and energy arguing about how bad defiance is, someone please go test it and post your results (maybe some screen shots).

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It's been done.



Many times.



They don't care.

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So? Doesn't make what he said about this issue any less true.

Dude, I just came back from a break of a few months, but before that I've been playing this thing since beta and despite their protestations I have yet to see any evidence that any single developer has experienced this game from 1-50 the way you and I do. If they did this would be a very different game.

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Develop something new for this AT (And Defenders who also do not like their Inherent) that enhances the "Fun" and entertainment value of the game.

Thats your goal as a business in the entertainment field isn't it?

Increasing the Fun value of your product?


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If I could just clarify?

In this case, Shadbolt is talking about "fun". We understand the dev team is a little tunnel-visioned but I think it safe to assume that when Shadbolt says "fun" in this case that he's not actually looking for something harder. Again, say it with me now... "Fun does not necessarily have to mean hard"

That's right, States... while one does not necessarily preclude the other, the two things are actaully mutually exclusive.

The issue isn't whether or not it works as they describe it, anyone who's played a blaster for any real length of time knows this. The reason why this test didn't work is because the OP had aim+bu goin' at the same time and hit the damage cap, likely.

The real harsh truth about Defiance is that it works exactly they way they say it does, but you have to be dead to use it and is therefore useless due simply to the nature of the way the power trips. In a team scenario my blasters are either between 85-100% health or dead. No two ways about it.

Giving blasters defiance is like giving a diet pill to someone who's morbidly obese by crushing it up and sprinkling it over a pizza.

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The massive scale up when a person is below 5% health is meaningless with the current coding because of how rare it is for a blaster to survive long enough to use the bonus when they are that low on health. Hell, at that health level an auto-hit damage aura will kill off the blaster.

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This has been said over and over since I5 by poeple liek you and me who actually PLAY the game. Nothing has been done. I am amazed and awed by your patience with posts like this, Concern.

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Doublechecked Defiance - and its working for us (internally and on live). Can anyone give more details about this issue?

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How about it's no help at all. That by the time you get any meaningful buff you're likely going to flaceplant anyway?

Honestly, this isn't anything that hasn't been brought up before. Please spare us the lip service if no action is going to be taken.

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Glad to see nothing's changed in my absence (and no, I dion't expect you to have noticed. )

They're too busy doing things like giving us temp 1-10 powers (as a solution to what problem, exactly? Who complained about this? Who said we needed this?) and defiance to actualy fix the real problems with the game and the powersets. How long have we been complaining about blaster secondaries as an entire set?

"We're looking at blaster secondaries" Yaya, whatever, I expect to see fixes to those around the same time as the SSOCS. Anyone remember that? "Shelved" Thanks.

This is preview of my next work. I don't plan on officially starting it until I'm finished with what I'm working on now, so that will be a while. Of course, it's for the "Bad Guy".

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PROLOGUE

The room is cold and dark. The dampness creeps, competing against my inherent furnace. One bare light bulb swings disconsolately in the hallway on the other side of the steel door, not so much producing light as shifting shadows, sending them rolling into the corners with each pass, only to return again with the pendulum swing. Like a tide of radiance that ebbs and flows with the almost clockwork consistency, it reminds me of all that I am now missing, all that I have left outside in my long incarceration. Why would I allow myself to be here, one might ask. Why would I allow myself, once one of the foremost villains that Paragon City has ever seen, to be held captive in a small cell in the Ziggurat penitentiary? Well, the answer is simple; I don’t have a choice.

I’m strapped to a bed, incapable of feeling anything around me, incapable of moving, incapable of stretching or shifting my position. The white linens on which my hospital gown bedecked form is lying are grey with frequent soilings and even less frequent washings. The only movement of which I am capable is the movement of my eyes, my only entertainment is the play of the shadows on the wall and my only company are the rats that circle and scurry about on their daily quest for snippets and scraps of leftover food, dropped by the nurses who feed me daily and medicate me into a coma.

They say to keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. That’s why I’m here, in the Zig instead of banished to somewhere beyond the Cascade Archipelago in the Shadow Shard. At least here, under medication, under restraints they know where I am, they know I’m under lock and key and safe. Who knows what trouble I could cause in the Shadow Shard, but here they can keep their eye on me.

They also say that revenge is a dish best served cold. That, I can definitely attest to with first hand experience although in my case, it was hot as Hell, but exceptions can be made. I’m Living proof, after all, if you’ll pardon the pun. Nothing says revenge like an eye for an eye, or maybe a sibling for a sibling.

I am Cane to his Abel. I am Romulus to his Remus. I’m the bad seed, the rotten apple and while I may have had some help along the way, I certainly enjoyed the trip. My new teacher taught me much about my new life. He may have chosen that life for me but like all young protégés I didn’t know I wanted it until he chose it for me. If I have to spend the rest of my life strapped to this bed, medicated into unconsciousness, if I have to spend the rest of my life lying here, incapable of even so much as whispering my desire to relieve myself, if I have to spend the rest of my life settling further and further into sheets soiled of my own making it will have been worth it. It will have been worth the torture, the agony and the unmitigated misery of my training with Him. It will have been worth having the choice made for me for if I had known what it would have entailed I would have made it myself regardless. It will have been worth the humiliation and degradation I now suffer.

I finally got him. I finally got him for everything he’s done, for all the pain, for all the persecution, for the torment, the anguish. He lies in a pile of ash for his sins, blown into the winds of time and fate, to be forgotten by those who loved him and honoured him with a hero’s welcome. My brother is finally dead for all he’s done to me. I will forever treasure that sweet memory of the final moment as he gazed up at me in horror, in shock, in revelation at who I was, at what I had done and what I had become. Jealous that I had bested him, jealous that I had overcome his Hellfire, that which burned within him and scorched all around him. He was nothing. He is nothing. The Living Hellfire is dead.

Alone in my cell, in this massive stone pyramid, unable to move or even make a sound. In the darkness with only the scrabbling of tiny claws and the restless ebb and flow of shadow I am weeping. I can feel the tears as they course down my cheeks, stinging my face with heat and collecting in little pools at either side of my neck. My brother is dead and I weep with joy.