LordXenite
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Welcome to Kheldians, and have fun with your Warshade, they last much longer that just 50 levels
If you're ever going to give PB's a chance, I suggest you do that before diving too deep into Warshades because most people don't like PB's much after falling for their Warshades
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Quote:If you're playing a Human-only PB with more than one Controller, and you're getting mezzed, I dare say either you or the Controller aren't paying attention to what the other is doing. Cooperation is key in team-play, that's what I always thought...Originally Posted by Futurias
Playing my human-form Peacebringer on teams proved that to me. 1 to 2 controllers is crap. 3 is useful. 4+ is generally superfluous.
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Quote:And that's what we call good business sense. Unless you've got even more money to pour into re-making your game, as Blizzard obviously does.Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
So, what you're saying is that games that are over 5 years old should be on the remake list, unless they have 50 billion subscribers, regardless of how well they're actually doing (with the aforementioned exception)?
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Quote:You mean an actual RPG with our MMO? Yes please!! And I'd buy a Lifetime Subscription to that if they ever offered one.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
Branching mission arcs - the ability to steer the story through dialogue choices or in-mission objectives. The tech to do the same thing in Mission Architect arcs.
They supposedly introduced the tech into the game, what, three issues ago? And all they've used it for is two instances of giving a password to get in (both But Thou Must unfailable) and a few "that's interesting, tell me more" to break up tl;dr text blocks into smaller chunks.
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Quote:Quoted for sound advice, unless one is an employee...Originally Posted by Juteboxhero
just relax and have fun with the game.....or leave.
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How exactly do you get that Loyalty Badge?!
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Quote:Well, you know what they say about not being able to fix stupid... right?Originally Posted by Partsman
But my point is this: Uninformed buyers, impulse buyers, gift buyers will be more likely to purchase or try out CO if it is perceived that that game is a sequel to ours, and not just a new competition.
And here's your answer. What Paragon Studios needs to do is advance CoH/V at least cosmetically. In other words, most people seem to think that if a game's hardware requirements list the most expensive graphics cards on the market, and the most RAM and CPU money can buy, then the game is sure to be awesomesauce! Perhaps that's what Paragon Studios and NCSoft should do. Give CoX a facelift, and simply lie on the new shiny box and say the game requires a beast machine to run.Quote:Originally Posted by Partsman
And if they don't like it, and are still under that assumption, what reason will they have to try out our older, less-advanced prequel to CO? They will shy away from it.
But that's exactly what they're trying to do... with Going Rogue.Quote:Originally Posted by Partsman
I believe that NCSoft's marketing has got to do something visible to distance itself from CO in order for us to be able to draw in newer customers.
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Quote:I think the folly lies with actually trying to claim one game is actually better than the other, especially when we're talking about games that essentially are designed to be fun. A more accurate question would perhaps be: Which game is more fun? and since that is completely subjective, the whole "this game's better" notion doesn't really hold water because if we were to judge "better" by the one criteria most important to publishers, i.e. subscriptions = money; the best game on the planet is WoW, but most of us wouldn't even be posting on this board if we thought WoW was actually more fun than CoH/V would we?Originally Posted by Ironblade
I would think that anyone with sufficient knowledge to know who DEVELOPED each game isn't going to make this error.Quote:Originally Posted by Partsman
They see a new (OOOOOO Shiney!!) CO game that came out, has the same developer name as ours (Cryptic), and people being dumb and gullible as they are, immediately assume that it is the successor to us. And because it is new, it just HAS to be better, right?
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Last night I jumped on CoH for my SG-night activities, we meet once a week on Thursday nights, and after that played a bit of CO with my buddy. Both games are excellent in my opinion, despite their flaws, and provide me with a good "diet" of Superhero co-op/MMO playtime. Both games are already distinguished as they are, providing different gameplay styles, and different concepts despite their similarities.
If the question is, what should Paragon Studios do to make CoH/V interesting and relevant in a world where more Superhero MMO's exist. The answer is very easy actually. Just keep providing the best narration you can, from your point of view of the Superhero experience.
As an example, consider that both CoH/V and CO provide user-created content. CoH/V does this with AE, and CO does this with the Nemesis system. In all honesty, at first, I thought that the AE was superior to what CO would offer with the Nemesis system. However I recently changed my mind and delightedly (although grudgingly) gave points to CO because their Nemesis system has direction that to me feels better than AE.
What could CoH/V do with AE to make it surpass CO's Nemesis system? Very simply, provide more tools for catering for mission-content rather than pure and simple mission-combat, and also increase the immersion factor by integrating AE missions and story-arcs in the "normal" game environment.
Numerous examples exist for this, so both games are already distinguishing themselves by developing original concepts that may stem from the same ideas.
Disclaimer: This post is naturally my personal opinion. It may be contradicting to other people's opinions, including the Mods who may decide to delete/lock/ban or whatever. Just keep in mind that compare/contrast threads can teach us a lot about what players are looking for as long as the posts are done constructively. -
This idea sounds so good, I wonder why it wasn't implemented from day-1 of Newspaper/Scanner missions, and quite frankly, the OP should be hired pronto+stat!
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Quote:Heaven's forbid that we have AT's that are obviously really good at soloing, and then other AT's that truly outshine everything else when they simply band together... sheesh!Originally Posted by Dispari
Something's getting lost in the equation here if people are saying melee ATs are too good because a select few with awesome builds can do things like face x8 spawns, when squishy ATs, who some people in this thread say are too difficult to play solo, can do that and much more.
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Having inspired anyone to do anything, is already making my day look much better! Thanks!
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Quote:...but, most (if not all) of your list is not... passive!Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
I jotted down what I can recall for ways of mitigation of enemy mezz from all the defender primaries, secondaries and APPs.
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Give the good old Ice/Rad Controller a try. Between Arctic Air and Choking Cloud and Ice Slick dropped at your feet, there's triple mitigation that causes major shutdown
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Quote:I agree, but I'd also add that people want to be able to solo with the highest difficulty settings with classes that were never designed to meet such tough opposition in passive ways!Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
I think the problem stems from people wanting to be able to solo x6-x8 missions, but the increased number of mobs means having more mezzing enemies than are possible to deal with. Even then, the right squishy builds can floor enemy accuracy in groups or even control the large groups well enough.
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Quote:Believe it or not, this I'd actually like because it gives people more options. I'd like to actually propose that the +4 mez protection increase be divided into 3 (or 4) sets instead of just lumped into one set so that each set would contribute to the complete bonus and the Devs can elevate the desire for the previously unwanted sets.Originally Posted by Futurias
Heh. That would be a way to ramp up the desire for Set IOs no one wants. Add +4 Mag protection to either stun or hold. Make sure its in the least wanted ranged attack or hold.
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Make whatever AT/power-set combination you like, take whatever powers you like, but as soon as you get the power, remove it from the power-tray and fight only using Brawl and be sure to use Rest while still in-combat. That would make you extremely useless for sure.
Remember kids, useless is as useless doesn't.
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Even Champions Online, that does have gear that actually affects your character, doesn't allow the gear to affect your character's costume. If CO hasn't done it, that's a major reason for CoX not to even contemplate doing it.
Now, if you were talking about gear-items that we could craft ourselves (or go on quest-lines to obtain) and then enhance, and obviously re-enhance so that we could maintain a favorite look and our required stats something like items with general boosts that are controlled by placing SO's into them for example that I would actually like!
EDIT :: OK, after re-reading the OP, I have to say I initially missed the point where the OP says the Devs would decide whether the items are visible or not. Essentially, I'd like this decision left to the player, not the Devs, and I would still like to be able to modify the stats/enhancements on those items.
This could liven up the gameplay at Lv50 and allow the game to reward us in a way that appeals to the roleplayer and hardcore player at the same time. I still maintain that these items should be upgradable only by placing SO enhancements on them so that the effort of upgrading an item doesn't become a time/INF-sink, but rather obtaining the item itself is.
It'd be even nicer if each item would have several different upgrade paths allowing us to decide if the Helm of Ubberness would contribute to our overall HP and healing with the placement of Healing-SO's, or overall Endurance and stamina with the placement of EndMod-SO's. -
Quote:I'm glad your motivation is pure and you wish only to be helpful, but if someone does not like what you're doing, that doesn't necessarily make them evil.Originally Posted by tuter_king
Well i guess its not mean and all those people who don't like that are evil
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Quote:It's not even a question of 'idea'. It's a question of how is the data modeled; is the rendering engine capable of accepting coloring hints or outright RGB values per each layer/pixel/whatever for the Nova/Dwarf graphic models... I dare-say, it's complicated.Originally Posted by Liberty_Paradox
Yes I'm sure you know this game better than BABs. That guy would NEVER have thought of this idea for sure!
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I'd be loyal to anything and anyone who would be loyal to me in return; nothing more, nothing less.
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Quote:And you know all this... how exactly, did you inspect demo-files, or are you privy to some inside information about the inner working of the game?Originally Posted by Coolio
Nova and Dwarf powers are replacement character summons, but technically they should be able to get the colour information from the toggled form power.
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Quote:Is this mean, or is it nice? Only you know for sure, because at the end of the day, only you know your motivation for giving the INF. If you give with the intent of being nice and helpful, or if you give with the intent of showing off and establishing your INF-earning prowess, only you know... so that's a question only you can really answer.Originally Posted by tuter_king
I some times in my sg or other times just random people i here them saying "WOW I HAVE 3MILL! I most be rich." So do you all think it's mean or nice to say "Want me to double that?" and then really do double it? I have had people get mad at me saying they don't need charity but on the other hand a lot are very very happy about it...
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I'd love to see any of these implemented, and I'd love to see more done with the game through Inspirations as a mechanism. Imagine if you will costumes that are in fact triggered by inspirations, or abilities that let us roleplay our way through a mission allowing us to pick our fights, or resolve the mission goals in other ways. Inspiration may even be the key to adding a true "object" inventory to CoX... and then, the sky's the limit.
More likely though, none of this will happen, because like they always say, we can't have good stuff!
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Quote:I've found that if I let myself enjoy the game for what it offers, a chance to experience gameplay focused on being a Superhero (or Supervillain), I have fun no matter what I'm doing. However, like Sam said, the game now try to cater to many mentalities and it creates a mixture of features that sometimes ends tugging on my nerves this way and that so much so that I just have to take things in moderation.Originally Posted by Swamp_Goblin
Not at all. I very much enjoy what CoH/V has to offer. It's why I keep coming back!
Quote:Originally Posted by Swamp_Goblin
It may just be that those of us that do are not as vocal as those who don't.