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Quote:I'd guess that more people subscribe to PC Gamer (or buy it in a store) than play this game, so I'd say the odds are pretty good that it'll be good for us.How are people supposed to get excited about Freedom if I- if the average Net denizen can't see the info in PC Gamer? I'll- people will completely lose interest by the time it's here and it'll get zero new subscribers!
Even though we on the forums without the magazine have to wait a bit.
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Rathar than quote a bunch of people, I'm going to just reply in general.
I don't think it's so much about protecting people from making mistakes (which, true, still happens), but avoiding the cookie-cutter uberbuild that "everyone" knows is the best and why would you make anything else? We already have that to an extent now, where people who know "how to do it right" sometimes even berate you for taking (or not taking) power X in set Y. Look at those other superhero games, where the fairly open power selections have led to anything that's not the "norm" (in their eyes) sometimes precluding you from being on teams because you're not doing it right.
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Quote:Or maybe they'll do like that other game, where you have to buy stuff when it's new, but it eventually becomes available to the subscribers for free.I'll be very surprised if they charge subscribers for new power sets unless they start cranking out a large number of them.
Quote:The frightening thing is that I have 4 kids, and I never know what is going to come up in the budget
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Quote:Sorry, my fault, I logged in my one villain by accident.
Revival Of Redside?
Yes, that one. The villain created day one of COV who is level 39.
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Quote:Keep singing, brother!Since you all continually CHOOSE to ignore it I will keep it in front of you:
THEY TIED COSTUMES, AURAS AND OTHER THINGS TO TRIALS.
Quote:Once you've unlocked those trail auras, auras, chest emblems, they're usual by any character you make from levels below 50! And no teaming required.
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Quote:Came looking for a new steampunk item. Thread has a disappoint.
Steam Wallet support?
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Quote:not eveen dun wif frist tray an im al durnkOh, consistency isn't the worst problem with enhancement names. Try shopping for tech origin enhancements sometime.
DRINKING GAME: Take a shot every time you open an enhancement's Info window just to find out what the freaking enhancement does.
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Quote:OMG YES! This is SOOO annoying! Especially for someone like me, who maintains it on multiple computers. Every time you install/reinstall, you have to go from the 800x600 default to the real resolution. Which totally screws up the window locations on an existing character (once you finally get back into the game at the real resolution).Why can't I set the resolution and graphics before starting the game?
Quote:Why oh why is the default mouse control the opposite (at least for what I'd expect)?
Quote:I can't quite remember where and how this is done in the options window off hand, but I think it is pretty simple, once you find it and know to do it.
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Quote:You know, I realized another bad side effect of me wanting iTrial rewards for costumes/emotes/auras: I'm not the best teammate. I don't know what's going on, and I don't really care. There are enough people on the iTrial to pull the weight and get me 0.02% closer to my goals.The Trials are all casual friendly - players just need to know what they're doing in them
Quote:Actually, it's not the difficulty that makes it non-casual. It's the grind. If you have to commit yourself to grinding, it's NOT casual.
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Quote:Sure, I hate the incarnate stuff and complain about it here and there. But, as Scarlet_Shocker said, there's much more about the game I really like, and do on a regular basis.
Bitter but still paying...
It's because I love the game that I get bitter about the stuff I don't like. But I'm also big enough to admit that not everyone plays the game like I do. Example: I have never spent a single Hero merit. Stupid replicating currencies...
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Whatever you do, don't look in a mirror and say his name three times!
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To sum up:
Quote:Ding ding ding!New players don't know anything about the servers.
When I was a new player looking at the dots I saw green dots, yellow dots, and red dots.
Green means A-Ok
Yellow means caution &
Red means danger.
So today I'd be logging onto the green servers just like I did 7 years ago when I first started playing.
Quote:Interesting theory:
A LOT of new people are going to be under the false impression that since the game is called CoH Freedom, and there is a server also called Freedom, the server called Freedom is the server they are supposed to play on.
Quote:I've played a few MMO's that when I first logged in would "recommend" a server to me, and if I didn't have any friends telling me where to go I would always take the recommended server. Maybe Paragon could recommend servers based on population.
Quote:I really don't think they need to do anything. The server queues which would pop up IF Virtue/Freedom get overloaded would be incentive enough for newbies to make alts on the less stressed servers.
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Quote:TOTALLY. I'd rather have clipped quivers and tech packs and scabbard-y things (you know, like that other game) than not.I'm glad the Devs tried their best to get these things to fit our characters' backs perfectly. But clearly it's time for a bit of compromise to their otherwise exacting standards. Basically after 7+ years I'd rather (for example) have a costume item jet pack that might not look great from a few posing angles than not have one at all. *shrugs*
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Quote:And that there are so =many= of them that I give up trying to get them through iTrials, and hope I can support the new store once I21 comes out.The crux of the matter is the inclusion of non-Incarnate-based costume items and emotes as rewards for Incarnate content.
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Quote:What does the wait time even mean? It doesn't seem to signify anything. That's one of the frustrating parts of the queue: when you've waited 5 or 10 multiples of the "average wait time", it's meaningless.2. Wait times of less than 1 minute *need* to be removed from the average.
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Quote:Wow. Because, of course, people who don't play the trials (for whatever reason) don't value those same cosmetic items. I'll just leave it at "agree to disagree".The costume pieces are rewards for people who enjoy the trials and value cosmetic items. This idea that the devs are trying to 'bribe' anyone is silly.
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Quote:No, I was being completely serious. Even if you do those things, you still have no idea if you're going to get to do anything or not. It's like magic or something, except without the anything-happening part. Just the waiting part. I've never successfully gotten the queue to do anything but raise my blood pressure.What's compkicated about it?
Click on LFG, click on the trial you want or the ANY option, and click a button. then wait.
Or were you being sarcastic?
Quote:This is likely because signing into the queue locks you out of doing anything productive - including getting invited to a group doing the trial.
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I still don't even understand how the queues work. The interface and everything is confusing, and I have no idea what's going on and if I'm joining something or not.
Broadcast is SOOO much simpler.
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Quote:I've never changed my window colors, and I do have a default window settings file. This new character started hero-side with gray windows; I just assumed they'd change to "normal" at some later date/level. Perhaps it's a bug and I should enter it.NT, window colours are static unless you change them manually. If you have a default window settings file, every new character you make will try to start with those colours. If not, you'll start with colours appropriate to the side you're on. These will never change unless you change them.
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Quote:This is what I was thinking too. I looked through the options, but didn't see anything that might fix it (and I didn't want to manually adjust colors).Well, you've got something wrong. It should have started blue.
On the General tab, I hit Reset Windows. That did it. Of course, I had to set up my windows all over again, but at least they're comforting hero blue now.
--NT