PsychoPez

-misses City of Stories as well-

THough I'm adding this to my feed right now.

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No no no.

Back Alley Bawler.

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Win.

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Sister Flame, Hero 2 and BabyMage, COH:The Next Generation?

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You left out Positot.

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And BAB (back alley baby)

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That sounds....wrong....

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@Knight Kat. fraps/demoediting/flash/quicktime/moviemaker. I do mainly tiny little clips for people who ask for laughs or amazement. Things like SG website splash screens, or forum avatars. I get at least 2 comments a week asking how I did my forum avatar.

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How'd you do your forum avatar?

[small]Sorry, had to[/small]

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Ugh, CoH on a console. What an abomination.

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Maybe he's talking about a non-MMO version of CoH? Think of something like Marvel Ultimate Alliance, or a full out action game like Jedi Knight, or a RTS of the Rikti War!
Maybe a normal turn based RPG in the vein of Final Fantasy or side scrolling beat-em-up al-a Final Fight.
Heck, maybe a vs fighting game like Street Fighter! I'd even take a side scrolling action game on the Nintendo DS (I know someone on the fourms has an avatar of the Freedom Phalanx in 8-bit graphics, and that avatar is pure win).

A console version of CoH doesn't have to be an MMO.

After seeing the teaser stuff on Halo Wars for the XBox 360, I'd kill to have something like that of the Rikti War, or Brass Monday, or heck, even the Longbow/Arachnos battles in Siren's Call.

Edit: Well, dang. Seeing Ex's post, there go my dreams of a Rikti War RTS.

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It's weird, cause I've always seen the Rikti as a perfect blend of Zerg and Protoss, and Heroes circa the first Rikti War as Terrans.

The Rikti have two sources of cheap, swarmable offenses (that we know about) in the monkeys and the drones, and the actual soldiers have the eliteness (and psionic) stats I've always associated with the 'Toss.

Calling Heroes Terrans is a very simple simplifcation (Though AR Blasters, Fire Blasters, EM/Inv for Siege Tanks, etc etc...) but still.

Hmm, the more and more I think about this, the more and more I like a CoH RTS....

Then what should an 'epic badge' feel like?

Where is the line between 'easy enough to get without thinking' and 'insano high level obtainable only in 8 years through an exploit'?

I'm going to get flak for this, but I love the RV Isolator badge. It felt epic to me, I cheered when I got it. And it took a year of just checking maybe once or twice a week. It is a badge of honor to me in how I got it. The epic badges should feel the same: a struggle to obtain, and maybe even dare I say epic to obtain, but obtainable in the realm of acquiring.

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This community is not only the best virtual but also the best IRL


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Yer darn tootin' right it is!

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-humps Ascendant's leg-

You guys wouldn't understand, it's a Virtue thing...

I guess the big question I have is: can we use demo edits for our screenshots?

Just a question then.

I'm a badge hunter and a part time PvPer. But I PvP on my empath. During the first week of CoV, I ran a PvP mission on said empath, and I got the 400 rep badge by accident, but never got the 100 rep badge.

Now, I'm trying to earn the 100 rep badge but not through farming yet. Does the fact I have the 400 rep badge through no error on my part, and the fact that I'm trying to earn at least the 100 rep badge by actually defeating people (On an empath, no less) have any place in your opinion on this matter?

Just curious, is all.

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-cut Mako verbally tearing someone a new few thousand holes-

(five minute frenzy follows)



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Anyone else read that as 'Five Iron Frenzy' for a moment and start humming "My Evil Plan to Save the World"?

No? Just me....ah. Okay...

Good luck Mako!

I can't remember who said it but I thought that the current medium graphic settings is what used to be high. So you're really not downgraded on your graphic options, just the ceiling is now much highter.

Nice story, Nox, Romeo and Juliet in the CoX world could've come across cliche, but it seemed to rise about that and be well done. Can't wait for the second part!

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Aren't we the stars of our own comic book universe? Should we, as the star, be weak against others?

Aw, just my thoughts on the matter. Sorry for sounding so grumpy.

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"...when everyone is super, no one will be" - Syndrome, "The Incredibles"

If I'm the star of my own hero universe, then I'm going to win. If you're the star of your own hero universe, you're going to win. So if you and I meet up, we're always going to draw, or find parameters where we both win.

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So...did she use her spear, or what?!


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It's kind of a blur but I think she did, both for ranged and melee attacks. I remember thinking how cool that was until she landed a hit that took away half my life, then the novelty wore off.

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I had her, and was able to beat her with my ss/inv brute, lvl 23. She uses her spear as a ranged weapon, actaully reaching around her back and throwing an energized version of the spear, really nice looking. In melee she had a broadsword and used generic Broadsword set powers.

But the spear? Really sweet....

Hmm, now that I've thought about it, the spawns seemed to be non-existant in RV. Maybe cause heroes were killing all the arachnos, but there didn't seem to be that heavy of Longbow. Though increasing the spawns might induce more lag, perhaps having to worry about npcs damaging (or defending) pillboxes might slow things down some.

This is also because there's a ton of heroes and very few villains at the moment. When both sides are more equally represented, I have a feeling the give and take of the zone will be a lot greater.

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What I find interesting is that these buffs are limited duration right? And the devs claim that travelpowers are not a requirement to play the game (statesman said he has a char without anything but sprint). So tell me, what is the point of anyone without a travel power using an empowerment station, then using the teleporter to go into a hazard zone (terra volta for example) and then needing to run to the far end of independance port. The trip alone will take around 10 minutes so by the time they get to their mission they get only 5 minutes worth of benefit.

God forbid someone wants to get to PI in time for thier mission, taking the route from their base (entering from AP) then out into Dark Astoria, crossing Talos Island to the PI ferry and then making it to the portal corp building.

All of these buffs and not a single temporary travel power....
City of Heroes. You WILL take a travel power... or else.

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There is a run speed increase, while I doubt it's on the same level, it'd be interesting to see how well it stacks with sprint...

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Where's the thread to start pushing for a FA nerf?

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im with you on that, boy nothing like wiffing against someone running elude and they just kick your butt while in retsu, funny thing how retsu and elude are the same power and with scrapper having 50% more hp's being unable to hide from them and they negating half your defense with a toggle, i felt like i was punished for killing all those unprepared noobs that had no tactics in the past.

the only scrappers i can officially pawn are Dark Armor ones, the rest totally were rocking me tonight. eh the tanks still sucked but what can they do besides taunt and take a beating. needless to say even buffs on a team didnt save my behind tonight, kin corruptors are cool and all but nothing can stop a scrapper running elude with FA except, well FA.

i guess if i had 5 sets of tactics running i could have done it, but tonight showed me my first complete A$S woopin in awhile.

fighting HO'd lvl 50 heros in WB = cake
fighting HO'd lvl 50 heros in RV = face in mud

i hate to say this but its about that time,

























NERF FOCUSED ACCURACY NOW !!!!

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Or, you know, wait until Elude crashes? It's not like people are going to be perma in Elude anymore...

Some info.

Price on each of the stations, magic and tech, are 15000 prestige. They take no control and no energy. They can craft salvage into The first 4 types of components (Material, Power, Hardware, and Prototype for tech, Element, Foci, Essance, and Glyph for magic)

Here are the powers they grant. I did not have a chance to try them out, not enough components yet. (I will use the tech material cost, magic is the same costs with the matching component. Element <--> Material, Foci <--> Power, Essance <--> Hardware, Glyph <--> Prototype)

Confustion Resistance
5 Material
7 Power

Fear Resistance
5 Material
7 Power

Fire Resistance
5 Material
7 Power

Grant Invisibility
31 Power
2 Hardware
6 Prototype

Increase Attack Speed
9 Material
9 Power

Increase Flight Speed
9 Power

Increase Jump Speed
9 Material

Increase Perception
11 Material
4 Power

Increase Run Speed
9 Material

Knockback Increase
5 Material
2 Power

Knockback Protection
5 Material
2 Power

Lethal Resistance
5 Material
16 Power

Sleep Resistance
2 Material
7 Power

Slow Resistance
5 Material
4 Power

Smashing Resistance
11 Material
11 Power



There was also, at least on the magic station, the very last tab to the end. It hinted at making a level 2 station, but I could not make it. It said 36 Essance and 12 Foci. The description for the tech equivaliate, however, mentioned something about an item to prevent destruction of base items during raids. Bug or different trees, not sure.

Also, there was a tab in each called 'Invention'. There were 2 receipes, both taking 5 Abberiant Tech and 2 Amulets called 'Enhancement Test' and 'Enhancement Test 2' with a subtitle in each of 'Craftin' Enhancement Test'n'. Again, could not make either of those. Will dupe my character to spawn excess salavge tomorrow to better test.

Yay for the double post.

Or as the French say, "La poste du double"

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The name, image, powers, situations and actions of a character as portrayed in your novel are yours.

The name, image, powers, situations and actions of a character as portrayed in (or created using the tools of) CoX belong to CoX.

If both are identical, CoX wins. Unless you had a previous copyright/trademark, you have just 'gifted' NCSoft with your creation.

If you had a previous legal claim, by terms of your tacit agreement with the EULA, CoX still wins. They own your character until you point out to them that you have a previous claim.

When they become aware that they have your copywrtten/trademarked character in their game, they will 'genericize' (randomize the appearance and/or ban it until the name is changed) it and warn you not to use such characters in their game.

If you want to use a previously-owned character in their game, contact them and have them ask the character's owner (who might be you) for permission to use/portray the character. Good luck.

I am not a lawyer, but I do have good reading comprehension and I have read the EULA.

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So in other words, short version, Cryptic "owns" every single character name on *every* single server now created by players? Keep in mind that there are characters where a "name" appears under multiple companies, with multiple core concepts/images/appearance.

Captain Marvel & Firestar, for instance.

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What defines identical though. If my blue skinned, white haired merfolk in my story and in CoH are the same, but they have two totally different backgrounds and histories, is that different enough?

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Other AT’s I have noticed seem to be having difficulty distinguishing the difference so here is a list of all the non-controller holds available to players:
Ice Blast/Bitter Freeze Ray
Ice Blast/Freeze Ray
Electricity Manipulation/Shocking Grasp
Ice Manipulation/Freezing Touch
Electric Blast/Tesla Cage
Dark Miasma/Petrifying Gaze
Trick Arrow/Ice Arrow
Luminous Blast/Incandescent Strike
Stone Melee/Seismic Smash
Flame Mastery/Char
Munitions Mastery/Cryo Freeze Ray
Electric Mastery/Shocking Bolt
Psychic Mastery/Dominate
Dark Mastery/Petrifying Gaze
Pyre Mastery/Char
Arctic Mastery/Block of Ice
Earth Mastery/Fossilize


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Defender's Radiation Blast's lvl 38 'nuke' power, Atomic Blast, has an unslotable mag 2 hold component to it. On Virtue, some raid leaders mind, and some don't, when I use it. Partly because of the 'extreme' damage, partly because it drains all your end when you use it, partly because of the extreme recharge time with it. But, it's still a hold, figure I'd mention it. (And with power build up and vanguard, its mag can go up as well)

Power and control needed for these? That would bump up the price a bit...

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Adrenaline Boost: This is a power that can only ever be used on ONE teammate at a time. With ED in the game now, it can not even be made perma on one person. Will you look at the recharge of the power and speed it up some so that we can at least use our 9th tier power as it was originally intended.


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A buff that only provided one person +recovery while stunning the caster for 20 seconds that every empath skipped since it was a worse version of recovery aura?

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I've never heard of a level 32 Scrapper power doing a triple Critical (or a quadruple critical for that matter).

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In the rain or in the snow....gotta gotta funky flow.

I gotta believe!