Puppycrusader

Maybe not you so much as the power combination. Both sets are a bit... late
blooming. I felt the same way you did when I was first making one - I was so
"Meh" about it, I could only pick it up for short periods at a time before getting
bored and leaving it alone for long stretches again. Shield takes Investment to
get the most out of, and ELM can be pretty slow early in, before you're slotting
up for more things than acc and dam, and don't have many if any bonus' yet.

Once it amp'd up, it really amped up, and it's become the favorite melee
character I have now. I'm constantly wowed at the amount of carnage it can
put out, and conversely, the kind of pounding it can stand up to if the RNG doesn't
wig out and declare war on me.

All I can say is stick with it. There's no guarantee the pair is your cup of
tea of course, with tastes and variations and all. But it does get Very Much Better
later on.

This. It's actually very common practice in games nowadays, for "large" weapons to
have more of a smashing/crush/bash component, than a straight-up slashyslashy one,
depending on how each game's particular mechanics work.

The main problem I see is in how CityOf seems to handle its visual and audio effects.
They appear to be linked to the set rather than the model(or has been that way to
date), so the larger the variety of weapon "types" they want the set to be able to
represent, the harder a time they're going to have making those suitably multipurposed.

It'd be nice if that limitation went the way of the four winds though, and every weapon
model used its own sounds and visual effects. You could have a lot more variety that
way - not just in this set, but in all the prior weapon sets as well.

Yeah. Chainswords are by no ways and means IP restricted, except perhaps by name
and specific visual design.



If they want to do it, they can find a way. It just probably wouldn't satisfy too
many people unless they made it a new power set entirely, to make the visual
and audio effects work right.

I don't think anyone was saying there shouldn't be a filter(I wasn't, at least.)
The problem is in its current state, it's a poorly-implemented, mouth-frothing-pitbull,
overly aggressive filter, which hinders AE rather than helps, and hurts both it,
and the appearance of competence of the people behind it. See also: Sega's phantasy
star online series, where a completely insane word filter that wouldn't even let you
say Shoes, and routinely filtered out its own locations and items, made them laughing
stocks for years. People still crack jokes about it, and the game's ten-eleven
years old.

In AE's case, whatever the intent of the filter, the result is undesirable. In many cases,
because of this poor implementation, you can't even use the game's own properties,
because they get filtered out. Things such as my gripe about Regent Korol have been
there almost since inception, but people are up in arms because it suddenly got much,
much worse. Just skim through the thread to see some of the absurd things being
filtered. Or better yet, fire up AE, and play around with making a test arc or two, and
see for yourself the dumb things that the filter decides it shouldn't let past.

A good, well-managed, carefully monitored and intelligently coded filter is a boon
to the game. The one we've got right this moment is a railroad spike shoved somewhere
family unfriendly.

This. For the past few issues, I've rarely gotten to see the reporter box after
a crash, no matter what type it appears to be.

I used to get it after every single one. It seems like whenever the crash
handling changed to do occassional things like giving the the(pointless) option
to "keep playing", was when it all but stopped ever giving me the option to
report.

Though the last patch has seen me crashing much much less often, so something
must've got fixed OK at least.

In so far as it's the product they're currently selling, you can.

CoX retail is marked as being compatable, among other OS', with windows XP(Refer to:
clearly marked system requirements on GR retail package). Not XP sp3, not "for as long
as we feel like it, subject to write you out without notice", but XP. A reasonable person
making a purchase decision, would read that as "As long as you have windows XP, and
the other listed system requirements are met, you can use this product."

Now, if that changes on the next retail box, that's another thing, but that's what they're
marketing right now. A person buying the product, should expect to be able to play it
if they meet the listed requirements.

As mentioned before by others, this sort of nasty jack-in-the-box surprise is the sort of
thing I'd expect acknowledged and hotfixed before long though. As many complaints about
the state of the game I've had lately, I don't honestly believe they intended to cut
off players who've been able to play just fine all this time.

You miss a lot of things when you willfully misread & skew-interpret posts. Give 'er another try there.

Lack of finalism is the only hope I have about that stuff at the moment. I really, really
want to believe that the devs don't want to push LOL RAID so much, that they'd give
non-raiders the shaft that badly. But with the way the marketing people seem be taking
over the game lately, I'm not honestly so confident, yet am reserving judgement until the
issue actually launches and we get what we get.

If it stays like that though...well, yeah. I don't pay to play City of Raiders, and unless
there's something else absolutely amazing that they haven't announced yet to excite
me, it would be a subscription-cancelling dealbreaker finally. If I essentially get told to
get lost if I don't enjoy all this large-team activity, I'll do as they tell me.

This is the only thing mentioned in the announcement that actually got me a little
excited. Most of it's either been announced to death already, or sounds pretty meh.

But no more long trips/ouro sidetunneling to and from the butt end of Nerva and IP?

That thought makes me Happy.tm.

Tri-lams.

The nerds had their revenge. Now it's time for the cools to pay back.

Thank you, this satisfies me as a customer. I invest too much time and effort to be called
a "casual" player, but as a "task force hating" player, solo-small team options to advance
are important to me. Getting shards when exemplared is an especially nice bonus to this
news, as it adds variety to the number of things everybody can run to get those
shards.

Can you point me where a redname or the official announcement says that?

No offense intended, since it's what I assume booster pack should mean too. But
the announcement is also carefully worded, and looks to me like it may be more of a
temporarily-available unlock and a booster in name only.

I'm cool with it either way. I'd just like some clarity.

I like DP, but this is sorely, sorely needed.

I'm sorry, but "gun-fu" is to gunplay, what Slamball is to basketball.

Looked to be quite a few complaints about this while it was on test. I have to say I don't
get it either. I've yet to have an actual problem killing Trapdoor, but I'm especially puzzled
about the "no longer stops Bifurcating" change - that one I thought was WAI. As a
timeout measure in case he's being too much of a pain for somebody to kill, so he'd
eventually stop and ease up on the poor abused player, it made perfect sense to me.

So with all these changes, count me in too on the side of "Why limit options?"

I consider it just a function of courtesy. They said something informative and
functionally useful rather than clamming up. I said something small back to show
I appreciate the information flow. If they told me I could go play with sod, I
would have something equally charming to say in return.

It doesn't change that I don't appreciate that information coming with a dev
feeding me inane marketing chimpanzee speak though, so I said something in reply
to that too.

Reply in kind to what you get.

Just a minor pick, but all the corporate/marketing talk that's been creeping up around
here is really starting to grate. The heck do I care what massively says about it? I'm
already here. I'm subscibed. I'm reading the forums to see what's going on. I don't
need the added pimping like you're trying to sell me what I already buy.

That's why I always say "sorry" about trivial things, and "I apologize," "my apologies,"
or some variant for serious things I feel deserve one. Sorry doesn't seem to carry
the same weight, unless you're able to say it with sad doggy face.

Apologize is an awfully big word for many people nowadays though, especially online
in today's tl;dr culture. So I guess I might not even be understood to begin with.