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Finishing Power customisation is massively important to me, it _constantly_ annoys me that thematically similar powersets can't be visually similar (like fire/fire/fire blasters for example) IMHO the critical ones are:
Power Pools
APPs
PPPs
In that order. I don't _care_ that code time and UI time are needed it should be a _trivial_ amount of code time (Yes write I software for a living) I love my Khelds and VEATs but don't have any need to alter their powers, they look fine and consistent as they are. Just think how much more popular path animation would be if they could be used as alternate PFX for superspeed or super jump. Imagine if the auras could be used as replacement PFX for teleport. This is stuff you can sell! -
I've been complaining about the LOD being busted in new zones since the GR beta but I want to raise this one bit specifically because it's driving me _mad_ now it's all over Atlas as well
The LOD transition for the new Praetorian trees (used in the new AP) goes like this:
Sprite tree
Geometry trunk pops in
Sprite tree disappears (the leafy bulk of the tree disappears)
Geometry for the foliage pops in
This results in the trees flashing every time you pass a LOD level and it's _hugely_ distracting
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I've been complaining about the LOD being busted since the GR beta but I want to raise this one bit specifically because it's driving me _mad_
The LOD transition for the new Praetorian trees (used in the new AP) goes like this:
Sprite tree
Geometry trunk pops in
Sprite tree disappears (the leafy bulk of the tree disappears)
Geometry for the foliage pops in
This results in the trees flashing every time you pass a LOD level and it's _hugely_ distracting
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I'm torn between a Psy/Time Corruptor or a Time/Psy Defender. Anyone playing [/]time[/] have any thoughts on the subject?
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I kept my beta client updated and then copied the piggs/exes/dlls over to my live install, after 5 mins of verifying it was all ready.
Considering this is a head-start we really are still in pre-release hence the lack of pre-load. -
Quote:Zwil posted earlier that they won't and are _not_ doing this. That is the whole point, if they aren't doing this they don't need carte blanch legalese saying they can.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
NCSoft: We've noticed some rather 'interesting' patterns in your account usage, and we'd like to use our monitoring software to check that you aren't cheating. If that's okay with you?
Botting goldfarmer: No, 'fraid not.
NCSoft: Oh, okay, then. Sorry to bother you. Have a nice day! -
Quote:If you're not going to do it why not put your money where your mouth is? Is there a reason the EULA couldn't read something like:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
And stepping in...
We have no plans to introduce malicious, harmful or intrusive software to your computers. While we do remain vigilant in our fight against exploits (we will be introducing a new anti exploit measure, server side, come Issue 21, but more about that later) we also respect your right to privacy and will not gather any information without your explicit permission (i.e.; you agreeing to send us crash/bug/whatever feedback via the launcher functionality).
TL;DR version: A personal statement of:Quote:You consent to the foregoing monitoring and acknowledge that NCsoft may conduct such monitoring, including but not limited to monitoring in-Game communications and Message Boards provided by NCsoft as well as third-party Message Boards and the like. You also acknowledge that NCsoft may take any action, or no action whatsoever, based on such monitoring, including but not limited to action under Section 5, and that NCsoft has no obligation to explain any decision to take any action, or no action whatsoever, based on such monitoring. (d) NCSOFT HAS THE RIGHT, BUT NO OBLIGATION, TO MONITOR OPERATION OF ANY SERVICE, CONTENT OR SOFTWARE AT ANY TIME AND IN ANY MATTER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MONITORING COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACES, STORAGE DEVICES, RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY OR CPU PROCESSES RELATED TO HARDWARE YOU USE WITH THE GAME. SUCH MONITORING MAY ALSO INCLUDE, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, MONITORING FOR THE PURPOSES OF DETECTING SOFTWARE UNDER SECTION 8(c) or 8(e). YOU CONSENT TO THE FOREGOING MONITORING AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NCSOFT MAY, AT ANY TIME, AND IN ANY MANNER after seeking permission from the user in each instance of communication, COMMUNICATE ANY INFORMATION BETWEEN HARDWARE YOU USE WITH THE GAME AND ANY MECHANISM NCSOFT MAY CHOOSE FOR SUCH COMMUNICATIONS. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS A RESULT OF SUCH MONITORING NCSOFT MAY IN ITS SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION TAKE ANY ACTION, OR NO ACTION WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (i) CHANGING ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICE, CONTENT OR SOFTWARE; (ii) SEEKING RECOURSE AGAINST YOU BY WAY OF ANY PROCEEDING NCSOFT DEEMS APPROPRIATE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES; AND/OR (iii) DETERMINING THAT YOU ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND TERMINATING YOUR ACCOUNT UNDER SECTION 3(b) OR SECTION 3(c). NCSOFT HAS THE RIGHT, BUT NO OBLIGATION, TO PROVIDE YOU WITH NOTICE BEFORE SUCH TERMINATION.
"we wont do X and we understand your objection to X"
Is little reassurance in the face of a legal statement of:
"We reserve the right to do X any time we like"
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Here are some of the things I posted as soon a Keyes started:
- Make the disintegration FX _much_ bigger like a big sprite ring with a vertical spike to give people a chance to notice. Also its a signature power, it deserves to look impressive.
- Set up a "no other special abilities" flag or self-buff power that fires at the start of Disintegration and Obliteration beam that last for the duration of the power to prevent them overlapping with each other and with the time-freeze, when these overlap you get potentially unavoidable deaths which is not fun at all
- Put FX on the terminals, blue aura when uncharged, red when locked, have the blue stack x3 with uncharged so that one layer is removed per charge
- Make the Gamma pulse FX fade in and out a little slower, there have been time I've blinked and missed it not realising that my heath is now <50%
- Make Anti-Matters regeneration either pause a little before it starts or ramp up (then level off) to give people time to scramble over there
- I'd scrap the entanglement schtick, it penalises Melee too much (Oh just thought, alternate option: if there was something other than AM that the players could wail on that would help in the battle, like if the regen terminals could be pre-damaged a bit (before the timestops happened), that would give one of the entanglement halves something to do rather than just move away from their opposites)
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Quote:If you didn't purchase GR then you never had those powers to begin withOriginally Posted by CaptSammy
Actually if you have never purchased Going Rogue, you will lose access to those power sets
Demon Summoning (you lose access to MM's anyway possibly)
Electric Control (you lose access controllers but could not use it for Doms either)
Dual Pistols
Kinetic Melee
But your claws guy should be good.
Also you may have bought Going Rogue, and my point is moot for you, but someone else may see it. -
Quote:Ooooh, I wonder if The Reichsman has a Female Gestapo sidekick. I hear that's a very popular look in some circles.Originally Posted by ChaosAngelGeno
So Emperor Cole/Tyrant has Dominatrix as his sidekick (among other things...) and Statesman has taken Desdemona as his new protégé. So I think it's safe to assume that no matter what reality Marcus Cole exists in... he digs chicks in leather.
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Quote:In the MSHRPG the player range for Strength was up to "Monstrous" Spider-man had "Incredible" strength, Luke Cage was "Amazing" Iron-man, The Thing, and Colossus were all at "Monstrous"Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Captain America is peak human strength. He can lift the maximum limit for his size that a human can do and still be considered 'normal'. He's like an Olympic Class weight lifter.
Spider-Man is super humanly strong. He can tear a steel door off its hinges. He can throw a small car, with effort. But that doesn't qualify as even "low tier" super strength in the Marvel universe.
Luke Cage, he's low tier. New Avengers establishes he's stronger than Spidey. Iron Man's basic armor is probably around this level.
Ben Grimm, Colossus, they're stronger. They're around mid level.
Thor and Hulk are around the top level, typically.
Beyond them, you get guys in the cosmic class of power where it's really not about muscle strength anymore. Guys like Gladiator, Thanos and such.
Where does our game lay?
In my opinion, the damage indicates around Spider-Man's level of strength for Tankers, and getting close to mid level for Brutes.
Some of SS's attacks TRY for a mid-high tier feel like Foot Stomp and Hand Clap, but the damage just isn't there to support it. Look at how much effort it takes just to destroy a car. Or when you can't even knock over a Malta boss, who's just a normal guy in a blue cowboy hat. Or how much damage you deal compared to a teammate brandishing a wooden baseball bat. And when's the last time you knocked someone through a wall? Or picked up a truck?
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Cap had "Remarkable" strength.
Though Colossus seems to have been buffed at some point as he's now showing "Unearthly" strength parallel to Thor.
Hulk started at "Monstrous" and shifted up as he got angry, to a max of "Shift-Z" (ouch)
I used to love the MSHRPG stat ranks:
Feeble, Poor, Typical, Good, Excellent, Remarkable, Incredible, Amazing, Monstrous, Unearthly, Shift X, Shift Y, Shift Z, Class 1000, Class 3000, Class 5000, Beyond.
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Quote:Sauron/Mairon was a Maiar (Gandalf-level being) of Aulë of the Ainur/Valar, until he betrayed him to serve Morgoth/Melkor, the true "Big Bad" of Arda/Middle EarthOriginally Posted by DMystic
I think you have Sauron confused with Sarumen
/Silmarillion
Dang, beaten to the punch, looks like there is a disadvantage to having GG on ignore
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Quote:I don't.Originally Posted by m3lon
I enjoy codependency that this game sometimes has
I wonder how many like-me there are vs like-you. Not inferring I know, just wondering. -
Quote:These aren't cape rigs, they're solid like the warrior beltOriginally Posted by Zombie Man
1. Check.
Breechcloths, floor length split butt capes, and floor length thigh capes!!
All of those pieces have player versions.Quote:Originally Posted by Yogurt
My only concern now is how many costume pieces from what they are wearing will the players actually be able to purchase from the Paragon Market?
I really would like access to the butt cape and loin cloth, but I really doubt we'll be getting them, or anything the Agony and Death Mages are wearing for that matter. -
Quote:I don't believe those rear "plates" use the cape rig, I believe the are solid but deform (like trousers) with the leg bonesOriginally Posted by Olantern
Personally, I'm particularly happy to see the interesting and underused "coat tails" rig being used for something other than trenchcoats, Arachnos Widows, and formal tailcoats.
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Thanks for putting the skirt on all of the different models, and I hadn't seen the shorter skirt (guess thats new?) and blanking out the faces on the minions was really needed.
Funny, given that almost all these pieces existed before the anti-revamp flared up. All it took was a little shuffling around of existing pieces. -
Quote:VIP players get "slots" (12 per server + extras per server + purchased/vet slots that apply to a single chosen server)Originally Posted by Lost Ninja
Base of 2 (Free & Premium)
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GR = 2 Slots.
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Vet Reward Slots.
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Purchased Slots.
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Anything else.
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Maximum of 36 per server.
VIP Get an Additional 12 slots to that base, with a max of 48/server.
Premium player get "Global unlock tokens" that allow you to unlock existing "slots" -
Quote:This is true, but if the option is (and I believe it is):Originally Posted by Bo_Almighty
Motorcycles would be cool, but not necessarily flying ones.
"Flying bikes that can cruse on the ground and require no code time, only gfx and animation time"
vs
"Land bikes that require code time and additional work to make then behave in a sensible fashion and thus will take much longer and thus are less likely to ever happen"
Then I vote for the first, because if I want to cruse on the roads I can. -
Quote:Shame, to each their own I suppose. Though there seem to be plenty of people here who didn't seem to understand that. I have to ask though, US or UK edit of Brazil because the US edit was _awful_Originally Posted by Lothic
I think I can safely say, without a shadow of a doubt, that I "got" what the movie was trying to do and understood the transitions between the dances. I've been watching sci-fi/fantasy movies for decades so this was hardly a new experience for me.
But I can also safely say that despite what this movie was trying to do meta/story wise it basically failed to deliver. The "battle scenes" were not the problem here. In fact taken as separate little vignettes they were easily the best parts of this movie. Where this movie fell apart is that it somehow managed to make me not care or feel sympathetic toward any of the girls. By the end I ultimately didn't really care if any of them survived or escaped. And without that core engagement to the story its outcome was semi-pointless drivel. Far from terrifying this movie was almost annoyingly boring during the non-battle scenes.
If you want to see a movie that actually succeeded in what this one was trying to do go back and watch a movie called Brazil. Zack Snyder has even said in interviews that he was strongly inspired by Brazil while making Sucker Punch. Sadly this inspiration lead to a movie that wasn't even a fraction as good. -
I loved it, I thought it was terrifying. The story of a girl so thoroughly abused even her mad-escape-world is dark and corrupt, even the person she imagines herself to be can't handle her imaginary world and breaks down into fantasy so wild and epic that only the allegories make sense.
If the "battle scenes" had been David-Lynch-esq weirdness instead of overblown-rocketfuel-action I think a lot more people would have "got" it.
Did people realise "the dance" was her getting craped (without the c), hence the 2nd level break each time? -
Quote:The rest look better.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
The thing Tech, is we really don't know how the rest look...
Alternate (smaller) shoulderpads look good.
The tall-hat-thing looks good
The massive-spiky-skirt looks a little much but does go some way towards restoring the "robe-y" feel
But the undersuit still looks... too spandex-y, skipping the skirt on the Lt's, not having the face blacked out on the minions and finally not having the minions in robes were all mistakes IMHO. -
Quote:Just make it a jet-bike, then it's perfectly fine for it to strafe/fly/go indoors. And if people want to cruse at street level and stay on the roads then they can and and still feel like a boss.Originally Posted by End Sinister
David, I have been dying to see a motorcycle mount in this game. Since we're talking about mounts here, a motorcycle travel power has been requested since the early days of this game. I remember Positron or some other dev. saying that a motorcycle would not be doable since it would block doorways in instanced maps. My argument has always been why not only allow a mount/motorcycle be available for use in the open world? I think it would be easily programmable to write an instance in/out line of code to check if one is inside a mission or not.
I have craved a fricking motorcycle in this game for so long. I'm not talking a crotch rocket either, I'm talking an old school chopper or cruiser for use by players a la Ghost Rider. If you're finally considering mounts in this game, a motorcycle would be number one or number two on that list. Just imagine what it would be like for a player to just be able to cruise around Praetoria speeding at 90 m.p.h. and taking in the scenery, not flying or teleporting his way through, ignoring his surroundings. Even the tunnels connecting the zones would get some use, hell, even the roads would get some proper use for once!
Thanks!
Hell, I'd love to see a rolling dismount animation that could segue straight into an attack without the ready-stance-pause.... I'll bet you could do that with a second power that auto-switched off the movement power (Like the way Ninja run detoggles movement powers) and switched on a rolling movement power (rolling animation needed) that would be auto disabled with any attack (detoggle on attack, like "Shadowy Presence"). Oh you could give the rolling entrance a slight damage buff (and appropriate cool-down, and limit the rolling to a max of 3-sec say) and sell it separately... I'd buy that.
Scream up to a mob of villains on your rocket-chopper, rolling dismount into the centre of the mob and fire off a PBAOE (like "Hail of Bullets")
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Quote:Yeah but being on a Praetorian map will crash to desktop my (no un-beefy, nvidia-based) machine generally once per trial or every hour-ish is the open-areas of Praetoria. Quicker if I switch on Ambient Occlusion. This has persisted since the GR beta (and, judging by the drop-in-outs in the trials it affects plenty you others) and sah been reported a _lot_ (there are almost never crash dumps)Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Absolutely critical that it runs smoothly. I'm not a 3D artist, but I'm quite confident in the current team's ability to pull it off, especially considering that they just accomplished something similar with the Seed zone event. That character model is quite detailed and enormous, with several animated parts, a flight path, and multiple targets, all while flying over the the most detailed and modern zone in the game.
Well, in the event that we actually did update this raid, that's where the Design folks would come in. I'm sure they'd have just as many ideas about how to enhance that side of the encounter.
I have no issues Anywhere else in the game.
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Rocket Bike!
You already have a "sit on bike" pose (the bruiser uses it) it shouldn't need much tweaking for the female/male rigs. A rocket bike could hover and strafe and you could do a cool in-out of "stealth" thing when it's toggled/detoggled.
Use the same all-powers-off effect from walk to stop people trying to use it in combat and to remove the need for sitting-while-using-powers animations.
_Many_ of my natural characters would love this, I will give you money for this! -
Quote:I do like:Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Who really 'clicks' with you? Who looks the coolest/most intriguing/scariest, etc?
- Ghost Widow, The design, colour and especially the hair all just _work_ (though all the widows could do with updating to make their _coats_ look less like "butt capes")
- Statesman It's the cape (The shoulder ruffle) and the faceplate that make him, the rest is so-so but the bundled cape and the Hellenic faceplate really _make_ him who he is.
- Sister Solaris The modern Sister Psyche could do with taking some queues from her historic duplicate
- Sirocco Fantastic silhouette, though he's so slight he tends to disappear in combat, could do with more iconic and "bigger" animations.
- Lanaruu/Ruladak/Ruularu Please, please use the Ruularu model somewhere, it's _fantastic_ It's Galactus but _better_. The lack of use of the shadow shard is _criminal_
- Romulus Augustus/Nictus Romulus Yeah, perfect, unique silhouette, Nictus Aura really makes him stand out. The bulk helps identify him.
I don't like:
- Siege (and to a lesser extent Nightstar) The overall designs are great _but_ there should be notable differences in silhouette between a signature AV's and any mass-produced minions. I would have changed his shoulders, upper-arms and head, something to show his intellect (like an actual face).
- Positron His armour has always looked boring and generic I get no feel who he is supposed to be, other than the colour I'd lose him in a batch of Crey suits. but it's pretty much a fixture now.
- Countess Crey Awful, just terrible, theme, design and mechanical execution, She look like a streetwalker not a Countess.
- Manticore Needs Moar Batman! Seriously for a "natural" Hero he needs less spandex and more armour, like maybe the Exoproto normal-map.
- Black Swan Too generic, to different compared to Swan. The colour-swap version was better then the current rush-job
- Belladonna Vertano She's ok but suffers from "Not unique enough" I think that if her outfit deviated in colour from the resistance norms it might be better... perhaps black and glowing blue? Also there is something very _wrong_ with the mesh for her face, it looks stuck-on and deforms oddly when you look to the side of it, she does not look attractive.
- Regent Korol All the tarantulas look _fantastic_ but Korol's "eye crown" really doesn't say "Regent" to me, I'd go for some gold detailing, and more cabling, make it really look like she is packed to the gills with sensor equipment. Maybe have her legs visible like the queens but have yet more sensor cables burrowing into her flesh (This might also give here a more unique silhouette)
But that aside. I don't really remember the visuals for most of the Signature character here's why:- They often fly (or move quickly) and move so erratically that the only visual impression you get is of a Ferret on speed with ADHD
- They are often using the same animations as everyone else hence their unique silhouette gets lost.
- The often have power effect that totally obscure their visuals
- Players are using powers that totally obscure their visuals
I know we need visual indicators, but I think we need more halo's and less whole-body-glow-type powers. Perhaps AV's could get some periodic repel bursts and/or debuf-clear/detoggle-pulses so that we can actually _see_ them.