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Thanks to a friends suggestion after being stuck for a name for an Ice/Ice Dom, I managed to nab Frostspite. Happy with that one.
Tbh, most of my names are either the persons name (more natural heroes), unit designations or rank (soldiers, robots)...you can get by quite easily with that. It's when you need a more 'traditional' name that you can run into some trouble. -
Quote:BanSquirrel dissaproves of your actions, and auto-hits for 9999 damage.Originally Posted by EvilRyu
It summons a fire breathing squirel thingie that kills the gold spammer and bans them.
Fail on you!
Combat log
That'd be pretty neat, seeing something like that hit the RMTs in this game. You catch them round and about, sometimes, a whole team of just science controllers with non-sensical names (I mean random gibberish) in AE, usually. Exit the mission, then, one by one, head back in. Pretty obvious. -
Quote:Being frustrated does not give you a right to throw around comments that other users might find insulting. I found your reply insulting, hence my agry response. I assume you would do the same if someone you have never met before insulted your competance at reading your born language. I guess YRMV.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Good, lucky me. You will learn now to just read what I say like its a grain of salt. It should in no way effect you. I am frustrated like many others they have not made an announcement.
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Quote:^ True. Annoyingly enough.Originally Posted by mousedroid
That name check fucntion hasn't worked for me since the day they unveiled the new costume creator features. I'm sure it's some sort of bug.
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Kitsune Vixen, my psi blaster/defender is a more controlled psyker. She's managed to wall off her mind a bit better, so she doesn't suffer from the 'people screaming their thoughts' syndrome like some do, which also results in some quite powerful barriers. She's not as capable a fighter as she could be most of the time as a result (Defender level damage).
My planned Rebel character for GR is more like a walking psi-jammer. Anyone who has played CoD MW2 and seen the scrambler perk in use, it's similar to that; psychic use and detection get more and more difficult, to the point of being down-right painful when you're in, say, the same building. By which point, you're probably in big trouble. She is more a weapon than a general operative, though.
Other characters I tend to deal with when and if it arises. -
Onoxious?
Quote:I have nothing more to say to you.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
What is your problem? Do you just not understand ENGLISH?
I SAID ALPHA, NOT CLOSED BETA.
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Quote:So? It changes absolutely nothing. In fact, it makes it even LESS likely that any information is to be released by anyone, given the NDA. In fact, Alpha wouldnt even be announced because Alpha would be a Dev run thing, and all the 'waves' we have been told are all BETA waves.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
What is your problem? Do you just not understand ENGLISH?
I SAID ALPHA, NOT CLOSED BETA.
Learn to read.
So don't you DARE insult my English skills, you vehement, spoilt, stuck up little brat. -
It'd be nice if they also stopped the text-boxes, Character ID ones including, acting crazy whenever you attempt to use the mouse on it. It's been that way since I14.
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Don't make me facepalm...not again. I've been forced to do it far, far too much recently. My faceplate is starting to get a dent in it.
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Quote:Even if this WAS true...even on Closed Beta they make people sign so that they do NOT reveal information.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
I believe Alpha stage has already started, and that some of you... Know what the Hell is going on... and you just sit on your butts laughing at all of us who just want some new info.
My interest isn't going anywhere, but my frustration level has already gone through the roof.
That's why its called CLOSED Beta!
Dear Omnisiah almighty...
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Put me down for facepalming at ever 'DOOOOM' thread/comment that has been coming up recently.
I've been doing a LOT of facepalming. -
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Given the fonts, nastily enough, con as EBs...AND there are two of them for every One Font spawn (i.e you have to kill two at the spawn to decrease the objective count by 1) it's still pretty out of whack. They seem to be a lot more accurate than player versions, and have high Psi DoT
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Quote:Worst. Opening Line. Ever.Originally Posted by Slope
this is just a small idea that would be easy
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/SIGNED!
And I will post that in caps...damn thing...
My MM would use this an awful lot. Although sometimes at his own minions... -
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Quote:Not when they're a mission objective, they ain't.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Eh... I've got to admit, I've run it a few times and haven't found it all that problematic. The fonts are avoidable...
Not saying I don't agree, mind. Whoever thought of giant sacks of HP with stupid ammounts of...res...
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Tbh, the KB hole is, at least now, dealable with.
Fire armour lacks immob protection, except in Burn.
...Uhm, sorry? Just...that...
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All I can say is;
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Quote:Take out the shield charge clone, and possibly the cuffs (you need to get targets to comply to cuff them, really) and I can definitely get behind this set. /SignedOriginally Posted by BCastro
Well, I kinda of thought of it as a blaster secondary to go along with dual pistols or assault rifle for those who want that feel. That way people who use the "official" belt option can have stuff to use and that the cops don't all have to be tanks.
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Quote:Thugs and (maybe) Necro might be able to negate the horrible attack style the fonts have. I know on that particular run (mine, that is) that we had a decent Brute, so keeping out of the AoE blasts was fairly easy.Originally Posted by Kelenar
Er. My Thugs/Poison mastermind didn't really have any issues with the fonts. I think they killed my Bruiser a few times, but that was about it. The spouts were a pretty big annoyance, since I had to pull things out of the room to avoid having my pets scattered, but that was about it. It might have helped that the Bruiser was taking most of the hits, so the AoEs didn't do much.
Bots, Mercs and Ninjas (majority in Melee) I can see suffering rather horribly. Not to mention the KB from spouts.
We had a Vangaurd HVAS stomping round with us by the end. When it wasn't being thrown all over the shop, that was.
(Off-topic, doesn't it seem bloody stupid that something as big as HVAS, Cataphracts and the like still suffer from KB? The spider versions dont get hit so bad, as spider skeleton mobs dont really suffer KB, more of a 'stagger' effect.) -
Quote:Society is people!Originally Posted by SaintNicster
I think we should blame society!
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Quote:KB, however, is one of the more common (and annoying) effects in game.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Personally, defensive sets should have holes of some kind that aren't so obscure as WPs (I think burst damage is the only hole for that set...and not even so much so as it's a hole for Regen).
In the beta, WP actually had a hole to immobilization but I guess they plugged it because enough players whined about it (and as if it wasn't as simple as taking Combat Jumping to get around it). It's probably too late to go around poking holes in sets now to make the game less binary but players really need to adjust their attitude about holes that exist.
There are always ways to circumvent holes like that, even holes as wide as psi and toxic damage for Energy Aura. It should be seen as a challenge to overcome, not an oversight.
Hellions have it at level one, for heck sake.
Psi and toxic, aside from Umbrals explanation (which I didnt know, before) are relatively rare damage types. KB? Rather frequent. It's also majorly counterproductive to have such a hole on a Melee AT or two. Stalkers? Rely on melee. Brutes, Tanks, Scrappers? All rely on melee.
And 'Get a -KB IO' is not valid when balance should be centred around SOs. Yes, you CAN plug the hole. Should you have to? Not like that. -
Quote:As far as we worked out, the waterspouts are actually semi-sentient (for an in game thing). As in, they agrro onto people, stealth of not (I was on my Bane) and follow them around. This was pretty much proved when the guy on a brute sat in the middle of a little group on the far side of the cave, and they all homed in until they were stacked on top of him.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
As I recall, the waterspouts move in a well-defined and completely predictable pattern. Yes, that pattern combined with the radius of their KB means they cover the majority of the room through their path. But there are holes in the KB pattern. I don't think the waterspouts are an issue with the mission.
The fonts, on the other hand, are a total pain in the ***. I dont think I've completed the mission without at least a tray of purples for each pair. But be fair; the fonts don't have Psychic Shockwave, they only have Psionic Tornado (though an extremely powerful version...)
Not cool.
Also, the Fonts either have both attacks, or they were just shooting at point blank on the brute, making it seem like they did. Either way, those PTs are viscious. Heavy DoT, and large KB. I even got shoot through a wall, which is pretty far from cool. -
Quote:Fix'tOriginally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
A while ago, there was no such thing as the Council, and 5th Column spawned where the Council does now. Then the Council appeared and there was the Council-5th Column war in the streets of Paragon, and the Council won. Now the 5th Column is back, and winning.