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Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

What did everyone think of the side-by-side screencaps of MMO Grinder's two characters, the one from WoW and the one from CoX intended to be a recreation of the WoW character (seen at the 6:25 mark of his video review)?

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The difference in texture/model detail is pretty noticeable, don't you think? Am I to believe that the detail exhibited by the WoW version would somehow feel out of place in CoX? I'm not sure I would agree, and I say that as someone who loves everything that makes (or can make) a superhero MMO look and feel like its source material. But maintaining low model or texture detail doesn't strike me as a laudible means to that end. As Sam said, it's not photorealism that's the goal, but surely the same kind of graphical improvements seen in more recent costume pieces could be applied, to good results, to the rest of the core model bits. The argument that hands and feet which look like bricks better embody the comic book aesthetic just doesn't ring true for me.

Originally Posted by myskatz

and I'm Team Vlad

Originally Posted by Tenjoy

You do realize that by just posting this question you completely eliminated any chance you might have had to be awarded the badge? The God who hands out badges is rather headstrong in this matter, I'm afraid...

10joy

Originally Posted by BrandX

Oh, another thing they could do with a CoH 2.0 is combine some of/change some of the ATs.

Brutes and Tankers become one. Lower damage mod, but with Fury/Bruising.

Scrappers become the ST DPS with the ability to choose between becoming like a Scrapper is now, or a Stalker.

Blasters lose the Manipulation aspect and gain Defense Secondaries. While they're ST is good, they become more about taking out mass smaller enemies. Less ST DPS than a Scrapper, but AOEness of yumminess.

Defenders/Corr's become one! I'd likely go with the idea that Blasts are secondary, but they now have Scourge.

And other changes like this, to basically consolodate the ATs.

Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater

Where? I cannot remember at all where it was mentioned.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

I wouldn't mind an update to how our character models looked, but if we ended up with something like our Distinguished Competition's plastique or our Chief Opposition's shiny clay, I will throw a fit. Promise. City's character models are halfway between drawn art and reality, and that looks way better than those other two's.

Originally Posted by KianaZero

Wasn't there an Elseworld comic where Batman did just that?

It took him about a year to kill off every single super powered villain in the WORLD. And nothing, no Villain nor Hero could stop him.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Yes, that situation works for you. But tell me, if Batman killed Zsasz wouldn't the murder rate drop dramatically? Sure, one person would be dead, but the numerous victims Zsasz had lined up would no longer be on his kill list. Bruce usually gets to Zsasz around murder 4-5 anyway (at least until the Arkham games). It's painful.

Originally Posted by Lothic

Basically there's no way to get around the fact that this game is based on a game engine/system that's now pushing 10+ years old. Remember much of what we see here was established during the first years it took to initially develop this game before it officially launched.

I'll be the first to priase the efforts of our Devs for all the hard work they've done over the years to push the limits of what this game can do graphically. But sooner or later we'll have to accept that this game will never be able to last forever in its current form. At some point the amount of updating it'll require to stay competitive with newer games will become so massive that really the only reasonable alternative will be starting over with something like a CoH 2.0.

The complaint that "our humans are ugly" is starting to approach that tipping point where as Aura_Familia said the only way to adequately "solve" that problem will be to wait for the next game to be made.

Originally Posted by Melancton

***SPOILERS****

I am willing to suspend a lot of disbelief, given a bit of reasonable rationale in a good story. In a real life scenario, some rogue agent pointing nukes at us and making threats the way Blitz did would likely get attacked by the US military and neutralized. Double if he was making threats. Off the chart if he murdered the ambassador.

The underlying story, however, does not even make much sense. Alexis was "dead 20 minutes before" our characters arrive to make the rescue attempt. And then Malaise surrenders. In order to get, what, close enough to Sister Psyche to activate the latent Aurora Borealis? This in a world where the Clockwork King can animate thousands of individual minions from Far Far Away? Close proximity does not seem to ever be needed for this psychic stuff.

At the moment, the underlying story seems very arbitrary. It makes it tough for me to accept the "sovereign nation" and "Blitz is a rogue" cards being played. Of course, I am not too happy that my hero gets to stand around unable to take action while all the murders and such take place, which does not help matters in the enjoyment area.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

He's on Recluse's territory, using Recluse's missle facilities, while Recluse has deployed a token force to try and "recapture" the island from him.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The Praetorian Marcus Cole had a solution for that problem

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

I'm not doing anything of the sort. I hate Statesman for the same reason I hate Superman: The characters take the Mary Sue power, run with it, and do little to nothing until they get over their own moral conflict. 'Screw all those people who could use saving or reassurance right now, I need to yell at someone/storm around about someone who died.' You're a damn superhero. By virtue of your choice to be one you've sworn to protect the people first and foremost. Grieving comes later if there's a crisis on the line, whether you want it to work that way or not.

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

he really wasn't, he made hard decisions, much like posi has had to, and was demonized by those who disagreed with them, but overall he was about standard.

Originally Posted by dugfromthearth

I don't like Brutes. They only do well if they are doing well. If you have trouble in a fight and need to rest, you start the next fight with no fury and do poorly at that one.

I have no high end characters, I never get IO sets, never play level 50's. So to me brutes are just tanker wannabe's that hit like a defender.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

This doesn't need a story explanation. The devs changed how they looked because they were one of the oldest enemy groups in the game and needed a graphical revamp. That's it. As far as our characters are concerned, the CoT always looked like that.