Tenzhi

Costume creation is limited. Power selections aren't very exciting. And characters seemed far too fragile back in beta - which wasn't helped by the powers setup and lack of decent defensive abilities.

Mind you, I think the game did a few things well. In my opinion it has the best city environments of the three superhero MMOGs. And I enjoyed its travel powers. And I liked interacting with the NPCs.

Curse my horrible, non-sequitur brain, but when I read that I couldn't help but think "by your powers combined, I am Captain Emo!"... complete with a Captain Planet parody image with greasy green hair hanging over half his face. Of course, there would need to be a fifth oddball element that doesn't fit in with the rest - the power of waffles, for instance.

And given the context of the post the quote was pulled from, I feel I should specifically note that the Captain Planet parody is a completely random association of my brain and not, in fact, any sort of mockery directed at Samuel_Tow. It's just graveyard shift weirdness.

Thankee, I was mildly curious about that test. It unsurprisingly told me that Dragon fit me best.

From the descriptions on the website, I don't like any of the factions, but if I'm forced to choose it will probably be Dragon.

Once I figured out how to make a passable kung fu top, Tenzhi came out better over there. He's kicked more butt without seeming nearly as fragile. And he nearly has his proper eyebrows.

Eustace Black, my archer, didn't come out quite as good appearance-wise overall, but he was less fragile and seemed a bit more powerful attack-wise; however, I found myself missing the Trick Arrow set. In CoH I made him as a Trick Arrow/Archery Defender, then deleted him and made him an Archery/Devices blaster, then deleted him again and made him back as a Defender. I could never be entirely happy with him here, and I ended up deleting him there as well.

I couldn't find a lizard head I was happy with for Leapin' Liz, and henceforth I'll probably focus on new characters or characters I'd already made for ChO.

Actually, many of them involve as much or more slashing/raking than punching. Bagh nakh in particular tend to be curved such that punching wouldn't necessarily be the best way to use them.

Conversely, some of these types of weapons are occasionally incorporated into a gauntlet, in which case I woudn't necessarily take any more issue with them than I would spiked and bladed gauntlets.

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Question: Is it possible to have two magic sets as your actives?

Yes, I'm also familiar with katar, nekote, various instances of fighting claws in video games and classic kung fu movies, and esoteric fantasy weapons in a similar vein such as thikes. As bladed weapons which are held by the hand, I largely consider them no more a "fist weapon" than a dagger, really.

Ah, I will have to keep that in mind!

Most other games have basic attacks that don't have a cooldown, and often there are more powerful attacks with little to no cooldown as well. In many games at low-mid level I end up with trays full of more abilities than I ever acquire here with powersets by level 50, and several of those abilities tend to lack a cooldown altogether - being able to greatly reduce the cooldown times in those cases would largely be frivolous.

It's not something that's ever particularly bothered me about this game, but que sera.

In that instance, knuckles or gauntlets would be my preference. Claws are not "fist weapons" to me. I have a feeling that creating a character is going to be a hard-fought battle.

I'm sure they're useful enough, but my particular beef is mostly with the unarmed skills, both of the inner wheels of which seem to involve animalistic fighting - clawing and rending and such. Apparently you have to spend a great deal of time digging your fingers around in someone's innards before you're allowed to just punch them.

Yeah, it looked like that sort of game to me. I'll want to absorb the setting and text when I'm not being pressured to play Borderlands 2 by friends, and when I'm not itching to do superhero stuff. It looks like it was created in such a way that it deserves my entire focus when I can finally sit down and give it a shot, even if it ends up not being my cup of tea.

One question: how pervasive is the PVP in-game? The only thing I found about it is that there is no open world PVP. Is it easy to avoid? Will I be plagued with spammed duel requests from multiple vectors with no recourse but to place numerous individuals on /ignore? I've run into that issue in numerous games.

Human-only players in a largely mundane setting is bland to me. But the pseudo-CoC vibe I was getting from some of the screenshots and info piqued my interest despite that.

What constitutes "fairly quickly" is rather subjective, I find. Some would say that it's fairly quick getting to 50 in this game, but I still find it to be a tediously lengthy process barring unsavory practices. If it turns out to be fairly quick by my standards, then I imagine typical MMOG players who've played for a week already have all of the skills unlocked. In any case, I don't want to go around clawing things up with the unarmed skills available in order to get to skills that seem to involve more typical unarmed combat.

The other part of that complaint was that the skills don't sound very interesting. Once in-game, the aesthetics involved might make them more appealing. But some of the sets seemed to be a handful of similar-sounding attacks with some passive minor modifications to those attacks.

But, as noted, this was just at-a-glance. It has me interested, but not excited. My gaming plate is a bit full at the moment, so it'll probably be a minute before I get around to trying this one.

I bet they don't even even use signs pulled from hammerspace to communicate, either. I, for one, wasn't really making an allusion to the Dreamworks film, that was just a coincidence. I was commenting on the generic association. A panda-person that does kung fu is like a koala-person with an Australian accent - the opposite of unexpected. It's the generic icing on the laughably generic Pandarens-are-Panda-people-from-Pandaria cake. I suppose it could've been worse: they could've been from Space China.

Yeah, as someone else confirmed "Gold" is a subscriber. When you select a character, I *think* there should be a "Re-Train" button on the right side that might allow you to make an old existing Freeform character into a Silver-compatible AT character. I'm not certain, because when I looked at the options I decided that playing for free wasn't going to work for me at all before I even logged in again.

I really like some of the car designs. They have a retro-car-of-the-future look about them. They remind me of some old concept car designs.

It was working for me when I started playing again shortly after the news here hit. But after one of the recent patches I noticed the issue and went to the forum to mention it only to find a recently started thread about it already existed.

Indeed. That's a mildly irritating bug.

Pfft. Pandas have been doing kung fu (or, at least, a variety of martial arts that incorporates various styles of kung fu) since at least the late 80s.