rian_frostdrake

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Apparently I'm a Dev Apologist too.

    Apparently some people haven't read my canned rage on the Art threads or on design choices to do with costume and the iTrials
    /spits coffee on the screen, wha? compared to who, venture?
  2. well, my best guess is that the use of the term "rotate" means that if they are gone, they will be back. I find it even more likely that they will bring them back given the unplanned nature of this problem, they know people want them, they know they cant get them, so they will likely rotate them back quickly for those affected. might not hurt to remind them once the problem is fixed.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Acemace View Post
    but it obviously happens on all the servers.
    I will allow for sake of argument it happens at some time on liberty, but i have never seen it during my play time. so if it happens, its better organized and less visible.
  4. Already wes? sheesh, think of baseball or margret thatcher.
  5. rian_frostdrake

    Freedom? Hardly

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex View Post
    Other free to play games I have joined some of them in allowed sending tells and chatting. .
    canthis be reworded? think it was an edit that crashed(happens to me a lot). some f2p games do have no chat limits(generally, i notice many unrestricted chat f2p games only have zone wide chat devices for sale, and in a limited amount) but a good number do for the very reason discussed, the ability to make characters and spam stupidity or rmts is a real risk that developers try to control by limiting people till they can actually be limited by banning.
  6. was wondering what happened to him. yeah he was a very big part of the heart of comic culture, will be remembered fondly.
  7. if we are doing colors, then blue and white, i abuse the heck out of light blue and white. it fits thematically with ice characters. probably 10-15 of my chars use blue and white as main colors, and several others arent simply because i forced myself not to use light blue and white.
  8. for me, its something weird, i really am looking forward to the new travel pool powers. my main is a ma/sr/bm scrapper, his aoe is exactly one power, dragons tail. spring attack may not be a massively powerful thing for the min/maxers, but for thinning large groups of minions without pulling out my incarnate powers, im kind of keen on it, plus it works thematically for him as a supernaturally quick martial artist to be able to just blink and smash. beam rifles,time,proliferation, new costume stuff, first ward, that's all good and i'll be making a beam rifle/ time defender but that's all expected to be good, i didnt see the 5th travel powers coming, particularly a viable aoe and they are nice.

    oh and more costume slots, for a few chars those will be weapons of mass destruction.

    now when do we get titan weps, street justice and the cot costume?

    almost forgot my other big happy surprise, kanji chest details. i have been bugging for those for several years.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr. DJ View Post
    I couldn't remember anyone elses name for some reason lol

    Either or both Michelles would probably be up for it, doubt Linda and Sigourny
    they could get some hong kong action fans happy by having michelle yeoh and maggie chueng. sadly anita mui died a few years ago. maybe nod to the newer generation of female martial arts actresses by having yanyin vismistandanda(the girl from chocolate, who did some amazing martial arts stunt-work) with the two more established action characters.
    also, to reiterate, cynthia rothrock still looks in pretty good shape these days.
  10. rian_frostdrake

    Freedom? Hardly

    ya know, most of what can be gainfully said has already been said, but my one opinion on this is on the name. i wish they hadn't called it freedom. people always lose their mind when that word gets involved and always start including insane unrealistic ideas about what can realistically be accomplished. the new deal is fair if people go in with their sanity in check.
  11. they really do need to get Cynthia Rothrock to show up for at least a cameo.
  12. hmm, i was out of school when i started for some time, so nothing particularly big, and some of the stuff is a bit personal to post but the big events were
    -lost my grandmother, who was very close to me.
    -changed jobs and future vocational focus, got laid off and found a similar job with many of my former co-workers. downisde is the new jobs, while better paying, are sedentary, so gained bit more weight than I wanted, leading to...
    -stopped actively training in martial arts(not thrilled about that, but work takes up time) have been lifting weights much more though. Still keeping some degree to training though myself.
    -learned i was spending too much free time on the forums, dropped my main forum entirely, and scaled back posting here too.
    -had my play time drastically reduced due to aforementioned new job.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TheJazMan View Post
    I wonder if skinning an NPC takes much more effort than going with a pre-existing one. I am assuming you have knowledge on this? To me it seems it may take a bit more time but it would be time well worth it. I am all for unique encounters in game. There is enough material here that we need something different. Anyway, to each their own
    well, haven't worked as a digital artist, never could draw, myself. but have followed enough developer blogs to know that art assets arent inconsequential and just from dave's posts and posi's comment that he wanted period attire for a mission with nemesis in the 50's but could not justify the resources to draw the conclusions that to get the budget to make more art resources, they have to show that it can be used in a certain amount of content, if not it makes more sense and is going to be more justified to the producers to put the resources elsewhere.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TheJazMan View Post
    Allow me to clarify. I meant give us something else. We have more than enough of Nazi and militia themed junk in game. Don't add more. Give us a unique group which might be specific to only one TF and that's the only time you'll see them. It would compel us even more to check them out. Seeing the same enemy, maps and looks in missions, TFs etc is just a recipe for burnout.

    I think anything does go in this game but when we've had a lot of one thing, create something new. I find this game very limited when you consider the only restriction, really, is imagination.
    i disagree, i find the tips missions fleshing out the rogues gallery added a lot more capes and spandex type content than we have seen in a long time. non powered minions wearing spandex is silly, it looks silly and its one reason i dislike longbow's look. but the characters and the plots they have us interrupt feel very much like they are more comic book themed.

    and making a specific group with a unique visual aesthetic just for one tf or mission would be a pretty big waste of the art team's time, spend the resources for something for 1% of the game with no continuity, or design something iconic that people get to go through their story arc, it just works better for more players though we get close with the scorpion themed crey characters and the storm elementals, and bosses like rularru and the eye of leviathan.
  15. not during play, i tend to play late at night and a lot of thumping around would cause issues. plus loads arent really long enough for anything serious, at least on coh. when i used to play that japanese mmo based on a popular game series, i did push ups while resting, since you had to do a longish rest between every 2-3 fights with my mithra monk.

    also, while playing a certain recent single player game about cybernetic augmentations with hellishly long load times, i tend to do slow extension kicking techniques. not as noisy and good isometric.
  16. and tear down, and rebuild according to slightly different data...and tear down again, and rebuild
  17. I'd be in trouble getting past a basic agrarian society on what i know. but I'd like to think that i could pull in people who have the medical/electrical and metallurgical skills to get me on past my skills, im a fair social organizer and can usually get people to work together well.
  18. rian_frostdrake

    Double XP

    holidays wouldnt hurt, but my guess is it would diminish some of the effect you are looking for. People go nuts for dxp weekends partially because they are rare, when they hit, lots of people rush in and play looser so they team more freely, the event is more of the event than the purpose of the event. this isnt always true, and players with more free time seem to wind up leveling chracters from 6-50 or so, so some really do go nuts on dxp weekend. whats funny is if you have a stable of alts or/and a full time job, you likely are going to have at least a level of patrol exp going every weekend. I have no problem setting them up every major holiday, but I just suspect you would see a normalizing of the effect, and teaming would go back to closer to everyday teaming.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Remaugen View Post
    I agree with the OP but something else in the thread caught my eye:



    Thanks for the tip, just watched it for the first time and it looked great, but but many of the powers shown are ones I am not familiar with.

    I love the Sword & Pistol set!

    But what was all that other weirdness? Is all that stuff actually in the Asian version?
    heck, for a slightly different concept, do "close quarters combat" set and use either a combat knife or krav maga strikes. would work for military or spy type characters, or even a character like leon from the professional.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Heh. Similar to the OP tonight - except for me it was "Nebulous Form" instead of "Shadow Cloak."

    Makes Eclipse FAR less effective. And mire. And when it finally drops the phasing, it drops you too... or at least the pile of bad guys you're in the middle of will.
    have a similar dumb one, powers you purchase with boosters are always put on your tray to start, not looking at my tray, i tried to hit my 3 key, only to notice that self destruct was now there...
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BackFire View Post
    past me and into a different section of the building...

    ...and that's how I learned the difference between the entrance and exit on the trams >.<
    been there, did that, think i was a six year vet at the time.
  21. one thing i'm wondering, are those cot pieces belts or skirts/kilts. this is important to me since if the are belts, i can use them on rian's full dragon form, with monsterous legs. if skirts/kilts, i can still use them on others but i shall shed a single manly tear.
  22. well, in general i like very fast twitch games, like guilty gear/street fighter 4 fast. but for coh, it has kind of a legacy being 7 years old, so where it is is good. latency always seem like an issue in online games, and as chase has pointed out, coh often cheats on locations of where you actually are, so too much reliance on actual reflexes would be problematic for the game itself.
  23. heh, the end of the year is pretty much filled at this point. im pretty much up to my elbows in cybernetic augmentations, and october and november will be tossing sword and sorcery stuff at me for much of the month. heck theres even a superhero game coming up.
  24. will read after work, but quick reply, i giggle immaturely at the title.