biostem

Yeah, CoH pretty much needs a 8086 architecture, barring any emulation thereof, which would add additional layers of complexity...

Any modern computer will be able to run CoH without issue, but you will want a dedicated video card.

I don't think you can look at a blaster's melee attacks in isolation; They do their best work when combining both ranged and melee attacks. You can get a rough idea of the damage scales for each AT here, but that doesn't give you the whole picture; Blasters get stacking damage buffs for each of their primary or secondary powers they use, so that has to be factored in as well. Further, if you combine that with many blasters having access to both aim & buildup, not to mention being able to deal damage the entire time they are closing to melee range, things add up pretty quickly. Don't get me wrong, scrappers also deal great damage, but they trade some of it away for that added degree of safety.

Here's one I put together: jedi concept1.costume

Animations are probably the most time-intensive aspect of creating a new set, which is why they get reused & repurposed so often. The closest you're likely to see would be some tweaking of the titan weapon animations, but even then, some of the existing broadsword weapon models don't have the correct hilt lengths. I suppose they could try to make the katana animations selectable for broadsword, but IIRC, those 2 sets basically started off as clones of each other in the first place...

Now you gotta do his female counterpart, "Juiciet".

Frankly, since you're getting back into the swing of things, I wouldn't worry too much about a specific build right now. Heck, by the time you hit 50, you'll have 3 separate builds to work with. To that end, what I'd suggest would be to use some level 25 or 30 "generic" invention-origin enhancements, (IOs), which are on par with single-origin enhancements, but never expire as you level up. Those cost a lot less than the set-IOs, and should give you a good enough idea about the character to see if they're worth sticking with and fully slotting with said set-IOs.

Managed to get mine in this month. Keep up the great work, HC team!

Here's what I came up with. As I mentioned before, it makes heavy use of the barbarian costume pieces... he-man concept1.costume

Inspired by your design for BlackCondor, I present to you "The Barrier-Bird":

I'll see if I have time to put something together later, but start with a bare chest, then the barbarian legs, (with or without the tights), and you're most of the way there - just tweak it to your liking.

No need to, though - use x-ray beam as your ranged attack, then rely on boxing, kick, cross punch, and maybe air superiority or even jump kick or some others to fill out an attack chain. Cyclops was quite the capable hand to hand combatant, after all...

I may be wrong on this, but beyond the increased XP for mobs within an instance, you also get the end-of-mission XP.

I mean, all you need is 1 farming character, then you just roll anything you want on an alternate account and dual-box. Don't even need to follow or autofire anything...

In looking over the Wiki, to see what particular power combinations I haven't played yet, one that looked interesting to me is beasts/forcefield. Has anyone tried this combination, and if so, what are your thoughts or advice? Thanks for reading!

There might have been a time, when CoH was still live, that farmers used bots to speed up the process of gathering rewards to sell on the RMT market, but in general, I don't think CoH ever rose to the level of popularity for it to become a real problem...

If you don't enforce copyright, you lose it. Once a precedent has been established that a company won't enforce it for whatever the reason, it becomes ammunition for others to violate it going forward.

So... like Species, only with batteries?

Watch out for their machine gun jubblies, though...

But, but... what if the team leader was actually the one botting, and didn't want anyone to catch on!!? Hmmm.....? They could have been jerk-hacking AND gone to the Americans, at the SAME time!!!

The left side of the support hybrid tier gives extra bonuses to pets. IIRC, the interface abilities extend to your pets as well, so go with whatever you like. As for destiny abilities, I tend to lead toward barrier, (not just for the defense, but also because I like having a way to rez allies if and when needed). Barring that, maybe clarion since it can be made permanent and the 24x7 status protection may be very useful for yourself and your pets. Regarding lores, Cimerorans have some nice melee abilities.

I mean, it was still "just" one mission... You shouldn't expect to be showered with XP for what is really just a regular task, and clearly isn't impossible...

Well, I was more wondering why she wasn't flying the Ghost, proper. Appreciate all the answers, though. 😎👍

That's clearly the inferior model...

Only issue there is that it'd have to be extended to the league, and it really shouldn't be required that you be on the team or league that directly summoned him, (unless, perhaps, they could divorce the timer from being something global, and instead tie it to each individual player instead).