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El D last won the day on June 21 2022

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  1. As someone who grew up watching the original X-Men TAS (and playing the side-scroller X-Men beat 'em up arcade game and Marvel vs Capcom)... This is fantastic. This is exactly what I wanted and more. It's not just continuing where the original left off plot-wise, but honoring the spirit and style of it as well - with a fresh coat of paint and awesome fight choreography. This is what happens when a franchise is worked on by folks who aren't ashamed of 'what it used to be' but rather know how much better it could have been sans budget limitations, juggling TV ratings, and the tech of the time. The modernizations in the dialogue and character choices work excellently, and so far all of the returning and new voice cast have been great. Fully on-board with seeing where this goes given the storylines they seem to be adapting. More stuff like this, please and thank you.
  2. I support this idea, but only if the hostage NPC audio clue is someone imitating the 'Wooo-Wooo-Wooo' glowie sound effect
  3. They have a surprising amount of returning voice actors for this series. Wolverine, Rogue, Beast, Storm, and Mister Sinister are all played by the original actors from TAS, albeit with different levels of 'affected by 30 years of time.' The original voices for Jean Grey, Jubilee, Gambit, Cable, and Morph are all also in the show, but as new characters. Time will tell if adjusting the casting for some characters and not others was the right call, but still - respect to them being willing to bring back as many as they could. Definitely planning on giving it a watch. Maybe if it does well enough, they'll do a continuation of the Spider-Man TAS too (at least, that's what the inner child-nerd in me hopes for).
  4. We should, yeah. It doesn't require a mass inundation of reports every time someone spots another player wandering around as C$PT!AN 4MER!C4 or Kal-El of Kyrpton or whoever, but sending one off, urging folks to cut it out, and moving on with the rest of the day is the right call. With the new agreement with NCSoft, Homecoming has all the more reason not to let these things slide (not that they tolerated it before now), and not urging the same mindset within the community sets a poor precedent. Plus, frankly it's just lazy. If these folks would make characters inspired by yet distinct from a famous IP, the devs can't do anything about that - heck, they actively encourage it, precisely because there's no infringement being done. Players are free to be as Kryptonian-like or Iron Man-adjacent as they want, the just can't try to pass themselves off as literally Superman or Tony Stark. It's uninspired at best and dangerous for the future of the game at worst, and that deserves more investment from the community.
  5. Let me see if I've got this straight. Your objective is to implement the ability to deliberately target other players with PvP, in non-PvP zones, and allow attacking players the opportunity to possibly lock their targets out of accessing certain characters entirely? Then if the locked out character doesn't have a ransom paid the character gets deleted? And you want the playerbase and the devs to support this suggestion?
  6. While I'm not opposed to this idea, there's already an established tradition of placing Memorial NPCs to honor players that have passed on. IMO having their characters actually in-game as an eternal part of CoH feels like the better option. Like @Clave Dark 5 said, they're still there, getting ready for their own adventures.
  7. I'd say luckily. The whole 'Normal Hero -> Incarnate -> Dimensionless -> Primordials' progression chain the devs revealed in the AMAs was going to be a massive headache at the very best. Totally understand it as a 'promoting continual subscription grinding mechanic' to give players The Next Thing To Do for their max level characters but given how many arguments the HC forum gets right now about power creep/progression just with IOs and AE (and the added Hardmode content)... I'd really loathe to see a version of CoH that has multiple tiers of endgame OP nonsense further beyond what we've already got.
  8. Can't really find much to argue with in that video. I tried Champions Online for a bit after sunset, as many other CoH alumni did. It was interesting enough at the time but the overly cartoony cel-shaded graphics and the extremely stylized settings never really hooked me. Champions always seemed like a Saturday morning cartoon writ large and I just found myself missing CoH's more realistic take in style and presentation. It was akin to going from the original Teen Titans cartoon to Teen Titans Go (and seeing how one was cancelled while the other continues to astonishingly live on and on, is more than an apt comparison...). Champions always felt like a missed opportunity to actually grow from CoH. Its costume creator and powerset concepts did things we, as players, would have paid through the nose to have while the game was live (and in some cases, are only getting now due to concentrated dev efforts). Except Cryptic never really seemed to capitalize on any of that and now they just slap more and more stuff into the Zen Market and lootboxes. Neverwinter was a number of steps up for a long while and filled that MMO void, but they also sent it tumbling down that same lootbox hill years ago.
  9. @Oubliette_Red is correct - the mini-mode activates its own unique set of scales that ignore/supersede the scale sliders in the costume creator. It's effectively using another model with the same costume pieces/color selections as the currently activated costume, which is part of why you can't edit or change costumes with it on. It'd break things or at the very least be extremely wonky. That said, it would be nice to have a variant without the Baby New Year sliders. Just a really tiny character, or one to be like, Nemesis Automaton height but with your own costumes. Those would be fun alternate versions.
  10. She is still around - if the player takes the 'stab both deities' route it states Tielekku 'vanishes back to the spirit world.' Also they use the God-Killer Sword to do that bit, not the Dagger of Jocas. I'm not even sure deities can be killed in CoH, but speculating on that gets into the mix of how Tielekku, Ermeeth, and Hequat work VS how the Banished Pantheon works VS how the Well of the Furies/Pandora's Box stuff works, and that's just a headache. Mostly due to the Well of the Furies/Pandora's Box stuff and the fact that a bunch of the lore for the original gods and the Banished Pantheon never actually comes up in-game.
  11. Still not quite sure what RP scenes folks in here are doing where the continual sounds of vomiting are considered a benefit but hey, Pocket D takes all kinds. Except, apparently, anyone afflicted with repeated puking. As per the devs, they can get right out.
  12. Nope, he's still gone. Granted, with Pocket D being Pocket D, those sounds you heard could have been... well, any number of things. Especially if you play on Everlasting.
  13. The first one - the Prismatic costumes and effects deactivate when the player dies and have to be turned back on after being rezzed. It does break the immersion a bit, but everything detoggles when the player dies so it's just following the same rules for active powers.
  14. Honestly it seems like what would happen if an AI were asked to generate a 'CoH Forum Argument.' Most of the replies in this thread are the most token forum kvetching I've ever seen or just trolling, which is basically the same thing at that point. Not a knock against trolling, mind. That's as much an age-old pastime on CoH forums as arguing about stuff is. Frankly, a farcical back and forth about Puking Guy is a lot better than the nonsense that gets tossed around in Powerset threads (or the massive dumpster fires that were the AE threads). >.>
  15. I realize the Middle Ages were different times but we've evolved beyond the need for 'John the Pukesmith' to be the town's entertainment in the last couple hundred years, my vampiric friend. 😛 If your CoX is flavored like vomit... I seriously don't know what to tell you. See a doctor. See an exorcist. See... actually, @dtjunkie's Omega Mop might be able to help. He is in the market for a new nemesis after all.
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