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13 hours ago, Indystruck said:
This doesn't work if you're held/immobilized in some way or stuck in a long attack animation.
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17 hours ago, Player2 said:
What good are support characters if they get killed by the autohit powers?
Generally, support characters aren't in melee range which is where these intentional auto-hit / un-resistable damage auras are located. They were designed to neuter melee more than anything else and "encourage" melee players to actually move. That's in addition to making support characters more desirable/required for a team.
7 hours ago, TheSpiritFox said:Untelegraphed AOE attacks that kill you before you can run out of them are bullshit. We're not all playing brutes and tanks dude.
Most all of the auto-hit instant death auras are telegraphed quite well and give you sufficient time to move out of range, unless you're stuck mid-animation or held. Goldbrickers exploding in the Aeon SF are a good example. With that said, the Rikti death bubbles in the LGTF are very, very poorly designed. They're extremely difficult to see, especially given the over saturation of VFX spam that the bubbles get buried under. By the time you realize you're inside one, you're dead.
I'm generally not a fan of instant death auto-hit stuff myself. It doesn't make anything "harder", just more tedious and annoying. I personally think it's unimaginative, but it is what it is here. I don't think it should be changed or removed as there are people enjoying the hard mode content.
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10 hours ago, TheSpiritFox said:
Is the damn thing autohit? Because softcap + T4 barrier core does literally nothing.
Have you tried any of the hard mode TF content yet? Auto-hit and un-resistable damage is how HC have been creating "challenge" for their hard mode content. It's done specifically to neuter melee characters already at the soft cap for DEF and RES while making support characters more desirable to have on a team.
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Love the idea of more options for storage devices. Especially if we can have ones with larger capacity, even if there could only be 1 in the base. Love the idea of a single teleport device too that goes to all locations.
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3 hours ago, Angel of Dust said:
influence selling (peddling?) is not really a thing in the game
Sadly, it is. HC is the only server where this happens unfortunately.
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I love the idea of getting an account level bank. Fully support this idea.
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6 minutes ago, Super Atom said:
For further clarity sakes
A level 25 killing a level 25 minion produced
I had patrol XP (sorry rudra) but i don't think that effects inf?
So for a level 25 to buy ONE SO they would need to defeat 447 minions to buy a single SO. or 2682 for one power full of SO's
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for lue, which is 64 per SO. Which is 384 per power, if you -only- killed lues which be honest, at 25 you aren't killing 5-6 per group you're killing 1-2 per group.
This to me, is no good.
By the time you could afford to even slot 4 abilities, you would have leveled twice and those SO's are about to be obsolete.
Excellent points. This makes more sense for a live retail game where the objective is to get players to play (and thereby pay) longer. The longer you it takes for them to afford anything, the longer they were paying a sub fee or longer they were in the game to buy something in the store. I agree this isn't good and doesn't make sense to me for a non-commercial game.
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23 minutes ago, Snarky said:
There have been so many threads. My simplest solution would be to allow multiple SGs for each character. Which is Comic Book Cannon!!! How Many Supergroups has Wolverine been in? Many Simultaneously!!!
Good thinking. That would work well too.
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3 minutes ago, Sovera said:
Use SG bases and tables, plz.
I don't disagree, however this doesn't help people who may have characters in multiple SGs. If all your characters aren't in the same SG, they don't always have access to the same storage.
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6 minutes ago, Snarky said:
you can email them to yourself...
or start an alternate account. this will allow you to make a farmer to self PL, and also provides flexibility when transferring awkward amounts of things.
Question along these lines, has anyone ever asked any of the folks here on the HC team about the feasibility of adding account based storage items to bases? I don't remember seeing any threads about it. Certainly would be nice to be able to store stuff at the account level and not bother with using alts as mules.
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3 minutes ago, battlewraith said:
Thanks! It's called making a comparison.
A comparison to what though? I never said anything about heart surgeons or whether they should or shouldn't make more or less than a big name Hollywood actor.
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2 hours ago, battlewraith said:
Does Tom Cruise deserve to make more money for a day's work than say a heart surgeon? According to the market yes, because Tom Cruise will bring in an audience of fans that will significantly increase the odds of a film making a lot of profit.
1 hour ago, battlewraith said:As I indicated, there are metrics where Tom Cruise deserves more than what the heart surgeon makes. Tom is going to bring in money for the studio, far more than the heart surgeon as an individual will for the hospital.
What a fantastic response to a statement I never made. Great job! 👍
17 minutes ago, ZacKing said:Now, is Tom Cruise worth the 70 to 100 million he makes per movie? Not to me, but I'm not really a big fan of his, especially since he's made some real turds before. Is RDJ worth the 450+ million he's made doing Marvel movies? Personally, I don't think so, but that's my opinion, not a fact. I think that kind of money is way too much money for one actor to make, especially given that there's quite a lot of very talented people in SAG/AFTRA who are struggling to make minimum guild wages because they haven't gotten their "big break" yet. That's what I believe the conversation was about. Maybe the Tom Cruises and RDJs can take a pay cut to help those fellow guild members out?
You're correct in your assessment @ZacKing, thank you. My comment was more about my personal opinion that many big name actors are overpaid in general. And I agree, many of them are way overpaid, especially with so many other very talented people in SAG/AFTRA and the WGA who are really struggling to find work. To me, someone like Tom Cruise getting paid 100 million for a movie is too much. He's probably worth upwards of 500 million, if not more. Does he really need another 100 mil for his next movie? Is he really going to live any differently if he's worth 500 million instead of 400 million? Maybe if people like that didn't demand that fat pay check, studios would have a little more money to work with, be able to pay people a little better for their work and be more inclined to take chances on smaller indie-type projects. Sometimes I think people forget franchises like Rocky started as an indie-film, and many indie-films like The Whale and Everything Everywhere All at Once have won academy awards.
This is all my opinion though, so others I'm sure will disagree, which they're of course welcome to do.
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6 minutes ago, battlewraith said:
Right, so there you go. Hollywood way overspends on actors and actresses.
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On 2/24/2024 at 2:38 PM, Zhym said:
But I joined Scrapyard Beatdown 2024 for a while today, and after defeating Scrappy about 70 times, I don't see any pet recipes. So now I'm wondering if I'm reading the patch notes wrong.
I was also on leagues that had to have killed him hundreds and hundreds of times over the weekend and never received a single recipe drop. Drops in general for everything seem off to me. I freely admit I don't have hard data to back this up so take it for what it's worth, but my experience is drop rates are even lower than they used to be across the board. Running story content as of late on various alts, I'm lucky to get any enhancement drops, anything above the occasional common salvage is rare, let alone anything above common recipes. Seems like stuff dropped more frequently before. Again, just my observation.
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17 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:
Movies need to make roughly twice to two and a half times their budget to break even. Cinemas take half the box office for themselves so if a film cost 100 million to make, add another 50 million for advertising (being on the low side) a film needs to make around 350 million just to break even. Movie budgets are often under reported as the cost of reshoots can double the stated budget. In the case of Madam Web all the dialogue was redone (badly) and sometimes you can see the lips move out of synch to the dialogue. Personally I would double the movies stated budget so 500 to 600 million would be needed to break even.
This seems very likely and does beg the question - who at Sony thought this movie would be able to bring in that kind of money to even come close to breaking even, let alone turn a profit? I think what @ZacKing said earlier about sunk costs makes sense and that's a big part of what's going on. It certainly seems to me that studios are reluctant to give up on the superhero genre since they've already invested so much money in it. That and I agree with those who've said Hollywood way overspends in general, specifically way, way, way too much on actors. It's insane the amount of money being paid to some of them, especially when you have SAG/AFTRA going on strike over wages and such.
17 hours ago, Frostbiter said:Morbius suffered from the same reshoot issues at times. Both of these movies have been a mess. I'm very interested in seeing where Sony is going with these. I'm trying not to have some hope for Kraven the Hunter because I suspect I'll be disappointed.
I don't disagree, although I'd say I don't have much hope at all for Kraven coming anywhere remotely close to breaking even either. He's not that interesting a character in my opinion and certainly isn't one that would be a box office draw. Personally, I think Sony is better off selling the Spider-Man rights back to Disney and pocketing the cash. Certainly a better investment than churning out turd after turd that's bleeding them dry.
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I was one of the eight this morning who tried this and can confirm the Kronos Titan did not spawn for anyone. I tried this again a couple more times today and found that spawning the Kronos in Talos is indeed bugged. He seems to be spawning too close to the Hospital and is getting droned. I tried this 3 times and can repeat the result with the following steps -
- Run "Operation: World Wide Red" arc.
- Run through all missions until "Stop All Wildflower Agents" mission.
- Complete "Stop All Wildflower Agents" mission. Before exiting the mission, use Oro portal inside the mission.
- Go to Oroborous and then select Talos Island destination.
- Kronos Titan doesn't appear near hill area next to train. NOTE: The Kronos Titan USED TO spawn right at the bottom of the hill on the street prior to this patch.
The result I was able to repeat is after waiting a minute or two on the hill, start moving around Talos to see if it spawned somewhere else. Where I was able to repeatedly find him spawning was by moving NE into the hospital parking lot. The Kronos Titan would spawn in that parking lot, then immediately disappear. I was able to do this three times so far. I think this is too close to the police drones. It's the only place I've seen it spawn in since the patch.
You never needed to move off of the hill before as he'd always spawn right at the bottom of the hill. I'll try this again tomorrow to confirm again, however it does seem this is bugged since last patch.
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1 hour ago, Jimmy said:
Post in the bug forum if you haven't already.
It's unlikely this is related to the Adamanstor change, but it was a huge patch so there's always a chance something went awry.
I see @Yumichan beat me to it already for the bug report. I tried this a couple more times today and this does look to be bugged with regard to the Talos location. I'll put my findings into the other thread.
1 hour ago, Jimmy said:These are fine. They require a meaningful amount of effort.
Good to know. Thank you.
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So a group of 8 of us each ran the Operation: World Wide Red arc via Oro individually to coordinate a mass Kronos spawn in Talos. We were 0 for 8 in spawning him, so whatever changes have been put into place to correct Adamastor, it looks like it totally broke the ability to spawn Kronos in Talos. Talked with a few others in game who had a similar result since this patch went live. Seems like this change broke more than it fixed.
Is there any "official" word on whether or not spawning multiple Babbages and Kronos Titans via coordinated teams considered an "exploit" now? Would be nice to know so we can all avoid wasting our time any further on these activities.
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5 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:
At least you have to work for Scrapyard rather than sit there AFK
Fixing Adamastor I could see since he can be AFK summoned and farmed solo, however since other GMs "have to be worked for" then their rewards shouldn't be changed so drastically, if at all in my opinion. I can already envision a whole host of other fun GM spawning activities getting smacked by the nerf bat because of this. I don't know about all the servers, but periodically several teams on Excel, Torch and Everlasting are coordinating multiple Synapse runs to spawn multiple Babbages simultaneously. I guess we can assume that this bit of occasional fun will get smacked down as well?
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2 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:
There's reasons you might not want it gone, such as tracking the health of that pistol guy and his dog in the arena, but....
Adding a close button doesn't change this. It just provides those who would want to close it the option to do so. Those who are interested in keeping it can.
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Sorry to be blunt, but the task list window for the SBB event is very annoying. It can't be removed or closed completely. Best we can do is minimize it a bit, but it's still taking up valuable screen space and can get in the way when trying to play the content. Windows like this should always be able to be dismissed or closed as to not obscure the screen for the player.
Any way of getting this window to have a close button so we can remove it from view? If there's an option for this already, I don't see it anywhere. If not, please give us the option to close this window and others like it.
Thanks.
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I have to agree with others here. This is a super, super annoying change and should be rolled back and/or removed entirely in the next patch. "Making tips drop less" does absolutely nothing to prevent this text from obscuring the screen when it does happen. There has to be a better way of notifying the player of these drops instead of this annoying text. The game is already over polluted with VFX. It needs less, not more.
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Saw a character broadcasting in LFG with the word "Jedi Master" in the name. Sent over a PM just to let them know the word Jedi is trademarked and that it's against the CoC, so he may want to change it. The player tried his best to get into a debate with me that the word Jedi can't be trademarked because and I quote "words can't be trademarked". Hope they enjoy the name while it lasts.
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5 hours ago, battlewraith said:
When you complain about Heimdall or Reed Richards being race swapped, you're implying that whiteness is a foundational aspect of their character. Which is silly and wouldn't fly for Nick Fury either. The ancient one is an even worse example. The character is an old, exotic mysterious sage. How is maleness as a characteristic important to the character?
I'm not complaining. I asked a question in regard to the use of historical context. Historically, The Ancient One, Heimdall and Reed Richards were all portrayed as males of certain ethnicity. That's what comic readers remember and would be expecting to see when those characters were brought to life on film. Why did they need to be changed? As for the Ancient One in particular, the race/gender swapping was done in the MCU to not offend Chinese audiences since China is such a huge market now. Same with the Mandarin. As for Nick Fury, the Ultimates and Ulimate Avengers pre-dates the MCU, so it's not like Nick Fury being black in the MCU was out of left field.
As for the last sentence there, that has to be one of the stupidest questions ever. Why does Supergirl or Wonder Woman need to be a woman then? Why does Superman or Batman need to be a man? You're virtue signaling.
5 hours ago, Coyotedancer said:The gay, black Nazi film likewise, though they'd have to tread very, very carefully there. With the right writer and cast, and in spite of a ton of historical baggage, it's not absolutely impossible that it might work out. But, like I said in that first post, the context is still going to matter and their odds of overcoming people's doubts wouldn't be great. History, like it or not, has more weight than a comic book. The subject-matter means that it'll be taken more seriously by its potential audience.
I think you and I both know there would be a literal meltdown of public rage were anyone to even consider making such a film.
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No one plays hardmodes because they suck
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This is only temporary. Once most people have enough PAs to purchase all the costumes and pets they want, there will be more available in the AH and prices will come down. As for removing hard mode content, no thank you. I don't run them often myself, but that doesn't mean that it should get removed. Others are really enjoying the hard mode content and that's a good thing.