Sakura Tenshi
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3 hours ago, DR_Mechano said:
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The sybil stuff people are so hungry for REALLY doesn't work unless it has the belt we have because it doesn't actually connect to anything, it looks terrible with anything but that piece.
Didn't stop the live devs from giving it to the Talons and Knives of Vengeance without the belt piece.
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Totally random on the note of of uniques to NPCs: I really freaking hate that Talons of Vengeance have copies of scirocco's sword. Bugs me that weapon that's both signature to scirocco and has exspress lore related to what it is... Is apparently standard issue to any ToV snekgurl.
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Okay, so I had an idea for a possible difficulty increases, some of which could be mutually exclusive or combined.
First one, as i mentioned, is that 'mission objective bosses' that come up in content should have an option to be upgraded into EBs, this one sticks out to me from playing a Citadel TF where we had to defeat a boss. A regular old boss for an objective and I thought to myself "there's no way in hell that was a challenge for an eight-man team even before IOs". The challenge would come from needing to basically make new 'generic' EBs and the coding options. Nevermind if you want to be fancy and give them some special attacks. Still, I think this could be, if nothing else, a way to let soloers have bigger challenges and big teams actually have time to notice a mission boss.
Second one that could be tied to this would involve giving standard bosses, EBs, and AVs a +5% accuracy boost (and thus +10% to Incarnate content bosses, etc.) A large part of 'runaway surviability' is how easy it can be to softcap the defenses of many builds, such a change would mean builds would either need to give up other functions like recharge boosts or recovery for more defense or accept a loss of survivability and focus on their other functions. Now, just doing this means that powersets geared towards defense (SR, Nin, Energy, Ice, possibly shield, SoAs can take it dry though.) would need to be boosted so they don't get screwed over, allowing them to basically continue on as somewhat normal, if not laughing much more heartedly laugh at minions and Lieutenants.
The second one though is really just a rough idea, I know the 'ease' of city of heroes is a much more complicated situation than just runaway survivability, but it could be considered as one facet of a larger difficulty rise.
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Thanks, bossk, also, damn I want the antlers so freaking much.
Also, the 'across the body' sashes.
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Not mine, look up 'Centurii-chan' on facebook. they do some great stuff.
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I'd love so many things from the NPC only section of icon (which, I can't access anymore, how do I unlock it again?)
But I do recall hearing some of these costume pieces can cause crashes in the game proper, on top of that there might be some reluctance due to a hefty dose of 'high gender gate' in NPC costumes which we can even see now. (notice only women have glowing yakuza tattoos, even though there's dudes with it in Dark Astoria's Tsoo)
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58 minutes ago, Snarky said:
Been a long time since i geeked out on roman legions. Wasnt there a non com type at the end of each row about one every ten guys that more or less kept the line tight?
Closest I can think of is the Signifer who was sort of the unit to unit version the Aquilifer. (two others roman units absent from Cimerorans.)
Also, you wouldn't believe how annoying it is that none of the shield options are an actual, full length squared Scutum or that the only thrusting attack with Broadsword is the Assassin's strike for stalkers.
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Playing an ITF again since this game's closure, I've learned a lot about the historical roman army, and now looking at Cimerorans, my inner history nerd rages at the number of Centurions and camp prefects in a mob. (also that they erroneously are using the title 'immunes' which is supposed to mean they're non-combatants when those are more Auxillia). And so if I could make some dumb changes to this game, I'd be renaming the Cimeroran Traitors as:
- Legionarii (is fine)
- Centurions now become Prima Pilus or Prima Contuburnium (a made up rank and still not numerically accurate but one more accurate than having a centurion every third dude)
- Preafectus Castorum are changed to Legio Praetoria (explanation being that Romulus has 'promoted' his best fighters as praetorians and though has assigned them as part of the regular legions, likewise they'd also get purple instead of red)
- Immunes Engineers are now just Auxillia Engineers
- Immunes Surgeons are also fine.
And that's an example of a dumb, pointless change I'd make.
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2 hours ago, SwitchFade said:
I'm sorry, but this is erroneous.
Sr has
Debuff resist
Scaling damage resist
Increased movement speed
Increased recharge
Slow resist
It has been shown time and again to be one of the most potent late game scrap, tank and sentinel sets. It also does this with less slotting than others, allowing more flexibility. My SR characters are nigh unkillable
The debuff resistance I brought up as one of it's strong points (especially having played /nin), I did neglect to mention most of the other things, and I did say SR does what it does well, but when it doesn't, that scaling damage resist honestly is going to feel more like a joke than some saving grace. When the RNG stops favoring you for a moment, or god forbid if the enemy has a lot of auto-hit attacks (like the Talons of Vengeance have with their damn prophetess) you really really feel SR's limits, and I'd go so far as you say you're going to feel it more than with Shield Defense which has +max HP and actual resistances it can fall back on, it's going to be felt more than Praet Clockwork against a willpower character.
In otherwords: SR's only sin is specializing a bit too much in a game where some of the better performing sets are more well-rounded.
I should also note I'll only argue SR would underperform on tanks because of their built in role, scrappers, brutes, and stalkers aren't married to being unkillable but rather killing other things quickly, a tank doesn't necessarily have that option (at the moment) and with SR, the more you have piled on you, the bigger the chance you're going to start bleeding is. But, it's been ages since I've played my SR scrappers and brute from live, and my only example on this server is an BS/SR scrapper I have on redside. So, maybe things are different even outside of IO set availability. (which, I sincerely stress against focusing on as I believe this game is still balanced around SO builds)
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>mfw unrepentant weeb especially as a 16 year old
>Loved kenshin
I'll just let you figure it out from there what my first character was.
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Having played an SR character from live, the big thing with SR is that his has a lot of positional defense and... Actually, that's honestly it. Even other issue 0 sets offer more in terms of survivability options like Invul, dark armor, stone armor and ice armor offering resistance, defenses, AND a self-heal. Fiery armor offered more offensive options along with resistences and a a self-heal and a self-res. And having branched out from SR to /nin, willpower, shield defense, rad armor, and bio armor, I can tell you SR does what it does well. It's defenses don't fold like a paper tiger when looked at funny by anything with -Def, it has +perception and -perception resistance which, ho boy, lemme tell you: try tanking when you can't see anything to taunt, and it has confusion protection (my bioarmor guy tried to run the Villain Side New Praetorian arcs. Fighting Awakened was a freaking nightmare).
But I do feel SR could be better as a powerset, and especially as a tanking set, because others just... offer more.
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Necroing my own thread a bit, also because I realize I never posted the other half.
Some mission maps that would be nice to see which could still probably run on existing assets would be:
-Nemesis Tech Labs/Factories.
We have a Nemesis base thanks to the RWZ arcs, but surprisingly it never really comes up again, and admittedly, the textures and such are limited, so assets might need to be drawn from the Clockwork maps and even the Antikythera mechanism chamber from the Signature Story Arc 2, both of such things would need a slight retexture to match the aesthetics of Nemesis. Also some bits from the older warehouse tilesets could help, mostly the conveyor belts. Otherwise I think this could all be a reskinned Praet Tech tileset making full usage of the bio experiment pods, prisons, and possibly retexturing some of the power sources.
-Longbow/Arachnos/Council/Fifth Column/Nemesis/Generic Paramilitary/Science Submarines
I think this could theoretically be pulled off using some of the smallest versions of the Cargo Ship interiors, remove a lot of the cargo and place individual levels of roughly Office height to give more area and floors to explore (separated by elevators/doors) and change up the spawn entrance location using an upside down sewer hatch door. The useage of load doors would be needed since to do the top rooms and give a sense of a rounded space, we could flip a cargo ship map upside down so the rounded portions become the ceilings. (at least the rounded portions we can see). And finally from there it's just filling it up and texturing with the appropriate factional assets and perhaps a few taken from the Frigate interiors. If a 'viewport' were to be included, perhaps a special observatory room(s) (which would need all new map geometries and such) could be made to provide a limited view outside, which could be as simple as a blue-tinted abyss with bubbles floating up past it or as elaborate as a mockup sea floor (though that might need new assets)
These last ones would call for new map geometries to be rigged up, and potentially some new texture and object assets.
-Council/Fifth Column/Nemesis Airship
Biggest trouble with this one would be that the actual navigable mission space would only be a small portion to something set within a skybox high above the 'generic cityscapes' seen outside of the warwalls. Though it could be simplified by just making a 'cloud layer' floor with glimpses of a distant land texture map below (see Bioshock Infinite for example) or even just open water.
-Proper space station
It annoyed me to no end when the Maria Jenkins and Tina MacIntyre missions were redone and Anti-Matter's space station was still just a generic praetorian tech map. This one would hopefully be simpler as it would involve using existing tech maps but the tricky part, would be creating new geometries where you could plausibly look out and see the skybox from the Shivan meteor or Space Island maps. It wouldn't need to be all rooms, just a few key ones that plausibly would be on the outermost points of it. If one were to go allout though, a proper space ship could be done though would likely be done similarly to the Airship suggestion.
-Apartment Complex/Hotel Interiors
The biggest issue I can see here would be lag from a lot of small assets, but the basic idea would be to make a few interiors of multiple stories surrounding an open foyer with some off shoot spaces and odd accessible apartment/hotel room. I think the assets are there, we have them in the base editor, but, once more, geometries. Relatedly
-Generic Mansion maps
Once more, we have the assets now, it's just a manor of making some mansions feel large (like the Dr. Kane trial) and are not either run down or lead into some weird lab or cave.
That's all for now off the top of my head that I can give some elaboration on. Maybe I should see if I could learn to map edit for the team if only to put my money where my mouth is.
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24 minutes ago, Galaxy Brain said:
Only issue I see with a nemesis system is making pushover nemesis designed to be wrecked by you.
I think this could mostly be mitigated in that you can only choose primary, secondary, pool, and ancillary powers, but not which powers specifically.
Alternatively, instead of specific powersets, we could only choose a broad theme (naturally with power overlaps) and from there they can even get power combos normally impossible as a player. So if you pick a 'fiery powers' theme you could start with them only using a bit of the fiery assault mixed with fiery armor, but come incarnate levels they're laying into you with every single possible fire power in the game. Such could even be a way to not necessarily need to give them a full suite of incarnate powers down the line (maybe just the judgement). Drawbacks with this could include the obvious fact that not all powers are as broad as fire, such as Assault Rifle, even assuming we can throw in SoA attacks like Single Shot, Heavy Burst, and so on, they'll still have less than others, and then there's just those powersets that would need all new powers given to them to keep them in the running like Katana or broadsword.
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57 minutes ago, Lines said:
That Kheld hunter idea is making me think, and it would be a big'un and unrealistic'un.
What about a nemesis system where players could create one or more nemeses AE-style. That nemesis and their gang would appear randomly in missions every now and again when you least expect them (perhaps with the exception of missions that already have an AV, so as not to interrupt). They level up with you and are scaled to you, being an incarnate as you become an incarnate.
If they win the fight, they gloat and run off and despawn, so they don't become an insurmountable obstacle, but are a looming threat.
I think it could have hilarious results.
Honestly, this would make papers and tips become pretty damn awesome. Coding nightmare aside. I'd love to give my heroes and villains their own foes and even their own lackeys outside of AE.
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9 hours ago, sacredlunatic said:
lololololololol just imagining this is hilarious.
*JINJYO NI SHOBU INTENSIFIES!*
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27 minutes ago, biostem said:
Perhaps they should also get their recharge times shaved down just a hair, too...
Sadly, i'm not sure if this is possible without either giving all lethal attacks something like Savage melee's bloodlust which is an external boost of +recharge or reducing their damage output. I remembered hearing from somewhere once damage and recharge rates are hard coded to be basically inversely proportional to eachother. Why the live devs thought that would be a great idea remains a mystery. Maybe a time saver on balancing?
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So, what it all boils down to is that basically all factions that predate issue 18 probably need to be looked at for massive update in powers and such. It sounds utterly insane and impossible but holds so much potential!
I've always thought Rikti should get some version of Phalanx Fighting and mentalists and Priests should have leadership buffs since they're supposed to operate as a psychic network and thus read incoming attacks. Then steal the IDF's generic '30% resistance to all' since Rikti Battle Armor is supposed to be some of the most advanced on earth.
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Random thought: if I could change knockback, more than anything else, I'd make knockback/knock up due additional smashing damage based on how much if overcomes a target's protection against such things. It always felt silly sometimes when you knock a baddie back, especially off a ledge, they get back up and their fine. But this way you send them flying (like say you have mag 10 KB and they have 0 protection) and they are going to sting from it.
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Yeah, an sorry, but trying to make four different physical types of damage is pretty out there. DnD has the extend of it with slashing, piercing, and bludgeoning (how do you even define puncture from pierce?) and I'm personally happy with Lethal and Smash. If you really wanted to get nitpicky about things, you could argue wall bullets should be lethal/smash damage since bullets expand on impact, or you simplify it further ala how City of Titans intends to with "physical" damage rolling smashing and lethal together and deliberately leave things vague for overlap for players to work it out.. (though I feel CoT should consider at 4th positional and 4th damage type just to give it a bit more diversity)
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One difficulty option I'd like to see is to have end mission bosses of various 'generic' missions potentially scale up. Like fighting EBs or even full AV versions of boss critters in Tip Missions and Radios/newspapers. Admittedly, part of this is because I'd like to see this backported to AE so we can get some 'generic AVs/EBs' in enemy factions, even if it means we'd have to live with getting our rears handed to us by AV Flambeaux.
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Thing is, Chris, just because that's realistic doesn't mean it's fun or good for gameplay balance even. If were were to push everything strictly to realism in a super hero game of all things, assault rifle, dual pistols, and archery should just not even bother existing as powersets (and heck, when do people armed with these things actually do anything in comicbooks? And don't bring up hawkeye and green arrow, they're either using special super tech arrows or doing jack all in fights, and notice how Black Widow has more success punching things than shooting them), and from a gameplay perspective you're creating 'trap choices' to punish players who don't know the meta, which any RPG designer except Monte Cooke of Wizards of the Coast will tell you is awful game design. And if you really want to get into the 'realism' aspect, then what about heroes or villains who learn to bypass armor consistently by targetting gaps and weakpoints. (know what shrapnel running rampant inside a machine's parts can do? ask a tank)
There should be more things that are actually weak against lethal damage (like fleshy targets and badguys who clearly don't bother with bodyarmor of any kind), overall resistance to it should be reduced, or lethal centric powersets should to be buffed in some way to make the lack of damage worthwhile. Otherwise you just punish players for following a concept.
I speak as someone whose main back on live was a katana/SR scrapper, and it really really REALLY stank like a skunk towards end game because the only things weak to lethal were carnies and some banished pantheon (the zombies), and that last one got removed for the incarnate/level 50 versions of the mob later.
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5 minutes ago, Outrider_01 said:
Thats a personal issue. It isn't required at all to get the powers, but you want the more useful one like its manditory. Complaint is similar to when Fitness was a a power pool, to many thought they had to give up a lot 2 picks for Stamina yet in a way both swift and jump are useful; they just didn't see it and considered Stamina to be the only one. Picking all your primary/secondary means you give up power picks or power picks for the primary/secondary.
Boxng is subpar, but so is a lot of other first tier powers. It could use a buff, but not the option to skip. The buffing from picking more of the melee powers is a joke, even brawl gets a bonus. Tough and Weave should buff the attacks.
Exactly my thoughts on the bottom (actually mentioned it earlier). It's a lot to ask for, but I would love a day to come when i actually debate between picking up one of my primary or secondary offensive powers or jumpkick because 'it's so much better now and can be just as useful in it's own way'.
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Why, yes, that is a mother@#$%ing Jojo reference.
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I'll restate that I don't mind getting some powerpool picks having costs, I just want to actually feel excited about picking up kick and jab as much as I would be for tough and weave, or that after getting those I'd actually feel picking up cross punch would be worth it in exchange for one of my primary and secondary powers or an ancillary power.
Could we please get these costume pieces moved from dev only?
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Wait, I'm thinking of Banished Pantheon Shamans, not Talons.