High_Beam

Appears up now.

Yes. I was trying to not spoil story thingies. At least they were written in game as straight up evil, you feel heroic taking them out.

That guys a jerk, his brother too, and his sister. The whole family are kind of jerks.

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So last night jumped onto a great Rikti Invasion League that was actively hunting UXBs. Awesome. Anyway I had some progress but didnt check casue I was running around sploding bombs. When its all said and done I am one short. No worries. Today I am Flashbacking the Traditionalist Foil Badge from Steve Sheridan. And I run into an unexploded bomb. Now it doesn't say that, it says Rikti Tactical Dropshot Bomb and when I popped it, ding so did Bomb Specialist (as well as Watchwoman). So you know, if you wanna slow boat that, there you go, it is the first mission.

Come on man, remember the drill from the Navy, first verbal then written in your DOR then Report Chit with the previous written to back up the documented trend of infraction. Your DOR looks empty to me shipmate.

Such an underrated film.

Kitty!

Peter Quill is a clown. Don't be Peter Quill.

Numina doesn't need rework beyond the "remember when these guys were a threat" street hunts after every weak mo-fo in every zone. Numina is a slideshow from your vacation. Synapse needs it followed by Citadel because again, I think even the devs were like fuck it, the first two missions will be at the same door cause we are gonna make then run between Talos and IP the rest of the time. Maybe it was all a plot to sell Team Transporters.

Doctor Finetush always said Ice Cream is for Scary New*. *Pie for good new and cake for normal

Back in the day the OG Positron Task Force was the evil, terrible, no good slog of Task Forces, amplified in its terribleness early on by some of the game mechanics that later changed (auto-sidekick/exemplar, auto-re-join if DC). That is the past and the now is that Synapse is the new Positron. And while its annoying, it gets painted with a broader hate brush than it deserves, a lot of it heavily based on the aforementioned bad build characters. I do not believe everything should be easy or quick. With that said, it could be tightened up for sure, a number of its missions killed and the exposition in them relocated to what remains. What I fond most ironic is that the fight against the King is always anticlimactic; Babbage a tougher fight and there is no unique Clockwork Throne Room which would be a great cap to the creepy aesthetic of the joint. With all of that said, I do Synapse once per character, for the badge, not the Accolade, the Synapse Badge that says I persevered through the suck.

I am still working through the concept of Hamidon being a Nemesis plot Hamisis

I will say that back in the day on Freedom, My energy blaster High Beam had quite a deal of crazy fun with Doctor Finetush an Empathy Defender. Maybe not the strongest but the memories that duo made were the best.

Happy New Year to all!. Remember, Only in NYC at New Years is dropping the ball a good thing. Peace to all.

Me too, its what I refer to the yellow cat as instead of Buki.

You knocked his block off!

Happy Holidays

It's Christmas Theo it's a time for respecs

Factoring out this cats ranking doodle, its not like we (the community of CoH) have been on a open campaign to increase the games modern credibility/visibility with gamers. I mean if we mail bombed the big gaming sites CoH might get traction. Then again, most of those big gaming sites are owned by corporate entities pushing a product to sell (or getting advertising revenue from) so an old game that challenges their model probably inst going to be seen with appreciative eyes. Plus, to be quite honest, I am still a little gun shy; I worry that too much visibility might lead NCsoft to move on the "hot" property, or at a minimum raise the price whatever licensing deal was made (is there was a price) or start asking a price.

For me its simple. Column-Council They are fascists, Nazis, supremacists whose ideas and ideals have never belonged in society, ever and must be aggressively stamped out whenever possible.

Effing Brown Shoe.😜

You missed a five level tape run.

Excelsior, Daily, except when I am not home. Freedom when I am drunk and forget its not 2010

Let me ask this, how long are most players staying low level. Factoring out the farmers which seem to litter the airspace, you can get to level 12 super quick from a couple of DFB. 1 or2 Task/Strike Force and you are creeping up on 20. A Kill Most Yin and you are now mid 20 and approaching ability to slot in the 30 (bottom). So three days of solid play with very little risk getting you to slotting the higher level stuff. So why would you spend cash on things you are gonna use for a few days. You wouldn't. This puts you right back to the original issue, using procs or franken slotting. So the only solutions to drive a demand towards the product is to either make leveling harder and longer (phrasing) so that more time is spent at those low levels thus facilitating an increase in demand for lower level Set IO. But you would have to kill farms straight up and you knowhow that conversation ends. Or you make the lower level enhancements significantly more valuable by slotting them, like crazy numbers, High demand bonuses for low need (3 slot max) placing high defense or end recovery or resist as bonus in low instead of a full six (cause low level wont have much of anything sis slotted). But then that totally knocks the higher level ones out of use. So that means you have to develop a maximum level to slot and after that it becomes useless thus like 25 or 30 where the highers pick up. This forces the buy of the newer high level stuff. That mechanic could be worked but again now you ask why spend that money if I wont be able to keep these bonuses which I am gonna outlevel super quick still. So you a cap is not going to help. Perhaps the solution is to overhaul the Set IOs as a whole. First and foremost make them all 10-50. Then reduce the duplicative sets. Evaluate the focus needs. Perhaps move some into a general category, slot anywhere, or make franken slot families, common use procs all in one bag or maybe make them count across. Or make certain ones that can be slotted up to X times (LotG Global, Perf Shift End, etc) only allowed to be slotted once. But that last part would cause riots. Now an evaluation of sets, a possible modification of some, perhaps the level equalization, those could work without breaking much and thumbs up there. But I see no real gain in putting time and energy into trying to make low level set IOs more appealing or marketable.