Ironblade

It wasn't anywhere near as hard as I was expecting. To be fair, I fired off the Chemical Burn and Biological Mutagens for the final fight, but I didn't even notice any temp pet powers being used.

They just added an entire task force (okay, technically a 'strike force') which, in my opinion, is far better than most of the existing task forces. One of the developers commented that this was his primary task for most of this year. So, yes, content is being developed and some of it is shockingly good. As for a road map, a lot of games just don't do this because if they miss a deadline they get yelled at. Or if something is deemed impractical (or impossible) they get yelled at.

Okay, but my understanding of the merit reward system is that it's based on AVERAGE time to complete (for a given difficulty level under the new system). So, the fact that it "can be completed in as little as 27 minutes" should not be the metric here. Can you tell us the AVERAGE and MEDIAN times for the lowest difficulty setting? As for the higher difficulties, sure, all those extra rewards are absolutely nothing to sneeze at. I haven't run it at the highest difficulties (and probably never will) but those rewards seem pretty good.

On the plus side: The content is top notch - the story, the dialog, the humor. Absolutely fantastic. Minuses: The rewards seem a bit stingy. They'll need to datamine how long it takes to complete once people get a little more familiar with it. And I don't mean the speedrunners; I mean the average time. Some of the badges are difficult to get due to straight-up bugs. Becky sometimes decides to walk through the wall and disappear, or gets lost when you go through a door. The blue patch in the Midas fight is buggy. Overall: I rate it a B+. It's not perfect, but it's way better than the average task force. It shouldn't be too hard to get it to just about perfect with a bit of patching. Note: I've run it four times so far. Once at base difficulty and three times at the second setting (i.e. minimum to get the optional badges).

It looks like that is a 'yes'.

Oh. General use. My first thought was spines/dark armor and see how many toggles you can run at once in actual combat. Like Toggle Man. FYI, I actually created this character on Everlasting and he's level 46 so far. Pathetic single target damage, but OMG I can wreck large groups with the AOE's and procs.

I kind of agree with Snarky. Or else my experience has been anomalous. Pretty much every failed MO attempt I've been on has been due to people getting careless, overconfident or just stupid mistakes. Like the MoITF where we had finished off Romulus and just had to pick off a few more random mobs to hit the total. And a defender waded into a group and died. Or the Lady Grey where the tank had the wrong inspirations when he went to tank the weakened Hamidon (he had Ambrosia from the Woodsman trial, instead of EoE). Most failures that I've seen, the person KNEW WHAT TO DO but got overconfident, or misclicked, or forget to activate something, etc. I see that Veracor agreed with your position. I certainly concede that he has been on a HELL of a lot more Master runs than I have. So, as I said, perhaps my experience is anomalous.

And it was time well spent. Just ran it for the first time. Damn! Top-notch content. Kudos to the zone designer(s) also.

I don't know. It's named after the location it was created, but so is cheddar, which I never see capitalized.

In an amusing twist, yes, I do. I bought a two pound wedge yesterday. And it's spelled jarlsberg.

Congratulations. At the time I'm reading this post, you're already a rookie.

We can't. It's like when you see a sign that says 'Wet Paint', you have to check JUST TO BE SURE.

Exciting? It's just one more example of The Man trying to manipulate us! We're like a bunch of lab rats hitting the button for a reward!

Unless it has been changed, the limit is 10. The main reason for coalitions back on live was that many SG's couldn't obtain all the 'cool stuff', generally due to not being able to earn enough prestige. So they would coalition with an SG that had every zone teleporter, for example. With prestige removed, this is no longer an issue. BUT some people do still form coalitions. My SG is in a coalition with another SG. Just one. Back on live, I was coalitioned with about 7.

It definitely takes place after Posi. The Vahhilok are in disarray and looking for leadership. Also:

In case you missed it, they also introduced a red side arc at the same time with Doc Buzzsaw as the contact.

Hey! I have a quest in Pokemon Go where I need to make a new friend. Is there anyone on here who plays the game and wants another friend? (I'm on four different Pokemon Go discord channels but I thought it might be fun to find someone from CoH.)

Agree completely. Also, I think one of the main 'gripes' about necroposting is that people might not realize there has been a large gap in time. However, since this forum software explicitly highlights the gap with the following method: necroposting doesn't really seem as much of an issue as it used to be.

I've heard the same. My girlfriend is in the group (and I think teams with Snarky on a regular basis). I have a tank on Excelsior with a few vet levels and I'd play with them except that the time my girlfriend plays on Excelsior is when I normally play other games with my brother and his family. They just need to find another nerd of the right gender. 😛

I have no peers. I am a paragon among nerds. 😛

Time has no meaning. To a true student, a year is as a day.

On a side note, this is allegedly fixed in Page 3. The beta server patch notes state: "Fix a longstanding bug where missions would be launched with the wrong difficulty settings if the mission owner was not in the same zone as the door and another teammate entered it first."

And the game is free* so I give them a ton of slack. 🙂 * However, my girlfriend and I do contribute on a regular basis.

I'm not aware of it being literally 'documented'. However, back when the game was live someone did a study and it WAS documented that our average player age was around 35. That was back around 2007. So an average around here in the 45-50 range would seem likely.