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It's a big ol' right hook. Your character leans back into it, lifts a leg to build momentum, and then whallop across the bad guys. I've put Crosspunch onto a few characters now. I really like it as a power and it feels good to use, especially when you manage to land it on a small crowd.

I think OP is making a fair enough observation. Being a casual player, though, somewhere around the second category, I wouldn't say the game urgently needs a rebalance. I like the long haul. The game rewards do still revolve around an SO based economy, so maybe it could be beefed up a little. But that could contribute to inflation, and I can do without that.

We villains have to take what we can get.

It makes you smell funny. We've all been thinking it, but someone had to say it. Oh, Bio armour! Thought we were talking about BO armour

Maybe. I think servers have different priorities too. Not to mention that everyone is throwing the spaghetti code at the wall and seeing if it sticks, so it may still be premature to share what could be faulty changes. But certainly, from a community level, dispelling any taboo of talking about what and how other servers are doing is a helpful step in that direction.

I don't think we need to psychoanalyse each other here. Or contrive other people's opinions from misinterpreting their forum posts. Or be baited, indeed. It's alright to talk about how we prefer to play and compare which servers match those preferences.

I wonder if it would be possible to add a dropdown menu on such badges that allows you to switch between its alternatives.

Surely nobody would be so cruel. Surely.

Thank god, we made it to page 2. We're safe here.

Bentley's right, it's a technical limitation rather than a convenience thing. To elaborate a little further, the AH is something that needs to be downloaded to the mapserver when it gets called to be used. For most of the city zones, it's in use enough that it's worth the server load. In missions and in SG bases, it would need to be constantly downloaded all over the place. I believe it was tried before with devastating effects on connectivity.

You have made an enemy this day.

I'm also in the camp of 'definitely keep him dead'. Death is so rarely revered or even permanent in superhero fiction that it's refreshing to have an impact here. I'd like to see the plot develop so that Emperor Cole takes the mantle and takes the place in the LRSF, but that process should happen organically. Though I agree Miss Liberty may as well be involved in that final fight. Why did someone dump her unconscious body there anyway? Maybe Hero 1 could stand in as well?

Just throwing in that I know for a fact that there are OuroDev folk who play on Homecoming, with zero baggage. It's not nearly as cut-throat as very few individuals make it look, and I'm always game for seeing how different developers of different calibres and styles morph the game in different ways. What an amazing position we're in, when we can see that happening. I can't wait for more tools to develop for even more people to be brought into the fold. I may explore the others soon.

*leaves this thread and doesn't return*

This is fabulous - sounds excellent. Thanks so much!

I really like Malta. I mean, story-wise. I like how it considers the global political impact of having superheroes around and the paranoia-fuelled hypocracy. It's a really cool take on the setting. I don't love the well of furies. Or rather, I don't love being ushered down quite a singular character development path. I guess it's kept fairly vague, but it does detract from the player agency in the rest of the game.

Done. I reacted to them with the confused face. Now there's an air of doubt.

I'm all for giving prestige a new function, maybe within bases, maybe beyond. Hard to know what exactly that might be. But it certainly was never a particularly elegant or enjoyable system to begin with.

You didn't deserve my laughter.

I'm liking the thread that's talking about the scrapper confront. That's one power that could go full cottage. Other than that, I really can't think of any that I'd put against the firing line. Sakura is right that the cottage rule doesn't shackle the ideas down, as long as the identity of the power is intact.

I tried my best to give an explanation why the progress stopped there, but I ended up creating more questions for myself, got a bit dizzy, took a short lie down and take back to admit that I really have no clue. I've seen games handle textures in drastically different ways, I really wouldn't have a guess how CoH deals with them.

I've been trying to keep my ear to the ground in terms of 3D assets, since that's my jam. As far as I know, they're still a bit of a mystery to the community as a whole. CoH uses a proprietary 3D model file format. OuroDev/Portal Corps had mentioned that a 3DS Max plugin is in the pipeline (Though i can't find where I saw this now). I don't know exactly what that entails, but if it's at least an import/export function then suddenly all this stuff will become a lot more workable. Bubblewrap has managed to do... something. I don't know what any of this means though, so I guess the process isn't Linesproof yet. I don't even know what there, if anything, is referencing a 3D file.

I'd hazard a guess that it's more how legitimacy is shaping the operation. I imagine the team is currently under NDAs right now, so adding more people into that fold carries risks. Possibly costly ones.

Done all this for the first time apiece in Homecoming! All stuff I never thought I'd ever get to try a year ago. Never have I ever got a controller past level 20.