Solvernia

Yeah. I slot Achilles', Annihilation, and that PVP -res into every power I can, as well as Force Feedback recharge proc. It's brutal and effective. Fire is better than force because you're going to die anyway, it gives you a self-rez and boatloads AoE debuffs/CC, and you can always fluff it as incendiary grenades (if you have incendiary pistol bullets, you can have incendiary grenades too.) You can use Inner Will immediately after an Awaken. Six-slot it with Preventive Medicine in it and you can just walk out of packs of mobs after your inevitable demise. Dragon's Tail isn't as effective as Bullet Rain as an opener. You can put a -res debuff proc and a Force Feedback proc in Bullet Rain and pop it before Hail of Bullets and get practically guaranteed +100% recharge and -res for a few seconds to boot. Bonfire with Overwhelming Force does the knockdown you need to stay alive after teleporting into a pack of mobs, and also works amazing with Force Feedback.

DPS meters turn ordinary people into unrepentant dipshits. I get that you, personally, won't turn into an unrepentant dipshit, but add a DPS meter to CoH and everyone's going to start demanding you have a minimum 1k DPS before you're allowed to join their ITF. It does more harm than good.

TL;DR: i24 beta code got leaked, a bunch of people made a single secret private server with it (for cool kids only; no plebs allowed) and six years later someone decided to blab to the news about it. After everyone got rightfully pissed off about not being told about the secret server, the code has been released (illegally) and everyone and their dog has a server now.

Play a DP/Martial/Fire blaster and you will never stand at the back again. Teaming as a blaster is only easy and boring if you make a conscious effort to play the game in an easy and boring manner. On Little Bird, I make it a point to open with Bonfire -> Burst of Speed -> Hail of Bullets, right there in the middle of every pack before the tank can even run in. It's fun, although a handful of people who hate fun tend to get pissed when you don't play it safe. (But that's what Rise of the Phoenix is for.)

Slot Force Feedback Chance for Recharge in every one of your KB powers. Slot Achilles Heel and Armageddon -res procs in all of your -def and Targeted AoE powers. Overwhelming Force in Bonfire makes it Ice Slick but better. Preventive Medicine absorb proc in Health gives you a free emergency shield every 90 seconds. Recovery Serum temp power from the P2W vendor is cheap and gives you basically unlimited endurance. The Reveal prestige power in P2W vendor lets you fully reveal zone maps (and thus everything on them) as well as mission maps. /bind shift+lbutton "powexecname burst of speed" Always take Max HP over resist. /ah /macro vault toggle vault

If you wanna slam with the best, you gotta jam like the rest.

"I had always presumed white light to be pure and somehow chaste, to be noble and good. But this whiteness was unutterably evil, chilling, its purity an abomination." — Inquisitor Eisenhorn, Hereticus

clowns

every powerset needs a weakness

to make it fair we should add in longbow ballistas at random whenever a VEAT is on the team

i like the sniper changes

Depends on whether you want less frequent but reliable crits or more frequent but random ones.

The answer is "because more people want to be the good guy than the bad guy".

Just had a team where the leader dropped and the next person to get the star was someone who apparently either did not speak English or refused to pay attention to chat. 5 minutes of begging her to call the contact and trying to get her attention while she ran around and did nothing until we gave up. Would be a very good thing to let other members of the TF call the contact to get the next mission without having to wait for an unresponsive leader, so hours of work are not wasted.

Would be great to port the 'shoulder fire' animations from Beam Rifle to Assault Rifle. Cutting Beam could be slowed down for Full Auto, it'd look absolutely badass.

Just as soon as they design entirely new animations for the other 5 powers in the set ACTUALLY WAIT I HAD A REALLY GOOD IDEA how about alternate FX for the fire sword being the demon summoning whip. you've got a small attack, a big attack, and an AoE in both sets, so it works

Right, but I want to have the option for glasses without the shiny parts. It's a simple texture fix -- they've established that they can do things like clean up the chest emblems and weird shiny faces, so extending that to the glasses would be a good thing.

For the record, 'cis' isn't an acronym, any more than 'trans' is. It's literally the opposite of trans in Latin. 'Trans' means 'across, on the other side from, opposite of', and 'cis' means 'the same, this side of'. 100% correct. There's no need to put 'cis' in all capitals, it's fine just as cis or Cis depending on your preference. :) Clearly they're talking about the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Can confirm. Before the change, I got from 1 to 10 in one DFB with double EXP. Without it, I only get up to 7 and change.

I've been filing a number of bug reports on the Homecoming system, and while I understand that you guys want to be professional as possible, one of the things I disliked the most about official paid support was the 'canned responses' that you'd get, with agents copying a certain line every time in their responses. Is there a reason this has to be done, i.e. volume of tickets, consistency of replies? If there is, I can probably understand and get used to it. If there's no particular reason and you guys are just doing what other support teams do, well, it would make me feel like the team's paying more attention if their ticket responses were a little more... human.

I've never seen such a professional attempt at running a private server before. This is some next-level transparency, too. I dig it.

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." - Cato the Elder

[laughs in Invulnerability]

So it shouldn't be forbidden to have a worldwide symbol of racist and intolerant genocidal oppression as something a player can proudly wear on their chest? I mean, yeah, we've got the Fifth Council, who are literally Nazis, but they don't wear swastikas for obvious reasons. I don't think there's even any Soviet enemy groups or even any significant villains that are Soviets, and yet we have a hammer and sickle emblem. I'm just saying that giving players the option to wear the symbols of real-life genocidal governments is probably not a good thing to do. Because people already do this: so why legitimize that kind of thing?

You can do this easy by opening the Recipes tab on your power tray and clicking the recipes to see what you need to make them. You can keep the recipe tab open while using the AH, stand next to a crafting table, and buy/craft one at a time, if it's hard for you to remember everything or write them all down somewhere.