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I think this counts? Dungeons of Hinterberg. Its like if Zelda went on vacation in Austria(I think). Honestly super relaxing, it does have a lot of puzzles but they’re fairly simple imo. Decent combat and action to it, and honestly a fun little story and great relationship building with its assortment of supporting characters. It’s on PC, Xbox Series S/X, and PS5 for roughly $30 barring tax

Nope thats not it at all. In the ELTF discord he explicitly says it’s because of HC development. I don’t disagree either. Hell I “finished” the labyrinth on a toon, which is good enough for me. Soon as some RL things come about in a few weeks, and things pick back up, I’ll be following suite but ofc I’m not some notable name in the community so I won’t be making a big post* *Besides the one in AE and thats just for the few who were possibly interested in a followup arc I have in the works but is now on (probably) almost indefinite hiatus.

To them it is, now you may disagree and thats fine and dandy, I personally don’t agree with how they presented their argument but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I was concerned about not necessarily holy trinity play but teaming being a bit too heavily pushed with new additions recently. But that’s just my sentiments.

When I don’t like something that homecoming does, I vent to my fam about how shit the decision was, then I take a break from the game. So far it hasn’t been severe enough to where I’m gone forever but that day may come. But what I never do is go on a tirade on the forums. You’re not going to get support there for one and for two the people you would get support from lock you out because of your unhinged rants(not talking about you Lumi talking about this person btw) But in other news, this recent page was so good I actually TEST tested it in closed beta and I’m delaying my hiatus(in part to some IRL things too) from CoH until probably September/October to play the update a bit.

Oh I don't trust the forums "high end" builds(no offense forumites, though I'm sure some will take it anyway) . Minus Icesphere and the people who I recognize as pretty good/regulars on the discord. Nah I go to discord for the high end builds, or 9/10, build my own. But yeah I'm sure the forums builds suffer a lot in the 20s, none of mine ever do. Well, none of my newer 50s have ever felt noticeably weaker in exempted content than 50 content barring incarnates ofc, greyed out powers, and the lack of a travel powers. seriously, I swear I pick em all around the 20s, yet strangely enough, I never have a travel power available. Or rather it feels that way lol. I base my evidence off my dominators, who lean on perma dom a lot. On an exempted 50+ dominator in a team leveled to about 20-25, I have perma dom, so they effectively function as they would at 50 minus of course the missing powers from exempting. Don't get me wrong they're not decimating whole spawns usually like they do at 50, but they didn't lose a majority of their set bonuses. They have roughly 66% of them. Out of my 104 50s, 13 might lose their bonuses. And that's because they were built in 2019-2020 when I didn't know about attuned IOs. I don't need your word for it, I have direct experience. *Perfect example recently, I just got out of a Virgil Tarikoss on my Marine/Dark. He functioned like he had a majority of his set bonuses, and looking at it, he did. Was he oozing recharge like he does at 50? No. But he had a seemless attack chain, the recharge of brine was almost exactly the same as at 50(I think here it was 17s vs 12s. with ST, it was literally the exact same as 50. 4s.) Also Whitecap was still the monster it was at 50. So didn't lose anything there(admittedly proc bombed, so not going to be affected by exempt anyway) Alls to say, attuned doesn't mean you won't lose any sets, you'll probably lose anywhere from 33-60% depending on how low you go(with 60% being in the single digits of levels), but you should retain a majority of your set bonuses. Or, you'll feel relatively the same as you do in the higher levels exempted into the 20s, minus of course recharge and possibly attack chain wise depending on missing powers.

They don’t. Its called attuned, fun thing, those.

I wouldn’t give a shit. I usually form my own teams so I literally wouldn’t even notice them

The arc was…serviceable to me. I found some of the bits kind of interesting, like skulking around the crey labs to gather info on the Hero Corps members and cloning shenanigans. But overall, the arc didn’t stick with me. I found it to be a solid 6/10 maybe 7/10 if I really stretch it. Serviceable, but definitely not “Well dayum!” Probably because Crey stories are so overplayed in my eyes that I kind of tune out

Did it 1 and a half times. Got the gladiator costume on one toon and most of the badges on another. It’s alright. It’s a multipurpose zone which I think is not terrible. I won’t be doing it again for quite awhile but that just means when I do come back to do it again it’ll probably be rote memorization for the leaders at that point so it’ll most likely be smoother. EDIT: I lied. I got in a few more runs and the gladiator costume in two 50s and the accolade on 1. Now having seen everything in the zone badge wise I feel kind of done with the zone.

Thats the thing: it IS super early, as in, literally 24 hrs ago early. It’ll be about a week as usually people are working during this time so can’t really delve into the set, what it being an early week release, until probably the weekend at the latest. But honestly? This isn’t ‘one of those games’ so you can risk testing it out on beta and finding your best pairing with no cost to you other than time.

Lmao “smoke” being typing on a keyboard arguing on a 20 year old MMO forum ooooh scary. But seriously my dude why are you trying to beef so hard on this with people?

I rarely give advice, and when I do its usually in a less “you’re wrong I’m right” manner. But I also never take advice from anyone on these forums. There are 10 people I trust for build advice in this game, and 1 of them is myself. And I don’t think any but 1 are on the forums. I only take advice from those 9 as they are some of the best players in this game and regularly speed 4*. But I also understand not everyone values what I do.

The set strikes me as baby kinetics but water themed. Kin is solid and literally meta for most content without any mez prot for the caster. I think Marine will sit somewhere next to it at the table and imo doesn’t need mez prot on top of everything it already does. Which is weird to say, cause I’m all for buffs on a lot of things.

Dungeons of Hinterberg to me has been absolutely solid. It’s a dungeon crawler meets persona 5 and decides to be themed as a vacation(never could of guessed by the name 😛 ) Similar in design of the dungeons to the old Zelda games(and kinda has an art style inspired by the newer Zelda games or wind waker. It’s truly relaxing, fun and just enough action to satisfy me, but the true star of the show has been the dungeons. Such fun puzzles, and I usually hate the damn things in other games. It’s free on gamepass and i think $30? Through steam. Next review will be for Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn when I get to it

Ehhh about 3 weeks to as long as 4 months if OB happens to land on a holiday. Remember it's not just the set being tested, it's an entire page. That naturally means there could be any number of things that hold it back from launching early, or in the timeframe I listed. Doesn't seem like that'll be the case though. Normally I don't disclose anything from the Closed Beta but I know they want it out before August.

I dont think that’d be a good idea for soloers just trying to grab things in the Labyrinth

Most people are proc bombing not stacking 5 of sets, except for on armors maybe but even then probably not, probably mostly 3 or so of the same set. I’d have to look at my builds to see whats up but yeah, not a lot of 5’s. Making LOTG unique. Interesting take, not a good one tbh but interesting

CAnon spreading the facts us simple forum goers are missing. Next up, the IO market is rigged by big AH! But seriously? Have a problem with HC moderation? I get it. Sometimes the GMs are way too heavy handed on moderating threads. But when you go sounding like a conspiratorial loon it makes me go, “ain't it funny how it’s always them and NEVER the people being moderated? oh no no no, It’s all a big conspiracy by a shadow cabal of GMs to create a police state of moderation on the forums.” Least that’s how something like this comes across to me. But here’s a solution; bring it up to the GMs or HC devs, or play on thunderspy. No moderation there

Here’s where the issue lies in that though. Let’s say they say yes to +4x8 not being soloable, then people would move to soloing +3x8 with the same speed of 4 if not faster, then y’all would cry for THAT to be nerfed, then 2, then 1. Forcing teaming on everyone which would drive away whatever’s left after the +4 changes

For shame, Ronin 😛 No but seriously, I do like the Labyrinth, and honestly I forgot we were talking about it for a second. But yeah the rest of the game should at least be able to be done at 50 on +1x8. And given this slippery slope I doubt that’ll be the case in a few years(honestly I will eat crow AND donate $100 if this game is even UP in 5-7 years given the trajectory of changes but we’ll see) . I know on these forums I’m not the most liked, really don’t give a fuck to be honest but it is what it is. I never hold my tongue IRL and ESPECIALLY won’t around some internet people. * *Assuming you were hoping for my departure. No need to hope

Much appreciated! I’ll still be around the forums posting here and there, but as far as logging in yeah that’ll be stopping for awhile.

And I always hate this line. The option to have fun against a x8 setting should NOT be to team or play on -1. To me that’s beyond unacceptable and part of why I’m on the way out. It’s getting closer to that bizzaro ass scenario being a reality. Baby steps admittedly, but well, it’ll eventually be a full sprint

Hi diddly ho there fellow Architects! I’m just a small time AE author providing an update, if anyone cared to know, about my the status of my arcs. I have a follow up to The Pariahs: Magus Grey almost done(Literally just need to add one more mish, do a once or twice over for typos, and add in some flavor clues and it’s donezo!) Due to wanting to focus on some exciting new things going on in RL and a good deal of burnout on CoH/direction of development, I’ll be taking a tentative year long sabbatical from CoH and probably not working on any arcs. Could be longer or shorter, but for now that’s the plan! I’ll definitely read reviews of arcs though and keep them in mind for when I do come back. Thanks for playing my arcs thus far, and I never said it before but you all are my favorite section of the forums besides the base builders 🙂 Keep making amazing content!

I actually can definitely get behind this. I don’t want to have to buy a $800+ PC just to play a modernized version of a 20 yr old MMO

Wait so lemme get this straight: Graphical updates, stability increases, and a bunch of other QoL features present in a new engine is “killing the game” But wide sweeping nerfs, reinventing power sets(EM, other changes I’m not allowed to talk about but were in CB.) and a literal modern reimagining of TFs in the form of HM as an attempt to create “modern challenge” is fine? *I’m not even for the change, just found this response funny