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Scrappers arent great at aggro management in general tbf and outside of things like Bio, Invuln and I think Rad and a few others, dont have a taunt aura. Couple questions: -What level were you both? -What was his secondary? -What was your prim/secondary? Also did you have a coordinator in the groups you were fighting? They are specifically designed to put a mark on and prioritize squishies that focuses all of the mob on them. Also also the AI is specifically coded to prioritize certain ATs depending on the critter as outlined in Cobalt's dev diary of the group and the page overview of the group I believe.

I love the toilet for brute. 🤣

That last bit about other dev teams irks me and I feel its HIGHLY disrespectful to real development teams. There are games like E33 that have utterly blown HC out the entire solar system. Most games while not reaching E33 levels are like this. I can count on my hand how many games are just awful and they all are live service or live service adjacent. I struggle to try and quantify how many amazing games are out there. We’re in an era of ironically TOO many good games lol. Theres at least 15 great games I could name off the top of my head though, and thats before I get deep into indies. Im sorry to get so heated but I see annoying rhetoric like this in the gaming space from people who don't play any modern games too much lately and it’s irritating. HC’s cadence is to me very disorganized because each page feels like a potluck of features that drag the process down. Mac and I are, I believe, simply thinking a tightening of the ship may be in order. For one, one person pushing patches is just asinine and NO other dev team outside of one man teams has that, and literally no team for MMOs except HC, has that for common sense reasons. For two, pages feel like 4-5 pages in one instead of one central objective for the page. A page shouldnt be an armor revamp, a new zone, a litany of new arcs, enemy group revamps AND powersets. This could be split into 3 pages and still accomplish the same effect imo. Game being back or not is irrelevant to me. If it disappeared tomorrow I’d be just as fine as I was in 2012 when it shut down as gaming and other hobbies have significantly surpassed CoH personally, so if HC called it quits best I would do is shrug as there are other servers for one if I wanted CoH, and for two…well have you SEEN 2025/2026 lineup of games?! And thats before any RL obligations and responsibilities or recreational activities which is ofc personal to whomever it pertains to. This imo, has helped me to be a bit blunt, but ultimately critical in a sense of wanting the cadence and game to genuinely improve. Not having a sense of attachment and indebtedness to the team or game makes me kind of step back and look at things in a more analytical way. Not perfect by ANY means mind you, just a more…unfettered look. TLDR: HC should scale back pages to allow for more focused and frequent pages. This also helps testing immensely.

This is the best way to do it if it were to be a thing I think.

Live Market was turbo ass. It also was back when I believe you could get 999 bil on a single toon. OP, I dont think you'd wanna see a Fury of the glad going for 150 bil.

Its ironic you mention dunning kruger effect. I feel like Megan from drake n josh sipping her soda and going “interesting” with this comment. Not for this particular reason. Just really funny to hear another person on this forum mention it.

Ive been saying for a while now that we need 3 medium sized pages instead of 1-2 HUGE pages. Makes testing a lot easier and digestible for one, and for two, allows for the appearance of a live game. 1-2 updates a year is not a live game imo, thats not dead but it surely isnt live if thats the vibe they were going for. Inb4 “They’re volunteers!” Is thrown out due to calling it not a live game: *Laughs in Turtle WoW a volunteer project that is REMAKING THEIR ENTIRE SERVER IN UNREAL ENGINE 5. Expected to be out by EoY and a whole roadmap with other updates planned for 25 and 26.* This would also have the added benefit of being less work loads for everyone, testers and devs alike. Smaller but more frequent releases= huge W in my opinion for all.

Yeah that I can understand. It just felt strange in this last page how many glaring bugs made it in and of course patch cadence is held up for the reasons mac outlined. Couple that with wannabe supervisors trying to police testing and you really get testing fatigue to an extreme degree.

This is the most succint and perfect way to describe the issues plaguing CB. When people go "Why arent more things getting tested in between cycles?" One, this isnt my job just like its not the HC devs job to post this stuff. I test as things come in IF i have time or feel it's worth it to make time for it(i.e. its not a partial patch with horribly bugged issues plaguing a set or arc or what have you) Goes both ways. And two, this. The cadence is frantic and loose which I have been trying to convey for years but not as clearly admittedly as this. This also creates another issue in CB as the team goes, "Well how are we supposed to know if it's broken if you all dont test it?" You test it internally like any other dev team on the planet does? A lot of bugs that make it in are extremely obvious glaring bugs you can catch before in internal testing I feel.

Ehhh only for new players. Been here since i4. This would only serve to make me not want to play faster tbh. Ironically, I am going to be picking up turtle WoW and enjoying a slow(though even then it'd probably take no longer than a month) grind to max level. Then raiding and endgame shenanigans. I think the main difference will be that I havent played WoW in 12 years, making me effectively a new player. Im most eager to partake on this journey because it'll test my theory of is it simply burnout or is CoH one of those "Wide as an ocean deep as a puddle" games. It'll also give me perspective on that new player wide eyed view of a game. But to not derail the thread completely, there is no way to draw talent outside of hope. I would never, and will NEVER, recommend someone work on this game for free. There's no resume boosting activity here and it's just a headache to deal with the code.

Its wish.com drain psyche. It works but its not busted in ANY sense of the word.

Oh I gave up on suggestions in this community via the forums. You got a guy(or group, idk) with no job, friends or family policing a 20 yr old game's online forum pretending they have any experience in game design despite not playing anything but this one(which I 100% doubt they actually play with how often they're on the forums), GMs who will let these bad actors keep disrupting threads, and a litany of other issues that kinda make me go "Fuck this" to the whole idea of even trying to help this game or community, at least in this capacity. I stick to the discord, most of these problem causers don't know how discord works so are simply incapable of joining in, plus thats where the devs interact mostly with the community anyway so it kinda side steps this fuster cluck.

The archons werent challenging, but this meme, if you replace galaxy archons with HM, would be apt. HM isnt hard, I lead the new ITF HM 4 when it was released completely stoned and didnt even miss a beat. You cant do that in difficult games or content. But the crowd for 4 star for the longest was this meme. I want to make the statement here, there is nothing content wise in this game that is difficult whatsoever from a mechanical standpoint. But the real difficulty? People. Literacy rates amongst those people specifically. And those same people will then do like in the meme "is there nothing to challenge me?" Me? Now? Im more content just vibing and will run arcs at +1×8 most times to just stroll through em if the mood ever strikes me.

This is the pentultimate minmaxer team comp that is used by all minmaxers usually unless special runs are on the table: 5 corrs 2 blasters tank type. 3 cold corrs 1 kin 1 nature 1 Ice/Fire 1 Fire/Fire Bio/Axe tank. If you want the closest to objective best team comp for content, this is it(I would say this is THE objective best tbh but thats no fun and I wanna see what other comps are like)

+4×8. The discord builds can do it easily. Most of my own builds, especially the newer ones I had planned and tested, could do it pretty easily. But yes the average player is not soloing +4×8. Most are probably playing +0×4 at best, which is fine ofc. Just giving an idea of the playerbase, if the people I see in CB are to be believed.

At the risk of looking like an idiot as there may already be this feature on the forums(please point me to it if so!), but I propose the ability to DM GMs. This will allow players the ability to have private conversations and voice concerns without dragging down threads or having an issue become a public scene. Issues I personally can see with this is players abusing this feature and either DMing and trying to “tell on other players” for minor slights, harassing the GMs themselves(my personal biggest concern). To get around this, perhaps there could be a little subject blerb with the DM that explains why the player is asking to speak to a GM and it can be up to a GM’s personal discretion to answer said DM. Typical TOS rules would apply on all interactions of course.

Im a minmaxer, I fully understand the concept of utilizing the optimal chain. If anyone’s playing a different game it’s me as I actually try and minmax which is anathema to this community at times it feels. What I’m scratching my head at is in NO OTHER COMMUNITY have I or will I ever see the players advocate for the smallest amount of spells to be viable. I mean I know CoH is unique but this is a whole ‘nother level of head scratch. In my mind, this concept is basically asking for someone to simplify the building process even more than it already is instead of, again imo, adding more diversity by making powers still niche but competitive picks in their own set. Basically turning duds like Handclap in SS into a “hrm this might be pretty interesting!” power would be my ideal situation. It still would boil down to a optimal rotation of only a handful of 3-4 powers, but that 3-4 optimal rotation won’t objectively blow everything hopelessly out the water as obvious dead picks wouldn’t exist. Someone could make an off meta niche build and it wouldn’t be cringe inducing levels of bad, as there wouldn’t be the grand canyon sized gaps of today. Hell this would also make it so I could play more than a handful of sets in this game finally! (the truly meta sets are pretty much all I can really stomach to play anymore as minmaxing non meta was fine, but uh…Ice/Cold go brrr on fender or corr, so…)

HM to me has potential. I like the idea but think it needs a good deal of tuning to allow more playstyles, notably CC, to be relevant. I also think it needs a lot more mechanical variety, but thats due to playing difficult games and watching turtle WoW and retail WoW raid videos/Mythic+ runs and wanting something similar. Thats a bit unfair of me though and I'm more than willing to work within the confines of what HM is. That all said, it IS pretty much the only content I'm interested in leading again when I get this new upgraded gaming PC before taking my sabbatical to turtle WoW, so I think it definitely did something right.

As RL picks up over where I am, I most certainly wont be paying attention to any threads in CoH/any asinine back n forth that can take place a lot in threads. Thats really about the only advice I'd give. Trying to alter people's behavior online is well...not great.

...You're trying to do the same thing now with this thread to an extent. I mean what do you expect for an answer? Sometimes threads get locked even when discussions are civil. Stuff happens 🤷 Sometimes some people just derive joy from being asses in a thread. Usually arguing against a point isnt a problem, but it's when people argue against each other instead of the main point of whatever thread topic is being discussed.

Do you have any data whatsoever to support this claim. CoH players LOVE to claim a set is overperforming because of reasons I won't list here with no data to back any of this up. Ston has data that proves otherwise though, last I checked. Also what is with this trend of trying to get sets down to only 3-4 powers? There was another thread talking about too many powers and my personal opinion would probably derail the thread but I'm still scratching my head as to this train of thought.

I will say those people are right. Situational IS useless for 99.9% of the time in CoH outside of intang powers for wacky speedrun strats. Since im looking at it from the minmaxers perspective, the answer is always simply more damage, an insp usually a purp or orange or red, and probably barrier/meta set stacking. Thats the current situation of CoH. Those rare niche scenarios don't exist in such a capacity to keep underperformers and dead picks around. I get your premise where a power can try and maintain some usefulness without being super broad in application, but honestly due to what I mentioned above, thats not the reality of CoH. You can either try and force a meta shift away from the above by aggressive nerfs(bad idea) or create more mechanically unique scenarios to promote the more acceptable practice of having niche powers while still making every pick competitive(good idea imo)

When CoH came back and for a few years after, I was in a craze and made 50 after 50, especially after discovering via a forums post, a cheap farming build that I used till recently(still use the build but havent PL'ed any new 50s as of late). I have 103 50s. I only play roughly 3-5 sporadically whenever I log in. Combination of nerfs, and just being too lazy to update and minmax old builds and being burnt out on content leads to me just abandoning a large majority of my 50s, though I still love to sometimes log in and read their bios from time to time. My last ever 50 will be a Sav/Elec/Mu brute probably before the end of this year sometime. Maybe. Depends on when P3 is set to come out. I plan to go all out on this 50, empty my coffers, do the accolade gauntlet to get them HM 4 ready, and to tank all the HMs in order(tanked 4 star ITF on my rad/dark and had a lotta fun) on it. Then I'll enter full retirement and focus on other ventures/games like I did when CoH was shutdown, only periodically logging in to work on AE pilots again if the mood strikes me.

Do I? Huh. Im the most critical of the game and least attached to it being brough back. Enlighten me. Where are these rose tinted glasses? Edit: I forgot to add this but good god arcane you really need a job or hobby outside of CoH forum trolling. And I find it very uh...not mentally healthy of you to be obsessed with my post.

I assume they mean try out the build on the test server to see which is better. I'd argue SR is better tbh because low res caps and the regen in DA isnt useful for low HP toons like stalker.