Seed22

I can't predict what I'll do with CoH in the future, too many variables to account for. Right now I'll occasionally log in, do a mish solo(like I just did a few moments ago), log out and then not play for a few months. That's what works for me right now. I am sure nostalgia and playing with the fam will at least keep me doing the occasional TF here and there for a time though. And the winter event. It's the only one I like. I will tell you though that CoH is not only not the only game I play(it's pretty interesting to see for how many people this is true though), it's not a priority game for me. That probably won't change. I want to stick to modern games to enjoy the advancements in gaming that have and will continue to occur, plus it's easier to boot up the Series S or PS5 than this PC to play games. This makes it preferable during the work week to just game on console.

I wouldn’t call it huge if it’s played by roughly 1% of the playerbase, nor would I call it hard, but thats because I played other games and saw actual difficulty and how it’s done imo right vs artificially. But I get the idea. It serves a niche in the community. But overall the community is as I said, overall in game way better than on the forums and reddit. Discord usually is pretty chill but has its’ slip ups.

I love how the mods do nothing about this being posted but me talking about the forums gets a demerit. Gotta love our GM team. Still a great movie though 😂

Times are indeed tough but no gaming is nowhere near down. Black Myth Wukong is literally one of the fastest selling games this year and that’s just one game. https://globaledge.msu.edu/blog/postamp/57295/the-gaming-industry-sees-a-staggering-surge-in-popularity This article is from last year but this gives an idea of the industry too. Also last year I believe revenue was $66.5 bil, up from 2022(?)’s $60 bil. Gaming’s doing alright. CoH is doing alright too. * $66.5 bil revenue source: https://www.americangaming.org/new/2023-commercial-gaming-revenue-reaches-66-5b-marking-third-straight-year-of-record-revenue/#:~:text=Washington%2C D.C. – U.S. commercial gaming,third-straight record revenue year.

In game is fine. On the forums is…less fine. Discord is pretty chill. But overall it’s ok. One thing that IS weird that’s starting to crop up is this phenomenon where it’s toxicity in the opposite direction. I have seen people be called toxic and elitist for simply posting tested and accurate power numbers and being efficient in the game(speedrunning or otherwise fast clearing content). Never saw that in a gaming community before.

BG3 is not an MMO Path of Exile is not an MMO. As far as CoH pop goes its a consistent 1400 or so. 5 years ago it was a lot more because of nostalgia, once that wore off it’s just the hardcore audience left. If crazy and imo asinine development in powers can’t tank this game, I truly think almost nothing can. It’ll be fine.

This is the main thing I disagree with. Just because you don’t want, nor should you ever need, as it wasn’t the design philosophy of original CoH devs, AT specific role based gameplay(a Tank for tank role, healers) does not mean you don’t want enemies to do damage. If, outside of HM, you bring a team of all blasters you should still be able to complete the content and have fun with it. If HC moves towards WoW like role enforced gameplay(they probably will adopt some similar) it will not go well I don’t think. *I should say in respect to LGTF this is still possible. Blasters can grab holds and corrs and such have holds. Most everything does really, so in this instance the above isn’t really an issue. Just a word of caution for content going forward

There’s a difference between these 4 hour runs. If you decide to do a KM 4* or what have you and it’s 4 hrs? Awesome! You do you. But if you get a team together in hopes of getting through the TF in a normal amount of time(at most an hr to hr and a half if not on a meta comp) and it takes 4 hrs? Yeah thats a big problem. That’s not playing, that’s suffering 😂 Hence why I don’t do random PuG 4*’s. If ever I decide to lead 4’s again, I’m doing it strictly the “elitist” way. Only with discord and or the SG I’m in. No randoms, ever, for any reason.

How did we go from make a meh T9 into something actually useable to “Seeds is pretty busted huh?” I’m sure Seeds is going to get nerfed to be as bad as MC’s T9. Honestly I say why stop there? Get that nerf bat in full swing. There’s a lot of playable sets that need a nerfin to get to the new tier HC’s aiming for. I’m not being passive aggressive or snarky in this. I’m deadly serious. Get that nerf bat into full swing. I think it’d be funny as hell and I wanna see what it’ll take to break the metaphorical camal’s back that is this community

That doesn’t mean you have to allow anyone who wants to join on your HM 4’s. Thats how you get 4 hr runs. I know this is true because this has happened when I PuG’d a 4*

I get a good laugh out of this. Private discord =/= elite players. May just be a trusted group that knows the content well and speeds it fast. I used to lead PuG 3’s and 4’s, and only recently ran with a discord group. The discord group was objectively better in every human way possible because there was no need to explain and we were all on the same page. To the excluded I’m sure that makes me look elitist. Whatever, it’s not but if just having a group be on the same page and not take an hr and a half to 2 hrs on what should only take 30-45m makes me elitist, then well, I dunno what to tell you. And I’m certain others feel this way as well with their groups.

Exactly this. A lot of people defending using GF when explicitly asked not to by the team lead believe they are entitled to a team. They fuck around, I love it when they find out via a kick. If a GF user joins my team and pulls this braindead shit it's a kick from me.

You don’t know what these words mean by this very post you made. Please stop using them wrong

Not only are you wrong, you typed a whole soliloquy of misinformation. Nowhere in the CoC is AFK farming explicitly pointed out as being against ToS. You and everyone like you should learn to live with. >.> <.< Psst! Come ‘ere…. Different playstyles than yours. Especially if the devs themselves don’t care. This misinformed little rant of yours is not getting anything done, you clearly don’t know what AFK farming is, how it’s done, or even about the CoC. We get it, you don’t like it. We don’t care.

Thesaurus. Use. A. Thesaurus. Why does no one do this? Does the thing scare you? I promise it doesn’t bite. Not finding a name is simply a lack of effort on your part, plain and simple. And a lack of creativity. Use a goddamn thesaurus. PLEASE. *This is a request for all in lieu of the recent name fiasco.

This is 100% not true. Neither of you impact us, you’re just fucking annoying. Both of you. What impacts farming is whatever the devs cook up as an excuse to take a whack at farming, and that whole fiasco with the market which wasn’t necessarily from AFK farming but a literal XP/Inf bug that gave roughly 3x of both I believe? Leading to farmers being overly flush with inf. Not so much an issue nowadays. Flippers still make more faster. Sucks I had to be vulgar but honestly this rodeo keeps rolling into town too often.

That hasn’t been true for at least 2 years. It’s a common misconception spread around the forums. Blasters want +HP and of course all the damage you can get. Some healthy amount of recharge is nice too.

Good players moved over farmed then left. Thats just basic efficiency, which is what good players actually do. But now it’ll be what it always was; a preference, instead of an incentive. If you like low pop servers well there’s indom and reunion for you. And torch.

But what makes them having a bunch of lvl 1’s for their desired purpose hoarding and you standing around for hours RPing not hoarding? You’re both effectively playing your way and neither are “playing” the game by the metric of gaining levels and whatnot. So technically both are hoarding. Or, as I like to see it, both are playing the way they see fit. I personally have a lot of 50’s. To some even that still is hoarding. I say as long as you’re logging in, you’re good in my books. And the HC team too according to the release policy

That was a day of stupidity for sure. Same as beanbag really.

Marine really is the only good set thats new. Symphony is ok and has no gimmick. Seismic is awful, arsenal is not great, and Storm as you’ve seen is bad.

Thats what I was thinking.

I can’t find anything about this. Production seems to be going steadily from what I googled

Could possibly add Adamastar, Caleb and Kraken for horror monsters. Would be neat

4* is really not that bad. It does, for speed, damn near require the meta to get those nice times of under an hr. And a lil bit of knowledge. But otherwise it’s fairly easy content.