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RikOz
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1 hour ago, PoptartsNinja said:
One other behavior I've noticed: I've run AE missions for SG mates on a specific large outdoor map, and on that map there are some spawns that do not appear until you reach certain physical trigger spots (and other spawns that don't appear until you've cleared a certain amount of enemies off the map (about 50%).
I've definitely seen this happen on that outdoor "woodland park" map. I'll completely clear out that first side trail into the woods, then finish the rest of the map, only to have it fail to complete because I haven't "defeated all". I'll go back to the beginning and find more mobs wandering out of that trail that I already cleared.
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In the Dark Astoria Ephram Sha repeatable mission, "Good Intentions", when rescuing a victim, the simple word, "text", is appearing in the chat window, rather than the message that is supposed to appear:
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Not long ago, I was thinking that, at the very least, they could perhaps just add a bit more space between the buttons. There have been more than a few times when I've aimed for the "Quit to Character Select" button and overshot by a pixel or two, and found myself at the login screen.
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On 4/16/2024 at 8:27 PM, Rudra said:
(Edit: Oh, and if they manage to get by the AE drones and then figure out how to use a walkway at the top of the ramp near the north tram, then they probably get droned by the tram drones as they run by at the base of the tram access ramp to reach their congregation point by the twin gate entrances between the tram and Synapse.)
I have, on several occasions, spotted Supa Trolls somehow getting past the north tram drones, entering the station, and actually boarding the tram.
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My very first character on Live, and again on Homecoming, was my Fire/Fire/Fire blaster, Flaminatrix.
Every other blaster since has been a bit of a letdown.
Flaminatrix soloed the New Praetorians arc in her mid-30s; it was such a challenge even for her that I've been reluctant to try it again on any of my other alts.
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I took a screenshot of the color palette, and use that to sample the colors in my image editor.
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21 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:
I also refrain from posting PNGs directly to the forums as they tend to be much larger files.
A while back, I actually went through all of my image posts and replaced all of the PNGs with JPEGs. Royal pain, but it freed up a lot of space. Since then, I convert everything to JPEG before posting.
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On 2/28/2024 at 7:53 AM, arcane said:
You do realize how long it takes to fill up on patrol xp from logging out, don’t you? Points 1 and 2 don’t make sense.
The make sense if you have as many alts as I do :D
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6 hours ago, temnix said:
1) Wings that only sprout and remain as long as a flight power is used;
Oh god yes. I tried those phoenix wings on one character, and they looked amazing and suited her look perfectly. Then I took her into a mission and I couldn't see what I was doing.
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This should really go in the thread about pun names, but I can't find it.
But I was fighting high-level Circle of Thorns yesterday, and one particular CoT mob suddenly inspired a character idea.
So here's my new sonic blaster ...
Air Horn Caster
(Really hoping the tall CoT hat/mitre eventually becomes available for players...)
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Wait, is this why I kept getting tip notices yesterday that never actually showed up in my tips list?
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I've been getting Tip notifications when punching open-world, gray-conning mobs in lower-level zones. One of these gave me the exploration tip for the new "Rookie" badge in Atlas Park, but since then, in other zones (so far, Talos and Brickstown), I'm getting multiple notices but the tips aren't actually showing up in my list.
I assume these tips are supposed to be for the new badges, since you need an appropriate level-range mob to get alignment tips (not sure about holiday tips).
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Decided to try out the new Sybil costume, and had to decide which of my alts it suited. Came up with a couple.
Here's Notta Planet (she's the "representative" of Pluto in my Solar System-based team). This costume was originally just 100% Spectrum pieces + a hat. I added the Sybil stuff on top of it, and changed the hat, and I like how it turned out:
And then there was Meskhenet (formerly called "Ankheza" a name I hated). She's Egyptian, and so I thought it worked well for her, too:
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1 hour ago, WuTang said:
Yeah, I'm with you on certain heroes have certain abilities. I like Infiltration on some but not all, same with flying and so forth.
Heh. I tried Infiltration on a couple alts, and respecced out of it as soon as I could (replaced it with plain Stealth). Too damn fast!
And speaking of flying, I really wish it would be disabled for "helper" NPCs in missions. I find it somewhat infuriating when I enter a room that has three levels to it, and Overdrive immediately aggros on something above or below. Off she zips, and I don't know where she went (because she was behind me when she took off), and then I soon see "So-and-so has defeated Overdrive" in the chat box, and now whoever she was fighting is coming after me while I'm in the middle of fighting a different spawn. Thanks for the "help", Overdrive!
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3 hours ago, Techwright said:
Regarding the XP bonus, do you continue to do that once they reach 50, in hopes of advancing veteran levels?
At the moment, not so much. As a severe altoholic, once I exceeded 120 alts I decided to make myself slow down on rolling new ones and focus on leveling the ones I have. So my main thing right now is just getting characters to 50 (doing this in groups of ten alts), then moving on to the next batch. Current 50s, when I get the itch to play one of them, just get logged out at the nearest convenient logout spot when I'm done. Of my first ten 50s, nine of them have completed the DA story; the tenth is working on that, so he's logged out in the DA hospital. 50s #11-30 haven't started DA yet. I'm currently working on #31-40, and they're all currently at levels 40-42.
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I keep most of my alts logged out in police stations, for the XP bonus. I recently cycled all of my alts through hospitals for the ally heal/rez powers. I'd previously ignored those because I play exclusively solo, but after 4+ years I made the discovery that those powers also work on NPC allies.
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I just jog at normal speed through indoor missions. At my age I just don't have the reflexes for moving too quickly in tight spaces like caves. I even used to get annoyed with certain auto (non-toggle) defense powers that grant a speed buff, because I can't turn it off (one of the Super Reflexes powers does this), but I've gotten used to that over time.
My ranged characters use Hover to get around in missions. I don't use Hover on my melee characters, simply because I don't like the way melee looks while Hovering. That's just a personal taste thing. An exception to ranged/Hover is my ranged weapons characters (Assault Rifle, Beam Rifle, Dual Pistols). Again, just a personal taste thing; I think somebody using a weapon should have their feet planted. I also don't use hover on Water Blast characters. I think I also skipped Hover on my one Seismic Blast character.
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4 hours ago, twozerofoxtrot said:
I'm not even mad, Synapse.
I'm just disappointed.
I've had the same thought. Like when I get directed to a Nemesis base located in that northern Skyway building with the Longbow helicopter on the roof.
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I was thinking it might be that one (strangely enough, I could identify the hairstyle in the original screenshot), but I couldn't remember her arm position. Alas, I didn't get a chance to go check in-game.
2 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:Came across a rooftop picnic area in King's Row, I wish these were more prevalent.
I stumbled across that a while back. Pretty cool! Though the pollution in KR might explain why there's nobody eating up there :D
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How peculiar... the pose also doesn't seem to match any of the statues that I can recall. Is there a female statue with the arms just hanging at her sides like that?
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The latest look for Ba'Shix:
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Well, I came from WoW, so I just went back to WoW. I had started playing WoW in 2008, because that was when I finally had a computer capable of running it. Because I was a Mac user, I didn't even bother looking at other MMOs because, up to that point in my experience, Blizzard was the only game company that could be bothered to release Mac versions of their games simultaneously with the Windows versions (I had previously played Diablo 2 and the WarCraft RTS games). So, late 2008, I got in not long after the launch of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. I took forever to get to max level because there was so much world to explore. I just wanted to take my time and see everything. I did pretty much everything except PvP (I just don't have the right mindset for that) and endgame raiding (I had an extremely unpredictable work schedule, so couldn't commit to a guild raiding schedule). But I loved every minute of the game. Then the Cataclysm expansion came out, and while I liked the changes to the "old world" and the Cata leveling experience, once I got to max level there wasn't much to do. The game had done one of its "raid or die" pendulum swings, so there wasn't a lot to do at max level if you didn't raid. So I got bored.
So I mentioned on another forum, in late 2011, that I wished there was another MMO that would run on a Mac, and somebody pointed me at CoH. I fell in love with this game instantly! This was shortly after Freedom, but I chose to go ahead and pay the sub fee for a VIP membership. I actually kept up both my CoH and WoW subs for about six months, but eventually realized I was barely logging into WoW, so I canceled that one. Alas, I came to CoH too late. I only got to play for a little more than a year before the sunset. WAAAAH!
By that time I had acquired a Windows laptop, so I tried out a bunch of other MMOs. RIFT, Aion, LotRO, D&DO, EverQuest, CO, STO, and maybe a couple others I can't remember. I discovered quickly that I really hated gaming on a laptop, and in any case none of those games grabbed me.
So, as luck would have it, the CoH sunset coincided roughly with the release of WoW's Mists of Pandaria expansion, and I went back to playing WoW on my Mac. And, fortunately, I utterly adored that expansion. Then I was "meh" about Warlords of Draenor, but really loved Legion a whole bunch. Legion was the best ever WoW expansion for altoholics, and I finally got up a full slate of max level toons of every class. Blizzard announced that they were finally discontinuing support for OpenGL with the next expansion, Battle for Azeroth, so I was forced to finally get a new computer. I'd been playing on the same 2008 iMac for ten years at that point, steadily lowering my graphics settings with every expansion to keep the game playable. So Blizzard forced my hand, and I ditched the Mac for a proper Windows gaming machine.
So now that I had a decent Windows machine, I headed into the Battle for Azeroth expansion, and also decided to try my hand at SW:ToR and FFXIV, but didn't get far with the last two, and decided to just stick with WoW.
And then I got the word: CoH was back! I found Homecoming, made an account, and within three days I had once again cancelled my WoW sub. CoH was the only game that had successfully made me quit WoW, and now it had done it twice.
I'll confess that I did take a break from CoH for a bit in 2020. It was during the pandemic lockdowns, and I was stuck at home, and even CoH got old playing it 12+ hours a day. I was a bit burned out, so I jumped back over to WoW for a bit to finish out the BfA expansion and see the ending, and then try out the new Shadowlands expansion. That expansion finally, officially, permanently killed off any love I had for WoW, and I've been back here ever since. I haven't even been tempted to try Dragonflight, the current WoW expansion.
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On 12/8/2023 at 2:41 PM, Frostbiter said:
You're sweeping the two ships in the port for carnies, right? I couldn't imagine trying to do it any other way in PI. Plus, there's two of the "Hunt 20 Carnival" missions from the same contact.
Harvey Maylor's Carnie hunts are for 50 !!
Carnies spawn elsewhere than the ships, there's often a group of them next to the building to your right as you're facing Harvey. They're also frequently around the skyscraper just north of the docks, and they're sometimes lurking around the bases of power line towers.
Some of the hunts that particularly annoy me are "no XP" hunts. Like, there's a high-30s mission in Bricks or Founders that sends you to "interrogate" 20 Sky Raiders, a 20s-range enemy group.
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Tom da Bomb (Fire/Rad brute) becomes my 31st level 50!