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Another sad victim of the Kronos Titan GM ambush in Founder's Falls: EDIT: Kinda weird how one camera angle makes it look like she's somehow planking on the surface, but another angle makes her appear to actually be underwater.

I showed Aubergenerator (Electrical Blast/Atomic Manipulation blaster) a while back, but I designed him some new costumes. I like this one best: I've mentioned before that I like playing with interesting words for names, so here are a couple new ones: Callipygia (Dual Blades/Energy Aura scrapper): And Crepuscular-Man (Martial Arts/Invuln stalker):

While stopping the bombing during a safeguard mission: Mire Eidolon: It feels weird to have explosives that aren't wired into a walking corpse.

Yeah, I was surprised when I came across that one a few years ago :)

And apparently, the costumes weren't just for the one video. It's the band's whole schtick:

This was extremely difficult to screenshot, because it's a "blink and you'll miss it" thing. I finally managed to grab most of what I wanted, but it's still not all there. Amidst the green clouds of whatever that is during Circle of Thorns rituals, you can spot a ghostly skull/face rising in the middle of it: There's a gaping mouth at the bottom, not visible in this shot - the whole face vanishes almost immediately after the mouth becomes visible, so I had to "anticipate" a bit before I hit my screenshot key. Took four tries to get this much. I don't know how many of these rituals I've run past without ever noticing it. I only spotted this one because I'd stopped to bust up another nearby ritual, and happened to be facing this direction when the face flitted across my vision.

I had one of those missions - in this case, I had to take the NPC to the trash can where he'd hidden some evidence. Unfortunately, the trash can spawned in a spot that totally borked the follow-AI. It was inside a room right at the top of a set of those short stairs that do the switchback. Because of the direction I had to turn, the NPC got stuck on the stairs, just out of range to trigger the mission completion. Nothing I did could make him come any farther up the stairs. I ended up having to abandon the mission and then do it over again, in hopes that the trash can would spawn someplace else (it did).

If there's one sound I'd like to get rid of, it's that "whistling wind" sound every time an ice character has an ice sword in hand. The sound doesn't even make sense. A piece of ice that size isn't going to make the wind blow.

The bad guys here look suspiciously like The Skulls:

The only repeat I have amongst my 111 (so far) alts is two Psychic Blast/Mental Manipulation blasters. One of them started out as a Corruptor named "Mental Miyuki", but by level 15 or so I was just getting really frustrated with her, so I rerolled her as a blaster, using the only power sets that fit her concept and name. By that point I'd already rolled the other blaster, and there was nothing for it but to accept the duplication.

I have spreadsheets for Scrappers, Brutes, Blasters, Sentinels, and Stalkers (the ATs I mostly play) to keep track of which power set combinations I've already used and avoid duplication.

The Skulls is a Slavic gang, and Slavic languages don't have articles like "the" and "a". That's probably the reason for the missing "one" here.

Attacking a group of three Hellions in AP: Blood Brother Slicer: We got numbers. Blood Brother Slugger, running away: We've got trouble!

Is this one new? Overheard in IP: Nacht Elite Rifle: I make this outfit look good.

Hotstepper would be happy to join :) I should make a video of him in action. He's very colorful once the fighting starts. He's a fire/fire scrapper, and I used a whole bunch of colors so every power has a different color pairing.

Just downloaded it and fiddled with it a bit. I like it! Thanks!

I used a Mac for years, and have my own licensed copy of Photoshop (pre-subscription version!) on my old Mac, along with a number of other great graphics tools. Alas, my Mac is old and more or less dead* in the water. I switched to Windows 10 as my primary computer a couple years ago, and I've been rather frustrated in trying to find suitable tools that both do what I want and are enjoyable to use. I'll keep looking. * The Mac still boots up just fine, and launches apps just fine. But for some bizarre reason, once I've launched an app, I simply cannot bring it to the foreground and actually use it. But it's over 13 years old at this point, and I guess all good things must end some day.

Is this guy on Everlasting? I think I spotted him standing near the base portal in AP the other night. Or somebody very much like him.

Yeah, I just noticed while deleting stuff that they're mostly PNGs. Trying to find the setting to change that in my screenshot software.

Okay, new Seismic Blast/Earth Manipulation blaster, Tectomancer! Kinda beefy for a blaster, I suppose, but why not? First six costumes, which I think provide a fairly good example of the progression my characters' costumes usually follow. It's hard to see much difference between the last two. Aside from the different capes, #5 has the "Rocky Crumble" aura on his hands and feet; #6 has the same aura, but on his whole body, plus the "Seismic" movement aura.

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Yeah, I have an Imgur account I guess I'll need to start using. Just such a pain in the neck doing it that way, compared to just dragging the pics straight into my posts from my desktop.

I should have been more specific. I meant aspects of the game's mechanics, stuff that is baked into the game itself, not based on other players.

Well, I am sad. I was going to post pictures of my latest alt, but it seems I have reached my upload limit. I've deleted what I can from old, inactive threads, but it appears that the overwhelming bulk of my image posts have been to this still-active thread. So I've gotten my total down, but not enough. I'll still hit the limit again in just a few posts.

Or, "Sometimes an advantage is also a disadvantage." Aside from City of Heroes, my only major MMO experience has been World of Warcraft. I've said before that, from my perspective, one of CoH's biggest advantages over WoW is that the same mission/quest can be different every time you do it. I'm sure this is largely due to CoH's instanced, procedurally-generated mission maps. It means that, unlike WoW's mostly open-world, outdoor quests, the same mission is usually a somewhat different experience every time I do it. In WoW, once I had done a particular quest 2-3 times, I "knew" it. I knew exactly what to do on subsequent alts who performed that quest. I knew exactly what enemies I would be facing, and exactly where they would be. If the quest required collecting items that were sitting around on the ground, I knew exactly where to find them. The only real variable was when I had to collect items dropped by mobs when I killed them - the variable was simply how many I had to kill in order to collect the required number. In CoH, with the exception of a few highly-scripted missions, I can do the same mission on 50 different alts, and have a slightly different experience every time. Different map, different assortment of enemies, clickable items/hostages in different places each time. And that variety is completely freaking awesome. Except when it isn't. Recently, I had two alts who both happened to be doing the same Malta mission arc, and I happened to do one particular mission in the arc, on both characters on the same day, which made the occasional disadvantage very obvious. The first alt pretty much breezed through the mission because, aside from the Titans and Gunslingers, virtually every spawn was made up of Tactical Operatives. Those guys are pretty straightforward, just shooting at you or trying to punch you, and you just do the same back to them. The second alt more or less crawled through the mission, because instead of Tactical Operatives, virtually every spawn was composed of Operation Engineers (the ones who summon those Auto Turrets), and Sappers. Of course, I've run into the same thing at different levels with different enemy groups. Most notably, Circle of Thorns maps that spawn almost nothing but those ToHit-debuffing ghosts, while my next alt in the same mission will have a much easier time of it because it's now filled with the humanoid enemies. How about you? Is there some part of the game [EDIT for clarity: something that is inherent to the game itself, not related to other players] that you normally love, but every now and then it infuriates you?