RikOz

Okay, I'm puzzled by the people saying the default movement keys are WASD. On my install, both Homecoming and back on live, Q is "Turn Left" and E is "Turn Right", with A & D being the Strafe keys. I remember liking CoH's default setup so much that, after sunset when I went back to WoW, I changed my WoW settings to match. Anyway, the main keybind change I've made is rebinding the "Previous Tray" and "Next Tray" to the Numpad - & + keys. Because they're out of the way over there. When "Previous Tray" was bound by default to the "-" key next to the top-row zero, I kept accidentally tapping it because I have my travel power bound to "0", so my main power tray kept flipping from 1 to 9. Though I would prefer to be able to simply unbind those functions altogether.

I have no idea if this is even possible, but I'd love it if there was some way to smarten up some mission "ally" characters. Specifically, I'm talking about phase 3 of the Shining Stars (the ones available at level 15). In the mission, "Hell Hath More Fury That You Thought", we team up with Grym. Unfortunately, in this mission Grym is stupider than most enemy mobs, in that he insists upon standing in the fire and becoming too wounded to continue. Usually on the first pull. Even most enemy NPCs are clever enough to try to get out of AoE effects, but not Grym. Then, in the following mission, "If You Don't Mind", we meet up with No Mind, who wants to be our sidekick because he can't fight the Praetorian Clockwork by himself. And then he proceeds to charge, by himself, smack into the middle of the first pack of mobs. Not only that, he then runs around the room smacking robots until he's aggroed the entire room, whereupon he promptly dies, about 60 seconds after I rescued him. Honestly, I almost suspect that these two characters were deliberately "dumbed down", because ally NPCs that accompany me in Tip missions (Overdrive, etc.) aren't nearly that stupid and almost always survive to the end of the mission.

Chinese-Irish-Danish gunfighter redneck, Khan O'Copenhagen:

Ideal hostage escape route: not around, but directly through the middle of the fisticuffs!

A few more I don't think I've shared yet! Finally made a WoW "tribute" character. Well, sorta. Meet "Epic Gear": Dr. Frances Solana ... ... who transforms into Mother Sun! One of Mother Sun's proteges, Girl Mercury: Triple-N, the Nearly Naked Ninja: And Soul Candle - I like how this one turned out:

Seems I won't be moving to Boston any time soon! A couple months of those HOA fees would more than cover my current rent for a year!

Fair enough. Like I said, it's probably my living in a smaller town. I work right downtown, and across the street is the tallest building in the city, and it's 9 floors (former fancy hotel, now converted to low-income senior housing.

Yeah, but condos and apartments aren't quite the same thing.

I don't! I'm too busy leveling my 58 (so far) alts to spend time farming. The one costume editor change I would like to see is ... allow male characters to use the Venus symbol, and female characters to use the Mars symbol (chest details). Dang it, I have a team of female characters representing each planet, and all of them get to wear their planetary symbol except for Ms. Mars. I'd like to know why this silly restriction was there to begin with.

I dunno, maybe it's because I live in a smaller town, but I boggle at those Pinnacle Apartments that start at $399,999. Mostly because the practice of actually buying your apartment, as opposed to renting, is odd to me (though I'm aware it does happen in some places), but also that one can buy a house with property around here for less than that, 15 years after those billboards "went up".

I've always wondered if it was deliberate, or just an oversight, that there doesn't seem to be a single church of any kind in Paragon.

I got a chuckle a couple days ago. Couple Hellions in The Hollows, sitting on a wall directly across the street from the police barricades at the Atlas Park entrance. I don't recall the exact wording (didn't get a screenshot), but it was something like: "Oh, we could charge the barricades, but we could get injured, we could get caught. Let the Trolls do it. They're dumb."

Stomp Em'?

See who gets this one ...

I know it's RNG, but man, every time I've played around with the random feature it seems to be heavily weighted toward selecting the bestial and monstrous heads and pieces. That, and those jester parts come up with alarming frequency.

Playing at low volume, I've discovered that Static Field's sfx produces this annoying, irregular ticky scritchy sound just on the edge of my hearing. It's also stereo, so it creates the effect of random insects skittering around nearby.

My all-time favorite bit of NPC chatter came from a random Outcast in The Hollows, explaining things to one of his fellows: " No, I didn't call you stupid. I said your comment was an oxymoron. It's a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are put together. Am I the only one who reads the books we swipe around here?"

Sunset in Kings Row - this is currently my desktop wallpaper: And this similar shot from Independence Port is my lock screen background: Gotta say, though, that most of my "cityscape" shots would be greatly improved by the absence of those glaring war walls. Looking at them together, I'll add that having the AE building in both shots was not deliberate.

A Phil Collins pun would never have crossed my mind.

I'm running into an unusual problem every now and then with CoX screenshots that I take using the in-game screenshot function (as opposed to a 3rd-party solution). I open the image in Windows 10's "Photos" app, crop it to a reasonable size for sharing, and go to save it, except this error pops up: Wut? So I look at the properties of the image file in question (this is after moving it from my SSD to my HDD, which is why the path isn't showing \CoH\Screenshots): Notice the "Security" information at the bottom. Another computer? It most certainly did not. Also, checking that "Unblock" box does absolutely nothing. The oddest part is that this does not happen with every screenshot. It's just random, every now and then, and I have no idea what's causing it. EDIT: I'll also note that the only thing about it that actually seems to be "blocked" is re-saving the file after editing it. I can open and view it just fine. I can also upload it to my Google Photos account and then re-download it from there, and everything is fine.

Yeah, I've just noticed on newer alts that those origin attacks often do more damage than either of my first two attack powers. Kinda discovered this on a level 2 toon with slow-recharging powers. Fighting 2 mobs, used powers on first mob, and then Mutagen + Brawl on the second, who went down just as fast.

The visual effect of my Stone Melee brute's "Fault" power is frequently drawing in midair, instead of on the ground where it belongs. I don't know if it's specifically related, but this wasn't happening until the first mission after I trained up to level 17. I added a slot to the Fault power, and slotted it with a Knockback DO. It was previously slotted with an Accuracy and a Stun.

Since I was a WoW player for years (except for these times when I realize I'd rather play CoH), today I was inspired to roll a WoW "tribute" character. Well, sorta. May I present, "Epic Gear" (f10 battle cry: "FILTHY CASUAL!"):

Unfortunately happened to me while stealthed in a cave. Recharged too close to a big crowd of Tsoo, ended up frantically trying to hop away...