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You guys are sleeping on some of those new weapon models. Crossbows! I don't understand the changes to Storm Blast, really, but it seems like it's getting a little love. Anyone care to explain the cash value of the notes here?

Grats, guys. I know a lot of people worked hard for this.

Any good artist will tell you that limitations foster creativity rather than extinguish it.

Puerile dislike of intellectual property laws demonstrates nothing but a lack of understanding. What some of you dislike isn't copyright itself, but mega-corporate stagnation, i.e., the misuse of intellectual property. In short, Disney has become evil, but that doesn't mean all intellectual property laws are.

Put me in the camp of "ok cool I guess, but does this do anything good?" I really might be dumb, but I don't get it.

Back in the day, I didn't mind hunts. They were pretty fun actually. Why do we all hate them now? I can't quite pin down why the outdoor world in this game is so uninteresting compared to WoW's... It feels so non-interactive.

Alllllllllllllllllllllllright, you got me. I'm usually not a fan of "jokey" heroes, but I'm pretty jealous I didn't make this one.

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Yo lore guys: What's the story with death in this game anyway, especially with regard to incarnates? I know there's the "mediport" thing, but then how does anybody die forever?

I've seen your posts and always wondered what kind of person writes a sig like yours. (By the way, "most probably"? Ugh.) I'm beginning to understand that there are stratospheric levels of narcissism on the internet beyond what I ever imagined. I'm betting most of us knew that DNA undergoes mutations based on environmental exposures, but were too polite to seize upon that singular point and post a wall of text to hijack the thread. Oof. Feel free to add me to your "you hurt my feelings" list.

"I'm sorry, Snarky. I'm afraid I can't do that." 🖲️

OP: This community is awesome, way better than this other game I used to play and hated. This community: Allow us to demonstrate that there are petulant, sanctimonious, overly-serious people everywhere! ✌️

Curious to know how you feel about the money spent now. I've always been poor enough IRL that P2W games were a hard "no," but I understand some people spend hundreds on them without blinking.

I have to explain it to myself lol. My main involuntarily puts out an electromagnetic field, reducing kinetic impacts... but yeah, it actually makes me happy that he's not a kitted-out blaster and will still die to gunfire. I guess with incarnates and stuff you could argue that origins are just that - an explanation of original powers - and that the character obtained more along the way, either through the Well or elsewhere. That's a pretty cool idea to me, but I would still write it into my backstory, as I often do my Epic/Patron sets... 🙃

Very interesting/surprising how many people prefer Natural to Mutant! I just can't suspend my disbelief long enough to watch a "normal guy" go toe to toe with... well, anyone! How the hell do you rationalize surviving even a single burst of rifle fire?

Whenever I see something like this, I assume people picked the wrong origin or remade the character later, twisting the lore of their own character to try and make it fit. 👽

Morrowind was awesome. What's stupid is every time I play an RPG alone, I get bored because it "doesn't matter" and "no one will ever know I even did this." Then I log on to CoX and almost never team with or speak to anyone. 🙃

You can define "value for money" however you like; I'd be interested to hear different perspectives. For me, it's a trifecta of game cost, number of hours having fun, and quality of the fun itself. My highest value* were: #1. Minecraft. I paid $20 back in beta and probably got 2,000 hours of genuine fun with friends. #2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl. $60 but I played every night with 3 roommates for all my four years of undergrad. Only game to regularly send me to 11/10 laughter. I think we ended with 179 custom stages and over 6,000 matches played. #3. Pokemon Red/Blue and Gold/Silver. I was 11 when I got Blue and the Pokemon wave was juuuust cresting in the US. Remember the Burger King toys? the "Mew glitch" stories at recess? Damn, what a time to be alive. *Honorable mention: City of Heroes. I probably have over $1000 into the game. Obviously I think it's excellent or I wouldn't be here. However, the amount of downtime/grinding in the old game was pretty significant. I probably regret putting in so much CoX time in high school, should have hung with my friends more IRL. My lowest value were: #1. League of Legends. One of my top regrets in life. Holy shit I hate this game. Put in ~2,000 hours and ~1,300 of those were having zero fun at all. Probably have $300 into the game, too. Riot Studios is dumb, but maybe I'm dumber because I poured so much of myself into a game I despised. Might even have helped to end my first marriage. -_- #2. World of Warcraft. I think some of my highest highs were from this game, but damn they were few and far-between. Must've put in over $2,000 between the monthly sub and yes, the microtransactions. (I was a vanilla boi, but they got me eventually). I actually loved the game, but if I could have just half of the hours back that I put in to WoW, I could literally learn to play an instrument or something. Your turn!

Champions is infuriatingly-just-barely-the-worst-thing-ever. You play as Tantalus, starving for a good costume and thirsting for combat that makes sense, and it's just barely not even close. adsfjlasdfjiawejfiaw The cleverest thing that game did was the archnemesis system. That was cool as hell and I wish it would come to CoX. I'd be designing my nemeses forever and writing little stories in my head until A Beautiful Mind seemed lonely by comparison. Wildstar pissed me off, too. Like CO, the combat looked good but *felt* horrible. Wildstar was even worse because my hopes were really high for that game. Might I add to this discussion: Guild Wars 2

Did somebody say Stalker? O'Holy Knight (broadsword/shield, a Christmas crusader) White Chris Muss (street justice/SR, think Black Panther but red and green) 39 Annahalffoot Pole (staff/willpower, he's a mean one) Jingo Bell (martial arts/ice armor, hey, that eggnog has super-soldier serum in it!) Tinseltangler (elec/elec, those nuclear-powered Christmas lights didn't go so well...) Tannenbomb (spines/fire, a fir tree (green colored spines) imbued with the raging spirits of a thousand hewn brethren) Lumberjill (dual blades/invuln, dual blades are the chainsaws, archenemy of Tannenbomb) Snow Bawl (ice/ice, mutant kid who didn't get what they wanted for Christmas, but the tears keep freezing up...) I can do this all night, y'all.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who writes backstories only for myself. If I have a character with a placeholder name and/or no backstory, they are in danger of being deleted or abandoned because they're not fully made yet. I'll also remake a character that has the wrong origin for their story and powers, too, even if they're a high level. The incongruity would ruin the fantasy for me. I'm gonna stick up for mutants here: Almost everything about us is genetically determined. Great warriors and athletes are admired because of their (genetic) superiority, not despite it, so long as they wield their power nobly. I also like the "my-gift-is-a-curse-and-vice-versa" angle. My main has control over electricity, but also creates electromagnetic fields wherever he goes and has to carefully avoid important technology. My magic guys are usually involved with either angelic or demonic entities somehow. Probably because I believe in them IRL. (comeatmebro.jpg) I think the Kheldians are some of the best writing the original dev team did, and deserve an honorable mention. I even like the void hunters!

Tough one. What if you changed the concept slightly to make a character who increases their own luck while cursing enemies? Then I would go Dark/SR Sentinel. ("I don't even need to dodge!") Alternatively, I've always thought about a Time/? Defender attached to the idea of fate, which would be somewhat related to luck or destiny. Perhaps a failed astrologer whose faulty spellcasting gained him superpowers?

I always tell myself: The character creator is at least 50% of the game. Sometimes I'll spend an hour making a character and never get it past level 4, but I still love it. I'll click on it briefly at the character select screen and think, "Heh. Yeah. Cool." ...and then promptly log in to another character. Ha! Maybe I'm weird, but I'm at peace with that. The combat system is solid-if-outdated, people on teams are nice, and the "lore" of the game is pretty neat. But the truth of the matter is I've played Map #258 about a jillion times, clicked an uncountable number of glowies, and screenshotted myself on the Clockwork King's throne. The thing that keeps me booting up this game is the inspiration I randomly get for a character concept to match an odd power combo. Sometimes, even just imagining how Blackstar would synergize with Flash Arrow is enough to justify this entire game in my mind. Ok... I'm weird. Sue me. 😅

Yeah but those powersets getting fixed is huge content for me. Storm Blast, for example, is really just for the pixels for me because the Storm Cell mechanic isn't really workable on teams. I love blasters (and the animation for Direct Strike is my favorite in the game), and would love to see a couple of small tweaks to make this set very cool! I work 1.5 jobs, I'm a dad, etc. so where my life is right now I can't really enjoy new Task Forces that take 1+hrs, or spend a bunch of time playing with Mids. I get maybe half an hour a day to pretend I work with Stan Lee making up superheroes and watching them in action... so the better it feels, the more "content" I'm enjoying. I do recognize that others enjoy the game differently, though! 😅

Incblot - Water/dark blaster. Ex-"liaison" (censor) between the shadow government and mega-corporations. Made a deal with a nether-entity to exchange his soul for enough raw power to destroy the wicked. Wild Run - Beast/Nature MM. Native-American-looking fellow with mutative powers to communicate with nature. And my favorite... Red Arc - Dark/Trick Arrow blaster. A powerful vampire whose sanity and humanity were restored when he stumbled upon the secret hideout of his former-best-friend, who had been a hero long ago. Donning his former friend's armor forces the darkness inside to abate, allowing Red (Redemption) Arc to be a superhero.