Solarverse

I dont get home from work for another 4 hours, but will try it out then and see what happens. I would really love our specialty bubbles back. There has to be a way to still pull this off.

That is the same issue we are having. We are hoping for a fix or a new method of getting the same result.

It's somewhere around .67, but I get what you saying. I actually support this idea. Anything that makes it an option.

I was fair about it, some (although not many at all) actually do know how to use KB. So I was sure to mention that in one of my previous statements. However, not enough players use it correctly to justify it staying in game IMHO. Not to mention, but in late game, by the time players set up to use KB correctly, the mobs are already dead. Just seems to me (again, only my opinion) that KB was just a bad idea from its infancy. Plentiful knockback in a superhero game is a great idea. Knocking each other around is an important aspect of superpowered fights in a lot of media. The problem is often the randomness of it and that so many other powers want enemies herded up for maximal efficency. There are two designs that are simply at odds with each other. If the balance of things lay differently, people would be complaining about powers having merely knockdown or that people who want to herd and then use AoE are wasting their time. I made a few threads on this during live, and I always requested an option to turn it on or off. When teaming without a Tank (had a team last night with no melee, it was all blasters, controllers and defenders.) the knock back would be welcomed. So even I would use it from time to time. Part of being a Superhero is being the master of your powers. Having no control over them makes little sense even in a comic book world of heroes. Having the option to make them knock back or knock down seems preferable here and is a good compromise.

This thread would not be here if that pertained to what we are talking about. Completely different chat bubble. You can try the chat command listed in this thread. That will show you what we are referring to.

I was fair about it, some (although not many at all) actually do know how to use KB. So I was sure to mention that in one of my previous statements. However, not enough players use it correctly to justify it staying in game IMHO. Not to mention, but in late game, by the time players set up to use KB correctly, the mobs are already dead. Just seems to me (again, only my opinion) that KB was just a bad idea from its infancy.

They also make Blasters Useless: The throw a Fireball, now instead of hitting the nice and tight mob, they hit only one or two. They make Tanks useless: A Tank goes to use Foot Stomp, instead of hitting the mob he worked so hard to gather up, he now only hits the floor and air. Tank taunts, now he only taunts one instead of the whole mob. They make Controllers useless: Instead of immobing or hold the mob still for the blasters and Tanks, they are now permanently held all over the room in random places...which restricts the mob from running back to the Tank. Now it takes 2 to 3 times longer to kill the mob. In fact, the only thing that isn't rendered useless, are Master Minds and other players who use KB to scatter mobs. It truly does boil down to, who has the more logical argument. The "Don't tell me how to play!" guys, or the "Your play style is hurting your team's play style" guys? Even worse, is if you kick a player for using and refusing to stop using KBs in a negative way, some people want to make you out to be the monster here. To me it is simply this. You either play along the grain and not against the grain of the REST OF THE TEAM, or you are gone. No hard feelings, we simply didn't mix well. I mean, there does have to be a line drawn somewhere. You cannot spoil the fun of 7 players, just to be sure that 1 player gets to play the way he/she likes. The need of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Simple Logic, spoken by our beloved late Leonard Nimoy.

That was actually a welcomed change by many players.

NO! WE....MUST....CHANGE....THE....GAME....AND....NERF.....EVERYTHING!!!! I want to see this game nerfed to the ground, to where the most powerful ability in game is Brawl!

The bind that Solarverse provided in a sense, works, but broken. The changes, if memory serves right, was 'fixed' on Issue ...either 16 or 17. Reason for the change was that players were able to post false powers/abilities link, clicking on it could result to anything that could be done with the slash command. Back on topic, if one must really want the clear background, following the command as an example: /bind enter "beginchat <color white><bgcolor #0000001><bordercolor white>" You'd have to keep moving the cursor every single time at the end before typing... or, just copy paste the color input before typing your message. Hey! Just teamed with you for Positron Part 1. You and I actually had a little chat about this. I wonder if it would be worth it to the new Devs to give us fix for this? Really hate to see this go. It was quite unique and lots of fun. Good run today, by-the-way. :)

I ran in to only one creep, he made my global ignore list or life. I was advertising for a Frostfire mission (I run that mission on every single one of my characters) and a player sent me a tell, telling me he was level 2, and if he could join. I simply replied, "You may want to run a couple of DFB missions first, this mission is a bit high for a level 2 player." Oh that set him off, started accusing me of patronizing him and started getting outright rude with me while tossing insults. I tried once to calm the little guy down but he was triggered. I simply /gignored the player. Not the type of player I care to run with. So his acount wil no longer be an issue for me. He is the ONLY player I have had an issue with since this game reopened. I hardly count that one single player as a toxic community. I have seen a bit of toxic people on the forums though. People on the forums can be a bit rude, it seems to draw them from any game you play, however, the people on these forums hardly represents the community. As most players have nothing to do with forums, nor do they want anything to do with them. Forum posters are the minority of any game.

My main in the old days was a Tank. PB's and Energy Blasters and anything else that did knock back only got one warning. If they scattered my mobs more than once they got the boot. I never had to even warn the good ones...the players that took the time to angle their attacks and blast them in a direction that helped me, not scatter the mobs...however, there is a huge drawback to this; it takes time to set up, and in later content, mobs are already dead by time you set up and hit Build-up + Aim and then your Cone/AoE. End game content PB's are poop IMO. And trust me, I love playing PB's...especially human form. So it stings a bit saying this about them, but they are poop for end game content, even if you know how to play them.

LMFAO! Man, that sounds soooo tempting!

I too would love this. DFB groups have all but taken over LFG chat. It's hard to get a word in edgewise when looking for TF groups or the likes. If DFB had its own channel, that would be great. But like someone else said, hopefully DFB groups will die down a bit after these next couple of months.

I honestly don't understand why more people aren't going to Hollows. I never touch Kings Row. I go straight to DFB till level 9ish, then hit Hollows until after Frostfire, then it's straight to Posi TF Part 1. Then I do TF's all the way to 50 with the occasional regular teams in between. Kings Row missions (usually radio missions) just seems boring to me when there are much funner ways to level.

QFT. I have counted 10 players before requesting a DFB run, not one of them offered to start a DFB run. I put out the message to form a DFB run and filled the team in 20 seconds flat. It is funny to me that so many people want teams, but are unwilling to form one. What also kills me, is when people join your team, but are not patient enough to stick around long enough for you to complete the team. For an example: I was forming a Frostfire team. One guy said he would join, so I invited him. Within ten seconds he said, "You don't even have a team yet?" and then quit. I invited another player, and he instantly quit as well. I shook my head thinking, I will never fill a team if people keep quitting the team before I can fill it. People are impatient and unwilling to form teams themselves.

Ah, thank you, I'd never heard of him. Japanese Ultraman was the only one I'd ever known about. This link may be more direct. But yes, Ultraman is what Superman *is* on Earth 3. On Earth 3, Superman grew up much differently than he did on Earth 1. Ultraman wants Superman dead, and they have fought quite a few times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraman_(comics)

I think this thread needs to pick up more momentum. Surely somebody out there knows how to make this work? We can't be the only ones who remember the specialty chat bubbles?

I seen this preview in theaters back when it was still fresh. The first word out of my mouth was, "That is not a "what if Superman was evil, that is Ultraman's origin story." That could easily be Ultraman's Multiverse origin story.

I guess I would be one of those not please. I prefer knockdown.

Oh no... :D

This is the forums, where even things that you think EVERYONE in game agrees with, you find forum posters who disagree. Nothing you can say on these forums in form of suggestion will go unchallenged. You need to remember, forum posters represent the minority of players (most people do not post the forums, nor do they want anything to do with them. Forums can be too toxic for most people) and most vocal. Most people just want to play the game and are turned off by the politics of forums. They might have tried posting once, then seen how things are played out on the forums and they said to hell with that and stopped making posts. What scares me most, is our game will change based off these very same posters who have a tendency to belittle anyone with an idea or wish for a change. Which is why I truly believe that no suggestion that relates to mechanics of powers should ever pass unless it is in the form of an option, since the majority of players don't even know these changes are being requested. Options are where it's at. I think everyone can at least agree that options are always going to be preferable than a down right change. At least with an option, you can play the game the way you want to play it, not the way the vocal minority wants you to play it.

I have learned two things from reading this thread. 1: People are argumentative and want the world to see how well they can argue and desire the throne of argument. 2: No matter what change you ask for, somebody is going to be rude in their response, soliciting an argument. Reason for this? See #1. This is why I prefer options over change. If people want to argue an option being added to the game with me, they can pucker up and kiss my behind. ;)

Hahahaha, as funny as that is, there is no way! I would bash my head into my computer screen, lol.

I have tried remembering how this works as well and made posts about it, unfortunately, it seems you and I are the only ones who remember this, as I got no replies on my threads asking about this. The command only half work. You have to manually input your cursor in the chat box after hitting enter, then arrow key the cursor to the end of the chat, at which point you can then enter your chat. The command I used to use is as follows: /bind enter beginchat <color white><bgcolor #0000001><bordercolor white> I can't remember where I would enter this, but the afk message would be like this: $$afk Shhhh, I'm typing Hope this helps. Maybe you and I can put our heads together and get this figured out. We need more people working on this.