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Majority? It can't be modded back in. We have no control over sounds that fade out. And like, it takes literally 30 seconds to mod the sound if a player doesn't like it. Really...

Don't take this in a harsh way, I just feel a bit defeated at this moment in time. I don't play much these days, I log on for a small bit, might run a mission or two and log out. There are many reasons for this, but that's not what this is about, this is more of an incident that reminded me as to one of the reasons why I don't play much these days. So I always loved the sound effects for what is now called Dynamo. I know some people hated that the sound never died off, so to help fix that for them so that I can keep the sound for me and those of us who like it, I created a mod that ANYBODY can install that actually gives them a very very quiet version of that. We even have ways of making it silent so that they don't have to hear it if that isn't good enough for them. I log on my Elec Blaster today and noticed that the sound effects fades out now. It honestly was not needed Devs, this is one of the primary reasons I started making sound mods, so that people can have what they want without you all nerfing the sounds for everyone. I really wish you all would stop nerfing sound effects when you have players who were completely ready to make custom mods for players who took issue with them. I just feel pretty defeated when I take time (and it does take time if you want your mods to be good) to create mods for the community just to have you guys nerf those sounds anyway. It's nothing more than a reminder to me why I don't play so much anymore. Really wish you all would have left that sound effect alone. 😞

I have been here since really close to the game's opening day. Trust me, there have been MANY graphics changes over the years where graphics that looked absolutely stunning were changed out for graphics that are very meh in comparison.

I don't agree. When the Devs made more low level content, all people did was complain about it being low level content. There is no win here for anyone, man. It's simply a no win situation.

And same for the reverse, if somebody dislikes me that much that they place me on ignore, I don't want to interact with that person anymore...I would rather leave them be than not know they have me on ignore and continue to post on their threads/posts. That way we both avoid each other and no hard feelings.

To take it a step further, I had a stalker on these forums a good while back, this individual followed me around on almost every post I made to bash and bash and bash. I put them on ignore, but it didn't stop them from following me around and bashing my threads or posts. Me not responding to them didn't change a thing. So putting them on ignore did not fix the problem because it did not stop this person from not only bashing my posts, but also making attempts to slander. I would love to see this go even further by not only do I not even see they exist at all, but I would also like it to work where they can no longer know I exist either. If they see me post, it will simply say, "Sorry, you cannot see this post, this person has you on ignore." or better yet, them not see anything at all. As far as they are concerned, I simply stopped making posts or threads and that's the end of it. If I ignore somebody, not only do I not want to see what they have to say to me or about me, I don't want them even seeing me.

I honestly can't remember for sure either. In my old aged brain though, I seem to recall it did not start off that way, but the fear affect was added later on. If memory serves, it had a knock back (or was it knock down?) affect instead. That's my old age memory of its earliest incarnation.

I hear you on the editing part. I find myself doing the same on heated topics, lol As far as how bad they felt...I can only hope. Judging from the sounds of the article I read, I highly doubt they felt bad, it almost feels like that was their goal...considering they hammered the system relentlessly for 3 days straight.

I'm sure you got my Stalker a few times. He was a nightmare for heroes in those days, but I was killed by those mystery snipes more times than I care to admit. His name was Wraiven if that rings a bell, heh...I'm sure (if you played on Freedom) you killed him more than once.

I win

Well, since you put it that way, heh. 😄

I think the main issue with a lot of powers, is that they no longer do what they were originally intended to do. AoEs were not designed to make mobs scatter, but some of them do now. I can't remember if Ignite was one of them or not, but back in those days it was not a huge issue since AoE Holds recharged rather quick in those days. IIRC, fear was added to Fire AoEs after one of the many attempts to nerf power leveling. I think some powers need to be changed to reflect the current times. Having said all that nonsensical crap, I do agree with you, but I would rather see the fear removed. Most people who catch on fire in real life collapse to the ground, they do not have the air to run around since the fire takes all the air before it can reach their lungs, so they collapse and burn that way. Even though real life simply cannot be applied to this game in any logical way, it still makes sense. Perhaps a stun effect in place of the fear effect? They would still walk around aimlessly, but they wouldn't walk far in that case.

Heavy?

You know me, one of the main contributing factors for me that I don't much play anymore is because the game has just become a brain dead far too easy of a game. I mean, we have people blowing through Task Forces in record times, the leveling up experience is far too easy, the end game content is far too easy. There are a *few* things that are difficult, but for the most part, even as a Blaster, mobs die before your attacks even hit. So I am all for ANYTHING that gives a challenge back to this game. Until then, I am going to be a far in and between player.

I personally like it. If I dont want to be invisible I simply dont use invisibility powers. But I would love to see something like this implemented before it becomes something that is forced on everyone. hate to say it, I barely play much these days, and it's because of these types of forced graphical and sound changes that I for the most part left the game. One more change like that and I would leave for good. So here is hoping somebody can do a client side graphics change for Stealth.

For those of you who were looking for the comment, you wont find it anymore, it was reported and I was banned from the group over my comment. End of story.

I seen this coming the very day it was announced. Glad my powers of foresight has not failed me. When this was announced, I thought to myself, "Yeah, that won't get abused..." lol

As a firm hater of Knock Back, I think I might actually start to love it under these circumstances, lol.

I said what I had to say about this on the CoH Survivors Facebook page. I don't want to repeat it here since it is violent and expresses acts of violence in a past tense. Let me just say this was an action taken by complete and utter cowards. They can't lash out at people in real life for fear of real life consequences...so they do it online where they can be nice and safe from retaliation. Nothing but a bunch of (enter cuss word here).

You know this how?

Even better. Good idea.

I actually like that idea. You don't *need* the snipe IOs to make snipe good, you can use Ranged DPS IOs and it still be perfectly viable. I like that, make Snipe IO's convert it to the long version only.

Farming is off the chain as it stands. I would love to see a grid layout of how many people just farm past low level content in comparison to people who level their way through low level content. That might explain the apparent decrease in people requesting teams in low level content. The popularity of power leveling is a big contributing factor as to why I don't play much anymore. It can't be changed though because changing it would just make people angry and leave...so for the most part, I left instead.

Honestly, if I had the option to just change the animation to that of Snipe (without changing anything else) I would be happy with that...since I am sure getting it changed to an actual snipe is going to be out of the question and stir far too much controversy, heh.

That is great news, thank you!