Solarverse

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!

I lead with the slow version, but find it utterly useless back when it was only a slow version mid fight. Way too many different things could cause an interrupt. I'm glad to still have the option to lead with the slow version, but even happier that I have the fast version mid fight.

I have noticed that my avatar has been adjusted in a way that the whole view is no longer there. It's like watching a movie on the wrong screen ratio. Has something changed?

That's understandable. I have always kind of viewed Bitter Ice Blast as a pseudo snipe as it stands, so I figured it would be easier if it were just made one. However, how would you feel if there were some type of proc system that could trigger an instant cast every....say....30 seconds or so? That way you would only get one instant cast bitter freeze ray approximately once per engagement,

I could see that working. There are plenty of Comic Book characters who use beam attacks, be it from technology or straight from their body/hands. I could put this to good use. Good idea.

Who would have an issue with Bitter Freeze Ray animating and having the same cooldown + mechanic as a snipe, but keeping the damage the same and keeping the hold the same? For me personally, the animation just takes way too long so I rarely use it. I feel if it acted more like a real snipe, it would fit much better with the other Ice powers for Blasters/Corruptors. What do y'all think about it?

Hmmm, never heard of that one, it for sure sounds like some mods have interfered with others. Only suggestion I can make is delete all mods and only download the mods you want. Downloaded all mods will most certainly have issues. I myself have a few mods that conflict because they are different sounds for the same powers. For example, I have two Beam Rifle SFX Mods. One makes your Beam Rifle sound like the Terminator's Plasma Rifles, the other is more of a Generic Sci Fi SFX sound.

Two minds are better than one. Good information, appreciate you sharing it.

It's an NPC sound effect. Same sound effect as the Skyraiders Drone.