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/end thread Nothing really more needs to be said here. Very nice post, @ROBOKiTTY

Jimmy must have been drinking some of this considering it was almost 5 AM. Bars close at 4, right?

First, how about asking for an option. Nobody likes when players ask for an outright change, especially since not everybody has a problem with them. Having said that... The power set is still new. Teams are running with multiple players running around with the set and yes, as of right now they are annoying. However, once the power set grows mundane and people move on, it shouldn't be so bad. If you only have one or two on your team, it's not bad at all (I have tested this) and is very tolerable. I think people need to relax a bit and wait for the set to die out some before calling out for changes to the sound. It literally *just* got here.

@Coyote This is the one you want, it's named cagebolt2 cagebolt2.ogg

I think that is a reasonable enough suggestion. +1

I do appreciate that you are asking for an option here. Too many players come to these boards and outright demand a complete change that is forced on everyone. So anytime a player asks for an optional change, I have their backs. Thank you for that, sir.

Our SG was talking about the same thing. However, to be fair the powerset is brand new. Anytime I have been on a team I have seen at least 3 to 6 players using the set. SO yes, under those circumstances I agree the effects and sounds are over the top. However, I want to reserve my opinions about it and wait until the hype dies down a bit, to where there are only 1 or 2 players on a team who has it before judging the over the top animations. I am thinking it is only over the top because there are so many players on a single team playing it all at once. I suspect it won't be bad at all once it dies down a bit and you only have 1 or 2 players on a team using the set. So for now, I am going to be logical about this and give it a chance to die down before doing any type of suggestion for change, if a change is even needed outside of the writhing in pain animation.

In that case I apologize. I can understand in the case that it actually does affect you directly. The writhing does need to change for a couple of different reasons. The first is for the reason that it directly affects you, the second being the reason I gave. Like I said before, I do support the suggested change either way and now for either reason. I think there does need to be some type of react to the ability though. So, this is your car here, so let me ask you, what animation would you like to see it replaced with in its place?

I think some people are just looking too hard into it. There comes a point when you start thinking people are just looking for reasons to be offended. Now this does not mean that I don't agree to a certain extent, the animation needs to change because it makes your character look like he/she is in pain and even gives the illusion that you are held or immobilized. But if we are going to ask for a change, let's not use "it could trigger somebody" as the excuse. That just feels really silly to me. The world does not revolve around easily offended people. And before anyone comes at me with telling me that I am being insensitive, let me point out that nobody who was "triggered" has posted this, but instead people are speaking for them on their behalf before they themselves have even expressed a concern. I would be taking a different tone otherwise. Like I said, I don't disagree that the animation needs to change, I just disagree with the reasons given in this thread. I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill with this.

Hahaha, it's all good, my man. I always felt like it needed a bit of updating and needed just a tad bit more umph. So it's there as an option. I personally use it and since I am quite fond of it, I am sure others would be too so I shared it for the community. For sure does not mean people *have* to like it or even use it. But those that do, it's there for their enjoyment. 🙂 Thanks for your honestly, Six Six!

That is the one for the Electric Control set. Was that the one you wanted or were you wanting the one for the Damage set?

Speak for yourself! ♪♫I don't wanna grow up! I'm a CoH kid! They got a million archetypes that I can play with! From Blasters and Tankers to Brutes and Defenders, it's the biggest MMO there is! I wanna be a CoH kid!♫♪

Where is my grumpy face! How dare you hate a day I love, sir! How...Dare...You! 😄

So how about it, folks? I was working on my new mod for Lightning Primaries when it occurred to me that while I was at it, I could locate the files for the Lightning Field power that I have seen so many of you post threads on how much you hated it. So I did...and I changed them to a much quieter sound effect, while giving it a rather appealing to the ear (at least in my opinion) sound effect. For those of you who would like to be able to use the power without the irritation of the sound effect that it currently has, you now have a new option. For those of you who hated playing with other players on your team who had that power, well...this works for that as well. These are two separate mods, one for just the Lightning Field on any AT, the other is for the Lightning Attacks for any AT. As for the Lightning Ranged Attacks, I have really ramped up the feeling of POWAH!!! I suspect those of you who felt the powers sounded a bit meh, will really love this Mod. Enjoy! The mods can be found here... Furthermore, there is a list of mods that @The Philotic Knight has consolidated on his website if any of you are interested in other mods. He has a list of all mods that we could find on his webpage that has anything and everything to do with City of Heroes/Villains and can be found below. http://www.cityofplayers.com/coh-community-tools-mods/

You are correct. I was perfectly happy with HO's filling your slots being the actual end game, the final mark of your hero. When there was nothing left to do but help lowbies after that. It freed you up to explore other avenues of the game with alts. I never got bored because even after maxing out a character, I could simply switch to an alt and I did not have to spend such insane amounts of cash or time maxing a character out. Teams (imo) were essential in playing together and filling the gap that the other classes did not have. For me personally, it flowed much better and left little room for players to just nuke and run nuke and run and left little room for players to run off solo in the mission...there were severe consequences back then for doing so...such as death. Blasters in those days did not jump ahead of the Tank and destroy everything before the Tank could actually get there. Players, even throughout the leveling experience did not want to play content at +0, because, well, +0 did not exist. Granted, I could do without the herding Tanks, but honestly those types of Tanks were far and few between mainly because they were only good for Slashing/Lethal damage, if they went up against anything else, they crumbled. I also miss that you had to achieve certain levels to unlock certain goodies. Like travel powers at level 14. Your cape at level 20. Your Auras at level 30. These were goals the game no longer has. The only real goal now is to reach the end as fast as possible and then go back and get all your badges later. Everything is given to you at the beginning of the game. You no longer have to achieve a milestone to get your cape, your travel powers or your aura. For me, those days freed up much more time to play other classes and try out new powers, it promoted playing alts more than I think it does now, because it did not take so long to max out your build. All you had to do was log on for a Hammi Raid here and there, and then it was back to lowbie land. My fondest memories of the game came before IO's and before City of Villains. It got even worse for me personally after they allowed Heroes and Villains to be one and the same. The mixing of the two just really killed things for me personally. I get that most players do not feel the way that I do, and that's okay. I'm just a man who has been left in time. I hear that happens when you get old....the rest of the world passes you up and you lose touch. I guess my day is over and now I am one of those old men who say, "Back in my day..."

To each their own opinion, but calling people a liar for saying they liked the graphics the way they were isn't going to help your cause. We understand that high graphics give people headaches (I was more specifically referring to the original Ice Armor Graphics before they were made almost translucent) and could even understand that adding an option to adjust those graphics would have completely been worth the money spent. But instead, the Devs took them away outright. Agree with it or not, the players who loved those graphics felt they were treated unfairly when those graphics were completely removed instead of made an option. Me personally, if a game that I played gave me headaches and I chose to continue to play the game anyway despite what it does to me, I would have never thought to come to the forums and demand that the Devs redo the entire graphics of the powers in game just to accommodate lil ol me. I may have instead asked for the option to be added in for me to adjust those graphics on my end as not to steal away the experience from the other players who might be upset if the game were to suddenly take a nose dive in the graphics department. But sadly that's just not how things played out. Sadly, those graphics are lost forever in time and will never be coming back...not even as an option. P.S. And yes, I loved the original Sonic Shields just as much as I like the current ones.

I am trying to make a mod that brings back the original Taunt for the Huge Body Males. I'm sure some of you old Tank players out there remember it. The file simply does not exist. I went through the entire library of SFX this game has one by one looking for it, it simply no longer exists. I assume the original Devs deleted the file when they decided to do away with it. Does anyone by chance have the sound bite or a video that has the taunt recorded it on? Would sure be very appreciative.

I agree completely, enough visual and sound effect changes have been forced as is. The game used to have some really great graphics for powers, a lot of them were changed because it was giving people headaches and hurting their eyes...I was not one of them, I loved the graphics, but sadly these graphics were not added in as an option on a graphics slider, but instead forced on the entire community of players who loved the graphics just as much as players who did not. I honestly don't think I would care to see anymore forced visual nerfs without them being completely optional.

@Lines @ZacKing @Herotu Updated with new Remastered version.

The goal I had was to add a bit more excitement to the song, so in that I think I have achieved the goal, but I do agree it could use a bit more of a bass tone and maybe even the volume of the *snap* to be lowered considerably. Thanks for the feedback. I'll take it into consideration with my next stab at it. 🙂

Granted, my version is a bit more highlighted, but all of these use a similar sound in one way or another. Some of the current Star Wars compositions use something similar as well.

I could maybe swap it out for a bass drum if enough people request it. The sound is a sound a LOT of composers use these days in almost all of today's symphony orchestra compositions. You hear it a lot in movies themes these days, especially anything heroic.

So I made a new Mod and would like people's honest opinion. I'm sure you remember the Character Creation theme I remade and posted a good while back, and now I offer this as an alternative solution. Originally I wanted to make the video of in game footage when I enter Atlas Plaza, but that is against the rules temporarily. So for now, it's a video with music and titles only. First is the original, after is the new remade version. Hope you enjoy! Remastered after taking feedback in to consideration.

Right when I thought you weren't going to say anything in this thread I was going to agree with, you go off and prove me wrong.

Atlas Plaza Music has been updated in my latest Mod...check it out and tell me what ya think! I am currently working on a video to post so people can check it out. I'll be posting it on the General Forums once finished if you want to wait until then to hear it. 🙂 Thanks for the "addaboy!"