Black Zot

You mean it gives the haves something to hold over the have-nots so they can say "I'm better than you". That's the ultimate effect of an unseeded market and price inflation; don't try to pretend otherwise because we both know that's bullshit.

That would render them a waste of a slot.

If you want to make it look like he knows how to fight? Street Justice all day. MA is for people who think wire-fu is too realistic.

To me, a power can only be called perma if you can set it to autofire and forget about it. Does that make for tight and expensive builds? Yes. But any other way of doing it drives me insane. "This power will stay up all the time if you just keep clicking this and this and tha-" FUCK THAT SHIT. If you've got time to babysit a power to that degree, you didn't need it to begin with.

Yeah, I dropped it when they insisted I link my Steam account to ARC (a Chinese spyware program masquerading as security) in order to keep playing.

Despite the hype, there's still a lot of R&D between "self-driving" and "road-ready", and another huge gap between that and "affordable". Don't hold your breath.

Scorpion Shield is pretty much the best defense shield in the game. It grants defense against the 3 most common damage types and resists against a type that's otherwise hard to get any kind of protection from. It also has some of the least obtrusive VFX if you value your costume design at all. The fact that the rest of the pool is either ugly or garbage simply gives you some build room to work with.

A tedious workaround that STOPS working any time the game gets patched is hardly a solution. And that's IF a sound mod created by a big-boom-lover actually does what he claims - a claim I have no reason to believe given your constant "bring back the painful noises" harping. Oh boo-fucking-hoo, the person who enjoys inflicting physical pain on people is upset about not getting compassion from the person they're hurting. You have no claim on the moral high ground, Your Wannabe-Holiness. I'm the one being actively denied any enjoyment of the game by the current state of things. I'm the one who has to take a painkiller after teaming with a SS toon, or has to desummon MM pets every time he plans to zone because of the ear-rape of 18 simultanuous power effects going off, or needs to spend half an MSR alt-tabbed because there's half-a-dozen Kins in the raid, or insert any other sound-stacking powerset and the resultant headache. And for the record, I generally DON'T watch TV or movies unless I have direct control of the volume, partly because of the absurdly-inconsistent recording volumes endemic to the medium.

Oh, so all that endless whining about the ability to deafen people at the touch of a button being "nerfed" was someone else using your account then? You say you'll leave if the devs do any more damage to your ability to troll people. I pity the denizens of whatever server you decide to inflict your presence on if you do. Seeing as you not caring about the harm you're causing is exactly the problem here.

My problem is you're fighting for a completely unacceptable status quo. As long as you treat the ability to inflict ear-rape as your god-given right, you're on my shitlist.

One of the reasons I rarely play melee is it means being at ground zero when a saturated Foot Stomp goes off. At volume settings where any other game would be inaudible, THAT effect has the potential to get me in trouble with the neighbors. I might as well set off a bomb on my desk. The game should have launched with the option to turn that shit off. There's no excuse not to have it now, umpteen years of development later.

That's like saying [insert number here] is the easiest Dark Souls game.

Two clicks with at least one very long animation, plus whatever buffs from your secondary you need to throw out. AT LEAST 4 seconds before the pet's battle ready, not counting summon time. In the middle of a firefight, that's forever. If you've lost more than one pet, you'll have to more-or-less completely disengage from the fight to resummon unless you want the newcomer to die instantly and waste the end.

Put it on the biggest layer cake map you can find and add a strict time limit. Mind you, don't expect anyone but a demented fool to PLAY that mission.

And don't try to pretend THAT'S not an utterly boneheaded piece of design.

First point in the OP is invalid. UV protection offered by cloud cover is trivial; you still need sunblock.

The game becomes more fun.

Never trust any percentage chance any game gives you that's not 100% or 0%. It's ALWAYS lying, one way or the other.

Only reason I have a TV is for console gaming. To hell with paying every month for a "service" consisting mostly of utter dog shit, and that goes for both cable and streams.

Coming from Microsoft, this is extremely rich. Microsoft spent the last 3 decades leading the charge on killing old hardware and software with its endless iterations of Windows, and now they expect us to believe they've done a complete 180? Anyone who doesn't smell a rat is noseblind.

Probably not; the expense to keep it running is less than peanuts because it runs on the same server bank as STO. Basically as long as STO turns a decent profit, CO is free.

Why not just rename the power "Big Fucking Rock" and be done with it?

Yes, it very much is. You're actively choosing to use a power that you know will screw things up for your team. That is griefing. End of discussion.