Scarlet Shocker

I miss the days when we could confuse Vazhilok bombers who destroyed their colleagues 🙂 Fun times.

Flaming Carrot

/jranger for extreme stupidity. "Yeah we got our game back let's fuck it up for the community now!"

I would much prefer a backpack in the Incarnate style referencing the internal workings of an horological masterpiece. (I daren't say "clockwork" because that would muddy the waters somewhat) - but think of something akin to Dave Gibbons' art in Watchmen that hovers at your back and maybe an aura that references time somehow

Superheroes don't need saving. Superheroes do the saving. At least, that's the general idea. They are an idea as old as humanity, from Gilgamesh, Heracles, Perseus, Sigfried et al. Incredible beings with extraordinary abilities, defeating even more horrific monstrous foes, often with a moral at the end of the tale. And truly there's nothing wrong with the Superhero genre as it stands in pop culture. It's just that the MCU raised the bar so high it couldn't manage the expectations it set itself. We had 20 movies creating this awesome super-team that was set to save the world and they shit the bed when they delivered Endgame, and clearly have lost the sense of direction they had when they brought us Avengers and Age of Ultron & GotG. Warner bros haven't come close with their DC offerings and even the X Franchise got worn out and delivered its death knell with Dark Phoenix. It's not that Superheroes are bad - they are kind of niche - and Marvel got the world and his dog wanting to see the denouement of the Avengers arc which was disappointing in the extreme and they've failed to follow it up with anything meaningful. There'll likely be a pause and we'll get some junk farmed out to us, and then some bright spark will have an idea, get the budget to bring their dream to life and suddenly everyone will be saying "Yay, superheroes! Aren't they brilliant?" It's not the superhero problem it's just long running franchise fatigue syndrome. It happens a lot. Take Star Wars, take James Bond, take any story produced over many years and they have highs and lows. City of Heroes will simply be the candle in the window letting the folks out there know there's always a bright flame for those who want to find it.

Clownclone?

Yeah, uLevel is typically British! 🤣

I prefer to use the French version "Le Velling"

you can get five very easy merits if you go to Echo: Galaxy City and do the badges there - the Plaques also feature in the Atlas Medallion award so it's well worth doing!

If you think Vampires struggle with fire, try MM Bots! 🔥

It's Cryptic's home brewed engine, and was developed for this game before those kind of things existed. So yeah, it's kind of where we're at. The only way to get a new engine is to redevelop from the ground up and that ain't gonna happen (nor should it IMO) Now if we're talking CoH2...

If we were going to get a new power set I'd like something like a sword and rifle - a "dragoon" set maybe. Start at range and close the distance to finish.

Many would love Clowns, but a significant portion of the fan base would hate that and those people matter too. I don't think it's ever going to happen and that's ok in my book.

/jranger

I would seriously LOVE to be able to just sit in a bloody chair without a load of faffing around with emotes. I would love a zip line style travel power I would love tentacles as a power set, either ones that extend from the fingers (blocky hands in our case) or the back or torso. They would fit melee and control power sets well I think Alternative pet models would be great, for existing pet powers, especially some of the controller sets. I'd quite like a "Musician" MM power set. Different musicians, with various instruments, setting their grooves on enemy mobs and destroying them with the coolest of sounds! Can you dig it?

Welcome home! Enjoy it

then slot for +Acc

Indeed. It would have cost them little if they put the game in maintenance mode and arguably caused them a great deal less hassle in the long run. I may be being overly cynical here but I strongly suspect they felt that they had to give HC a licence as their least bad option. They were never going to be able to put the smoke back in the bottle and having an "officially sanctioned" operation means they retain at least a modicum of control over it.

Easy mistake to make. Don't be embarrassed - you've probably answered a question other players were too shy to ask!

I can confirm this because his wife told me that it's true! 🤯

were you using stealth or any other form of invisibility? If they can't see you they won't follow you. That's the only reason I can think immediately.

Illuminating

Perhaps. I also think a lot of it is "get this done move on to the next ASAP" - which sometimes diminishes the game IMO. Personally I find that I enjoy games much more if the team coordinates together and works as a team. It feels more like an accomplishment