Scarlet Shocker

Those are not chips. Those are crisps. These are chips. They are not French. They do not come from France. They are chips and they are British They are served with salt and vinegar and sometimes they are battered. Like this: What you are snacking on are crisps. This is a hill I will die on!

seems like a good cause! 👍

Staff melee has a trident option

There has always been some really sloppy writing in this game. Some of it is (and remains) truly dire. But that's true of almost any game, and there are very few that have truly outstanding content from start to finish. But rather than focus on the dross it's important to remind ourselves of the truly excellent content this game offers, some of which is as good as any I've encountered in any game, anywhere... and I've been gaming since I bought my Spectrum 48k so that gives you some indication of what I've tasted. When the game launched there was a need to take time out of the game to disguise the lack of content. Remember running everywhere before we'd got travel powers, or hovering across the Hollows to avoid their pitfalls? Having to run back to Atlas from the Hollows to level or hospital. It's the same thing... and if that doesn't satisfy you, ask yourself two things: Why do you keep playing this game and if you weren't playing that mission, what else would you be doing? Don't worry about it - you have a very special gift right here and you can always go play different content once you've clicked those glowies!

SoonTM

19 is no age at all. Such a tragedy and my condolences to everyone close to Punchy

never saw that coming! in a manner of speaking

Allegedly!

I'd have untuited the same, but then again, if you play a pet heavy character and don't get a benefit from that, then it's a bit gimped. So in-depth analysis suggests pets should be part of its conditional trigger as indeed they seem to be. Otherwise you'd reduced by 5 attacks on your primary as an MM

Agreed!

Tough glove! 🤣 That aside, I do not understand why we cannot all have fingers given that VEATs actually do.

It's not a project I've followed in any detail for exactly that reason. But it can be interesting to wonder how great this game would be with the existing content and a brand new, modern graphics engine.

Are you thinking of SEGs? I don't know what's happening with that either.

I think there's an important point we're all missing (or at least leaving unsaid) The successor projects set out to give us back something we'd all lost. When we got the actual game we'd lost back it must have taken a lot of wind out of their proverbial sails and made them collectively wonder what to do next. I also think that whatever stage they are at currently, I never ever felt that I was being ripped off or scammed, and I contributed small amounts where I felt I could help. I didn't ever feel like there was a lack of intent and I made my choice knowing that it was very unlikely I'd ever get a meaningful return on investment but that was ok because maybe one day we would and if nobody helped out, we definitely wouldn't. So I think we should all be a bit careful and not be too harsh on those guys. If they've made missteps and failed to deliver, well, I am willing to cut them all a lot of slack and I appreciate them trying even if we don't have a finalised product. At least they put our money where their mouths are!

Valiance Online... that's the one I just did a very quick search and came up wtih this https://massivelyop.com/2021/03/09/whatever-happened-to-superhero-mmo-valiance-online/ but if you try and get to their website (I won't link to it here) Firefox gives a security warning and it seems to be down. There's something in my mind that makes me think they really refocused a lot at one stage turning the game from a successor to something totally different. I may be misremembering however.

I think GG's Heroes and Villains kind of faded away a couple of years after sunset. Ship of Heroes had a live demo on Steam very recently. It looks mostly ok, but I felt the play was clunky - and the base idea did very little for me. Apparently the environment is a giant space ship and you're a hero on it fighting various aliens. Kinda like an Avengers/Babylon 5 crossover. I think they were a team of modders who enjoyed CoH on live and decided to have a crack themselves. There was another successor the name of which escapes me - they had to also radically alter their game but I don't think they got far after that. Valiant or something? I may be doing them a disservice but I haven't heard from them for an age either.

I already have a couple of Dark trollers that are more optimal. I'm trying to do something slightly different to the "norm" here.

Just happy to have the game back and able to play it whenever I desire. I do like (most of) the decisions the Dev teams have made on HC, but I'd be happy to play it if it was exactly the same as it was on the day before shutdown.

Warum zum Teufel hast du dich für Deutsch entschieden? Fast jede andere Sprache wäre vorzuziehen, auch mit geschlechtsspezifischen Pronomen. Bist du eine Art kranker Masochist? Du hättest Französisch, Spanisch oder vielleicht sogar Esperanto wählen können, nur zum Spaß und zum Gekicher. Aber nein, Sie haben eine Sprache gewählt, die so verdammt komplex ist, dass kein anderer Idiot auf der Welt sie sprechen möchte! Vorsichtsmaßnahme: Ich musste Google Translate verwenden, um dies zu schreiben, da ich im Gegensatz zu Snarky seit 50 Jahren kein Deutsch mehr gesprochen habe und daher etwas mehr als ein bisschen eingerostet bin!

Bit harsh, and entirely wrong about the game dying. I'd suggest that a retcon might cause more problems than it solves. One of the good things about superhero comics is that people are never dead for long. It is entirely possible that if the will is there, Sister P might come back and become stronger than ever. We've already seen it with War Witch and Numina (but that's sketchy, given she was a player creation and is a ghost.) I would suggest that better than a retcon she should be revived in an epic arc that allows her to return and sit slighly above and to the left of the main signature characters as a "guiding light" for future content. Perhaps her deaths (yes, that's actually plural) will give her some prescient insight into how to keep the city safe forever.

Because I like it a lot?

I've been revisiting dark powers and of course that leads me too Dark control, given how much fun that set is. I've just levelled a Dark/Rad to 50 and while I get that fully kitted out I've scoped around for something else to level and came across a thread in praise of Trick Arrow. Both are sets I love, but I've not played either nearly enough, but /TA seems to offer a lot of synergy with Dark, on paper at least. I've been working a build in Mids which seems to offer some high flexibility and useful all-round performance. This looks like it should be great in teams and good to solo in most situations. I elected to take every TA power, but skip Fearsome Stare and Heart of Darkness from Dark - sacrifices needed to be made and on this character my focus is on keeping mobs in one place with a like synergy, so I've effectively got 3 immobs and 3 holds, plus a good confuse and several debuffs. I've taken Sorcery because... well the perennial issue with /TA is how to light Oil Slick if you're not a fire toon and I seem to recall that Arcane Bolt is a good option to light it. I went for science origin which I often do, but I realise I'm probably going to have to swap out the temp startup power to get the one that also works on OSA. (Energy? from memory) I'm struggling to choose a PPP - I want to avoid fire, I dislike Soul, so chose Mace, primarily because of the Def boost it gives, and the accuracy bonus. Every hit counts, right? The numbers look reasonable, and I'm not one for min/maxing but I do like to pull my weight on teams and be able to solo stuff at even level (not trying to solo the world at x8+4) so I'd welcome any thoughts/feedback within those parameters

I fundamentally dislike "homages" I much prefer an original character. I know it's very easy to produce something quite akin to some pop-culture/comic reference because of our amazing costume creator, but it's far more satisfying to me to be able to create my own character, flesh out their back story and raison d'etre in my own mind and play something halfway original. I've always felt that if you build an homage, you're cheapening yourself and the game when you miss out on so much potential.

I gave up on the Phoenix project years ago, despite supporting it initially.