Are the axe names messed up?

[Major_Decoy]

"Chop deals heavy damage with your battle axe, although it is much slower than gash" Activation time 1.2 seconds, recharge time 8 seconds.

 

"Gashes your opponent with your Battle Axe doing Superior Damage." Activation time 1.27 seconds, recharge time 10 seconds.

 

Meanwhile, Beheader is the fastest recharge, lowest damage attack? I get that it's only an attempt to your opponent's head from his neck, but it seems a fairly half-hearted attempt. You might as well call taunt Beheader. "Oh, you can't ignore me, I'm making my axe move towards your neck"

[Snarky]

This dates back to original CoH when they tried to obscure the actual … everything in the game so players had no idea what anything did.  Including the Devs in fact, who needed Arcana to explain to them how the game functioned under the hood…  

[Uun]

Before the rework of Battle Axe in i27p5, Gash was the T1, Chop was the T2 and Beheader was the T4.

[Major_Decoy]

11 hours ago, Snarky said:

players had no idea what anything did.

Oh, we didn't have "no idea" We had the ability to use powers unslotted and toggle stuff on and off. You could run dull pain and time how long it lasted and how long it took to recharge. We had no idea what anything did prior to using it but after using it we could work it out. Part of the argument for actual numbers was "This information is already all available, just not in game."

 

6 hours ago, Uun said:

Before the rework of Battle Axe in i27p5, Gash was the T1, Chop was the T2 and Beheader was the T4.

But it's clear that they did some things to change the text boxes, after all, each of the text boxes does correctly reference the name of the power. "This is an attempt to remove your opponent's head from his neck with your battle axe. This attack is fairly quick for a large weapon..." (and it's aimed at center mass from the look of the animation. I suppose it works as "beheader" if you get a macro that yells "DUCK!" before you swing and "No, duck INTO the blade" after you miss the neck.)

[Scarlet Shocker]

somebody's got an axe to grind!

 

Time to bury the hatchet

[Vanden]

On 6/19/2025 at 11:26 AM, Uun said:

Before the rework of Battle Axe in i27p5, Gash was the T1, Chop was the T2 and Beheader was the T4.

 

Beheader has been the t1 far longer than that.

[ZemX]

16 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

somebody's got an axe to grind!

 

Time to bury the hatchet

 

You're going to get your axe kicked with puns like that.

[Scarlet Shocker]

7 minutes ago, ZemX said:

 

You're going to get your axe kicked with puns like that.

 

I won't lose my head over it!

[Uun]

2 hours ago, Vanden said:

Beheader has been the t1 far longer than that.

You are correct, I should have checked it. Gash and Beheader swapped names and animations in i12 (2008).

 

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Patch_Notes/2008-05-20

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Patch_Notes/2008-05-28

Edited June 20 by Uun
Typo

[Scarlet Shocker]

1 hour ago, Uun said:

You are correct, I should have checked it. Bash and Beheader swapped names and animations in i12 (2008).

 

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Patch_Notes/2008-05-20

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Patch_Notes/2008-05-28

 

Dam bro, you shoulda axed earlier!

[Uun]

27 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

Dam bro, you shoulda axed earlier!

If you keep this up, I'm going to have to cut you off.