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WeX Majors posted:That's skrunchie on the right, so convinced that she's the reason everyone is going to die she took off her cat girl costume "to be a normal girl like my daddy told me to" This is the saddest thing. RIP Skrunchie, you will live on in our hearts.
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Liquid Communism posted:Well, this pisses me off. My sub just rolled over yesterday, came back after almost two years of not having time to play, and was loving the new Dark Astoria missions. However, back when I was playing and ground combat was more of a drag, my NPC away team also could barely kill anything even while I was used to ALL OF THE LASERS from my Robots Mastermind. I can also imagine it being much less special in STO, because NPC away team guys are something everyone has.
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Oh God. The last post literally just made it hit me that I'm losing masterminds and I teared up for the first time. It took that. Took realizing they'll never reach their potential. It's me, I am the goonsay.
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Fereydun posted:They. Never. Fixed. Peacebringers. You know, of all the poo poo, I'm actually fine with this. They never nerfed VEATs too. 
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Mind over Matter posted:Oh God. The last post literally just made it hit me that I'm losing masterminds and I teared up for the first time. It took that. Took realizing they'll never reach their potential. Unless you're beast mastery, oops. (CAN the demons use the emotes? I know bots can.)
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Metrohunter posted:They never nerfed VEATs too.
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OneEightHundred posted:The Stalker buff may as well have been a Widow nerf since it left them as Claws/SR Stalkers with 1000 HP and some buffs. 'cept that Widows have been pulling better pylon times than Stalkers, even after their buff. fake edit: night widows that is. Forts are still pretty meh.
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Man, this is genuinely a great loss. I don't think there was ever a game with as much potential as this...that actually went on to fill that potential. I always thought my faithful 50s would be around forever...it just goes to show, treasure your MMOs while they last, kids.  Ugh, it's just you and me now, DCUO.
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Abroham Lincoln posted:'cept that Widows have been pulling better pylon times than Stalkers, even after their buff. Widows kind of strike me as what Blasters should have been, except melee.
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BrianWilly posted:Man, this is genuinely a great loss. I don't think there was ever a game with as much potential as this...that actually went on to fill that potential. "My Charge attack cancelers like Champions are not canceling any attacks. what am I doing wrong? The game says they cancel the big skull symbol attacks" *ignored when asking in game for a solid hour, goes to forums and finds thread* "Oh, the Devs patched it so PvE enemies are immune to canclers, as well as immune to holds and everything else during their charge attacks... FFFFFFF" Me and wrong or seriously misleading in game info/game documentation is A Thing. Also, gently caress Per Character cosmetics unlocks. When it's per character even for purchased items. Coming away from City and some time in Champions DCUO's customization, was just a horror show to my sensibilities. Body sliders? What are those?  EDIT: I will grant that DCUO's acrobatics travel powers were  and god I wish I could use that in other games. Faster run speed, jumping height, gliding, grappling hooks. WALL AND CEILING CRAWLING right out of chargen.I am loving SpiderBatMan Section Z fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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So Freitag and Doctor Aeon both turned up to say some things on Virtue. Freitag was very courteous and said some very nice things. Doctor Aeon started making Pocket D fight poo poo, and started with this baby, the Nemesis Monstrosity.  It fired a 'Pandora Beam', so I think it was intended to be the end boss of Pandora's Box.
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OneEightHundred posted:That wouldn't surprise me, but it's incredibly annoying getting one-shotted by everything that isn't Minds of Mayhem or Psi Boat, especially when so much of the endgame stuff is auto-hit crap where defense is useless. A bit, yeah. The scaling resists and decent psi resists make you good against psi enemies, but they're a little rare. You can easily get incarnate softcapped defenses though (and put a bunch of that to your team), so they're much better on teams than alone. The occasional hit that slips through 5% of the time will gently caress you over something fierce, and the end costs are a bit prohibitive, but a solid AT otherwise. Cleretic posted:So Freitag and Doctor Aeon both turned up to say some things on Virtue. It was. SSA#2 ended with Brass Tuesday (Brass Monday is a lore-ish thing where Nemesis basically raided Paragon in the mid-1900s), and a slightly redone Steel Canyon with Nemesis statues and such.
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Going to really miss City of Heroes. It was the first game I actually had to upgrade a video card to use. I was planning on re-subbing as soon some of the new power sets came out. Been playing off and on since i3 I think. Very sad to see it go. Was fun playing with you jerks.
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I know I don't post here that much, but it was great meeting you guys, even back before I even paid out to join SA. I was in an off phase with the game, myself, but it was great rolling with you guys. I was onboard with the game a little bit after launch, and I've played it off and on, throughout highschool and college. I'm going to miss having a fallback like it. I've joined the Steam group, posted a couple pages back (just in case anyone's wondering who this Ismene jackoff is)
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Hell's bells. Completely out of nowhere, too. All we can hope is that the last months are wild and wonderful. And hopefully they'll revoke the various account restrictions, given they're officially Not Taking Money. God knows what they'll do to sort out the store currency. It was never a bad style, and it led the way in some things-as I recall they initially took the risk of Mission Architect, which Star Trek Online is still using even now. I would have expected it to go into a sort of 'hibernation'(As it kinda has been-but things WERE coming out) rather than outright shutting down. Bloodly fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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I got the news from Scarmiglibrone on my first break at work and it ruined my whole goddamn day, this poo poo was my goddamn /joint/ even if I didn't really hang out with the goons a whole lot until recently. First character I made was Tonatiuh. It took me literally the entire lifespan of an MMO to get a character to level cap in one.  No other game's ever going to equal the kind of stupid poo poo you can do, like the mass Gang Wars, or making a water blast, coloring it brown, and naming him Roman Rapids. A team of six identical villains, all named En Masse - me and my friends did that for a week and got hilarious pubbie reactions. I think what I regret more than anything else is never actually getting surprised by Tommy's dick. I mean, sure, it just got posted a little ways back, but it's not the same if I know it's coming, you know? EDIT: Joined the Steam group, I am not unsurprisingly 'The Patware' because I use one handle, ever Double EDIT: DIDN'T CRY PROBABLY WON'T Patware fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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Patware posted:but it's not the same if I know it's coming, you know?  hahahhhahahaha
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Pretty sure it borders on civic duty at this point for there to be at least one person online at all times to record the bananas falling out of the tree. Louis CK really was right that the best way to gauge whether someone's attachment to something is healthy is to abruptly turn it off and see how they react. If they're foaming at the mouth, theeeeenn Of course all this is to hide from my own impending sadness. That said, anyone know offhand what the going rate of those data recovery specialists is? I'm starting to miss my lost screenshots a hell of a lot more now
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Slung Blade posted:
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I am a long time lurker of the forums, since around 2005 or so probably. Always learned a lot, had a lot of laughs, and at this point when I see 'gently caress' in any context, in my head I hear gently caress. So thanks for that, I guess. I've never seen it necessary to contribute until now, happy to sit back and let you guys handle it and just observe. I very often don't have a lot to say. I'd say that of all the reasons to finally join, grief is probably the worst and most idiotic, but here we are. I joined CoH in 2006, on Freedom server. I had my fun with it, got a couple fifties and thought hey, I'm done here, I've done all I need to do. I didn't make any real friends or forge any relationships among the playerbase in my time then, and figured my time was up. I let my account lapse, and a few months passed before I was led back into the game by a friend, this time to Virtue. It was then that the game really blossomed for me as I began RP'ing, and it added a whole new aspect and dimension to the game. I haven't looked back since. I've been playing consistently since April of 2007, paying every month, monthly, to maximize the amount I was paying to support the developers and the game I enjoyed. In my time in CoH it feels I've lived a thousand lives. Had some awesome battles, made some awesome friends. Told stories, interacted, built lives and used the game as a creative outlet for writing. Forged lasting relationships that will last beyond this game and likely beyond any MMO currently on the market. Sure, sometimes things pissed me off. IO sets every week at the market, bad design decisions, or at least what I felt were bad design decisions. Redname spam. I always thought some day I'd get bored and leave on my own terms. That day obviously never came. I woke up this afternoon to the news on a gaming blog. My first thought was mild. I thought to myself, heh, figures. Minutes later it hit me that this probably wasn't a joke, and a few minutes after that, it finally began to sink in. I've grown progressively more depressed as the hours have passed, and now I sit here at 6am, having cried a few times. It's profound to me, the effect this has had on my emotions today. To be forced to look back and really see what this game meant to me. To realize that for all the times I'd talk poo poo and make fun of people or hate on the developers, I really did do it out of love. I loved this game. And now I realize it's going to be taken away from me and there's nothing I can do to stop it. I never interacted much with GoonSquad, even though I seem to have many friends on it, (hi, Cler) but in some strange way, you guys were kind of my way of gauging the quality of my own rp. One of the reasons I read this thread so diligently was to make sure I wasn't the object of your jokes and ridicule. I figured I can't ever be that bad if I'm not making your shitlist. I saw many of my friends on the imgur and in this thread, but never me. And I know it's not that I was never around, I always frequented Pocket D pretty regularly. So thanks for going easy on me, there. I really don't know what to do now. CoH was my first MMO I put any real time into, and it had a community like no other. I really don't think I can bring myself to play another MMO, at least not right now, and honestly that's probably for the best. But I'll never forget this one, or the times I've had with strangers and friends alike. Today, in some strange way, we're all family. So thanks for being a part of the journey with me. I'll be there until the lights are turned off. See some of you around. And by the way, Zwill? Your [Admin] spam always, always got on my nerves, until tonight. This time, it made me tear up, and you're a jerk for that. I guess you're not so bad after all. 6EQUJ5 6 7 fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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Al Baron posted:Hey, guys. Want to see how really bad those City of Heroes comics were? I still think that the Blue King comics were honestly good, for what they were. Apex, War Witch, Black Kheldian doing PC level poo poo. The run even ended with Apex hitting the old blue-bubble LFG macro. Top Cow... oh holy christ, Top Cow. Take a look at the cover of issue 17 and tell me that those faces aren't virtually goddamn identical. Issue one-- oh god, issue one! Marvel as Lord Recluse takes over and cleans up Paragon City, and the Surviving Seven (Six, because Statesman is off on a vision quest to become King of the Asshats) spend the comic bitching and complaining. Gripping stuff, I tell you.
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Bieeardo posted:Marvel as Lord Recluse takes over and cleans up Paragon City, and the Surviving Seven (Six, because Statesman is off on a vision quest to become King of the Asshats) spend the comic bitching and complaining. Gripping stuff, I tell you. I kind of want to ask in those 'lore questions' next week, was it ever intentional to paint Arachnos as clearly the most intelligent and capable people in CoX? They're the ones most prepared to handle Darrin Wade and Mot, and even back with the Top Cow comics, when they take over Paragon City they clearly do a better job than the heroes.
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Some old screenshot from my insomniac days (last summer), and also from my pre-can run ultra pc, so sorry they look bad. Relaxing on a table, getting PLed.  The time we realized you could throw up an oro portal on the STF door and block it.  Beating up some guy who we made fun of for an entire CC  Pretending to be Canadian  Trolling a CC the only way I knew how 
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Al Baron posted:Hey, guys. Want to see how really bad those City of Heroes comics were? Anyone have these hosted remotely? This site is getting absolutely hammered. And poo poo, guess I'll screencap some heroes and villains I liked. gently caress, I cannot believe this game is already over. I was about to figure, let's get to 40, maybe 50 with Diving Bell
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I started playing this game not long after it came out. It's usually easy for friends to get me to play new games. I was burned out on Dark Age of Camelot, and this seemed to do the trick. I had so many idea's for characters. Wanted a tank called "Solid Gold" who was using the metallic costume, but was also a kick rear end dancer. Couldn't get the name because a friend hated the idea so took it first. So I made a variation of my Wizard from Camelot. Started up and had a drat awesome costume. Easily my most favourite thing in the game to do. Progressed on Justice for a few years, but eventually friends tapered off and went to different games, same as myself. But I would always keep coming back to City of Heroes. It always had something that the others didn't. I think it's uniqueness. You could be anyone you wanted to be. Among my favourite heroes is a Earth/Storm Controller who is the reborn spirit of an Ancient Pharoah, calling the wind and sand to curse his foes. Another is my Australian version of Superman; A Longbow Agent who takes his foes down silently with trick arrows and archery; A Mind/Kin Controller called Dr Funkenstein, who freaks your mind while putting a slide in your stride and a dip in your hip; And the host of multiple multiple characters, mostly melee types, who just had fun beating peoples heads in. But it was finding the goons that made this game so worth playing again. No longer alone in Australia chat, hoping for a team, there were people always available. And the chat was always lively, always fun, and goon teams were the best, tightest and most fun I have ever played with in any online game. It is ironic that after being in the game for so long, having earned over 3 years worth of subscription bonus', and right when I have found my most favourite costume of all for my new DP/Dark blaster, and being able to run with the best people ever, that the game ends. As I said in chat today, I would pay money to be able to make costumes for characters, and just go stand around in Atlas, shooting the poo poo with goons. Sadly it's all going to end soon. I don't know if I will ever find a game like this again. When I was sad or angry, I could make a character who looked that way and go pummel hellions in Atlas. The goons would get me feeling better really quickly, and I would move to playing others. I loved my time playing a Mexican Wrestler, a Spider Woman, a black and white movie superhero with grey tinted clothes and powers - The Retro Radiation Hero. I could never stay with one character. In fact I have no level 50 characters at all. But I have had so many over the years. Sad to see it all end like this. But I have had fun. Now I know it's going, I wish it could stay for just a while longer...
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Cleretic posted:I kind of want to ask in those 'lore questions' next week, was it ever intentional to paint Arachnos as clearly the most intelligent and capable people in CoX? They're the ones most prepared to handle Darrin Wade and Mot, and even back with the Top Cow comics, when they take over Paragon City they clearly do a better job than the heroes. I really do suspect that they were. They're effective, efficient, and organized in a clear vertical hierarchy-- they make the trains run on time, so to speak. On the heroic side of things, there's a much greater emphasis on personal freedom and direction: the Surviving Seven and a handful of others mentor heroes, and much of the contact network relies explicitly on word of mouth. Contact and interactions between different organizations is a lot more fractious: take the Vanguard vs. Longbow content in RWZ for example. Scheming happens Villainside too, of course, but it's always clear that the Arbiters will come down with both boots if shenanigans get out of hand. To me, it's a comment on liberty versus security. I think that's why Going Rogue never really did it for me: Arachnos was competent. The Praetorians were cartoonish. The Dark Project posted:As I said in chat today, I would pay money to be able to make costumes for characters, and just go stand around in Atlas, shooting the poo poo with goons. Sadly it's all going to end soon. I would love people forever if they spun off another standalone costume creator with the current assets. Bieeanshee fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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OneEightHundred posted:That wouldn't surprise me, but it's incredibly annoying getting one-shotted by everything that isn't Minds of Mayhem or Psi Boat, especially when so much of the endgame stuff is auto-hit crap where defense is useless. All that on top of adding 20%-30% DEF, ToHit, and DMG to a party. Also smoke flash, both Confront and Placate to juggle aggro how I like (fun to use in BAF). Could solo Lambda item runs, tank AVs for teams, stealth better than a stalker... Not worried about survival, she has Rebirth and I worked out a build where she'll have 27.5% RES to S/L in i24... oh wait. 
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I'm pretty sure that CoH was my first MMO. I didn't have any fun so I quit. CoV came out, I played, got in with goons, and kept playing. This game was stupid fun to keep coming back to. Running those bank robbery missions, seeing the same office building over and over again, leaping miles and miles over cityscapes fed my inner 9-year-old. You never really realize that you'll miss something until it's gone. The only picture of my dude was an avatar drawn when I posted in BYOB.  Goodnight, sweet Red Rocket, you'll be punching heroes in the nards in heaven now.  please oh please oh please let someone make a private server.
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Welp, that's my third thing this year. This sucks a large and sweaty amount of cock.
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This was my first real MMO, depending on whether or not you wanna count Runescape. My friend showed it to me in seventh grade (I'm a junior in college now), and I immediately fell in love with the character creator and just the general fun of it. I still have really vivid memories of the first night I played it, I made a character and didn't stop playing until I saw dawn coming and realized it was six in the morning, the latest I had stayed up at that point in my life, ever. The next few years saw me playing it on and off, balancing it with WoW, trying to play it again with the friend who introduced me, trying out Champions with him and being underwhelmed by it never capturing the nostalgia. Once it went free-to-play I've been dropping in and out and it's been great fun, just like I remembered it and then some. I still enjoy creating characters more than I ever do playing them. And now here I am, still a bit tipsy from a party earlier in the evening, six o'clock in the morning, dawn breaking outside my window, planning on installing and playing Guild Wars 2 tomorrow, and I got the news and knew I had to come to this thread. This loving sucks. When I think of my time with WoW or Runescape or any other MMO I've played I remember all the great times, but when I think of CoH I remember really clear moments where I just sat back and was wowed by it all. I remember when Hero vs Villain combat opened up and I got murdered by a Stalker done up as a werewolf on top of a dilapidated skyscraper. I remember sidekicking with a supergroup I was in to farm Rikti Monkeys, getting Zookeeper at around level 14. I remember first getting a travel power (super jump, still my favorite) after leveling for weeks and being amazed at how fun it was to just GO. I remember my first hero to play seriously being katana/regen, not knowing anything about how incredibly overpowered it was, and having my supergroup tell me about it and pimp me out as I ran around fighting Tuatha that were ten levels higher than me. gently caress, I remember when that area released and I thought it was the best part of the game, and just last year taking a class on Celtic literature and thinking back to it, and I STILL think it's awesome, even if it has nothing to do with the source material. The list goes on. As much as I'm largely unable to really get back into it like I used to, and as much as I thought I moved on from it, this was easily one of the best games I've ever played, and to see it officially go is actually heartwrenching. This was the game that made me pressure my parents into getting a new desktop to replace our '98 Gateway. Not even Half-Life 2 did that. This is coming from the kid who would run around multiplayer maps in the original Half-Life, alone and on LAN because my mom thought the game was too violent and the multiplayer was too full of awful people and things (in retrospect, very true). Jesus Christ I'm going to miss this game. If there isn't a goon-run private server already being worked on or discussed or whatever, there really needs to be, because there's way too much great stuff in this game still waiting for people to create for it to go. e: I never once got to level 50 on any of my heroes. I think the highest level I ever got to was maybe 24. A good part of me wants to try to reach the level cap before the game closes, but the other part knows that it'd really be more in the spirit of my play style to just design a hero and concept for every power combination. God bless this game, seriously. Heavy Lobster fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Sep 1, 2012 |
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Heavy Lobster posted:Jesus Christ I'm going to miss this game. If there isn't a goon-run private server already being worked on or discussed or whatever, there really needs to be, because there's way too much great stuff in this game still waiting for people to create for it to go. what fun is a goon-only server, who would we make fun of? 
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BenRGamer posted:
We never *seriously* banned you. We just forgot to invite you back in to the channel. I remember feeling like a real jackass when you FINALLY said something after you had been kicked out of the channel for a few weeks with no invite back. Oh Ben.
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Tommy 2.0 posted:We never *seriously* banned you. We just forgot to invite you back in to the channel. I remember feeling like a real jackass when you FINALLY said something after you had been kicked out of the channel for a few weeks with no invite back. Oh Ben. No we banned him...there was a vote.
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Free Headcrab posted:No we banned him...there was a vote. Well there was a vote to ban me a while back around when Going Rogue launched and that didn't stick. Pretty sure that was one of the only times there was anything resembling drama within GoonSquad about this game. <3 Ben. Edit: Some guy is offering me money in PMs for more videos from the official forums.
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I keep reading everyone talking about the devs being shafted here. I've seen a bunch of layoffs in my time and in nearly all cases some sort of severance package was offered. (How generous it was depended on the company, of course.) Does anyone know for certain that the devs weren't given one?
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macnbc posted:Does anyone know for certain that the devs weren't given one? Absolutely no idea, but they did say the mood in the office wasn't bitter so I'm assuming there was something to soften the blow. It's a bit heartwarming really, they said they were even celebratory -- they were overall proud of what they'd done. As they should be.
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