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Flesh Forge posted:Have you tried through the Arc client? I haven't, actually- you think it'd work? I might give it a try once I get back home.
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Perfect World is based out of China, and I'm sure they want all your Mysterious Asian Moneys. Arc is the Mysterious Asian Not-Steam.
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CommissarMega posted:Thanks, man! I'm thinking of going munitions myself, if what you said about it being hard to gimp myself is true- what can I say? I think guns are cool I know we had a dude who had to to have someone buy him time cards off Amazon and send him the codes - there's obviously some trust involved there but you could probably get that set up with somebody here. Light Gun Man posted:Anyone have plans to do any kind of active current group or weekly party nights or anything? Babe Magnet posted:I'm trying to convince myself to play more so I can unlock the new powerset, so if anyone wants to do any group stuff find me in-game at @Unsubredun. I'm not sure how active the Supergroup is right now, if it's even active at all, as I'm not part of it. poo poo is really, really quiet. @bluhman seems to have never stopped playing, and I usually see @whaaat around, so the SuperGoon channel is still a reasonable place to get a supergroup invite - but the Safari is long dead. Expect to run a lot of alerts.
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As for subscribing, I wish I could, but apparently we over here in the Mysterious Orient™ can't subscribe.
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I started playing this. The game's not bad by any stretch, but it has a terrible F2P system. I'm not planning on playing very long (probably won't need to as it seems the consensus is the game has a lack of content), so I just bit the bullet and I'm subscribing for now. I missed CoH, and I'm happy this game offers about the same level of customization. I do have some minor complaints, like the combat feels off, nothing feels satisfying about it. A lot of the costume pieces are locked at the start, even for a subscriber. I started with the Beast Supernatural powerset, since it looked like a claw moveset since the other claw powerset I've read sucks. I do feel kind of fragile right now, but I'm only level 10 or so.
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Yes, I'm still around in CO. The Savage (if you're an AT?) Is probably one of the most well-rounded ATs out there. You're not going to be fragile for long, especially when you get blocking down. From an optimization standpoint the new powers the Automaton unlocks (Aspect of the Machine, Rocket Punch, and Binding Shot) are all pretty much worthless: AotM falls flat in its slow stacking, lack of energy, and generally just the same final potential damage after you're fully stacked as any other toggle (albeit balanced on all damage). Binding Shot's just a reskin of Bolas entirely, just with a shooting animation instead of a throwing one. Rocket Punch is almost very good, but very narrow for a cylinder. That all said, Rocket Punch does look extremely cool and makes for a good missile launch in case sprouting a weird wrist launcher isn't your thing on Tactical Missiles. I know for a fact that the Automaton AT is horribly set up in general, so I'll try and help when I can with leveling.
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Sep 30, 2014 18:11
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Nah, I made a freeform character, but I started with the Beast Supernatural attacks, and also took the cone AOE (Frenzy) and a self-buff (Aspect of the Bestial). I've been looking through that guide that was posted earlier, looking at what other powersets I could branch out to.
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Sep 30, 2014 23:24
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This game is super fun and is one of the best 3-6 months in online RPGs going anywhere, more if you don't play compulsively long stretches. The subscriber experience really is a million times better than free-to play though.
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Fun fact: If you have a level 40 character and the automaton unlocked, you can retrain that character to the automaton and instantly unlock the powers rather than actually levelling an automaton. Even better, if you're subscribed you can do it for free as long as you've never retrained before. Look for the option on the righthand side of the character select screen.
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That's fantastic, as everywhere I look I see people talkin' poo poo about how the powerset is built and I really don't want to level it now.
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Wow, this game really has some...cringeworthy voice acting and dialogue. And am I really fighting the Saints as the first villain group (I'm sorry, The New Purple Gang)? I'm still having fun with it though. I'm not really playing a lot, but it seems to be a good game to fart around for an hour or two. Nearly everything in this game is considered solo content, right?
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The voice acting is the best thing about this game. There's some harder group stuff, but it's all exclusively endgame yeah.
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Asimo posted:The voice acting is the best thing about this game. if only. 
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I stand by my statement. 
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I wanted to check this out again so I downloaded a fresh copy from Steam. I can log in but I get "Error 31: A hog returned an error while trying to read". I've tried disabling my anti-virus, verifying the files with the launcher, running it as administrator, no luck. I also looked through the first couple pages of google results for Champions Error 31, nothing helped. Anyone got an idea on how to get past this?
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Oct 3, 2014 04:15
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Sounds like a file is damaged or corrupt, hog/pig is often an archive file format. Probably you need to force Steam to download some or all of the install again but you should contact Steam support before doing anything drastic.
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Yeah, I forgot to mention I deleted it completely and redownloaded it from Steam. I also tried to Verify the local game cache, neither helped. I'll try downloading the client directly from Arc, like I need more software delivery platforms on my machine. [Edit: No dice, the Arc launcher gives the same error. What the hell?] [Edit2: Arc was using the Steam install. Manually deleted it, installed from Arc, started working. Still weird.] TriggerHappy fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 05:49
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What the hell, I'll reinstall and see if I can bear to retrain any of my finished characters (I have like 40).
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Colgate posted:Wow, this game really has some...cringeworthy voice acting and dialogue. And am I really fighting the Saints as the first villain group (I'm sorry, The New Purple Gang)?  The New Purple Gang is more accurately based off the actual Purple Gang that existed in Detroit during the times of prohibition. Incidentally, Millennium City is what became of Detroit after it was blasted from orbit by Dr. Destroyer in 1992.Not to mention, the New Purple Gang is not nearly rich or crazy enough to be related to the Saints.
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LordSaturn posted:Also, Kevin Poe is a whiny chump and would never make it as a Saint. There would be no superheroes if Gat and the Boss existed in the Champions Universe.
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Allatum posted:There would be no superheroes if Gat and the Boss existed in the Champions Universe. I think you mean to say Gat, the Boss and Kinzie would be the only superheroes. Because we wouldn't need more than that.
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WarLocke posted:I think you mean to say Gat, the Boss and Kinzie would be the only superheroes. Because we wouldn't need more than that. Note to self, check out all that DLC content my dust collecting season pass has accumulated.
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So hey, the new costume set looks pretty cool: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/7008813 I guess I just really want "fire head with mask" to play with.
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LordSaturn posted:So hey, the new costume set looks pretty cool: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/7008813 I really like those full and half helmets.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the "Kirby Cosmic God" costume and I'm alright with that.
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LordSaturn posted:So hey, the new costume set looks pretty cool: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/7008813 Well hello flaming head, I fully expect you to work with the bubble dome heads so we can have glowing flame heads through bugging.
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Im trying to play as an arcane blaster but even the starting missions kick my rear end. I gotta be doing something wrong. Is there a good soloable build?
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Aphrodite posted:Did they ever fix Claws? That said, no, it hasn't gotten any AoE attacks yet. A. Beaverhausen posted:Im trying to play as an arcane blaster but even the starting missions kick my rear end. I gotta be doing something wrong. Is there a good soloable build? Sorcery's kind of low on direct damage, but it definitely is workable. My advice: as soon as you can, get Skarn's Bane, because it's an extremely powerful cone. Depending on how survivable you want to be, I'd also suggest either the Ebon Circle or Primal Circle. The usual other stuff also applies: Get your passive as early as like level 8, toggle level 11-14, and start out with a single-target attack and AoE. The best early-level AoE I can think for sorcery is Arcane Sigils with advantage, since it's a quick, high-damage point-blank attack as opposed to Pillar of Poz and it's annoying knock.
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So after a few days of playing, I converted a bunch of my characters to the various free archetypes and selling Questionite from dailies, I'm getting between 50 and 100 zen per day (100 if I catch two sets of dailies). It's a big comedown to be limited to archetypes only, but a few of them are quite good (the tank ATs, the Mind, Grimoire, Inferno because it just does filthy damage, Soldier and Marksman for the same reason). I actually like ATs in play more than I thought I would - they're a lot more palatable when they're free - but at this rate once I get 2500 zen I may unlock a premium archetype or two. e: Disciple is the blatant choice
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There's a reason why some PVP and PVE players prefer the AT's: they get an innate numerical boost to their power to compensate for not optimizing power selection. All outgoing damage and healing, and I dare say their ability to take damage too, is numerically higher than a Freeform with the exact same power selection and role assignment. Inferno and Glacier are pretty drat fun and powerful AT's!
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Glacier was my first character and I enjoyed it. Disciple is hilariously easy most of the time, was fun.
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