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Behavioral Adjustment Facility, a level 50 Incarnate Trial that features a pubbie herding phase with like 8 zones that need to be covered or you lose
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Jul 24, 2019 18:21
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I AM THE MOON posted:Behavioral Adjustment Facility, a level 50 Incarnate Trial that features a pubbie herding phase with like 8 zones that need to be covered or you lose who on earth thought that a hollows trial for a new generation was a good idea
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Jul 24, 2019 18:25
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Jazerus posted:who on earth thought that a hollows trial for a new generation was a good idea It’s super easy. It’s content designed for like 24 people which is more than enough to cover 6 spawn points for five minutes.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:28
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Jazerus posted:who on earth thought that a hollows trial for a new generation was a good idea tbf it requires a league of level 50 incarnates so theres a million lore summons, judgments, and patron summons to cover the escapees. literally like 10 defenders per spawn lol
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Jul 24, 2019 18:32
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Captain Oblivious posted:It’s super easy. It’s content designed for like 24 people which is more than enough to cover 6 spawn points for five minutes. Last week I was on a group that failed two BAFs in a row. Never underestimate stupidity.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:33
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Gynovore posted:Last week I was on a group that failed two BAFs in a row. gotta get on those Bernie Cinders runs. Did 8 in a row with 0 escapees and earned a bunch of rare mats the best is when you start up and theres no loving cutscene #feelthebern
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Jul 24, 2019 18:34
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It seems the new forum software for Homecoming is bad, so they're reverting back to SMF: Attention: Please read the following announcement regarding the forums and New Game Accounts By GM Fiddleback 07/24/19 At this time it looks like the forums will be reverted to the previous version. At that time, once it is complete, it is reasonable to expect new Game Account creation will be restored. There is no official time for this to occur as it relies on Devs getting home from work and preparing. Downtime may be extensive. Please, if you have posted important content to these forums, save that content off. More details to follow as we get them.
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Jul 24, 2019 20:30
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dang i wonder what happened
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Jul 24, 2019 20:39
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Another thing to remember is that being a super hero game, yeah you may suck at lower levels, but basically anyone can become a god of death and destruction between IO sets and incarnate stuff at 50. Then you can go to oroborous and play through any story arcs you missed as your overpowered self. And also count me in for the "mostly solo" crew. And I do it as a blaster, so it's completely doable.
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Jul 24, 2019 20:48
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Cythereal posted:I haven't done any grouping yet, no. I tend to be a very solitary player, and a casual single-player experience (that happens to have other people around) is what I was hoping for. I do enjoy playing a support role in groups, but CoH doesn't have the tools to easily drop into group content that WoW and FF14 have that make grouping in those games tolerable for me (and even then, not something I do much in WoW especially unless it's finishing a zone story ending in a dungeon). As someone who almost always uses automatic group finders in other MMOs, grouping in CoH is very chill and I recommend giving it a shot. There aren't any hard and fast role requirements and generally you can jump into a group at any level because of the very generous level scaling. It's a lot of fun to just come along for higher or lower level adventures and people don't mind if you have to leave after just a few missing generally. You can just respond to someone in the LFG channel and probably end up in a chill group more often than not. It's been a nice experience overall. No guarantee I'll click for you like it does for me but it's worth a shot. CoH is a total blast in groups.
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Jul 24, 2019 21:10
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Cythereal posted:And a personal bugaboo, but I tend to play video games mainly for story, and I don't feel like I'm getting much of one so far. I can't tell whether most or all or none of these contact missions are randomly generated filler or not - the only one I've done that I'm certain was not was a arc about a hero named Twinshot and raiding Manticore's mansion. I seemed to be on a story arc about fighting the Hellions, until it suddenly turned into hunting the Circle of Thorns. Was that Bahamut guy I stomped in an office building the Hellion leader or something? Part of the problem is that the game went through a few distinct phases of content, but now it's just one big soup pot of story threads. You mentioned doing missions for Azuria earlier? That's a launch-era, super basic introductory contact meant to give Magic heroes something vaguely mystical to do and I think was only reactivated in Homecoming as an alternative to Matthew Habashy because why not. Early contacts, both in level range and development age, usually give a random smattering of small tasks rather than any concrete story arcs. Actual factual Official story arcs don't properly appear until level 15 or so, and even then they're pretty basic to start out with. There are also a few throwaway missions that are often overlooked completely (usually in the mid-levels) that actually toss in some pretty interesting nibbles of story without actually being full blown arcs. If you want to get embroiled in some early proper story arcs, you need to hit up Lt. Wincott in The Hollows to start that zone's story thread (albeit a more rudimentary one) or tough it out until about level 15 and make your way to Faultline and talk to Jim Temblor for a more modern zone arc. There's also the new Kings Row arcs dealing with the Skulls that I don't remember if you said you've done or not. Another workaround is going through Ourboros; you won't be able to do much there until level 20 or so but once you're there you'll be able to zero in on significant content without needing to sort through the chaff. Its whole purpose is to allow you to go back and play content you probably missed while leveling or replay stuff you really like. Fake edit: More or less beaten, but oh well. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jul 24, 2019 |
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Jul 24, 2019 23:27
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On a related note, I've been considering working on some kinda lore dive project just for fun, though I'm both terrible at sticking with projects and I have no idea what format to use. But I'd love to be able to reach into the depths of CoH's storylines and highlight some of the really cool stuff...
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Jul 24, 2019 23:32
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SO heads up, if someone quits a taskforce, it can bug out and have you groundhog day the same mission over an over. We were doing POSI1 with some pubbies and I had the level at +2, forgetting that no one else was at 15+, so those ambush waves in the one vhaz mission wiped us. Pubbie quit and we got trapped in hell. About to relog to see if that fixed it
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Jul 25, 2019 02:11
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Epilogue: Relogging fixed it, though we fought 6 shadow clones to our team of five.
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Jul 25, 2019 03:03
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I AM THE MOON posted:you totally CAN solo but even batman is part of the justice league or hangs out with superman or whatever sometimes. batman got kicked out of the justice league for not doing enough dps
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Jul 25, 2019 04:48
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Freakazoid_ posted:batman got kicked out of the justice league for not doing enough dps superman quit bc the stalker tanked better than he did
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Jul 25, 2019 06:29
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Uh, excuse me. Batman isn't a dps. he is clearly support as a Dev/MA Defender. And furthermore
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Jul 25, 2019 08:21
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site posted:dang i wonder what happened They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never hire Radium to manage your forum software."
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Jul 25, 2019 12:46
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smh at all these cowards not on the roleplaying server. are you even really playing the game?
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Jul 25, 2019 17:35
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Jesus Christ.
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Jul 25, 2019 18:05
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Haha they think they’ll be able to stop beating off to their 12 year old pregnant futa catgirl long enough to get Incarnate powers.
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Jul 25, 2019 18:14
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Judgement posted:((Hello, can I get an invite? You'll see that I've only taken two powers from my primary and the default from my secondary, but they're fully slotted and I've taken every Power Pool in their place because they fit my character concept. Cool, thanks, the character name is Mewcifer Nyamaste, I'll just be a second while I set up the rest of my text macros.)) who did this. show yourself! oh, the very post after mine. well, nevertheless,
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Jul 25, 2019 19:01
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Judgement posted:who did this. show yourself! He's a fire/spines farmer!  Not a very good fire/spines farmer, see the dying in five seconds, but still. Seems like every time I turn my notoriety up, I run face-first into a wall and turn it back to 0 or -1.
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Jul 25, 2019 20:19
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Nemo posted:Haha they think they’ll be able to stop beating off to their 12 year old pregnant futa catgirl long enough to get Incarnate powers. they're veteran level 23. multitasking is apparently very important to them.
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Jul 25, 2019 21:09
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Oh, veteran level. That makes sense. I guess my brain stopped working when the magically-mutated Impervium-plated shield tanker had a Natural origin.
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Jul 25, 2019 21:31
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Judgement posted:smh at all these cowards not on the roleplaying server. are you even really playing the game? Ill give the RP server a go, how bad could it b... 
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Jul 25, 2019 21:36
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They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
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Jul 25, 2019 21:39
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tezcat posted:Ill give the RP server a go, how bad could it b... The real secret to the RP server is to completely avoid Pocket D and either play out your performance art gimmick characters on PUGs or get in with a proper RP team/SG and have meaningful interactions. I'm generalizing, but Pocket D only contains two kinds of roleplayers in my experience: Weird and disturbing folks looking to cyber and cliqueish dramalords aloofly standing around privately roleplaying in public and generally acting above everyone else, especially anyone who would ERP in City of Heroes. Except of course when they switch to their own ERP characters.
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Jul 25, 2019 22:02
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Will the homecoming servers have the xmas content? I vaguely remember skiing was involved
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Jul 25, 2019 22:21
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here comes the spunk posted:Will the homecoming servers have the xmas content? I vaguely remember skiing was involved It's permanently live and available right now, in Pocket D. There just isn't usually anybody in the ski slope because it's not a limited time thing.
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Jul 25, 2019 22:28
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You can ski any time
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Jul 25, 2019 22:29
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Oh poo poo. How do I get there? I must of missed a door in Pocket D
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Jul 25, 2019 22:45
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IIRC it's upstairs on the villain side of Pocket D. A big obvious mine door with a snowdrift in front of it.
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Jul 25, 2019 22:50
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Yeah RP server is absolutely fine, just don't go to Pocket D for any reason except changing your alignment with the gull, and don't look around or make eye contact with anybody while you do it. That one I posted up there was spotted in Ouroboros, but they weren't like, making a scene or anything. You'll see people around with weird or really questionable poo poo in their bios all over the place, but the vast majority are pretty normal and inoffensive. A lot of the most horrifying stuff I've seen was really obviously somebody doing a ~hilarious~ sendup of how most people view roleplayers, and even the true weirdos who actually venture outside of the Club or their private apartment bases generally keep to themselves and will ask upon joining a group what sort of stuff everybody is okay with. The rp channel also sucks don't join it unless you just want you hear the sound of me punching 5th columnists in the face really loving hard and the splatter of their brains all over the walls, as I say "I've got your final solution right here you nazi scum" showing up occasionally in your chat feed with zero context.
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Jul 25, 2019 22:52
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That last part sounds cool, actually
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Jul 25, 2019 23:07
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The battle cry for several of my characters is "Punch Nazis 24/7!"
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Jul 25, 2019 23:10
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I had a few RPers get mad at me for singing a badly rendered 'Monster Fash' monster mash remix, that included lots of lines about bashing and beating up fascists for fun. It only made discussing beating up fascists quasi-IC more amusing.
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Jul 25, 2019 23:15
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Haaa, Goddamn. Feline Fighter's player there is a friend of mine for like 15 years. They are.. mentally special. Asperger's perhaps. I really dont have the heart to rip into them over poo poo like that, because they are otherwise a sweet person. Rather than make alts for their characters like that, they make alternate Accounts. Then, I assume, RP at themselves. 'Joke' rear end fetish characters, being sperged over to min max the mechanical stats, Jesus loving Christ backstories and themes. I don't engage that part of their poo poo. I will help with farming, or other missions, mechanical advice for builds, but RP? loving NOPE!
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Jul 25, 2019 23:28
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John Murdoch posted:The real secret to the RP server is to completely avoid Pocket D and either play out your performance art gimmick characters on PUGs or get in with a proper RP team/SG and have meaningful interactions. * Create a character who, from an RP standpoint, is a complete rear end in a top hat. * Accept an invitation to a random PUG. * The first time someone talks in character say (("Whoops, I'm sorry, I didn't know this is an RP group. I'd be glad to RP, but I should mention that this character is a bit salty, is that OK?")) * Crudely hit on every woman in the group (naturally they're all women). Be as disgusting as you can. * (("I can't help it, it's what my character would do!"))
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