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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Bluhman posted:

New minor update; Drifter's now offering up a new daily mission where you kill Red-Banner treasure hunters.

So how to you get him to give you this? He only has a store option for my Level 6 or 10 characters...

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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Welp. With the death of City of Heroes, I may have to try a month of Gold Sub...

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Not for lack of trying on Atari's part, though... :cheeky:

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Make sure the password you type is in all lowercase. Otherwise, it won't work.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Trying out the Fire build Section Z linked to, and I'm wondering what role I should be in? Right now, I'm in Hybrid.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



I keep getting a lot of Hover Tank Arsenal Lockboxes. I don't see any listed on the auction house, so I'm not sure if I can sell them there or not...

Should I just sell them to an NPC Vendor?


Section Z posted:

Been a bit since I played, so Tanker or Hybrid both work just fine in the "Literally nothing can kill you" early content (I was Hybrid at the time when I burnt Death Dragon to death). I'd figure for later on just ask yourself "Do I want the extra Aggro from Tanker Role or not?". Not that aggro matters solo.

Feel free to screw with it however you like. I just put together what looked fun with a side of picking up clicky buffs.

Cool. I'm only 8, and Tank role seems to keep me alive better, so I'll probably stick with that.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



In City of Heroes, I loved playing Martial Arts and Street Justice /Regeneration Brutes. I want to make something that can just punch the faces off of everything, and heal all day long.

I've got a Level 16 Behemoth that I want to convert to Freeform. Can anyone point me to some builds/guides, so I can get some ideas? Thanks!

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Do I need to pick a Crafting Skill (Arms/Science/Mysticism)? If so, does it matter what I choose?

Also, are there settings to 1) Keep the camera from resetting to that awful looking down angle every time I zone/log?, and/or 2) Make the Auto on my Energy Builder persistant through zones?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



OK. So, pick the skill that fuses mods for my primary Super Stat? Like Science for Ego, Arms for Dex, etc?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Is there any reason CO & STO don't just up the XP for Double XP Weekends like every other MMO? It's just so weird to have to talk to one specific NPC, and if you're nowhere near them when it runs out, welp.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Gynovore posted:

Champions does have it's share of good ideas, so I'm not ready to slap a full retard label on them.

Oh, they've more than earned it. Last weekend's Neverwinter debacle more than proved that.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



The first thing they need to do is overhaul existing, and add new, content.

The next thing they need to do is overhaul how the F2P system works. Including, but not limited to, selling Powersets instead of ATs, as was mentioned earlier.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Brave New World posted:

Everyone that still has even a passing interest in this game needs to log in between now and Monday 11am to claim your free Until Shuttle vehicle and Cyborg Beast costume set. It's a promotion for the newly released Steel Crusade content. I ran the first part of it a couple nights ago. It's not bad. Microman shrinks you down to fight robots inside of people's bodies in a new tileset that will remind CoX players of Saving Johnny Sonata's Soul.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/7004733-steel-crusade-part-1-is-now-live!

Where do we pick these up?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Found the NPC. He's on the right platform of the Powerhouse, near Toy Master.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Anyone got a good punchmans freeform build? Something reminiscent of CoH's Martial Arts/Super Strength/Street Justice? With maybe some ranged punchings like Kinetic Melee?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Flesh Forge posted:

Having been a big fan of Street Justice myself, this is what I would suggest. 2 points left over for whatever you like, I'd put them in my travel power.

e: Defiance is just there because eh what else do you really need, and it would let you be situational if you want to. Defiance is the only passive you don't have to rank for it to be good.

When you finish leveling, slot a bunch of Offense/Defense stuff and you'll just have very high always-on damage and defense numbers, there's nothing fancy with this build at all.

e: I noticed that Bluhman craps on the Strength perk Quick Recovery, which is totally reasonable, take Aggression (10/20% increased Offense from items) instead.

I ran in to a problem when trying to make this build: Inexorable Tides isn't available in the Character Creator.

Should I just choose something else, then respec into it?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



LordSaturn posted:

If you skip the tutorial and go right to the powerhouse, your first respec will be totally free.

So on a whim, I made a throwaway character, and ran the tutorial, which they've dumbed down a lot. :( Anyway, the new version of it sticks you right in the Powerhouse, so you can freely remove powers after you finish. It also unlocks the Ravenswood Emblem costume part, if you care about that, though I think it's a Per Character, and not Account Wide.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Brave New World posted:

Most important: Is Foxbat still there? Does he still say he's going to contact a GM to port him to a new spawnpoint?

Yes. The Mayor's daughter escort mission is gone. The Reggie the cat mission is gone. Instead of scanning Enraged Qulaar, you scan 2 of the antenna things. Rescue umm... their speedster dude is gone. And they cut down the controls you need to disable in Champions HQ from 4 to 2.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Aphrodite posted:

But do the beacons still drive the Qulaar crazy?

Yes, but there's 2 now, instead of 4.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Got an e-mail telling me the vehcile race event is back on, and vehicles are 20% off. At the bottom of the e-mail, it also said Lifetime Subs are currently 33% off. They're hoping Powerball winners have a spare $134 to throw at the game, I guess?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Got an e-mail from them today, and saw this:

The Specialist Archetype is being given away for FREE until March 3rd at 7AM PST! This Archetype is normally valued at 1,150 ZEN, so get it while you can!

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Tenzarin posted:

How is DCUO, thinking of downloading it tomorrow while I'm at work.

At this point, I'd stay away from DCUO. It's pretty much dead. Sony sold it to some other company. Also, it's full of toxic players.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Asimo posted:

Expansion. Which underperformed, even if that was due to NCSoft budgeting it like a completely new game and unsurprisingly it didn't sell like one.

No, Paragon Studios was literally working on a sequel, named City Of Heroes 2.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Kelp Plankton posted:

"Working on" is generous. They had pitched it and gotten turned down at least once in favor of working more on CoH instead. Going Rogue was one of the results of not making CoH2

That said I would have totally been down for a CoH sequel set 10-15 years later or something. Give us a little taste of Batman Beyond type stuff going on.

CO does some of that in spots, with the flying cars and hologram popstars and stuff. But the city is still pretty 'normal' outside of that central hub area I guess. NPCs don't even have the hoverboards and flying bikes and whatever else players do, which is kind of odd actually.

Well, I know they planned to move David Nakayama to CoH2 before the moved him to the MOBA instead, and I think Matt said they were activly developing it, but I'm not sure on that one...

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Flesh Forge posted:

Good for you, it's really a great game in many ways even if a lot of people just won't forgive it for not being City of Heroes.

I love City. I miss City. But I don't want every game to be City.

What I do want, however, is for every* MMO to copy 2 things from City:

1) Super Sidekicking. Let anyone team with anyone, regardless of level differences.
2) This is where the * comes in: Every MMO with a Market needs to let me place orders for items. I need Thingy X, but nobody is selling one right now? Cool. I'll place an order, and not worry. I have Thingy Y, and 3 people want to buy it, but nobody's selling? Cool. I'll list it for sale now. Someone will get it, and I'll get some jink.

I mean, I don't want it to be an exact 1:1 copy of City's auction house, since, as I understand it, it was easy to exploit, but I've found it very frustrating not being able to place an order in games when an item I want/need isn't currently listed for sale.

Of course, I'd also love the depth of customability that City's costume creator had, but I know that one's a long shot...

And in the end, the lack of those things doesn't stop me from playing.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Bluhman posted:

I'm actually curious to know what you find lacking with CO's costume creator. I played CoX in the past and found its character editor to be great for the time, but CO's just bests it in terms of geometry variety concerning the number of different shapes and items you can give your characters.

I found it easier to navigate than COs. And I'm more familiar with it, I guess.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



"We're trying to be the longest running Super Hero MMO!"

At this point, the only competition left is DCUO, and after the shenanigans at Daybreak Studios, who knows how much longer that will last...

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



M_Sinistrari posted:

Is this something other than the mass layoffs?

Nah. I'm just expecting them to see where else they can cut things, and seeing DCUO...

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



My reaction was How the gently caress does this thread have a new post, let alone three new posts?!

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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



I wonder if you can claim this if you've already claimed one in the past.

Guess I'll find out tonight

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