one thing to mention is that they also overhauled the "dominator" villain class, a mez/damage class that had been underpreforming to do more damage, at the cost of slightly higher endurance (mana) usage. generally this makes doms stronger, though specific builds were slightly weakened by having some ludicrously out of line powers brought back in line.
Man, I kind of wish I hadn't stopped playing this (again). But, since I have missed the past 4 updates, I wonder how lost I'll be if I try to pick it back up?
@Elpon: Well, if I recall correctly, before, they had been saying the amount of effort and time it would take to put it in before wouldn't have been worth it, because it would take away resources they could use for other things that they felt would have been better. Maybe now they finally felt that they could do it without taking away from other things they want to implement?
@SqueakyPlatypus:Or, to offer a slightly more cynical outlook, they realized CO was going to rape their ungreased cornholes, so they rushed to add the biggest demand of the game's fanbase since CoH's inception.
Congratulations for CoH for still lasting this long, I think they are the second longest running next to WoW and considering the monstrous popularity of WoW it has a habit of devouring other MAHMORPEGGERS alive. *applauds CoH*
Never been a big fan of user created content in general since most bites and it is hard to find the good ones that haven't been voted up by friends or guildmates or whatever forum they frequent. For every good user created item them are 10,000 horrible ones. LBP is proof of that. I simply don't have the patience or desire to sift through the garbage.
Am I the only one who thinks user-generated content is a cancer killing video games?
I'm an active CoX player, and I think this is a waste. In the time they could have spent fixing countless bugs, adding and re-adding task/strikeforces and trials, they instead add an editor for people to make their own lame, gimped content.
Great, Now I can make a specific group of enemies on a map who have their own stupid cutscenes. I cant add elite bosses or heroes/AVs/Monsters, and kills of a group dont even count toward the pointless badges.
@SubZippo: At least EBs would have been something good, buuuuut I guess there's a fail there.
Also, the fact that bugs still aren't fixed is fail again. I wanted to re-up just for that feature, but if I'm not given the liberty to do the missions I want, screw that noise.
@CommentatorHatman: "Also, the fact that bugs still aren't fixed is fail again. I wanted to re-up just for that feature, but if I'm not given the liberty to do the missions I want, screw that noise"
The Ouroboros flashback system allows you to do absolutely any mission at all, at any time, as many times as you'd like. You can customize the difficulty for added challnges and rewards as well.
Well, I was going to try, only to find out that COH updater doesn't even work. It just says Connecting #1 then closes. Then opens again. Then closes. Until I close it manually.
Seriously guys, now is not the time to re-sub. I quit and I know dozens mroe who quit BECAUSE of this issue.
They made some universally panned changes to PVP, and they changed the task force rewards to 'merits' you can spend on outrageously priced recipies instead of the random drop. This was to 'fix' people who speedran katies, eden and binders. So now a katie of a binder drops like, 10 merits, eden drops TWO, and a random drop costs like 50 merits, whereas a recipe you want like a Gambler proc costs 200. >_< I dont know the hard numbers, but theyre all something like that.
As if the rewards wernt hard enough to get, they made them harder to get, and are telling you theyre making them EASIER. Yeah, right, if your gonna make the game less fun AND lie to me, Ill play something else.
well, im not much for PVP, but 20 merits for a random pool C drop (not 50) isnt terrible all things considered. now mind you, katies give 7, but thats because its cake. theyre trying to get you to do something harder. ITF will get you enough merits in one run for a random, plus some left over so you can save up for more randoms or a single specific recipe. now sure, its a little harder to get a random than it was, but its a lot easier to get stuff you werent able to before if you didnt do TFs, since story arcs give merits also (albeit not many, but again, theyre easier than TFs and trials).
i was looking forward to i13, it had some good additions. plus in a few months comes Architect, so im pleased atm with the way coh is going
I just canceled my sub, too. I almost want to re-up, but seriously, I have no time for this. It's been over 2 agonizing years, and I still don't have a lvl 50 toon.
Plus, the last time I jumped on, just to see if I missed it, the server was way barren (in CoV). Really, I don't see how I can justify rejoining... but god, did I love this game, and the characters I made.
06/30/09
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06/21/09
They have others, but ouch.
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except for the whole Everquest II lasting just as long as WoW, and Everquest having their 10th year anniversary this year
06/20/09
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06/20/09
No. NO!
Agh, these thoughts, they take over my head. I cannot ever play another MMO again. They destroy me.
02/27/09
02/27/09
02/27/09
I'm an active CoX player, and I think this is a waste. In the time they could have spent fixing countless bugs, adding and re-adding task/strikeforces and trials, they instead add an editor for people to make their own lame, gimped content.
Great, Now I can make a specific group of enemies on a map who have their own stupid cutscenes. I cant add elite bosses or heroes/AVs/Monsters, and kills of a group dont even count toward the pointless badges.
02/27/09
Also, the fact that bugs still aren't fixed is fail again. I wanted to re-up just for that feature, but if I'm not given the liberty to do the missions I want, screw that noise.
02/27/09
incorrect, you can have AVs/EBs, as proven by
[boards.cityofheroes.com]
from positron himself
and
[www.blogcdn.com]
(the latter link you have to look closely at the picture.
03/01/09
The Ouroboros flashback system allows you to do absolutely any mission at all, at any time, as many times as you'd like. You can customize the difficulty for added challnges and rewards as well.
12/05/08
12/03/08
They made some universally panned changes to PVP, and they changed the task force rewards to 'merits' you can spend on outrageously priced recipies instead of the random drop. This was to 'fix' people who speedran katies, eden and binders. So now a katie of a binder drops like, 10 merits, eden drops TWO, and a random drop costs like 50 merits, whereas a recipe you want like a Gambler proc costs 200. >_< I dont know the hard numbers, but theyre all something like that.
As if the rewards wernt hard enough to get, they made them harder to get, and are telling you theyre making them EASIER. Yeah, right, if your gonna make the game less fun AND lie to me, Ill play something else.
12/03/08
well, im not much for PVP, but 20 merits for a random pool C drop (not 50) isnt terrible all things considered. now mind you, katies give 7, but thats because its cake. theyre trying to get you to do something harder. ITF will get you enough merits in one run for a random, plus some left over so you can save up for more randoms or a single specific recipe. now sure, its a little harder to get a random than it was, but its a lot easier to get stuff you werent able to before if you didnt do TFs, since story arcs give merits also (albeit not many, but again, theyre easier than TFs and trials).
i was looking forward to i13, it had some good additions. plus in a few months comes Architect, so im pleased atm with the way coh is going
12/03/08
Plus, the last time I jumped on, just to see if I missed it, the server was way barren (in CoV). Really, I don't see how I can justify rejoining... but god, did I love this game, and the characters I made.