Morning Discussion
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Let's continue the Champions Online talk here.
Fighting in Canada is awful.
There are 800 Hulk characters.
Defender won't STFU.
Open Beta is shortened by a day.-
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since it's open i'm gonna post some stuff i saw last night
So Raiden and Samus walked into a bar...
http://three.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/15/151a807a344c8a7f5c4eeef6526545a4d5677646.jpg
2 shots of my character
http://dradis.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/ee/ee9c3019f10426aa4142e8d983ff5e2cbd1b2c2a.jpg
http://duckbar.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/be/bee07745db5c12511dd10d24b2d63d9b597e4951.jpg
I'm having fun but i don't think i'm going to buy it when it comes out. it's too choppy on my system and it doesn't feel ready for release. it takes a long time to bring up the menu to change to a new server when changing zones and doesn't give feedback so you just keep clicking and wondering wtf. also it does not help you at all figure out wtf is going on with the professions.
anyways i'll continue to play the open beta and maybe when i get bored in a year or 2 and CO client is on for cheap i might give it a try-
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hey, here is my character electroly
http://pancake_humper.shackspace.com/screenshot_2009-08-19-17-15-20.jpg
such a slut
also here is Fortyfives being Fortyfives:
http://pancake_humper.shackspace.com/tempss.jpg
I got some fraps videos but I am too lazy to convert them
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I'm having a good time with it so far, just got to Canada. I'm really digging the art style, and the combat seems much more "real time" than City of Heroes ever did. You can circle strafe a mob while channeling spells, while your 'charge' spells react somewhat similar to a WoW spell with a cast time (although obviously not the same).
My main problem (and judging from others too) is the performance (or lack thereof). It runs REALLY chopping on medium/high & high settings. Feels like they have some optimizing to do, I'm currently on a e6750 duel core, 8800GT's in SLI, 2gb of memory and although I can't see FPS - I would guess it's bouncing from 10-30.
The level up, upgrades, skill path, etc are VERY confusing - even from someone coming from City of Heroes and WoW. I just can't seem to figure out wtf does what, where it goes, what is the best for my character, etc. I'm thinking they need to explain it a bit more or give a better tutorial, cause I'm lost.
I've only played around with the Force powers (I'm hoping to be a support role, similar to the Controller in City of Heroes) so far, going to try and start a new character tonight. -
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Power Sets: http://champions-online.com/power_sets
Not a complete list, but gives a good idea of some of the powers/abilites/moves for each class. -
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It still just feels like CoH, just with some improvements. Part of the issue I have with these types of MMO's, is I like my character to change in look as they progress in power/levels, and you don't really get that in super hero MMO's.
Outside of my normal powers, I'm still confused on what does what, and if I should be using it. I'll play it some more tonight, but I think Aion will be getting my money and play time.-
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I meant the perks/abilities or whatever they are that I chose after choosing my first new power. Powers I get, but I can't remember what my classes core stats I need to focus on, what determines where those item stat buff things go. If I'm Mysticism, does that mean the other stat things like Arms no longer actually function, even though they remain in place.
Why did my Mysticism items suddenly turn red when I chose Mysticism as my path? wtf does that indicate, that they no longer work, or just those work, or wtf it just wasn't clear.
Those bubbles that pop up when doing things, I think they were called perks. Are those micro achievements or do they add things to your character?
I'm sure comparing stats to what they are and what they should be, would be helpful but I'm at work and just going off of what I remember from my playthrough last night.-
I'll answer what I can, in my sleep deprived state. Take it with a grain of salt, I haven't been playing long either.
As far as stats go, I just focused mainly on the two stats that were higher with the initial stat skill that comes with the power set, except when it seems pretty clear that i need more of something, like energy. Endurance gives you a larger pool to work with it to work with and recovery(not sure if I am remembering that one right) makes that equilibrium point your energy returns to higher. This seems to work ok so far at least.
As far as the items go, I didn't notice mine turning red when I chose my crafting area, but regardless, you can use the other types. It is just that if you no longer need an item from your crafting skill, you can do research on it in the crafting area. This will break down the item and get you quite a lot of crafting materials from most items and most of the time raise your crafting skill. I am not sure what goes into determining how good an item is for research, but some work better than others and get better results.
The perks are kind of like achievements from what I can see, and the generally unlock new titles for your hero, but also, some (I assume higher level or more involved) unlock costume pieces or gadgets that you can get from a vendor in the city. I didn't have any unlocked, so I can't say what they are like.
hope that helps and isn't too incoherent
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In Champions Online I noticed some degree of unlockable costume stuff though which I did not really see in my trials in CoH. You can for example change the way the guns or swords look on some chars, after you get unlockable costume parts from certain mobs / missions.
My brother's cybernetic angel for example now uses engergy spikes rather than the normal claws for his attacks. I also saw a big demon looking hero wielding quite large axes rather than swords for the dual weapon style, which -needless to say- looked really awesome.
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My brother said that when visiting the Taylor (where you can customize your character after the character creation) he just had the different claws to choose from suddenly.
Only thing I saw personally pertaining powers, is an alien gun replacement for some gun weapon I found off an alien in the tutorial, don't know how the item type was called, sorry.
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I've been playing as Munitions or better known in game as Lara Croft'n
it's better then CoH.
It's not as fleshed out as WoW is (obviously)
It's pretty reactive wise when you do commands (better then most MMOs)
Being able to edit my appearance at any time.
Haven't PVP'd yet
I hate the COH xp bar, just give me numbers.
Is there any death penalty? I don't know i think your stars get reduced no idea what they do..
I really don't care to much for the Lore.
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I got some new equipment that changes my guns for munitions, yet when I try to use my primary energy build attack with those weapons equipped it ceases to toggle and it becomes just a single fire.
This is extremely annoying as I have to go click click click instead of just tapping 1 once, is this how they are supposed to work?
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