[COX] - City of Heroes Freedom is Live, TITAN WEAPONS are live also new iTrials

Robziel

kafziel wrote: »

It's not stealthing objectives, either, it's taking out destructible objects without clearing the entire map because there's a time limit.

That always annoyed me because with even a half way competent league you can kill everything on the map get all the objects and have time left to coordinate the destruction of both of the last objects so you can earn crazy iXP, inf +increased chance of thread, invention salvage and recipe drops.

But no, you can't take longer or people start freaking out that the entire trial is taking to long, going to fail and "OMG 5 minutes longer than a speed run is fucking horrible."

kafziel

It's real sweet when you have a league that can afford to clear - I've seen it pulled off once, it was wonderful - but you kind of need a really good league to tear through that many full spawns that fast. Incarnate Shifts and good debuffs and whatnot. And you need everybody to be interested in it, instead of having some jackass declare it'll never work and run off and fuck it all up.

jonxp

Man, sitting at home, dying slowly of some tropical sickness, figured I'd play some CoX. No such luck.


But hey, there's this: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/paragon-studios

Robziel

Hey look, Dr. Aeon

Narbus

Dear Dr. Aeon,

WHEN WILL YOU FESS UP ABOUT STEALING MY COSTUME FOR TIN MAGE YOU JERK? HUH?! WHEN?

Keeses,

PL.

jonxp

Hey guys, 7 Eastern, Virtue's being attacked by Praetoria.

Robziel

Oh heck, thank you Jon I'd completely forgotten

Oh hey, the Magic Pack is Half off until the 17th http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3634092 if you don't already own this there is something wrong with you GO BUY IT NOW

Arcas

Magic booster is an excellent pack.

kafziel

[01:13] <chibisede> Just ran an ITF in 15:13. I'd like to think we are all fairly decently overpowered now.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

months behind!

kafziel

Yeah well that guy's just free weekending after not playing for a year or two but nonetheless that's kinda short man!

Narbus

I suppose that Computer wouldn't be much trouble at all with a few Judgements tossed around at key times.

kafziel

Sorry for having to bail on that trial - I left at 3:50 and didn't get back until 4. If you guys finished before then or didn't start until after then ooops, but otherwise yeah I just couldn't be there for that.

Narbus

We actually cleared the courtyard! I am now 60% of the way towards interface! WHEEE.

kafziel

... clearing the courtyard is not unusual, to my knowledge? I mean usually, unless it's explicitly a speedrun, people kill absolutely everything topside before going in and taking out the Security Team.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

most of the runs I was doing even cleared all the stuff around the outside

although I guess that'll get less common as time goes on, I'm not sure why you wouldn't clear the courtyard; all that junk standing there while you fight marauder would get annoying

grouch993

All my runs of Lambda have been, clear the street, clear the courtyard, kill all the wall guns, big robot, kill containers while squishies die and complain, boss.

Robziel

But that's not fast enough I need a very rare and the only way to get it is to run speed runs over and over and over. /whine
Wait I need to take five to complain on the forums that the devs made this too grindy.

So my Friday night plans got canned, anyone want to try and do something fun?

see317

Eat It. Eat it, You Nasty Pig. wrote: »

most of the runs I was doing even cleared all the stuff around the outside

although I guess that'll get less common as time goes on, I'm not sure why you wouldn't clear the courtyard; all that junk standing there while you fight marauder would get annoying

These are the standard runs on lambda runs. I prefer these myself, as you get more chances for threads as well as the inf to convert the threads as necessary (and I actually feel like I'm contributing when taking these mobs on).

Speed runs generally start with a kinetic hitting Inertial Reduction to give everyone super jump to clear the wall, clear out the courtyard charge inside and kill the robot, watch the people get the grenades and acid while I'm face down in a pile of pain and broken robots (Go Masterminds!), then fight Marauder and his juice box of doom.

Narbus

see317 wrote: »

Eat It. Eat it, You Nasty Pig. wrote: »

most of the runs I was doing even cleared all the stuff around the outside

although I guess that'll get less common as time goes on, I'm not sure why you wouldn't clear the courtyard; all that junk standing there while you fight marauder would get annoying

These are the standard runs on lambda runs. I prefer these myself, as you get more chances for threads as well as the inf to convert the threads as necessary (and I actually feel like I'm contributing when taking these mobs on).

Speed runs generally start with a kinetic hitting Inertial Reduction to give everyone super jump to clear the wall, clear out the courtyard charge inside and kill the robot, watch the people get the grenades and acid while I'm face down in a pile of pain and broken robots (Go Masterminds!), then fight Marauder and his juice box of doom.

All the other lambdas I have been on have played out like that second one there. Well I'm not dead because i took rise of the phoenix, but you get the idea.

Robziel

see317 wrote: »

Speed runs generally start with a kinetic hitting Inertial Reduction to give everyone super jump to clear the wall, clear out the courtyard charge inside and kill the robot, watch the people get the grenades and acid while I'm face down in a pile of pain and broken robots (Go Masterminds!), then fight Marauder and his juice box of doom.

Man you've been on nicer speed runs than I have, they've all been, load into mission, everyone jumps or flies over the wall except for the people who are cursing that they took Super Speed and that ninja jump has grayed out on them.

kafziel

Not having a method of vertical movement is your own fault. If nothing else there's always the Jump Pack.

see317

kafziel wrote: »

Not having a method of vertical movement is your own fault. If nothing else there's always the Jump Pack.

I thought the trials deactivated temp powers?

Robziel

Many of them, they patched it so that some of the movement ones are sometimes available to you sometimes. Though I just did a Lambda and Ninja Run was available the entire time and didn't gray out once.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

yeah, you can't use temps/booster powers in the trials. They really ought to enable jump packs, at least.

that being said it's not that hard to jumpclimb over the wall

Lepwave

I thought they enabled the raptor jet pack for the trials?

Arcas

It's buggy. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't.

kafziel

I'm referring to the actual Jump Pack power, not the Zero-G Pack or Raptor Pack or anything like that. The one you get from GvE. Works fine in trials, is an Inherent power and not a Temporary power so it doesn't get glitchy either.

Ronin356

With the Beast pack add on, I made these characters.

I made: Piratour- Half Minotaur, Half Pirate:lol:
Plant- notaur- Half Minotaur, Half Plant:lol:
Mister Whiskers: Lion humanoid in trenchcoat.
Profressor Hobbs: Tiger with blazer and bowtie.
Leotron: Lion head, robot body
Puma Spell: Puma head, witch body

They are all on the Defiant server.

Shawnasee

Half Minotaur Half Pirate? Awesome...now what's his story?

kafziel

The Minortaur. Schoolgirl outfit with cow head.

kafziel

Well. Hot damn.

see317

kafziel wrote: »

Well. Hot damn.

Heh, still only got an uncommon salvage...

INeedNoSalt

has nobody ever beaten that trial or something

see317

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

has nobody ever beaten that trial or something

Beaten it? Yeah, lots of people, hell probably everybody with an incarnate. Generally in leagues of 12 to 16 players.

Beaten it with only 2 people? That's something else.

Robziel

Steampunk pack official trailer is live, I posted it in the OP but I know none of you read it so Steampower!

jonxp

We don't read your posts in the thread either.

Narbus

Oh god I need that so much.

Grove

I've done something bad...real bad.

I've reactivated after 2 years.

Here we go again. Look forward to playing with everyone again.

tricon

Must resist to buy the steampunk booster. 8-)

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