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[CoX] In Bizarro World, Defenders Get Buffs
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Breaking News!
- June 12, 2009- The Architect Edition is 15.99 on Steam this weekend.
- May 27, 2009- Issue 15 is now in open beta.
- May 12, 2009- A new paid expansion City of Heroes: Going Rogue has been announced.
- April 22, 2009- The Architect Edition is now available on Steam.
- April 14, 2009- The Architect Edition of the game is now on sale. It includes discs containing all content up to issue 14 as well as a free month and your choice of two booster packs. The booster packs are the previously released Cyborg Booster Pack and the new Magic Booster Pack.
The Great PA Mission Architect List
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Recommended by PA
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The Mission Architect
Issue 14 brings with it a new feature that has the potential to be both riveting and alarmingly horrible, player created content! With the introduction of the new mission architect system players can create, test, publish, rate, or just play custom missions and story arcs.
Creation and Customization
Players can tweak nearly everything including environments, difficulty, enemies, enemy placement, mission objectives, mission events, ambushes, contact dialogue and character dialogue. They can even create entire custom enemy groups from the ground up drawing on City of Heroes already robust character creation system and power selection interface. Each story arc can have up to five missions and each mission can have up to 25 objectives. Here is a nice guide to the mission architect.
Hall of Fame
With high enough ratings and enough views your arc can be upgraded to the hall of fame giving players even easier access to your work.
Developer's Choice
Arcs that are hand-picked by the developers can be listed here for much the same result as the hall of fame.
Tickets
Each enemy group in an architect mission has a chance to drop tickets. Harder enemies will grant more tickets than weaker enemies. Tickets can be used to unlock mission architect content or buy recipe rolls.
Other Additions
- One global chat handle rename token granted to everyone.
- Some arena changes.
- A bunch of new badges related to the mission architect.
- Faster flight and hover yay!
- Some pvp changes.
- New pvp origin enhancements earned by defeating others in pvp zones.
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Just the FAQs
How good is CoX?
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Get ready to put the tights on because Cryptic is serving up a 10 Day Free Trial. What does that mean? It means you get a the chance to play the Best Super Hero based MMO of All Time*for FREE!
*By best we mean only, though it is very good.
10 Day Free Trials, EXCELSIOR!
Any active (or inactive) subscriber can send out a few Friend Invites which have a 10 Day Free Trial. We simply need your e-mail to do so. If you decide you like the game and subscribe for two months the person who sent out the invite gets a free month of game time. Very niiiice.
PA plays on the Virtue server.
If you want in, make with the post asking for someone to PM you, then respond with your e-mail. We don't want to accidentally send one person multiple invites since there are only a limited number available. If you end up liking the game we recommend you buy the City of Heroes Architect Edition which for 20 dollars nets you both City of Heroes and City of Villains with discs that contain all content up to issue 13 as well as a free month and your choice of the cyborg booster pack or the magic booster pack.
The 411 on City of Heroes/Villains, yo.
Character Creation is likened onto a game of its own.
At launch CoH had something like 3 trillion potentially different costume configurations. Since then they have easily doubled the number of costume pieces, not to mention added face scalers, particle effects, wings, capes, trench coats, etc. So the current number of potential costumes numbers somewhere in the range of awholefuckinglot.
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If you've ever wanted to be a robotic undead pirate with a leather fetish and fondness of 80's colorful fashion who can shoot electricity from his hands THIS is the game for you.
Download Mid's Hero Designer for a list of all powers and Archetypes in the game.
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CoH/V has your standard MMO ability bar where you click it and perform your special attacks but it isn't really your standard MMO combat.
* Regular mobs die faster and you fight a hell of a lot more than one at a time. The bigger stuff, like Bosses or Giant Monsters, obviously take longer to kill.
* You can strategically use Line of Sight and Knockback to your advantage.
* Combat in large teams can quickly turn into chaos because of the number of enemies being fought at once. You'll see ten guys get blown off the balcony you are fighting on by an Energy Blaster while the Mind Controller forces the Boss to beat up his minions as the Tanker hordes another 15 enemies on him after the Defender just buffed the Scrapper to godhood who proceeds to run off and kill the next spawn over.
* A small army of Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, etc under your control.
* Ragdoll physics make you feel like a man. Mobs crumple when they die or get knocked around instead of playing the same animation every time.
* Lasers...from your eyes. And various other places.
* Mount? You don't need no mount! Flight, Super Speed, Teleportation, or Super Jump are obtainable at lvl 14 and allow you to haul ass around Paragon and the Rogue Isles instead of just walking. As early as lvl 5 you can obtain a temporary Jetpack to fly around with, just ask how in game.
* PvP so fast it'll make you feel like a twitch gamer. Various PvP zones with different goals and rewards, like Battlefield style capture points or obtaining your own nuclear missile. No joke, you can get your own orbital nuke (store up to three) to use at anytime.
* Badges which are like Xbox 360 Achievements for your character. You get EXP for finding exploration ones, you get others for killing X number of mobs or doing certian missions or finishing Task Forces, etc. If you get the right combination of badges it will unlock special powers or permanent Health and Endurance boosts.
* Special "GTA" style missions. Stop a bank from being robbed, defeat some vandals, prevent an arson, stop a jail brake, etc. Alternatively as villain rob a bank, vandalize everything, start an arson, break a fellow villain out of jail, etc.
* Physics engine that leaves shell casings, blown up robotic parts, ect on the ground that you AND your powers can interact with. Knock an enemy into a tree and a shower of leaves fall. Use Tornado in an alley and garbage gets thrown up from the dumpsters. Kick a guy of a balcony only to see his neck get caught between the railings so he dangles there in a gruesome, gruesome way.
Great CoX Resources
ParagonWiki is all kinds of useful and ever growing.
Red Tomax's Guide is really clean and efficient, very nice.
What server are the PA super groups on?
Virtue, the unofficial RP server. Not that we really RP.
How do I join the PA Chat Channel?
To join simply type /chanjoin "Penny Arcade" and hit enter. Then right click a chat tab, click edit, and add Penny Arcade to the tab.
A useful bind is /bind l beginchat /send "Penny Arcade" This way every time you hit l (or any key you choose) it lets you talk to every member of the PAcrew who is on, no matter what character they are playing as. Alternatively, you can just right click on the chat window and select the Penny Arcade channel and type away. Also, you could simply set the Penny Arcade channel to the default in your chat tab and hit the little A button to type.
Another possible but poor choice is this terrible bind Ringo suggests, what a loser.
Yeah but how do I get in the Super Group?
The best way to go about this is to ask if anyone in the global chat can invite you. All PA supergroup members have invite powers(though you may need an officer to kick). The command is /sgi name.
What PA SGs are there?
Hero
Power's Allegory - Virtue - Main Hero SG
Power's Allegory - Victory - Secondary Server SG
Power's Academy - Virtue - Alt Hero SG
Power's Apex - Virtue - 50s Retirement SG
Villain
Power's Affliction - Virtue - Main Villain SG
Power's Affliction - Victory - Secondary Server SG
Social Entropy - Virtue - Alt Villain SG
Are there any rules for the SGs?
Don't be a giant ass, we don't like asses. Well we do but only when they are p.h.a.t.
The SG activity fluctuates so sometimes we have to boot inactive members. We do so based on last time they logged in.
The SG humbly requests everyone play in SG mode as much as possible as that is how we earn Prestige(rent/building money) to keep our base (and the teleporters) open.
I'm in! Now how does this SG costume work?
Click Super on the text window, Settings in the section that pops up, click accept on this new page, now toy around with the colors. You can opt to turn the SG emblem on or hide it. To turn on SG mode click the Enter/Exit Supergroup Mode in the Super window.
Tell me about the Archetypes and Power Sets.
Just download Mid's Hero Designer. It will be much easier for all of us.
Is there an easy way to find badges/plagues? I'm lost in Perez Park! Why can't I find any Circle of Thorns?
Whine, whine, whine. Back in my day we didn't know where anything was and we liked it. Now we have an easier way...you cheater. Here is a link to a webpage with a download that replaces all in-game maps with ones that have badges, plaques, mobs, and even Perez Park trails in them. Enjoy. You can also just view the maps right on the website.
The game runs slowly for me: is there anything I can do to improve that?
Buy a new computer.
Alternatively, add this to the Target bar in the shortcut to the game:
-useTexEnvCombine
After turning all the settings down, you should be able to get a decent framerate. Though meant for laptops, this could also give you a better experience if you're using an ATI graphics card.
You can also try a /sync from time to time if you are experiencing a lot of rubberbanding.
How do mobs spawn in missions?
Where can I download the client, if I need to?
Click this Linky. The CoH and CoV client are one in the same.
Any questions? Ask away.
Link to previous CoX thread
If you think it's terrible, then you should have done a better one before I had the chance.
Anyway... new patch up on test:
linky
Seems that their still working on the balance for Doms, including some changes to Psychic Assault. Psychic Shockwave now hits up to 16 targets from 10. Dart shoots faster then it did, but not as fast as it did originally.
Looks like all cone powers have been nerfed.
Also, you now have the option to pay to have more Architect arc slots.
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Also the link to the badge map pack is missing in the second post.
Also rename the thread to I15: Reich Here, Reich now.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
My brute is fun but the prospect of running whatever high end S/TF again doesn't do anything for me, and no one ever wants to run the low level ones.
On alts, I just can't seem to make anything appealing. Maybe I will put some more time into one of my blasters.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
They should do like character slots and give out some freebies as vet rewards.
definitely gonna be back the day i15 drops
( also thanks for the bling *.* )
And yeah the villain team last night was good jolly times havin'.
same
I have had no impetus to play this game since I moved, mainly because the people that play when I play aren't playing.
This has to change.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
However, I seem to have trouble finding people to play with.
Anyone have recommendations for a server with a good pop?
Right now I'm on Triumph, but I haven't leveled that far where I'm worried about it.
Thanks.
I made an alt there once because virtue was full, and good god somehow it is dumber than virtue is.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
I should just reroll a AOE-leveling friendly build, but I'm lazy. And I like my dual wielding / willpower scrapper.
That being said, the Hero EAT storylines are pretty fun. The VEAT ones, however, are some of the worst dev-created arcs I've ever played.
Steam | TF2 inventory
heh I still remember those rape trains.
Everyone was stacking the VEAT +dmg/hit/def, and the successive waves of venom grenades. Everything just fell over, and couldn't hit us.
I think the Hess TF (25-30) has dropped out of favor because it needs to be unlocked, and no one's spending that much time in Striga anymore. Hell, most players to join in the past few issues probably don't even know Striga exists. It's fun if you do find someone who can start it though.
I'm not sure if I've ever beat the LRSF. The first like 3 times I tried was so traumatizing I didn't do it again for like years.
man, get on more, i'll take you on a LRSF one of these days
me and these dudes i met steamroll those fucks, on relentless too
But for me, it's usually a matter of timing and the fact that we don't have enough bodies with the free time and the will in PA.
Or hey, EATs that switch sides, that might be cool.
If the RSF is harder thats a good thing. My SG on Champion can steamroll anything and everything and a challenge would be something I would welcome.