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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    They keep changing the difficulty of mobs lately, so it's hard to say what the pace is, but even with the currently overpowered mobs thing it goes a lot faster than, say, WoW, and though they do have some generic instances they aren't the nightmare that CoX's are. Most of the questing is done out-of-doors, however.

    Second question I have no idea.

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    MugaazMugaaz Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Insance maps are better, but you're not running instances as much, more outdoor questing. Some static larger dungeon instances as well. (Think of WoW Dungeons).

    The CoH Equivalent of newpaper missions are pretty much on par with CoH, but unlike CoH most people don't have reason to do them.

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    YoshuaYoshua Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    fodderboy wrote: »
    I'm on the fence about CO, couple of questions.

    I played CoX, and i love the super hero/villian idea. It was the mission structure that killed it for me. The bland but randomly generated maps got really blah for me. And was frustrating if it needed a complete clear and i missed that one baddie somewhere along the way. The action seemed kinda slow.

    How are the missions in CO compared to CoX? Are they faster paced? Better designed or just more of the same with higher rez textures?

    2nd question. With WoW i can copy the whole game folder, on to another computer and start playing. Can this be done with CO? If not what is the easiest way to move a game install so i don't have to re-download the client?

    Thanks.

    Much fewer instanced missions. Which I guess is a curse and a blessing since it creates competition for NPC's needed to complete missions. Though they have been slowly fixing this issue by giving credit to all participants.

    And when you do go into an instance, it's definitly a lot smaller than the CoX ones.

    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.

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    XaboraXabora Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Akinos wrote: »
    Angry wrote: »
    why am i downloading a 624meg patch?

    Daeke just tweeted:
    Those of you attempting to patch and seeing a 600MB patch. STOP. Wait till the servers are up, and THEN patch.

    http://twitter.com/Cryptic_Daeke/status/3742152023
    I may or may not be at home also trying to connect.. >.>

    Soo, contest items?
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    FYI: I'm not feeling so sick anymore so expect some stuff in the future. :D

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    MugaazMugaaz Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    fodderboy wrote: »
    I'm on the fence about CO, couple of questions.

    I played CoX, and i love the super hero/villian idea. It was the mission structure that killed it for me. The bland but randomly generated maps got really blah for me. And was frustrating if it needed a complete clear and i missed that one baddie somewhere along the way. The action seemed kinda slow.

    How are the missions in CO compared to CoX? Are they faster paced? Better designed or just more of the same with higher rez textures?

    2nd question. With WoW i can copy the whole game folder, on to another computer and start playing. Can this be done with CO? If not what is the easiest way to move a game install so i don't have to re-download the client?

    Thanks.

    Much fewer instanced missions. Which I guess is a curse and a blessing since it creates competition for NPC's needed to complete missions. Though they have been slowly fixing this issue by giving credit to all participants.

    And when you do go into an instance, it's definitly a lot smaller than the CoX ones.

    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.

    Only the low level ones are much smaller. Once you get to 30ish they are equal to mid range CoH. Haven't seen anything as large as big CoT maps yet though (except for lairs)

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.

    Meh.

    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth.

    CO - Purple Gang, Irradiates, Foxbattlebots, Ah... oriental gang, crazy card deck themed dudes, zombies, VIPER, Canadian militia?, Ghosts, more I don't know about...

    Edit: I am in on Test.

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    XaboraXabora Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.
    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth
    You forgot: 5th Column.

    The best themed group in CoX... before they went poof. :|

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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.

    Meh.

    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth.

    CO - Purple Gang, Irradiates, Foxbattlebots, Ah... oriental gang, crazy card deck themed dudes, zombies, VIPER, Canadian militia?, Ghosts, more I don't know about...

    Evil fish monsters, Qularr, Gadroon , DEMON, PSI, fire demons, escaped prisoners, lizard men, robot cowboys, Grondlings/Irradiates, Sasquatches, Furries, Destroids...

    Incenjucar on
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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    And only now do they take down the site and put up an emergency splash screen.

    Just_Bri_Thanks on
    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Xabora wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.
    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth
    You forgot: 5th Column.

    The best themed group in CoX... before they went poof. :|

    They are coming back, with one mother of a mad-on over the Council of Niktus.

    Edit: Oh test client, how I love your sexy 150ms per frame!

    Just_Bri_Thanks on
    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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    XaboraXabora Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Xabora wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.
    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth
    You forgot: 5th Column.

    The best themed group in CoX... before they went poof. :|

    They are coming back, with one mother of a mad-on over the Council of Niktus.

    Edit: Oh test client, how I love your sexy 150ms per frame!

    Sooo... where do I get ye olde test clientus?

    Xabora on
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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    At this moment, if you haven't already signed up to play on test you can't. You need to click something on the Champions website, and it is down.

    Just_Bri_Thanks on
    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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    FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    fodderboy wrote: »
    I'm on the fence about CO, couple of questions.

    I played CoX, and i love the super hero/villian idea. It was the mission structure that killed it for me. The bland but randomly generated maps got really blah for me. And was frustrating if it needed a complete clear and i missed that one baddie somewhere along the way. The action seemed kinda slow.

    How are the missions in CO compared to CoX? Are they faster paced? Better designed or just more of the same with higher rez textures?

    2nd question. With WoW i can copy the whole game folder, on to another computer and start playing. Can this be done with CO? If not what is the easiest way to move a game install so i don't have to re-download the client?

    Thanks.

    On 1, there are patrol missions, which sound a bit like CoX's standard fare (never player City of Heroes/Villians) but they are a sideline thing that rate "suplementary" at best, and are definintly not the standard. Standard is Open world Missions + structured instances.

    Don't know about 2 though.

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    XaboraXabora Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    At this moment, if you haven't already signed up to play on test you can't. You need to click something on the Champions website, and it is down.
    Figures...

    EDIT: Yes you can copy the entire game folder, just delete the subfolder .patch when you do.
    It'll rediscover its location and make a new .patch folder.

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    MugaazMugaaz Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    There are furries I guess, they haven't infringed on my enjoyment of the game though. And there are far, far, far more non-furries.

    The servers have had some issues, I cannot lie. But it hasn't been horrible.


    Yeah, I saw a lot more Vore-ians (is that a word) there last night. Good, good stuff I tell you. If you guys are having problems leveling up I definitely recommend heading to Club Caprice. May not be a "fun" game going on in there, but woah, some entertaining and interesting stuff to read.

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    osiriswarposiriswarp Registered User new member
    edited September 2009
    Get home from work. Server down. awww :(

    osiriswarp on
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    FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Mugaaz wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    There are furries I guess, they haven't infringed on my enjoyment of the game though. And there are far, far, far more non-furries.

    The servers have had some issues, I cannot lie. But it hasn't been horrible.


    Yeah, I saw a lot more Vore-ians (is that a word) there last night. Good, good stuff I tell you. If you guys are having problems leveling up I definitely recommend heading to Club Caprice. May not be a "fun" game going on in there, but woah, some entertaining and interesting stuff to read.

    I for one can't wait for the Pocket D-esque screenshots of hilarity.

    The Reptilian Nazis (who are like WW2 Nazies) destroyed planet Reptilia.

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Mugaaz wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    There are furries I guess, they haven't infringed on my enjoyment of the game though. And there are far, far, far more non-furries.

    The servers have had some issues, I cannot lie. But it hasn't been horrible.


    Yeah, I saw a lot more Vore-ians (is that a word) there last night. Good, good stuff I tell you. If you guys are having problems leveling up I definitely recommend heading to Club Caprice. May not be a "fun" game going on in there, but woah, some entertaining and interesting stuff to read.

    I am not stating an opinion on if it is a word, but if it is I don't think it means what you think it means.

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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    mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Mugaaz wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    There are furries I guess, they haven't infringed on my enjoyment of the game though. And there are far, far, far more non-furries.

    The servers have had some issues, I cannot lie. But it hasn't been horrible.


    Yeah, I saw a lot more Vore-ians (is that a word) there last night. Good, good stuff I tell you. If you guys are having problems leveling up I definitely recommend heading to Club Caprice. May not be a "fun" game going on in there, but woah, some entertaining and interesting stuff to read.

    I am not stating an opinion on if it is a word, but if it is I don't think it means what you think it means.

    I didn't think the game mechanics even supported that.

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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    If you want to Test, click this link.

    http://www.champions-online.com/node/483355


    @mrflippy Wait for Bloodmoon, may then eh?

    Edit:

    My opinions on furries: "You should probably hook up with a good therapist."
    My opinion on vore: "Dude, go straight to the nearest mental health facility, do not pass go, do not collect $200!"

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    ...and when you are done with that; take a folding
    chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    mrflippy wrote: »
    Mugaaz wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    There are furries I guess, they haven't infringed on my enjoyment of the game though. And there are far, far, far more non-furries.

    The servers have had some issues, I cannot lie. But it hasn't been horrible.


    Yeah, I saw a lot more Vore-ians (is that a word) there last night. Good, good stuff I tell you. If you guys are having problems leveling up I definitely recommend heading to Club Caprice. May not be a "fun" game going on in there, but woah, some entertaining and interesting stuff to read.

    I am not stating an opinion on if it is a word, but if it is I don't think it means what you think it means.

    I didn't think the game mechanics even supported that.

    Srsly. Bite only goes so far.

    Maybe it is the rank 3 version.

    There IS a Cannibalism emote....

    D:

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    XaboraXabora Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    If you want to Test, click this link.

    http://www.champions-online.com/node/483355
    Thanks, I was wondering where that buggering link was.

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    GnomeTankGnomeTank What the what? Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Home from work, so I'm gonna start working on the OP now.

    GnomeTank on
    Sagroth wrote: »
    Oh c'mon FyreWulff, no one's gonna pay to visit Uranus.
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    XaboraXabora Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    [19:02] Peons: So devs have been very quiet on the forums today
    [19:03] Peons: It's worrying :P
    :(

    Xabora on
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    MimasMimas Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.

    Meh.

    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth.

    CO - Purple Gang, Irradiates, Foxbattlebots, Ah... oriental gang, crazy card deck themed dudes, zombies, VIPER, Canadian militia?, Ghosts, more I don't know about...

    Evil fish monsters, Qularr, Gadroon , DEMON, PSI, fire demons, escaped prisoners, lizard men, robot cowboys, Grondlings/Irradiates, Sasquatches, Furries, Destroids...

    Snake Gulch with the robot cowboys is probably my favorite thing Ive seen so far in the game. I mean, an amusement park taken over by robot cowboys, thats hard to top.

    Mimas on
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    Romantic UndeadRomantic Undead Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Xabora wrote: »
    [19:02] Peons: So devs have been very quiet on the forums today
    [19:03] Peons: It's worrying :P
    :(

    I choose to believe it's because they're furiously busy FIXING THE SERVERS!

    Romantic Undead on
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    Romantic UndeadRomantic Undead Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Mimas wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Yoshua wrote: »
    I really do miss the CoH villain groups though. They had a lot of style.

    Meh.

    CoX - Clockworks, Hellions, Skulls, Trolls, Tsu, Rikti, Family, Tso, Freakshow, Wandering Earth.

    CO - Purple Gang, Irradiates, Foxbattlebots, Ah... oriental gang, crazy card deck themed dudes, zombies, VIPER, Canadian militia?, Ghosts, more I don't know about...

    Evil fish monsters, Qularr, Gadroon , DEMON, PSI, fire demons, escaped prisoners, lizard men, robot cowboys, Grondlings/Irradiates, Sasquatches, Furries, Destroids...

    Snake Gulch with the robot cowboys is probably my favorite thing Ive seen so far in the game. I mean, an amusement park taken over by robot cowboys, thats hard to top.

    Lovestruck, SINGING, robot cowboys!

    Romantic Undead on
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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Snake Gulch with the robot cowboys is probably my favorite thing Ive seen so far in the game. I mean, an amusement park taken over by robot cowboys, thats hard to top.

    Lovestruck, SINGING, robot cowboys![/QUOTE]

    There is nothing finer than the one tavern with Robot Cabaret.

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    Romantic UndeadRomantic Undead Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Snake Gulch with the robot cowboys is probably my favorite thing Ive seen so far in the game. I mean, an amusement park taken over by robot cowboys, thats hard to top.

    Lovestruck, SINGING, robot cowboys!

    There is nothing finer than the one tavern with Robot Cabaret.

    Well, they could be doing the Can Can instead of the Soulja Boy dance, but I can live with it.

    Romantic Undead on
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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    So... I hear the servers are still down. And the dev tracker is still broken on the forums.

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    aeiouyaeiouy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Anyone else listening to We Are The Champions on a loop?

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    mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Does Smoke Grenade do much in PvE?

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    mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    aeiouy wrote: »
    Anyone else listening to We Are The Champions on a loop?

    If by that you mean "My entire music library on shuffle" then yes.

    mrflippy on
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    AkinosAkinos Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    aeiouy wrote: »
    Anyone else listening to We Are The Champions on a loop?

    There was a lot of that on Tuesday.

    Akinos on
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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Anyone else not had their characters display under "My Characters" on the website for a while? Mine were for a while but they haven't been for the last couple days at least

    also I bought a new widescreen monitor today and was all excited to see the game in glorious wide-o-vision, but the servers are down. nooo

    Wren on
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    Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Akinos wrote: »
    aeiouy wrote: »
    Anyone else listening to We Are The Champions on a loop?

    There was a lot of that on Tuesday.

    Was that before or after the patch from hell?

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    YoshuaYoshua Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    If you want to Test, click this link.

    http://www.champions-online.com/node/483355


    @mrflippy Wait for Bloodmoon, may then eh?

    Edit:

    My opinions on furries: "You should probably hook up with a good therapist."
    My opinion on vore: "Dude, go straight to the nearest mental health facility, do not pass go, do not collect $200!"

    What the hell is a vore anyways?

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    AkinosAkinos Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Akinos wrote: »
    aeiouy wrote: »
    Anyone else listening to We Are The Champions on a loop?

    There was a lot of that on Tuesday.

    Was that before or after the patch from hell?

    I am not sure which patch you are referring to.

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    mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    If you want to Test, click this link.

    http://www.champions-online.com/node/483355


    @mrflippy Wait for Bloodmoon, may then eh?

    Edit:

    My opinions on furries: "You should probably hook up with a good therapist."
    My opinion on vore: "Dude, go straight to the nearest mental health facility, do not pass go, do not collect $200!"

    What the hell is a vore anyways?

    You should do some google searches.

    Especially if you're at work.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Yoshua wrote: »
    If you want to Test, click this link.

    http://www.champions-online.com/node/483355


    @mrflippy Wait for Bloodmoon, may then eh?

    Edit:

    My opinions on furries: "You should probably hook up with a good therapist."
    My opinion on vore: "Dude, go straight to the nearest mental health facility, do not pass go, do not collect $200!"

    What the hell is a vore anyways?

    google image search man.

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