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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    They have to update the server. We should be able to get back in by 7:00PM.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    maraxus94 wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    I HAVEN'T BEEN INVITED

    I AM GOING TO SULK

    We can start a Lonely Hearts club.

    I'm 32, single, and work in IT, yes I do the whole Lonely Hearts thing.

    Also:
    Screeeeeeeeeeeeew you guys and your betas. I honestly wouldn't mind if it was just a character creator at this point, I'm jonesing for a better CoX. One with 3d costume parts, more than two bad guys, and relatively free (at the moment) of ERPers.


    You're going to love the costume creator in this. Especially if you like monsters and power armored characters.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited May 2009
    maraxus94 wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    I HAVEN'T BEEN INVITED

    I AM GOING TO SULK

    We can start a Lonely Hearts club.

    I'm 32, single, and work in IT, yes I do the whole Lonely Hearts thing.

    Also:
    Screeeeeeeeeeeeew you guys and your betas. I honestly wouldn't mind if it was just a character creator at this point, I'm jonesing for a better CoX. One with 3d costume parts, more than two bad guys, and relatively free (at the moment) of ERPers.

    From what I've heard you're in for a shock on that last one.

    A duck! on
  • BitstreamBitstream Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I'm not familiar with the term "ERPer" but I can guess the RPer part. And I'm not quite sure why you would wan an online roleplaying game to be free of roleplayers.

    The E stands for
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    EROTIC!

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I haven't ran into any ERPer's yet. I have seen some kind of giant crab beast that looked cool and a giant gundam dude painted gold and black.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    This game makes my PC scream and wail in torment.

    I do hope it doesn't do that at release.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited May 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I'm not familiar with the term "ERPer" but I can guess the RPer part. And I'm not quite sure why you would wan an online roleplaying game to be free of roleplayers.

    I hope you run into some FERPers, then. I mean, how bad can the FE part be?

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  • BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Macro9 wrote: »
    maraxus94 wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    I HAVEN'T BEEN INVITED

    I AM GOING TO SULK

    We can start a Lonely Hearts club.

    I'm 32, single, and work in IT, yes I do the whole Lonely Hearts thing.

    Also:
    Screeeeeeeeeeeeew you guys and your betas. I honestly wouldn't mind if it was just a character creator at this point, I'm jonesing for a better CoX. One with 3d costume parts, more than two bad guys, and relatively free (at the moment) of ERPers.


    You're going to love the costume creator in this. Especially if you like monsters and power armored characters.

    Power armor and robots are the most favorite of things to me.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2009
    Fuck NDAs so hard. When it drops I'm going to shit screenhots like some horrible fecal waterfall.

    Sterica on
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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Power armor?

    Fuck you guys! :(

    Fallout on
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  • Hiryu02Hiryu02 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    If this isn't under NDA, how are the animations? Is combat responsiveness good? When you hit something, is the hit feedback clear?

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    Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Man, stupid NDA is stupid. I wish to hold intelligent conversation about this game here, but sadly we cannot. I find the official forums to be full of fanboys and know-it-alls and it doesn't make for very satisfying discussion.

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Hmm, I wonder if I need to do some port forwarding in my router to allow the launcher to connect.

    Corvus on
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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The murmurs I've heard is that the game is pretty mediocre

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    Last Son wrote: »
    The game is massively instanced. You know how in CoX if there are a lot of people in the zone it'll open up "Atlas Park 2" or whatever? Well Champions does that after about 30 people.
    Curious.

    On the one hand, I could be snarky and point at the "massively". On the other hand, this is a game about superheroes and you rarely see a ton of heroes all over the place unless it's some major comic event. If each zone if about the size of the Paragon's, then you'd feel more like a normal superhero as opposed to what we have now where heroes probably outnumber crooks.

    I guess I'll see how it works out.

    I bet they just have the number jacked down real low so they can test the system without needing a massive group of beta testers.

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    Last Son wrote: »
    The game is massively instanced. You know how in CoX if there are a lot of people in the zone it'll open up "Atlas Park 2" or whatever? Well Champions does that after about 30 people.
    Curious.

    On the one hand, I could be snarky and point at the "massively". On the other hand, this is a game about superheroes and you rarely see a ton of heroes all over the place unless it's some major comic event. If each zone if about the size of the Paragon's, then you'd feel more like a normal superhero as opposed to what we have now where heroes probably outnumber crooks.

    I guess I'll see how it works out.

    I bet they just have the number jacked down real low so they can test the system without needing a massive group of beta testers.

    I think in CoH Beta they had the threshold for multiple zones much lower than it is now on Live, so thats possible.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The more instanced an MMO is, the less interested I become

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The only time having tons of people available has affected my gameplay in an MMO is
    1. When there's a shit ton of people in a town, and it slows down my game
    2. Massive world PvP.

    The first I would not mind at all missing out on, and there's no PvP like that in Champions ATM so it doesn't matter for that.

    Though, as an aside, I wonder what they would call a "City of Villians" type expansion for Champions. (Dark Champions is more about Anti-Heroes)

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I don't like it because it restricts the possibilities available and as such the experience suffers from it.

    If I know that there will never be more than 30 guys in my immediate area, I probably wont be enjoying myself. It compromises the "massively multiplayer" part of the game too much for me.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I love instances

    the fewer retards around me, the better

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yea, I'm a major instance lover myself.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Sorry for jumping off, Scoot. Forgot about Lost which is funny considering what we were doing.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2009
    So this was a supergroup invite. Are we supposed to get organized in some way?

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    There's a Penny Arcade channel. No idea how supergroups work.

    Scooter on
  • strebaliciousstrebalicious Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Man, why does this thing look so jaggy? I poked briefly in the video options on my lunch break, but couldn't really find anything to fix it. Guess I'll wait till I have more time on Friday to play around.

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  • aunsophaunsoph Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Man, why does this thing look so jaggy?

    No Anti-Aliasing, that's why.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Try forcing it through your control panel. I made a female Kung Fu chick a minute ago. Everything was cool until I blocked and saw how weird he back and neck look. It forms an S and neck is super long. So I'll have to trash her and see if I can fix it.

    The female clothing options should be banned. I mean ddaaammnn.

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  • aunsophaunsoph Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Try forcing it through your control panel.

    First thing I tried.

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  • Paradox ControlParadox Control Master MC Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    So I got in today, and I have to say so far its pretty good. Sadly you can't just pick any two starting powers (for now, there putting it back in when power sets are finalized) But I had fun running around with the Power Armor ability's. I even plugged in my Xbox controller to see how well that worked. Controlling the character was easy, but the menus didn't work right. But I could imagine running around and playing with the controller more then the mouse and keyboard.

    I didn't make it to M.City though, as a friend of mine came over and wanted to check it out while I had time to play. The quest in the desert where you have to activate the turrets was extremely frustrating. The mobs seemed to spawn faster then you could kill them in some case. Hopefully the next play time is some time soon.

    Paradox Control on
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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2009
    What you should hope is that Cryptic doesn't view these forums.

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  • Hiryu02Hiryu02 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Hiryu02 wrote: »
    If this isn't under NDA, how are the animations? Is combat responsiveness good? When you hit something, is the hit feedback clear?

    Anyone? Bueller? Hmm...I guess it is covered under NDA.

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    Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ah ha, checked the preview forums and there's a different updater to download. I'll let it grab the game over night.

    Corvus on
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  • Fashionist PigFashionist Pig Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I've got my guy to 8, and i'm stuck at the vault. This is safe, because I could be talking about Fallout 3. I'd have probably gotten past it if not for a friend who came over and wanted to explore "the wasteland". Also, from my first alts experience, there's a guy in the Canada section that says something about creating supergroups.

    Everyone activate your vague toggles.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2009
    There's no Canada in Fallout 3!

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  • Paradox ControlParadox Control Master MC Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Shit hes on to you, ABORT ABORT!

    Paradox Control on
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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2009
    Well, now I'm going to make a hero named Wet Blanket.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Couldn't you maggots make a thread on the off-topic section of the Champions Beta forum?

    Aldo on
  • Fashionist PigFashionist Pig Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    To be fair, we're just talking about Fallout 3 and how Alaska is part of Canada, and thus is in Fallout 3, as long as Sarah Palin exists.

    Fashionist Pig on
  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I can imagine you want to talk about more specific subjects ever now and again. Especially those of you who still respect the agreement they signed but would like to coordinate efforts with their fellow PAers.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That's what the PA channel is for. Most of the things you've seen here have already been reported by places like Massively. IF it isn't your account that's being played on why bother telling people to move somewhere else? Is someone on here going to report us next?

    Also have you actually been on their forums? I would rather not talk than go there to say that the character creator is awesome or that there's a kung fu powerset.

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