Just resubscribed to CoX. All my old characters are on Liberty and Freedom. So i decided to create some new ones on Virtue.
So be on the look out for The Chickwithblades and Symon Lymon on Villains, and Clean Shot on Heroes.
Why
Its not as bad as my latest creation.
The Debt Collector 3000
Im full of this crap.
What are you talking about, that is good.
It's better than many of mine, that's for sure. I've come up with such stinkers as Bulimia Bot, Fight-Bot 6000, Admiral Pinkbeard, and Sackpunch the Clown.
You just say that because it wasn't your birthday party that he ruined.
Worst birthday ever
I will say, i have never seen someone inflate an animal baloon that way before.
Edit: As a side note here, ill be hanging out around the PA channel on CoX. Im looking to get recruited. I have high hopes. I also have a cookie. I might share.
Could someone send me an invite for the trail, please?
I played CoX for some time but lost interest and I want to see what has changed. There's a 50/50 chance I'll start playing again, so there might be some benefit for you
Was this also the group with the "Hey, maybe you can buff us instead of just rezzing us after we die" "I DON'T NEED YOUR SHIT I'M OUT" thing?
No, that was the group fighting Luminary where Acc made the pugger corruptor quit in tears. :P
Seriously though, when your thermal corr who never buffs talks about how much she loves using her rez, something is wrong.
I love the part where we replaced her with Nel, and Nel just goes hauling ass into the fight when no one's ready, and Acc commended me on keeping up the pugger quality in our recruits, not knowing it was Nel.
/laugh
For the record: lowbie brutes are like a god damned anchor attached to your team. An anchor attached to your team's balls.
For fuck's sake, people, play some more corrupters! Brutes are nice, one or two at a time, but 5 on a team? It's like watching a bunch of crash-helmet-wearing retards try to play patty-cake with the bad guys. It may be amusing, but it's not very effective.
That cracked me up. All I see is some new Brute on the team run into the next room without saying a word and start beating on the mobs that just wiped us while the rest of us stood around picking our noses. I was like, jesus, where do we find these people?
Then I was informed it was Nel and he's a few levels higher than the rest of us so all was right with the world. Finding out a PAer is behind the antics is like being told the student pilot flying your plane is actually an Air Force One Officer.
That stupid Corr, though. God. She didn't want us to send everyone to the hospital, saying something like "oooh but I wanted to try and use my rez." which she got to do 80 times on the team all ready. My response was, "How 'bout you try using Plasma Shield and Forge sometime while you are at it?"
Long, long silence followed by a paragraph about how great the team is but she doesn't need to be criticized for how she plays a game. Well, when your whole team keeps dying and you aren't using your buffs I do believe that is the perfect situation to receive some critiques.
That stupid Corr, though. God. She didn't want us to send everyone to the hospital, saying something like "oooh but I wanted to try and use my rez." which she got to do 80 times on the team all ready. My response was, "How 'bout you try using Plasma Shield and Forge sometime while you are at it?"
Long, long silence followed by a paragraph about how great the team is but she doesn't need to be criticized for how she plays a game. Well, when your whole team keeps dying and you aren't using your buffs I do believe that is the perfect situation to receive some critiques.
Random people who aren't PA do some pretty dumbshit things.
I once saw a person who had completely unreadable colors set for her bubble text. It was like neon pink on ultra pure white. No one could read anything she said and any time anyone said something about it she would rant on about how it was part of her character.
I once got asked to leave a PUG because I wouldn't wait between combats.
I'm a Brute, that Fury bar has gotta stay primed, so if my team-mates weren't hurtin' and everyone had Endurance to go, I'd dive into the next group.
But the Corruptor in our group was like "Vic would you mind letting me pull please?"
"But you always pull like one guy over with your sniper blast, we destroy him, and then you want to pull another guy over. It's inefficient."
"It's safer, I don't like collecting debt thanks. Most of these guys are red and purple."
"But nobody's died! You guys have got the healing covered and I can hold the aggro just fine."
"I like taking on one mob at a time instead of a whole group, thank you. Too much chaos."
Check that again, folks.
"I like taking on one mob at a time instead of a whole group, thank you. Too much chaos."
We were doing a six-man on Ruthless difficulty, so he's right, there are a lot of Reds and Purples. But no big deal! The Corruptors are doing good with their heals, I'm holding aggro well, and the Dominator is leading every fight with Seeds of Confusion and it's working out fast and easy.
So, I drop the bomb.
"Do you play WoW by any chance?"
"I used to, I don't see what that has to do with anything."
"Pulling and hiding is a big part of WoW, but it isn't part of CoV, not generally. There's nothing wrong with what we are doing, you don't have to be afraid of the big groups."
A couple people in the group supported me, and the Plant Dominator sent me a Tell basically calling the Corr a pussy and asking me if I want to start a new group with him.
The Corr is just like "Well, I don't like having a Leeroy Jenkins on my team so if you've got no respect for tactics or playing like a team you could just leave."
So the Dom and I left. We formed a pretty good PUG after that.
Pulling like that in WoW is just as awful, but in WoW, if you speak up against the tank who gets to control the pace of pulling, and you're not a healer, you get kicked from the group. In CoV, it's just on to the next group that's not touched in the head.
The people who don't understand that CoX isn't, by it's nature, a difficult game and doesn't require certain tactics or party make-ups make my brain hurt.
"Okay I think we are ready to go, but we need to find a Dominator" says this PUG leader.
"Why?" I ask
"Well we've got 7 guys, with a Dom that'd be 8, and we need the crowd control"
"No we don't. We have 2 Masterminds, 3 Corruptors, and 2 Brutes. We'll be fine. You could add anybody, it doesn't need to be a Dom."
"But we don't have a balanced team. We need a Dominator to control the groups."
"No, we don't. If you can find one, fine, but if there's another Brute or Corr or whatever, invite them. We don't have to wait just to have a guy who can drop a mass immobilize every combat."
So then he kicked me from the team and was like "We don't need any more Brutes, especially mouthy ones. I prefer actually effective teams, asshole."
CoV is so freaking forgiving teamwise (as long as you are close in level) it hilarious. A couple weeks ago I had a team that cycled through the ATs, we went from all brutes to mostly corruptors, etc etc. No matter what I grabbed we just kept steamrolling crap.
I am glad I don't have to wait around for a specific AT to join my team so we can be "efficient". I lol heartily remembering back in the days when loopy empath defenders would demand influence for healing teammates.
At lower levels, even good brutes/tanks/scrappers tend to take a lot of damage. They just don't have the mitigation abilities, yet. And at higher levels, typical pugger trash still necessitates a maker of green numbers, sometimes.
Granted, a lot of teams are close enough that Cold/FF/Sonic/Thermal can just shield to make up the deficit, but people seem to be more comfortable with heals, for some dumb reason.
"I like taking on one mob at a time instead of a whole group, thank you. Too much chaos."
The Corr is just like "Well, I don't like having a Leeroy Jenkins on my team so if you've got no respect for tactics or playing like a team you could just leave."
It's times like this when I can't help but train agro onto assholes and murder them through mobs.
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I never asked for this!
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INeedNoSaltwith blood on my teethRegistered Userregular
Was this also the group with the "Hey, maybe you can buff us instead of just rezzing us after we die" "I DON'T NEED YOUR SHIT I'M OUT" thing?
No, that was the group fighting Luminary where Acc made the pugger corruptor quit in tears. :P
Seriously though, when your thermal corr who never buffs talks about how much she loves using her rez, something is wrong.
I love the part where we replaced her with Nel, and Nel just goes hauling ass into the fight when no one's ready, and Acc commended me on keeping up the pugger quality in our recruits, not knowing it was Nel.
/laugh
For the record: lowbie brutes are like a god damned anchor attached to your team. An anchor attached to your team's balls.
For fuck's sake, people, play some more corrupters! Brutes are nice, one or two at a time, but 5 on a team? It's like watching a bunch of crash-helmet-wearing retards try to play patty-cake with the bad guys. It may be amusing, but it's not very effective.
My Brute basically eliminates everything, I run her around and smash groups of red mobs and etc. She's badass.
I can't help that every time I play a corruptor I get tired of spending half an hour waiting for recharge timers.
My Brute basically eliminates everything, I run her around and smash groups of red mobs and etc. She's badass.
I can't help that every time I play a corruptor I get tired of spending half an hour waiting for recharge timers.
Oh, it's not that brutes are bad. It's that they step on each others' toes too much. Corrupters just make everyone around them better, so the more you add, the better everyone gets. Brutes are kind of as-is, and when you have more than a couple of them fighting over fury, they all wind up being kind of gimpy.
I was thinking we could probably plan out some time to do it, but I'd certainly be up for a session tonight.
Also, sent a friends invite. My tag's Vox Nihili.
Also, I'm thinking Arcade Mode. Cool?
And dibs on a cool character. Don't care which one, I just don't want to get stuck playing as Luke Cage. :P Leaning towards Moon Knight, Hawkeye, Deadpool (because his Xtreme is the fucking coolest thing ever), or... shit, I don't know. I played through on the PC, and now I've got like 8 new characters I didn't have access to before.
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NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
edited March 2008
I'd be up for that as well, as long as it was after midnight since I'm closing tonight at work.
I call.... Shit, who do I have besides Deadpool? Iron Man? Doc Doom? Venom?
I'd be up for that as well, as long as it was after midnight since I'm closing tonight at work.
I call.... Shit, who do I have besides Deadpool? Iron Man? Doc Doom? Venom?
What time zone? Midnight EST's cool for me, but getting started after midnight PST... I don't think I can stay conscious all that late. At least not enough to make that worthwhile. Not that we couldn't start tomorrow or something, instead.
Also, I always wondered what was up with the character selection in this game. I mean, I certainly understand the Fantastic 4, and the X-men and whatnot, but Spider Woman? Ms. Marvel? Luke Cage? They need to make way for the likes of Emma Frost and Gambit and Cable and Havok and Psylocke and, well, you get the idea.
I'm hoping for MUA 2, and a character screen that doesn't quite scream "Make way for the d-listers!"
Spider Woman, Luke Cage, and Miss Marvel were all members of the New Avengers when M:UA hit. They are all very big players in the Marvel books now. Hell, Luke Cage is the leader of the New Avengers now.
I think the lack of X-Men had to do with the last two games in the series being all X-Men.
Actually Miss Marvel wasn't officially an Avenger again until Tony formed the Mighty variety, she just happened to be there whenever someone would pick a fight at the tower, or they had her on speedial when they needed more firepower.
Spider Woman, Luke Cage, and Miss Marvel were all members of the New Avengers when M:UA hit. They are all very big players in the Marvel books now. Hell, Luke Cage is the leader of the New Avengers now.
I think the lack of X-Men had to do with the last two games in the series being all X-Men.
Ah, I see.
I guess my characterization of them as d-listers has more to due with the powers than anything else. Luke Cage was just Marvel's first crack at the blaxploitation genre, with powers about as generic as they get. Spider Woman... how the fuck do you get from spider serum to flying and electrokinesis? And Ms. Marvel's was just the comic book pseudo-science taken way beyond my ability to suspend disbelief, I suppose.
Still, it's nice to see that there's at least a reason they're around, beyond raiding the 70s.
Marvel gave Ms. Marvel a big push during House of M and now she leads the registered Avengers and has her own solo title (although Iron Man still shows her up as the ultimate boss of regged heroes). Likewise Cage leads the unregistered Avengers, and Spider-Woman's been a big part of both teams.
This post is probably redundant but I'm really enjoying both Avengers titles right now. Other than the excessive thought bubbles in Mighty.
I guess that's the problem, Scoot... I just don't have any real context because the last time I collected comics was right after the end of the Infinity War. So, it's been what, about 15 years?
I mean, the X-men and the Fantastic Four and the Avengers are a staple, I get that. It just seems weird for Marvel to be dredging up characters like Luke Cage to figure prominently in modern comics.
I think I'm really just upset that it's yet another Marvel game where I can't play as Cable or Havoc or Archangel. Although Archangel is the infinitely more pussified Angel again, these days. Boo.
Still, anyone else up for some MUA over Live? We needz moer ploix!11
Actually I think part of what I like is that they dust off old characters and give them meaning again. Current cool solo titles: Ms. Marvel, Iron Fist, and Nova. Freaking Nova is cool now! I enjoy it a lot more when a book brings out an old face than when it introduces some new character that'll never be seen again after the current arc.
Although I've always thought Angel and Havoc were pretty lame.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
edited March 2008
Most of my brother's SG were in the big UK CoH meet today, and they're doing the race to see who can finished all the TF's first. Apparently it was going well for them, and they were just doing it for fun while the farmer teams bombed through everything.
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No, that was the group fighting Luminary where Acc made the pugger corruptor quit in tears. :P
Seriously though, when your thermal corr who never buffs talks about how much she loves using her rez, something is wrong.
> turn on light
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
What are you talking about, that is good.
It's better than many of mine, that's for sure. I've come up with such stinkers as Bulimia Bot, Fight-Bot 6000, Admiral Pinkbeard, and Sackpunch the Clown.
No... but the cake was DELICIOUS!!!
Worst birthday ever
I will say, i have never seen someone inflate an animal baloon that way before.
Edit: As a side note here, ill be hanging out around the PA channel on CoX. Im looking to get recruited. I have high hopes. I also have a cookie. I might share.
I played CoX for some time but lost interest and I want to see what has changed. There's a 50/50 chance I'll start playing again, so there might be some benefit for you
Thanks Glal
/laugh
For the record: lowbie brutes are like a god damned anchor attached to your team. An anchor attached to your team's balls.
For fuck's sake, people, play some more corrupters! Brutes are nice, one or two at a time, but 5 on a team? It's like watching a bunch of crash-helmet-wearing retards try to play patty-cake with the bad guys. It may be amusing, but it's not very effective.
Then I was informed it was Nel and he's a few levels higher than the rest of us so all was right with the world. Finding out a PAer is behind the antics is like being told the student pilot flying your plane is actually an Air Force One Officer.
That stupid Corr, though. God. She didn't want us to send everyone to the hospital, saying something like "oooh but I wanted to try and use my rez." which she got to do 80 times on the team all ready. My response was, "How 'bout you try using Plasma Shield and Forge sometime while you are at it?"
Long, long silence followed by a paragraph about how great the team is but she doesn't need to be criticized for how she plays a game. Well, when your whole team keeps dying and you aren't using your buffs I do believe that is the perfect situation to receive some critiques.
Random people who aren't PA do some pretty dumbshit things.
I once saw a person who had completely unreadable colors set for her bubble text. It was like neon pink on ultra pure white. No one could read anything she said and any time anyone said something about it she would rant on about how it was part of her character.
I never asked for this!
I'm a Brute, that Fury bar has gotta stay primed, so if my team-mates weren't hurtin' and everyone had Endurance to go, I'd dive into the next group.
But the Corruptor in our group was like "Vic would you mind letting me pull please?"
"But you always pull like one guy over with your sniper blast, we destroy him, and then you want to pull another guy over. It's inefficient."
"It's safer, I don't like collecting debt thanks. Most of these guys are red and purple."
"But nobody's died! You guys have got the healing covered and I can hold the aggro just fine."
"I like taking on one mob at a time instead of a whole group, thank you. Too much chaos."
Check that again, folks.
"I like taking on one mob at a time instead of a whole group, thank you. Too much chaos."
We were doing a six-man on Ruthless difficulty, so he's right, there are a lot of Reds and Purples. But no big deal! The Corruptors are doing good with their heals, I'm holding aggro well, and the Dominator is leading every fight with Seeds of Confusion and it's working out fast and easy.
So, I drop the bomb.
"Do you play WoW by any chance?"
"I used to, I don't see what that has to do with anything."
"Pulling and hiding is a big part of WoW, but it isn't part of CoV, not generally. There's nothing wrong with what we are doing, you don't have to be afraid of the big groups."
A couple people in the group supported me, and the Plant Dominator sent me a Tell basically calling the Corr a pussy and asking me if I want to start a new group with him.
The Corr is just like "Well, I don't like having a Leeroy Jenkins on my team so if you've got no respect for tactics or playing like a team you could just leave."
So the Dom and I left. We formed a pretty good PUG after that.
Plant Dominators are pretty awesome, guys.
Debt is such a fucking joke in this game. Unless you are dying repeatedly it's not going to make much of a difference.
So, you might as well go balls out and get out there and kick some ass.
Yes, yes, I understand in World of Warcraft you liked to carefully pull one Gnoll into the Hunter's trap and then have the Rogue backstab.
Well you know what?
That isn't how CoV plays, especially not with a Brute or Dominator in your group.
"Okay I think we are ready to go, but we need to find a Dominator" says this PUG leader.
"Why?" I ask
"Well we've got 7 guys, with a Dom that'd be 8, and we need the crowd control"
"No we don't. We have 2 Masterminds, 3 Corruptors, and 2 Brutes. We'll be fine. You could add anybody, it doesn't need to be a Dom."
"But we don't have a balanced team. We need a Dominator to control the groups."
"No, we don't. If you can find one, fine, but if there's another Brute or Corr or whatever, invite them. We don't have to wait just to have a guy who can drop a mass immobilize every combat."
So then he kicked me from the team and was like "We don't need any more Brutes, especially mouthy ones. I prefer actually effective teams, asshole."
What the eff!
HOLD UP WE NEED A HEALER FIRST
On a Brute!
He had sent me a tell, and was like "We need a tank for this mission, taking on Back Alley Brawler"
Okay!
He invites me, I show up to the mission, and he's like "WTF why don't you have Taunt? We need a tank not just a scrapper."
So he kicked me.
I am glad I don't have to wait around for a specific AT to join my team so we can be "efficient". I lol heartily remembering back in the days when loopy empath defenders would demand influence for healing teammates.
Yes, yes they are. Once we get the ability to add more slots after I12, I may transfer my Scheme Night Plant/Ice over to Virtue.
At lower levels, even good brutes/tanks/scrappers tend to take a lot of damage. They just don't have the mitigation abilities, yet. And at higher levels, typical pugger trash still necessitates a maker of green numbers, sometimes.
Granted, a lot of teams are close enough that Cold/FF/Sonic/Thermal can just shield to make up the deficit, but people seem to be more comfortable with heals, for some dumb reason.
It's times like this when I can't help but train agro onto assholes and murder them through mobs.
I never asked for this!
My Brute basically eliminates everything, I run her around and smash groups of red mobs and etc. She's badass.
I can't help that every time I play a corruptor I get tired of spending half an hour waiting for recharge timers.
I'd like to get a group together to run through Marvel Ultimate Alliance via Xbox Live. Would anyone be interested in doing it?
My tag is The Accualt, I'm going to go grab something to eat.
Also, sent a friends invite. My tag's Vox Nihili.
Also, I'm thinking Arcade Mode. Cool?
And dibs on a cool character. Don't care which one, I just don't want to get stuck playing as Luke Cage. :P Leaning towards Moon Knight, Hawkeye, Deadpool (because his Xtreme is the fucking coolest thing ever), or... shit, I don't know. I played through on the PC, and now I've got like 8 new characters I didn't have access to before.
I call.... Shit, who do I have besides Deadpool? Iron Man? Doc Doom? Venom?
Also, I always wondered what was up with the character selection in this game. I mean, I certainly understand the Fantastic 4, and the X-men and whatnot, but Spider Woman? Ms. Marvel? Luke Cage? They need to make way for the likes of Emma Frost and Gambit and Cable and Havok and Psylocke and, well, you get the idea.
I'm hoping for MUA 2, and a character screen that doesn't quite scream "Make way for the d-listers!"
I think the lack of X-Men had to do with the last two games in the series being all X-Men.
I guess my characterization of them as d-listers has more to due with the powers than anything else. Luke Cage was just Marvel's first crack at the blaxploitation genre, with powers about as generic as they get. Spider Woman... how the fuck do you get from spider serum to flying and electrokinesis? And Ms. Marvel's was just the comic book pseudo-science taken way beyond my ability to suspend disbelief, I suppose.
Still, it's nice to see that there's at least a reason they're around, beyond raiding the 70s.
This post is probably redundant but I'm really enjoying both Avengers titles right now. Other than the excessive thought bubbles in Mighty.
I mean, the X-men and the Fantastic Four and the Avengers are a staple, I get that. It just seems weird for Marvel to be dredging up characters like Luke Cage to figure prominently in modern comics.
I think I'm really just upset that it's yet another Marvel game where I can't play as Cable or Havoc or Archangel. Although Archangel is the infinitely more pussified Angel again, these days. Boo.
Still, anyone else up for some MUA over Live? We needz moer ploix!11
Although I've always thought Angel and Havoc were pretty lame.
On the plus side, you can pick-up MUA for the 360 for about $15 at Gamestop, and the pack-in version with Forza 2 is probably even cheaper.