Span, your complaints are the definition of eloquence. The schlubs over at the official forums (many of whom don't own the game and are commenting based on beta experience) seem to practice the strawman as a way of life.
Tomorrow's going to be a red letter day, I hope; iPhone 2 and Hellgate 2.0 on the test server.
So I totally forgot what little I knew about this game.
Anything I should specifically avoid?
I'm thinking of making a Marksman to just blow shit up. Any advice on skills/attributes?
you want dead eye as soon as you can get it, basically, and avoid ravager/rebounder/concussion rounds
it's hard to go wrong, really
Huh? Ravager and Rebounder Rounds are both fucking amazing, doubly so if you are going for a run-n-gun type build.
edit: Don't listen to Jim, he's a faggot.
well if you are going to get them, get one or the other but not both as they are a firing mode, not a passive ability now
the problem with rebounder is that at max rank, your shots have a 100% chance to rebound
so your shots will do double damage if your rebounded shot hits a second target, which is unlikely considering bullets in this game apparently rebound like light does on a mirror
ravager are slightly better but apparently the retargeting shot can't retarget the original thing it hit
Get ravager and use it as your LMB. Get multishot and use it whenever it's up. It's a 30 second cooldown and will plough through anything that you're fighting at the time, be it a boss or a huge swarm of monsters. It indirectly synergises with ravager, especially when you're fighting a large group of monsters.
Ravager will significantly hasten killing any group of monsters. If you're fighting a single, it should die quickly anyway. If it doesn't, that's what multishot's for.
Get beacon, use it on your RMB. Use it on everything. It's cheap, cooldown is quick.
If you want to cheeze everything, use a fire-damage gun and load it up with ignite based mods. If you do this, then get elemental beacon.
Span, your complaints are the definition of eloquence. The schlubs over at the official forums (many of whom don't own the game and are commenting based on beta experience) seem to practice the strawman as a way of life.
Tomorrow's going to be a red letter day, I hope; iPhone 2 and Hellgate 2.0 on the test server.
Exciting
Why thank you good sir, I feel as if I should have a pic of my character now with a top hat and a cane going "pip pip" because of your eloquent comment. Failing that I'll have to make due with this.
Get ravager and use it as your LMB. Get multishot and use it whenever it's up. It's a 30 second cooldown and will plough through anything that you're fighting at the time, be it a boss or a huge swarm of monsters. It indirectly synergises with ravager, especially when you're fighting a large group of monsters.
Ravager will significantly hasten killing any group of monsters. If you're fighting a single, it should die quickly anyway. If it doesn't, that's what multishot's for.
Get beacon, use it on your RMB. Use it on everything. It's cheap, cooldown is quick.
If you want to cheeze everything, use a fire-damage gun and load it up with ignite based mods. If you do this, then get elemental beacon.
The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
edited June 2008
I just realized something.. leading up to release weren't they saying that the generic zombies were supposed to have all kinds of clothing sets and be in various stages of undress that would mix and match so that they would look somewhat unique and you wouldn't be fighting the same naked zombie ten thousand times over? What ever happened to that? Right now we just have, generic naked zombie, female zombie with clothes and fat zombie with clothes, but the female and fat ones all wear exactly the same thing.
They probably realized that for whatever work they'd put into doing that it wouldn't get such a good return.
Or they probably just ran out of money.
But they were pretty much done with the feature, I mean I saw dozens of screenshots showing it off. Hell even if it wasn't finished at least SOME variety would have been better than nothing right?
Good god. 2.0 on the the TC and the JesusPhone 2 at the same time? Someone check the Tower of London for ravens... this feels like the apocalypse. A price drop on the PS3 today would kill me stone dead.
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
Do you have the interviews/screenshots or know where they are?
And yeah, variety would be nice. I see no reason as to why it would be cut if it was already in the game at that time.
I could probably find hundreds of screenshots, but I did a quick search and found one of the first screenshots ever released for the game back in 2005 and it looks like they already had it implemented back then.
I played actual multiplayer today with just some random idiots, and even that was more fun. All kinds of magic and shit flying around.
Ah so I can roll with you guys even if I'm not a sub? I take it I need to create a separate character from my single player one, right?
Yeah you have to create a multiplayer character. You can group any of us as long as we aren't in the stone henge zones.
Awesome. I think I'll go ahead and subscribe, though not until I get paid again. For some reason I'm enjoying it a lot more then I did before. AoC for some reason isn't clicking with me right.
So, I um, may get this game later, depends. However, question. I played in the beta, can I still use those account details, or do I have to create a new account?
So, I um, may get this game later, depends. However, question. I played in the beta, can I still use those account details, or do I have to create a new account?
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Anything I should specifically avoid?
I'm thinking of making a Marksman to just blow shit up. Any advice on skills/attributes?
you want dead eye as soon as you can get it, basically, and avoid ravager/rebounder/concussion rounds
it's hard to go wrong, really
And here I was adviced by Devoir to get ravager.
ADVICE PARADOX
Huh? Ravager and Rebounder Rounds are both fucking amazing, doubly so if you are going for a run-n-gun type build.
edit: Don't listen to Jim, he's a faggot.
XBL
Tomorrow's going to be a red letter day, I hope; iPhone 2 and Hellgate 2.0 on the test server.
Exciting
Shit's lonely.
XBL
well if you are going to get them, get one or the other but not both as they are a firing mode, not a passive ability now
the problem with rebounder is that at max rank, your shots have a 100% chance to rebound
so your shots will do double damage if your rebounded shot hits a second target, which is unlikely considering bullets in this game apparently rebound like light does on a mirror
ravager are slightly better but apparently the retargeting shot can't retarget the original thing it hit
edit:
ravager rounds aren't bad per say, but I'm of the opinion that nearly everything else in the tree is better
Plus, what else are you going to get if you are run and gunning it? I mean, strikes are cool and all, but eh.
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kite things around until they get a little low, then let them come in close and tear them all apart
Kinloss
Scarne
Whiess
Raslin
Although kinloss may have rejected it. All invites are coming from Ambi.
Get ravager and use it as your LMB. Get multishot and use it whenever it's up. It's a 30 second cooldown and will plough through anything that you're fighting at the time, be it a boss or a huge swarm of monsters. It indirectly synergises with ravager, especially when you're fighting a large group of monsters.
Ravager will significantly hasten killing any group of monsters. If you're fighting a single, it should die quickly anyway. If it doesn't, that's what multishot's for.
Get beacon, use it on your RMB. Use it on everything. It's cheap, cooldown is quick.
If you want to cheeze everything, use a fire-damage gun and load it up with ignite based mods. If you do this, then get elemental beacon.
Assuming you don't get any +skills, a cookiecutter build based on what I've said above would look like this at 50. http://hellgate.ingame.de/charplanner/marksman/?l=50&aa=0&a=00000000&s=0000a010700a40070000000a000
Strikes and grenades have their uses, but that's pretty much the stock standard run and gun build.
coloring is wrong, but you get the idea.
i disagree with everything you have ever said!!
we will arm wrestle until one of us is an amputee
(it's a good build but not my dang ol' thing)
Or, alternatively, join a party and leave it.
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That's it you have blown your one chance. haha. Throwing you another invite here in a minute.
I played actual multiplayer today with just some random idiots, and even that was more fun. All kinds of magic and shit flying around.
But yeah, if we're accepting invites to Elite players/alts, I'd like an invite to the guild for Evoh.
Turns out I enjoy blowing up foo's with my Gundian more than my Marksman right now.
XBL
Happily levelling up on the test centre, looks like there's a fair number of people in a permanent TC guild there.
I had an alt in Templar and there were a ton of Elite players in it.
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Or they probably just ran out of money.
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And yeah, variety would be nice. I see no reason as to why it would be cut if it was already in the game at that time.
XBL
In other news, rumors a foot TC going down @10am PDT, downtime ~1 hour, I'm so excited I almost uppercutted a customer.
I just want some damned patch notes to hold me over for the next 5 hours til I get home,
Ah so I can roll with you guys even if I'm not a sub? I take it I need to create a separate character from my single player one, right?
Yeah you have to create a multiplayer character. You can group any of us as long as we aren't in the stone henge zones.
Awesome. I think I'll go ahead and subscribe, though not until I get paid again. For some reason I'm enjoying it a lot more then I did before. AoC for some reason isn't clicking with me right.
Should still work.