Ratman_tf
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Power armor heroes look like  . I'm afraid they might be ChampO's Huntard or Emoknight, cause I'd really like to play a power armor character. |
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shiznitz
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Dunno what game they showed in that video, but I'd sure like to play it.
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Venkman
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I don't get why so many modern games have such crazy specular highlighting on them.
Anytime the graphics engines programmers get their hands on a new "shiney" they always have to use it as much as possible, just because. I blame Unreal for starting the trend with lens flares. Bloom and depth of field two that are currently popular that piss me off. My eyesight is bad enough without the game engine making everything blurry. Gawd yes. I just reloaded CoH last night to see what's changed, and the bloom is all the heck over the place. Gotta say though, CoH is still as smooth a UI as I remember. |
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Morfiend
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I don't actually mean games that technically stress my graphics card, just games that use more than four or five shades of brown and grey. When it just has to render those colors, it seems like your graphics card is just phoning it in.
Easy fix: Stop gaming on a PC. Incoming Sky and TV remark in 3.....2.... |
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Sky
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Eh, no. That was a remark about gpu, not monitors.
But yeah, running at 1280x720 helps keep the gpu unstressed. 1080p would be stressful imo. So there, I found a way to work it in.
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Ingmar
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I don't actually mean games that technically stress my graphics card, just games that use more than four or five shades of brown and grey. When it just has to render those colors, it seems like your graphics card is just phoning it in.
Easy fix: Stop gaming on a PC. 'Cause console games are completely immune to the BROWN BROWN AND MORE BROWN issue, am i rite? |
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tmp
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'Cause console games are completely immune to the BROWN BROWN AND MORE BROWN issue, am i rite?
I think it's more along the lines, they have a GPU too but technically not in form of graphics card.  |
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Hutch
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Malakili
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 They go so far out of their way to promote their comic book style art direction, then give us box art like that?
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Mrbloodworth
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HAhahahahaaa,... yeah.
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Ghambit
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They know their market oh so well.  It's a smart move. The mob doesnt want to see quasi-comic images on their game box-art. They prefer airbrushed CGI-ness. |
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Threash
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I dont see what the issue is...?
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Triforcer
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Ok, I give up. THAT looks exactly like COH  |
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Lantyssa
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It's totally new. You've got Lord Recluse looming over Statesman and... oh, wait...
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taolurker
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Ok, I give up. THAT looks exactly like COH  Looks somewhat similar, but only to the Heroes/Villains box. The original CoH box was just the good guys.  |
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rattran
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They could have at least changed the good guy/bad guy hats.
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Trippy
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They can't, or at least not without pissing off the handful of people that are actually familiar with and like the Champions IP. And the Champions universe characters were around long before CoH.
The Hero on the right is named Defender (yes that's really his name). The Doctor Doom clone on the left is Doctor Destroyer (yes that too is really his name). Not sure who the giant villain watching over the two is.
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Montague
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They can't, or at least not without pissing off the handful of people that are actually familiar with and like the Champions IP. And the Champions universe characters were around long before CoH.
The Hero on the right is named Defender (yes that's really his name). The Doctor Doom clone on the left is Doctor Destroyer (yes that too is really his name). Not sure who the giant villain watching over the two is.
Mechanon, most likely |
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Tannhauser
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Doc Destroyer was around for the first edition of Champions if I'm not mistaken. Reminds me of Dr. Fate.
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UnSub
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They can't, or at least not without pissing off the handful of people that are actually familiar with and like the Champions IP. And the Champions universe characters were around long before CoH.
The Hero on the right is named Defender (yes that's really his name). The Doctor Doom clone on the left is Doctor Destroyer (yes that too is really his name). Not sure who the giant villain watching over the two is.
Champions has always really just ripped off homaged exist mainstream comic book characters and used some pretty typical archetypes in creating its characters. Defender is pretty close to Captain America. Doctor Destroyer is pretty close to Doctor Doom. Grond is pretty close to the Hulk. Foxbat is a parody of Batman. Mechanon is pretty close to Ultron. The box art is pretty close to 'classic' Champions cover art (but yeah, it looks cheesy as hell). Then there is the issue that CoH started out being heavily based on Champions and that some of the CoH lore characters were created in Champions PnP games and the circle is complete. |
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Open beta mid-August. Probably. Launch still for September 1. So, 2-3 weeks of open beta. Let the games begin.
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Triforcer
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Isn't 2-3 weeks bad news on the Jacobs Length of Beta Quality Scale?
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eldaec
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It would be if this was actually going to launch in September.
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Numtini
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Anything about the NDA or will that be in effect for the open beta? :)
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Hawkbit
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Isn't 2-3 weeks bad news on the Jacobs Length of Beta Quality Scale?
THAT'S the name. I've been looking for a proper title for it for awhile now. Needs added to the wiki. |
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Kageru
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Pre-orders are up. Which also makes it clear they'll be launching with a cash shop (5 cryptic bucks free with pre-order from gamestop) and the open beta will be for the 2 weeks before launch. Whether the game is ready or not (  ) I think it's pretty clear they are locked in to this launch date and we won't see another delay. |
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You beat me to it.Also, preorders get the ability to pick flight as a travel power at lvl 0, whereas it otherwise unlocks at lvl 5. Exactly what Cryptic Bucks will buy? No-one knows. But it would seem they might be going for some kind of MXT functionality.
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Malakili
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I haven't been playing super close attention to this, was an currency like Cryptic Bucks expected, or is this out of left field?
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Hawkbit
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Combining box cost, monthly fee and microtrans is a sure-fire way to make sure I don't play the game.
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Lantyssa
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It's out of left-field to those of us not in beta. I don't know if anything was mentioned and/or tested there.
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Triforcer
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There will never be another AAA MMO launch without at least some microtrans. Best just to accept it and move on.
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Hawkbit
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move on.
That's cool, can do. Maybe if they launched the game at $20 or something, but going into a purchase knowing I've got three separate payments to make simply goes outside what I'm willing to do for a game. Young kids these days will pay it though, so there's no point in me arguing it. I'll just take your advice. |
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Kageru
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The pre-order boxes are out in the stores so I know it's a full price release, I believe the time cards were spotted confirming it's a full price subscription fee and what will be in the money shop remains unknown.
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kaid
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I can easily see champions doing themed costume packs for micro transactions. Not something required to play the game but extra bling for those who want it.
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HaemishM
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The Crytpic bucks thing is a complete surprise to me.
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