Oakianus wrote on Dec 12^th, 2011 at 11:26pm:


Just go to a night club near any Army base. You'll find what you're looking for pronto Oaky, and I don't mean a dick.

Epoch wrote on Dec 13^th, 2011 at 2:16am:


Yes i know all that Did you know even if you don't swing first you can still be sued ?

So, I tried DCUO last night.

The character movement is annoyingly slippery. Flying is cool. Combat is a clickfest.

Does the gear just get bette by numbers, or do they get abilities like in real RPG's?
If the only difference is MOAR NUMBERS then fuck that.

Though I must say, Female+wings+black and crimson costume is awesome.

Might play past level 9 and see what it's like once grouping.

The one thing I miss about DDO is the voicechat.

Playing all these other games they seem far less social since the only way you can communicate is through vent, which of course is generally cliquey as its primarily guild based.

Decided to download it yesterday and got a superspeed Fire martial arts user to level 6. The game has a really cool feel, and given that I love monks and FVSes in DDO due to improved mobility, the movement styles are like crack to me.

If the game gets meh as people say it does, then no biggie. For the time being it's a nice departure from DDO.

Anyone try DC Universe Online recently?

Strakeln wrote on Sep 17^th, 2014 at 5:22pm:

What did you do this time?

Arkat wrote on Sep 17^th, 2014 at 6:20pm:

Well, they won't tell me, but I'm guessing it has something to do with my discovery of a talent called "miraculous medicines." It is supposed to return a material 5% of the time. But somebody fucked up and it returns materials somewhere around 99.5% of the time. Sale price was relatively small, but crafting 24/7 made up for that pretty quickly. Between that and the many other ways to profit from crafting, I amassed a lot of wealth. I had crafting operations set up on six different servers just to keep a steady stream of materials coming in, all funneling their wealth to my home server.

There's a couple of interesting/funny things about the whole matter. For one, that was the game to me. The single player game was boring the shit out of me - SWTOR and DCUO have much better versions of that. The raiding looks fun but it does appear to require time commitments that I can't meet. So for me, the game was exploiting talents/skills to amass great wealth (not really a surprise if you remember my DDO days). I figured I'd do that until it was fixed or I got banned, at which point I'd take a vacation, come back and start slowly grinding my way towards raiding. I took the gamble that I'd get a temporary, albeit long, ban, but I lost the bet.

Another interesting part about the whole thing is the consideration of profit. By banning me, Carbine just took 74 CREDD - tokens that can be redeemed for 1 month's game time - out of the market. That's $1480 of real money that they actually received that will never be redeemed. So, profit, right? Sure... but the funny thing is, they'd probably have been way better off letting me keep on trucking. I'd already purchased (with in-game money) more CREDD than I was ever likely to redeem or even sell. That trend was only set to continue.

So, yes, fakeStrake... poof. 

Strakeln wrote on Sep 18^th, 2014 at 12:57am:


So, back to DCUO?
Did you go past a F2P account in DC?

Asheras wrote on Sep 18^th, 2014 at 1:17pm:

Well, I think most MMOs describe taking advantage of a bug to be exploiting, and devs fucking up proc rate to be a bug. Under those definitions, I was exploiting the ever living fuck out of the game.

Strakeln wrote on Sep 19^th, 2014 at 2:23pm:


Yeah it's too bad they made the premium option such a crappy alternative in swtor. It's the first mmo I actually followed the story in even though most quests are the go-there-kill-that-bring-back-rattails..
Got a Bountyhunter and a jedi guardian who are both into the midlevels at this point and I love that the story is a continuation of the single player games.

Might go try out DCUO if the combatsystem is that good too..

Ugg the Unwise wrote on Sep 19^th, 2014 at 3:31pm:

Just to make sure I understand you correctly, I'm interpreting "premium" as being equivalent to DDO's "premium" - as in, not subscribed, but buying things like content packs off the cash shop.

In which case, I totally agree. I capped one character and tried to look into endgame, but the reality is that endgame is really geared towards subscribers. There's no way to permanently unlock access (i.e. DDO content packs), you have to buy temporary keys or something like that. I'm not a fan of subscriptions as I don't think MMOs give 1/4 of a game's worth of content every month, and I certainly don't like buying temporary tokens to access content.

The single player questing can be just as boring as it is in most MMOs that follow that model - there's just a lot more excitement in grouping, as DDO showed us all - but SWTOR's saving grace is that it's motherfucking Star Wars... and they did a great job of capturing that feel. My wife could identify what the game was about from the sounds - "what are you playing? It sounds like Star Wars!" I have fond memories of tooling around on Tattooine and Hoth - just amazing planets that they really captured the feel for.

Ugg the Unwise wrote on Sep 19^th, 2014 at 3:31pm:

I think their combat system is amazing, but I understand why some people don't like it. It's all about (mouse) button combos - you know, tap tap hold, tap hold tap, that kind of thing. DCUO has similar single player questing issues but the variety of combat makes it more bearable. Super movement is really cool, too - being able to fly, speed run, or grapple your way through the world is really fun.

I found myself DLing DCUO last night. Maybe I'll be playing again sooner than I thought.