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Task Force Hail Mary / Re: PARAGON RADIO! (FORMERLY SAVE COH RADIO) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th!

« Last post by pogoman on September 18, 2023, 06:50:11 PM »

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/rytchb42/2023/09/19/paragon-radio
or
http://tobtr.com/s/12269698
JOIN US TONIGHT, MONDAY FROM 8-10PM! SPECIAL EXTENDED SHOW FOR TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY CELEBRATION! (YES IT'S TOMORROW! BUT, IF YOU KNOW US, YOU KNOW WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET IT GO BY AND NOT CELEBRATE!)

WE WILL BE BROADCASTING FROM THE STEPS OF CITY HALL IN ATLAS PARK ON THE EXCELSIOR SERVER OF CITY OF HEROES: HOMECOMING AND ON CHAMPIONS ONLINE, THE WCOC STUDIOS IN MILLENIUM CITY!
WE CONTINUE GIVING UPDATES ON THE SUCCESSOR GAMES, COH, CO,  AND CONTINUE WITH NEWS COVERAGE AROUND THE WORLD OF SUPERHERODOM!


On November 30th 2012, NCSoft shut off the greatest online superhero role-playing game ever. However, that only turned UP the resolve of it's gaming community! Join Rich (A.k.a. Pogoman) and one of the co-leaders of Paragon Dawn, Mad Vyking, as they take to the airwaves weekly to discuss the plight of the greatest gaming community in the history of the world! Tune in to see what the players are doing to bring back their beloved City! Join them in their greatest fight ever!  You can also join them in City of Heroes on the Excelsior server on the steps of City Hall in beautiful downtown Atlas Park! (That part was edited. It used to say Paragon Chat...)

Call in and talk to us live on air! (714) 583-6908

Let's tell everyone why we are fighting/fought to get our City back! Or tell us how much you are LOVING City of Heroes: Homecoming! OR whichever version of City of Heroes you are playing on!

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Other Games / Re: Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Edition

« Last post by Xev on September 17, 2023, 09:57:52 PM »

Dug up a couple YouTube videos that were made after the shutdown announcement and final patch and everything in the store was made free. They have a lot of gameplay video and commentary on the good and bad. The second one is kinda long..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTVOcd7hraY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccrPJU26y4U

I'm leaning towards grabbing it just due to it's 4 bucks and has amazing Marvel universe graphics and video. (Did I read they lost hundreds of millions of dollars on this game..?) The system requirements look pretty forgiving, too.

The single player campaign thing and store unlock sounds worth the price of admission. Am hoping the multiplayer play isn't so glitchy that it totally ruins it.

Looks like a lengthy download..!

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Other Games / Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Edition

« Last post by Xev on September 16, 2023, 09:05:24 PM »

Man what is up with the shutdowns. DC Legends is shutting down and I just saw the notice on Steam that the subject title is shutting down.

DC Legends (good mobile game!) is going to poof when they shut the doors on Halloween.

For the people that own a copy of Marvel Avengers TDE (PC), the devs and support are going away but the server is staying up. There is also a note about

The Marketplace has been unlocked!

but I don't know How unlocked..

What does this mean?

Nearly all MCU- and non-MCU-inspired Outfits, Emotes, Takedowns, and Nameplates are now automatically available on your Hero Card.

Whatever that means! I don't think you can spend any money with them after the shutdown due to they converted everyone's positive balances with them into in-game currencies (I think it was).

Anyway, I never played the game but the graphics in the videos look sweet and they have the game marked down to 4 bucks on Steam until the end of September. The only way to be able to download the game from Steam after the shutdown is if you already bought it. Apparently it can be played solo or multiplayer.

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General Discussion / Homecoming.....

« Last post by Xev on September 16, 2023, 05:00:52 AM »

Aww man, someone swiped my name on the Homecoming home page...!!

Imposter! Imposter!

Man I can't believe I'm just now trying to make an account there. Time flies when you're dazed.

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Other Games / Re: Star Trek Fleet Command

« Last post by Xev on September 13, 2023, 09:19:54 PM »

Finally had to give this game up.

I became disgusted with the whole playing model and decided that I didn't want to support it anymore due to it is wrong. Dunno what took me so long to get to this point. Think it was because I didn't expect that from a Star Trek game. I've always been pretty happy with Trek games.

STFC preys on people who are willing to spend completely unreasonable amounts of cash to 'win'. We are talking hundreds or even thousands of dollars... in an average week or maybe even in a day. On a regular basis. You have no chance whatsoever to be in the top 5% of this game without spending more than what most people spend on house payments. This game just isn't that good.. No game is..

It was the tedious progression with tedious tasks that just kept piling up with their short timers that originally turned me off and then I was like, what am I doing all this for anyway? I have no chance to be competitive in this game anyway. And I don't want to support it by being a part of it because what they are doing is wrong. The increasing requirements of time to do tedious tasks on short timers as one progresses is wrong and selling wins is wrong - selling them for SO much is very very wrong.

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Task Force Hail Mary / Re: PARAGON RADIO! (FORMERLY SAVE COH RADIO)

« Last post by pogoman on September 11, 2023, 06:05:20 PM »

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/rytchb42/2023/09/12/paragon-radio
or
http://tobtr.com/s/12267576
JOIN US TONIGHT, MONDAY FROM 8-9:30PM!

WE WILL BE BROADCASTING FROM THE STEPS OF CITY HALL IN ATLAS PARK ON THE EXCELSIOR SERVER OF CITY OF HEROES: HOMECOMING AND ON CHAMPIONS ONLINE, THE WCOC STUDIOS IN MILLENIUM CITY!
WE CONTINUE GIVING UPDATES ON THE SUCCESSOR GAMES, COH, CO,  AND CONTINUE WITH NEWS COVERAGE AROUND THE WORLD OF SUPERHERODOM!


On November 30th 2012, NCSoft shut off the greatest online superhero role-playing game ever. However, that only turned UP the resolve of it's gaming community! Join Rich (A.k.a. Pogoman) and one of the co-leaders of Paragon Dawn, Mad Vyking, as they take to the airwaves weekly to discuss the plight of the greatest gaming community in the history of the world! Tune in to see what the players are doing to bring back their beloved City! Join them in their greatest fight ever!  You can also join them in City of Heroes on the Excelsior server on the steps of City Hall in beautiful downtown Atlas Park! (That part was edited. It used to say Paragon Chat...)

Call in and talk to us live on air! (714) 583-6908

Let's tell everyone why we are fighting/fought to get our City back! Or tell us how much you are LOVING City of Heroes: Homecoming! OR whichever version of City of Heroes you are playing on!

Also, check out our Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/paragonradio

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General / Re: Deleting Account Question

« Last post by duringmelody on September 06, 2023, 03:23:22 AM »

Hi All,

Tony's article helpful explained how to delete your account if you don't want it going to HC.
Can I ask if that includes things like City Tracker?

Since the accounts are linked, do I have to delete from multiple places? Is it all going over?

cheers,

Jagged

ps: This is probably posted to wrong forum, sorry

I also have similar question.

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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!

« Last post by Xev on August 30, 2023, 06:21:27 AM »

Right??!?

I just now completed 3 dailies..... by Losing a hand. I don't even have to win!! Just have to....play.

Well, not usually... Occasionally winning is required to complete a task but unless its like a BattlePass quest from a BP that's about to end there's no rush to complete the task and even if I don't finish a BP it's no tragedy.

A BP quest from day 1 can be completed on the last day. Dailies (2 of these trickle in every 8 hours up to a max of 8 ) can be done in any order and with rare exception an uncompleted Daily will always eventually complete itself without any effort on my part other than.. playing for fun. Weeklies can be completed without finishing all Dailies and not finishing a Weekly is no tragedy.

There are some very minor and very temporary changes in play that will help/are required to complete a small amount of BP quests and Dailies but for the most part just playing for fun completes tasks and the quests just serve to make play more interesting and provide a reason to receive lewt.

There's no mindless, repetitive, grinds. There's clocks but they are very forgiving and if I don't keep to them it's no tragedy and progression can still be steady without feeling like I had any tragic loss in the effort to keep up with the Joneses.

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Kinda totally unrelated, but, the Art on most of the cards is really good!

They can be upgraded too to add a lil more flair with each upgrade and upgrading the card's appearance gives points for lewt. It's a major part of the game. Card art upgrade points come directly from winning any hand. I think sometimes the best loot in the game (if the RNG gods are merciful) comes from upgrading a card's appearance with enough points. So I get uber loot from guilty pleasure (cosmetic upgrades).

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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!

« Last post by eabrace on August 29, 2023, 10:43:20 PM »

One of my favorite things about this game up to this point is it's not a job.

That's a HUGE selling point.

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Other Games / Re: Marvel SNAP!

« Last post by Xev on August 28, 2023, 11:35:02 PM »

One of my favorite things about this game up to this point is it's not a job.

Ya know?

I'm completely fed up with games that get me on a clock. It becomes a Daily Chore and the more I progress the more clocks I get. Oh and when I'm on the clock every single day I'm not playing for fun - I'm doing mindless, repetitive, tasks to fulfill daily and battle pass quests. When I'm done with that I can play for fun but I generally have to log off when/before the tasks are done. If I don't keep up with the daily clocks I feel like I'm falling behind competitively with other players.

Marvel SNAP, I log in, whenever (generally 30 mins to 2 hours a day and I could skip days if I wanted). Play for fun. Some time before it feels like time to log off my dailies and the battle pass complete themselves. I very mostly only play people near my skill/deck (gear) level which is gradually improving so I feel like I'm progressing. I have no fear whatsoever of falling behind. I play on my schedule and how I want to and the quests complete themselves. There are options, not requirements at all, to progress further, on my schedule, if I have more time to spend in the game (which I never do but I will this winter). If I don't put in the extra time, I still do perfectly well in my bracket. That's.... how ya do it......... I'm still kinda new to the game so I hope it's always like this.