To my eye, the biggest challenge to the planned Player-vs-Player CoH Arena is actually being able to see what the heck is going on. Think it’s difficult with a group of Invisible Heroes with Bubbles and various glowing Auras in a Shadowy Setting? Try it with two groups, with various power FX going off around you …
I honestly don’t have much interest in the PvP stuff, at least as a loner. I prefer coop play, myself. Though, to that end, if a group I knew was going in on something, I might be willing to lend a hand. We’ll have to see.
(via Doyce)
Personally, I’m looking forward to it for situations where you want to play through an intra-group conflict that’s backed up by the combat system.
Or, for fun, the classic “mistaken identity/blame” fights between heroes.
I know what you mean about the confusion of big battles, and as you get higher level and thus more powers (and your teammates get more powers) it gets even more confusing, but believe it or not you eventually build up a sort of filter where you can ignore the ones that aren’t affecting you and still go “Ooooo.” when something cool comes up.