Margie was busy watching Iron Chef, and I discovered that I was able to get past the Comcast-induced connectivity problems this evening, so I fired up Truly Unstable, my Rad/Rad Defender (lvl 9) and had at it.
Headed off to the Hollows, got an invite to a Team, and trundled off to it.
Bad. Very, very bad. Lots of “bad guys, charge!” and “hey, let’s split up and clear this level” and …
Well, I did a lot healing and debuffing, but when the second mish started, the first encounter had a passle of oranges and a purple Caliban (for me — and I was one of the highest-level guys in the group). It could have been managed, with care, but “care” was not a watchword of the group. “Charge!” piecemeal … fighting … small successes … crap, tank down before I could … retreat … team mates behind me … do they need my …
Oh. Hello, Mr. Carpet.
Margie was ready to play, so I took the opportunity to bid good night, and we headed out together, with her playing Carilian (Fire/Rad Controller, 8). We kicked around Kings Row for a bit, then spotted BD playing Dubh Bas (Dark Defender).
We headed off to the Hollows, since we had some missions there, and … well, for a team of Squishies (Ctrl/Def/Def), we (a) had a lot of fun, and (b) were remarkably effective. I don’t think it really took us any longer to do the door mish, or handle street gangs, than if we’d had crunchies with us. If only people wouldn’t kill my Radiation Infected targets …
Margie dinged up, and I’m about half an hour away from doing so. Cool stuff.
TU is a fun character. Short, armored, body and brain being slowly eaten away by radiation, and just as likely to fantasize that he’s a medieval knight as to make some quip about a TV show, he’s a nice, loopy PC to run.
As a team, our only deaths were BD and myself, whilst running over to a door mish in the Hollows, all separate, and … oh, crap, Pumicites, I’d better try to (crash, bang, smash) … (beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep …) Worked through that debt pretty quickly, though.
Fun time.
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***Dave Does the Game
Was one of these guys named KnyghtLyte by chance?
Um … could’ve been. I don’t know for sure. We never actually stood around and talked or anything.
In retrospect, I should have bailed as soon as I saw the size of the team, the scatter, and so forth. I just really wanted to do something with TU. *My* lapse of judgment.
What was your team size?
From what I’ve seen running my characters is that the average team size is 7, and lately it has usually been 8.
When we go out on a team of 3/4, that is a very rare sight indeed. From what I’ve seen lately, most teams won’t go on missions if the team falls below 6, and will tend to break up at 4.
Your discription of combat is consistant with the SOP that I’ve seen over the past several weeks. I can’t even get them to stop for END Rest. My current tactic is to just wait until I’m rested and then enter combat.
KnyghtLyte is one of the PL’ing Squidy morons that I’ve been ranting about over the past few days. He is the reason I’ve started my “Boycot any team that has a squidy on” idea.
Last night, did another kill frosty (31-3) with Ciunas. It was a team of 8. I was able to get them to do things mostly right. Still no pulling. All charge all the time. I had fun listening to some of their statements about how tough this mission was, and how this was the first time they had ever done it succsessfully. They were shocked that I’ve done this mission 31 times with wins, because they were saying that this was the toughest mission in the game. I patted them on the head and sent them on there way.
8. Half the team was in the mish, the other half was in various zones, particularly Atlas — which should have screamed either (a) folks were bailing from the team and needed replacement, (b) folks were dying and going to hospital, or (c) the team was flailing about trying to get more strength.
I ignored that, simply because I wanted to play. Silly me.
What amazed me was the near-total lack of dialog. “Wow.” That was about it, followed by folks charging in when they decided to.
Umm…
Yeah that’s about right.
Sometimes there is a even “GJ”, “Nice”, “TY” “Wow” or “lol”. Very rarely, only becuse I’m used to hitting it “ready”.
Lately, TP begging is as far as the conversation gets.
As to the locations…
From what I’ve seen and experienced is that they don’t care that you are looking for a team in Steel, Boomtown, Faultline, or KR. The just look at the list and start inviting. Probably what happened in your case was that these folks were in other parts of the city and had to travel to the Hollows. When I’m looking for Team members I always filter for folks in the section that I’m in. I’m odd that way I guess.
I suggest that you will need to adopt the “duel” style of play, based on the team you are on. I’ll join a team, see how they play, and based on that I’ll decide the level of selfishness i’m going to play at, or if I’m just going to quit and play an alt instead.
BD/Avocet – if your mail is still down please check the alliance of champions forum for an update on the cavern trail. (freedomphalanx ‘dot’ com /v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?p=8182#8182)
That would be here.
I hope to be there. Because I am taking 2-1/2 days off for school next week, my boss my schedule me to work on Monday. If the schedule isn’t made yet, I’ll put in a request to work no later than 5:00, so I can be home in time for the Trial.
And, of course, there’s always the possibility that I won’t be able to log in, as is the case right now.
Update:
I am working on Maonday, but will be home in time for the Trial.
The problem with my computer has been located. I need to replace my new MB/CPU, so have had to go back to the ancient hardware. As my new graphics card won’t work with the old tech, I’ll have to borrow an older one to play CoH.
I’m still unable to ping cohupdate.coh.com. Without a graphics card, I can’t test the latest workarounds, to see if I can log in to the game. I should know more tonight or tomorrow.
You may want to look into lining up an alternate, in case I’m still unable to connect Monday evening.
Additional update:
I don’t need the graphics card to test the updater, so I tried 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 for the DNS, with no luck. Somebody posted that he connected using 206.124.65.253, which also allowed me to connect! I’m downloading updates as we speak.
With any luck, this DNS will continu to work for me, although there’s a possibility that it will slow things down a bit.
Further bulletins as events warrant.