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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2011, 05:14:40 am »
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I'm totally going to poke at this game..hopefully it keeps my interest for at least a few days.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2011, 05:15:00 am »
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By scrapper you mean control role? There is also the damage role to throw in there, the one that every starts of with before they unlock their inherent power role. Damage roles got no rock or scissors to their paper.

Oh right, Controllers. My main is/was actually a controller so I don't know how I forgot that one  :lol: The DPS "role" is the only thing done right -- I sort of allude to this in my edit of my last post. In Legends Arena everyone is DPS so you simply have to out play your opponents, as opposed to having the right team-makeup.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2011, 05:15:47 am »
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Before f2p? If you buy at least $5 of whatever from them (including subs) then you are a Premium member. If you keep subbing you are some next tier.
Nah screw that, I'll just wait. I think it's like 15 a month to be legendary, or whatever. There's some chart on their website that shows the differences.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2011, 05:17:37 am »
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Oh right, Controllers. My main is/was actually a controller so I don't know how I forgot that one  :lol: The DPS "role" is the only thing done right -- I sort of allude to this in my edit of my last post. In Legends Arena everyone is DPS so you simply have to out play your opponents, as opposed to having the right team-makeup.
I loved being control, then I realised everyone was using Martial Arts Gadget Acrobats, so I deleted that and made my main main a Two Handed Weapon Nature Flying Villain dude.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2011, 05:19:02 am »
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Ah screw that, I'll just wait. I think it's like 15 a month to be legendary, or whatever. There's some chart on their website that shows the differences.
Premium is alright. I got a Light power alt for Green Lantern RP, and the Light DLC came free for me. I don't think I'll be legendary-ing next month.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2011, 05:23:40 am »
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Also it's about teamwork.

I also disagree with this. At least, not in a way that doesn't detract from gameplay. By having the class dynamics, "teamwork" is reduced to focus firing on one person -- someone spamming ranged combos and at least one person spamming their block-breaker. This completely throws out their dynamic combat-system out of the window. A part of what makes Legends Arena work is that it's either 2v2 or 4v4. The limited number of players encourages more "heroic" encounters and action-reaction combat, utilizing the rock-paper-scissors combat and the skill of anticipation. With the class dynamics and increased amount of players in the arena, you get "durrrr focus fire/spam" without consequence.

The perfect analogy would be if you came to play M&B for it's really good melee combat and all your blocks were useless because 10 people could focus on you and break through your blocks every time, completely negating the richness of combat in feigning attacks, anticipation, timing, blocking etc.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2011, 05:30:36 am »
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Sounds like the battle server at peak xD
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #22 on: November 05, 2011, 01:06:34 am »
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Bump. F2P is now out and I'm playing it again. It's hilarious to see that it has a lot of the same problems and bugs that it did six months ago: Servers are constantly brought down for handfuls of hours at a time with short notice and a lot of the same bugs are there like the scoreboard screen getting stuck after an arena match and you have to sit there and wait for 2 minutes for it to automatically exit as well as the bug where certain skills play the animation but don't actually do anything (you have to relog in order to fix this).

The new 2v2 arena is fun, which is the same as the 2v2 Legends Arena except you get to use your own characters. The flaw in class dynamics gets highlighted here though, as certain duo combinations will just flat out stomp any other combo. 2 Controllers versus 2 Ice Tanks? Prepare to get roflstomped not because they're more skilled and are better players, but because the game is inherently designed for tanks to dominate controllers. Also, it seems like Healers got buffed too, as even with my mega healing debuffs, a lot of healers can still outheal them (even without being cleansed).

Balance is completely out of whack. Tanks get ultra-mega survivability, mass AoE damage, and even have more CONTROL powers (CC -> knock downs, roots, stuns, etc) than controllers. And then there's the inherent Controller v. Tank perks that they get like being completely immune to all controller effects. The best part is that they can also erase all controller effects on their teammates as well. Balance is completely out of whack. They need to just force everyone to be damage mode in 2v2.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #23 on: November 05, 2011, 03:40:23 am »
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Sounds like I need to jump back on the control bandwagon for the adversity... with mah new LIGHT POWAHS!!!!
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #24 on: November 15, 2011, 02:55:33 am »
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Somebody play with me... I got a level 30 flying 2 hander nature villain and I want somebody to do the raids n stuff with...
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2011, 07:46:27 am »
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I've got 2 level capped characters from when it was still payed but I doubt you'll get me to play with all the BF3 and Skyrim going around :D


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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #26 on: November 16, 2011, 05:17:29 am »
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I've got 2 level capped characters from when it was still payed but I doubt you'll get me to play with all the BF3 and Skyrim going around :D
Well... holla if you feel like doing some duos/alerts/raids/spawn trolling.
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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2011, 11:39:47 am »
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It's almost December and I still haven't made a league!!!!!!!!1 I need EUs to come join a group with me then I can make a league of my own before my account status runs out (I stopped subscribing)! You wouldn't need to play often or at all or any shit, I just don't want to have randoms being twats in mah league! Cmooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon guise!

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Re: DCUO: Going FREE TO PLAY!!!!
« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2011, 05:21:42 am »
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