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DC Universe Online |OT| The next legend is YOU!
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elwes said:
one-handed does feel a lot more limiting than every other weapon. Combo wise you only really have 1 stun, and the knockdown/knockup animations take so long that anyone will block it. So basically all I do is the stun/follow up hit, the 2 hit knee knock up, and finish off with flip slash (the 4 taps and hold on 5th hit). So yeah, 3 useful combos, supplement with powers. I don't play that character much anymore even though I started doing pretty good at lvl 16 sorcery tree.
My fave is bow, knock up, arrow storm, explosive shot, and 2 or 3 other combos are all very useful. Martial arts is also fun for the 2 major stuns, smoke bomb being aoe stun combo
. Brawling is just powerfully fun, every end hit has a follow up even bigger end hit after they get stunned/fly/fall. Also I like Dual Wield and Dual Pistols from what I've been playing in Legends.Hand Blaster is a bit limited in moves as well, and not feeling Staff or Hammer based on playing Robin and Harley, although Hammer is probably a fun PVE with that Spin finisher (dual wield has something like it too though and is more fun). and I haven't tried Rifle but people seem to love the mortars.
err yeah that came out kinda long, general weapon tips
*eurogamer a 6? wtf? I'm glad a ton of people bought this and are playing because the game is just plain out fun. 8.5-9 for me personally..
Rifle is gonna get nerfed hard...
Either that, or they'll have to send server-wide bulletins telling people that blocking against gunfire is pointless and Interrupts are your only hope - but watch out for the flame thrower and roll stun. And whatever you do, don't let the backflip touch you. And pray that they whoever you're charging suicidally didn't invest anything into melee attacks.
Rifles are gonna get nerfed so hard.
Either that, or they'll have to send server-wide bulletins telling people that blocking against gunfire is pointless and Interrupts are your only hope - but watch out for the flame thrower and roll stun. And whatever you do, don't let the backflip touch you. And pray that they whoever you're charging suicidally didn't invest anything into melee attacks.
Rifles are gonna get nerfed so hard.
ChronicleX
Banned
DY_nasty said:
Fixed. Rifle users are rather easy. You just have to get in their face and dodge to the left/right to avoid the flamethrower before you punish them for missing.
ok I think I'm gonna give this game a try after seeing this video, looks pretty fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-QX7yLsEzY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-QX7yLsEzY
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
elwes said:
For starters, ignore that guide (or at least that portion of it)! People should not be picking weapons on the basis of stat bonuses. You should pick a weapon that makes sense for your class because eventually you will earn enough skill points to nab the stat bonuses in those weapon trees anyway. If you are a healer or controller choose a ranged weapon (bow, rifle, hand blaster), if you are a tank go melee (dual wield, two-handed, staff). Dual pistols, brawling, one handed, and martial arts are trash, IMO.
kyo_daikun
Member
Chriswok said:
Yeah, level 30 alert, I unlocked it last night.
God the end game stuff is tough, the stats on the iconic armours dont look all that good but apparently they are necessary to do some of these missions.
Any level 30 people got any hints on what missions I should be doing?
kyo_daikun
Member
Sblargh said:
Think he means you can just Respec your character so they can use the weapon that will be most useful for the class.
ChronicleX
Banned
kyo_daikun said:
The challenge missions (6), the Duo's (4) and the non T1 hard alerts (3). For Villains the Hard Alerts you should be doing are Ace Chemicals, Area 51 and Hall of Doom Armoury. Hard alerts give the best gear and are a must to get a good weapon (Hard mode boss drops are level 383). Its all about getting tokens so you can buy the T1 armour.
Rough guideline.
All level 30 stuff = Green gear
Challenge missions = Blue gear L1 // Epic L1 (as good as blue Gear L2 but with unique styles)
Duo content = Blue gear L2 // Epic L2 (same as a Blue L3)
Hard Alerts = Blue Gear L2 (from mobs) // Blue Gear L3 (From bosses) // Epic L3 (as good as the T1 Armour)
If you can get an epic weapon to drop from a boss in a hard alert (if there is 1) then you are laughing your way to endgame. The only epic weapons you can buy atm are for PVP and are only L1 Epics, a level 3 blue has 9.6 more dps (IE you MUST get one).
Sblargh said:
Totally, I've currently got 3 weapon trees almost filled and I still have a LOT of feats left to do.
I've got 131/313 Feats done, so even if every Feat left gave 10 points, that'd still be 18 skill points left, but there are quite a few that give 25 or 50 points, so I guess you could potentially max out 5+ weapons.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Sblargh said:
Well I have 41 skill points, iirc, and I've only completed a little more than half of the feats. Right now I have more than enough skill points to master my weapon of choice and to go down the skill trees of several other weapons I don't use and grab the stat bonuses from them. I use hand blasts and I was able to get every skill out of that tree that I wanted (I purposely avoided skills I know I wouldn't use), the stat bonuses from that tree, and the stat bonuses from 3-4 other weapon trees.
So yes, you will have more than enough points if you keep doing the feats.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
ChronicleX said:
I've gotten 2 different rifles from doing hard alerts. Both were boss drops and both have 78-something DPS. Is that as high as they go?
Apparently, grinding is ever having to do anything similar to anything you've done beforeSpaceDrake said:
Personally, I find this game to be legitimately fun to play. As in, I actually enjoy combat and travel. While I'm a big fan of MMOs, these two things tend to be fairly boring. Once I get used to the combat in most MMOs, I no longer need to devote my full attention to the game most of the time and can listen to podcasts or even watch TV while playing.
But that's not true here. It's all much more active. Basic combat is FUN. As such, even if the game were grindy, I'd still love it. I like fighting for the sake of fighting
Anyway, it's an MMO review. They're rarely helpful one way or another.
I had a blast playing with lacramae and verdandi (sorry if I screwed up your name) thanks you guys so much!
I love the pvp server, I was trying to get to a quest so lacrimae and verdandi can help when all of a sudden a hero was flying across really fast, he stops and looks at me I decide to try and avoid him. Man it was so much fun climbing and diving and just overral trying to hide from him.
I love the pvp server, I was trying to get to a quest so lacrimae and verdandi can help when all of a sudden a hero was flying across really fast, he stops and looks at me I decide to try and avoid him. Man it was so much fun climbing and diving and just overral trying to hide from him.
Thanks for the one-handed tips, guys.
I invested a good amount of time tonight and almost maxed out one-handed. To be honest, it's not that bad. I'm a fire tank and when you unlock some of the later skills, you can mow through NPC enemies with the right combination of powers. I am curious about respec'ing to dual-handed, though.
Does it cost more to respec every single time you do it? I screwed up the first time I did it and had to do it almost immediately afterwards and it was 150 gold more.
I invested a good amount of time tonight and almost maxed out one-handed. To be honest, it's not that bad. I'm a fire tank and when you unlock some of the later skills, you can mow through NPC enemies with the right combination of powers. I am curious about respec'ing to dual-handed, though.
Does it cost more to respec every single time you do it? I screwed up the first time I did it and had to do it almost immediately afterwards and it was 150 gold more.
kyo_daikun
Member
ChronicleX said:
Thanks for that, yeah i've been doing the challenge missions but keep getting weapons that I can't use, guess its just bad luck.
Edit: Also how do you get the influence points to buy the T1 Weapons? Not seen any mission types that give it as a reward.
fistwell_old
Member
First one i dont remember, i just killed everything, thenXamdou said:
a boxy rectangular thing appeared on the wall opposite from which you entered the room, interact with it
you may or may not have to clear out all the boxes on top of the conveyor belt, then interact with the one box left, which is resting on the ground, leaning against the conveyor, then another boxy thingy appears on the wall, interact w/ it
look for a riddler wanted poster, interact with it, boxy thing etc
Open up your Journal and activate the mission. Then just follow the yellow arrow to the investigations.Xamdou said:
Foxix said:
I'll promote both of you today, I just need your villain name hermit7. I'm terrible at remembering who's who......hermit7 said:
Mercury Fred
Banned
Hey PS3 players, I'll be back over the weekend. Had a busy week and haven't really been able to play. Looking forward to it!
Animation-Imp
Member
My wife bought dcuo for me yesterday.
I played a lot of Champions Online (and don't really understand all the hate for it) and feared it would be too similar.
Luckily the games are nothing alike.
Played up to lvl 6 yesterday, and at this point these are my humble opinions compared to CO (I play the ps3 version).
1/ after being used too CO's character creator, DCUO feels rather limited.
2/ I like the graphics in both, DCOU feels a bit more gritty, while CO had a more comic-like style.
3/ I play a nature char and at the moment his special moves seem rather ugly animated. Thorn shield for example isn't the worlds coolest special effect animation.
4/ Combat is much better than CO's. CO worked with energy builders and special moves which cost energy. The trick was getting your build set up with enough energy regen to start the battle with a nice opener, then switching to your standard energy builder attack (toggle to activate) and then swith to other super moves as your energy replenished. DCUO has much more diversity in it's fighting system, block, roll, combo's etc... A nice combat system.
That's about it for first impressions,
I do feel like CO made you feel more powerfull than DCUO does, but DCUO trumps CO in the general combat department...
I played a lot of Champions Online (and don't really understand all the hate for it) and feared it would be too similar.
Luckily the games are nothing alike.
Played up to lvl 6 yesterday, and at this point these are my humble opinions compared to CO (I play the ps3 version).
1/ after being used too CO's character creator, DCUO feels rather limited.
2/ I like the graphics in both, DCOU feels a bit more gritty, while CO had a more comic-like style.
3/ I play a nature char and at the moment his special moves seem rather ugly animated. Thorn shield for example isn't the worlds coolest special effect animation.
4/ Combat is much better than CO's. CO worked with energy builders and special moves which cost energy. The trick was getting your build set up with enough energy regen to start the battle with a nice opener, then switching to your standard energy builder attack (toggle to activate) and then swith to other super moves as your energy replenished. DCUO has much more diversity in it's fighting system, block, roll, combo's etc... A nice combat system.
That's about it for first impressions,
I do feel like CO made you feel more powerfull than DCUO does, but DCUO trumps CO in the general combat department...
SuperSonic1305
Member
What do I do with extra collectibles? Are they for trading?
kyo_daikun
Member
SuperSonic1305 said:
Give them to other characters on your account through the shared bank, otherwise delete them if your character has already collected them.
Mercury Fred
Banned
;_;Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
The DCUO Skill Calculator is coming along.
Created a new character on Crossfire (EU PS3 PVP) earlier, Mercurius. Fire/Brawling/Flight. Ganked once as I went in to rescue Zatanna, but that's it so far.
Created a new character on Crossfire (EU PS3 PVP) earlier, Mercurius. Fire/Brawling/Flight. Ganked once as I went in to rescue Zatanna, but that's it so far.
You can assign per role (up on the d-pad allows you to pick a role, and a custom loadout I think), you can create the custom loadouts in the (I think) powers/skills menu.TheExodu5 said:
Nice! Been waiting for one to happen.No45 said:The DCUO Skill Calculator is coming along.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I'm not an MMO fan but I bought this anyway... sitting at lvl 8 atm.
Game is pretty fun, but there are boring stretches when going solo. Difficulty is kind of uneven and hard to predict. Some missions you can do it so easy and then others you'll get completely swarmed and it feels like you should be 3 levels higher to complete them.
The game feels pretty janky. There are a lot of bugs/issues that need to be addressed... in certain situations basic things like targeting enemies, the camera, and character movement can be really wonky and cumbersome. For instance, I have a flying character with hand blasters and whenever I attack, she will hold her pose for like 3 seconds before I can fly away at speed. I'm not talking about getting hit by an enemy... just flying around, you can't shoot the hand blaster and promptly fly away. There's like an awkward three or so seconds where she's in a kind of frozen pose and moves really slow. Eventually you'll be able to fly, but it's pretty weird. I don't like it.
I think this game is a little too ambitious for the PS3. Major menu lag, jittery gameplay in general, shit framerate. I regret not going the PC route but I really wanted to try a console MMO. Overall I think it works pretty decently on the gamepad but I find the social aspect of it really cumbersome and confusing.
That's another thing... this game is confusing as fuck. They don't explain much, even quite basic stuff sometimes, so you have to figure a lot of it out yourself. I'm fine with no hand holding, but I have a feeling I'm missing things all over the place.
But it's still fun. Even solo on PvE. Can't really ask for too much more than that I guess.
Game is pretty fun, but there are boring stretches when going solo. Difficulty is kind of uneven and hard to predict. Some missions you can do it so easy and then others you'll get completely swarmed and it feels like you should be 3 levels higher to complete them.
The game feels pretty janky. There are a lot of bugs/issues that need to be addressed... in certain situations basic things like targeting enemies, the camera, and character movement can be really wonky and cumbersome. For instance, I have a flying character with hand blasters and whenever I attack, she will hold her pose for like 3 seconds before I can fly away at speed. I'm not talking about getting hit by an enemy... just flying around, you can't shoot the hand blaster and promptly fly away. There's like an awkward three or so seconds where she's in a kind of frozen pose and moves really slow. Eventually you'll be able to fly, but it's pretty weird. I don't like it.
I think this game is a little too ambitious for the PS3. Major menu lag, jittery gameplay in general, shit framerate. I regret not going the PC route but I really wanted to try a console MMO. Overall I think it works pretty decently on the gamepad but I find the social aspect of it really cumbersome and confusing.
That's another thing... this game is confusing as fuck. They don't explain much, even quite basic stuff sometimes, so you have to figure a lot of it out yourself. I'm fine with no hand holding, but I have a feeling I'm missing things all over the place.
But it's still fun. Even solo on PvE. Can't really ask for too much more than that I guess.
ChronicleX
Banned
Gamebreaking bug. Very important for everyone who is level 30 to read this.
The blue orb investigations from the hard alerts that reward currency (Marks of Triumph / distinction) will REDUCE AND FREEZE YOUR MARKS TO 1. Do not do these investigations until they fix it or your endgame experience shall be ruined (like mine currently is).
The blue orb investigations from the hard alerts that reward currency (Marks of Triumph / distinction) will REDUCE AND FREEZE YOUR MARKS TO 1. Do not do these investigations until they fix it or your endgame experience shall be ruined (like mine currently is).
ok, got 2 characters to 30 so now i can post my impressions. first up the game is alot of fun, the combat and the movement all works well, it definately needs some adjustment for pvp regarding control effects since if you are fighting more than one person usually you get stun locked and blown up in about 3 seconds at level 30. iconic powers also needs a rework, some are too good and some are absolutley terrible XD (im looking at you SHAZAM >_>).
content:
duos are really easy and award marks for the t1 stuff. they really need to adjust thier direction with them at the moment it only makes sense to do them once a day because after they are completed once you no longer get marks OR loot so that really kills them, i started one of the challenges, they are basically level 30 versions of the quests you would have done while leveling and aren't too hard mostly. the level 30 alerts are crazy hard some even require t1 stuff which to me doesn't make sense because after you are in tier 1 theres no point in doing alerts so they need to adjust the difficulty on those harder ones or increase the rewards to t2. basically theres no reason to do anything more than once unless you are trying to farm for that random green which to me is pretty lame. they disabled all those things to try to keep you coming back every day but to me it does more harm than good. the achievement system is pretty cool, as you complete achievements you can earn skill points which is a nice reward for the achievement chasers out there.
the bad:
everything regard the ui. its slow to load, sometimes stuff doesn't work, confusing and just all around terrible, bu my heart bleeds whenever i have to press the start button which coincidentally happens to be all the time due to all the bugs. ill post the bugs i've experienced, when you are moving quickly or moving to an area and the textures haven't loaded you can fall through the floor and it sucks because after you fall through the floor usually then loads and solidifies and you are stuck underground and you'll have to use the warp hq and heaven help you if its on cooldown XD. switching a weapon by will disable your weapon, i usually have to switch 2 times to get the weapon equipped and since its done in the menu there is more heart bleeding. bosses have a tendency to reset for weird reasons. had the braniac bosses reset from 1%hp cause someone flew to dodge his attack, this happened on 2 different bosses in area 51. had scarecrow reset because no one was within range of him when he transitioned to a new phase which is funny cause the phase before you needed to stay far and kite him a bit =_=. generally enemies can reset too easily.
the very bad:
ps3 freezing. this has been an issue since the beta and even though it's not as bad it is still there. before this game my ps3 had only ever frozen once, im easily at 30+ freezes including the beta which is worrying since the game primarly plays by accessing the hdd. my guess though is that it is a ram issue as ive always frozen while doing something, opening the menu,moving to a new area, using a move, never while idling. next up communication, mmos are mostly social games the ingame chat is so bad people would send me whispers asking me for help and i wouldn't respond simply because it was too much of a hassle to reply. this is made worse by the horrible ui. voice chat works depending on the moon cycle which is a main reason why alot of the alerts turn out to be so hard, because people can't communicate and coordinate.
content:
duos are really easy and award marks for the t1 stuff. they really need to adjust thier direction with them at the moment it only makes sense to do them once a day because after they are completed once you no longer get marks OR loot so that really kills them, i started one of the challenges, they are basically level 30 versions of the quests you would have done while leveling and aren't too hard mostly. the level 30 alerts are crazy hard some even require t1 stuff which to me doesn't make sense because after you are in tier 1 theres no point in doing alerts so they need to adjust the difficulty on those harder ones or increase the rewards to t2. basically theres no reason to do anything more than once unless you are trying to farm for that random green which to me is pretty lame. they disabled all those things to try to keep you coming back every day but to me it does more harm than good. the achievement system is pretty cool, as you complete achievements you can earn skill points which is a nice reward for the achievement chasers out there.
the bad:
everything regard the ui. its slow to load, sometimes stuff doesn't work, confusing and just all around terrible, bu my heart bleeds whenever i have to press the start button which coincidentally happens to be all the time due to all the bugs. ill post the bugs i've experienced, when you are moving quickly or moving to an area and the textures haven't loaded you can fall through the floor and it sucks because after you fall through the floor usually then loads and solidifies and you are stuck underground and you'll have to use the warp hq and heaven help you if its on cooldown XD. switching a weapon by will disable your weapon, i usually have to switch 2 times to get the weapon equipped and since its done in the menu there is more heart bleeding. bosses have a tendency to reset for weird reasons. had the braniac bosses reset from 1%hp cause someone flew to dodge his attack, this happened on 2 different bosses in area 51. had scarecrow reset because no one was within range of him when he transitioned to a new phase which is funny cause the phase before you needed to stay far and kite him a bit =_=. generally enemies can reset too easily.
the very bad:
ps3 freezing. this has been an issue since the beta and even though it's not as bad it is still there. before this game my ps3 had only ever frozen once, im easily at 30+ freezes including the beta which is worrying since the game primarly plays by accessing the hdd. my guess though is that it is a ram issue as ive always frozen while doing something, opening the menu,moving to a new area, using a move, never while idling. next up communication, mmos are mostly social games the ingame chat is so bad people would send me whispers asking me for help and i wouldn't respond simply because it was too much of a hassle to reply. this is made worse by the horrible ui. voice chat works depending on the moon cycle which is a main reason why alot of the alerts turn out to be so hard, because people can't communicate and coordinate.
ChronicleX
Banned
I am starting to like my collection of costume styles. Necromancer gear goes really well with my T1 Armour parts =)
BattleMonkey
Member
Renown you get from PVP is awarded automatically or you have to "loot" a hero who is down? I still don't really understand what the point of going up to someone you beat in pvp and pressing 'O' does. Does that collect renown or is it just supposed to stop them from being healed or something?
BattleMonkey said:
it sends them back to the respawn point. that way they can't be resurrected by another enemy. the mechanic doesn't make much sense in pvp since most is small scale and not many people are gonna stand there and let someone resurrect. also you come back to life with like 10%hp and you can be hit while doing the getting up animation.
BattleMonkey
Member
Improving load times is also helpful, it does take a long time to boot up the game. Hope they can continually improve the load times of the game as it's my only major beef with it, especially the UI load/lag