Before I add my initial 2c: I'm on "New Frontier". I'm sorta attached to my guy already, so please...come join me here! It looks like my next major villain is bane, and apparently requires a group, so I'd love some company for tonight.
I only played CoH for a short time (read, played it for a day while babysitting a friend's computer), but this feels sorta copy-ish.
However, I don't remember CoH being nearly so good looking -- DCUO is quite nice to look at.
I've enjoyed the combat so far, even though the early missions are pretty crowded in Gotham right now.
My complaints:
- Mouse is locked in. There's no mouse arrow unless you've opened a window like the inventory or something. This is the most obvious sacrifice made for PS3/PC crossover programming. I wouldn't normally have a problem with that, but I have yet to be able to figure out how to switch between tabs on the chat window, and it's driving me nuts. I tried hitting "tab" a bunch of times, but no go. I'll have to go into the menu and set something, I suppose.
-Combat "combos". I must be missing something. I've bought several combos for my handblasters, but I can't get more than one of them to activate. The first one that I bought was a RH (right mouse button hold) to charge, then release. The next one is suppose to be RC (right mouse button click) x2 to do, but all I seem to get are two of the normal single-click blasts. The third combo, a RH + RC (right hold then right click) just seems to activate the original RH ability without letting me add the extra RC.
-If you right click some items in the inventory, they appear to get destroyed. I got some items in the vault that appeared to only give appearance, and when I right clicked (something that "equipped" for other items), all that happened was a chat notification that they had been destroyed. I get that perhaps the style was integrated, but I would have liked to see a message pop up that told me that I'd unlocked a new style.
- I got stuck one time on a mission where I was carrying barrels out of a contaminated zone. I was flying with the barrel, got into the area, dropped it, and immediately got trapped slightly in the air between the barrel and the NPC who gave the quest. Couldn't get out, had to log out and in to get free. Minor bug, mid-level annoyance. It definitely means I'll be careful with similar situations in the future.
Overall thoughts so far: I like it. I had fun. I haven't done any grouping yet, so I can't speak towards those dynamics, but I definitely plan to play tonight. SOE appears to have an endgame set up, so I don't plan on quitting until I've experienced it. I would have liked more of an explanation of all of the UI windows, but I figured most things out already.
