Game grouping
I've been trying to push to the next level with Little Janie (my CoH energy blaster) but she is out of missions. Hunting is kind of boring and the freaking xp bar moves about a millimeter for every hundred mobs you kill. So, I decided to go out for the dreaded pickup group.
Before I talk about the groups I ended up with, I noticed something about grouping. I'm sure someone, somewhere has drawn this comparison before but game grouping is very much like sex. The more I think about it, the more parallels I can draw. Stay with me here:
The amount of prep is totally random. It takes some groups ages to get to it and some jump right in and start blasting.
Once a battle gets going there are lots of explosions and fury then it is suddenly over.
Some people work a lot harder than others.
When the whole thing is over, there can be this awkward time when you want to go on and do something else but everyone just kind of hangs around then makes excuses to leave.
So, back to the action. The first night I get a tell from someone I never heard of asking if I want to get in on a higher level mission. I saw "Sure" and head off to the mission site. We have a group of about 6 people and the action was heavy duty. I think CoH has the most intense and exciting group combat. You haven't lived till you've been in the middle of 6 players and 20 Nazis going at it. It can be quite confusing, being a blaster I just click on the tank and blast whatever he targets. I can't even see my target half the time. The great thing was that the XP was flowing like water.
The next night I get in a group who, when I popped in the mission, was all just standing there. Once I found the tank and clicked on him, I see he is running around the area for some reason. Everyone else is just chatting and standing. Suddenly, after what seemed like 5 minutes, the tank shows up dragging about 40 mobs. Everyone else is still standing and chatting. Not being one to stand by and watch, I start blasting and immediately get the crap kicked out of me. Then the tank says, "Ready" and everyone jumps in. I find out later that this guy goes around and herds all the mobs on the floor, takes most of their power then lets everone jump in for the kill. It was a lot of fun but the standing around waiting for someone else to do most of the work was kind of annoying.
The next night was only one mission and pretty much a repeat of the first night. After the mission was over the group started breaking up with everyone making lame excuses to leave.
I went back to soloing but it just wasn't as much fun. I might have to go back to this group thing and just see how it goes.
Before I talk about the groups I ended up with, I noticed something about grouping. I'm sure someone, somewhere has drawn this comparison before but game grouping is very much like sex. The more I think about it, the more parallels I can draw. Stay with me here:
The amount of prep is totally random. It takes some groups ages to get to it and some jump right in and start blasting.
Once a battle gets going there are lots of explosions and fury then it is suddenly over.
Some people work a lot harder than others.
When the whole thing is over, there can be this awkward time when you want to go on and do something else but everyone just kind of hangs around then makes excuses to leave.
So, back to the action. The first night I get a tell from someone I never heard of asking if I want to get in on a higher level mission. I saw "Sure" and head off to the mission site. We have a group of about 6 people and the action was heavy duty. I think CoH has the most intense and exciting group combat. You haven't lived till you've been in the middle of 6 players and 20 Nazis going at it. It can be quite confusing, being a blaster I just click on the tank and blast whatever he targets. I can't even see my target half the time. The great thing was that the XP was flowing like water.
The next night I get in a group who, when I popped in the mission, was all just standing there. Once I found the tank and clicked on him, I see he is running around the area for some reason. Everyone else is just chatting and standing. Suddenly, after what seemed like 5 minutes, the tank shows up dragging about 40 mobs. Everyone else is still standing and chatting. Not being one to stand by and watch, I start blasting and immediately get the crap kicked out of me. Then the tank says, "Ready" and everyone jumps in. I find out later that this guy goes around and herds all the mobs on the floor, takes most of their power then lets everone jump in for the kill. It was a lot of fun but the standing around waiting for someone else to do most of the work was kind of annoying.
The next night was only one mission and pretty much a repeat of the first night. After the mission was over the group started breaking up with everyone making lame excuses to leave.
I went back to soloing but it just wasn't as much fun. I might have to go back to this group thing and just see how it goes.
posted by Big Ed at 1:41 PM
1 Comments:
I never played EQ. Went from UO to NWN to SWG to CoH.
I'm kinda glad I never played EQ.
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