I had such high hopes for this game. Alas they were dashed & my illusions were torn asunder when I was able to try the beta and really experience all the game had to offer (which isn't much).

For a MMO, it isn't very massive. The main zone for instance (no pun intended lol) has an instance cap of 100! That's it. Which is pitiful for such a large zone. Not to mention all the loading screens & having to decide instances every single time gets old fast & kills immersion.
- point 2. You change zones (say to level up) and then you go back to the zone your team was in. BUT if that zone nears the instance cap it wont let you in. EVEN IF THE REST OF YOUR TEAM IS IN IT. So you are forced to either wait for someone to exit that zone which can take a looong time, or else ask your whole team to change zones. AND IF they actually change zones, they are transported far away from the quest and have to essentially start over. Horrible system.

Broken teaming. The teaming is completely broken. Functionally you can team w/ people but there's no point as sharing quests only works 0.1% of the time.

Sloppy combat. The combat system, while it seems intuitive & refreshing for the first hour starts to show all its holes & downsides fast after that. The complaints I had heard people make about all you doing is hitting the 2 key repeatedly rang all too true. The whole "action packed moving while you fight" just doesn't exist as you cant do that w/ a PC's controls, even w/ changing key binds.

Bad responsiveness. Blocking doesn't work half the time. The response time / input lag for your powers is really bad.

Animations. While animations look next gen in their produced videos the interrupts & fluidity of them when you're actually moving amongst powers is schizophrenic. Really pulls you OUT of the immersion.

Crappy story. The quest storylines are so crappy & badly put together it feels like a lazy 7th grader did it on the school bus ride home. The vast majority of the quests are boring & uninspiring. Not to mention frustrating as they're designed in a way that encourages people to be dicks to eachother. Another problem is that because of how their designed the low low instance pop caps wont get higher as it would only make the problem worse. So they've painted themselves in a corner.

Corny voice overs. 'Nuff said. If you tried the beta you know what i mean. Bang your head on the table corny. Not funny ha-ha corny.

Ridiculous perk requirements for unlocking costume parts. With the average costume item taking 1,000 - 5,000 kills. At one kill a minute (assuming you're killing something far below you in level {for no xp btw}, at a rate of 1 a minute) that's anywhere from 17 HOURS to 80 HOURS just to get ONE costume piece. And there are A LOT of costume pieces available in this way. ALSO, they are NOT given account wide. Only per char. Add on top of that they want to sell them through microtransactions TOO. Really really destroys the whole customiziablity aspect, the ONLY decent thing about the game & they nerf the crap out of it w/ making much of the customization unattainable w/o a mind-numbing, suicide-inducing grind.

Completely lazy & unpolished. Examples abound of how the game was just slapped together. Aside from the obvious checklist of things they thought made other games popular (mostly WoW) which they failed at implementing correctly. One such would be the main contact in the tutorial zone. Chief Surhoff. He actually says that the interact button is F. It's Z, F is follow. Probably the most important piece of info in the tutorial and even that is wrong.

Colors don't match, hard on the eyes. In the costume creator if you choose a gradient you cant match it across body parts. The palette is limited & the colors themselves start becoming an eyesore after several hours. Even removing that ugly outline in graphics options doesn't help. It will rot your eyes like chewing on lollypops and never brushing will rot your teeth.

I could go on, but this is long enough for a dissatisfied rant.

Aside from your opinions on various things - the things you said that did not work worked for me

Teaming and sharing quests worked (as long as people met the requirements for the quest to be shared)

Combat was fluid and I could move around and fight fine without rebinding any keys

Blocking worked fine (and I'm in Australia so prob have a bit more lag than most people)

The guy told me Z was the key I needed - I didn't notice anything wrong in regards to quest information and general game info

Man what ever. Champions Online is fine, just need a bit of fixing on combat (range vs melee). As far as teaming and doing mission while sharing, I had no problems what so ever. Out of all the immense amount of people I played with in beta no one complained they all enjoyed CO and so did you troll stop the BS and have fun. Your beta review is BS to me and many others.

Originally posted by CHATTER

For a MMO, it isn't very massive. The main zone for instance (no pun intended lol) has an instance cap of 100! That's it. Which is pitiful for such a large zone. Not to mention all the loading screens & having to decide instances every single time gets old fast & kills immersion.
- point 2. You change zones (say to level up) and then you go back to the zone your team was in. BUT if that zone nears the instance cap it wont let you in. EVEN IF THE REST OF YOUR TEAM IS IN IT. So you are forced to either wait for someone to exit that zone which can take a looong time, or else ask your whole team to change zones. AND IF they actually change zones, they are transported far away from the quest and have to essentially start over. Horrible system.

This is a really game killer for me. Since being dissapointed by the Aion beta, I was hoping to try this game. But if what you typed above is correct I'm not even going to bother. It's a terrible system that should have no place in MMO's.

Not sure why I even bother, but...

The instancing is in place so that a) CO has one server and one server only (=no ques, no mergers, no deserted servers), b) people don't stand on each others feet but get the feeling that they are a super hero an not joe-shmoe standing in line at the taco stand.

Does the implementation have issues? Well sure, but it can be worked on.

And by the way, you dont have to pick instances every time you zone, you can let the server decide, e.g. based on which zone has the most of your friends in it. But that's just one of the things the OP apparently overlooked. Well, the other issues have been discussed in a more mature manner elsewhere. Some are real issues, others are just a matter of personal preference and others are, well, non-issues.

Originally posted by CHATTER

 

Sloppy combat. The combat system, while it seems intuitive & refreshing for the first hour starts to show all its holes & downsides fast after that. The complaints I had heard people make about all you doing is hitting the 2 key repeatedly rang all too true. The whole "action packed moving while you fight" just doesn't exist as you cant do that w/ a PC's controls, even w/ changing key binds.

 lol did u even pass the tutorial zone? cuz right after this u get  the oportunity to buy new skills, and its really fast and betten then the usual buttonmashing stuff u find in WOW etc.

 

Ridiculous perk requirements for unlocking costume parts. With the average costume item taking 1,000 - 5,000 kills. At one kill a minute (assuming you're killing something far below you in level {for no xp btw}, at a rate of 1 a minute) that's anywhere from 17 HOURS to 80 HOURS just to get ONE costume piece. And there are A LOT of costume pieces available in this way. ALSO, they are NOT given account wide. Only per char. Add on top of that they want to sell them through microtransactions TOO. Really really destroys the whole customiziablity aspect, the ONLY decent thing about the game & they nerf the crap out of it w/ making much of the customization unattainable w/o a mind-numbing, suicide-inducing grind.

 This is also a false statement, i did 5 pvp battles and gained like 2k points, which allowed me to unlock quite a few items, the bad thing about the item unlocks is that u cant preview em on what they look like :(

 

 

 

I always felt that Cryptic did good with their CoH. The things you've listed will no doubt be corrected and fixed.

Also, I feel the shard/instancing will help the game in the long run, no more re-rolling on populated servers or repurchasing a CO account to play on USA/EU servers should the community die out.

I actually really like the way they decided to do the server setup with the 1 server & multiple instances.  Great idea, bad execution.

Originally posted by CHATTER

I had such high hopes for this game. Alas they were dashed & my illusions were torn asunder when I was able to try the beta and really experience all the game had to offer (which isn't much).

For a MMO, it isn't very massive. The main zone for instance (no pun intended lol) has an instance cap of 100! That's it. Which is pitiful for such a large zone. Not to mention all the loading screens & having to decide instances every single time gets old fast & kills immersion.
- point 2. You change zones (say to level up) and then you go back to the zone your team was in. BUT if that zone nears the instance cap it wont let you in. EVEN IF THE REST OF YOUR TEAM IS IN IT. So you are forced to either wait for someone to exit that zone which can take a looong time, or else ask your whole team to change zones. AND IF they actually change zones, they are transported far away from the quest and have to essentially start over. Horrible system.

Altough its true that theres a limit on amount of players on every shard, the problem with waiting for shards... well didnt have it (played 1-25 and 1-16) and even if you did experience it... well it was beta and they exploited us to the full, which is in sense a good thing. BTW the limit cap is different on each zone... MC for instance is 150 and well if there were more people you wouldnt be able to do your quests/missions its as simple as that, its not possible.

 

Broken teaming. The teaming is completely broken. Functionally you can team w/ people but there's no point as sharing quests only works 0.1% of the time.

 I actually agree to this, most quests are chained so it makes sharing hard

Sloppy combat. The combat system, while it seems intuitive & refreshing for the first hour starts to show all its holes & downsides fast after that. The complaints I had heard people make about all you doing is hitting the 2 key repeatedly rang all too true. The whole "action packed moving while you fight" just doesn't exist as you cant do that w/ a PC's controls, even w/ changing key binds.

 Did we play the same game? This is by far the best ingame combat of any mmo to date and oh yes its action packed alright and wtf you talking about "not moving while you fight" ? I played as Power Armor I moved around all the time to avoid heavy melee, my friends used either fly to keep them apart from mobs... as far as I know only a small amount of skills req standstill pos.

Bad responsiveness. Blocking doesn't work half the time. The response time / input lag for your powers is really bad.

 the lag at some times were horrible beyond belief, I believe they were testing their systems. Blocking otherwise works perfectly so this is not true

Animations. While animations look next gen in their produced videos the interrupts & fluidity of them when you're actually moving amongst powers is schizophrenic. Really pulls you OUT of the immersion.

 uhm? Sorry dont really understand what you are saying here?

Crappy story. The quest storylines are so crappy & badly put together it feels like a lazy 7th grader did it on the school bus ride home. The vast majority of the quests are boring & uninspiring. Not to mention frustrating as they're designed in a way that encourages people to be dicks to eachother. Another problem is that because of how their designed the low low instance pop caps wont get higher as it would only make the problem worse. So they've painted themselves in a corner.

No just no... well Id agree to the storyline being crap ofc, every mmo so far has been utter bullshit but at the same time its being done in a almost parody, the sometimes crappy names like "Overbrain" (its a big brain in a jar with world domination plans.. Overlord anyone?) and well... cant think of any other right now but its full of those little half fun, really bad names.

But as for people being shitheads? Cmon the game system itself with missions/quests giving a lot more exp then mob killing has the exact opposit effect, its much better to team up then stay alone as you can beat missions faster and so gain exp faster. The instance pop is not a problem, period.

 

Corny voice overs. 'Nuff said. If you tried the beta you know what i mean. Bang your head on the table corny. Not funny ha-ha corny.

Yeah Il give you that, but almost funny cause their so sterotypical.. also Comic book fans will love this

 

Ridiculous perk requirements for unlocking costume parts. With the average costume item taking 1,000 - 5,000 kills. At one kill a minute (assuming you're killing something far below you in level {for no xp btw}, at a rate of 1 a minute) that's anywhere from 17 HOURS to 80 HOURS just to get ONE costume piece. And there are A LOT of costume pieces available in this way. ALSO, they are NOT given account wide. Only per char. Add on top of that they want to sell them through microtransactions TOO. Really really destroys the whole customiziablity aspect, the ONLY decent thing about the game & they nerf the crap out of it w/ making much of the customization unattainable w/o a mind-numbing, suicide-inducing grind.

No no and just no... You can pick up items that unlock costume pieces?! You are talking about the nemesis rewards arent you? Besides 1000 kills isnt that much and even so.. they only affect looks so why care about that? It already got part from CoX the best custimation system for characters, youl always be unique, so.

And why would you grind? The mobs dont yield that much of xp and missions rarely forces you to kill one certain type of mobs for long

Completely lazy & unpolished. Examples abound of how the game was just slapped together. Aside from the obvious checklist of things they thought made other games popular (mostly WoW) which they failed at implementing correctly. One such would be the main contact in the tutorial zone. Chief Surhoff. He actually says that the interact button is F. It's Z, F is follow. Probably the most important piece of info in the tutorial and even that is wrong.

Cute... I agree the game needs work though, many quests/missions are bugged but in general it works quite good, there will be nerfs coming on alot of things I believe but that will be fixed... and this game has nothing to do with WoW, it doesnt feel like it, it doesnt look like it, it has nothing whatsoever incommon with WoW. It did however steal the idea from WAR of Public Quests... which is great.

As for your NPC telling you to say F instead of Z it was because they rescently changed it from F to Z...  and also.. could you find anything more pety then that?

 

Colors don't match, hard on the eyes. In the costume creator if you choose a gradient you cant match it across body parts. The palette is limited & the colors themselves start becoming an eyesore after several hours. Even removing that ugly outline in graphics options doesn't help. It will rot your eyes like chewing on lollypops and never brushing will rot your teeth.

 Face it you just suck making your heroes look cool, all mine did but then again I picked every costume piece individuallyand colored them all individually, if your lazy blame yourself not the game.

I could go on, but this is long enough for a dissatisfied rant.

No not at all, everyone has an opinion about something, this game may not be game of the year but so far, well its a certain buy

I agree with the OP.  However the only game breaker is the zone/ instancing, the fans could candy this problem all they like but it's garbage. I don't care that you can see what zone your friends are in. I don't care that when you leave an instance you can select the instance your group is still in. IT'S JUST WRONG  !!

If your in a major city you should be able to see the entire chat and be able to know what's going on. I had to switch servers and fly back 4 times to get help on a popular 2 man quest. I hate to use WoW for an example but I must enter at least three caves a night without zoning, this should be no big deal, but Champions uses zoning and makes them a big deal. By the way, how many deep dungeons are their like two ?

I've been playing mmo's for years and I know that most play solo for months before they take grouping seriously, So I give Champions about two months before it looses players like cray.

Fans of every mmo stick up for their games before launch to the max. no matter how bad the game is developed. 

Age of Conan, Vanguard, Darkfall, Warhammer..........remember, or did you forget ?

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Originally posted by CHATTER

I had such high hopes for this game. Alas they were dashed & my illusions were torn asunder when I was able to try the beta and really experience all the game had to offer (which isn't much).
For a MMO, it isn't very massive. The main zone for instance (no pun intended lol) has an instance cap of 100! That's it. Which is pitiful for such a large zone. Not to mention all the loading screens & having to decide instances every single time gets old fast & kills immersion.
- point 2. You change zones (say to level up) and then you go back to the zone your team was in. BUT if that zone nears the instance cap it wont let you in. EVEN IF THE REST OF YOUR TEAM IS IN IT. So you are forced to either wait for someone to exit that zone which can take a looong time, or else ask your whole team to change zones. AND IF they actually change zones, they are transported far away from the quest and have to essentially start over. Horrible system.
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You have few points but just a note from a other standpoint.

The instance did have higher player limits. The started with around 200 but then a outcry happen on the forums from other players that needed to wait for a quest or did spent to much time waiting for respawn. I guess teaming is so hard for some....

The even said the will change it later again, when the places are not overcrowded, including tweaking respawn...

Switching Zones, yeah I see your problem. Look at me, I like it for the point you hated because with the instance switch you travel back to the entrance point. So you save travel time to hit the powerhouse, fly to a other zone or sell/craft stuff. ;)

 You know it always gets to me how they say combats is pressing 1, and then 2 on occasion. Did you even get out of the 1st starting zone? :::sighs::

 Dax.

Complaining about zoning is just silly, the gameworld itself is so small and the areas you use would too overcrowded to do any questing in. By doing shards youl never get lonely, as for fanbois sticking with the game well...

Im not a fanboy, I will buy and play this game because I think it was fun, enough said. It does what every other mmo fails to do, deliver fastpaced and fun gameplay.

I can only really give the OP two major points as accurate. You do accurate portray how the shard system works but you make it a negative. Other than some tweaking to make sure you can get back to your team I see it as a plus.

You are a super hero and you want to feel like one. MC is a huge zone (and by the way, the population cap is higher than the starting zones) and you feel like you are one of the rare supers fyling around. It keeps the supers feel to the game while at the same time giving you the tools to find your friends and superteam mates. Whenever you look at the shard list you can see if you have friends in that shard. I think the cool thing here is it is one virtual server so you will NEVER have to worry about a friend not being on the same server as you and not being able to play together.

The voice over work is over the top. I think it was to make it feel like pulp comic hero drama and it is but not so great.

I had none of the problems with blocking not working. I moved a lot with all of my characters to avoid or gain attacks advantages.

I would not call myself a huge fanboi (not even sure what that is but that is a whole other topic) but I do like the game and am tired of things being seriously misprepresented by burned out, jaded MMO players who should probably not being playing t hem anymore.

The combat system is awesome.  Outside of the tutorial if you build a character that only uses two attacks that is entirely your fault.  I've said it before and apparently I need to say it again, CO character creation system is a sandbox; the developers give you a bunch of tools and trust that you'll use them to create the character you want to play.

 I enjoyed the beta but have decided to wait  a few months or more before playing. I think many of the issues folks had with the game will be worked out by Christmas. Till then I will just follow the game forums to see how things progress. I am sure that they will have a free trial sometime next spring and that might be the time to start.

I was expecting Champions to be a super COH and its not, they have a lot of things in common, but Champions is its own game and has its good points and bad.

I get what the OP is saying.

The characters are too... shiny.  Even after tweaking the video options, they are either way too bright, or way to dark.  Not enough "gray" so to speak.  But they do move well and have good animations.

Except for different power types.  For example, using the energy building power with Munitions and autofiring that, then using the first electrical attack.... does not always work, and can get frustraiting as hell to use.  The two different animations don't flow with one another.

Respecing is a pain in the butt too.  You can only respec a certain number of powers back.  Once you hit that point, you are forever stuck with what you have.  This includes not only powers, but the stat increases and power increases as well.  I found this out the hard way when I hit 11 once that I couldn't respec my first 2 powers.  This means you have to some extreme planning beforehand.  Not only for your powers, but your stats, your power perks, and all that jazz.

I don't like the instancing.  Hate it  in fact.  One can use all kinds of justification for it, but I think it is cause they dont have the hardware/coding to support one server.  Not enough mobs to kill for the quests?  Make the area bigger.  Too many heroes flying around?  Make the zone bigger with other points of interest to have them hang out at.  But that's just me.

I did find out though, that this will be the first game ever I dont have to Name Farm at launch.  Because of how they handle the name system, you can name your guy just about anything.  Rock on!  You can have 500 people named Iron Man just cause that's how the system is set up.

Speaking of which.  Cryptic really flipped off marvel with this game.  You are able to create reasonable likeness of a lot of your superheroes from Marvel.  Spiderman, Iron Man, The Thing, Hulk, Cyclops, Nick Fury, Firestar, Storm, Ice Man, Human torch, Mr Fantastic....... the list goes on and on.

Not only that but most have the same powerset combos to make those characters.  Want to make Ghost Rider?  Pick up the Chain Lariat. Iron Man?  Too easy, they have the Power Armor powerset.  Spiderman?  Pick up web grenade, the force energy builder, Lightning reflexes and the swinging power.  It won't be exact, but pretty dog gone close.

There are TONS of little pop culture references.  Like there was a quest called "Fought the Law" and when you finished, "the Law won".  I thought that was funny.

You save Foxbat in a side quest and he goes crying about seeing a GM to get a different respawn point.  I mean yeah the dialog is over the top, but Hello... your main Super Hero , Defender is like 8 feet tall with Arnold Muscles on Steriods times 100.  The whole thing is over the top.

Is the game perfect?  Hell no. 

Is it fun?  Hell yes. 

You may not have this game being your main,,, but as a game on the side, it wins.

Hope you find they fixed what btohered you before then Mistmouse. 

Slim26, I do not see that big of a deal with ranged vs melee.  There are obvious issues that can be overcome through crafting and power choice that do not require you to choose powers outside of your melee powerset and are still viable in combat.

I have listed what I used with my set that has made me fairly decent in PvP one on one or in groups but, does not do well against multiple or free for all PvP.  Others tend to gang up on you when you are the only or one of only Mell targets in areas.  I do not want to list it again ( kinda like my uniqeness there ) but, a combination of crafted items and powers in one group and I can really take out others as well as ranged.

It is not as easy as ranged, I will give you that.  However, if you are looking for a challenging PvP go melee!!  You can make Batman Proud!  hehe.  Geek, I know.

Two things I'd like to point out. The zone cap is set at 100 to prevent overcrowding and spawn camping. Its not a technical limit. As players level up and spread out, it will be closer to 200 per zone. They set this number based on what feels right for the size of the zone and the current density of players. Don't worry, you'll run into just as many players in CO as you would in any other MMOG. In fact, you'll run into more of them because all players will be on the same server.

And the comments about combat are hilarious. If you can't move and use powers at the same time then you really need to L2Keyboard or better yet, get an X-Box controller or a Belkin n52t. Just because YOU can't move and press your powers at the same time doesn't mean everyone is as handicapped as you are.

I've been playing this game for 5 months now and combat hasn't gotten boring to me yet. Repeating the same zones 30+ times, now THAT is getting boring.

Originally posted by CHATTER

I had such high hopes for this game. Alas they were dashed & my illusions were torn asunder when I was able to try the beta and really experience all the game had to offer (which isn't much).

For a MMO, it isn't very massive. The main zone for instance (no pun intended lol) has an instance cap of 100! That's it. Which is pitiful for such a large zone. Not to mention all the loading screens & having to decide instances every single time gets old fast & kills immersion.
- point 2. You change zones (say to level up) and then you go back to the zone your team was in. BUT if that zone nears the instance cap it wont let you in. EVEN IF THE REST OF YOUR TEAM IS IN IT. So you are forced to either wait for someone to exit that zone which can take a looong time, or else ask your whole team to change zones. AND IF they actually change zones, they are transported far away from the quest and have to essentially start over. Horrible system.

 I never had this problem..then again I didnt' leave my team to go level up we usually all took a break and made sure to pick the emptiest shard to go back too.  I do how ever agree it sucks it doesnt' just transport you to where you were in the zone.  Try using the suggestion box.  I found the world rather huge personally the pop cap of the instance has nothing to do with the relative size.  That has to do with keepign the game from being laggy.  Ever been to popular city spots in other games and they just allow thousands of people aroudn at once? yea Lag frigging city.  Atleast they account for this.  BTW the zones get bigger in the population cap.  It was 150 in the lvl 10+ zones but the lag and major slow down in the ability to quest completion was the reason they lowered the cap.  I think 100 is just about right for the lower and mid level areas.

Broken teaming. The teaming is completely broken. Functionally you can team w/ people but there's no point as sharing quests only works 0.1% of the time.

 Again I didn't have this problem..the only quests that wouldnt' become primary or share were chain quests and there really weren't that many of them.

Sloppy combat. The combat system, while it seems intuitive & refreshing for the first hour starts to show all its holes & downsides fast after that. The complaints I had heard people make about all you doing is hitting the 2 key repeatedly rang all too true. The whole "action packed moving while you fight" just doesn't exist as you cant do that w/ a PC's controls, even w/ changing key binds.

 If they're only holding the 2 key down they didn't get very high level. 

Bad responsiveness. Blocking doesn't work half the time. The response time / input lag for your powers is really bad.

 No true.  It does have a delay time so you have to make sure to hit it and hold it the moment you see the attack coming its made for.  I do wish the delay was less but I'm guessing its like that since most often its stopping your auto attack first.

Animations. While animations look next gen in their produced videos the interrupts & fluidity of them when you're actually moving amongst powers is schizophrenic. Really pulls you OUT of the immersion.

 not sure what your babbling about here.

Crappy story. The quest storylines are so crappy & badly put together it feels like a lazy 7th grader did it on the school bus ride home. The vast majority of the quests are boring & uninspiring. Not to mention frustrating as they're designed in a way that encourages people to be dicks to eachother. Another problem is that because of how their designed the low low instance pop caps wont get higher as it would only make the problem worse. So they've painted themselves in a corner.

 Really? Odd atleast their storylines make sense unlike "go collect me 10 pies from orcs because I Hate them" BS thats standard in most MMOs.  You obviously didn't play with the system much.  If its a kill quest it doesn't matter who hit it first everyone that attacked it gets quest credit for it.   Loot quests on the other hand it does suck a tad with but there's not that many and the spawns are so incredibly fast in busy areas it doesn't matter.  Most games it takes forever because of 1 slow spawns and 2 there's no such thing as assisting in other games.

Corny voice overs. 'Nuff said. If you tried the beta you know what i mean. Bang your head on the table corny. Not funny ha-ha corny.

 I didn't think they were corny..tehy were comic bookie ..but whatever if your wanting epic proportions star wars kotor sort of voice overs ..comic book games aren't for you.

Ridiculous perk requirements for unlocking costume parts. With the average costume item taking 1,000 - 5,000 kills. At one kill a minute (assuming you're killing something far below you in level {for no xp btw}, at a rate of 1 a minute) that's anywhere from 17 HOURS to 80 HOURS just to get ONE costume piece. And there are A LOT of costume pieces available in this way. ALSO, they are NOT given account wide. Only per char. Add on top of that they want to sell them through microtransactions TOO. Really really destroys the whole customiziablity aspect, the ONLY decent thing about the game & they nerf the crap out of it w/ making much of the customization unattainable w/o a mind-numbing, suicide-inducing grind.

 ...hardly destroying when there's an insane amount of costum peices from the start.  How do you know how long it takes on the perks? THe perk costume peices are tied to specific quest chains not killing.  The killing perks just give you points to buy stuff.  Acheivement systems aka Perks aren't meant to be easy and fast...WoW's isn't, WAR's definitly isn't...name an achievement system where your meant to be able to do it ultra fast?

Completely lazy & unpolished. Examples abound of how the game was just slapped together. Aside from the obvious checklist of things they thought made other games popular (mostly WoW) which they failed at implementing correctly. One such would be the main contact in the tutorial zone. Chief Surhoff. He actually says that the interact button is F. It's Z, F is follow. Probably the most important piece of info in the tutorial and even that is wrong.

 Its hardly that important since every time you come incontact with something it says "Press Z"  boo hoo there's a typo lol.  The most important thing you take out of the tutorial is just basically learning how to use your character and thats about it.

Colors don't match, hard on the eyes. In the costume creator if you choose a gradient you cant match it across body parts. The palette is limited & the colors themselves start becoming an eyesore after several hours. Even removing that ugly outline in graphics options doesn't help. It will rot your eyes like chewing on lollypops and never brushing will rot your teeth.

 Total lies but whatever.  All my costume peices matched perfectly.  It automatically chooses for each peice to match the color scheme to your MAIN color scheme aka the color choices on the left.  You can then change per peice the color scheme using the dialogs on the right.  Oh and the last set of color you used are always the top row of colors.

Its a comic book game what the hell were youe xpecting dull grays and blacks?  Realism?

I could go on, but this is long enough for a dissatisfied rant.