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How is the fighting in this game?

UifzUifz Member Posts: 252
in City of Heroes
Please explain how you fight, Im thinking about getting this game but I dont want a game that you click then select attack then you watch them fight instead of you doing the fighting.

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  • WarcriminalWarcriminal Member Posts: 244

    no afk fighting in this one :)

    IMO it the best fighting system devised for a mmo to date. Very enjoyable and totally over the top. Great stuff

    It should be noted that fighting constitutes 99% of the game so it better be good, and luckely it is

     

    oh and it is great to play a game were I can jump again :)

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  • AuggieAuggie Member Posts: 22

    There is no auto attack.  You have to click your skills for them to activate. You start the game with the brawl skill and the 2 power skills you selected from your powersets.  Each skill uses endurance, and has a recycle time before you can use that skill again.  So really this isnt a twitch game but you need to strategically select which order to fire off your skill/powers to be effective.

     

     

     

  • VindvalyaVindvalya Member Posts: 115

    Definitely the best combat in any MMORPG I have played(EQ, DAOC, E&B)  You learn some of your base attacks early but you will use them all throughout the game.  As yo gain more and more abilities you can do more in combat and combat gets more fun.

    The thugs also get to use cool powers agains tyou like teleporting and healing, suicide exploding, defense debuff, leader behavior, and much more.

    The MMORPG combat bar has been raised.

  • SkippySkippy Member Posts: 11

    Fast.. FUrious.. very interactive. image

    I love it.  You use abilities in battle.  The closest you can come to AFK is that you can choose ONE ability to have automatically refire every time it refreshes.  But even then that won't get you through fights.

    The same skills you use at low levels you can augment and enhance as you go along so they becomes the skills you can still use at higher levels.  Plus you get more tactics and abilities as you go along, which is pretty standard stuff.

    One thing I loved was that my fiance by clicking on me in battle seems to auto-target whatever i'm fighting.  Great with me being the tank and her assiting from a distance.  As i'm fighting things it seems to select next nearest thing which is attacking me as I kill things, another thing I like.   The only times i've gotten frustrated was with the "select next enemy" tab key use, I would prefer also having a "select nearest target" key, but I hear you can macro one up easily.

    And don't think macro means you can go AFK, they don't work like that. No way to "delay" between attacks which would be needed for AFK macro use.

     

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