Zombie Man

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I didn't read every post, so sorry if this has been answered, but any ETA on I11?

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The Feature teaser has been released. Closed Beta is going to start real soon. According to Kerensky, Closed Beta is going to be very short (probably just very initial debugging under a soft load) before moving quickly to open beta. So, I'm guessing I11 will be released a few weeks before the Winter Event, i.e., early to mid December, thus meeting their three-issue-per-year goal.

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Please tell me I can customize robots, that'd be so awesome! Either way really neat things going into this one, liking the sound of dual blades combo system...reminds me of the guild wars assassin

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Sorry, no. See weapons guide in my sig.



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My apologies if I missed it, but will we be able to have different weapon looks for each costume slot?

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Yes. See weapons guide in my sig.

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I'm sure many of us would like to if it wasn't blocked as 'games' where we work.

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Here's a forced same-skin link that should work.

And in that guide, check out the newly added link to the pics of weapons on display at the Black Market.

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Please tell me I can customize robots, that'd be so awesome! Either way really neat things going into this one, liking the sound of dual blades combo system...reminds me of the guild wars assassin

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Sorry, no. See weapons guide in my sig.



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My apologies if I missed it, but will we be able to have different weapon looks for each costume slot?

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Yes. See weapons guide in my sig.

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Since we've got new weapon options, are we getting sheaths and holsters as costume options as well?

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We don't know. Announcements of new costume parts is traditionally left as the last run-up teaser before release to live, if it ever gets announced at all (or even included in the Patch Notes).

The Devs are a bit slow to catch on to how rabid the costume fan base is and to use costumes as a selling point. <sigh>

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I am kinda worried about the dual blades set, I hope the dev's don't give it really long animations for the attacks or else it'll kill the set (Look at claws for example, some of the powers have far to long of a animation time, same for spines) I hope its reasonably fast

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Reasonably fast? The Devs were boasting that it's already too fast.

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What about my mace? Can I do anything with that? I've already noticed the Mace seems to have 5 different types depending on archetype but I hate the Mace style on Masterminds. I'd rather have the one with the bigger spikes Brutes get but not actually be playing a Brute.

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You mean the arachnos mace you can shoot with? That's highly doubtful you'll be able to customize that with a shovel that shoots!



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Mr and Mrs Beast - Ninja/Trick Arrow/Scirocco... YES! and still wandering if the Jounin are getting Dual Blades.

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Nope, pets' costumes and weapons are not customizable.

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- New Power Sets
Pales in comparison to my excitement over the other features.
OK dual blades will look cool, but I've always disliked weapons for the time/delay in pulling them out every, every, every, every, every time after using a non-weapon power (yes I can time them better in the order I use them, but it still irritates the crud outta me).

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Drawn weapons have a longer animation time than other weapons, but it is made up for with higher initial ACC.

The drawing and sheathing of weapons adds nothing to the animation time of attacking. If you already have your weapon out, you will still have the same amount of 'rootedness' in the animation attack time. If you watch carefully, you'll see that if you attack with your weapon already out, there will be a slight pause at the end of the attack animation in which you can do nothing (you are 'rooted'). That amount of time is exactly equal to the time of drawing your weapon. If your weapon was not already drawn, you go through the animation of drawing and attacking and there is no pause at the end.

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I have just one question...or more like begging...

For those new skins of weapons...is it possible to have it so only one toon has to unlock it, for it to be assessible to all your other toons?

I ask this because, I'd love to actually start out a new hero with the skin I choose, rather than go 35 lvls (for say vanguard claws)...to get the right amount of merits, to get my concept right.

I REALLY HOPE this is the case...cuz if so, I might have to make ANOTHER Claws scrapper...and if those Rikti Swords look as cool as I think they will...OH YEAH!!! (Especially if I can Dual Wield them )

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The only times I can think of that an in-game power or costume reward was given an an account wide basis is the purchasing of special editions and in the veteran's rewards. Everything else is on a character by character basis. So... you can pretty much count on unlockable weapon choices being a character by character deal and not account wide, unless, it's part of a Vet Reward.

This applies only for *unlockable* weapon choices. We'll have an initial list of standard choices available for all toons from character creation onward.

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Hm.....ok Flashback means we get examplared/malfactored down to make the missions challenging....

...but since we are jumping back in time to a point before IO's existed, do the normal effects of Exemping still apply to IO's and their bonuses, or will all IO bonuses and powers be nullified while we are timewarped?

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Don't count on a revamping of the Exemplaring code. Too time consuming and too likely to cause unforeseen bugs elsewhere. I give this a likelihood of less than 1%.

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Posi, just wanted to find out if Epic's for Villains will be in this one or not? Looks like not, so when might we see them? Thanks

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The first Feature announcement of a new issue almost always has a complete list of major features. Since EATs were not mentioned, then we can safely be sure they won't be in I11.

Of course, we been told they're working on it and that there's an overall plan to Issues 9-13. So, I'm fairly certain if I read my Devs correctly (and I often do) that EATs will be here by the second issue of next year (summer '08). But, just a guess on my part.

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Well, weapon customization is nice... but it's still not really any content for my 7 lvl 50's.

No thanks... both accounts are cancelled in 2 days.

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You missed the fact the in the Feature announcement that there were details of brand new missions. But I doubt that matters to you. Bye!

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I have 2 more questions...

1. I know Power Custimization has been asked for a long time but this is the first time in 3 years I've ever heard of the "flashback" feature how is that something people have been asking for? It's a great idea but still I never heard of it before.

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Simply to go back and to do missions one has outleveled is what we've been asking for ever since the original beta. Later on, the role-playing explanation was that this was a 'flashback' as in comic books (or any literature) jumping back in time to tell a story that may have been missed in the current continuity.



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2. Will unlockable powers like the Ghost Slaying Ax be included as costimizable weapons or only the Battle Ax power set? Basically I'm just wondering if I can change the style of my vetran reward weapons.

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Most probably not. Ghost Slaying Axe is very particular. Although who knows. If you have the Axe Powerset and you customize the type of Axe, it just might change the look of the Ghost Slaying Axe (although I'm guessing the Devs wouldn't want that to be happening).

If you don't have Axe Powerset, then no, you won't get to pick types of axes, and thus, no customization for the GSA.

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Ouroboros system is cool. Too bad i couldn't relive frostfire at lvl 50 (kidding)

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Well, you wouldn't be 50, instead, you'd be auto-exempted to 15 (I'm guessing). But, you'd have four times the number of enhancement slots than you did at 15 plus an easily obtained Shivan.



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The rare salvage part to me seems a bit of a rip off of WOW, atleast make it a different colour, purple armor in WOW is rare as well.

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The colors of rarity follow the colors of difficulty of foes: white, yellow, orange, red, purple. Has nothing to do with WoW.



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New power set willpower, i'm all for a new tank power set but i thought the winning vote was shields??

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Shields won, but is taking too long to animate. Second highest vote getter was Willpower and here it is. (They warned us in the poll that choosing difficult-to-animate powers would result in delays.)



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Dual blades, it would be so much cooler if this game showed blood (HINT HINT)

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Never going to happen and retain its T(een) rating, thus, never going to happen.



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Weapons customization,...so my broadsword can ALWAYS be out on my scrapper? i don't have to have it unsheathed after using sands of mu all the time?

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No. Yes you do.

Weapons customization is simply choosing a different weapon to brandish about. None of the animations change, so, yes, you will be sheathing and unsheathing it. Whether the animation of (un)sheathing plays or not, the animation time of the rootedness of the power (how long you can do nothing while the entire attack cycle animates) is always the same. Yes, the overall animation time of drawn weapons is longer, but you get an ACC bonus as compensation.

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Question for the weapons customization, for the old weapons powersets.... can we choose which hand we hold the sword / katana /axe / mace in? And will the weapons finally show up on our backs or in scabbard form? (visible on our person without holding them in our hands)

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For the old sets (other than Dual Blades), no, you can't choose handiness. Broad is right, Katana is left (I think) and will remain so. They're not revamping animations, just the object the player holds.

There's no mention of the weapons showing up on backs or in scabbards. That is certainly not part of (and probably never will be part of) the powers' animation. It would have to be a costume piece -- either new belt options, new back options, or the theorized 'coming someday' backpack option.

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Here's something else to consider...

With this Flashback thing, we can now potentially do all of the stuff in the back-history of the CoH universe.

Want to be there when Blue Steel busts Tub Ci?

Want to be there with Galaxy Girl in Eden?

Want to help Talos?

This opens up SO much more than just redoing missed contacts.

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I want to accompany Blue Steel on all his Hero-captured-by-Arachnos extraction missions! There's what, twenty of them?

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when will the expansion come out. im really looking forward to the duel blades.

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Timing: I'm guessing that I11 will be out mid-December. Happy Holiday Gift Giving Season! The Development team is pretty serious about trying to stick to a 3-issue-per-year deadline. So, they have til the end of the year. With the announcement of the issue Features and with pretty strong hints that closed beta testing is starting real soon, then all the signs point to Fall testing and early Winter release, right before the Winter event (which usually runs from the week before Christmas to the second week of January [for all the kids off from school and college]).



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if i have an existing character in the game right now, is it possible to get the duel blades once the expansion comes out?

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Not on that character. There is no switching of primary and secondary powersets. You'll have to start a new character with Dual Blades.

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I just hope i can pick new colors for my claws :-D

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BackAlleyBrawler said that some weapons will be able to be tinted, but some not, at least not right away. Eventually they'll try to make all customizable weapons fully tintable and maybe some or all of them to also have customizable auras. See here.

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This is cool and all but.....WHERE ARE THE VILLIAN EPIC ATs!!!!!!!!!?!!!???!!!!!?
What do we want? Villian Epic ATs!
When do we want 'em? Now!

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As the Devs are finishing up I11, they're already working on I12 and I13. All the stuff that they hinted at but didn't want to commit to as showing up at a specific time should be coming: Moon Base; Fifth Column; Villain EATs, etc... They all should be here by summer '08.

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will the weapon customization effect ninja katanas or bows?

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Yes, and this was actually a tricky combination to figure out. A Thugs/Trick Arrow Mastermind for example will be able to customize both their left and right hand pistol as well as their bow.

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I don't know (yet - it'll take a while to catch up on a monster thread like this) if this has been asked yet, but:<ul type="square">
[*] Crossbows - yes or no?
[*] If crossbows are in, what about pistol-crossbows? (They really do exist, mind) ...?[/list]
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Crossbows... no. At least not for Archery or Trick Arrow. All the animations require the two-handed standard bow and arrow shooting. Only the bow will be customizable.

A Crossbow Pistol like the Luddites use could theoretically be a customizable choice for pistols... but weapon animation is very different from the attack animation. You can 'shoot' a crossbow pistol from a pistol powerset, but it would go "BANG!" and shoot bullets.

So.... sorry, no crossbows for you. (But it would make a good, new Ranged Attack Powerset.)

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Any chance that Ouroboros will let villains do the hero missions, and heroes do the villain missions? Or are we still stuck with our own side's content?

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The first Feature preview usually includes all the *major* updates or additions. Side switching would be a *major* addition. So.. I'm fairly confident that side switching is *not* in I11.

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hmm, I hope the weapon customization allows us to do the following:

Use Battle-Axe power set but have the graphic be a broadsword

Use Broad-Sword, but have the graphic be a katana...or axe...

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Nope. See this guide.

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If a dev reads this, do Scrappers get any blunt weapons?

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Besides their fists? No, not this issue.

I put my pre-beta Weapons Customization Guide to this thread.

Easier to update it there.

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Repeatable Viridian.

Repeatable DOC BUZZSAW.

I am so happy.

I wonder if this will give people a second chance at Efficiency Expert, too...

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OMG! I forgot about Viridian! I consider Viridian to be the best Strike Force villainside (even though he's just an unlockable contact... if you've done it, you'll know I speak the truth). Now he's repeatable! He truly will be the best Strike Force ever!!

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Wanna make a regen happy?
In the Terra Volta reactor: "Guys, we haven't had a spawn for a while and I lost count of the waves... we might have missed a few somewhere. Max_Speed, go clear that Hallway."

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Wanna make a regen unhappy?

In the Terra Volta reactor: "Max_Speed, your bubble is gone, go bubble up."

Never tell a regen that the pitiful amount of hp loss from being in the reactor is hurting them.

Same for being in the lava.

They'll hate you.