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The plan, so far as I know, is for all appropriate sets to be ported in one form or another.
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Okay, how about porting over the differently colored powersets? For example, the red Energy Assault set that Doms get? I've got heroes that are just screaming for red blasts. The blue/white blasts lose their allure after a while, and are just plain wrong for many concepts-- and I've conceptualized them as water blasts, wind blasts, etc. ...
I realize you guys have a blue=hero red=villains thing going, and I also realize that complete power color customization is a massive task. But porting over some of the existing, differently colored sets would make a lot of folks happy. I can think of at least three characters I'd re-roll if red blasts for heroes became a reality.
It doesn't get my yellow electricity or blue, white, and yellow FF sets here any quicker, but as far as PC goes, I'll take whatever I can realistically get.
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Time for Happy Fun Explanation Fun Time!
Okay, see, every power in every power set is its own entity. As in, Blaster: Energy Blast: Power Bolt is different from Defender: Energy Blast: Power Bolt and Dominator: Energy Assault: Power Bolt. While it would, theoretically, be possible to fulfill your request, it would mean that instead of Blaster: Energy Blast: Power Bolt, you have Blaster: Energy Blast: Blue Power Bolt and Blaster: Energy Blast: Red Power Bolt. Continue this for all nine Energy Blast powers, and every color added.
Now say that, for whatever reason, Castle needs to make some change to Blaster: Energy Blast: Power Bolt. Instead of making the change just once, like he would now, he'd have to make that change for every version of Power Bolt. This adds a ton of extra work for him. This idea was messed around with a bit during the City of Villains beta, which is why the Legacy Chain's light-based characters use differently-colored versions of Energy attacks, but was abandoned because the additional workload would've been too high.
This has been the first-ever edition of Happy Fun Explanation Fun Time!
Edit: As a side note, because each power set's version of a power is its own entity, people worrying about the Dominator version of Psychic Shockwave getting nerfed because the Blaster version will be watered down can sit back and relax. -
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Empathy is an emotion and the empathy set is about compassion and caring and even with one power, giving of oneself for your fellow man/woman/huge.
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Empathy is merely the ability to sense and understand emotion. Sympathy indicates compassion and caring.
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In other words: Empathy is knowing, sympathy is caring?
Anyway, Empathy on a Corruptor would be like Thermal Radiation, but less useful. And villains get enough Corruptors identifying themselves as "healers" as it is. Makes me want to ask 'em what the rest of their powers do.
As for Empathy or (worse yet) Thermal Masterminds? They'd be invulnerable, due to having Bodyguard and a PBAoE heal that doesn't require a successful to-hit check. Making that sort of thing work would require more dev time than was available for this round of Powerset Proliferation, on account of those VEATs people keep skipping over. -
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things like Kinetics for Masterminds would be extremely dangerous to port directly; many changes would need to be done to make that one work
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I still wants it though for a bots mm...
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You want a Robotics/Fulcrum Shift -I mean, Kinetics- Mastermind?
You know, my robots have a habit of charging off on their own randomly, and I'm just imagining what that would look like if they were Speed Boosted at the time. Like Kid Flash with a laser and ADHD.
Edit: Mind you, I'm not saying Kinetics for Masterminds is a bad idea. It would just need some... tweaks. -
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Neat. And first post after a mad scientist
Edit: Uh. Holy [censored]? PSYCHIC SHOCKWAVE? Are you kidding?
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Yeah. Now I'm torn between Psi/Nrg and Psi/Psi. Maybe I'll make one of each!
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Castle did tell us not to assume that Energy Manipulation would be the very best Secondary for Psychic Blast... -
Holy dang, I got a direct red-name reply to a question. This inflates my ego!
Now I'm really looking forward to Issue 12. I mean, I already was, but now I'm doing it more. I've got a character in mind who I can just see laughing like a maniac amid a mass of bad dudes trapped in her little World of Confusion.
And she's such a shy, tiny little slip of a thing, too. It's always the quiet ones. At least she's more or less on the side of justice, right? -
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This was cute. Now if you really wanted to do an april fools. you should have shut down test for the day and have everyone speculate that test was being implemented. then turn it on later in the day and say gotcha
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What would've been really evil, is if they'd put a freakin' gigabyte-sized patch on Test, and blocked people from logging in, all Closed-Beta style.
That one gig of new data? Anyone who broke the NDA by going pigg-diving would discover that it was nothing more than a massive .txt file saying "You've been owned" over and over again.
That's what I would've done. Then, I'd get fired. -
My first thought upon pulling up the baords and seeing a new announcement was "okay, it's April first, and our dev team is entirely composed of people who seem to love a good laugh. Let's see what this is..."
Now, I'm laughing too much to think any more.
I wonder what Atlas Park's chatter looks like on Freedom today... -
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Storm Masterminds will Rule.
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I agree. And it amkes me wonder if this means the next MM primary will have something to do with the elements.
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Ninja/Storm FTW!
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Yes. Won't it be wonderful when your melee pets have even more reasons to stand around and use their ranged attacks?
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Well, since that's apparently all they do anyway, at least going by the talk on the forums...
I admit it, I don't have a NinjaMind. I just make assumptions based on what people who do have NinjaMinds complain about. -
I'm going to end up with an Electric Dominator, one way or another. Probably also a Pipe Wrench Brute, who will no doubt need a suitably silly battle-cry.
DarkityTanks are going to have all manner of good times.
I do kinda wish Scrappers had got Super Strength. Still, everyone likes fire! -
So, Lighthouse, any chance of us finding out what-all powers are in Mental Manipulation?
I have cake. It's not a lie. -
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Also keep in mind that we haven't seen exactly what powers are in each of the "new" sets, or in what order they appear, or numbers...etc. Don't let yourselves be underwhelmed until you test it.
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Bah, you don't really expect people to follow reasonable advice, do you? I thought the whole Psy Blaster debacle proved that being reasonable has no place here.
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Reasonable advice has no place on the Internet!
Actually, I am rather looking forward to running an Axe Brute, and being as borderline-obsessed with Electric powers as I am, it's nice to see more Archetypes get them.
I want to see what-all powers are in the sets, and in what order. Some of 'em we more or less know, but what's in Mental Manipulation? What got knocked out of Electric Melee for Assassin's... um... Shock(?) and Placate?
Assassin's Surge? Charge? Electrical-Sounding Word That Can Be Associated With Severe Pain? That's it! Assassin's ESWTCBAWSP!
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Eh, I dunno ...
It seems like quite a few power sets on that list are real head-scratchers. And there's no real verification about where that list came from. I think I'll wait until gamezone puts up their version of what's to come; at least we know that they're getting info from the source.
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Did you read the link that was posted with the list? From: http://www.totalvideogames.com/artic...e_12_12989.htm
It's definitely the same stuff, Dr. Brainstorm revealing the powers in story format.
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So they copied and pasted yesterdays article from Gamezone. That doesn't tell us anything. Until I see Redname Confirmation, I'm assuming this "TVG Exclusive" is a hoax.
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so you're assuming the UK City of Heroes site is propagating a hoax then? because the TVG article is linked there.
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Well what d'ya know? TVG there must be the ones who get to put this out in the UK. And we've seen things come out on the UK site before the American site before.
I'm gonna say this is probably legit. -
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Since when have Dominators had a Manipulation secondary?
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Typo?
Actually, Eisenzahn has a point. This is on a different site, no announcement, some rather odd set choices...
But what would this site gain by feeding people lies and crap?
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Fairly random commentary!
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Blaster
New Primary - Psychic Blast
New Secondary - Mental Manipulation
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Gonna re-roll Brain Sister as a Blaster in Issue 12. No more Domination for her.
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Controller
New Primary - Plant Control
New Secondary - Thermal Radiation
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Gotta keep the plants warm, right?
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Dominator
New Primary - Earth Control
New Secondary - Electricity Manipulation
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A new challenge for my habit of explaining really odd power-set combinations!
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Stalker
New Primary - Electric Melee
New Secondary - Electric Armor
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How do you hide using electricity? Hmm... I suppose a high-grade stealth suit, with some wiring problems that emit a constant electrical charge, which were kept in place because the charge actually protects the wearer...
Now I just need a name. And to not suck at playing Stalkers. -
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[severe snippage]... why are we being marketed to again? We already play.
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Because it's an MMORPG that relies on continued income from subscriptions. We're not being marketing to get us to play, we're being marketed to get us to keep playing, and, by extension, to keep paying.
The difference is most likely profound to someone with a background in advertising or public relations, but to an IT nerd like me, it's minimal. -
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Booo Dr. Brainstorm! I say we hold his Mad Scientest license for ransom unless he tells us NOW! ((Kidding!))
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I say we find him.
Tie him down.
And FORCE the answer out of him.
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Sounds like my kind of information-gathering!
Sounds like the dev team's idea of information-gathering, too, given the number of missions that boil down to;
Contact: "Hey, $HERONAME, we need to find out where $VILLAINGROUP is staging $NEFARIOUSPLOT. Go commit acts of assault and battery on suspected members of $VILLAINGROUP until one of them tells you."
$HERONAME: "Okay. 20 or 30 good?"
Contact: "Make it a round 50."
Anyway, I fail to be as completely outraged as many people appear to be at the edict of "wait until tomorrow". That may be because I wasn't expecting to get a list until open beta started, but eh, whatever. I'm patient. I can... wait...
*eyelid twitch*
Hey, if any devs are reading this, will the bandaged exposed brain or cracked glasses be new costume options? -
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My milkshake brings all the pie to the yard.
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Fix't.
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F- NC Soft. City of Heroes is dead.
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I'll try to miss you when you're gone. No promises, though.
Why are people so upset about a company trying to make money? Welcome to capitalism, guys! You want it, you buy it. You don't want it, you don't buy it. -
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I'm inspired to make a new toon called Divorce Lawyer
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ROFLMAO!! Uh, time for new tights again.
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That's starting to sound like a personal problem. Maybe you need to see a doctor about that. -
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I wonder how my winged character would look in a tuxedo? Well, when I get paid on Friday, I'll find out.
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Before you move too fast, I've *heard* (but can't confirm, as I'm not in game and my comp is on the fritz again) that you can't combine the new tux coat with wings or capes, at least on males. You may want to double-check that first
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Confirmed. Females can use wings with the tuxes and males cannot.
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Well, the character I'm thinking of is female, so that won't muck my plans up any. I wonder though, why dudes can't mix tuxes and wings. Probably some wacky craziness with the game engine. -
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Do the tuxedo tails have the horrible butt cape trench coat physics going on? Or do they actually look ok?
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They flow from the mid-back and look much more natural than the trench coats.
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And it seems that they can be combined with wings, I saw a screenshot in the art forum that made teh embroidered tux flaps look like an extention of the fairy wings.
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I wonder how my winged character would look in a tuxedo? Well, when I get paid on Friday, I'll find out. In any case, I recently came up with the idea for a very formally-dressed Mastermind, but the available costume options just weren't formal enough. Is it worth ten bucks just to get him out into the wide world of Mercy Island? Maybe.
As for the debate about paid costume stuff, I must point out that additional-charge costume packs often pop up in the Suggestions & Ideas board. Maybe NC Soft is testing the waters, as it were. In other words, they're saying "let's find out if this will work as well as we think it will". -
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I am a big dumb stupidhead... it's really true!
Ex
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To sig or not to sig, that is the question... And it's a tough one.
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The game's being moved over to a better place with more money and with the entire development team still in tact, under management that promises not to meddle. If that's what makes games fail, then just what in the name of Cake makes them succeed?
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Being developed by Blizzard. *rimshot*
Seriously, though, I think the game's gonna be fine. Now devs, how 'bout that Galaxy of Heroes that everyone's talking about all of a sudden?