Golden Girl

The Incarnate content is focused on Praetoria for now - Tyrant's invasion is the current main storyline, but the focus will shift later on.

EDIT: The I20 overview page is now up:

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam..._overview.html

And it looks like the Floating Fortress belongs to the Sky Raiders and loyalists.

And why does that bother you?
The whole point of the storyline is to expose Tyant's lies and get players onto the right side before the invasion starts.

Co-op content has to be heroic by default, otherwise Heroes wouldn't be able to do it.
Saving the world is heroic, but it's also something Villains can do because they want to take over the world themselves.

They don't ignore it - they're just sensible about the priorities, as almost everyone uses Windows - making sure the Windows version of the game works is much more important than making sure it works on Macs too, so the Windows version gets the attention first.

It can be co-op - all co-op content has to be heroic by default, as heroes wouldn't do evil things, but villains might still do good things - heroes save the world because it's the right thing to do, but villains can also save the world to try and take it over themselves later on.
All the current co-op content is heroic, buit it still allows villains to take part too, so I don't think they'd change that for any new co-op content.

A place with no freedom is totally evil - that's why there's a resistance - the fighters of the resistance aren't risking their lives for Calvin Scott's wife.
A real utopia wouldn't have an armed uprising in it.

It might not be a new zone - it could just be the setting for another Incarnate Trial.

Tyrant created the Resistance - if he wasn't an evil dictator, people wouldn't need to take up arms to reclaim their liberty.
Tyrant's "protection" of the people has caused a civil war, and he's spending a vast amount of time and resources trying to defeat other humans instead of the Devouring Earth.
There shouldn't be any need to fight the man who can solo the Hamidon - if Tyrant wasn't a crazed supervaillin, most of the resistance would be fighting the DE instead.

But he's carrying out the very worst cimes imaginable - he is the very worst of what humanity can do.

And how would that explain his crimes in Praetoria?
His powers and the sonic fence are all that are needed to protect people - murdering and torturing and brainwashing people doesn't make Praetoria any safer - it makes it less safe - hes' reducing the population, diving society and causing a civil war - and all for totally un-needed reasons.
If Tyrant wants to fight the Devouring Earth, why is he spending so much time and resources on murdering, torturing brainwahsing and imprisoning the people he's meant to be protecting?

It wouldn't - nothing can spin Tyrant as anything other than a villain, because he's powerful enough to be able to stop the Hamidon single handed, which combined with the sonic fence would mean he could keep Praetoria safe without needing to carry out crimes agaisnt humanity 24/7.
By making Tyrant so powerful, and showing how effective the sonic barrier is, the devs have undermined any attempt at justfying his crimes.

If there were no Seers, no Enriche, no torture chambers, no slaughter houses and no secret prisons, no Praetors, no experiments on living humans, no disappearances, no propaganda and no repression, there'd still an incredibly powerful guy who could solo the Hamidon, along with an incredibly effective sonic fence to protect the city.
None of Tyrant's crimes are things he had to do - he could have chosen to serve the people as a hero, like on Primal Earth - but inseated, he chose to take an evil path, and rule rather than serve.

Tyrant's crimes aren't connected to the threat of the Devouring Earth - he's already shown he can defeat the Hamidon and protect the city - his crimes all come from his fear of human beings and their free will.

Until they finish making the Mac the version of the NCSoft Launcher, yes

The Floating Fortress isn't in Independence Port - the preview just mentioned the new battleship in Independence port.

Well, the game is called "City of Heroes" - and the developers work for Paragon Studios, not Rogue Isles Studios

We could have a spectacular underwater zone without needing to go in the water

I think it's the Cinderella's Prince Charmning dress sense he has going on:



A lot of people probably look at Tyrant and expect something do do with balls and glass slippers, rather than gaint war robots and genocidal world conquests.

And the aircraft carrier part would mean the Freaks had welded jet engines and wings onto themselves.

Ooh, that worked - thanks!

4+ GB downloaded in about 45 mintues - so the speed seems fine.

Actually, it's not a "petty little dimension" - that's the whole point - that's why it's called Primal Earth - it's connected to far more dimensions than any other alternative Earth, so taking control of it would open up the multiverse in ways that couldn't be done from whichever alternative Earth any invaders come from.

The Well of the Furies makes him more than just a mad emperor

Well, they are - they're the acceptable way of adding a Nazi-style state to the game.
While the devs don't even risk adding swastikas to the 5th Column, Tyrant and the loyalists allow them to add "alternative Nazis", while still keeping it reasonably tasteful and not too offensive.
If you switch the loyalist star for a swastika, and dress the PPD up as the SS, then all the loyalist stuff about mass-murder, torture, repression, invasions to expand the empire and plans to wipe out millions of "undesirables" from the population of Primal Earth doesn't sound quite so good as content for a video game.
Praetoria allows the devs to present content that would be unsuitable if it was tied to real-world events.

And our sanity

First, we already know why he's invading, and second, I thought quite a few players would really welcome the chance to punch another Statesman?

Well, the Trials we've seen so far allow you to do the same

What exactly is there not to like about a crazed god-emperor who's the apparent champion of a mystical source of ultimate power than spans the multiverse launching an invasion of giant evil war robots to enslave an entire world?
Tyrant and his loyalist stormtroopers are exactly the kind of threat high level Heroes should be taking on.

No, we can see now - go to Neutropolis and take a look at the Lambda Sector base, and then look at the preview where it mentiones the Lambda Sector

So Batman is just playa hatin'?