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Quote:If I19 is small-ish - like I15, then it might not need a closed betaOriginally Posted by EU_Damz
Ok own up . . . . who here is in i19 closed beta and hasnt let any info leaked yet?
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Another good reason to make the Fitness pool inherent is that the 4 powers are extremely generic, and are the kind of physical bonuses you'd expect most superpowered people to have anyway.
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Quote:The screenshot shows him in the Vanguard base area, wearing Vanguard style armor - the TF will be co-opOriginally Posted by HardRider
'Alpha Strike' task force for Alpha enabled characters - Apex is the contact
erh??
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I think the correct answer is now "good things"
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Quote:It's still spandex and capes - that's intruding on our turfOriginally Posted by EvilGeko
DCUO will destroy Champions, but I don't think it's really intended to compete with City of Heroes. From all accounts the games are going to play VERY differently.
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You might like I19 and I120 then
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Quote:Hair physics first - and if they've actaully looked at animated faces, then they're slowly getting closer to the right spotOriginally Posted by EmperorSteele
Huh.
I made a few characters without fitness (or at least health/stamina) for bragging rights purposes and self-challenge. So much for that. Otherwise, "yay!"
Also, "yay" for Apex! "yay" for incarnate slot! "yay" for harder endgame content! "yay" for boobie physi-
... oh, wait, they didn't announce boobie physiscs, did they? Aw =(
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Ooh, I just saw that they said that the Incarnate system will be "inititally Praetorian focused" - so that surely means the Apex TF must be linked to Praetoria in some way?
Plus, as the picture of him is in the RWZ, that probably confirms it as a co-op TF, rather than twin story-line approach like the KTF.
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Quote:It probably also plays that smash hit "I h8 U Castle"Originally Posted by Megajoule
Tamaki:
yes, yes, we get it. I13 Ruined The Game Forever. Does this jukebox play any other tunes?
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Quote:I think a big pile of shiny new CoH stuff after the end of the free month included in DCUO is a better choiceOriginally Posted by Psyte
It would, but at the same time DCUO is coming out sooner, not later. I'd rather see them hit with all these preemptively, you know?
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Quote:I think it makes sense from their point of view to spread out these kinds of changes, rather than add them all in one IssueOriginally Posted by Psyte
Well, lets be honest - there are some things that would ideally be available at creation: travel powers, capes and auras. The fact that they're not just shows an aged part of the game. I can understand keeping them as carrots for advancement, but I do hope they've talked a few times about changing that, especially in light of competition (regardless of your opinion of said competition).
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I wonder how the Fitness pool will be added? Like will we still unlock them at the same levels the powers are available now, or will they all be there right at the start for someone making a new avatar?
I already use all 4 Fitness powers, so this is going to open up an extra pool for me - so i think I'll be doing my first respec since Sands of Mu was added as a vet reward, which meant I didn't need to have Flurry anymore to get that punching animation
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Quote:I'd rather they made the first travel power pool pick available when you make your avatar, and then get the 2nd pick at level 6 - which is anbout the time when you're ready to move out of the starting zone and into the wider city - so it'd make a lot of sense, I think.Originally Posted by james_joyce
Actually, I wouldn't be opposed to making a travel power a "free choice" at level 14, meaning you can take both a travel power and another power.
Plus, being able to take the first pick when making your avatar would also make sense, as the way you travel is a very important part of the overall superhero idea - like we can pick our two main power sets, our costume, our power colors, and our name, but the travel part has to wait, which is kinda weird. -
Quote:Vanguard are also getting pretty involved in the fight against TyrantOriginally Posted by Shadow Wail
Then can I guestimate that the Alpha Slot is going to be Rikti related?
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If that is Apex in the picture, and he's wearing Vanguard armor, maybe that means the new TF will involve Praetoria, as the Vanguard are leading the way to bring down the dictatorship?
That'd mean it'd be a co-op TF, and it'd also match up with Praetoria being opened up to Primal Earth people - and the alpha strike could refer either to what we're doing in Praetoria, or the first attack of Tyrant's invasion.
EDIT: Of course, it could also have nothing to do with Praetoria, and the alpha strike could refer to some possible first wave of the Coming Storm
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I20 being a bit of a blockbuster was kind of a given - it's the first Issue after DCUO comes out
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Quote:Theyr'e safely contained - it's only when the scale reaches 11 that they're dangerousOriginally Posted by Psyte
*ow*
Watch where you point those things!
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I think this news registers 10 pops on the nippleometer
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Quote:Not really - the setting means there has to be plenty of info on why things are so wacky - because it's set in the present day, in the normal world we all know.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Uh no because all elements of a story boil down to "it's that way because that's the way the writer wants it." There are various extents to which you can separate the "why" of the story to the aforementioned basic reasoning, but don't try to say they're all either iron-clad or nonsensical. Hell, in the trailer you even hear the chick say, "If we're going to be dating you may have to defeat my 7 evil exes." so that's one of those supposedly unanswered "whys" answered right there.
Audiences recognize straight away that Middle-earth or the galaxy far, far away are different worlds from the real world - the settings are instantly recognized as fantasies.
But for a fantasy set in the real world, the reasons for the fantasy elements to happen or exist have to be explained -
I've never screamed anything at my monitor - it's only a game
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Quote:Don't forget Statesman and RecluseOriginally Posted by rian_frostdrake
silver mantis and black scorpion? penny yin and the clockwork king, tyrant and dominatrix? synapse and anything with a pulse?
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Quote:No, because the story has an internal logic that makes it understandable.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
But you can always ask an additional "why?" or however many it takes to get back to the original reasoning: because that's the way the writer wants it to be.
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Quote:I didn't see any TV spots, just the trailer - and that was only after I saw a thread about the movie here - I'd never heard of it until then.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Ad rates are really cheap in the summer so $30 million does get some mileage. Also this wasn't a movie you would advertise to the viewers of NCIS, etc. Still the TV spots were poor.
And the trailer was awful - not awful as in "Battlefield Earth" awful, where you could tell it was going to be so bad it'd be funny - but awful as in a waste of time with zero entertainment. -
Quote:Not really, no - well-constructed movies give reasons for the events of the plot to happen.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Er but you can argue that point for pretty much every movie or story ever.
For example, right at the start of A New Hope, George Lucas quite literally spells out some of the key plot points in the opening text crawl, and dialogue and actions throughout the rest of the movie reinforce them and build on them - the audience doesn't need to ask why the Death Star is so dangerous, or why Leia has stolen the plans to it, or why the Empire wants to get them back, because the story tells them why in a clear and logical way.