Golden Girl

At Hero Con, they did mention the new Punish UnicylcePeon System that they were working on - but it could still be delayed until Issue 17.

Since when have they ever added a new system that was required, and not optional?

As long as he doesn't morph into the Hamidon like Council Archons turn into Warwolves - it'd make fighting him a bit annoying.

Yes, all those rallies and torchlit parades sound like wonderful, harmless fun.

Heck yeah

It could be a zone map - say, a Resistance base somewhere under the city


This is Sexy Jay you're talking about - it's only natural that that muich sexiness would need to find an outlet somewhere

Might need a 35/40-50 too, for those higher levels who want to switch sides

I think the mirror zones are going to have very little relation to the ones we know.

We get 1-20 - that doesn't mean we won't get an arc or two at 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 - Kheldians get content during their career to 50, but they don't get content that lets them level 1-50.

For example, once you're sent out from Praetoria at 20, you might unlock another arc at 25, which involves you going back to Praetoria to report on what you've been doing in Primal Earth, and then playing through an arc or two related to your original reason for being sent from Praetoria - and once that's done, you'd head back to Primal Earth until you unlocked the next Praetorian arc at 30.

Don't forget, they'll be sure to be working on something especially intertesting to announce/launch around the time the DCUO launch hype starts building up

If by "one new zone" you mean "multiple new zones" and by "end game raid" you mean "new endgame system", then the answer is still "no, it's way bigger than any previous Issue"

There's a flood of new content post-GR for a start

It will

Also, GR is as much about new players as it is about the longer term players - GR is about store presence, shelf space, and selling a new, shinier version of the game - and the endgame content is meant to help hook the first-timers as much as it is to satisfy the long-termers.

Positron promises it'll be fun - not Jack "fun", but fun fun

Because it's way bigger and more complex than any Issue

Still new-ish - people will be able to do those all-Defender LRSFs they've always dreamed of

No it isn't - it'll help sell more copies of CoH/V

Well, technically, blue side and red side will be getting 7 new ATs each

Not having 1-50 content is not shortchanging anyone - the endgame contnet can quite easily be bigger than the 21-40 content of CoV, so GR would in fact have more content than CoV.

It makes total sense - the theme of Going Rogue is moral choice and changing sides - once you've made your first choice in the GR tutorial to join the Resistance or Tyrant's thugs, you'll then get to travel to Primal Earth at level 20, where your experiences might make you change you morallity again - like a Resistance supporter might start to think that Tyrant's dictatorship might not be so bad compared to the chaos that's sometimes found in our world, and a supporter of Tyrant might find their ideas challenged by the freedom we enjoy here.

Positron said leaving Praetoria for Paragon City or the Rogue Isles is part of the GR storyline - my guess is that players who side with Tyrant will be sent to primal Earth as scouts for his invasion, and Resistance supporters will be sent here to try and get help, or to warn us about Tyrant's invasion plans.

That's because it was a stand-alone game - it needed 1 through 40 otherwise it wouldn't have been playable.
GR is not a stand-alone game - it requires COH/V - because at 20, you're sent out from Praetoria to the Paragon City or the Rogue Isles.

I think there may also be side-switching arcs at 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50, as any level is supposed to be able to change sides.

But at level 20, you will have to leave Praetoria

That's posisble - but while CoV came with 1-40 content, GR could quite easily match that with 1-20 and the new endgame system, so there'd be just as much content as CoV, but distributed in a different way.

And the Hamidon is under the psychic control of Nemesis

The closed beta will be starting in about a month or two, with a release date of probably around May or June.