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Quote:Individual missions would be ok - I mean putting one in the middle of an arc.Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
Well, there are already missions that require two teammates to click glowies, so this would be no different. Just make sure to put the same disclaimer on the mission text that says, "You need a least one other teammate to complete this mission."
As much as I wouldn't want to add more content that can't be soloed, I think if this was still fairly rare it would be okay. -
Quote:That's why I think Atlas and Galaxy should be combined into one zone - there really isn't any need that I can see for new players to be given the option of going to a quiet zone as their first experience of the game.Originally Posted by CaffeineAddict
In the past, I have found new players in Galaxy, on trial accounts. I met one the other day and showed him how to find the yellow line, travel across zones, where hazard zones are, etc. He had no idea that he could leave Galaxy and was very excited. He was level 5 when I found him, and he was running after me trying to catch up and talk to me in local chat, asking for help etc. So I did. I also showed him Atlas Park, and he was "OMG" over how many people were in atlas (I don't think he had seen any or many players in Galaxy when I found him). Someone put speed boost on him and he went nuts (in a good way).
Plus, the Atlas statue looks way more spectacular when you arrive
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Quote:There shoudn't be a forced endgame - CoH is very good at keeping everything optional - so any new endgame stuff should really be made as something that you can decide to do or not.Originally Posted by Lonelyshade
just sadly there is no forced endgame that keeps veteran longer hooked or make time for each week .
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Quote:Well, it's posisble - if 15 devs could put together something as big as Issue 10, then with the current size of the team, they could do something similar while still having most of the staff working on GR.Originally Posted by Dispari
Who's to say it's not i17 hitting test servers? Might not be a simple patch to live.
But I still think it'd be very unusal for them to do that - they'd have to go back to the dev-only testing to keep it a secret, and that could lead to more bugs if it's as much content as some people are suggesting.
Or if they were going to put it on Test, then I think they'd announce more about it further in advance. -
Maybe not a TF, but there is new Cimerora content being worked on - it ties in with the Coming Storm, apparently
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Quote:That's like a whole new system of endgame content - so it'd have to be Issue 17 then, as I really don't think there's any way they'd release something that big just as a non-Issue patch.Originally Posted by Obsidius
Wait a tick...
To be more optimistic...
On the 2008 survey there was a suggestion that there would perhaps be some sort of alien ship that would be part of the post lvl 50 content...
... and now the mods are dropping big hints about an impending invasion and a "mothership"...
Coincidence? Or not?
In fact, for the people who've been here form the start, what is the largest ever non-Issue patch they've released?
The only ones I can think of are the events and the booster packs. -
Quote:I play the game at the same timeOriginally Posted by Silver_Lobo
you play the forums, yes we know
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I play quite a bit, and I'm happy with it
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I'd rather see Atlas and Galaxy merged - put the HQ from Galaxy under City Hall, and the Galaxy Girl statue behind City Hall.
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Some of this is starting to get near to Issue-levels of content - I'm pretty sure it's just an event of some sort
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Quote:I think they doOriginally Posted by InfamousBrad
You keep using that word "imminent." I don't think it means what you think it does.
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That's rather vague though - it could mean just about anything they're working on right now
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Quote:Well, these things take time, don't they? Flying a mothership between dimensions ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations they could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end the trip real quick, wouldn't it?Originally Posted by MrYukon
hmmmm another day another information blackout.
i'm thinking this ship arrival isn't so imminent.
... hang on ... checking my dev translator...
ah right. imminent is equivilant to an "almost ready" less than soon. -
Quote:The trap worked!Originally Posted by Castle
Great!
Yes!
Bender from Futurama action figure
New Laptop for my girlfriend.
Like a baby treats its diaper.
Ok, kidding on that last one, but I can never pass up a Norm'ism. Life is pretty darn good!
Edit:
You kidding? I've got it easy compared to BABs and Posi! Now THEY have rabid fans.
Quick, lock the door, and don't let him out untill he says how many new zones GR has!
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Quote:Strangely enough, those were the two most recent ones to get a makeoverOriginally Posted by NightshadeLegree
The Hollows and Faultline on the other hand, are brilliant - two of my favourite zones in the entire game, red or blueside. I wish they were all like that.
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Quote:Plus, there's also the "semi-3rd faction" with the option to start any non-Epic AT in Paretoria,a dn then choose to be a Hero or Villain as you go through the moral choice missions there - so while the basic gameplay won't eb changing, the actual way people create and progress their avatars will become hugely more flexible post-GR - and there's also the rumored super enhancements for 50s - so the game after GR comes out will be quite different from what we're playing now, and they might prefer to have that version as the one they use to sell the game to potential new players.Originally Posted by Genesis Man
Hmmm, I can see that as a possibility. The GR Ultra-Mode putting a new face on things will really make marketing easier (it looks SO pretty from what we've seen).
So post GR, we'll have:
New graphics
Good, Evil and Neutral starting areas
Moral choice missions
All normal ATs are open to any faction
Invention system
Player created content
Ouroboros flashback system
Power customization
Costume creator
Five years of content updates
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Quote:Sounds more like a much needed option for COOriginally Posted by Starsman
While we are at it:
Hide other players: Uniforms, make everyone but me look like a phantom illusion (minus FX)
Hide other players: I don't want to see them at all.
Hide world: I just want to see mobs and flat untextured ground for them to fall dead on.
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Maybe they're basing the marketing around GR?
They mentioned at Hero Con that one of the things they wanted to do with Praetoria and the new graphics and tutorial was to make something that you could show your friends and say "look at how cool this game is" - so it's possible that they would prefer to showcase the post-GR version of the game - so no advertizing until it launches. -
Quote:I'm not so sure that'd be so good - the costume creator is a big feature of the game, and having options that mean your creations mightn't have all the parts shown to other players would take away from it a bit, I think.Originally Posted by Noyjitat
So I guess it would be a bad idea to offer you cookies in hopes that you one day implement performance options such as
Hide other players: Capes, auras, wings.
Hide other teams:Capes, auras, and wings.
Hide other players: Buff effects
Hide other teams: Buff effects
Hide player pet: buff effects
Hide player pet: aura effects
Hide NPC: Capes, auras, and wings.
Hide NPC: Buff effects
Maybe you could someday do this, then you could remove costume restrictions. So if someone wants a trenchcoat, cape and wings... (hmm that would look very silly.) They could do it. -
I'd love the zone events like the Steel Canyon fires and Skyway raves to be remade with event-style spawns, so they'd be a challenge for all levels - and use the recent new event tech for them too - like the Hellion arsonists would be setting fire to a building to summon a fire demon, so once you defeated a certain number of them, you'd be able to enter an instance of the buring building to fight the demon - like the way we got to enter Lord Winter's realm after defeating a Winter Lord - maybe even make the fire fighting part need team co-ordination, like the Halloween banners.
Something similar could be used for the Skyway raves.
Also, add random bank/store robberies in all the city zones, using the AVs we encounter on the Safeguard misisons - have them spawn, head to the bank/store, then the door becomes clickable, so we can enter it like the Winter Lord present portal.
And add more zone events too, like the Trolls and their bombs in Red River, the Head of the Hydra in Faultline, Lusca actually doing damage to the docks in IP, an Arachnos attack on the Zig to free more Villains and so on.
Plus, animated hair would be nice
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Quote:If you're talking about maps, could you tell us if GR will have some new ones or not?Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
A fine example of how two players have two completely polar, and opposite desires for content. One wants more unpredictable, random maps...the other wants maps with more carefully planned, and logical layouts.
I'm sure it woudn't enrage marketing - it's not any real info - it's like saying Praetoria has "several zones" - totally vague, but still interesting to know - so if you just said "yes, GR will have some new mission maps", we'd be very happy
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Quote:I think any puzzles like that would have to be only on TFs - putting missions that require teams in the middle of arcs that people solo might not be such a good ideaOriginally Posted by Jade_Dragon
I like this idea more than puzzles. In fact, I've been wracking my brain for a way to make a crafted mission force you to do something like this, such as send one team to unlock a door that a second team has to get through and finish the mission within a time limit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
Concerning what exactly?
I could just go in and slap them and be perfectly content...but it might help if I can scream something at them while the slapping action happens.
"How do you like me now?" is a good, general thing to scream at people you're beating up. -
Quote:That's still massively mutation-basedOriginally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
I would say that backstory wise they are science not mutant. First off the mutant origin implies that the person is different from the norm for their species and while they differ from humans the entire species is different in the same way. Secondly the Rikti mutations were deliberately induced by an alien species rather than being random mutations in the genetic code. Similarly the mutations exhibited by the Lost are deliberately induced using a mutagen rather than being part of their original genetic code.
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Quote:It'd be like the Nemesis Staff - but with more diamonds - it'd be diamond tipped, with bands of diamonds around it, and the top would be a huge diamond-tipped diamond.Originally Posted by LittleDavid
So ... if we find him and take him out, do we get the temporary superpower "Hro'Dthoz's Pimp Cane?"
Can we then whack him with it in a later run of his mission?