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That's one of the selling points for SW:TOR I believe. I'd love for something like that to happen here.

It was and hasn't changed

Isn't that a confirmed bit of GR? Silly thing to put on a wish list of features if you know it's coming


You can pry the Shadow Shard and Dark Astoria from my cold, dead, decaying fingers

Incidentally WBT DA and Shard revamp!

Yea, it was.


I'm not really sure where folks are finding the arbitrary number of new zones. I've seen a lot of folks saying there will only be one or two new zones and that's it, which seems kind of silly for a paid expansion really.

Under the current plan I'm most likely going to be elligible for all three phases of the closed beta.

That seems possibly like I'm overdoing it a bit ya

Speaking of that, could there be an auto-responder for tells to folks on trial accounts akin to a "User is AFK" message.

Since we're talking about trying to make things better for people actually trying to play the game on trial accounts and all.

Admittedly, I think a lot of us would like more costume pieces, but I don't really agree that CO's costume creator 'blows ours out of the water'. They have a couple different points to attach pieces which I'd like, and the multiple colors can be nice or not depending on the piece. The creator itself though is very poorly organized and there's a lot of gaps in available pieces (or there were when I played in the closed and open beta).

Well, we're going to get number four by all accounts so far, but your suggestions two and five have me curious as to what you'd suggest. I mean, I can't think of any roles our game is missing, so any new AT would kind of have to borrow slightly from anything we already have. If you can think of something else I'd love to hear it. I can think of new gameplay styles they could build towards, but it's just be revising another AT's roll to some extent (which isn't a reason not to do it I don't think, but that's just me).

Also, how do you propose we change the gameplay in CoH? You can't really change the core gameplay without alienating at least some portion of your established player base. So anything done would have to somehow tack itself on to existing gameplay which more than likely wouldn't be nearly enough for the folks who want new gameplay mechanics from CoH. In all likelihood the folks who want different game mechanics would probably be better served looking for them elsewhere. That's not me telling you to leave, just saying, if we tack on a different play-style this late in the game in all likelihood bad things will end up happening.

I was looking through this just now and thinking to myself that I remembered the devs talking about a new gadget based stalker secondary ages ago ... and then it never happened. Of course, this was around the same time they were talking about a new mastermind primary being in the works (seriously, this was ages ago, back before NCsoft bought out Cryptic IIRC). We're just now on the cusp of getting to see a new mastermind primary, so I'm somewhat hoping that there's more powersets on the way with GR and they've only just confirmed the two.

I can dream can't I?

I'm guessing we'll get it Saturday sometime.

And by 'guess' I mean know since there's that announcement they're making Saturday at Hero-con

Here's a thought. If I17 (or 18 if GR takes long enough to come out ....) is the expansion patch issue, what sort of features will come along with the patch to help ease the sting for those who don't buy the expansion? I mean, I6 came with three PvP zones and some graphical improvements (among other things ... like ED).

I kind of hope the new player experience they've mentioned and whatever associated zone is the 'free' content that we end up getting (either that or buying the expansion comes with a free month and gives people access to the full game). Really though, the starting experience for a game is always rather important and if they cordon the new improved starting experience behind a payed expansion they'll be giving a less favorable impression of the game than they otherwise could to trial players or folks who just buy the base game to see if they like it before they get the expansion.

That said, I know we'll be getting a good chunk of new game content, so I'll just throw out some things I'd like to see:

More than just the 2 powersets already announced (1 for each AT would be a fantastic sky pie).
One new AT shared by both sides. (see oft bandied about 'spy' or 'incarnate' ATs)

Honestly, I read those comments, at least for the first four or five pages it's mostly people disagreeing with the article about CoH needing a revamp. Only a couple of folks doing the CO is CoH2 thing is all.

Of course the article was spot on. The article's only real complaint (that I can see) is that the game's five and a half years old. It's hard not to be spot on with such insightful brilliance.

To heck with talk of a remake for new tilesets. Let's get that ASAP. Heck, if they could come up with a map randomizer instead of the group of pre-made maps I'd jump for joy.

There was an interview I read a while back with Matt saying that there would be new introductory content with GR:

Going Rogue will also have new entry-level content in Praetoria, for those starting new characters in that zone. “We acknowledge that our tutorial is about four or five years old. We’ve added stuff to it piecemeal as we’ve added systems on, but for the starting zone in Going Rogue, we are rewriting and modernizing the new player experience.”

What do you mean after people get home? I'm fairly sure some people will be posting whatever they can fit in 140 character impressions about as quickly as they can manage.

Yea, I think it's something like one in five people in South Korea have the last name Kim. It's the most common last name over there I believe.

Really? Since when? I think they're making another MMO, but currently unless you're counting Diablo or the RTSs it's just WoW.(I think)

Ahhh, so you mean energy blast

Energy blast's damage is pretty middle-of-the-road as far as blaster damage goes, but it's just downright fun to play and honestly the knockback provides some fairly good mitigation.

Defeating things wise, if the choice is fire or archery I'd say go fire if you can't wait until 32 before really pumping out the damage.

As a fire alternative I'd like to point out that rad blast has a rather nice damage output in a blaster's hands.

Just backtracking a little bit here.

You've covered how a person would find them in searches, now how about if you were to send a tell to the person. Would you have to append 'Pin' or 'Tri' onto the end of their names? Would it only be necessary only for the person transferred onto the server or would we all need to append the server onto the end of tells so as to not make the folks merged into our servers feel bad? Would we do the stupid looking thing that CO did and have everyone be <charName>@<global>, because if so it'd be kind of silly for some of us (I'd have an Oliin@Oliin ... well two actually).

I know that when I played DAoC and they clustered servers, the server name would show up after a person's name when they were visiting another server or if they were in the frontiers, and if I'm recalling correctly you'd have to type the server name only for people who weren't from your server. It worked there because the home servers didn't actually go away.

The main way I can really see something like that working in CoH would be if they let you move a character from server to server through Portal Corp somehow. Which might work I suppose, though I'd suggest restricting it to preserve server populations somewhat and making it so you couldn't start teams, take missions or complete your own missions unless you were on your home server. You could go to other servers for TFs and PvP, but you wouldn't exactly be able to have a character live on a separate server. Some guy really could be Captain Amazing, Justice because he's from the 'Justice' dimension (or whatever).

And it actually looks terribly awesome in red and purple.