RogueSeraphim

While I haven't taken an official tally I have read every post so far and I just wanted to pop in and point out that it appears that players are responding more positively to the female models whose costumes depict them as strong/confident/capable type as opposed to a weak/slutty/dependent type. Combine that with the response against the depiction of Sister Psyche in the recent artwork for Freedom/Issue 21 and please learn from it when choosing how to depict females in game. I was personally disappointed with the choice to make Sister Psyche look like a blow up doll in tutorial picture and then clinging to her man in the signature story arc, perhaps I am not as familiar with her back story as I should be but is she supposed to that weak and unheroic? It will honestly be hard for me to view her as a strong hero after seeing those images.

It appears that the female characters most favorably mentioned are Ghost Widow, Ms. Liberty, Mirror Spirit, and Night Star. All have very different styles but have a couple things common is they are all fully covered and all look like they could kick butt and take names.

On the other hand Swan and Sister Psyche's names seem to come up frequently as needing revamps. Their depiction in game is much more one note... sex. Speaking for myself they don't instill a lot of confidence in their super hero abilities when I look at them. And this is not to say that I am anti having sexy characters in game just that they need more than just that 1 aspect to their character & costume. I think most would agree that Ghost Widow is sexy and this is accomplished without her costume being barely there.

In future I’d love to more females depicted as strong and capable and wearing a sensible costume. I’d also love to see more diversity in general. We have lots of white straight humanoid males. I’d love to see more mutant types, different races and ethnicities, a better male to female ratio, more aliens that look unique, more feminine looking males, butch females. While we all love Ghost Widow it would be a shame to try to please everyone by making multiple gothic NPCs. My ideal would be for a balance between costume types & styles.

Sorry if this came off like a rant or not exactly what you were looking for, perhaps I’ll post again later when I came go through and look at the various NPC costumes more carefully. Thanks for your time.

Clip from the panel, includes new costume set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-_F6Nv11A

Pics:

Just sharing some video from the panel. Pictures of the slides to follow

Alpha Strike Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hQn5b080Q

Alpha Strike Video with dev comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfnek2zPYew

Other Notables:

-Apex TF: Difficulty intended for people with Alpha slots, Protect Primal Earth from invasion

-Tin Mage TF: Take the fight to Praetoria

-Ability to log out into the character select screen

-Alpha slot contact will be Mender Ramiel, he has seen a seen the future and needs you to develop your incarnate abilities sooner rather than later

-New zone events in Praetoria, devs now the abilities to create them, thus they are easier to create. New zone events will have new rewards to encourage players to repeat them. Players are not required to do damage for the rewards, if all you do is heal or buff it can track that and grant you the reward. There are no current plans to add this to current in games event, though it is possible. New zone events have different ways that you can participate in them.

-New hero side missions: With the impending invasion the people of Pargon City want access to the medi-porters, will involve a moral choice.

-New villian side misisons: Discover the source of power of the Leviathan.

-Inclusion of Praetorians in Primal Earth missions

-New groups, maps and powers added to the Mission Architect

-Return of the Primal Earth Calvin Scott TF

-Hopital gurneys added to hazard zones and trial zones.

-Nurses to sell inspirations in all hospitals

-Contact added to Praetoria to adjust your difficulty

My entry:

"When news got out that Mighty Mart was selling Going Rogue early The Ocho, like many other heroes, thought he could fly in and beat the rush, he didn't plan for Mighty Mart's increased security."

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

Here's my entry:
Red Drakon 1
Red Drakon 2
Red Drakon 3

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Awesome! Mine wasn't even judged nor commented on? Superb...

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Sorry about that! You must've posted after I sent the link to Juggertha.

For what it's worth, I think you've got a good sci fi/cosmic hero going here. The only thing I don't think works is the straps on the chest. I'd just drop them altogether. Also, and this is personal preference, I'd us the "tights" version of the gloves and boots to eliminate that seam, because I really like how you blended the red of the arms/legs into that section of the gloves/boots.

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Don't feel bad my entry for the Aye Keeya pallet was missed too, guess we know who the cool kids aren't

I'll grab that last spot

Centurion Marcus is a lvl 50 fire/ta troller, his background is that he was a roman archer and his legion got magically sent forward in time which also had the side effect of giving them new magical powers. Here's a few pics of him in his upgraded modern armor.

Marcus 1
Marcus 2
Marcus 3
Marcus 4
Marcus 5

ARCHETYPE: MM
POWER NAME: Thugs
PET NAME: Gabe, Samuel, Firestarter, Pain, Pleasure and Bruiser
SCREENSHOT(S): Fully upgraded thugs

ARCHETYPE: MM
POWER NAME: Necro
SCREENSHOT(S):
Zombies, middle w/1st upgrade
Grave Knights, left one with 1st upgrade
Lich w/1st upgrade

Here's my attempt:

Icebit 1
Icebit 2
Icebit 3

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong.

Lol here's a more fitting picture

P.S. it's hard to tell but the inside of the jacket is the darker blue.

Thanks!
Just the top is from the wedding pack, the pants are the slacks that are available to all.

Here's my entry

Retron1
Retron2
Retron3
Retron4

yes

*runs in, throws a bag over Chisoku's head and drags him back to where he belongs. *

Sorry for the threadjack

KEATs
Full
New vet reward
Freeze villian
Art
Gather

Bored at work

Flying

Heals

Prison

All gray to me

When TPing goes bad

Kitty illusionist

Here's a few of my attempts:
one
two
three

Here's my shot at this:
Gabe Justice
Gabe Justice 2
Gabe Justice 3

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Hm.

Upon further reflection, I'm not sure I'm that happy about the Coralax and Legacy Chain moving into Paragon City. As cool as they are, they're some of the things that give City of Villains a distinctive sense of purpose. By making them cross-factional, you marginally improve City of Heroes while diminishing part of the cool factor of playing Redside. And honestly, diminishing the cool factor's kind of the last thing City of Villains needs.

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Or blue side only people may see them and be interested in learning more about them and go and check out red side

While not the news that we were hoping for, the new make over sounds very nice.