ViralShard

I thought the first was the tutorial with Jenkins and the longbow.

Leaked as in it wasn't suppose to be released to the live servers yet.

Edit: Or for Issue 19

I can empathize with your financial situation, however because one either chooses not to or is unable to experience content doesn't make the content not so.

And actions have consequences, this was yours. You chose to RP a certain way, nothing wrong with that at all. However, because of that choice you are unable to continue along the contact chain. Could there be more content? Should there be? Yes, always, more content is a good thing. Is the current level of content a flaw or a problem? I don't think it is.

I feel you've missed my point, let me clarify. You brought up that the lack of new ATs was a disappointment to you. I gave that a remedy to this is that praetoria gives unrestricted access to all legacy ATs. Perhaps the failing to convey this was mine.

I disagree that it was 'wrong' and I certainly disagree that it was unprofessional.

Emphasis mine.
A couple of your 'facts' actually aren't.

"Mostly just a repainted world."
This is wrong. Praetoria features 4 new zones, 6 if you count the 3 instances of the underground as one, which I do. These zones were built from the ground up heavily influenced by the inclusion of Ultra Mode. Much development time went into designing and building a world we have never seen before. They were not revamps of exsisting zones or reskins. Implementing the reflection tech into the sky scrappers of Steel Canyon, that would be a repainted world. The Hollows or Fautline revamp, I present those as examples of a repainted world. The only way I could see Praetoria as a repainted world is in the most literal sense possible: It's part of the game and it looks different too.

"No novel power sets."
nov·el   
/ˈnɒvəl/ [nov-uhl]
–adjective
of a new kind; different from anything seen or known before: a novel idea.

Those four powersets are new they each introduce a new mechanic of some sort we didn't have access to. I've never seen or known them before so I will claim that they are novel.

"The small number of missions that allow you to complete all of the contacts missions and not being at level to pass on to next contact (Completed all of the starter missions at level 3.)."
I feel this is subjective as my personal experience was that the contacts were leveled perfectly

I have more that I see as either wrong or subjective opinions but I just wanted to get the point across that not all of what you said was fact.

Now, your emotional responses are you own, I do not have the prerogative nor ability to tell someone how they should feel. You are disappointed or unimpressed and that it is fine; clearly we disagree and I doubt I can change that feeling. However, I do take issue with what you proclaim as fact as most are subjective and fed by anecdotale observation and others are mistaken. Some of your points I even concede to and agree with but I feel you are unfairly misrepresenting the content of the expansion.

Yes, it's an entirely new starter experince not just a revamp of current lowbie content, (which I would also love to see) but a new world we can explore.

I'm confused by this. What to you would qualify as a new world then? By that reasoning I could argue that any new zone at all is just a repaint of what we already have. So what needs to be done to make it "new" then? We just got beautifully crafted new zones that made full use of and were designed with Ultra Mode in mind, a new mechanic just recently released. This gives an updated feel to CoXs graphics, I feel that qualifies as a new world.

A new player starting a hero has access to 5 ATs. A new player starting a villain has access to 5 ATs. A new player starting a praetorian has access to all 10 ATs, the freedom to experience what both sides have to offer in an entirely new world.

Again, confused. What to you would qualify as a novel powerset then? By novel I'm going to assume you mean something of a new kind never seen before. In that case we got 4 new powersets, yes two were released early for pre-purchase but they were all part of GR.

One of those was Dual Pistols which introduced beautiful animatons a new mechanic to the player, the ability to swap damage type and secondary effects of all powers; I'd call that new and never seen before.

Another Demon Summoning, introduced a new type of MM henchman where each pet has its own unique theme and attacks. Along with this the attacks featured entirely new and very well done animations. I'd say that's novel.

The third, Kinetic Melee gave every attack the ability to reduce a target's damage and Power Siphon giving the ability to drain enemy damage and give it to yourself. Something else I'd say is new to players.

Electric control I'd say was the least novel of them all but still introduced a large -END component to a control set.

These four new powersets are spread out across all ATs. Meaning every single AT aside form epics got a new powerset to play with.

I'll concede to this one, that is a bit annoying.

And I'm thankful, I much prefer to enjoy my new experience without being bombarded with farm and PL requests.

I will admit an ability to create SGs would be nice. However, there is no need for Paper/Radio and by extension Mayhem/Safeguard missions. Those serve to introduce you to new conatacts through your broker something that is not needed as Scott and Marchand server that role.

Again I concede that this is a bit confusing at first

At the risk of sounding disingenuous I find this an immpressive feat as by completeing missions by defeating anything in my path and not making an effort to completely clear a map, I found my self at level 4 by the end of mission two.

The obvious recourse includes completing missions for the other side in effort to switch or just to do undercover work; the choice is yours.

If by "fancy 1-20 tutorial" you mean an entire new lowbie experience then yes. And also, yes no primals may enter nor praetorians who have left, this is by design. The devs have stated their reasoing and I can see and agree with their views of not wanting to ruin immersion or interrupt the experience with level 50 primals. They also stated their intent to add onto praetoria and include access to primals at a later date, some speculation pointing to as early as Issue 19 for this happening.

Your experince with a previous title does not change what CoV was. It was a stand alone that included interaction with CoH and had the option of paying only one subscription fee for two games. Eventually the games were combined giving full access to those only owning one side.

Praetoria is very literally graphically different.

And now you can experince ALL legacy ATs in one new world along with multiple new powersets that every AT gets to use.

No need as of yet for that mechanic in praetoria and travel powers are not as neccessary as missions have been more streamlined to take place in the same area.

Praetoria plays very different from either, there you have missions that offer morality choice and a chance to choose your own path, you can even kill off contacts removing them from you game.

There's that word again 'novel' I'm not sure what you think novel content is. And stepped back from Heroes or Villians? The writing and missions are far superior than anything we've had before, not having to run around all the way across a zone or even across multiple zones is a major step forward to the annoyance of previous content. And no powerset requires any significant learning curce to grasp, certainly some of the first powersets were less complecated to, say, kinetic melee.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Going_Rogue - Here that includes a feature list

Aww what gave it away? Must have been the accent. And wow ya love smacking down fanboys huh? Well I love my rampant fanboyism! Let's be friends.

But really all seriousness aside...

Well to be fair I've only seen four movies this year and this one makes the top. I'm not the most demanding movie goer in the world just a rather simple fellow and this was a fun, humorous, and overall awesome experience so that's good enough for me.

Sounds about right, I couldn't find much else about them aside from some artwork.