Issue 5 Features Preview: Forest of Dread
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Accualt,
Posted on: 2005-06-29 09:18 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
New badges! That's all I really ever wanted...Now, as a side note, did we ever get confirmation that doing the TF's without badges will retroactively give them, I know those without them will get them, but has it been confirmed that you won't have to do them again in the new issue?
-Matches, new badges = new accolades?
What be this utterance unto the Hero City?
Forsooth, doth be an Orc in yonder plain!
Go forth, ye Champions of Justice! For the Fellowship must destroyeth the ring in the mountain of fire! 
(I'm sorry, am I the only one getting a "Tolkien" feeling when looking at this next Issue?) 
Supplemental Galactic Protectorate Fanfic
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It looks great. It looks like the non melee types make out real good. While the Tankers and Scrappers stay out in the cold with the hope that the nerf bat is at least kind to them this time around.
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How quickly we forget the Tanker love. All things in their time, and Tankers already got showered with bonuses. ...and a Burn stealth-nerf, but we don't like to talk about that.
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that giant looked AWESOME!
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Yep.
Just what the game needs.
More Giant Monsters....that nobody bothers to fight.
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For all of those who quit over the Arena or the HO nerf:
SUCKS
TO
BE
YOU.
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my opinion is this isn't a "nyah - hah" to people have have let their accounts lapse. It is a "oh please come back, we really can do content you will like. we promise, please don't leave again."
but hey, I'm just glad to see some more PvE content so I should just hush.
OH YEAH! Now this is going to be good....time to free up some slots...
On Various Servers:
Maiden Victory 50 MASD Scrapper
Brazen Prime 41 Fireenergy tank
Lady Stratega 50 FireSS tank
& Tons of other Alts
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For all of those who quit over the Arena or the HO nerf:
SUCKS
TO
BE
YOU.
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my opinion is this isn't a "nyah - hah" to people have have let their accounts lapse. It is a "oh please come back, we really can do content you will like. we promise, please don't leave again."
but hey, I'm just glad to see some more PvE content so I should just hush.
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So the last three issuse that added content didn't prove that they can do content?
HOW COULD THE DEV'S HIDE THIS FROM US!?
Dawnslayer on Virtue.
Tar patch + sonic Blast = pwnz
what other combos come to mind?...
hmmm.....Ill/sonic? (Controls + damage + res debuff + +res)
HHHHHhhhhhmmmmmm
/em ponders
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Now what if we have passed the contacts for this, will we be able to go back and do these contacts to unlock the TF.
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Very much like you can with the Hollows or Striga, talk to the contact and they'll pass you on up the chain. I'm unsure if you'll be given the TF by the final contact if you're above it's level range.
However, just join someon else running the TF, since by then the auto-exemplaring will be in! No worries, and I'll be looking forward to it on my badge-collecting main.
Croatoa... a place where myth and fantasy still live...
So does this mean we might get a few more European mythological costume options, huh huh does it
Also is there a reason controllers need to play with trick arrows? I understand defenders, who will be learning archery...
devil's advocate -Pogo
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Croatoa... a place where myth and fantasy still live...
So does this mean we might get a few more European mythological costume options, huh huh does it
devil's advocate -Pogo
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The only thing I want is the whiches hat. Come on, we need those...realy.
I can't find Forest of Dread as a chapter title yet, but there's a Forest of Dread in "The Black Cauldron" which is also set in a fantasy realm based on the same Celtic mythos that gives you Firbolg and Tuatha de Dannan.
So it's gotta be some book of that type. Maybe the Evangeline Walton series? Gotta go digging through my bookshelves!
I'm with Hobo_Healer, what gives with no diversity for defenders?
Can't archery and sonic buff/debuff be defender only?
What's the rationale behind sharing everything new between squishies?
Well I just got finished reserving my names. On Guardian, I have The Bowyer as my Trick Shot/Archery Defender and dB as my */Sonic Controller. On Protector I also have dB, but as my Sonic/* Blaster.
(dB is an abbreviation for 'decibel', a measurement of sound)
But will there be giant man-eating moogles? 
Because theres, uh, more of them to love. Yeah. They're so..
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Don't eat me! *Backs away from the giant man-eating moogle.*
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Yay more shared power sets between controllers and defenders. There was not enough overlap already. 
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My thoughts exactly! Yeah for only one primary to call our own! 
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Better than having no secondary to call your own. 
Otherwise...Weee! More magic based enemies. Wonder how they all sit with the CoTs, Tsoo, and BP
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weeeee more neg energy resistent baddies for my warshade..haha
seriously though, the new zone looks pretty cool. i LOVED striga.
Raiyna - 50 MA/Reg/Body (Liberty)
Ravyn Starr - 50 DM/EA (Liberty)
Kalathys - 6 DkCn/DkAf (Liberty)
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Croatoa. Its a name that conjures up images both mysterious and fantastical. In Issue 5, be prepared to enter a new enchanted realm of supernatural danger, where myth becomes reality and ancient legends walk the earth. Croatoa is a place steeped in old magic, ruled and contested by witches, Red Caps, Fir Bolgs and the Tuatha de Dannan. Any hero who faces these creatures in the wooded depths of Croatoa will know the true meaning behind the title, Forest of Dread.
For complete details on what Issue 5 will bring to City of Heroes, including a new Croatoa Task Force, new power sets, mission customization, new zone events and much more, please visit our Issue 5 Preview Page.
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I see no mention of the new temporary power Un-Nerf Bat. Where is it?!?! 
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Well I just got finished reserving my names. On Guardian, I have The Bowyer as my Trick Shot/Archery Defender and dB as my */Sonic Controller. On Protector I also have dB, but as my Sonic/* Blaster.
(dB is an abbreviation for 'decibel', a measurement of sound)
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My reserved names:
Fletching for my archer, probly going to be TA/Arc
Ska for my Sonic hero, not sure if he'll be a defender or a Blaster
And on test I got the name Wail, so I have another sonic guy to try out
Okay, they say it's coming in august. Does that mean they're aiming for an august release date for I5 on the main server, or that it won't be on the test server until then. Because if it's going to be released in augest, it'll have to be on test pretty soon.
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New Task Force Perform missions for contacts in Croatoa to unlock the exclusive task force.
Now what if we have passed the contacts for this, will we be able to go back and do these contacts to unlock the TF?
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In Striga, I found that the contacts just bounced me from one another as though completed until I reached the final one (who gives out the TF).
What I really want to hear about IS the AT rebalancing. Although, if they'd do something to make AVs more interesting (less stats, more interactive powers so that they are challenging and exciting instead of long and boring), and to make the rest of the game harder. Here's an idea: introduce a small asymetricality into the level differential system, vis-a-vis lower level villains attacking higher level heroes without penalty.
You'd still be able to annihilate swarms of blues and greens (because you still have bonuses to hit and damage), but if they had no penalty to hit and damage, so they could attack you as if they were white-cons, then it might make travelling, and outlevelled missions a little more interesting.
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Okay, they say it's coming in august. Does that mean they're aiming for an august release date for I5 on the main server, or that it won't be on the test server until then. Because if it's going to be released in augest, it'll have to be on test pretty soon.
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I think it mean when they want to put it on live. So look for I5 starting next week or two.
I noticed a couple days ago that you can already see where Croatoa is on the map on the live servers. It even has the green line tram running to it.
Now if only I wasn't at work so I could actualy look at the preview...
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Why atleast they get new powers. There is nothing for Scrappers or tanker. I love the way they have been left out in the cold.
Later,
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Us Scrappers got a lot of updates in I4. Look at all the nerfs we got. I guess we should be falsey pleased with all of them. All hail Devs. We bring sacrifices to you as poor peasant worshippers. NOOOOOT!
I wonder if it would be too much to expect that some Fire, Ice & Storm types would have other 'inherent' options for putting out fires in the Hellions trial. Nothing fancy -the same effectiveness as a extinguisher - but using their own pre-existing power animations?
I would be borderline pathetic to watch superheros who have mastery over the elements freaking out over the charges in their fire extinguishers.