Issue 7 Press Release on MMORPG.com
By
Aaron123,
Posted on: 2006-01-30 15:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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*mumbles about CoH barely getting anything, again*
*and also mumbles about how the patron powers appear to be a bit of a letdown*
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- CoV has a lot of catching up to do.
- and whadda ya mean 'letdown', you can shoot SPIRIT SHARKS!!!11111
=P
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My City Was Gone
*crosses fingers prays to Statescrotch*
I am angered.
Why?
New Power Sets! (Villains Only)
I really don't think people should complain about how CoH is getting "table scraps" from this. I mean, the game didn't have any variety to the missions from lvl 1-8 until recently for crying out loud! It has no lvl 40-50 content (coh, so cov is getting theirs) and the majority of the missions were merely rescripted CoH missions (now we get mayhem missions, something long promised). No epic power pools in CoV, but now they are going to get them.
MM only had 4 primary powersets anywho.
You could whine about how you couldn't get a base if you didn't have CoV too, which I'm sure plenty of people did.
New High Level Zones: Grandville (Levels 40-50, PVE, COV only) A vertical zone
Oh, how fripping COOL is that gonna be!! I don't care that I'll HAVE to have Fly or TP, that's just awesome!!!
Grandville contains Spider City
I think I need to change my pants
Recluses Victory (Levels 40-50, PVP, COV and COH)
I hope this Press release is partial, because if there is another release without a single new pure PVP zone for CoH, I'm going to be fairly disappointed.
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Mayhem Missions (Villains only)
Take villainy to the streets of Paragon City with tense new timed missions among destructible environments, which also unlock multiple random events. Players harass citizens, rob stores, destroy property, plant bombs and battle the police in these exciting open-ended timed missions. Causing extra mayhem results in bonus rewards![/b]
I had to post every single word. Destructible environments. Open-ended missions! Extra XP for extra mayhem!
Heaven, I'm in heaven!
Other New Missions (Villains only) Over 300 new missions, including new custom missions. Choose signature villains as Patrons to unlock more exclusive mission content
Yeah, level 40-50 content for the villains. And the Patron idea is genius, even more so when you notice...
Patron Powers (Villains only)
Villain players can select unique new Patron Power Pools based on the specific signature villain that they select (Scirocco, Black Scorpion, Ghost Widow, Captain Mako).
Now THAT sounds like truly epic epic pools. My heart is a twitter!
New Power Sets! (Villains only): Electric Melee, Electric Armor (Brute), Thug pets (Mastermind), Dark Armor, Dark Melee (Stalker)
OK. Sorry for the delay. I, ummmm, fainted a bit there.
/fans self
New Base Features (Heroes and Villains)
So, ummm, you've expanded the feature that most of us can't afford to participate in. Whee.
Quality of Life Features: (Heroes and Villains): New Global Chat and UI features improve the overall City of experience.
CoH Art Upgrades (Heroes) City of Heroes gains reflective windows, added bump and specular mapping, a variety of higher resolution textures, and full screen depth of field effects.
Color me, underwhelmed.
New Costume Items
Well, that'll be nice-ish if it's the CoV costumes, actually something to celebrate if there is some real new stuff in there.
My God, this new version includes some of the things we have been looking for for a long time. I'm completely thrilled with what I see here and the direction it seems to indicate. I would be even more excited about it but I prefer playing heroes to villains and for heroes, this press release boils down to:
Guess my only hope is to wait until I8. :P
Geez Pilcrow, change the blue text to something readable!
My post will look a little better from the City of Villains boards than it looks from the City of Heroes boards.
That seems fair to me.
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My post will look much better from the City of Villains boards than it looks from the City of Heroes boards.
That seems fair to me.
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Really? I had to highlight it to read it. But, my eyes are screwy.
...how can you be underwhelmed about general QOL improvements? Also, how can you be underwhelmed with a small part of the issue when you were so excited about the rest? :P
He blued out all the CoV stuff.
So, essentially, here's the break down:
Day after issue 6 hits: everyone asks when I7 will hit.
A month after I6 hits: everyone complains that there's no news about I7.
Two months after I6: everyone claims that I7 will be the worst issue ever and everything will be nerfed and oh my god I'm quitting.
A month before I7 hits: news is released about what'll be in it. Everyone gets to complain about that.
Two weeks before I7 hits: I7 goes up on test. Everyone gets to complain about what's in there or what's not. Then everyone gets to complain about what gets nerfed or what gets buffed. Then everyone gets to threaten to quit.
The Day I7 Hits: Everyone complains about the servers being down or I7 not being ready to hit live or taking too long to go live.
Day after I7 hits: Everyone starts asking about I8.
Current Badge Hunter: Plot Device (Rad/Thermal/Dark) - 1,268 Xbox Live: Friggin Taser
King of Electricity, Lead Inmate running the Carl and Sons asylum, the "Man" behind the Establishment, Given Honor in Hat Form By Paragon City (Favorite Forum Poster 2006!), Master of Ceremonies of the Fair Use Law podcast
Sorry Pilcrow -- it may be my cheapo work monitor here, but it looks like [humorousyetobscene]. (Highlighting the text works, however).
Don'tcha just love the MMO crowd, Taser? XD
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He blued out all the CoV stuff.
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Well Taser, you may not agree with me a lot. But at least you "get" me. 
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Well Taser, you may not agree with me a lot.
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Don't make me flame you in haiku.
Current Badge Hunter: Plot Device (Rad/Thermal/Dark) - 1,268 Xbox Live: Friggin Taser
King of Electricity, Lead Inmate running the Carl and Sons asylum, the "Man" behind the Establishment, Given Honor in Hat Form By Paragon City (Favorite Forum Poster 2006!), Master of Ceremonies of the Fair Use Law podcast
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He blued out all the CoV stuff.
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Well Taser, you may not agree with me a lot. But at least you "get" me.
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With your post count nearly Cartel-esque, most of us are far too beneath you to understand anything you say.
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I am angered.
Why?
New Power Sets! (Villains Only)
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IIRC, originally the Trick Arrow, Archery, Sonic Resonance, and Sonic Blast sets were listed as Defender only.
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He blued out all the CoV stuff.
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Well Taser, you may not agree with me a lot. But at least you "get" me.
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With your post count nearly Cartel-esque, most of us are far too beneath you to understand anything you say.
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Oh please. I'm a guy who spends lots of his free time playing and talking about a VIDEO GAME.
My sense of humor may be obscure at times, but that's not a sign of superiority.
ZOMG!
Pilcrow responded to me!
/em faints
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My sense of humor may be obscure at times, but that's not a sign of superiority.
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Nope, the elite bastarditis we both have is a sign of our obvious superiority.
Current Badge Hunter: Plot Device (Rad/Thermal/Dark) - 1,268 Xbox Live: Friggin Taser
King of Electricity, Lead Inmate running the Carl and Sons asylum, the "Man" behind the Establishment, Given Honor in Hat Form By Paragon City (Favorite Forum Poster 2006!), Master of Ceremonies of the Fair Use Law podcast
Am I the only one who thought "We have to get to that I/O tower!" when I saw the picture of the tower?
There was a typo in the mmorpg.com link to one of the screenshots. Here's the correct link for that screenshot:
http://images.mmorpg.com/images/newsimages/i7_1.jpg
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There was a typo in the mmorpg.com link to one of the screenshots. Here's the correct link for that screenshot:
http://images.mmorpg.com/images/newsimages/i7_1.jpg
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LOVE the ceiling spiderwebs and trapped prey in that pic.
Current Badge Hunter: Plot Device (Rad/Thermal/Dark) - 1,268 Xbox Live: Friggin Taser
King of Electricity, Lead Inmate running the Carl and Sons asylum, the "Man" behind the Establishment, Given Honor in Hat Form By Paragon City (Favorite Forum Poster 2006!), Master of Ceremonies of the Fair Use Law podcast
Ok that's creepy
/squeam
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Well Taser, you may not agree with me a lot.
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Don't make me flame you in haiku.
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Oh Issue Seven Curse Issue Seven
You bring us treasures untold Villains reap riches galore
My cup runs over Heroes get jack squat
Statesman, hear my plea
Heroes deserve PVE
Zones before I8
Just got word from Cuppa - she's grumpy PR got this out before them, and this will be officially out as a feature update tomorrow.