Devs! Please Confirm Hero Mayhem Coming!
By
Arc_Salvo,
Posted on: 2006-05-02 04:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I7 isn't out, and you want them to confirm things for I8?
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Devs! Please Confirm Any Hero Content is Coming!! 
Hah. The 'Hero equivalant' to a mayhem mission is preventing villains from doing damage in the area. While something new would always interest me, I believe the unique Croatoa missions (like say... the infamous Firbolg portal one or preventing Red Cap hordes from destroying the Stonehenge contruct) were more or less loathed by the general populace. 
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Devs! Please Confirm Any Hero Content is Coming!!
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Only if you fork over 30 bucks for the pay expansion.
Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Can't get more specific than that. 
Of course not. Dev ambiguity builds mystique.
Same reason why so many of them love to leave cryptic one-sentence comments and spontaneously vanish in a puff of smoke.
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Awesome. Good to know. I love playing my heroes so any new content for them is good in my book!
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Heh. Grav/Storm for the new uber FX Win! Can't wait to tryout a safeguard mission... 
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Same reason why so many of them love to leave cryptic one-sentence comments and spontaneously vanish in a puff of smoke.
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Well, they are Cryptic Studios after all, so par for course.
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Um. 'Safeguard'? As in..A giant escort mission? *random conclusion-leaping commences*
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Same reason why so many of them love to leave cryptic one-sentence comments and spontaneously vanish in a puff of smoke.
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Yes, but do they turn into a pumpkin afterwards?
Safeguard missions sound great, even if we have absolutely no idea what they entail...
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Is it in the Design phase, the Code phase, or the "We're still talking about it" phase?
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Of course not. Dev ambiguity builds mystique.
Same reason why so many of them love to leave cryptic one-sentence comments and spontaneously vanish in a puff of smoke.
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"This Dev comment is tooooo short," she decided. She eyed the next Dev comment skeptically.
"Maybe it will be juuuuuuust right," she thought, hopefully.
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Holy crap! You mean we're going to have to protect all that stuff the villains are blowing up?
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Um. 'Safeguard'? As in..A giant escort mission? *random conclusion-leaping commences*
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My guess is: big Mayhem map... bad guys are all over the place trying to do bad stuff, you try to stop them. If you stop enough baddies, they call for reinforcements! Obviously side quests (re-capture the Villain, etc. ) will increase your time limit.
Something like that...
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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Can I come to your office?
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Yes. It's coming. Safeguard missions. Being worked on right now (outside my office, in fact).
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*HUG*
In fact, regarding I7, *HUGS ENTIRE DEV TEAM. TWICE.*
My guess.
Anti-Mayhem missions
Insted of one Villain destorying Paragon and fighting dozens of Heros/police.
One Hero fighting dozens of villains that are destorying Paragon.
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Obviously side quests (re-capture the Villain, etc. ) will increase your time limit.
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I can't help but visualize the Safeguard Mission side quests as the "old lady's cat is stuck in a tree" sequence from the first scene in The Incredibles.
"Hmm. Nemesis forces are attacking City Hall, but... yeah, I've still got time."
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My guess.
Anti-Mayhem missions
Insted of one Villain destorying Paragon and fighting dozens of Heros/police.
One Hero fighting dozens of villains that are destorying Paragon.
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Not to sound alarmist, since we (obviously) have no idea what these missions are going to be like, but...I really hope they're not like that. Defense missions in games tend to be anti-fun (The infamous 30 Fir Bolg mission, the Cape mission) unless what you're defending can really take care of itself (the Fortune Hunter's zepplin in Crimson Skies, Wretch).
Besides, isn't half the fun of Mayhem missions being able to blow the crap out of your surroundings?
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My guess.
Anti-Mayhem missions
Insted of one Villain destorying Paragon and fighting dozens of Heros/police.
One Hero fighting dozens of villains that are destorying Paragon.
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Not to sound alarmist, since we (obviously) have no idea what these missions are going to be like, but...I really hope they're not like that. Defense missions in games tend to be anti-fun (The infamous 30 Fir Bolg mission, the Cape mission) unless what you're defending can really take care of itself (the Fortune Hunter's zepplin in Crimson Skies, Wretch).
Besides, isn't half the fun of Mayhem missions being able to blow the crap out of your surroundings?
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I agree. In another thread, people suggested that you could make open-ended missions with lots of stuff to destroy with any number of excuses to go around wrecking things and exploring in enemy territory. Rescue missions with destroyable gates and turrets in the way, raiding a factory where they're producing illegal goods, etc. etc. al.
Arc Salvo: Okay hold one sec guys, we can't just rush in blindly vs these Nemesis, they've got these ranged aoe's tha-
Teammate1(charging in): Shut up, Arc Salvo, you lame*$% Viewtiful Joe wannabe! What do you know?!
Teammate2(also charging): yeah, ST#& arc salvo u PWR RANGR U!
Arc Salvo: *sigh*
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Besides, isn't half the fun of Mayhem missions being able to blow the crap out of your surroundings?
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/signed
"The <insert villain group here> is up to no good. They have a warehouse full of supplies and vehicles stockpiled. We need you to make sure none of it is ever used . Destroy all their supplies and arrest as many of them as you can in the process."
Can you say "GANK THE MAP"? Now THAT is some good ol' fashioned heroing!
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Blah! Forget that!
Devs! Please Confirm Any Hero Content is Coming!!
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Only if you fork over 30 bucks for the pay expansion.
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What a travesty! Paying for content? [censored] that [censored]. That's [censored] unforgivable! I'm gonna' go slaughter a nursery ward in protest!
Mayhem Missions = AMAZING.
Please confirm that a Hero equivalent to these (and Newspaper missions in general) will be coming in I8.
Thanks, and congrats on the best Issue ever.