Discussion: Issue 11 "A Stitch In Time"
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Posted on: 2007-10-02 13:08 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
hmm, I hope the weapon customization allows us to do the following:
Use Battle-Axe power set but have the graphic be a broadsword
Use Broad-Sword, but have the graphic be a katana...or axe...
etc
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hmm, I hope the weapon customization allows us to do the following:
Use Battle-Axe power set but have the graphic be a broadsword
Use Broad-Sword, but have the graphic be a katana...or axe...
etc
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I sure hope *not*. What's the point in choosing katana when you want it to be broadsword?
They should just allow us to change the colors, and maybe choose between different looking blades/axes/whatever.
this is just....................................one word............awesome
I once predicted that we would never see anything new for IOs, never get weapon customization, never see server transfers, never see anything new for Tankers and Scrappers, and never get to go back to missed mission arcs. I am very glad I was totally wrong. I take back almost everything bad I have said about the devs. 
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I once predicted that we would never see anything new for IOs, never get weapon customization, never see server transfers, never see anything new for Tankers and Scrappers, and never get to go back to missed mission arcs. I am very glad I was totally wrong. I take back almost everything bad I have said about the devs.
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Never say never....... 
The one thing I want now after all this would the villain Epics, but those can wait til ish 12 now
Really wish they would add granite to the customizable weapons, I often find myself wishing granite was black, or looked more like the sentry from the DE, or different forms based on peoples toon size, not everybody makes a midget but it would be nice if granite could be tweaked as well, jsut my 2 cents. However the rest of it looks awesome to me
OMFG it's my birthday, Christmas and free lap dance day all rolled into one. I am so impressed with the quality features to be added.
Weapon customization after years and years of player request we get this wonderful option to go with the stellar character creation system. I only hope their are a reasonable number of skins for each power and that eventually all powers will be able to mix and match colors if not animation to customize their abilities.
FLASHBACK!!!!!!!
I have been waiting for this forever I hate having to throw myself into debt and avoid teams just to go through and get all the missions for each level group. Awesome idea combining flashback with new content and awards. I am so totally impressed with your choices fo how to implement flashback.
New Powers
Dual Blades
I have been waiting for this forever. It is dual swords with different weapons options. I couldn't get happier.
Willpower
It is a new power which is good. I was very impressed with many of the choices you had on the list of possible powers. I hope you continue with this trend and eventually produce all of them.
New IO sets
Wow OK I am glad you are adding more IO sets but try to make the sets actually achievable by the casual player please. I don't have the time to farm recipes salvage and influence just to get one piece of a set. One of the strengths of this game has always been its solo friendly nature. Please continue that trend with adding IO sets and hopefully new Temp power IO's
Master Gabriel
This is pretty neat....I have had the same mace for 50 levels. It's getting old looking lol. Seriously i thought the Rikti update was great and now you guys are raising the bar again! I forsee no reason to stop playing this game! 
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First!
Edit - This is really cool news.
Flashback.
A start at power customization.
Normally, I'm kinda skeptical at new issue time, but this has me pretty excited. Now, I don't have to carefully plan out how my character is going to do his/her missions in order to see it all.
One question I have though, is Flashback going to allow a character to do all the missions from a contact or just the story arcs?
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Story Arcs and Badge missions.
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Does that include the 'mini arcs' on the Villian side? How about unlockable Contact missions/arcs you might have outleveled (ie: Veluta Lunata, Kristof Jaeger, etc)? How about missions from Contacts in new zones (Hollows, Faultline, Striga) that older characters would have missed?
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This does look promising.
My only concern.. are you going to lock us out of test server again? This new ritual, started with i9 I think, has got to stop. You didn't used to lock us out of test server 
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P.S. There should be no whining about any of this... they've made it easier for you to get arcs and badges you've missed... they've put the starting touches on more character customization, given you new IOs, IO sets and Enhancements, two new powersets, and a halloween event on top of it...
if you're still griping... remember that they're not going to give us everything at once and if that's unsatisfactory... you've got the wrong hobby :P
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I was sitting with my roommate while he was patching and clicked on the details for Issue 11. When I saw Flashback and Weapon Customization, I told him "Man, there's about 10,000 people out there sitting at their computer who just wet their pants!"
Nice work devs! My current character I'm levelling is Assault Rifle. The new gun doesn't fit the rest of his costume. It'll be a VERY welcome change.
And Flashback? I'd love to re-experience some some content again! And catch some that I missed! Not to mention the additional content that's being added!!!!
Two big thumbs up!!!
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this is very cool; one wonders if you can use the Oroboros system to get the isolater badge. also, any ideas 'when' issue 11 is supposed to go live?
Hopefully Willpower isn't a flop.
The flashback sounds promising, but will it work for people who played CoH beta and want to go back and get there Isolater?
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I'm not happy about the new IO sets because I think we have enough of them as is.
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The highlight of the new IO sets are to the powers that do not have any eligible sets.
Not enough when some power sets are left out.
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Actually, the only thing I am not happy about are the purple IO sets.
The current IO sets are already rare enough, and the good ones cost A LOT. Now their gonna put even more rare ones in there.
Awesome job COX team!! Ever since issue 9 your crew have turned a massive 180 in keeping me coming back for more. Keep up the good work!
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Hopefully Willpower isn't a flop.
The flashback sounds promising, but will it work for people who played CoH beta and want to go back and get there Isolater?
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Lol! Ive been asking about both Isolator and Jailbird being attainable via flashback. Posi hasnt chimed in other then to stay badges and storyarcs, so who knows?
Oh Positron?
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This does look promising.
My only concern.. are you going to lock us out of test server again? This new ritual, started with i9 I think, has got to stop. You didn't used to lock us out of test server
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So we can have another issue 7? No thank you.
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This does look promising.
My only concern.. are you going to lock us out of test server again? This new ritual, started with i9 I think, has got to stop. You didn't used to lock us out of test server
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So we can have another issue 7? No thank you.
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Agreed, would rather have small amount of testers.......as long as I'm one of em
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Anyone else notice that the main bad guy looks like Stan Lee?
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Yeah, I did.
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I'm starting to think that was very intentional. That was my first thought when i saw him too.
Ouroboros: Nice! Less need to find someone with the badge mission you missed because you JUST outleveled it.
Weapon Customization: An excellent beginning! I hope it continues. I want cybernetic zombies. Maybe a Ghost Slaying Heat Hawk, too.
New Invention Sets: Come on, Endurance Modification!
Also...I hope you start making Tech Salvage useful for more things.
Willpower: This is cool, if sounding a little bit overpowered from the description of it on the site. But it's available for ALL the melee ATs, so it's all good.
Dual Blades: A Combo system? Sounds interesting...I'm assuming it's more complex than Build Up + Sniper Blast, or Assassin's Strike + Placate + Energy Transfer. Sounds like the kind of thing the Archery powerset could use to be a little more on par with Assault Rifle in terms of overall power.(hint hint)
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Current power sets that benefit from this upgrade include Assault Rifle, Mercenaries/Assault Rifle, Bow, Broadsword, Claws, Villain Claws, Dual Blades (see below), Katana, Ninja Blade, Mace, Robotics/Pulse Rifle, and Thugs/Dual Pistols.
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I am totally surprised and happy to see this option, However where is the Battle Axe.
Please tell me that this is just a textual oversight not a powerset oversight.
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will the weapon customization effect ninja katanas or bows?
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Yes, and this was actually a tricky combination to figure out. A Thugs/Trick Arrow Mastermind for example will be able to customize both their left and right hand pistol as well as their bow.
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I don't know (yet - it'll take a while to catch up on a monster thread like this) if this has been asked yet, but:
[*] Crossbows - yes or no?
[*] If crossbows are in, what about pistol-crossbows? (They really do exist, mind) ...?
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And no, I don't know which post it was, or which dev said it. But, wait a day or so and it'll be indexed in the Dev posts.
If a dev reads this, do Scrappers get any blunt weapons?
Good issue, by the way. You've even got me interested in FLashback