Discussion: Issue 11 "A Stitch In Time"
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Posted on: 2007-10-02 13:08 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
I hope one of the customization options that Robotics Masterminds get is the original pulse rifle from beta; that, in my opinion, looked much cooler than the one we got when it went live.
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Wow, I literally have a boner right now. In fact, two boners.
cool i cant wait to see what the that we can choose from are
and the new clothes n hair that they might have
Awesome. Just plain awesome.
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Wow. The advent of weapon based characters is upon us....
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Weapon customization is something I have wished since this game began. Thank you devs.
The Ouroboros system sounds very exciting. There are some Story Arcs that I missed because I teamed up with friends and outleveled them. It would be nice to get a chance to do them again.
Dual Weapons and Willpower. Hmm... let me be honest, I voted for Street Fighting and Shields. The melee characters have more choices, which is a good thing. Perhaps I will make some new characters to give that a whirl.
It is good to have more IO enhancements for Debuffs and Buffs. I wonder what the Ultra Rare IOs will do, and how much envy those who do not have them will feel.
From the amount of information we have been given, Issue 11 seems promising.
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Whoah. Unexpectedly awesome news! Flashback I was expecting, but not Weapons Customization.
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Just a few questions about some of the new features mentioned here...
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<ul type="square">[*] Ouroboros System: Gain the ability to "Flashback" and travel through time and relive major events from the history of Paragon City and the rogue Isles.
[/ QUOTE ] From the way you describe it here it sounds like a new power everyone will have. Can you exsplain more about how this works or am I completly missreading and they're acctually missions that take place in the past?
Either way I love the idea. 
[ QUOTE ][*] Weapon Customization: Players will be able to change their weapons in the same way that they change their costume parts!
[/ QUOTE ] I'm just wandering if skull hand guards will be avalible for the different swords? (Broad Sword, Katana, Ninja Blade, and Dual Blades)
[ QUOTE ][*] Two New Power Sets: The City ofÂ… universe expands with two new amazing power sets: Dual Blades and Willpower!
[/ QUOTE ] Biggest question here is regarding the Jounin pets. While it's fine for them to use a single Blade when they are first summoned the Trained Jounin have TWO swords on their backs. It drives me nuts to see the two swords on their backs while they're still only useing the one. Will the Jounins be updated to switch from a single Blade to Dual Blades when they're Trained?[/list]
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Positron lied to us. This update contains two things players have been asking for since essentially the beginning of the game, not one. We get both Flashback and weapon customization!
I have emerged from my hole to say that I approve of Issue 11 and am as giddy as a schoolgirl.
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Hahahaha...
Actually Weapon Customization made the feature list AFTER I made the original "something you've been asking for" post, where I was referring to Flashback. (We had players in the CoH beta test asking for a way to go back and do the story arcs of the Contacts they skipped).
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Sounds pretty interesting guess ill reactivate my account when this becomes live
sigh 5 days left
Devs.....You are gods for giving us this...a start in PC, Flashback, new powersets, and new IO sets.... what more could we want from just one expansion.
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I love the idea that Tanks and Brutes will finally get a 'weapon' power. I can't imagine will power yet, was hoping for shield 
I just hope a fix goes in for the recipe ingredient imbalance. I will laugh if the 'very rare' recipes are all techno dependent (buy shares in Rikti alloy now!) and cry if they are as overload with magical ingredients as the ones that already exist. Maybe there will be more magical villians at high lvls?
Will this customizing include Weapons Mastery for scrappers at some point? Instead of stars, maybe throwing knives. just wondering.
Great job Devs.
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I love the idea that Tanks and Brutes will finally get a 'weapon' power. I can't imagine will power yet, was hoping for shield
I just hope a fix goes in for the recipe ingredient imbalance. I will laugh if the 'very rare' recipes are all techno dependent (buy shares in Rikti alloy now!) and cry if they are as overload with magical ingredients as the ones that already exist. Maybe there will be more magical villians at high lvls?
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Sorry about that. Magical villains keep following me through the portal when I travel back and forth between Primal Earth and Mythical Earth. Don't worry about them though, they don't care about you mortals, they just wanna kill me.
Sweet Christmas Issue 11 Will be Stupid Fresh.
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alright i read that main page so all my questions thus far have been answered, but when it says includes, does this mean there are more?
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Probably not, While include does not necessarily mean "includes only" they would usually add "and others" at the end to avoid confusion.
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Weapon Customisation. Awesome! Hope there is a Dagger selection for those Dual Blades. 
Thank you devs. Can't wait to try the Oroboros System.
Sounds like issue 11 is going to be popular.
That is all.
I have heard that issue 11 will have naked dancing penguins.
Is this true?
I will so quit if this is not true!
This is a reply to the people who think powers should be renamed for the new weapon skins. Perhaps "Katana" and "Ninja Blade" should be changed to Medium Blade, and "Broad Sword" to Heavy Blade? I say "Medium" blade becuase light blades to me are daggers, short swords and etc.
Getting back on topic, this issue looks to be the best issue since I joined (which was issue 5). I am very excited to see what weapon skins (if any) I have already unlocked with my scrappers.
Holy cow!!1! 
This is freaking good news!!1! This update sure will be great, especially with that Ouroboros thingie that allows us to travel back in time. 
I now only wonder when it will be released... XD 
The write up in the article for "power sets" affected by weapon customization is confusing.
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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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For example: "Bow" isn't a power set, it should probably say Archery and Trick Arrow specifically. Likewise the lack of "Ninjas/Bow" from the list seems to imply that it's not included (even though BAB has made it clear later that it is).
May I suggest quickly rewriting that list to specifically reference only actual Power Sets and to make sure that all affected Power Sets get included.
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If a dev reads this, do Scrappers get any blunt weapons?
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Besides their fists? No, not this issue.
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Oh, and becuase I haven't seen a lot of people say it yet.....DOOOO0000ooo000000OOOOOOoooommm!!11!!!!111 eleventyone11!!neo
Rock on, devs. Rock on.