Discussion: Issue 11 "A Stitch In Time"

CaptainAmazing · 10-03-2007 07:07 AM

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Going back and doing missions and badges you need is definately cool, however I'm hoping, and maybe putting to much in the stock of the newspaper articles and this statement below:

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.

That maybe we can travel back in time, to the past when the city was different, like a mission to the old Faultline or maybe Brickstown with 5th Column standing on the street corners instead of Council. Doubt it though. Of course I'm assuming these would be outdoor missions only kindof thing.

Also still hoping for Baseball Bat for my Mace Tanker

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I bet thats how the 5th comes back! Through time travel missions! Woot!

-C.A.

CaptainAmazing · 10-03-2007 07:07 AM

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First of all, this post is a "quick reply" and is not in response to anything that the person it says I'm replying to may or may not have said.

This is to all those that now or in the future go "OMG THIS SUXX0RS!!! I'm CANCELLING MY ACCOUNT!""

Just leave. Now. Don't tell us you are leaving, don't tell us why you are leaving, we don't care and odds are neither do the developers. Until you actually don't pay them, you are just threatening them trying to get them to do things YOUR way instead of the way they are doing it. It didn't work in Ultima Online, Everquest, Everquest II, World of Warcraft, or any other MMORPGs. Threatening to cancel your account isn't the way to get the developers to listen, it's not the way to get ANYONE to listen to you.

So, do your fellow players a favor, and don't waste our bandwidth having to load up your "OMG IM QUITTING" crap, just quit and don't waste OUR time.

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Amen.

Lady_Sadako · 10-03-2007 07:07 AM

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If you have to wait till lvl 30-35 to get weapons like Vangaurd energy claw

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So far, the Vanguard claws and railgun are the ONLY options that would require you to be level 35, because you have to be level 35 to get Merits in the first place. That fits with Vanguard armour and other Vanguard rewards being limited to over 35s.

But a level 1 character could get the Carnie or Red Cap weapons, simply by sidekicking up to a higher level character and going on a hunt. You're not locked out of them by level.

Dasher · 10-03-2007 07:08 AM

Okay, I could accept the comic book feel, too, IF they weren't animated.

A far better choice would have been to present the cutscenes as comic book "panels", harking back to the game's inspirations, then renewing the wonder of the game when the panels come back to "life" in the game environment itself.

As far as the villain wacing poetic, if you mean Dr Aeon, that is the perfect example of the unspeakably egregious awfulness of the "cutscene concept" and the way it is executed in the game. Oh, if only "executed" was an option for these cinamtic road apples!!!

These 6th-grade-film-class animations, and the dialogue... the awful, awful dialogue... is enough to send one racing to pray to the porcelain god.

Plus, it probably wouldn't kill the Devs to play for serious effect now and then. A little actual drama can go a long way in Spandex Land.

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Khabal · 10-03-2007 07:08 AM

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Gotta love how there's always people to crawl out of the woodwork to scream "NOT ENOUGH!" when something new is added. You think they are going to do weapon customizations, then that's it? Power customizations will be next. Might not be issue 12, might not be issue 13, but it will come too.

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Just to clarify, I crawled out from under my rock...woodwork makes me itchy

I was just stating that one big bundle would be worth waiting for IMO. and if you noticed, I also took the opportunity to praise the devs .. so I am not screaming "Not Enough", I know that they will work on powers for the future, I just think one release for all would be great. *crawls back under rock*

CaptainAmazing · 10-03-2007 07:09 AM

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Since we've got new weapon options, are we getting sheaths and holsters as costume options as well?

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Yeah whatever happened to quivers? Or dual guns?

Dasher · 10-03-2007 07:11 AM

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Well, weapon customization is nice... but it's still not really any content for my 7 lvl 50's.

No thanks... both accounts are cancelled in 2 days.

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You missed the fact the in the Feature announcement that there were details of brand new missions. But I doubt that matters to you. Bye!

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And good riddance We don't need naysayers, not when the future is before us! Or the past! Or...erm..nevermind!

-C.A.

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Actually, we DO need naysayers. Everybody does, just to keep folks in line with a reality check now and then.

Don't forget; the Devs are the overhead. WE are the profits.

Dasher

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Ashtonn · 10-03-2007 07:12 AM

What is a Main-gauche? A Faer Dagger? Dragon Dagger? Any pictures of these?

I am picturing a dual RedCap dagger/willpower brute on day one. I will have to take a few days off for this one.

Dasher · 10-03-2007 07:13 AM

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Since we've got new weapon options, are we getting sheaths and holsters as costume options as well?

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Yeah whatever happened to quivers? Or dual guns?

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Quivers would be great, but they are probably a difficult thing to render with capes, which a lot of archer characters have and/or will want.

All in good time, tho, I'm sure.

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Bohmfalk · 10-03-2007 07:13 AM

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I was just stating that one big bundle would be worth waiting for IMO. and if you noticed, I also took the opportunity to praise the devs .. so I am not screaming "Not Enough", I know that they will work on powers for the future, I just think one release for all would be great. *crawls back under rock*

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Yeah, but if it was customizable powers coming out first, I bet you'd be singing a different toon.

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Zombie Man · 10-03-2007 07:14 AM

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Since we've got new weapon options, are we getting sheaths and holsters as costume options as well?

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We don't know. Announcements of new costume parts is traditionally left as the last run-up teaser before release to live, if it ever gets announced at all (or even included in the Patch Notes).

The Devs are a bit slow to catch on to how rabid the costume fan base is and to use costumes as a selling point. <sigh>

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Nights_Flame · 10-03-2007 07:14 AM

So will we be able to change blaster color powers? Such as, Energy can change from blue to green, Radiation from green to red, Fire from Orange to Blue, Electric from white blue to a gold.

Cold_X · 10-03-2007 07:14 AM

OMG issue 11....power customization..omg!!!!!

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Ashtonn · 10-03-2007 07:15 AM

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Since we've got new weapon options, are we getting sheaths and holsters as costume options as well?

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Yeah whatever happened to quivers? Or dual guns?

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Quivers would be great, but they are probably a difficult thing to render with capes, which a lot of archer characters have and/or will want.

All in good time, tho, I'm sure.

Dasher

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If quivers, sheaths and backpacks were under back detail like wings and capes it would be pretty simple.

Bohmfalk · 10-03-2007 07:15 AM

"So will we be able to change blaster color powers? Such as, Energy can change from blue to green, Radiation from green to red, Fire from Orange to Blue, Electric from white blue to a gold."

Nope

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Official Naturalized Citizen of Justice since 2007

Dasher · 10-03-2007 07:15 AM

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What is a Main-gauche? A Faer Dagger? Dragon Dagger? Any pictures of these?

I am picturing a dual RedCap dagger/willpower brute on day one. I will have to take a few days off for this one.

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Maine Gauche means "Left Hand", it's a common name for an off-hand, long-bladed dagger with an ornate hilt used in dual weapon fencing as both a parrying weapon and sword-breaker. An Asian equivalent is the Japanese Jitta or Tsai.

You can see them used in Richard Lester's "Three Musketeers" movies.

As to the other weapons, prolly variations on the theme.

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Lady_Sadako · 10-03-2007 07:16 AM

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What is a Main-gauche?

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The literal translation is 'left hand'. It's a dagger you hold in your off hand. The Carnie version is presumably the same fiery psychic style as the rapier.

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A Faer Dagger?

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I think Castle meant 'faery'. So he'd have a Good Fey dagger in one hand and a Bad Fey dagger in the other.

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Dragon Dagger?

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No clue on that one!

Random_Guy · 10-03-2007 07:17 AM

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Since we've got new weapon options, are we getting sheaths and holsters as costume options as well?

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Yeah whatever happened to quivers? Or dual guns?

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Quivers would be great, but they are probably a difficult thing to render with capes, which a lot of archer characters have and/or will want.

All in good time, tho, I'm sure.

Dasher

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Well, there's always the option of making it a "back option" so you get either a cape or a quiver. Or they could alter the cape to flow like the trench coat (only flow from the waist down) when there is a quiver added.

CaptainAmazing · 10-03-2007 07:17 AM

or jetpacks, I need a jet pack, not a big 1950's version from a level 5 SG mission. I want a sleek awesome pretty jet pack! thats not going to turn off!

Khabal · 10-03-2007 07:21 AM

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Yeah, but if it was customizable powers coming out first, I bet you'd be singing a different toon.

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Nope! I stated "one big bundle would be worth waiting for".

I have toons with weapons and without. So I definately would have the same opinion.

Dasher · 10-03-2007 07:21 AM

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So will we be able to change blaster color powers? Such as, Energy can change from blue to green, Radiation from green to red, Fire from Orange to Blue, Electric from white blue to a gold.

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I think as of the posting, they will only be offering the option to change the physical appearance of weapons, not the in-game effect of powers.

For example, a Claws Scrapper could have the kind of claws that a Claws Stalker gets, or vice-versa.

No doubt the power visual effects changes will come along eventually, tho.

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Dasher · 10-03-2007 07:28 AM

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or jetpacks, I need a jet pack, not a big 1950's version from a level 5 SG mission. I want a sleek awesome pretty jet pack! thats not going to turn off!

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...and I want the big 1950's version in red trim 'cuz it fits perfectly with my red-and-white Russian blaster!

Also a dual-tube "Commando Cody" version!

More Options means More Happy for everyone!

This is just the tip of the iceberg, folks; with what the Devs learn from implementing these changes and stabilizing them in-game, they will be able to make more and more options available; just enjoy what we get as we get it and more Super Happy Funness will follow, as it has for the last three years.

I know, I am the figurehead on the bow of the Viking Raider Ship "Complaint", but I always give credit where it's due, and while the Devs have left some truly AWFUL BAD SCREW-UPS (Travel Power Suppression, ED, Prestige) in place, they have also provided some pretty wonderful stuff, and Issue 11 promises to be a good example of that.

Dasher

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IceScykle · 10-03-2007 07:41 AM

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"So will we be able to change blaster color powers? Such as, Energy can change from blue to green, Radiation from green to red, Fire from Orange to Blue, Electric from white blue to a gold."

Nope

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you mean

"not yet"

Kumu_Arcanis · 10-03-2007 07:43 AM

Please tell me I can customize robots, that'd be so awesome! Either way really neat things going into this one, liking the sound of dual blades combo system...reminds me of the guild wars assassin

Sakkra · 10-03-2007 08:03 AM

My apologies if I missed it, but will we be able to have different weapon looks for each costume slot?