Discussion: Issue 11 Powers Video
By
AaronH,
Posted on: 2007-10-24 10:46 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Click here to read more about Issue 11.
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can someone please post the text to this? for some reason it is blocked from work 
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It just goes back to the previously-released overview web page for Issue 11. Nothing new.
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is this video hosted anywhere else? My firewall blocks FTP sites.
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I'll be a-hosting it on my YouTube Station as soon as I download it and upload it to the station 
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*CRIES* thanks for that effort, I understand it's not solely for me... but ... my firewall blocks YOUTUBE TOO!!! WAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
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So turn it off....
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suuuuuure... I don't mind losing my job
I can't turn it off, I'm at work, I don't control the firewall
Please put kb and imb protection in wilpower please .
I dont want to have SJ or to get kb defense enhancers.
please.
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Click here to read more about Issue 11.
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can someone please post the text to this? for some reason it is blocked from work
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Issue 11: A Stitch in Time reveals that all that is and was is not as it should be! The mysterious Ouroboros organization, a group of beings from the ends of time, enlists the aid of Heroes and Villains to rewrite the past. Heroes and Villains are able to travel through time using the new Ouroboros System, which opens the gates to both new and existing content for players. Issue 11 also unleashes two brand new power sets: Dual Blades and Willpower, giving Heroes and Villains a slew of new power options. Additionally, Dual Blades offers Weapon Customization taking the City of Character Creator to the next level! And the Inventions system is enhanced with new Very Rare Purple invention sets.
Ouroboros System
Through the mysterious Menders of Ouroboros, players gain the ability to Flashback, that is to travel through time and relive major events from the history of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. Heroes who travel back in time will embark on missions such as preventing the Circle of Thorns from unleashing a devastating demon on a defenseless world, a story originally presented in the City of Heroes comic book. Villains who journey through time will get the chance to assist Lord Recluse in his initial campaign to conquer the Rogue Isles, and much more.
Heroes and Villains also use the Ouroboros System to return to story arcs that they may have missed and replay hundreds of missions from earlier in the game. Players will even get to set mission parameters for these missions to earn special badges. Heroes and Villains will be auto-exemplared to the appropriate level for each story arc to ensure the challenge level remains constant.
Weapon Customization
Sometimes an assault rifle just isnt the right tool for the job, or character, especially when he or she should be using a sniper rifle instead. Players can now change their weapons in the same way that they change their costume parts! From within the costume creator and tailor screen players select the new Weapons region. A number of new options are now available for appropriate power sets. 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.
Two New Power Sets
The City of
universe expands with two new amazing power sets: Dual Blades and Willpower.
Dual Blades
With a flashing blade in each hand, the Stalker made quick work of the Coralax hybrids guarding the shipwreck.
Now Heroes and Villains can wield paired weapons to devastating effect! Use the new Weapon Customization interface to choose from several types of weapons. Dual Blades also uses a brutal new Combo system, where the order of your strikes can create new advantages for you to take down your foes! Dual Blades is available to Brutes, Scrappers, Stalkers and Tankers!
Willpower
Available to Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers, the Willpower set offers a strong mix of resistance, defense and regeneration powers. This is the perfect power set for those characters who have the mental will and determination the willpower to ignore pain and press on through insurmountable odds!
New Inventions
Issue 11 brings with it new invention sets including Very Rare Purple sets, as well as brand new invention sets for Taunt, Buff and Debuff powers, among others.
There ya go.
"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."
I wish they would STOP with all the i11 teasers on the login client. I'd just managed to push i11 to the pack of my mind and now they throw it back in my face again. Its torture being told about something so far in advance and then being made to wait.
Quoth Castle: "choose the look of their weapon in the AWESOME COSTUME CREATOR." (Emphasis mine)
Every Cryptic Dev, Designer, Manager, and Executive needs to repeat that line to themselves 20 times when they first come in each morning, before they leave, and during every bathroom or coffee break.
Then, answer these questions:
What makes the COSTUME CREATOR so AWESOME anyway?
If I work on the COSTUME CREATOR, what can I do to keep it AWESOME or make it MORE AWESOME?
If I work on another system, what can I do to make it as AWESOME as the COSTUME CREATOR?
If I make decisions about the game, how do I make sure that the COSTUME CREATOR stays AWESOME in the long term?
If I make decisions about the game, how do I plan to bring the rest of the game up to the COSTUME CREATOR's level of AWESOME?
If I promote the game, how can I best showcase the AWESOMEness of the COSTUME CREATOR?
If I promote the game, how can I use the COSTUME CREATOR to best accent the AWESOMEness of the rest of the game?
The AWESOME COSTUME CREATOR is your pony. You guys need to feed it, brush it, clean its hooves, and read it bedtime stories EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Damn... it takes long enough to load. Wow.
Evil Angel -Scrapper, Infinity
Despair -Scrapper, Infinity
[color=blue] Super Charged Winter [/color] - Blaster, Protector
Rebel Venom -Stalker, Pinnacle
"If you see what I see, you'll see that the person before you is rather stupid." -Jigsaw
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I hope this is just a taste of the combo system and the will be combos for more power sets.
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From what I understand, the ability to produce combos with certain effects is the secondary effect of the set, like Dark Melee's secondary is Tohit Debuffs, Energy Melee's is Stuns, Psionic Assault's is Recharge Debuff, etc. So likely no more sets with combinations.
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
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Quoth Castle: "choose the look of their weapon in the AWESOME COSTUME CREATOR." (Emphasis mine)
Every Cryptic Dev, Designer, Manager, and Executive needs to repeat that line to themselves 20 times when they first come in each morning, before they leave, and during every bathroom or coffee break.
Then, answer these questions:
What makes the COSTUME CREATOR so AWESOME anyway?
If I work on the COSTUME CREATOR, what can I do to keep it AWESOME or make it MORE AWESOME?
If I work on another system, what can I do to make it as AWESOME as the COSTUME CREATOR?
If I make decisions about the game, how do I make sure that the COSTUME CREATOR stays AWESOME in the long term?
If I make decisions about the game, how do I plan to bring the rest of the game up to the COSTUME CREATOR's level of AWESOME?
If I promote the game, how can I best showcase the AWESOMEness of the COSTUME CREATOR?
If I promote the game, how can I use the COSTUME CREATOR to best accent the AWESOMEness of the rest of the game?
The AWESOME COSTUME CREATOR is your pony. You guys need to feed it, brush it, clean its hooves, and read it bedtime stories EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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More importantly, release the stand-alone Korean character creator with all the updated options and use it as the awesome marketing tool that it is!
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Nice. I hope the combo system will bring a new layer of depth to the gameplay. Also, willpower.
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Quoth Castle: "choose the look of their weapon in the AWESOME COSTUME CREATOR." (Emphasis mine)
Every Cryptic Dev, Designer, Manager, and Executive needs to repeat that line to themselves 20 times when they first come in each morning, before they leave, and during every bathroom or coffee break.
Then, answer these questions:
What makes the COSTUME CREATOR so AWESOME anyway?
If I work on the COSTUME CREATOR, what can I do to keep it AWESOME or make it MORE AWESOME?
If I work on another system, what can I do to make it as AWESOME as the COSTUME CREATOR?
If I make decisions about the game, how do I make sure that the COSTUME CREATOR stays AWESOME in the long term?
If I make decisions about the game, how do I plan to bring the rest of the game up to the COSTUME CREATOR's level of AWESOME?
If I promote the game, how can I best showcase the AWESOMEness of the COSTUME CREATOR?
If I promote the game, how can I use the COSTUME CREATOR to best accent the AWESOMEness of the rest of the game?
The AWESOME COSTUME CREATOR is your pony. You guys need to feed it, brush it, clean its hooves, and read it bedtime stories EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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I actually agree with this statement, while they should focus on other things as well (game content) the devs need to keep in mind that the biggest thing that makes this game unique to other MMOs is the character customization, and try to play that up a bit come issue release time.
My Toons
Apocalypse86 50 Fire/energy blaster Triumph
Menace Mech (FKA Burning Gundam) 50 Bots/FF Mastermind Protector
Celestial Striker 43 Peacebringer Triumph
Mind Slice 35 Mind/King Controller Triumph
Obsidian Assassin 30 Night Widow Protector
That looks so AWESOME! ^^ Cant wait for it. Well done video btw.
Downloading now....I can hardly stand the wait.....
I know BaB said before that Dual Blades was a fast set, but DAMN.
Imagine those animations on your Tanker. You will look like a diesel powered Cuisinart in the middle of a real spawn.
And I like how they've done the "next power in the chain highlights if the previous one hits." That's a nice touch.
I was excited before. Now I'm [censored] stoked.
Bravo Devs, as always.
*jaw hit the floor and tongue rolls out of mouth* Wow...that's all I can say. I cannot wait to get hold of Dual Blades. You Devs know what you are doing.
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I know BaB said before that Dual Blades was a fast set, but DAMN.
Imagine those animations on your Tanker. You will look like a diesel powered Cuisinart in the middle of a real spawn.
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That...that CAN'T be a Tanker. Tanker attacks have to be slow, unwielding, and eats END like crazy. It's written in the rules.
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OK maybe just eats END like crazy?
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DB and WP look very nice. Actually those blade attack animations are just SICK!!!
How many Deadpool knockoffs are we gonna get.
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The DB set sure does look fast
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Floyd Grubb?
*slight snicker*
Going to watch the video, once I can wipe the smile from my face.
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hehe
anybody got this anywhere else yet? T_T
Great video. The Dual Blades look awesome in action. I can't wait for this.
May have to try a DB/Dark miasma...
When something good happens to me, I can never enjoy it....
I am always too busy looking for the inevitable punchline...
BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE!
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I hope this is just a taste of the combo system and the will be combos for more power sets.
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From what I understand, the ability to produce combos with certain effects is the secondary effect of the set, like Dark Melee's secondary is Tohit Debuffs, Energy Melee's is Stuns, Psionic Assault's is Recharge Debuff, etc. So likely no more sets with combinations.
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On the other hand, they went to quite a bit of trouble to implement the mechanic, and there are other sets that share secondary effects. I would guess that we'll eventually see at least one blast set that uses the Combo mechanic and maybe more melee sets.
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awww, I was hoping for shield fighting.
I'm disappointed. Shield fighting would have been sick
Global: @Fire Beam
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After watching the video, I must say, the number of Pirates and Ninjas is going to increase ten-fold.
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Forget that, I'm going for immortal!
Just remember, I picked it first, and there can ONLY BE ONE!
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