Discussion: Issue 12: Midnight Hour Announced!
By
AaronH,
Posted on: 2008-03-12 09:13 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Nice, i12 looks all good to me
Btw 1) i saw the roman pictures and saw one of em have a over shoulder cape... i want one
Btw 2) i notice everyone wants the mental blasters... ironic...
Btw 3) the VEAT are a cool idea, i've been wanting to undermine those freaky spider people all my life =o
btw 4) this is my first post =)
Btw 5) i want cookies...
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Great. Whatever makes CoV unique, let's give it to CoH. Why bother playing CoV at all?
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Masterminds, Corruptors, Domination, Fury ... gee, I can't think of a SINGLE reason ...
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But hey, let's fix the hallows -- never mind at all that Grandville has been the bane of most people's existence due to its lag nature.
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Update your friggin' computer with some more memory - 512MB simply doesn't cut it anymore.
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But at least you gave us a unique epic AT. Oh wait. We've seen them throughout all our levels thus far in the game. Not really new are they?
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... my MM fights Kheldians all the time - the PPD appears to have recruited Peacebringers HEAVILY.
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Sorry i dont share everyone's enthusiasm over what is a fancy band-aid, a shiny glittering object of distraction and the removal of anything remotely unique to CoV. I guess i passed my d20 will save.
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Can I have your stuff?
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Why on earth would they be unlocked without a 50?
Only if you could unlock Khelds without one!
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I remember reading something that Emmert said about lvl 50 epic unlocks was a mistake, and I assume that most of the devs feel the same way.
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We had to do it this way for the first Villain EAT... parity in unlocking the EATs across both games and all that.
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I've said it before... before these VEATs were announced.
That is the *worst* possible reason for picking level 50 to unlock these.
Of course, all it's going to do is switch the "WE have to get to 50, why don't they" whining crowd to "What, we had to get to 50 for these?!" whines, so I guess it's a no-win situation either way...
I12:
Villain Epics- win!
Corruptor Storm Summoning- win!
Co-op content- predictable.
Hero-only 10-20 content...ummmm huh?
Psi Blast for Blasters....say what now?
Yet another revamp of a hero zone...what the...?
Well, I suppose the devs wanted to keep the ball rolling with the "Why dont villains have [insert something heroes have here]" threads.
Gave villains EATs, but revamped a hero zone, AND gave them exclusive content. So, while the "villains need EATs" thing is gone, the "villains need more zones/content" thing just got a shot of steroids. 
Very, very happy about I12.
Realllllllyyy looking forward to the VEAT.
The new 10-20 zone/content should be for villains too. This is a stupid mistake. I forget which Dev it was, but one of them JUST said within a week ago, that adding more hero only or villain only zones is redunant and pointless. So uh...what gives? Heroes already have 100x more content from 10-20 anyway. This and the lame VEAT is making it hard to get excited over i12 for me. I do like everything else in the preview though.
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So, was I reading it right that each AT will get one primary and secondary power from its corresponding AT? If so that's awesome!
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Every AT gains at least 1 powerset -- Masterminds only get a Secondary, no new Primary. Brutes get 2 new Primaries, and 1 secondary. Everyone else gets 1 Primary and 1 Secondary.
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If the new Scrapper one is Ninja Blade, I swear I'm never playing this game again. 
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So at what point do Water powers come to play? 
I'd think that would be pretty neat. I know Ice resembles water, but it isn't "Water" itself, so I think they should add water powers is all =]
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fun fact, energy blast used to be water blast
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That explains all the bubbles.
I think I just peed myself. *jumps up and down with excitement*
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Caradavina - Energy/energy blapper
Chippo - Fire/ice blaster
The World is Not Enough - dual blades/regen scrapper
and the list goes on and on...
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So, was I reading it right that each AT will get one primary and secondary power from its corresponding AT? If so that's awesome!
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Every AT gains at least 1 powerset -- Masterminds only get a Secondary, no new Primary. Brutes get 2 new Primaries, and 1 secondary. Everyone else gets 1 Primary and 1 Secondary.
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If the new Scrapper one is Ninja Blade, I swear I'm never playing this game again.
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Why in the world would they possibly do that when Scrappers already have Katana, which is basically the same thing?
Now the Ninjitsu Secondary, that's a possibility. 
One thing I don't look foward to.. if it happens the way I think it does...
Ninjitsu Scrappers..
Other wise.. Plant Controllers, Earth Dominators..
If Traps goes to Controllers and Defenders.... Grav Controllers won't need Device Blasters any more.. Wormhole + Tripmine Nuff said.
Empathy Corruptors? Sure... why not... XD
Axe/Warmace Brutes? It's. About. Time.
Energy Melee Scrapper? Uhm... NO!?
TA Corruptor, Yes please. ARchery Corruptor, Yes Please.
Illusion Dominator? Isn't that a mastermind? Eh, sure why not.
Energy/Electric Tanks? Sure. Sounds good.
All in all, looks fun. ^_^
Let's see.. Epic Villian Archtypes.. Eh.. Yeah... Sure...Ok...Widow or Crabs.. or Fortunas? I guess...
Everything else I'm looking foward to. So...*Cracks knuckles* When's beta? ^_^
First, I am so very excited
This game totally ROCKS
And speaking of rocks...and rocking...has anyone else had a certain Billy Idol song running over and over and over and over again?? Tee-Hee
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So, was I reading it right that each AT will get one primary and secondary power from its corresponding AT? If so that's awesome!
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Every AT gains at least 1 powerset -- Masterminds only get a Secondary, no new Primary. Brutes get 2 new Primaries, and 1 secondary. Everyone else gets 1 Primary and 1 Secondary.
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If the new Scrapper one is Ninja Blade, I swear I'm never playing this game again.
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Why in the world would they possibly do that when Scrappers already have Katana, which is basically the same thing?
Now the Ninjitsu Secondary, that's a possibility.
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Because everything scrappers get involves stabbing people? 
Wait. How exactly do we still have our powers in Ancient Rome? I thought that was way past our "tether" or something? Kind of Like how Sam couldn't leap beyond his own lifetime on Quantum Leap...until those 2 times that he did...:P
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Everything looks great....except the villain epics. I am so not excited about being a Night Widow or Crab Guy.
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On the one hand, I'm grateful they finally exist.
On the other hand, since when is Arachnos "Epic"?
Arachnos is beneath me. Come on, I don't want to play a flunky and continue to fight nothing but small fry. :P
Take this with a grain of salt of course, I'm happy for the most part...just...eh. Flunky.
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I really hope the new costume pieces are a general item and not just unlockable items. Also, there better be more costume pieces en route or I will be TICKED!
That is my only beef. The rest looks very interesting. Good job, Devs!
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sorry ::bursts bubble:: the Roman costume pieces are said to be unlockables, I have no idea about the EVATs though.
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But, see.. yet again we're forced into being Recluse's lackey. This is one of the major complaints many villain players have about this game. I can understand wanting to do something generic as it's incredibly easy to do, but compared to Kheldians, this is a poor, poor archetype.
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So, basically being an energy hero with half of your backstory already drawn out in excruciating detail and is stuck as a Freedom Phalanx errand boy/girl would be so [u]very[u] less horrible from an RP viewpoint compared to a character with a fairly open backstory and being a Recluse errand boy twice a level.
After all, it's not like a lot of people have been complaining about the overwhelming tendency to be stuck fighting other villains and Arachnos.
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I've always felt that looking up to someone was more of a Hero worship thing. Villains should be masters of their own destinies. (Especially Masterminds! Come on! lol)
YET, villains are the ones that are SADDLED with this "Patron" crap. We were promised that since we were locked into our patron choice that they would be "more powerful but less variety." They certainly delivered on less variety, but I can't see how they are more powerful than APPs in any way, shape or form. The epic is a generic flunky. You see spiders and widows all the time. Disappointment is completely understandable to me.
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I CAN HAS DUAL PISTOL CORRUPTOR??? OR STORM DOMINATOR??
I need. More. Character slots.
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Um...I believe the set is called "Thugs", not Dual Pistols. So no. My guess.
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Very cool, but Psi blasters is going to be hilariously broken in PvP. Wooo Psi/Em FOTU!
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There will be a dialog box when you try to enter a pvp zone with that build that says: "Sorry, you are too uber. No pvp for joo."
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Anything for Defenders????
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Therm?
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Anything for Defenders????
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Therm?
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Thermal or Cold. Maybe even Traps. Those three are unique to Corruptors that could be ported over to Defenders.
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Looks at I12 content...
Looks at available character slots...
Well, guess it's time to buy that third account.
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Heh, seems like a good reason for NCSoft to not supply more server slots. Get more players to pay an extra $15/mo.
Looks like it's time once again to decide which alt gets the death penalty.
But overall i12 feature list looks very good. A bit weary of Arachnos myself but for the VEAT there doesn't seem to be mention of a weakness ala void/quant for khel which in itself seems appealing.
And the new zone, does that mean an additional base beacon is included?
Anyway, it bears repeating...please add more server slots and a base porter with 4 attachments.
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I refuse to buy another account, I love my Vet Rewards.
If only deleting the character showed them dying painfully, I'd delete characters all day! lol
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I think the funniest possiblities for Mastermind would be:
Empathy or Storm summoning
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*sigh* Way to screw villains YET AGAIN.
*HIGHLY disappointed with the "epic" archetype*
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Jezus. Can we have your stuff now?
Be excited about something for once. This is really nice. Very, very good changes and improvements, new zones, .... but no, *you* wanted something else.
make your own damn game. Then you'll be happy.
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Hey thats a pretty legitimate complaint though. Villains are RIGHT back with Arachnos. I can't wait till the RPers get ahold of this. Alot of em are gonna be pissed lol.
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my impression is that you are now fulfilling your role as a Destined One, which is to bascially screw Arachnos and everyone else.
but we'll see...
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But...I've done that already. I've beaten Lord Recluse and everyone that serves him, and Mastered Recluse's Strike Force. The reward for all that is to serve him? O.O
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so...blasters get another secondary???
Positron's i13 letter: We are trying to make PvP more accessible to new players, while giving experienced PvP'ers the advantage that comes with formulating tactics around the new systems we're putting in place. PvP from now on will be on our priority list. If something isn't working out, we'll be in there tweaking it and making it work, for the entire future of the product, not just Issue 13.