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Discussion: Issue 12: Midnight Hour Announced!

AaronH

By AaronH,
Posted on: 2008-03-12 09:13 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Full of epic win!

This looks awesome

Now, about those extra character slots we talked about... Otherwise I'm looking at like $60 just to free up slots for new toons on Virtue.

/sighs

Looks like I'll be getting a second account... ASAP to start working towards my vet rewards.

@bpphantom
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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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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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Looks at I12 content...

Looks at available character slots...

Well, guess it's time to buy that third account.

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I hear that, looks like I'm in the same boat as you are!

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I CAN HAS DUAL PISTOL CORRUPTOR??? OR STORM DOMINATOR??

I need. More. Character slots.


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I strongly suspected we were getting ready to see alot of cross-AT "pollination" of the reserved powersets, and I'm entirely happy to see it happen. While I'm sure a goodly amount of work is needed to make sets fit properly into different ATs its still a lot less work I'm imagining than making entirely new sets. This was a low-hanging fruit just daring to be plucked. Gimme my axe brute, mine mine mine!

One downside - ya can't keep giving us new powersets after 4 years and not give us more more server slots. I'm not paying for a third account, its just not going to happen, the second account was hard enough to justify. And after 4 years I've made so many friends on a single server its just not feasible to up and move elsewhere. I know the "play on another server" suggestion is the standard mantra but its not realistic. Give us more slots! I'll gladly trade every empty slot I have on Freedom for 2 more slots on Triumph, deal?

The costume bits look wonderful. Improved power tray UI, great! Contact management improved, awesome. Inspiration conversion, weird and not even asked for that I know of but gladly taken. Level-up boost, also kinda weird and neat. Hyperlinked chatting? Oh heck ya! More Real Numbers, sign me up!

Yet another new mysterious organization (magic-based, to boot) that we've somehow never heard of in 4 years of exploring the CoH universe? Meh. Roman-styled maps? Any new additions are nice but it sounds pretty bland.

Excited, eager, mildly dampened over this Midnight Squad business and the increasingly painful need for extra char slots. i12 preview review: 8.5 out of 10.


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I've died and gone to heaven... I think this looks awesome!

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Don't really care much about the RP aspects of the Villain epics. Even if I did, I could think of ways around being a "lackey" pretty easily (mole, rebel, brainwashed, mind-controlled...). However... I've wanted access to those costumes since I started in CoV. A shame I can't get them on my Corrupter (I assume, at least), but it gives me a big incentive to level said Corrupter. I'll do it even if I have to solo the last three levels or even move to a more Villain-populated server for a time.

Along with the powerset proliferation, and, at least in the screenshots, very nice-looking Roman armor sets (and areas!) I'm interested to see how this issue will shape up. If this is the "light in content" issue compared to 13, I'm very curious to how 13 is going to top this without a massive amount of work and additions.

Plus, the picture of the huge male in the widow outfit is kind of hilarious.

 

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HOLY CRAP.

Axe brutes! Plant controllers!

THERE HAD BETTER BE STORM CORRUPTORS.

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/Storm Corruptors... done.

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The next best thing! Are there any storm masterminds?

 

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Yeah, this is really quite difficult for them. Reskinned player Night Widows and Bane Spiders. Like we're not sick of dark evil shadowy eight legged mean spiders with webs of eight legged evil and shadowy dark evilness led by a demi-god named Lord Recluse.

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Yeah man. What's up wit dat? They just right clicked a couple of things and BAM Issue 12. It was just that easy. Game developing is easy.

If I were you man, I'd totally quit.

 

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Wow! That's alot of stuff. Nice work!

Can't wait to run through the new storylines.

Oh, and I love the inspiration conversion addition.

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Dear Devs:

Please, stop making me squee at work, it doesn't look pretty when a grown man giggles at his seat. Also, you're making me forget all of the reasons why I've been mad at you in the first place.

So please, once again, stop it with all the amazing....ok?

Thank you,

~Mojo

@Mojo-
Proud Member of Fusion Force.

 

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I personally think the devs keep adding too much low level content. With this addition, it will probably be impossible to do it all with one character. Fortunately we have Ouroborus, but it still seems like time should be spent at less interesting levels.

 

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I'm at a loss for words. All of this stuff seems kick *ss.

Villains got butt r*ped again. The VEAT being entirely tied to Arachnos is why I've yet to roll a villain. I don't want my character being tied to anyone else's silly *ss organization.

But finally, we get Statesman's cape design! That's the first thing I'm gunning for once this thing hits live.

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The Emissary of Justice - Level 50 Fire/Fire Blaster
The Emissary of Justice. - Level 50 WP/Fire Tanker
Mesmerius - Level 50 Psi/Mental Blaster
Nucleoa - Level 50 Rad/Son Defender

 

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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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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!

Plant Controller, Epic Villain Costumes, a Battleaxe Brute... *Ralph Wiggum* Yay!

I guess it's time to work on my villain... and I hope there'll be more villains around to party with as a result of this news. :P

 

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Ok, So i can make a Elec/Regen Scrapper?? Or Brute?

or a Fire/Therm Controller?

Oh and one more thing? Talsorian Dual Blades???

PS: Do heroe's get Stalkers then too??

So many questions!!!

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Or an Illusion/Dark Miasma Controller?

Or an illusion/anything dominator?


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Shoot on sight, please.

 

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Oh, and yay! Contact interface upgrades! No more lagging the local servers every time I open the contact window!

 

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I like the idea of the powersets opening up (and it appears not all of them) but I think I'll miss the idea of some of the powers being "unique" to a particluar set. Maybe this is the devs doing things instead of the proposed "cross-over" to the good or bad side.

 

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I'd hate to be Mid's right now.

@Rylas

Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.

 

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O-M-G

SNAFU Entropy Ripple
MR NotSoFurious
Geen Machine
Geen Evolution
Zero Gia
To Serve Man
Desk Jockey
Doc Geen
Mr Derby
Wings For Marie
Sound Tech
Future.Hiro

 

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Like everything for the most part, but...

...not really feeling the VEAT's just yet. I can be convinced with time, though!

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I was hoping for VEAT's that were less tied to Arachnos, but the rest of the issue is enough win to make up for that! Plus, the VEAT's may turn out to be awesome anyway.


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Shoot on sight, please.

 

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this is going to be a good issue

 

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Wow! I was seriously debating if I should keep my CO account. This breathes new life into the game for me. I'm not going anywhere now. Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!