Discussion: Dev Corner with Matt Miller

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Matt "Positron" Miller, Sr. Lead Designer for City of Heroes at NCsoft NorCal, discusses what’s happened since NCsoft fully acquired the franchise, and looks ahead to Issue 12: Midnight Hour and beyond.

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A very nice read for me. Great to hear that the transition to NCSoft NorCal has gone really well, and that the CoH team has both grown and has more freedom to change and to add to the game.

What!?! Psychic Blasters!

Edited for: Woot, first post after a red-name, for the first time ever!

/rad MMs???
/kin MMs???

From the article:
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As Lead Designer on the project, I have had a lot of control over what happens in the City of Heroes game, but in the past I still had hurdles to get some great ideas actualized. With the new studio, a lot of ideas that couldn’t take hold under the old management are being implemented into the game with outstanding results. ...

ho achieves level 50 in City of Villains. The current Hero and Villain Archetypes will benefit from Powerset Proliferation, where we took over twenty existing powersets and gave them to Archetypes that didn’t have access to them before. If you ever wanted to play a Controller with the powerset of Plant Control, now is your chance! Psychic Blasters are now a reality, as well as Axe and Mace wielding Brutes. With Powerset Proliferation players now have even more character combinations to choose from.

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"I win!" That was my immediate knee-jerk reaction, to literally yell that in an empty room. I've been one of the people arguing since issue 5 for just exactly this feature. And every time anybody has brought it up, what we've been hearing is the counter-argument that archetypes need lots of archetype-exclusive powers "to feel special." Silly me, I always thought that their unique functional roles made them special, not any exclusives on various elements.

Now the truth comes out: blame Jack Emmert. Who is gone now. Le roi est mort, viva le roi!

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Psychic Blasters are now a reality....With Powerset Proliferation players now have even more character combinations to choose from.

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My altitis is starting to go into over drive and get all twitchy.

Though I think I have some characters I can delete...I'm discovering that defenders just don't fit my style too well.

/wants a psi/energy blaster
//and a dark/electric blaster
///and a plant/sonic controller
////etc.

Loving it, Matt.

There will now be no cure for my altitis disease. The only thing I can console myself with will be the other uncontrollable urge to level up Cerise Dawn to 50, come hell or high water, because I will have a Blood Widow as my epic to go with my PB, and complete my slotting on Pinnacle. One of every archetype (as I include the epics as one... even though they're not... I 've only the 12 slots, ya know... )

Matt, you are truly rockin' the joint. I am now wondering how in the heck y'all can top this for I13 and 14 and beyond... 'cause man, this is gonna be a whole new experience.

Keep this up. NCNC rulz!

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My altitis is starting to go into over drive and get all twitchy.

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Empathy Corruptors? I want a Ice Melee/Ice Armor Stalker. Hibernate FTW!!!

When I asked Castle on/ off the record about if there were plans to port more powers to Tanks on 9/4/07:

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For the record:
No comment

Off the Record:
Saying anything about this topic would make me have marketing people standing in my cube for hours glaring at me.

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Guess that marketing team finally gave the OK

Wow, "over twenty powersets"? I'm hoping that all ATs get something new, cause if anybody is missed, those hardcore AT players will be all over the boards. <_<;;

If this issue was supposed to be a small and quiet update, I can't imagine what I13 is going to be.

Wow, my mouth just dropped when I saw this. I am so excited about this because now I can play CoV without being totally disguised by the weakness. Also I want to try out these new Villian ATs, seem like they will be a blast.

Yay for new badges....hopefully?

Just learned that Posi worked on Thief. I'm sure everyone else knew that, but I don't normally read developer bios. Seeing as Thief is simply one of the finest games ever conceived, and all who worked on it are abnormally sexy and of far greater than average intellect, I can now see why Co* has only improved and in massive amounts since Posi took over.

RagManX