Discussion: Dev Corner with Matt Miller
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Az'rial,
Posted on: 2008-03-12 09:16 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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! 
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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 couldnt 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 didnt 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
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Loving it, Matt.
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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... 
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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!!!
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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.
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Peppermint Cat-- Lv50 Mewtant Ice/Eng Bls
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.
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WOOOHOOO!!! So happy I bought that 2nd account! If my friends and family thought they didn't see enough of me now, they'll never see me when this issue goes live! Now how do I become independently wealthy so I don't heave to go to work. 
"if the market were religion Fulmens would be Moses and you'd be L. Ron Hubbard. " --Nethergoat to eryq2
The economy is not broken. The players are
Think they'll have Super Strength and Energy Melee for Scrappers? I would love that.
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it'll be a cold day in hell if Scrappers get EM
anyhow, this interview was pretty good.
Psychic Blasters though...while cool, I think I'm gonna stick w/ my Fire Blaster 
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Think they'll have Super Strength and Energy Melee for Scrappers? I would love that.
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Doubt it but would be awesome!
You know, Posi, I honestly think everyone on the forums that you and BaB's have to placate/smash/frown over because they think the team is working too slow or being lazy... owes you an apology.
Quite frankly, this looks like it will be one of the /best/ patches; while sheer new content is lighter than some of the bigger expansions, this has quality written all over it.
Anyone who doesnt respect and love the Dev team is a hopeless whiner-baby. Remember that.
And congratulations for a job well done, so far. I look forward to the closed beta.
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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
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What do marketing people know anyway?
They should just be put on a rocket and launched into the sun.
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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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I agree with you on soooo many levels, Houtex!!! My altitis has become really out of control...I really need to have about 20 slots on Champion to fill that need
You guys 'n gals definitely ROCK, I cannot say it enough!!!
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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
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SERIOUSLY?!
Holy [BLEEP!]! I LOVE the Thief series! It explains a few things.. and i wondered why Matt's name always rang a bell...
Though now i'm forced to wonder: Thief has probably one of the best fan-made-mod communities anywhere. I'm sure Pos- er, Matt realizes that giving players access to even dumbed-down development tools to make very basic things would only make for a better game overall. So, why hasn't it happened yet? Legal reasons? Or do they not want Co* to end up like Second Life?
-STEELE =)
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Oh, and Crimson demands you play this arc-> Twisted Knives (MA Arc #397769)
CoX is a controlled universe. Owners need to keep a tight reign on the content or else people will try to sue over copyright issues, and who knows what else.
"I made that horse with the purple legs and you copied me, you suck. Sued!"
It also keeps the universe uniformly similar, and back stories can be woven in to add comic book stories, and new novels.
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My altitis has become really out of control...I really need to have about 20 slots on Champion to fill that need
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Here ya go! More Slots
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My altitis has become really out of control...I really need to have about 20 slots on Champion to fill that need
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Here ya go! More Slots
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This is FANTASTIC!!!! I LOVE it!!! Nice work Devs, and thank you so much for sharing that information with us...there's nothing like sharing!
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Please use the below thread to discuss this announcement.
Matt "Positron" Miller, Sr. Lead Designer for City of Heroes at NCsoft NorCal, discusses whats happened since NCsoft fully acquired the franchise, and looks ahead to Issue 12: Midnight Hour and beyond.
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