Disappointed

The graphics are a small-ish part of GR - the rest is like 4 or 5 Issues all rolled together

Since pistols are a powerset designed for blasters and players can already create blasters, then one would assume that they are free to all players. Would be a mistake to lock them out to people who have paid for GR imo.

The way i have understood everything so far is that only the content IN praetoria is GR locked. All the QOL stuff is "free" for non GR players i'ld assume.

What exactly are your expectations if side switching, two new ATs, a new gamespace with multiple zones populated by all new and re-engineered enemies & a renovation of the low level game don't impress you?

Personally I could do without the graphic update, although I realize it's a nice selling point for the legions of magpie gamers who are mesmerized by pointless shiny. But as far as that nebulously defined thing "content" goes, this issue is already bursting at the seams with it.

Yeah both of these are my only (slight) disappointments to come out of that video. For purely gameplay reasons I'd like to see a market merger and that all archetypes plus all zones be available to all players from the beginning (extra options = good, playerbase not being split = good).

Admittedly I can also see very good story reasons why the Devs would want to keep them separate - and probably programming/code-base issues too - and also economic reasons. Though I hope the Devs wouldn't be swayed by that as the in-game economy is still entirely optional and not central to gameplay (and I say that as a marketeer who uses IOs exclusively) and could easily adapt to a merger.

I'm guessing the time taken to do the missions to switch sides (and any other penalties that switching sides may impose) would prove prohibitive.

Heck, one mission would make it not worth doing for a Luck Charm for me personally (it's not like 25-75k inf takes long to earn at any level), and I'm pretty sure switching sides will take longer than one mission. Admittedly I often can't be bothered to zone through a base portal to use one of my stored Luck Charms rather than just paying for one (as long as they're not selling for over 100k reliably), so your mileage may vary (and it's true I do zone very slowly nowadays).

It will be interesting to see if the side-switching process will make it less attractive to use it purely to move a couple of purple sets from blueside to redside, though. Mainly because of lack of frequent availability redside, not so much to save inf.

Yeah this is a big issue for me as well; the Devs have to find a way to make inspiration trades/gifts between factions work.

Pistol nova!!!!

Hate followed by suffering?

The Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition! The Brady Bunch reunion...

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Is that graded in an ascending order of horror?

Several new zones, major graphics upgrade, new systems for side-switching, lots and lots of new lore, story arcs, and such, and you're complaining that there aren't enough new powersets........? Especially when one of the new powersets introduces a system to customize the damage type within the powerset, something which hasn't been seen before now and could possibly carry over to existing powersets in the future depending on how well it works.

Well, AR is an obvious one for it - like a bullet is still a bullet, regardles of the gun size

And I'd also like to see them give some DB style combos to MA

Not necessarily. Let's see you fire a sniper round out of a pistol.

Tha basic idea if the same - AR could very easily use the DP ammo

Want. Sick of doing 'Resisted by all' Damage

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Agreed. We're looking at a target release of April-June of next year. That's a long way off, folks. But in addition to the long amount of time left, one thing mull over is the increased resources they have now. The Paragon Studios team is now over 60 people and they still have 8 open reqs! I have faith that they are all go-getters and that a team that large is going to crank out a ton of stuff.

Plus think about the fact that devs are not interchangable. The type R programmers who did the reflectivity/water/shadow effects aren't doing costumes, enemy groups, buildings, mission instances, new arcs, etc. Think about how much Jay, Babs, and Posi (and their new-hire minions) can crank out in a year, and then reflect on how little of their work we saw in the GR preview.

For example, two HUGE items we know will be in GR from the San Diego Comicon dev discussion panel are a new end game for level 50s and a way to make our level 50s more powerful. This is a big project being created by a big team. It's incredibly premature to be disappointed by GR at this stage. I'm sure they're going to have a couple of big reveals prior to open beta, and even when open beta begins there are going to be some "holy cow!" moments when players see stuff that hadn't even been previously hinted at.

Altough I do have to confess to my own pet obsession: I think a desperately needed QoL improvement is a revamp of the Search window and the addition of a Team Looking For More mechanism. If they roll out a ton of new shinies but omit those, I'll be the one posting an "I'm disappointed" thread!

Positron said that Praetoria will have markets. The resistance will share with hero side and praetorian police will share with villain side through some kind of "dimensional magic". They are still working out the logistics of this, so there are no answers to the questions this raises.

Well, I dunno, I mean, the law of averages suggests that in a group that large there'll have to be at least one boat anchor.

And just like a real anchor you soon chuck it overboard

Into new, pretty looking water?

Where at the correct angle you could see the reflections of bad guys running far away

Okay.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.