GR and Other Future Thingies

Okay, Part three of that video series I linked to has some funny moments and a few bits of info (the last several moments aren't much use unless you wonder about the activities they did at Herocon) that are worthwhile.

Jump to about 7:25 in the video if you want to see what happens when you combine Liberace with an Arbiter. Hilarious.

A little before that, you can see Hamster's nemesis, Marcian Tobey.

I watched the fight a few times last night, trying to figure out all the powers. So far I'm down to (In no particular order)
1 single shot
2 double shot
3 (stronger?) shot (Like blazing arrow/blaze/BIB/etc.. just a harder hitting single target. I'm not entirely sure if I'm seeing this one or not in the video, but it's likely to be present either way)
4 cone
5 PBAoE
6 Ammo swap (not in the vid, but we all know already)
7 rain of bullets
8 ?
9 ?

At 23:00 he does something I can't figure out, but it's right before the rain of bullets. It's not part of the rain animation because he does back to the standard combat stance between the awkward movement and the shots. It looks kinda like the double shot animation being interrupted halfway through. but whatever.
No idea wtf the dove thing was about either at 23:15
23:24 he does a shot he doesn't use anywhere else (what I'm assuming is the third ST attack).
This is a list (in order) of the powers he uses (excluding the "amp up" in the beginning)
single shot
double shot
cone
single shot
PBAoE
cone
double shot
single shot
cone
PBAoE
??? (23:00)
Rain of bullets
double shot
cone
single shot (doves wut?)
double shot
Different Single shot
cone
single shot
PBAOE
cone
single shot
double shot
single shot

So... there are 2 powers still not shown. I'd assume your typical mez power (Don't think pistols will be sniping) and maybe even aim.
Either way, it's bound to be a lot like archery, only more flashy, and awesome.

edit: On ammo swap:
I'd assume to be "on the fly" it would have to be quicker than cycling through all 4 each time. That's not very fast in my book. It would make more sense to make 4 separate power icons (1 per ammo type) become available after choosing the power itself. Similar to choosing nova grants you the blasts, only there's no need to slot the bullets. There are just separate icons to determine which ammo you're switching to.
That's how I'd do it anyway...

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

Once of the Devs said that the Doves was an easter egg for the conference only, we won't have then in game. I'm pretty sure the power at 23 WAS the change ammo type power, because his bullets seem to be toxicy afterwards. The power animation has the character looking at the guns and fiddling with them; it takes a second or two to activate, so I really do hope that we don't have to cycle through the damage types to get to the one we want, but without seeing the HUD, I guess we'll still have to keep pondering.

It makes me wonder if they could reprogram other sets to deal other damage types of our choice as well. Maybe choose your type when you take the powerset from the beginning or during respecs. That's how I would do the 'electric hammer' set or something like it. Just be war mace and make it 70% smashing and 30% energy for all the attacks. That'd be awesome.

no snipe in the set? That could be a missing power. Also the "amp up" is probably also a slot if you use the archery set as a guide.

Don't really see pistols for sniping. Not like all blaster sets have a snipe.

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All this talk of the blaster primary....no new secondary? I'm at a loss thematically and mechanically of which Blaster secondary would "work well" with a dual weapon set. If every click-type power was putting away the guns, I wouldn't make it out of the tutorial with the character out of sheer annoyance alone. "Not using" a Secondary is assinine IMO. That's kind of why I was hoping it'd be a Scrapper set so the secondary could be more toggle-based than click.

Is it being ported to Defenders and/or Corruptors? Quite a few more primary/secondary sets there that I could make work than I could for Blasters.

Still nothing of a hook for me in regard to GR AFAIK. (< -- can only imagine the giant grins that gave various people )

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I've already forgotten about most of you

Eh, they went with the big visuals for the con, which makes sense. It's a lot easier to wow a crowd with the look of graphics or a new powerset, rather than saying "oh, we're adding x amount of map types and missions," etc. And there are other hints of what's out there, too, it didn't all happen in this short 20 something minutes.

It sounds like there will be a change up in where missions are located (missions will have locations that make sense, etc.), more content, etc.

I can't say whether it's going to be good or not, but the suggestion is that there is a lot more out there. Beta is at best 4-6 months away, so they have a long time to be tweaking features they haven't talked about. If anything, they showed us the things that are set enough in stone to talk about/have the most done on (it sounds like the whip animations took way longer to do than the dual pistols, for instance).