Discussion - Going Rogue Goodies!
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Posted on: 2010-01-22 09:18 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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From my understanding, we do have the career paths in Praetoria, but it's not as clear cut as heroes vs villains. Both sides are shades of grey, and both sides will be doing good and bad stuff (the Resistance, for example, can be either freedom fighters or terrorists, depending on how you look at them... and I imagine they'll be walking that line quite a bit). |
Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
Gave the Hero-Con vids a second look and they mentioned Career Paths for Praetoria; either the Praetorian Police or the Resistance. Is this similar to Hero/Villain? Are these CPs lost once you enter Primal Earth? Any mention of other CPs (if not the same as Hero/Villain)?
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At the end of it all, you get to choose to become a hero or a villain, but I'm not entirely sure how much of what career you chose will influence that, if at all.
Praetoria is more than just backwards land. The devs are trying to add more shades of grey and moral ambiguity to the story line... so it's more likely that BOTH sides will have good and evil missions that you can do (or not do) in order to determine if you become a hero or villain.
And yeah, it seems like your career path will be lost once you hit Primal Earth (but you'll still have your souvenirs, and maybe come other stuff, at least!). The factions on Primal are Hero, Vigilante, Rogue, and Villain. At least from the way I understand it.
For going from hero to villain the path is Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain.
For going from villain to hero the path is Villain -> Rogue -> Hero
The Praetorian factions don't enter into it at all.
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general.
Just one players opinion.
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Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one players opinion. Also, good stuff! |
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Actually, I think it'll continue their, whatever side you end up helping.
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Originally Posted by Xaphan
And yeah, it seems like your career path will be lost once you hit Primal Earth
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This, many times over. Please don't do that ever again. Good grief.
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Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one players opinion. Also, good stuff! |
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4. This seems to be the in-game model for the released concept art of a resistance fighter. It might very well be Calvin Scott. It looks *a lot* better than the concept art did (sorry, conceptual artist!).
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MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
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Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one players opinion. Also, good stuff! |
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This request has been 2nded and even 3rded or more (are those even words? LOL) I move to pass this motion.
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Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one players opinion. Also, good stuff! |
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Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one players opinion. Also, good stuff! |
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Looking at the screenshot again, that long stairway that disappears from view at the top of the back wall must mean the room is very deep underground.
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Is there any Dev out there that can put up some real genuine information about ultra Mode and the graphics cards we will need to play it in Ultra HIGH?
Also, Is there a dev that can simply in his/her spare time go find some links to LAP tops that will play CoX Ulktra Mode in the medium settings range.
kthnxbi
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Originally Posted by War Witch
Hey, everyone!
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For some reason, I had the urge to merge them into this:
Happy Avatar is Happy
Maybe I'm just excited about the new info.
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| Here is a screenshot for you to enjoy, as well. A Resistance member and, hmmm, some sort of tunnel system |
- Screeny = squeeee (happy sound)
- Costume = awesome yet worrisome*
- Background = anticipation & hope that finally we have some new map tilesets
- Tunnels = intrigue and wondering if there are any hidden easter eggs.
However, I just hope it looks as good on the huge/portly toons.
I would hate to see it ending up looking like Tron Guy (see below).
Also, I hereby DEMAND that the name "TRON GUY" be made illegal. Because I said so.
Please, please no Tron Guys.
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| Finally, you might want to keep an eye on the Going Rogue website today. Something tells me theres a character back story update coming your way. |
I had no idea there was a going rogue website... *face palm self*
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I was thrilled with the Science pack cuz I finally got payback on the creepy guy that kept trying to ERP with my tween heroine, by hitting the costume change and turning into a 10' tall monstrous escaped prisoner and telling him, "You gots a real purty mouf, now bendover and squeal like a pig fo yo daddy, cuz you my little puppy now!" Haven't seen him since.
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Positron posted some graphic card info here last month:|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Is there any Dev out there that can put up some real genuine information about ultra Mode and the graphics cards we will need to play it in Ultra HIGH?
Also, Is there a dev that can simply in his/her spare time go find some links to LAP tops that will play CoX Ulktra Mode in the medium settings range. kthnxbi |
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=200245
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your player base by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pestimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one players opinion. Also, good stuff! |
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While I certainly agree with the over-arcing sentiment of this post: more information = happy players...|
Originally Posted by JDub
To whomever it may concern at Paragon Studios/NCSoft,
Please take notice as to how much excitement and happiness you cause within your playerbase by simply releasing a screenshot and a background story. There is no excuse for 2-3 month gaps with no updates at all. It takes so little to do so much. Please try to release some new news every couple weeks. No matter how small, any little tid bit of info like this goes a long way in curbing pessimistic feelings about this game and fustration in general. Just one player's opinion. Also, good stuff! |
I take issue with the underlined bits. You do not know what has been going on within the studio. So you have no idea if there is "no excuse." And it is arrogant to assume we are entitled to updates on our schedule. Not to mention that perhaps the excitement that has been garnered by the announcement is due to the fact that the info was a long time coming. If put closer together... the players may have given a collective "that's it?!?" and walked off (so to speak).
And the entitlement/arrogance continues with the "it takes so little" comment. Perhaps a small amount of info will abate issues within the playerbase, but unless you work there, you haven't a clue what goes into getting an update (however small) down the pipeline and to us, the players.
Also, I think an update once a month, perhaps every other month is perfectly acceptable (though not what occurred)... considering how far out the initial announcement was made of GR. As I said earlier, if you string them too close, people tend to get less excited, and feel that they should be getting more information, despite how much they may have gotten in total. Look at Hero Con's huge wealth of information... if it hadn't been for that deluge, I don't feel that people would be as impatient. It is a matter of comparison. We got innundated, and then nothing. If information slowly trickles out, then I believe the player base will recieve it better.
Just one player's opinion.
(Also, I fixed a couple mistakes in the OP.)
Ruh roh.
I was just on youtube looking for player made CoH fan videos.
Someone has uploaded something that *looks* like it came from a super secret family-and-friends closed beta...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw
Speaking of which, let the speculation over when the general closed beta will commence, commence!
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I was thrilled with the Science pack cuz I finally got payback on the creepy guy that kept trying to ERP with my tween heroine, by hitting the costume change and turning into a 10' tall monstrous escaped prisoner and telling him, "You gots a real purty mouf, now bendover and squeal like a pig fo yo daddy, cuz you my little puppy now!" Haven't seen him since.
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I knew it....and I still clicked it!|
Originally Posted by CaffeineAddict
Ruh roh.
I was just on youtube looking for player made CoH fan videos. Someone has uploaded something that *looks* like it came from a super secret family-and-friends closed beta... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw Speaking of which, let the speculation over when the general closed beta will commence, commence! |
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I already have that video in my "favorites" |
Originally Posted by CaffeineAddict
Ruh roh.
I was just on youtube looking for player made CoH fan videos. Someone has uploaded something that *looks* like it came from a super secret family-and-friends closed beta... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw Speaking of which, let the speculation over when the general closed beta will commence, commence! |
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Here i was thinking that it was a Rick Roll but it was a 'Muppet Roll'|
Originally Posted by CaffeineAddict
Ruh roh.
I was just on youtube looking for player made CoH fan videos. Someone has uploaded something that *looks* like it came from a super secret family-and-friends closed beta... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw Speaking of which, let the speculation over when the general closed beta will commence, commence! |
Edit: I like the song but im wondering how the 'Rick Roll' came to be?
Going to miss the fun and nice people here at CoH. Feel free to add me on PS3/XBox360
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Just thought I would post this comparison of the closest character currently in the game - Positron in Steel - with our mystery man. The upgrade blows me away.
Note that I'm not saying this guy is Raymond Keyes. I think what we know weighs against that actually, as Tyrant's bio specifically states that Raymond Keyes is part of Tyrant's Praetorian council. But boy is the resemblance strong.
Excellent information drop! Just enough to whet our appetites but not so much that everything is revealed. This was pretty much the scale of info that I think most people were baying for. Just a little something to get us speculating.
That new costume looks really nice, the tunnels look fascinating, very cool graphics. The background info on Tyrant was certainly enlightening, I think the biggest secret he has (as it wasn't included in the bio), might be the slaying of Stefan Richter at the Well of Furies. This would be the 'critical juncture' at which the story of his life differed from that of our Primal Earth Statesman. That's not to say that the rest of the world isn't vastly different also and looks to have multiple divergences from the world we're used to.
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More of this sort of thing please!
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 Getting excited yet? |
In case anyone hasn't mentioned it yet, though-doesn't the resistance logo look a bit like a fluorescent Xmas tree?
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Tons of GOING ROGUE goodness to come, guys. Stay tuned--this is just the tip of the iceberg...
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Originally Posted by Sardan
A thousand thanks, War Witch. This is EXACTLY what players like me and Perfect_Pain and many others have been asking for. Not a full reveal, just start doling out little goodies for us to oooh and aahhh over, and obsessively discuss here in the forums.
If you good folks could deliver something equivalent to this 2-4 times a month, the player base will be kept buzzing and excited. |
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yes but from what i understand it is backwards over there, so what we think of as a villain here would be a hero over there. hero here would be a villain over there, they did not really go into the CP much but i dont think you loose it.
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