Going Rogue at PAX


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There's one thing I don't get....

On one of the screen in the above video, there was a line that said "Going Rogue Closed Beta start next week for Family and Friends."

How can GR go into closed beta next week when we are still in i17 closed beta?
They have 2 different test servers...


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Yes, and the data used for both test server are the same.


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on the video

I think those gloves and boots are new.
They are. Probably part of the Alpha or Omega sets.


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Originally Posted by Gulver View Post
There's one thing I don't get....

On one of the screen in the above video, there was a line that said "Going Rogue Closed Beta start next week for Family and Friends."

How can GR go into closed beta next week when we are still in i17 closed beta?
Well, it's been said a couple of times already that there are currently 2 Training Rooms up and running...

However, IIRC, there's also an in-house (or in-house-like) server that only the Devs have access to, where they do their initial testing. It would make sense to me that this server is where the Friends & Family Closed Beta happens...




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However, IIRC, there's also an in-house (or in-house-like) server that only the Devs have access to, where they do their initial testing.
That's where they hold their super-secet Developer Hate Council meetings, where they plan new nerfs.


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Originally Posted by Zyphoid View Post
on the video

I think those gloves and boots are new.
I think the gloves are the same as worn by this lovely lady:
Going by that, I'd imagine the boots we're seeing in the Kinetic Melee video is the 'with pads' version of her boots.


 

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I wonder what a kinetic melee Assassin Strike would look like?

Maybe a Darth Vader-esque TK choke, lift, and toss?


 

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Maybe a Darth Vader-esque TK choke, lift, and toss?
Well, they could combine the chocking emote we already have with that hovering and struggling emote that CoT sacrifice victims use, and then just add some knockback after a couple of seconds of being held in the air.


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hmmm a new power set for each AT eh?
Dual Pistols for Blasters, Defenders and Corruptors.
Demon Summoning for Masterminds.
Kinetic Melee for Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers.
Electric Control for Controllers and Dominators.

yep thats a new set for each At.
Going Rogue is looking better and better.


 

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hmmm a new power set for each AT eh?
Dual Pistols for Blasters, Defenders and Corruptors.
Demon Summoning for Masterminds.
Kinetic Melee for Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers.
Electric Control for Controllers and Dominators.

yep thats a new set for each At.
Going Rogue is looking better and better.
I was hoping they'd have a new set for each of the basic ATs. Every paid expansion should!


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When I first heard of it, I assumed it was all lies.

I did the same when the Going Rogue website first went up, mind.


 

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When I first heard of it, I assumed it was all lies.

I did the same when the Going Rogue website first went up, mind.
You need to be less suspicious and more trusting


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You need to be less suspicious and more trusting
That's what got me into all these messes in primary school!

And also why I held B every time I threw a Pokeball.


 

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Ok, following up on that - the new zone events are the content that we do to unlock the Incarnate stuff - so it sounds like the endgame system will be played out in the current zones, rather than being part of any new endgame zone.
He didn't specify where the zone events would be, of course; just that it would be "how you participate in the end-game system" or words to that effect. However, since the new zone events, like all of this Incarnate stuff, require Going Rogue, it seems likely to me that it'll take place in Going Rogue-exclusive zones, which I suppose would be the four Praetorian zones.

At this point, I'm imagining something like a combination of the "public quests" and mega-raids that (I'm told) exist in other MMO's. I can speak only for myself, but I'd much rather see that than something like a super-ITF, just because I like zone events.

However, and it's a very big "however," I question whether this is really a good way to gate rewards that everyone is certain to want. As it is, the smaller servers often have trouble mustering even a single full team to deal with such zone events as Rikti and zombie invasions, not to mention banner events. I hope the devs are observing populations and zone events on the smaller servers as well as Virtue and Freedom and realize that after the first couple of weeks of Going Rogue, the other servers are unlikely to be able to gather sufficient numbers to do this kind of open-world content.

Maybe the offhand reference to "for your alts" is meant to remedy this. For instance, Incarnate level 1, whatever it is, might be something unlocked for your level 50's account-wide once a single character has done it. I suppose the theory here is that if you want it, you can do the content on Virtue, then get the benefits everywhere.

We'll see!


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That's what got me into all these messes in primary school!

And also why I held B every time I threw a Pokeball.
Did you tap A rapidly, too?


 

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Did you tap A rapidly, too?
I understand if you swing the controller in an upward arc motion when you press B, Mario clears jumps easier.


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A fun panel and a fun meet-n-greet. Based on the answers I received, I would not hold your breath for any new Strike Forces anytime soon....


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A fun panel and a fun meet-n-greet. Based on the answers I received, I would not hold your breath for any new Strike Forces anytime soon....
That really shouldn't surprise anyone

Side-switching and co-op content seem to be the main ways Villains will get more major content.


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did anyone ever post any of the DS footage?


 

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However, and it's a very big "however," I question whether this is really a good way to gate rewards that everyone is certain to want. As it is, the smaller servers often have trouble mustering even a single full team to deal with such zone events as Rikti and zombie invasions, not to mention banner events. I hope the devs are observing populations and zone events on the smaller servers as well as Virtue and Freedom and realize that after the first couple of weeks of Going Rogue, the other servers are unlikely to be able to gather sufficient numbers to do this kind of open-world content.
Hopefully it'll something of a kin to the current Hamidon encounter where the players themselves initiate the event rather than the random to semi-random events that you describe.


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Not AFAIK...
Well at least if nobody gets to it before then we'll have the video sometime early next week on the GR website. So there's that ....

...

I hate waiting.


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So, umm....

Positron confirmed, tonight, that I'm... well, an idiot.

Well, not in so many words. But he did say, "Someone started the rumor on the forums that all the War Walls are coming down. I was referring to Praetoria. It wouldn't make much sence to take the ones, currently in-game, down."

I sorry Positron

I r dum


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So, umm....

Positron confirmed, tonight, that I'm... well, an idiot.

Well, not in so many words. But he did say, "Someone started the rumor on the forums that all the War Walls are coming down. I was referring to Praetoria. It wouldn't make much sence to take the ones, currently in-game, down."

I sorry Positron

I r dum
No need to apologise. It was valid enough speculation.