MMORPG.com interview with Melissa War Witch Bianco
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-04-02 08:12 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Um, Melissa? War Witch, dear? Sure you weren't thinking of something like, say, the Fear powers in Presence?
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Interesting, and promising.
| We did also get a bit of a hint as to how the system would work, as Melissa explained that the Incarnate system would reward you for stuff youd be doing at endgame anyway. |
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it wasnt the best example, i know a lot of players, particularly defenders, who can do some nasty things to balance by stacking leadership and buffs. but i get her point, no example would have been totally safe(rian frostdrake actually enjoyed the ranged fear back in the day, it helped mitigate sapper alphas) some notables though. no epics can start in preatoria, that just makes sense really, i kind of wondered how they were going to handwave it otherwise. im interestd in the "gadget" type player thing they hint at, we kind of have that with traps and devices, but i will admit that the gadgeteering set is one of the things that i do like in co that you really cant do as well here, so it does interest me what they were thinking of.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Um, Melissa? War Witch, dear? Sure you weren't thinking of something like, say, the Fear powers in Presence?
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Huh. | There will be two new tilesets (which will be available in the Mission Architect at a later time), one of which players are already familiar with are the tunnels in The Underground, and the second, which they have yet to talk about, is the Praetorian Tech labs. |
I suppose I'm glad we're getting any but I guess I was hoping for more of a facelift than that. Oh well, maybe later.
Can someone other than GG confirm we are getting more than just 1 to 20 content in the PAID EXPANSION?
And TBH, 1 new tileset? Your lying... Right?
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P_P, it's an expansion, not an entirely new game. Twenty levels worth of new content with new art assets, new NPC groups, new storylines; new endgame content; multiple new powersets; new costume sets; new tech; and whatever else may get thrown in there is a pretty damn nice expansion.|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Can someone other than GG confirm we are getting more than just 1 to 20 content in the PAID EXPANSION?
And TBH, 1 new tileset? Your lying... Right? |
I realize that you have an almost pathological need for brand new shinies - be they powers, animations, costumes, zones, whatever - and that you have the boredom threshold of a chipmunk geeked on speed. But c'mon now ... you're really going to complain about this?! I honestly don't think it's humanly possible for the dev team to crank out new stuff at a pace that would EVER satisfy you, to be perfectly honest. And that's not their fault at all.
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This is interesting. I know there's a Council base that you can sneak into at the location of the Base Jumper badge (there's not much to it but it's still a cool hiding spot), but it sounds like there's even more stuff to find...
| For those of you out there who like to hunt out Easter Eggs, Melissa mentioned that players havent found them all yet, as there are still a number in the Rikti War Zone that have yet to be discovered. |
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That line made me giggle.
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My lying what?
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Your lying... Right?
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Yes, it was stated at PAX that the new endgame content (incarnate levels) will require the purchase of Going Rogue. We get the first level in GR and the other 9 in I19 but they all require GR to use.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Can someone other than GG confirm we are getting more than just 1 to 20 content in the PAID EXPANSION?
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I think she meant Presence too, I get those two confused all the time.
| Um, Melissa? War Witch, dear? Sure you weren't thinking of something like, say, the Fear powers in Presence? |
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Off the top of my head, the things that buying GR gives you:|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Can someone other than GG confirm we are getting more than just 1 to 20 content in the PAID EXPANSION?
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Access to Praetoria, which seems to be 1-20 at release.
Access to the 'incarnate' post-50 progression
Access to four powersets: pistols, demon summoning, kinetic combat, and electric control.
*Edit* I'd guess: some extra costume pieces as well.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
And TBH, 1 new tileset? Your lying... Right?
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The low number disappointed me. Yeah, I did notice it's 2 new sets.|
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I hope eventually new map sets get attention, hopefully integrated into older content as well. With new staff, I hope they consider revising old content, bringing it up to par, and adding more varied environments for said content.
I think there's going to be a ton of unique maps too, and surely there's going to be another office tileset as well?! 
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Your confusing what I am saying and bringing in your own angst. Please leave your baggage at the door.
I had really thought all this time, even thoe people were saying... That by now the Dev team must know that on both sides of the game, the game is stale 1 to 50. Not just 1 to 20. I get that there will be new end game, and one can ONLY PRAY that it is NOT gonna be just like Unity Missions...
Theres nothing on Earth that would make me wanna play through Sharkhead, Nerva, St. Martial, or Grandville ever again. Same for Heroes, Not much in the world would make me wanna hit Indy Port, Bricks, Talos, Striga, DA, or even PI... but I dunno, I dont get bored with behemoths in PI -much-.
I havent even log on to play this game for more than 6 hours for the entire last year just about.
I just thought, since they have split so much up that one of the big things they are keeping from us about GR, is the 21-50 content. And then we get new interviews that keep saying 1 to 20. I am not really ANGRY about it... I am just kinda like, oh, about it.
And yes, I am saddend to see we are getting 2 new maps... I was hoping for maybe 20 new maps.
Oh well.
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In that case I think you're going to be disappointed. it sounds like we're getting 1-20 and 50 content, there's been no word on 21-49 content.|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
I just thought, since they have split so much up that one of the big things they are keeping from us about GR, is the 21-50 content. And then we get new interviews that keep saying 1 to 20. I am not really ANGRY about it... I am just kinda like, oh, about it.
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| And yes, I am saddend to see we are getting 2 new maps... I was hoping for maybe 20 new maps. |
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Madame, you voiced your angst, I simply stated my own concerns in a public discussion thread. |
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Your confusing what I am saying and bringing in your own angst. Please leave your baggage at the door.
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As to the whole 20-50 in Praetoria idea? Nothing has been said of it. In fact, the next issue's highlight will be upon expanding the incarnate system for level 50's. Nothing has been said of Praetorian level limit bumps.
Will they make this a three 'city' game, with Praetoria, Paragon, and the Rogue Isles as all different 1-50 areas? They could, but have not said anything of it. All that has been said so far seems to be that Praetoria serves as a means to change factions, and have an alternate beginning.
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This I am confused over. Are you talking about zones or tilesets. Because both are extremely different than "maps." As of PAX, we know of at least 4 new zones for Praetoria. That without war walls, the transitioning between zones will appear seamless, from city to city. This doesn't mean that they haven't added a ton of mission maps either.|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
And yes, I am saddend to see we are getting 2 new maps... I was hoping for maybe 20 new maps.
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What I remember being a discussion about what a "tileset" is, a tileset is the graphic set used to make up zones and missions. Now, if everything from GoRo on is shiny and set for Ultra Mode, then two tilesets could be all that is needed. One tile set is what makes up the look of the underground; one tileset makes up the look of the Praetorian Tech Labs. Everything in CoH is reused. Sometimes sets are duplicated and have battle-damage added; some sets are duplicated and made to look weathered.
They could add hundreds of new door missions, each using the same tileset, but wrapped over a different mission "frame." You would still have a different mission design, just that it would have similarities to others.
Example: all heroside and villainside warehouses use the same tilesets. Well, depending on the type of warehouse. Villainside is made to look darker while heroside is fresh and cleany (or is it vice-versa?) They have the same floors, walls, steel girders, steps, windows, doorways, catwalks, etc, all pulled from a tileset.
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i was under the impression that 1 tileset was 1 map (1 sewer, 1 office building, 1 cave) not bunches of different.
for me Praetoria is a zone, but when we go in instanced missions those have maps that the devs call tilesets?
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Yes. In map-design terms (not just for CoH but all games) a tileset refers to a collection of art resources (rooms, furniture, textures etc.) that can be used to make maps. So in CoH all of the sewer maps are considered to use the same "tileset" even though they have a different arrangement of rooms.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
i was under the impression that 1 tileset was 1 map (1 sewer, 1 office building, 1 cave) not bunches of different.
for me Praetoria is a zone, but when we go in instanced missions those have maps that the devs call tilesets? |
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That's true although I'm fairly certain that "Abandoned Warehouse" and "Warehouse" are two separate tilesets, unlike what Commander said. There's actually little reusable between them -- the walls are different images (clean vs rusted), the railings and catwalks have cobwebs on them in the abandoned set, the racks are bent, fallen over and otherwise damaged in the abandoned set, the vending machines and chairs and photocopiers are all ruined looking, etc.|
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Yes. In map-design terms (not just for CoH but all games) a tileset refers to a collection of art resources (rooms, furniture, textures etc.) that can be used to make maps. So in CoH all of the sewer maps are considered to use the same "tileset" even though they have a different arrangement of rooms.
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All "warehouses" use the same set but only for the functional, clean warehouses.
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There's one at Massively too: http://www.massively.com/2010/03/30/...-city-of-hero/
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And TenTonHammer: http://www.tentonhammer.com/events/p...nco_goingrogue
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