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Aura_Familia

By Aura_Familia,
Posted on: 2010-10-09 21:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
I hope they use that new version of the IDF trooper in the MJ and Tina arcs instead of the temp one we have right now.
They are. David said the current look was a placeholder for those characters and the "real" look gets introduced in I19.

 

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Originally Posted by Hy-Beams View Post
They are. David said the current look was a placeholder for those characters and the "real" look gets introduced in I19.
Good - they won't look so weak beside the BCUs now

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Well... Here is the picture james-joyce pointed to here as the costume he thought we'd be getting...



Are you positive about this, james_joyce?
Can anyone else recall any specific mentioning/pointing to this?

I'm not trying to question nor blame james_joyce, I'm just looking for confirmation (Maybe I should watch the videos, eh?)

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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post
Well... Here is the picture james-joyce pointed to here as the costume he thought we'd be getting...



Are you positive about this, james_joyce?
Can anyone else recall any specific mentioning/pointing to this?

I'm not trying to question nor blame james_joyce, I'm just looking for confirmation (Maybe I should watch the videos, eh?)
During QA someone asked about new costume pieces, David's reply was that any new enemy group that was placed in game we would get as many pieces from them as possible. The follow up question was if we should then assume that we would get that set and they nodded that it would be a safe bet.

 

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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post

Are you positive about this, james_joyce?
Can anyone else recall any specific mentioning/pointing to this?

I'm not trying to question nor blame james_joyce, I'm just looking for confirmation (Maybe I should watch the videos, eh?)
Watch all the Videos. At the question and answer they said we would get an IDF coustume, they didn't say we would get that one in the picture.

 

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Originally Posted by TheJazMan View Post
I hope a red name comes in here and clarifies if we're getting that set or not. Seems like everyone is saying we are but I never heard the panel say that.
To reiterate what was said in the panel: we've redoubled efforts to take all newly-developed npc groups and make the vast majority of those options available for players. It's a pretty common request, so we're spending the time to make it happen. Will an IDF-themed set be available for players at some point? That's the hope, yes. But stay tuned--when and how is not something we've announced yet.

The actual announcement at hand is that you'll be able to fight these guys for the first time as part of I19 (updating the Maria Jenkins and Tina Mcintyre storyarcs).

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I couldn't find any devs. Except Black Pebble, who gave me a Rikti Costume card.
So Black Pebble really does exist? Huh...

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To reiterate what was said in the panel: we've redoubled efforts to take all newly-developed npc groups and make most of those options available for players. It's a pretty common request, so we're spending the time to make it happen. Will an IDF-themed set be available for players at some point? That's the hope, yes. But stay tuned--when and how is not something we've announced yet.
Hey, David, can you badger your coworkers into posting that I-19 teaser on your YouTube channel? While I really do appreciate all the folks that filmed the panel and shared it, a nice high quality version would be tres spiffy. Please?

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So Black Pebble really does exist? Huh...



Hey, David, can you badger your coworkers into posting that I-19 teaser on your YouTube channel? While I really do appreciate all the folks that filmed the panel and shared it, a nice high quality version would be tres spiffy. Please?

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Originally Posted by Noble Savage View Post
To reiterate what was said in the panel: we've redoubled efforts to take all newly-developed npc groups and make the vast majority of those options available for players. It's a pretty common request, so we're spending the time to make it happen. Will an IDF-themed set be available for players at some point? That's the hope, yes. But stay tuned--when and how is not something we've announced yet.

The actual announcement at hand is that you'll be able to fight these guys for the first time as part of I19 (updating the Maria Jenkins and Tina Mcintyre storyarcs).
Thanks a bunch for the clarification (and tell them to let you announce it already! ).
I'd say safe travels, but I'm thinking you're back already?

Anyway... I'm looking forward to this Issue already... Some new costume parts always make me even more excited. So, we'll see!

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Originally Posted by Noble Savage View Post
To reiterate what was said in the panel: we've redoubled efforts to take all newly-developed npc groups and make the vast majority of those options available for players. It's a pretty common request, so we're spending the time to make it happen. Will an IDF-themed set be available for players at some point? That's the hope, yes. But stay tuned--when and how is not something we've announced yet.

The actual announcement at hand is that you'll be able to fight these guys for the first time as part of I19 (updating the Maria Jenkins and Tina Mcintyre storyarcs).
Wait, what? We can fight these guys now, in I18. Those storyarcs were already updated.

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Wait, what? We can fight these guys now, in I18. Those storyarcs were already updated.
Quite possibly talking specifically about the specific NPC appearance as opposed to the enemy group itself..

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Wait, what? We can fight these guys now, in I18. Those storyarcs were already updated.
But the IDF troopers right now are only place-holders - I19 will replaced them with the proper IDF trooper models.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Hey, David, can you badger your coworkers into posting that I-19 teaser on your YouTube channel
Haven't heard the exact release date for this, but I'm sure a high quality version will be up soon.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Hey, David, can you badger your coworkers into posting that I-19 teaser on your YouTube channel?
Haven't heard the exact release date for this, but I'm sure a high quality version will be up soon.
Cool, thanks!

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Interesting things abound here, but one thing I noticed was a change in Ajax's character model between this and the image we saw at PAX.

The initial slideshow design looked a bit more Optimus Prime-ish and I recall a lot of people not particularly being happy that he'd lost a lot of his signature look. There were, of course, some alternatives proposed.

Now with the new release, Ajax appears to have undergone some changes.

Fascinating.

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I'm going to laugh out loud if the new story arcs are 15-20 or 20-25.

 

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I'm going to laugh out loud if the new story arcs are 15-20 or 20-25.
Errr, they are 20-29.

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Errr, they are 20-29.
Oh, wow. I'm glad they're still focusing on those particular levels, since there's a severe lack of content in mid and late 20's.

 

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New arcs at 20+ make the most sense if they're wanting to give some text options for Praetorians, as anything sub-20 would be kinda wasted on them - unless they used Ouroboros

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New arcs at 20+ make the most sense if they're wanting to give some text options for Praetorians, as anything sub-20 would be kinda wasted on them - unless they used Ouroboros
No, I think people are jonesing for some more 30+ content.

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Originally Posted by james_joyce View Post
No, I think people are jonesing for some more 30+ content.
But that's not much good for the newly arrived Praetorians who are 20

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No, I think people are jonesing for some more 30+ content.
well J, i understand what you mean in terms of continuous arcs with longer stories and arc completion bonuses. Some solace can be taken in the addition of new tip missions 20-50. I have to confess to being something of a tip junkie myself, so while i can certainly empathize with that position, there is some content coming in this issue for post 30 characters. and of course its presumed that the 2 tf's are (i am guessing based on the wording) for level capped characters with incarnate abilities unlocked, so while it kind of skips 30-49, 50 does indeed have 2 attractive dollops of ice cream.

I will admit, and this is just a musing, not a refutation, between paper/radios, contacts, tips, oroboros, tf's, level shifting to help other players of any level, and ma, options for content are thankfully bountiful in this game, i really have to discipline myself to try and get a representative sample of the stuff. I am always jonsesing for more, of course, but rarely feel a dearth of content at any specific time

 

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No, I think people are jonesing for some more 30+ content.
Exactly.

I've been a little bit perplexed by the lvl range the devs seem to be putting out for.

 

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They are building up the Praetorian story.

The next group of missions should be 30-40 and then 40-50 (possibly 40-45 and 45-50) unless they subdivide further.