Discussion: Thursday, December 2nd - Join our developers to test the 2010 Winter Event

Log in to the North American Training Room today, Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 between 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (7:00 p.m. central / 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time) and 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time (8:00 p.m. Central Time / 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time) and join Dr. Aeon, Synapse, Black Scorpion, Castle, The Pit, and Positron to help test the new additions brought to the Winter Event this year!

Meet the developers inside the Winter Chalet (via Pocket D) at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (7:00 p.m. central / 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time) for further instructions!

Have fun everybody!

I'm there!

Woot! First after Avatea!

Is this on the "test server" or on the "beta server"?

It will be on the actual Training Room, not the Beta Server.

Fun....see ya there!

-Garber

Another first after red name!

Isn't the new event just a new mission? Not to sound ungrateful.

Incarnate Goliath is copied over and sipping hot chocolate in the ski chalet.

None other than the most mysterious designer on City of Heroes: http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/new...ry_on_the.html

I pity the fool that doesn't pay attention to The Pit.

That was a load of fun. I ran with Synapse while my 8 year old son ran with Dr Aeon.

Bugs:
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* Unable to get Lady Winter mission offered on a true Praetorian (Resistance). Snaptooth was offered, as a note. Dr. Aeon indicated this was a bug (all alignments and levels should be able to get the mission), and he knew what was wrong. Subsequent testing on a Hero + Praetorian (R) + Villain team showed that the Praetorian (R) was able to enter, fight, get completion badge (and incidentally Cold Warrior) and get the reward dialog on someone else's mission (and as far as we could tell, no weird alignment mis-target problems).

* Lady Winter mission shows "map unavailable". Dr. Aeon said this was a known issue. Given the fairly complex terrain and need to keep track of other players, NPCs, and figure out where you've looked for obelisks, I really hope this gets fixed before it goes live.

* There was one instance fighting snow critters on one of the rooftops with some very odd ragdoll problems (spastically twitching in mid-air over edge of roof after knockback), possibly caused by interaction with the chamfered edge of the roof? Minor and probably not really a mission-specific issue.

* The Tuatha would occasionally get stuck on crates, but as far as I could tell, would eventually work their way free. (I didn't see any stuck "permanently" even after being in the zone for quite a while on two occasions.) Minor and not really a problem.

Objective:
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* The mass release of the Tuatha was nifty, but caused some stuttering even on a fairly decent card. People with low-end cards may have problems with that.

* The unison "I'm going on patrol!" NPC chat spam at the mass release of the Tuatha was somewhat annoying and a bit weird.

* The lack of any feedback from Nuada (?) unless you were leader was a bit unhelpful; he should probably make some sort of "I will only talk to the one who leads your band" comment.

Subjective:
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* Ice slides are cool.

* You really should find a way to give Nuada a silver mechanical arm

* Less annoying than Snaptooth, far more practical for a small group than Lord Winter. I think this is a pretty solid improvement to the winter events, and frankly just having another option helps with the "not Snaptooth again" feeling.

* I like the idea that a buff-centric player could potentially lead the NPCs to victory solo; there's very few opportunities to do that in CoH. Yet by and large the NPCs stay out of the way if you don't want to worry about them, and probably could be left untriggered at the start for those wanting no help at all. Well done.

* Lady Winter is probably harder for melee types wanting to just stand still and take it on the chin. There's plenty of other opportunities to do that (most of the rest of the game, really), so I rather like having a fight that rewards some basic positioning. Besides, it's good training to get people accustomed to that sort of thing with the harder Incarnate TFs and such

* Some of the bugs with rewards that have plagued Snaptooth in the past don't seem to be an issue with Lady Winter's rewards. I believe I tested all three of the major bug conditions listed on the Father Time page:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Father_Time
and none of them applied to Lady Winter. Character A picked a temp power reward (Renewal), and got it despite having gotten it and the badge the previous year. Character B was both sidekicked, and on another player's mission without completing one of their own; and got both badge and power from picking Renewal.

* There probably is some farm potential, it's a large untimed map full of foes with helper NPCs. I don't think it's unreasonable compared to other content, and barring some sort of clever glitch probably not nearly as efficient as things people are doing with existing missions (not even counting AE, even on the less-broken days).

Thanks to everyone who showed up. Some excellent bugs/issues were discussed and found.

I was going to come - like I had it in the back of my kind that it was going on - but Issue I19 was forcing me to play the new TFs

I had fun on Doc Aeon's team. Thanks guys!

i would have been there too had i not had class during that exact time period lol