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Issue 20 info is up!

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-03-01 11:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Woo-hoo! The respec badges are being fixed!

Disclaimer: Plenty of other fun stuff too, but as a badge hunter I tend to focus on the badge stuff first.

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At last a lvl30 SF for villians yay

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Originally Posted by Slazenger View Post
At last a lvl30 SF for villians yay
^^This was the first thing that came to my mind for the i20 news

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Pretty much all raids and TFs. Not much crunchy stuff at least at this point. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't expected more, but hopefully the raids'll be fun enough to make up for that, since I imagine there's going to be a lot of raiding once this hits.

Though I suppose that given there's absolutely no talk of new slots, we have at least some indication that the list is incomplete.

 

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I hope theres more to come...
No info about more proliferation, no new free costumes added?

 

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Originally Posted by Slazenger View Post
At last a lvl30 SF for villians yay
I was just on a thread a few days ago talking about, among other things, the lack of a level 30ish SF for the redside. I guess that'll be one less thing redsiders will have to whine about... whoops did I say that out loud?

Never fear, I'm sure despite this "slip-up" the Devs still hate villains just as much as ever.

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Heroes want to destroy these operations, while Villains will also be there grabbing as much Incarnate-touched power as they can in the sabotage process.
At least there's this.

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Heroes and Villains who have changed alignments can now collect all six respec trial badges. No new respecs will be granted.
And this.

The rest? Praetoria, Well of the Furies, Praetoria, Well of the Furies....and no mention of the next Incarnate slot at all. Yawn. Can we wrap up this evil goatee universe and move on to something cool?

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I so totally called that ages ago - back in the GR beta, in fact

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Two new raids and two new TFs but that can be all there is considering i20 needed a physically signed NDA. But if it is, huh?

Oh and it's called "Incarnates" so I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar at least 2 new incarnate slots are in there that they just haven't gotten the A-OK from martketing to release the info yet.

 

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Originally Posted by Lazarillo View Post
Pretty much all raids and TFs. Not much crunchy stuff at least at this point. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't expected more, but hopefully the raids'll be fun enough to make up for that, since I imagine there's going to be a lot of raiding once this hits.
Raids and TFs aren't "crunchy"?

Anyway in terms of general thought sit is VERY nice to see new lower level TFs/SFs. I think the devs have done a great job with the newer TFs but except for the Positron revamp they've all be focused on level 50s (yes, the ITF scales down to 35 but it's very rare to see it run as anything other than a level 50 TF). The level range on the new TFs/SFs is interesting as well, 20-40 is a pretty big range and it's also the range that includes the largest increases in power for a lot of characters so it'll be interesting to see how well it's balanced.

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Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
Two new raids and two new TFs but that can be all there is considering i20 needed a physically signed NDA. But if it is, huh?
Given the comments the devs made it seems likely that the physical NDA stuff was for the trials and the League system. In that case the physical NDA made a lot of sense, it's not about the quantity of stuff to test but the fact that those systems represent a major upgrade to CoX and as such something the devs would want to keep under wraps during the initial testing.

 

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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
Raids and TFs aren't "crunchy"?
I probably have a weird use of semantics.
When I think "crunchy" as far as this game is concerned, I think more about powers, proliferations, QoL changes, things of that nature. TFs and raids fall under the umbrella of "content".

Basically, crunch is stuff I use.
Content is stuff I do.
Yeah, I'm weird. Probably.

 

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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction View Post

The rest? Praetoria, Well of the Furies, Praetoria, Well of the Furies....and no mention of the next Incarnate slot at all. Yawn. Can we wrap up this evil goatee universe and move on to something cool?
We can wrap it up when myself and players like me are damn well done with it.

On a more positive note...


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(This feature is currently only available for Incarnate Trials on the same server.)
As opposed to....

 

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Originally Posted by Lazarillo View Post
I probably have a weird use of semantics.
When I think "crunchy" as far as this game is concerned, I think more about powers, proliferations, QoL changes, things of that nature. TFs and raids fall under the umbrella of "content".

Yeah, I'm weird. Probably.
Fair enough, to me content is crunchy and everything else is filler .

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As opposed to....
Cross-sever teaming.

 

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Originally Posted by Lazarillo View Post
I probably have a weird use of semantics.
When I think "crunchy" as far as this game is concerned, I think more about powers, proliferations, QoL changes, things of that nature. TFs and raids fall under the umbrella of "content".
Lately they've been falling under the umbrella of "mechanics." Labeling them as content would imply that the story was important enough not to be just a justification for the mechanics.

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Points for going all the way back to Issue 1 of the comics and the whole Flame of Prometheus storyline! *cheers* Never mind that it's FINALLY a lvl 30 SF... I wanna play this story!!!

And yeah, I'm thinking the Floating Fortress is the headquarters of the Durays... looking forward to kicking the crap out of the Sky Raiders agin!

*smirks*

Well, at least for my part, I finished this issue's trailer over two years ago.

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Originally Posted by LISAR View Post
As opposed to....
I was thinking the same thing but more like this:

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Upgraded Looking For Group*: We've made a major upgrade in the Looking For Group function. Players can now sign up for an Incarnate Trial almost anywhere in Paragon City, the Rogue Isles, or Praetoria (the exceptions are Super Group Bases, PvP Zones, or while running instanced missions or Task Forces/Strike Forces). When enough characters for an Incarnate Trial are queued, the characters are teleported to the instance and automatically formed into a League. (This feature is currently only available for Incarnate Trials on the same server.)
Emphasis mine.... potentially a hint at cross server teaming?!

 

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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
Given the comments the devs made it seems likely that the physical NDA stuff was for the trials and the League system. In that case the physical NDA made a lot of sense, it's not about the quantity of stuff to test but the fact that those systems represent a major upgrade to CoX and as such something the devs would want to keep under wraps during the initial testing.


Taking features from other MMOs would require a phsyically signed NDA? I don't see it, it's not like they are anything new to these types of games. Maybe my expectations were just to high.

 

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Sheesh people....when have they *ever* released a full and complete list of the contents of a new Issue with their first posting?

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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
We can wrap it up when myself and players like me are damn well done with it.
Yeah, well myself and players like me would like something else new to do in this game than fight the same guy three issues in a row so far. So there.

(Preemptively bolded before the inevitable "the old content isn't going anywhere" or "go play another game." I like this game, I don't like Praetoria, I'm not alone, and such an unprecedented focus on one story line that many people don't like alienates those people.)

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Issue 20 overall appears to be a solid issue, but I am not convinced that it will surpass Issue 18 or Issue 19, but we shall see. Based on what information we do have to work with, it appears to be forming a frame work for Issue 21. But I have to echo some earlier thoughts in this thread, that, there has to be more involved if it required a strict NDA...well I hope...