Dev Chat Highlights

Art team, you hit it out of the park already with the steampunk pack. This is as solid as the Magic Pack. Right on!

While not all that interested in steampunk, this does look like a nice booster. Much better than the last couple. Cant wait to see what people come up with using it.

Rifle. Want.

That is all.

The Steampunk stuff looks awesome. Looks as though I'm going to start buying boosters again

I've no idea what the new face tech is supposed to be (aside from "better", I guess) but if it's anything like the organic armor and Praetorian clockwork faces, I'm all for it.

When I asked about martial arts for blaster secondaries Posi just asked how it fit with blasters

steampunk will be bought.. well done david, knew ya wouldn't let us down.

as for posi's comment on dinos, understood, wish it werent so, but i understand the reality.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Powerset proliferation alone should be good enough to keep me interested, personally. It's just about time, and there's always room for something cool along those lines. I hope that comes with new Epics.

The Steampunk aura is interesting, but I have to wonder if its fabled backpack will open the road to OTHER backpacks. I want more than one, and I want actual backpacks, as well as more smooth tech backpacks, as well. Let's hope either the previous or subsequent major update will add free backpacks to character creation that this purchasable one can be added to, rather than being alone in a list by itself.

Normal mapping for faces sounds interesting, but normal mapping is a shading tool. I'm not sure how much it can help over base models so low-poly and texture maps of such low resolution. I'm kind of hoping they'll do a large-scale redesign of faces to make them more detailed in both mesh and texture and maybe give us distinct eyes, as opposed to eye sockets with eyes painted on them. That might constitute a LOT of work, however, so I'm not hopeful. The girl in the pic is too low-res to tell anything about her face, other than that it's a brand new face texture that I haven't seen before.

The rest of the news don't interest me, but I found more than enough to like, so that's not a complaint.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I asked about anymore Powerset Proliferation in 2011, but alas no reply. There are a lot of things that can still be proliferated over that many-a-people are yearning for. I just don't see how that isn't a top-request item from players.

I asked about cross-server teaming and got this reply

04-28-2011 17:46:00 [Broadcast] Positron: I'd love for cross server teaming to become a reality, I know it's on a schedule, but there are a ton of programming tasks ahead of it.

In the Ustream thingie, did he say weapons when he was talking about the Steampunk rifle?

The best would be if we could power customize Warshades. That would probably look the inkiest out of anything.

I think that cog aura will probably be used more on robot avatars than organic ones - unless they're wearing robot style armor

And even though I think the whole steampunk look - not just CoH, but as a style in general - is ugly and clunky, I think they're done an awesome job to capture that look for this costume pack, and I'll totally be getting it to help support the game

Good stuff devs, good stuff. Keep up the great work and increasing community interaction.