Discussion - Check out the All New Steampunk Booster Pack Trailer!
By
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Posted on: 2011-05-18 11:53 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Argh, it's 40 minutes past midnight here and still no pack in the store! *whines*
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Originally Posted by bmbeeman
Is there a release time... Was planning on staying up and waiting for it. Is there no point?
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Interesting... Looking at what the post times show up as, I'm trying to figure out what time zone they running off of. Or maybe I'm just way to anxious and looking into it too much. I don't think this is really hyped enough to have an exciting midnight release, is it? If so, my guess is they're running on PST, which means us eastcoasters have a while to wait yet. I don't work or have school tomorrow, so what the heck... I'll wait.
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Originally Posted by Feycat
Argh, it's 40 minutes past midnight here and still no pack in the store! *whines*
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That looks so sweet, I'm looking foward for that pack. GREAT JOB!
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Haters gonna hate I guess. The game has had only two real expansions... CoV was a stand-alone product, but that's besides the point. From what I can gather you've gotten incarnates with a FREE patch... Rikti Crash Site was added... FOR FREE, as were epic ATs and a host of other things. Why is everyone mad at them for these packs. It could be worse... They could crank out a new $50 expansion pack each year... I nabbed most of the packs for the cost of some "other" expansions that I don't even play now. Needless to say I'm happy with every one of my pack purchases.|
Originally Posted by Zanthyna
The steampunk booster trailer looks amazing! I have to actually check it out before I can render my final verdict, but I think it will probably end up as my favorite booster.
I remember talking to Noble Savage at the San Diego Comic Con party last year about ideas for a steampunk booster and I am very impressed with what I have seen. It seems to have just about everything I have been wanting. Hats with goggles on them was on the top of my wish list so I am very glad to see them. I wish people would stop complaining about the booster packs 'taking away' content or resources from the game. The whole point of the booster packs is to provide additional revenue that allows them the resources to create more content. The booster packs actually cause more content to be created. Granted, some of it is exclusive to the booster, but that's how they get us to buy it, so it has to be exclusive. When the Wedding Pack (the first booster) came out, its success allowed them to hire more people to work on the game to the benefit of us all. This is what the boosters are for. The only other way to get that extra content would be for them to raise everyone's monthly fee. |
And that's my 2 AM rant... I need to find better ways to kill time.
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lol Hype or no, i'll be shocked (and pleased) to see it available before 10am EST today. MOre likely between 11am and noon. |
Originally Posted by bmbeeman
Interesting... Looking at what the post times show up as, I'm trying to figure out what time zone they running off of. Or maybe I'm just way to anxious and looking into it too much. I don't think this is really hyped enough to have an exciting midnight release, is it? If so, my guess is they're running on PST, which means us eastcoasters have a while to wait yet. I don't work or have school tomorrow, so what the heck... I'll wait.
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YOU LIE... It will be out any time now... excuse my while I continue to frenetically hit the refresh button... this whole post has been a horrible waste of refresh time... what if came out while I was typing this... precious seconds lost. Must be the first to have it!
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Originally Posted by Darkscar
lol Hype or no, i'll be shocked (and pleased) to see it available before 10am EST today. MOre likely between 11am and noon.
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Likewise hitting refresh every 5 mins on the store......... and I have a cold so no work today at least <sniff, parp>.
EDIT:::And it's out!!
Heh, I happened to be up at 7am EST, on my day off (well second day of a nasty cold), and sure enough there it was! 
I was wrong. I feel soooo bad about that! :P
Guess they've figured out that the earlier they get it online the less chance everyone will surge forward at once to buy it and crash the store. How many did that take?! I recall the Magic pack and those before, were a pain to get. The Mutant I waited a couple of day (I was busy anyway). The Animal was the first one I know of them releasing earlier in the day and when I logged on during lunch at work I was able to get it no problem.
Got the pack and have been playing with it. Love it! I've already created one new toon, and it's let me pull an old toon concept out of the mothballs and really start hearing his voice again. Between my wife and I we bought the pack for three accounts.
Things I love
1: The style! The pack is just oooooozing style, and the female parts are very very versitile (as demonstrated by some of the costume parts shown in other threads). The women's tops are gorgeous, the guys swanky. The dress option opens up so many possibilities (and just in time for proms/graduation parties too)
2: Backpacks! More please!
3: The steampack power. I love the way it looks and drooled over the landing (big thud with a shockwave of steam/dust billowing out) I would LOVE to see something like that as an alt animation for Super Jump. Give our leaping heroes a real sense of weight and impact.
4. The Auras. I've been hoping for an aura that can work as a 'holographic' or 'mystical rune' armor and the Victorian does so nicely. The clunker aura also fits for some of my broken down bots and ickier 'gooey' toons. Can't wait for the new trail auras coming in the Issue 20 update.
I do have some feedback on the pack though.
As has been mentioned by others I would love to see
A: A sleeveless version of all the jackets male and female
B: The long coats brought over for the ladies. And the sash belt for the fellas.
C: The colors on the chest and sleeves to match up on the male jackets.
D: The option to color the hair on th men's hats. make the hair and band match colors, or color lock the band, but not the hair. That severely limits the toons that the part can work with.
E: Make the female chest detail and jackets mesh better without clipping. I have a feeling that the new corsets would look brilliant with a biker jacket or trenchcoat if it were not for the clipping.
F: Give us the curly mop hair without the hat please!
G: Make the Bowtie and Ascots a chest detail like the other ties. once again, give us choice, don't lock us into one specific look.
H: Make the steamjump a perma power like Beast Run or Ninja run.
Seriously though, while these are things I would like to see, I am over all very impressed with the pack and look forward to many more.
(Edit): Thought of one more 'pie in the sky' thing I'd love to see in this and any other boosters. Themed base items. Animal cages with the Animal pack. Sword racks with Martial arts, Animated steam gauges and tesla coils for the Steampunk, ect. I know there is probably not enough demand for a full on 'Base Booster' but having some themed items included with the boosters would be really nice.
I plan on buying this, btw.