Today's Dev Chat Highlights

Highlights from today's Dev Chat:

-Kirby Dots Aura: Tunnel Rat has been wanting to do it for a long time (and has snuck them in on some Clockwork and Antimatter powers), but had no idea if anyone would want it until it was mentioned in the thread.

-Doppleganger Lore Pets: Dubbed "Too powerful for the Lore slot" with some not at all subtle hinting from Black Scorpion.

-Black Pebble: Possibly seen on camera. Footage was blurry. More likely Bigfoot in a Black Pebble suit.

-Separate Auras and Path Auras: Probably too resource taxing to do.

-New Auras: We were shown the Boils, Ghosts, Slime, and Magnetic Auras.

-Ascension Armor: Comes in Aura and Aura-free versions. Aura is tintable and is in addition to any aura you already have.

-Merit Costs for cosmetic items: Mentioned as "20 Empyrean Merits for the really high stuff, but most of it is a lot lower." Also "Entering beta, so is subject to change."

-Keyes Reactor Trial: Will not canonically blow up Praetoria if you fail.

-Tunnel Rat: Disarmed Black Pebble of the Nerf Gattling Gun and gave as good as she got from his many shots all evening.

-Incarnate Emblems: Chest emblems of all the Incarnate Slot logos are going to be made available.

-Scrappers: Ice Armor, Black Scorpion made a show of writing it down as something to discuss.

-Merging Blue and Redside Ouroburos: Would take a LOT of effort in order to due so, essentially rewrites of the contact engine, mission engine, travel engine, and Ouroburos engine. Was on the list of things to do for Going Rogue but was put by the wayside due to time and effort involved.

-Zone where we can use our Incarnate shifts. Got mention along the lines of "Didn't we already...?" and then frantic hushing from Second Measure with a wink and a finger over the lips.


EDIT: Oh! Crap! Thanks for reminding me, bAss.

A new, god-like NPC with incredible power is being added, where you will be able to set your preference for having the movement portion of buffs active or inaction, as well as being able to set preference on Mystic Fortune.

This Super-Incarnate will also tell you which of the Praetorian Archvillains you've defeated and still need for your Dimensional Warder badge.

That NPC's name? Null the Gull.

Quote:

Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Where do I sign to be made into a Lore pet?


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Zwillinger supports making bAss_ackwards as a Lore pet addition! He said so on the UStream!

Black Scorpion, seriously thank you for considering and writing down Ice Armor for Scrappers!

Null the Gull for best City of Heroes NPC 2011, or The Best NPC Evar?

Wait!? Null the Gull is coming back squeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Question: the news auras such as pixie, and rainbow path and the like....are they available for non-Incarnates? The info around that is fuzzy.

Didn't they say on the stream that it was redeemed by voucher? Sorry, I was more focused on Ice Armor for Scrappers I didn't really keep track of the rest of the stuff.

Oh! Another detail from the Dev Chat:

Beta (Closed Beta?) of Incarnates Ascend likely to begin next week, on Tuesday the 31st.

I tried watching the recorded dev chat, but I kept running into issues. It seemed like one of the ads did something to the video. It shrank the video and the time bar at the bottom went back to 0:00 while the video continued to play. That kept going for several minutes until the video just stopped.

I'll try watching it again tomorrow. Thanks for the highlights until then!