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Discussion: City of Heroes Issue 21: Convergence Trailer!

Alien51

By Alien51,
Posted on: 2011-07-22 10:03 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by Doc_Hornet View Post
Just before the long-haired female character in pale orange jester pants shoots the flame from the wand, the tophatted male character in the pale oragne jester pants does a melee attack with what looks like the same wand.
Staff Assault, coming soon to a dominator near you.

 

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Originally Posted by Doc_Hornet View Post
Just before the long-haired female character in pale orange jester pants shoots the flame from the wand, the tophatted male character in the pale oragne jester pants does a melee attack with what looks like the same wand.
Dominator Assault set!

 

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I look forward to traveling to the Phazon Mines and fighting the Omega Pirate with my trial team.

 

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Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater View Post
So those two GMs we've seen aren't even the REAL Praetorian Hami?!

We're gonna need a bigger boat.
Indeed...



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To me, it just looks like a bunch of flash and show. I'll reserve judgement for when I can actually -experience- the content before deciding.
The track record so far for releases isn't inspiring. NEW ISSUE!! THIS'LL BE IN IT!! Then the reality. "Oh, we split the release." Not to mention new releases being buggy as all getout and breaking certain other parts of the game I already liked, but now have to wait till a fix is implemented.

I hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Just being realistic and not blinded by colorful and showy screenshots and videos.
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Originally Posted by mercykilling View Post
To me, it just looks like a bunch of flash and show. I'll reserve judgement for when I can actually -experience- the content before deciding.
The track record so far for releases isn't inspiring. NEW ISSUE!! THIS'LL BE IN IT!! Then the reality. "Oh, we split the release." Not to mention new releases being buggy as all getout and breaking certain other parts of the game I already liked, but now have to wait till a fix is implemented.

I hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Just being realistic and not blinded by colorful and showy screenshots and videos.
/signed

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Dev's With all the Great new content, Please!! dont forget to fix the bugs with the old content. There is a storm a brewing because they are not getting fixed. If its a problem that no one is reporting them? Well Maybe you need to look at your tech support then..

 

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Meh, i still hate i21 because it doesnt give more iSlots...new trial without a reason to run it. So yay! Nothing of interest ftw! Only reason i cant wait or i21 is because it means we are closer to i22 (or maybe i21.5) which means new slots.
Yeah, there are plenty of reasons to run the new iTrial (like more Emps to buy nifty Costume stuff with?). Also, I for one am GLAD we are not getting new slots yet. Not everyone has the time to get everything T4ed or even T3ed.


 

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Yeah, there are plenty of reasons to run the new iTrial (like more Emps to buy nifty Costume stuff with?). Also, I for one am GLAD we are not getting new slots yet. Not everyone has the time to get everything T4ed or even T3ed.
I just really, REALLY hope that when more slots are added they do not come with a third set of incarnate components, thus rendering Threads pretty well useless the way Shards are now.

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Yeah, there are plenty of reasons to run the new iTrial (like more Emps to buy nifty Costume stuff with?). Also, I for one am GLAD we are not getting new slots yet. Not everyone has the time to get everything T4ed or even T3ed.
Pretty much this. Also, I like the trials, but for a while, that was all I was doing. It's nice to have a break.

Also:

Time Manipulation. So very, very excited. Still no idea what it does, but it looks friggin' COOL.

Love the look of the First Ward, especially the Underground. Can't wait for the chance to swear at it.

Finally: Yeah, there's gonna be bugs. It'll take them a while to have everything tweaked just right. But to those who aren't excited, I say...there's a GIANT DAMN MONSTER crawling out of a hole in the ground. What more do you want?

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I just really, REALLY hope that when more slots are added they do not come with a third set of incarnate components, thus rendering Threads pretty well useless the way Shards are now.
You should prepare for the "worst"

@Golden Girl

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So... I watched the i21 trailer for the first time, today.

I really have only one question: Why did they forget (at least) 4 years of slow evolution in their advertising style to make... this?..

Okay, TWO questions: Does someone over there not LET you make interesting ads?

Not wanting to seem insulting. I'm just terribly frustrated when, on the one hand, you say you want to draw more people into the game, and on the other...

Let me say it a different way:

You have to grab people's attention!

This is an amazing game. Make something amazing. Put it in front of people. Let them be amazed.

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After watching it a few times, while I still concede it's a good ad, I've finally figured out what bothers me. It's not the ad itself... well, only partially.

Presumably, the PS Dev team has been working on this behind the scenes for quite some time. Presumably, Marketing had to be on board for it or it'd never have gotten greenlit in the first place. And presumably, PS/NCsoft was going to have SOME presence at SDCC as per usual, a venue that has some 125,000 visitors.

But even with needing to keep some 'secrets' so as not to promise too much, or give away all the awesomeness... the trailer for COH:F should have been nothing short of balls-to-the-wall FANTASTIC.

THIS is the expansion that could bring countless numbers into or BACK into the game.
THIS is where COH, to borrow War Witch's favorite phrase, "takes it to the next level", or at least opens the door for it.
THIS is where COH can firmly put the kabosh on any crap that at 7 years old, it's a has-been. Two competitors have come (and in a lot of respects, gone), and still we stand.

Where is the ad that shows that? Because, unfortunately, this wasn't it.

EDIT: Inside Gaming posted an article of the "Best Trailers o' the Show" for Comic-Con 2011. This game DESERVED a trailer that should have made that list.

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Oh, now THAT was spiffy... First Ward looks like a combination of "Escape from New York" meets the Everglades... and Time Manipulation - WANT!

*blanches then mutters something about 'back to the drawing board'...*

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
not THE Samuraiko???

if so - YOU should have done the i21 vid!! shame on you!! (love you anywaysx

 

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not THE Samuraiko???

if so - YOU should have done the i21 vid!! shame on you!! (love you anywaysx
Yes, "The". And thank you. I did do a teaser (the link's in my signature), and am working on four other teasers for I-21, plus hopefully a trailer. So hopefully that'll be sufficient?

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Originally Posted by Edana View Post
Staff Assault, coming soon to a dominator near you.
Actually, looking at the person holding it, that was a Carnie of light. Remember Seneschals on Primal? I reckon this is their Praetorian counterpart. No new powerset.

 

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I'm so gonna need a new graphics card...

The look of the underground, the epic scale of Hami's Avatar... Might actually get me to participate in a trial. If for no other reason than to experience that level of awesome!

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Apparently, the Avatar of the Hamidon climbs out of the gound when it first appears - and it also has a PBAoE with a 600 feet radius and a -20 mag confuse protection.

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SloMo Version of the Trailer

So you can actually see stuff.
You are so consistently awesome, Zombie. Thank you.

Thoughts on the trailer:

* Looks to me like the Carnival of Light goes in big for magic wands/staves which shoot light.
* I'm not sure if the algae-spraying hose was supposed to be the beam weapon, but if so I'd suggest renaming it plasma gun or something. That didn't look anything like a beam to me. Also, how can it be single target if the spray covers half a dozen people? Maybe that was something else.
* I'm guessing everyone in the trailer with glowing green energy on them was buffed or debuffed by time manipulation.
* At first I thought everything with a visible brain/skeleton had to be a Shivan, but it looked like some of the Hamidon monsters had the same look?
* The new tutorial and the new sewer trial look fantastic. I can't wait to start a new character. (Personally, I can't play the villain tutorial unless I turn the sound off. How is a new player supposed to read all that text with klaxons blaring in their ears?)
* Looks like the coming storm has come to Galaxy City? It seems a little odd to have level 1 characters fighting shoulder to shoulder with level 50 Signature heroes. I mean, it's epic, but at the same time it sort of undermines the concept of levels.
* My computer (which I bought so I could get CoV framerates in the double digits instead of the single digits of my old computer) is going to break down and cry.
* I love the squish when the Shivans die!
* Time manipulation looks cool, but I'll wait and see what it actually does.
* The new costume sets look a lot like existing sets to me, Vanguard and... what's the other one, Stealth? Ulterior? Something like that. I don't have much of an eye for detail, so I prefer my new costume sets to be more dramatically different.

While I'm not impressed with the fast cutting hard to see style of the trailer, I'm still really excited about the new stuff coming down the pipe.

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Apparently, the Avatar of the Hamidon climbs out of the gound when it first appears - and it also has a PBAoE with a 600 feet radius and a -20 mag confuse protection.
20 mag? pft, it'll take my mind controller 13.7 seconds to get through that!

I assume you meant 200.

...I'm gonna need Powerboost!

-STEELE =)


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Looks very " gothamy" and " metropoli" to me

Yes pun intended.

as Ood Sigma said....We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.

 

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You guys ARE going to have another trailer by the time PAX rolls around... right?

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)

 

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Looking forward to the new powersets mostly. The new zone looks pretty cool, as do the costumes that have been revealed so far.

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The trailer for Issue 21 looked good.

I am looking forward to new content and costume pieces. We need more tech, helmets, and weapons, especially rifles. I know it takes a lot of time to program new stuff, so I appreciate what they have done so far.

I was not able to make it to the San Diego Comic Con to get the latest info, normally I am there, but you know how this year went for trying to get tickets.

On a side note:

Does anyone know if I NCsoft is going to be at the Los Angeles Comic Con in September (24th&25th)?

http://www.wizardworld.com/home-losangeles.html

If they were I was thinking of going, but if not, I will skip it.

Thanks


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