Dev Chat Highlights, July 22: Panel Highlights

(They cannot record this, as it eats up loads of bandwidth)



We have Booth Babe Desdemona with Zwillinger to start off. Who tells us not to let her die on the new Underground trial.

The Ustream is a Panel refresher. We'll be going over Street Jusitce Melee, Beam Rifle ranged, and the Signature Stories.

We have Positron, who is told not to lean on the table, as it shakes the camera. So we'll end up with motion sickness and not headaches.

Posi thinks it's cruel to record him but not Desdemona.

Street Justice: "Second Mesaure's abuse of power power"

Posi: "It's fisticuffs, dirty fighting melee. Stuff from a back alley, kicking people in the jimmy, the junk, doing uppercuts. Many of the moves were inspired from the fight scene from "They Live."

Each attack has a differing debuff, each combo ending has a different one. So you can choose based on situation.

Animation wise it's "Some of the best animations we've ever done. Because it's for sale we made sure to go overboard on the animations we did."

Tangent: Noise, gravelly-voiced Zwill.

Beam rifle: Goes "Wah wah wah wah wah."

It has a debuff power that will make other attackls have debuffs. Like -Def, or applying a DoT.

"Kind of a Ghostbusters Gun."

The set is more about the visual effects than animations.

"With it being a powerset you'll have to buy we went overboard with the effects. IF you get this set you'll not be disappointed."

Travel pool additions! Free for all!

Afterburner: "We figured out a way to break the flight speed barrier. Faster than fast flight. So if group fly is not your thing Afterburner is the power you want as your tier 4 power."

Burnout: Superspeed "Recharges all your primary and secondary powers. It has a 30 minute recharge rate." Puts flight speed at 72.

Zone Teleport. Beastyle: "Zone to Zone."

Jump: Some sort of shield-charge like thing. AoE, possibly stun.

Signature story arc: Who Will Die?

Playing alongside the signature characters, experiencing the story of the characters. It will be a bit of a mystery. At the end you'll experience the death of a signature character and finding your role in it.

It is not a temporary thing, permanently affects the game world and content attached to them will be "Dealt with in a rather significant way."

"This is not introducing Praetorian War Witch just to kill her. We'll kill her eventually, but not with this."

Turning the camera around to see the crowd








Personalized Coh Photo ID's. On the back is the Olympian Guard costume code. Forgot to screencap.

Zwill is losing his voice. There's 2 days left and a party and another Ustream.

"Tomorrow's Ustream will be entirely in ASL."

They will be offering the costume codes in the Paragon Market.

"The air of exclusivity is a bit stale."

"Those of you selling them on ebay, take that!"

My question: "Is the +10 enhancement slot storage per account or per character?"

Posi: "I wish I could remember off hand and don't want to give the right answer."

Paragon rewards are per account. Consumables are vouchers in the e-mail.

Underground Trial difficulty: It is a difficult trial in terms of the enemies, but it is not as complex as Keyes. It's easier to coordinate.

They've thought about the arc affecting the Task Force Commander badge.

Beam rifle models: A lot.

Best costume: Desdemona, and a Cobra Commander. They cannot show a nearby cosplayer due to Ustream limits. Posi saw an accurate Cammy from Street Fighter.

Beastyle complaining in chat: "They wouldn't let me take a sick day to come today and now they're talking about Cammy cosplayer"

Robot MM's getting beam rifles: "We're discussing it internally. Maybe not at first."

Character slots per server: "36 is not enough and we agree."

Posi goes to talk to the fans, we're joined by Second Measure.

Paragon Rewards Respecs: "They MIGHT be vouchers. But I thought they were automatic granted things. We keep trying different things and I can't remember what we’re currently doing. I'm living in the future and getting meetings about things to come. I'm working on Issue 22 and 23. The team has done such a good job with Freedom I feel comfortable doing what comes next."

Open beta: Soon ™, in the coming weeks. There is a date in mind, but he's not announcing it.

Freedom/Issue 21 go into beta at the same time.

Hoverboard: More vehicle powers? "Tell us what you think about the rocket board, is what it's called now. It depends on you."

A Roman/Spartan/ Cimeroran shows up.



"Next zone to get an Atlas-style revamp: they know what it is. And it's not one of the ones we think it is. They've guessed it once for I22 in the forums. Some of the guesses for things in I22 are uncannily accurate."

No new incarnate powers in Issue 21.

Vicky code given away on air.

Bringing on David Nakayama.





They’ve gone through two huge stacks of the posters.

"I've seen some of the VFX, you guys are familiar with Tunnel Rat's work at this time. It's more of the amazing out of the box mind-blowing effects. We've been doing things to the nth degree, the ultimate fire path aura, the ultimate lightning aura, all the aura stuff she's been doing."

Referencing the trailer for I21 posted on Youtube.

"You can finally see the scale of the Seed of Hamidon."

I have it is HUUUUUUGE.

Sig story teaser images.

"Marketing had a cool idea to start telling about it without giving the whole farm away suggesting we have certain heroes on the chopping block. It's a murder mystery, which of our big character is going to die. You all are going to be surprised about how it gets down and who gets it. This is not an on/off switch, there is a 7 month, elaborate, murder mystery story."

LeatherPup from Triumph is being shown in his 3 Wolf Moon shirt. Some other unnamed player is also brought in to be shown.




His impression: "I was one of the players who was scared when Freedom was announced, that it was a last ditch effort. I looked at the new things, all the pop ups, the store, the costume screen. This is not a last ditch effort, this is a double down."

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

The new sets sound like other newer sets. They stand out due to animations, but not really due to performance.

Thanks for posting this, Von Krieger.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

Thank you, wish they could have recorded .

Neat to see the costume powers going on the market. Weee.

I am more interested in seeing how they handle the effects of the death [the content issues] more than the death itself, sad no?

Me sad about Energy Rifle/Beam Gun differences. I hope they can manage something, since the Energy Rifle feels so underused [because of it being in only one set].

Good info.

Thanks for providing all of this!

Costume codes in the market? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

It looks like the +10 Enhancement storage slots for 1600 points are unlocked ACCOUNT WIDE.

From MajorDecoy in the main Comicon thread.

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

Meh on the Cammy display. Vanessa (KOF) would be awesome, though

Thanks for the pos!

Hurray, now I can sell 20 SOs at a time after the ITF!
and also save twenty per respec when I strip retirees

Is that the actual Pupster?

Also, VK--you rule!

Best part was when Posi said "Kick em in the jimmy."

Maybe open beta in early September?
And live servers at the end of October?
Cant damn wait for this, is too much win!

I'm guessing open beta by mid August and release in late September.

Honestly it sounds to me more like "We went above and beyond the call of duty to make these powers look good knowing that people have to buy them." as opposed to "Screw these free powersets. We can just make crap and send it out because it's free."

Time Manipulation is a free to play powerset and it looks gorgeous. To me it seems more like the devs saying that they're doing their best to make sure for-pay powersets look awesome rather than free powersets being the suck.

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