Issue 21 F2P News


Blue Lava

 

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Ok. at first i was a rage quiter.but reviewing other mmos that gone f2p its not that bad i kinda like 2 right now its a lot cheaper to play and still some content

Here are the pros :
More players
More money for Company so wont raise my subscription fees
I can line item veto pieces that i want for my toons
If i dont have cash i can still play

Here are the cons ( but of course Paragon being as clever as they are covered most of these)

Lot of people on servers but of course its all good because we have a VIP server and vips have first shot at getting on a server

Lot of lag- and thats stress test is going on

Vet rewards to paragon reward- is nothing you actually get more stuff than vet

Goodbye Galaxy- but get first ward and its now a tutorial

Goodbye lvl 1-10 in sewer as a lowbie- but we get a lowbie league tf!

More incarnate grind -- but its almost over then time to work on bases and pvp

Overall not the best issue but not the worst...worst IMHO was issue 13 Best was issue 7
So what are things you find most pro and most con about issue 21


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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Issue 13 solicits untold amounts of rage in me, and I joined in i18. Or was it i17?


 

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Very true


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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Things Im most looking forward to with I21

Being able to stop paying for my alt account and still being able to play it
Seeing new players and returning players
New costume pieces
New powersets
VIP server (I wont leave Virtue but I will be on the VIP server some)
Signature Story Arcs !

And the thing Im most looking forward to is the new business model being a big success for Paragon so that they can continue to fund and pump out more costume pieces, powersets, and story arcs to extend the life of the game.


Virtue Server Forever !
Pure White Lightning - Level 50 Electric Brute
Purple Drop - work in progress Axe/Shield brute
Blue Icefall - Level 50 Ice Tank
@Blue Lava

 

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Pro: More Encharger

Con: No forum Encharger


 

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There is no "goodbye sewers" as it's still gonna be there. The trial is just there as an added option to folks that want to do something different.

And how is there more Incarnate Grind when they add in another trial, allowing you more variety in what you can do to get merits and actually increasing the daily amount of merits you can get because of this?

Also, devs haven't promised anything in terms of bases and PvP, so you can't say that's something that will be coming to us.


 

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There is no "goodbye sewers" as it's still gonna be there. The trial is just there as an added option to folks that want to do something different.
good had me worried

And how is there more Incarnate Grind when they add in another trial, allowing you more variety in what you can do to get merits and actually increasing the daily amount of merits you can get because of this?
still can only do 4
Also, devs haven't promised anything in terms of bases and PvP, so you can't say that's something that will be coming to us.
i wish they would


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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I present to you my complete list of all known changes coming with Issue 21 from another forum where I've been keeping track.

  • f2p system
  • New magical based Praetorian zone, First Ward (purchased separately, but included with subscriptions) Level 20-24 Praetorian zone. Praetorians can come straight from the current Praetorian content to this new zone, and Primals can come over to it as well.
  • New Incarnate trial--Underground Praetoria
  • Mercy Island and Atlas Park revamped
  • Galaxy City destroyed and removed from game.
  • Breakout and Outbreak replaced by a coop destroyed galaxy city tut zone. Any class can join it and go to either side. All removed content including Galaxy accessible from Orobouros.
  • Team wide inspirations.
  • Sewer trial for lower level characters available through the team up teleporter.
  • New powerset--Time Manipulation. Defender primary and MM, corrupter, and controller secondary. (free to subscribers)
  • New server (subscribers only)
  • Two new costume sets (free to subscribers)
  • Ability to see and preview all costume pieces, even onces you don't have, in the Tailor.
  • Many new tailors
  • Reworked Ouroburos intro arc
  • New Powerset--Street Justice. A hand to hand combo based set. Different powers have different secondary effects. (purchased separately)
  • New Powerset--Beam Guns. Energy weapons attacks which do lower based damage than other ranged sets, but debuff the enemy, allowing them to do additional damage. (purchased separately)
  • New Vet Reward system. It is tier based, allowing you to spent points to unlock new rewards. Current players will get 1 point per vet badge, plus one per year. 7 year players should be able to unlock most of the rewards immediately. Most of the restrictions on free players can be removed this way.
  • New Vet Reward--Dual Inspirations. Work like two regular inspirations as once, like damage/accuracy for example.
  • New Vet Reward--Team Inspirations. Work like regular inspirations, but effect the entire team.
  • New Vet Reward--Signature character summoning
  • New Costume Set--Circle of Thorns (purchased separately)
  • New Costume Set--Gunslinger (purchased separately)
  • New Power--Hoverboard (purchased separately)
  • Travel powers at level 4
  • New Power--Afterburner. A new Flight pool power that lets you boost your flight speed.
  • New Power--Long Distance Teleport. A teleport pool power. Details unknown.
  • New Power--Pounce. Exact name unknown. Jump pool power. Some type of attack power.
  • New Power--Burnout. Superspeed pool power. Lets you instantly recharge all primary and secondary powers at a high end cost and a temporary reductions in max end.
  • Low rarity recipes buyable from the store.
  • New IO Sets for each AT. (purchased separately)
  • New Vet Reward--Unslotters, used to removed a single enhancment
  • New Vet Reward--IO enhancers, used to combine two similar IOs, as with regular enhancements
  • Optional Tutorial stories available every few levels until level 20
  • New Costume Set--Celestial Armor
  • QOL: Improved contact visibility
  • QOL: Find contact button
  • QOL: Teleport to contact


 

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Originally Posted by Cien_Fuegos View Post
still can only do 4
Sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining.


 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself View Post

  • New Costume Set--Gunslinger (purchased separately)

Aaaaarf? Did they change Malta too without saying a word? I WANT TO SEE THEM!


 

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Originally Posted by Stryph View Post
Aaaaarf? Did they change Malta too without saying a word? I WANT TO SEE THEM!
They didn't. They just are planning on releasing a Western-styled costume set. Concept art for it was seen in PC Gamer magazine, along with the concept art for the CoT.


 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself View Post
I present to you my complete list of all known changes coming with Issue 21 from another forum where I've been keeping track.

  • f2p system
  • New magical based Praetorian zone, First Ward (purchased separately, but included with subscriptions) Level 20-24 Praetorian zone. Praetorians can come straight from the current Praetorian content to this new zone, and Primals can come over to it as well.
  • New Incarnate trial--Underground Praetoria
  • Mercy Island and Atlas Park revamped
  • Galaxy City destroyed and removed from game.
  • Breakout and Outbreak replaced by a coop destroyed galaxy city tut zone. Any class can join it and go to either side. All removed content including Galaxy accessible from Orobouros.
  • Team wide inspirations.
  • Sewer trial for lower level characters available through the team up teleporter.
  • New powerset--Time Manipulation. Defender primary and MM, corrupter, and controller secondary. (free to subscribers)
  • New server (subscribers only)
  • Two new costume sets (free to subscribers)
  • Ability to see and preview all costume pieces, even onces you don't have, in the Tailor.
  • Many new tailors
  • Reworked Ouroburos intro arc
  • New Powerset--Street Justice. A hand to hand combo based set. Different powers have different secondary effects. (purchased separately)
  • New Powerset--Beam Guns. Energy weapons attacks which do lower based damage than other ranged sets, but debuff the enemy, allowing them to do additional damage. (purchased separately)
  • New Vet Reward system. It is tier based, allowing you to spent points to unlock new rewards. Current players will get 1 point per vet badge, plus one per year. 7 year players should be able to unlock most of the rewards immediately. Most of the restrictions on free players can be removed this way.
  • New Vet Reward--Dual Inspirations. Work like two regular inspirations as once, like damage/accuracy for example.
  • New Vet Reward--Team Inspirations. Work like regular inspirations, but effect the entire team.
  • New Vet Reward--Signature character summoning
  • New Costume Set--Circle of Thorns (purchased separately)
  • New Costume Set--Gunslinger (purchased separately)
  • New Power--Hoverboard (purchased separately)
  • Travel powers at level 4
  • New Power--Afterburner. A new Flight pool power that lets you boost your flight speed.
  • New Power--Long Distance Teleport. A teleport pool power. Details unknown.
  • New Power--Pounce. Exact name unknown. Jump pool power. Some type of attack power.
  • New Power--Burnout. Superspeed pool power. Lets you instantly recharge all primary and secondary powers at a high end cost and a temporary reductions in max end.
  • Low rarity recipes buyable from the store.
  • New IO Sets for each AT. (purchased separately)
  • New Vet Reward--Unslotters, used to removed a single enhancment
  • New Vet Reward--IO enhancers, used to combine two similar IOs, as with regular enhancements
  • Optional Tutorial stories available every few levels until level 20
  • New Costume Set--Celestial Armor
  • QOL: Improved contact visibility
  • QOL: Find contact button
  • QOL: Teleport to contact
Wow thanks thats a good list =0 )

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New Powerset--Street Justice. A hand to hand combo based set. Different powers have different secondary effects. (purchased separately)
New Powerset--Beam Guns. Energy weapons attacks which do lower based damage than other ranged sets, but debuff the enemy, allowing them to do additional damage. (purchased separately)[*]New Costume Set--Circle of Thorns (purchased separately)[*]New Costume Set--Gunslinger (purchased separately)[*]New Power--Hoverboard (purchased separately)
As in not in our vip status reward =0 0!!!!!! O NOES
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Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
Sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining.
So there arent a limited number of incarnate trials you can repeat
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Originally Posted by Stryph View Post
Aaaaarf? Did they change Malta too without saying a word? I WANT TO SEE THEM!
I think color changed from blue to other
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Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
They didn't. They just are planning on releasing a Western-styled costume set. Concept art for it was seen in PC Gamer magazine, along with the concept art for the CoT.
Got a link?


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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Originally Posted by Cien_Fuegos View Post
So there arent a limited number of incarnate trials you can repeat

Got a link?
As to the first point, I have no idea what kind of point you're trying to make, but we have double the end game trials with I21 than we did when trials first launched. They're working on more to do as we speak, it just takes time. So there's no reason to complain aside from just wanting to complain.

As to the second, I don't have a link to the pics themselves as they were in an actual, physical magazine. You'll have to buy the 'zine yourself. There was a topic floating around on the boards discussing it, though. You can look for that and see peoples' responses.


 

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Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
As to the first point, I have no idea what kind of point you're trying to make, but we have double the end game trials with I21 than we did when trials first launched. They're working on more to do as we speak, it just takes time. So there's no reason to complain aside from just wanting to complain.

As to the second, I don't have a link to the pics themselves as they were in an actual, physical magazine. You'll have to buy the 'zine yourself. There was a topic floating around on the boards discussing it, though. You can look for that and see peoples' responses.
We have 3 right now and I think ppl run them by the 1/2 hr or more and
They do have a choice. 1 run 1 all day for things( ie bAf.) then run 1 next day for lambda stuff then 3rd day go for the new one
Or
Run 1 then other then other
Or
1 a day

2 Malta new costumes let me look for link


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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*Thumps his head against the bartop*

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Beam Rifles
Great. Now I have to reroll A.I.


 

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One question I have - Since Galaxy city is going bye bye, as we used to know it *sniffles* ..Where will we go to respec? Atlas Park with its new revamp? The guy, something Wolf...was in GC.


-Pogoman, Master of Kick-Fu
-Co-Leader and recruiting officer of the Virtue Honor Guard
- lvl 50 ma/sr scrapper
-Ace O' Diamonds lvl 50 fire/rad controller
and waaaay to many other alts to mention right now

 

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Also, approximate time of release date?


-Pogoman, Master of Kick-Fu
-Co-Leader and recruiting officer of the Virtue Honor Guard
- lvl 50 ma/sr scrapper
-Ace O' Diamonds lvl 50 fire/rad controller
and waaaay to many other alts to mention right now

 

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Originally Posted by Pogothulu View Post
One question I have - Since Galaxy city is going bye bye, as we used to know it *sniffles* ..Where will we go to respec? Atlas Park with its new revamp? The guy, something Wolf...was in GC.
Probably atlas from what I read gc can still be visited via oro
What about the badges that use to be in gc?


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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cien_Fuegos View Post
Probably atlas from what I read gc can still be visited via oro
What about the badges that use to be in gc?
oh yeah, forgot about those...


-Pogoman, Master of Kick-Fu
-Co-Leader and recruiting officer of the Virtue Honor Guard
- lvl 50 ma/sr scrapper
-Ace O' Diamonds lvl 50 fire/rad controller
and waaaay to many other alts to mention right now

 

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You can get all those old badges by going to GC via Ouro. Jack Wolfe has more than likely been moved to Atlas Park, while the devs have officially confirmed that the Kheldian contact in GC will be moved as well.


 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cien_Fuegos View Post
2 Malta new costumes let me look for link
As I said before, it's never been stated Malta is getting an update. They're just western themed costumes.