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The New Look for Circle of Thorns

A Musing Mage

By A Musing Mage,
Posted on: 2011-08-08 10:57 in Developers' Corner

 

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Howdee friends,

I wanted to take a moment and follow up on Positron’s post regarding the Circle of Thorns’ new look. We are very excited to introduce this modern take on an enemy group near and dear to your hearts. The Art team has worked very hard to update the look while still echoing the original theme. For example, the thorny look you see on the new pieces is based on the spiky elements in the first incarnation of Circle of Thorns. As Positron mentioned, there were some valid points made by you, our players, regarding the re-vamp and we have incorporated much of this feedback into the final look for this enemy group. More importantly though, I wanted to make sure you had a chance to see an assortment of costumes in all their glory. There are literally over 70 costumes associated with this re-vamp so we can’t show all of them in one image, but we have picked out ten and put together the line-up for you below. For those of you that want to try this look on your character, some of these costume pieces will be available in the Paragon Market later this year. Here is a list of the changes we are incorporating into this enemy group in an upcoming beta build:

  • Long garments have been given to all members of this group including the minions.
  • Faces have been obscured across the entire group.
  • Some costume colors have been tweaked and toned down to be closer to the original costumes, but with others we have taken creative liberties.
  • Eye auras have been tweaked to be green on several costumes.

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Gilbert Martinez
Lead Artist | Paragon Studios
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OMG

<3

EDIT: Also, OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

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Silly hats? Check.
I'm good.

 

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+1 Winning pts.

 

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Wow....those are.....amazing.

 

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I'm torn between what I can't wait to do more:

Fight these guys...

...or dress up like them?


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Needs a link to a much bigger image, because it's really damn hard to see them at that size.


BUT....I'm liking what I can see. Show me more...

Edit: Especially the Bosses. Those bottomless hoods look downright sinister. Bigger image plz

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I like it. Now I wonder if there will be a story arc or something to give us a reason for the change.
No.

There doesn't have be a "story" for every small change.

 

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2nd swing, knocks it outta the park! Fantastic!!

 

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Very nice.

 

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These are freaking awesome! and i cant wait to get my hands on the costume parts for players!

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Excellent changes, well done! Hopefully you'll get enough happy here to make up for the rage in the other thread.

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these costumes are 1000% better than the other ones, definitely a major improvement

/thumbs up

 

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I am sold! Gorgeous!

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It's encouraging to see that the spandex is gone and that capes have been added to give at least the silhouette of a robed figure. The generic "spiked 'n' stacked" look still looks entirely too reminiscent of contemporary fantasy gaming art - from pen and paper RPGs to video games - and not something suitable to a comic book superhero atmosphere.

Hopefully there's still time before CoH Freedom's launch to bring the redesign closer to the original Circle of Thorns' feel as an aeons-old mystical cult, not "phase omega spellbinder armor" from some competing MMORPG or another.

 

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MUCH better! Hooray!!!

 

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2nd swing, knocks it outta the park! Fantastic!!
Took the words right out of my mouth. This is amazing. Knocked it right out of the park. Well done, devs. This is perfect.

 

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I...recognize them! Yay!

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