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Discussion: City of Heroes Freedom and Issue 21 VIP Beta starts August 9!

-CosmicBlaze

By -CosmicBlaze,
Posted on: 2011-08-08 17:09 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
No promises.

Why do I now have visions of a 2.7 Gig update to download and apply tonight when I get home?

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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis View Post
Why do I now have visions of a 8 Gig update to download and apply tonight when I get home?
Edited: Qft.

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I'm really looking forward to this beta. Enough that I will probably squander my DXP weekend playing on the beta server

 

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please, no to the #gig updates tonight......want Time Manipulation.....

Seven hours and 12 minutes...

 

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Originally Posted by Sideline View Post
please, no to the #gig updates tonight......want Time Manipulation.....

Seven hours and 12 minutes...
I'm pretty certain that if you are patched up as of this morning you will be fine. I was making a joke based on Zwillinger's laughing smithers no promises reply.

Basically if someone finds a game breaking bug before launch they will clearly patch it up. Otherwise my guess is what is on beta as of this morning is what will be on beta this evening.

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That's...not right. Mine downloaded in few minutes. I'll grant you I think it took about 20-30 minutes to apply, but...
to be fair, my ex-roommate screwed me, went to jail for pirating and the isp still throttles us when we have large downloads...

 

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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis View Post
I was making a joke based on Zwillinger's laughing smithers no promises reply.
Erm, that pic was Mr Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns...

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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis View Post
I'm pretty certain that if you are patched up as of this morning you will be fine. I was making a joke based on Zwillinger's laughing smithers no promises reply.

Basically if someone finds a game breaking bug before launch they will clearly patch it up. Otherwise my guess is what is on beta as of this morning is what will be on beta this evening.
Yeah, I know, but I have been looking forward to Time Manip for so long now, I get paranoid easy.

Also....I know Zwill said no to Street Justice and Beam Gun....but what about Rocket Boards...can we get those?

Probably not since it will be a store item, but I can hope for a different answer.

7 hours and 3 minutes

 

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
*long sigh*

I'm really, really sorry guys... I don't have a full-on knockout trailer to offer you to celebrate VIP beta launch day (mainly coz this was as much of a surprise to me as it was to you guys). So the uber-spiffy D_R trailer will probably go live with the actual launch date, whenever THAT is.



On the bright side... this means you might have your chance to be in said trailer. So I'll see you in the beta!

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
We'll have Beta forums open when the server opens, along with patch notes.

For the duration.
Well, can't wait to rock and roll, then.

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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis View Post
I was making a joke based on Zwillinger's laughing smithers no promises reply.
...wut?

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6 GB download.

I'm so happy

It was much easier before when beta and test were together (at least at EU side). Now just to wait for 500 minutes to pass and hope that I can download in background while playing and be able to move in game

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...wut?
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Lolz.

Oh and BTW people, the NClauncher will background download/update really SLOWLY, if you select the one that is downloading/patching and select "Update" it will actually do it quicker!

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And where/when can I find you? I think it would be so Awesome to be in one of your videos!!!
Usually I'm the one shouting in the Beta Testers channel that I need a film crew for something-or-another. Otherwise, look to see if @Samuraiko is logged in.

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Will do.

 

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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
Because the open beta will only be for a limited time and then it will be live.

I am still predicting 8/30/11/.
In the past by the time an Issue got to open beta it usually only took 2-4 weeks before it went live so your 8-30 prediction is reasonable. It might be a bit longer since this Issue involves all the Freedom changes, but in any event I think it'll be well before October rolls around.

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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
Because the open beta will only be for a limited time and then it will be live.

I am still predicting 8/30/11/.
You're predicting that for the live release? I don't know. Freedom is pretty huge, so I think it'll need more time in beta than a regular release. Plus, since this is a subscriber-only beta, my guess is that they'll want to test the free player features at some point and will open the beta to non-subscribers.

I don't think it'll go live until late September... at the earliest.

 

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You're predicting that for the live release? I don't know. Freedom is pretty huge, so I think it'll need more time in beta than a regular release.
People say that for almost every issue release. The joy is, they have been testing many of the back end systems on Test and some of the systems have been working on getting the beatdown in the live game already.

The original mention of long before October made me think that they were shooting for prior to September (you don't normally call the month before something long before). When they pushed back 2XP weekend, Zwill said it was because they had to ensure they met their Freedom deadline. That was when I knew it was going to be much sooner than most people were expecting. You do not push back an announced live game event for something not expected to go live for 2 months.

Plus, these systems have been tested and re-tested for a long time now. Hopefully, we don't find any nasty bugs and they can meet their deadline!

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Don't be silly. That's the in-game store temp power icon. All you have to do to gain access to the in-game store is buy that temp power from the in-game store.
Reminds me of the old NES game Clash at Demonhead (a name I'm sure Scott Pilgrim fans are familiar with these days). There was a store in the game where you could buy upgrades or new items through, but in order to access the store, you had to buy a single use "Shop Call" power. You started with a couple, and could bank up to 5 (I think) of these through purchases... but if you forgot to buy more, you'd screw yourself out of store access unless you traversed the entire map to the ONE physical shop in the game. I think getting there required purchasing a scuba tank--I'm sorry, "Aqua Lung"--which, you guessed it, needed to be purchased in the store.

For anybody sweating in their seats right now after having read Arcana's joke post, I'm pretty darn sure that the Paragon Market in City of Heroes is always available from the moment you log in.

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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
Because the open beta will only be for a limited time and then it will be live.

I am still predicting 8/30/11/.
I agree, either 8/30 or 9/1, so it's available for the US holiday weekend.

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Now I just have to kiss my girlfriends butt so she will leave me alone so I can play.......another 6 gigs for this game.....This is now the largest game I have ever downloaded.



By the way for all of you that are as dumb as me dont copy the [space] to insert in the tag LOl I feel so dang stupid spending 20 minuets on that.

 

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Originally Posted by StratoNexus View Post
Because the open beta will only be for a limited time and then it will be live.

I am still predicting 8/30/11/.
This "open" beta is still only available to VIPs. You don't think they're going to have at least a couple weeks of Premium/Free beta, to make sure everything works for those players as well?

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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
This "open" beta is still only available to VIPs. You don't think they're going to have at least a couple weeks of Premium/Free beta, to make sure everything works for those players as well?
Why wouldnt it work? The clients the same.