Dev Chat Highlights, September 1: Quick, distract them while the servers are down!

I came in late so I'm just screenshooting important stuff and will be updating this as we go along.

Uploading screenshots on my rural internet makes the Ustream lag like crazy. So you'll be getting those after everything is done.

This was made by a new character artist named Sup from Korea. The Starcraft one, not the Gold Farming one.



An interior for the Halloween Event.



Concept art for CoT



Player version of the CoT Outfits








There are more Barbarian pieces than we've seen thus far, including more for the female.





Positron wanted to make this NPC a contact and give him his own sotry arc at the end that awards a costume piece, so a Red Bull will give you wings.

Jay wanted to give a few ring straps.


Abomination concept.



Map from the signature story arc.



From all of the world designers. Jay's input was "Move the gate back about 14 feet"







My ISP crapped out at around 3:30, so I miss about 25 minutes of dev chat right here.


Q and A with Tunnel Rat:

"Color tintable Khelds?"

It would take a lot of effort to make the powers tintable and she has a few things she'd like to do before that.

Tunnel Rat has not seen Monkey Fight Club in Pocket D.

She has not seen Fight Club, either.

Her favorite effects in I21 are the Shadow Pass in First Ward and she likes the comets and the fires Leo has done.


The Net has abandoned Beastyle and Tunnel Rat goes back to work. Beastyle is cohostless.


It's apparently Beastyle's birthday on Sunday, and someone comes in and adorns him with a tiara.




Freitag joins as guest host.

Beastyle has a meeting and is replaced by Zwill as host.

Zwill has to playtest something in 15 minutes. He hopes the server comes back up, otherwise he'll be playtesting it and won't be showing us his monitor cause it's super secret.



Zwill says he probably ought to have used the restroom after the meeting. He has to bio and thinks the chat room's suggestion to use a bottle is disgusting.

He says we're going to take a station break and use the restroom.

He won't begin playtesting until the servers are back up.

He leaves us with a picture of Positron from PAX.

Zwill talks TF2.

The new QA guy in Zwill's cube is dubbed Arbiter Baconater, and Arbiter Whiteboard is the guy behind Zwill.

Zwill's favorite TF2 class? He doesn't really have one. He's played Engineer and Demoman recently, has some new stuff for Heavy and loves to play Dead Ringer spy.


"Anything on two level bases?"

There are some things going on with bases, but Zwill can't talk about it right now.


"Any plans to expand the other power pools to have a Tier 5 like the travel power pools got?"

He says that there might be things coming down the pike.


Someone plans to name their kittens after the community team.


"Favorite/not favorite thing coming with Freedom?"

"A gajillion new people checking the game out and coming back. Not favorite? That it's not here yet."


Paragon Rewards will NOT ever get new tiers. They will be rotating out the Tier 9 VIP rewards quarterly.


They're interested in revamping other zones. Atlas Park was literally 2 people working for 1 year.

No plans at the moment to change or update Hamidon.

Zwill blames Rikti monkeys and their evil death farts on Positron.

If Zwill had his way there would be Clown Masterminds.

Haunted Mansion is a team-only mission and requires 4 people.

Zwill rechedules a meeting.

Option to purchase badge-unlocked weapons from the store? Not that he knows of.

Sound customization for powers? "Wow. That's a whole nother level of... I'll pass that on."

Why are people in Paragon City over 6 feet tall? "Lots of beef."

Destroyable environment walls? "Positron wanted a destroyable gazebo."

Ninjas are defending the servers from pirates.

During the head start they will be running official costume contests. One of the prizes is a Razer Naga mouse, which Avatea hand models. The dev team will be judging one. Another will be a trial with Positron. There will be themes for the contests. There are no catgirls involved. The EU players will not be left out for once, yay!

They could autograph the Naga's box.

Lots of embarrassing pen and paper RPG's at the office. Zwill plays in the weekly 4e campaign.

Positron wants to do Bazooka Melee.

Zwill's favorite anime is Berserk.

They will be introducing some new enhancements.

Beastyle shows off his Lucario figure.

He knows people want buttcapes for non-Widows.

We will not see the actual prices for the items before CoH goes live.

The only word in the English language with three sets of double letters is Bookkeeper.

Zwill likes the idea of a Summer Beach Party as a counterpart to the Winter event. Surfing with the rocketboard, mayeb a Big Kahuna badge.

Asheron's Call was the first MMO Zwill got really into.

They're working with AMD to fix issues with CoH drivers.

Zwill can't sing Prince.

He doesn't know if there is proliferation for I22. He knows there are plans in the works for the next round of it, though.

Zwill's favorite Zelda game is Wind Waker.

They will be adding more female characters to more villain groups, starting with CoT.

Dark Watcher pops on the guest host.

Zwill talks about his experiences with Asheron's Call.

Zwill is a Ps3 guy. Dark Watcher plays some of them all.

Dark Watcher played the CoH card game, is was fun, but it wasn't balanced.

They've improved the ragdolls somewhere along the line in a way that improves the lag.

Zwill says the Sims is evil.

Both agree SimCity 2000 is the best SimCity.

Neither has played Civ V.

Zwill hasn't had a chance to finish Portal 2 yet.

All he's been playing lately is CoH, TF2, and League of Legends.

Two new trials are coming out this year, seemingly in addition to the Underground Trial.

Zwill was playing Minecraft on the plane to PAX and Comicon.

Zwill agrees that Planescape: Torment is better than all.

Nerding out over DnD game writers.

243 minutes of livestream!

It would take 1.5 years to rewrite the UI to be completely customizable.

Sig story arc mega-rewards are once per arc per week per character.

CoH themed hats for TF2? Zwill thinks that would be awesome. Zwill and Dark Watcher love TF2. I think Positron is hanging around in the background, trolling them by saying he can't afford it.

Statesman's Mask and Recluse's Helmet for TF2, Zwill wants to talk to Black Pebble and make it a reality.

Andy will be posting the weekly office fantasy football results.

Positron is 8:1 to win.

Masterminds getting female pets? Not at the moment.

VEAT's will still have the first costume slot taken up by the uniform.

Freedom, Champion, Virtue, Justice, and Infinity are now online.

I manage to get Dark Watcher and Zwill to reference the Space sphere from Portal 2.

"Can we get a jump out and scream boo stalker primary?" causes both of them to crack up.

Zwill plays a clip of Street Justice and makes Adam West Batman noises.

There are lots of plans for end game and incarnate stuff beyond the 10 slots.

Dark Watcher is listening to the Wheel of Time series on audiobook. Zwill has read them.

Zwill is calling it as he has a meeting and most servers are online. Except Guardian.

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

Wow, both the pack and the scenery look amazing. Nice work PS!

Is that a Hello Kitty backpack?

The joke at the panel was that it was a Dora the Explorer backpack. They even had the backpack song playing on that slide.

Since I am sure it will be color-customizable... YAY stereotypical "backpack!"

Backpack's kinda neat, here's hoping they don't charge an arm and a leg for it. I need both my arms, at least, to wear the backpack.

You know... I really hope that we can have that pack without the...

JUST KIDDING!

Yay!
More... we want to see MORE!

It looks like DarkRanger may finally have a back detail of some sort! I'm glad I have one character that never had a cape or wings or anything back there. He's definitely one that's been waiting for such options!
Probably not that backpack... Although, definitely for extended hikes!

Folks ask for backpack items. Devs give us a literal backpack.

Hrmmm.

I hate to nitpick on this long awaited costume item but I notice that the pic we see here doesn't show us how well the pack connects to the back of the character. Supposedly the issue of clipping (or noticeable gaps) had been the real hangup for why it's taken them 7.5 years to give us backpack options. I suppose I'm just curious if they actually "solved" that problem or they're just finally letting us have packs regardless of the clipping/gap issues.

That backpack looks like too mich weight is on the lower back. No doubt this Sup person is family with a chiropractor and will be recieving lots of kickback after this backpack goes live.

I just typed 'military backpacks' into Google and picked the first one with a human attached. Seems the Devs simply did their research, unlike someone

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Updated first post with some screencaps. My ISP exploded at about 3:30. So I missed about 25-30 minutes worth of dev chat.

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

Bahh, I don't know how to add pictures. The backpacks I am used to are for camping. They generaly come up behind the head. The original art seems too low to what I am used to. The pink of it is no doubt why I didn't think military backpack at all.