SSA SPOILERS: He's WHO?!
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Posted on: 2011-11-08 10:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Pth. It's a mirage!
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
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The SSA just got very... very interesting. |
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"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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SPOILERS
*Sigh*
Arc part 3 continues the trend of the hero side version being an inferior near copy of the villain version just with parts removed. Villains continue to get extra information and a major reveal while the heroes are denied the whole picture. In other words, you don't really lose out on anything from only playing the villain arc, but heroes are denied parts of the story in their arc.
And while villains don't get an exclusive cool temp power this time, heroes don't either when they should; to balance against getting nothing cool from the first two arcs.
Oh wait, heroes do get something this time. They get FORCED TO FAIL. Warburg is still full of Rogue Arachnos. A hero is dead, pointlessly.
Villains execute a beloved hero.
Heroes get to lose.
Devs get to stuff another woman into the refrigerator.
Must be getting crowded in there with the bodies of Seer Katie, Vanessa DeVore and War Witch.
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Or we just haven't gotten the tweest yet.
Frinstance, no one even asked if this was the Primal or Praetorian one....
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OK... now I'm REALLY curious who this guy is.....
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And it's about time, too.
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Arc part 3 continues the trend of the hero side version being an inferior near copy of the villain version just with parts removed.
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Thought for the day:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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Query: Where's the contact at for the new arc?
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
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Yeah, Johnny. Why? Why does this happen? Because the Villains struck first, struck hard, and struck where it hurts. They have the heroes by the yarblocko's and it shows. Consider the SSA title: WHO WILL DIE? A member of the Freedom Phalanx IS GOING TO DIE. How can you NOT expect some serious villainy to be happening? The heroes aren't going to stop it. It's how the SSA ends.|
Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Arc part 3 continues the trend of the hero side version being an inferior near copy of the villain version just with parts removed. Villains continue to get extra information and a major reveal while the heroes are denied the whole picture.
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If you ask me, Villains are getting more information not only because they're the ones perpetrating this entire scheme, but because Mr. Behind Closed Doors is going to royally fork the villains over at the last minute.
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We wouldn't want it any other way |
Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
but because Mr. Behind Closed Doors is going to royally fork the villains over at the last minute.
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Thought for the day:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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Hello everyone!
I have edited the title of this thread to make it clear that people who do not wish the SSA to be spoiled for them that there are spoilers in the thread.
Thank you!
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Well I really don't care because the 2nd Hero mission is bugged and I'm really not interested in starting the whole thing again in the hope that it'll work properly next time.
If they can't be bothered to QA this stuff before publishing it then I can't be bothered to play it.
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From an actual development stand point, it's stupid to limit one side.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Yeah, Johnny. Why? Why does this happen? Because the Villains struck first, struck hard, and struck where it hurts. They have the heroes by the yarblocko's and it shows. Consider the SSA title: WHO WILL DIE? A member of the Freedom Phalanx IS GOING TO DIE. How can you NOT expect some serious villainy to be happening? The heroes aren't going to stop it. It's how the SSA ends.
If you ask me, Villains are getting more information not only because they're the ones perpetrating this entire scheme, but because Mr. Behind Closed Doors is going to royally fork the villains over at the last minute. |
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Well, that's hardly something new. Just rare that it's the blue side suffering, so I can see how it'd come as a shock. |
Originally Posted by That_Ninja
From an actual development stand point, it's stupid to limit one side.
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Thought for the day:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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Anyone care to spoil what the villains get to learn that the heroes don't? I don't really play redside at all anymore.
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MASSIVE SPOLERS AHEAD:|
Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Anyone care to spoil what the villains get to learn that the heroes don't? I don't really play redside at all anymore.
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Statesman's daughter is dead.
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Devs hate women?
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Devs get to stuff another woman into the refrigerator.
Must be getting crowded in there with the bodies of Seer Katie, Vanessa DeVore and War Witch. |
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It doesn't come out and say it, but given Darrin Wade's role in the third mission it seems he's the hidden speaker from the previous two SSA's cutscenes.|
Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Anyone care to spoil what the villains get to learn that the heroes don't? I don't really play redside at all anymore.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Statesman's daughter is dead.
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Heroes get to learn that too :P
Also, if the devs are going to put up these nifty little splash art pages then they need to be sure the art DOES NOT SPOIL WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE YOU EVEN START.
Statesman staring in grief at shots of x-rays and a body on a slab with a toetag. Gee, that's not absurdly obvious that someone close to him is dead.
I played the hero version and we found that out as well. But I read all of the contact dialogue. Not sure I enjoyed this one. I rather liked that character, but it does mean at least one of my characters, who was professionally fond of her, will have a renewed sense of purpose. Yay for RP fodder, boo for WIR.
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I don't know about that. I didn't get that vibe at all; I got the vibe that he's just as much of a cog in this machine as Malaise is, and not the machine operator.
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Originally Posted by Placta
It doesn't come out and say it, but given Darrin Wade's role in the third mission it seems he's the hidden speaker from the previous two SSA's cutscenes.
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So after several years of beating her senseless until the entire Phalanx came after us in the LRSF it finally stuck? |
Originally Posted by Placta
It doesn't come out and say it, but given Darrin Wade's role in the third mission it seems he's the hidden speaker from the previous two SSA's cutscenes.
That happens in the hero version too. And I figured it would happen from the loading screen. |
(Even if it took someone else to provide the coup de grace.)
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Daughter (Alexis Cole-Duncan/Miss Liberty), not grandaughter (Jessica Megan Duncan/Ms. Liberty).
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
So after several years of beating her senseless until the entire Phalanx came after us in the LRSF it finally stuck?
(Even if it took someone else to provide the coup de grace.) |
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Wrong blonde. This is her mother/Statesman's daughter.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
So after several years of beating her senseless until the entire Phalanx came after us in the LRSF it finally stuck?
(Even if it took someone else to provide the coup de grace.) |
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
Didn't Villains already take her out of the picture in Mender Tesseract's arc during the Marchion Assassination?
Or was that just one of those beating them senseless deals?
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Beat up a young version of her.
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Originally Posted by DMystic
Didn't Villains already take her out of the picture in Mender Tesseract's arc during the Marchion Assassination?
Or was that just one of those beating them senseless deals? |
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
O_O
The SSA just got very... very interesting.
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."