Details on Dark Astoria Makeover?

Some good points. City of Heroes, owing to its comic book roots, has the perfect workaround for the "main character" debacle. And it's more than mere speculation-- whenever there's a new leader, you're notified that you're now experiencing the world as impacted by their actions.

Nerd explanation: Some quantum physicists suspect that in order for one possibility to exist, all possibilities have to be simultaneously occurring in their own spaces or potentialities (i.e. parallel dimensions). City of Heroes is not just a game about our characters, it's a game about other peoples characters and the potentialities they inhabit. When you join someone's team, it's a subtle shift, it's not designed for our characters to notice it, or even for players to think about it that much--but you're witnessing a world slightly different from your own. It's just an aid for internal consistency that allows us each to have a super hero's impact in a game with a lot of "main characters".

Gamer's explanation: Roll with it, roll with it. GO GO GO!

That's nonsense. You can hack alien tech with an ibook. I know, I saw it in a movie somewhere. How much more different could the tech be from Praetorian Erf?

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If they're getting rid of the fog, they should lift the fog in the original DA for a week sometime before it goes live!

You know, I'm all for zone revamps, but it kinda worries me, what with the changes to Atlas, that they might start changing the content itself of zones to 'match' the new content. They've removed Galaxy, removed all the old early mission content from Atlas and Mercy (And admittedly it wasn't that good, but I'd love to have it still be an option anyways)... why are you removing old content instead of just adding new content? I mean, we don't even get that many arc choices in the new content. (Not to mention the annoying instanced-but-not-really zone content where enemies just suddenly appear around you in your own private Atlas, and enemies re-spawning with a little 'POP!' in those revamped zones)

I'm all for zone revamps and new missions, but I'm a little worried when the old content starts to disappear for very little good reason. I liked that when new content I didn't like was released I could just say "At least I can still play the old stuff and ignore the new stuff", but that's becoming less true, even with the 'Echo's.

Having seen some of the shots of new Dark Astoria, I do think it looks good. However I still stand by my opinion of the fog.

Old DA always felt scary as trying to navigate around the zone without bumping into zombie hordes there was a challenge. More than a few times, I would try to make my way to a mission based in there, doing my best to avoid the shuffling, glowing shapes in the darkness. I always hungered for a time when we would have more missions in DA so that I could run from contact to mission without being jumped on by the Pantheon.

I've heard DA called the Silent Hill of CoX and I agree with that description. The fact that for once, navigation through the zone was a challenge meant that I couldn't just fly up and set run on auto. I had to work to get to my destination, particularly if I was using Superspeed or Teleport, doubly so if I was mid 20s and the mobs were still a threat to me. The few occasions I had to go into DA for a mission, it was a thrilling challenge. With the fog gone in the new zone and old DA banished to Ouroboros with all its missions moved to the new one, that's an experience I'm going to miss. If they keep the Exploration badges in old DA, well that's something I suppose but otherwise it will be a place I miss once the new one goes live.

I've always run under the impression that others liked the fog but clearly I'm wrong. So maybe, if possible, we could have just one area of the zone with a fog like effect in it? The screenshots from the revamp do look good, even if I am expecting to see Meat Loaf performing in the graveyard. I think I will miss the fog though. It made the place a challenge and made it unlike anywhere else in game. I guess I'll form a more solid opinion once it hits Beta.