Legacy Outbreak

Hello all.
I logged in a toon who has not been logged in for at lest 560 days..don't recall the exact number, but when I logged in I was in the old tutorial.

Ohhhhhh..the memories it brought up. My very first day in the game I was terrified. I had never played a Video game before, much less an MMO.

I recall spending all day in Outbreak.

Anyway, I wandered around Outbreak, reliving the memories, and wishing it was still our tutorial zone...I am not at all fond of the new one, and have stopped doing it.

I wish we could have a choice of which tutorial to start with...Legacy or New.

I think I would even spend points in the Paragon Market to unlock such a choice.

Ah well, I bet it is much too complicated and convoluted to put into place.

I raise my glass of ice cold milk in toast to the old Outbreak.

RIP my old friend.

Lisa/em Praetorian Salute

the first 10 or so times doing the breakout tutorial was fun, but after that it just became long, it was made better when we were able to drop mishs, i would always drop the instanced mish since it didnt give xp

i do like the new tutorial in the fact that it is much faster and easy way to get to lvl 2 AND that i can send both hero and villain ATs to redside from the tutorial

If you liked the old tutorial, you can still do an altered version of it in Ouroboros, as part of what's-her-name's arc (the one that hates you).


Personally? I didn't bother to do Outbreak or Breakout in years. Outbreak was pretty horrible, but Breakout wasn't much better. And running them time and again? Yeah, not worth the time of day.

The only problem with the new tutorial is it doesn't fit with the rest of the game (primarily the voice overs, but also the targets on the ground and the "gimmicks" aren't reused).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I could actually see it being instituted as a new mid-level zone...

Don't you hate it entering just late enough that the giant shivan spawns and you know this one isn't going to count for letting you go and you'll have to sit through it twice?

*raises glass*

To Outbreak/Breakout.

Had a thought about this yesterday...

They could provide access to the original tutorials via a Pack option.

Once unlocked it would on character creation ask where you were when Galaxy City was Destroyed.

Options:
Galaxy (The Current Tutorial)
Assisting with an Outbreak (Classic Outbreak - Highlighted Blue)
In Jail (Classic Breakout - Highlighted Red)

The final contact of the classic tutorials would need tweaking to send you to the correct new contacts/locations in Atlas Park and Mercy Island.

Additionally the first new contacts would need a tweak to accept that players tagged with either of the classic tutorials didn't start in Galaxy, maybe with a:
"Did you hear what happened to Galaxy City..." for heroes.
And:
"Longbow are looking for you and are here because of what happened, Both your Jailbreak and the Galaxy City Situation..." for villains.

These would then carry over into the new starter missions as your character would now be aware of the Galaxy City situation.

This way the Classique tutorials could be restored to CoH:Freedom and still follow the current CoH:Freedom Lore.

Side note for DEVS:
If most of the classic tutorial NPC characters need a makeover, just let us the game players and forumites do what we do best, Costume Comps and such to replace the cardboard NPC's like both The Hollows and Outbreak's Paragon PD.