Summer Event Preview Live!!1

The following was posted on CoH facebook page.

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In a world... where Summer Blockbuster Events are previewed via PCGamer's live stream, join Josh Augustine as he lives the movies in the City of Heroes Freedom Summer Event preview! Josh will be live streaming at the PC Gamer Twitch TV channel starting at 2:00 PM PDT/5:00 PM EDT/10:00 PM BST - http://twitch.tv/pcgamer

Should be fun!

Is this the guy who plays in the basement of the abandoned house and doesn't know what he's doing, or is this the guy who has Joss Whedon create a character and then makes fun of the game because he doesn't know what he's doing?

'Cause those guys who have no idea what they're doing seem to be getting a lot of screen time, and I'm having trouble keeping track of them.

Yeah, the last watch live event was painful.

Watching something to see it as a preview and watching something to see how it's played well are two entirely different things.

The last event went off fine, it showed off just about every element of the Magisterium trial. The guy was new, sure, but it wasn't vital he contributed a lot to the trial. The only real problem with it was the inability to broadcast the teams chat properly so the devs could give us their running comments.

They're gaming journalists. They have to play hundreds of games for a living, so maybe we could give them a bit of leeway?

Look at it this way: people who would be new to COH aren't exactly looking to see how well the guy behind the keyboard is playing the game. These live streams are great exposure for the game, which is why we're looking to host some ourselves.

If the man in the basement had gotten the audio to work correctly, and we would have been able to hear what the devs were saying, the last live event would have been more enjoyable. I hope that problem is solved for todays broadcast.

Zwill said it best, give these guys some leeway, they are not set up like we are when we play.

I enjoyed the Trial preview, and i'll check the summer event out too.

Indeed, this is some great advertisement for the game.

I wasn't particularly bothered by the lack of game knowledge last time, but the poor set up and lack of audio on the stream was a definite problem.

audio is up and the event is pretty interesting.

I missed the first few minutes though, is this something that uses the team up teleporter? Seems like once you're in the theater you can run either event, so how do you get to the theater? And apparently you go through -both- movies for the event

Reward is a new universal Damage IO huh? Interesting!

Edit: Yup, LFG event via holiday events. Caps at 4 people, no more no less.

Edit2: Ok, run down!

The casino heist has everyone take 1 of 4 roles chosen out in the lobby. I think grifter, hitter, hacker and thief. Every role plays a different part in a different section with assigned goals. The better each person does the better the team as a whole succeeds. You split up, do your part, then end up in a warehouse with a mob rush and a boss, then back to another team separation and ending with another mob and boss. We got some descriptors, like the thief stealths around trying to avoid alarms, the hitter whacks things, etc. We only saw the MMORPG guy playing, I believe the hitter, so there wasn't much to tell.

And then coliseum is a bunch of awesome bosses. First comes a minotaur and it looks like 2 talons of vengeance. Then ninja monkeys! (I think) Then a guy with dire wolves. Then a pair of robots that are joined by a 3rd? Then if you manage to max out your meter (think public opinion with TPN) you fight a bonus round against the god champion, who summons up the former bosses.

All in all seems pretty neat. Rewards looked like the new Enhancement plus a couple other items not discussed, I'm guessing merits and a super insp.

Is it being recorded?

Not bad. I missed the part about the enhancements available on the Reward Table? Which set type were those?

timing, timing, timing...

UDS, hm...

He usually records and put it up for viewing later.

The pcgamer stream kept stopping for me so i headed over to the MMORPG one. New badges, new universal damage set and whole thing looks AMAZING!

I admit i did laugh too seeing the Mecha outfit walking into the arena during the cutscene However judging from what i have seen so far, i must already put in a request that this isnt just a yearly event but is kept into the game.
It looks like one of those things i would just pop in/out of randomly with friends and new alts all the time, so please keep it in!

Thanks for the clarification.

Why is no one getting excited for the proc in that new set? It changes knockback to knockdown. That seems kinda big.

My opinion about what i just saw.

Nice touch for the Costume Contest winner. I remember him, he looked pretty decent in the contest. So props to him.

About the missions itself:
1st Movie, the Casino Heist seem a little confusing. This might be because i haven't played it yet, but the pop up power to help out your team mate with the phone call should get more attention drawn to it so people can use it. Also the class picking should be something that could be explained prior to picking the class.

Also.. WHIPS! I was looking at the guy with the Whip, looking for demons or his AT, couldn't see if he was a Demon MM, but yeah.. Whip Powerset anyone?

2nd Movie, the Gladiator battles.. nice touch with the crowd interaction, maybe an idea to add an animation like a show off to it to justify the crowd going wild?

Overall, i'm looking forward to doing these in person. Seems like they really did their best in making something very new, and it worked.

Great job guys.

Only the mmorpg.com stream had audio; it also seemed to have nice, clear explanations of what was going on. Thank you! Casino Heist's gameplay looked a lot more fun, to me; Time Gladiator had cooler graphics, but the same old tank-and-spank gameplay.

Obviously I have questions.

1) You mentioned that it'll be via TuT, aka the LFG window. Obviously the maximum is 4 for Casino Heist, what is the minimum? And if we queue solo, how few people will it start it with? Will NPCs fill in for the missing players?

2) Similar question, Time Gladiator: what's the minimum and maximum number of players? And what's the minimum team size that the TuT will spawn it for?

3) Did I miss the reward table at the end of the first movie? Or do you have to play both movies, every day, to get a chance for the special enhancement?

4) If I pick the enhancement and already have, say, five of the six, will it give me the sixth one for sure? Does it rule out rewards you already have, like the Elemental Order costume pieces in the H&V superpacks, or is it a random 1 out of the 6 every time and it's up to us trade for the ones we don't have?

5) For that matter, are the Overwhelming Force enhancements tradeable? Can they be stored and/or traded on the consignment house? Can they be stored in supergroup or villaingroup enhancement bins?

6) If I put the Overwhelming Force proc into an attack that doesn't currently have knockback, does it add knockdown to the attack?

7) Let's say I put the Overwelming Force proc into an attack that does 10 points of knockback, and I fire it at an enemy that has 9 points of knockback protection. Will it knock them down? Or will it reduce the knockback of the attack, on the front end, to where it no longer does enough knockback to punch through their knockback protection?

8) Does the character have to be level 47 or higher to get the Overwhelming Force enhancement reward option? Or can I farm for these on a lower level character and store them for later?

Also, a suggestion, re the Ninja Monkeys badge in Time Gladiator: I would prefer that the Ninjas Defeated bar go all the way to 75, as well as the Monkeys Defeated bar. When you get to the Monkeys phase, I would prefer that it start not at 1, but at the number of Ninjas defeated in the previous phase. Also, both phases need a visible count-down timer in the scriptui window, please.

And a request: gods forbid that I should load more work on the animation department, but can we earn an ;eatpopcorn emote in this event? And maybe, maybe, a ;throwpopcorn emote? It could come in handy for roleplaying during other people's Drama.