Discussion: Issue 23: Where Shadows Lie goes Live on 5/31/12!
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Posted on: 2012-05-30 10:18 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Yeah, I have been playing COH non-stop and I do need to take a break so this is the perfect opportunity.|
Originally Posted by Spatch
I'm in the same boat. Beast Mastery, Staff Fighting and Dark Control have been keeping me playing CoH pretty consistently over the past few months, but now all those toons are 50 and incarnated to some degree or other. I got Skyrim for the PS3 for Christmas I've only peripherally played around with it...think I might delve into that for awhile.
No knock against CoH: my subscription is annual for a reason, I love this game. I think we all need to take a break from time to time, though. That said, I'll be dusting off my badger (see sig) tomorrow and diving into the new content pretty aggressively over the next few days. |
I don't play Masterminds so Beast Mastery was vey "meh" to me. I'm behind on my Melee sets and I was barely able to afford Street Justice let alone Staff Fighting and I'm not into melee toons...so the only thing holding me over was Dark Control and Dark Affinity in which I've finally finished leveling.
Interesting release date but it's cool. I like the QoL adds but there isn't much else there. Seems like a pretty meh issue. I was at least hoping for some fun with the new costume set but the knight armor stuff seems really lacking; a lot of the actual armour over the chain isn't there 
Honestly, this might be the first time where I am indifferent about an issue launch.
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So, Thursday, I'm agreeing with the "are you mad" thought. |
Originally Posted by IAmTheRad
New release on a Thursday? Are you mad?! I would have expected to see a release on a Tuesday, like after the last Statesman TF and Lord Recluse SF with Statesman in it, not the "New" modified ones for the weekend.
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Beyond that... while it's nice that's 23's being released, I'd actually planned on running the LRSF this weekend, before it got changed. Prior to late October, I didn't have anything that could do it, and since then, life has been ... well, complete and utter madness, at absolute best, and total hell the rest of the time. This is the first chance I was going to get - and the last.
I'm disappointed from that perspective.
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It's all in good fun, bro. *fistbump* (And just to make sure there's no doubt, "pancakes" was referring to the post, not you personally.)|
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Thanks Chad I love you too lol.
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You are right though. I've just been bored of the game lately and the new sets and content would be just what I need to keep playing. I think that I'll just give COH a break and play my PS3 until the new sets drop. |
I also need to really buckle down and find a job before the summer is out, and that means studying and figuring out where to get (and how to afford) certifications. You wouldn't believe how hard it's been to find a place around here that will just let me pay for one or two certification classes without requiring me to sign up for a ton of other stuff and paying over $10K for the "privilege".
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!
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They should have made a medieval zone to cover that, like they made Cimerora around the same time as that barbarian MMO - we need a medieval time travel zone |
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
There's not a problem at all with that; everybody needs to take a break now and then to keep things fresh. I'm pretty much going to do exactly the same as what Spatch said--grind the bejeezus out of the new stuff on my badgers over the next few days, then take a break and play Skyrim (except on my Xbox instead of my PS3)
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A rare occasion where I agree with you without wanting to headbutt you at the same time.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
we need a medieval time travel zone
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Also: a primeval jungle full of dinosaurs and man-eating plants, and like cavemen or a primitive society of some sort. (And yes, I realize that dinosaurs and cavemen didn't exist at the same time... just make the primitives the victims of a time warp or the like, with part of our goal to get them home to their own time or something.)
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!
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I'd rather have maps that do that job than a whole new zone. Zone's take too much effort for too few story arcs, and are typically ignored once they've been run one time. But a fun TF or story arc that involves going to a jungle/medieval castle and has much smaller, more well designed maps we can also access in AE? Bam. Won't get ignored anywhere near as easily and takes far less time to actually design.
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
A rare occasion where I agree with you without wanting to headbutt you at the same time.
Also: a primeval jungle full of dinosaurs and man-eating plants, and like cavemen or a primitive society of some sort. (And yes, I realize that dinosaurs and cavemen didn't exist at the same time... just make the primitives the victims of a time warp or the like, with part of our goal to get them home to their own time or something.) |
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Comerora's been added to on and off since it first came out, and it plays a key role in some very important parts of the lore - a medieval zone could do the same, especially if it was linked to Hero 1 and Lady Gray in a similar way to the links Cimerora has to Statesman in the lore.
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
I'd rather have maps that do that job than a whole new zone. Zone's take too much effort for too few story arcs, and are typically ignored once they've been run one time.
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@Golden Girl
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When they originally built Cimerora all it served as was a house for Imperious. He was the only story content offered there. Since then we've only seen three contacts added to it, two of which were afterthoughts that don't offer much in the way of story. I'm not saying Cimerora as a storyline element isn't important, but the devs did not need to dedicate resources towards making it it's own zone. Let's focus on filling the zones we have, and less on making new ones we don't need for five or six issues.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Comerora's been added to on and off since it first came out, and it plays a key role in some very important parts of the lore - a medieval zone could do the same, especially if it was linked to Hero 1 and Lady Gray in a similar way to the links Cimerora has to Statesman in the lore.
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I'm pretty sure the Devs are just gonna do their own thing. And that's probably going to include more new zones.|
Originally Posted by Xzero45
When they originally built Cimerora all it served as was a house for Imperious. He was the only story content offered there. Since then we've only seen three contacts added to it, two of which were afterthoughts that don't offer much in the way of story. I'm not saying Cimerora as a storyline element isn't important, but the devs did not need to dedicate resources towards making it it's own zone. Let's focus on filling the zones we have, and less on making new ones we don't need for five or six issues.
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Though it's honestly not a case of 'either or'. They're adding new stuff the same time they're revamping old. From that article we know Kings Row is in the works to be revamped in the next few issues, along with one other that was talked about at the Panel (My guess? Independence Port).
I'm happy that there are portals to weird zones. If someone isn't happy not seeing the city layout, by all means, don't use them!
I actually can't conceive of complaining about a QoL upgrade which can be completely ignored. How does one complain about a feature that doesn't remotely effect them?
Devs, THANK YOU for a faster, easier way to travel through these peculiar outlaying region.
Anything you guys can come up with to make the travel time less, and the playing time more, I wholeheartedly support!
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Originally Posted by <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Zwillinger</span>
I'm pretty sure that Rula-Wade did the murdering.
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The Devs programmed Wade to murder him, so he can get off with second degree murder, thus with them counting as having orchestrated it.
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Was there not meant to be new powersets ??
Only thing i can see thats worth getting excited about it Hybrid... everything else is a little ....meh, so what >.>
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What time do the Servers go down & come back up in Eastern Standard Time & why couldn't the Devs just list something that was easier to read?
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The OP said something about 3pm EST as the latest. It's listed there as EDT.
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Originally Posted by <span style="color: GoldenRod; font-weight: bold;">Robo_Knight</span>
What time do the Servers go down & come back up in Eastern Standard Time & why couldn't the Devs just list something that was easier to read?
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"There's no magic formula that's guaranteed to make us produce a universally loved item each and every week, hell some people even poo pooed Street Justice." --Zwillinger
WST - Weekly Strike Target
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Ah, thank you, but, what time do the servers start to update for i23? I have to leave for work at around 10 PM Eastern & I really wanted to have it so that Coh would update while I was at work.
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Originally Posted by GoldenDestroyer
The OP said something about 3pm EST as the latest. It's listed there as EDT.
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I'd give an answer to that if I could, but alas, I'm not one of the programmers/devs/whoever-does-that-stuff.
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Originally Posted by <span style="color: GoldenRod; font-weight: bold;">Robo_Knight</span>
Ah, thank you, but, what time do the servers start to update for i23? I have to leave for work at around 10 PM Eastern & I really wanted to have it so that Coh would update while I was at work.
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"There's no magic formula that's guaranteed to make us produce a universally loved item each and every week, hell some people even poo pooed Street Justice." --Zwillinger
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I am parked on the update screen of the CoH login myself in EDT land. The process started at 7AM; I cannot log into the game. The newest issue 23 update is not available yet. We may have to wait a bit to kick off the update.
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Ah, thank you, but, what time do the servers start to update for i23? I have to leave for work at around 10 PM Eastern & I really wanted to have it so that Coh would update while I was at work.
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Originally Posted by Donna_
Was there not meant to be new powersets ??
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!
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Because primitives can't have their own heroes?|
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Also: a primeval jungle full of dinosaurs and man-eating plants, and like cavemen or a primitive society of some sort. (And yes, I realize that dinosaurs and cavemen didn't exist at the same time... just make the primitives the victims of a time warp or the like, with part of our goal to get them home to their own time or something.)
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I think that I'll just give COH a break and play my PS3 until the new sets drop.
No knock against CoH: my subscription is annual for a reason, I love this game. I think we all need to take a break from time to time, though.
That said, I'll be dusting off my badger (see sig) tomorrow and diving into the new content pretty aggressively over the next few days.
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