Discussion: PC Gamer Covers the City of Heroes Player Summit (with development updates!)
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Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-05-30 16:03 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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That looks very interesting! |
Gamma Boost — Auto: Self, +Regen, +Recovery, +Special Design Notes: The goal with this power is to give you what type of regeneration or recovery you need most at any given time. The scale of the bonuses change depending on your current health level: while health is high your regeneration bonus is very low, but your recovery bonus is very high. Conversely, the lower your health gets the greater the regeneration bonus, but the lower your recovery bonus. |
Edit: As it stands it seems to be a set focused on absorb/resis/regen which depending on the numbers could make it pretty darn amazing or "meh", im leaning towards amazing at the moment!
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A Kings Row revamp needs to include perma-night or perma-rain - or even both, just to let everyone know that it's out Gotham 
Sweeping away the old KR contacts and content to Ouroboros would also let them create new arcs that would bridge the new Atlas Park content with the newer Steel Canyon content, or possibly even Faultline if they bump the KR level range to 5-15.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
I hope radiation melee is also in the works for those of us that value synergy. Got some sets out there that currently lack this.
For example:
Sonic blast on a blaster but no sonic manipulation
Energy assault on a dominator but no energy control set
Friends don't let friends buy an ncsoft controlled project.
Resists, Regen, Recovery and +rech? I'll be interested to see how this winds up getting balanced.
What's "absorb"? I don't recall this mechanic
I hope the revamped KR has rooftops similar to those found in Mercy and Cap. There's large parts of those zones that can be traveled by rooftop. Daredevil, Batman, Spiderman and the TMNT, not to mention dozens of other superheroes did all their traveling by rooftop. There is no place in Paragon that really manages to capture that experience.
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It's a HP shield basically. If you have 300 HP and 50 Absorb, incoming damage would be applied to the absorb first and any leftover damage is applied to your HP. A shotgun blast that does 75pts of damage would wipe out your Absorb and leave you at 275 HP.|
Originally Posted by SDragon
What's "absorb"? I don't recall this mechanic
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If my understanding of this new mechanic is correct
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Ninja run helps with that, but yeah, I'd like to see that too.|
Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
I hope the revamped KR has rooftops similar to those found in Mercy and Cap. There's large parts of those zones that can be traveled by rooftop. Daredevil, Batman, Spiderman and the TMNT, not to mention dozens of other superheroes did all their traveling by rooftop. There is no place in Paragon that really manages to capture that experience.
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And the building/resturant the Furies own and live in. That needs to get put in there, especially with all the Well lore going around now.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
A Kings Row revamp needs to include perma-night or perma-rain - or even both, just to let everyone know that it's out Gotham
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"I play characters. I have to have a very strong visual appearance, backstory, name, etc. to get involved with a character, otherwise I simply won't play it very long. I'm not an RPer by any stretch of the imagination, but character concept is very important for me."- Back Alley Brawler
I couldn't agree more.
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And if it had perma-night, perma-rain and a lot of neon signs using the new glow tech, they could make a fortune selling tokens via the Paragon Market to unlock rooftop brooding areas for vigilantes.
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Originally Posted by Lycantropus
I'm not opposed to that either if it's done right, to be honest.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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No. No, it really doesn't need that at all.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
A Kings Row revamp needs to include perma-night or perma-rain - or even both, just to let everyone know that it's out Gotham
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Keep Kings Row in the Paragon City real world and please don't make it the darkity dark we're going to copy DC's Gotham now with this part of the city.
Keep true to the legacy we have here. It's a friggin' good legacy.
Many of us love Kings Row as it is. I often see it cited as a player's favorite and their character's home patrol city. That's not because they wish it was always night and/or raining.
It's mostly because it represents a realistic tougher section of the city. It's not just for bad guys... it's a place my old grandma still lives and refuses to ever leave, no matter how bad the neighborhood gets. There are still good people there. It's not a fantasy setting for orcs and darkity dark rainy world.
It's Brooklyn or Queens.
It's the Row... not Gotham.
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
Gratuitous plug of my videos of the Summit:
Welcome & Keynote Address
Flik Song & Paragon Market Panel
Design a Power Set Workshop
Design a Costume Set Workshop
Make Your Case: Zone Revamp Panel
Story Lore & Endgame Panel
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I suggested this for Rise of the Phoenix back when fire armor was getting a look at right before they changed burn back so it didn't make everything run away even with a taunt aura rolling. Really glad it's making it into the game in another set and this set looks like a really fun new armor set. Thanks.
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Ground Zero — PBAoE, High DMG(Energy/Toxic), Self Rez, Special Design Notes: This power will deal a high amount of damage to nearby foes. You can also use this power to revive yourself if you have been defeated. Ground Zero has a very long recharge time. |
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Yeah. It's not an increase to max HP (so no regen boost) and thus isn't healed back - it basically operates like Temp HP in D&D (3Ed, if that makes a difference)
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
It's a HP shield basically. If you have 300 HP and 50 Absorb, incoming damage would be applied to the absorb first and any leftover damage is applied to your HP. A shotgun blast that does 75pts of damage would wipe out your Absorb and leave you at 275 HP.
If my understanding of this new mechanic is correct |
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No to both. I strongly dislike zones that artificially skip the day/night cycle. You can handwave it for a place like Dark Astoria with all its darkity dark evilness (and why are the war walls surrounding it still blue on the outside, anyway?) but not for Kings Row. Kings Row is just another part of the city.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
A Kings Row revamp needs to include perma-night or perma-rain - or even both, just to let everyone know that it's out Gotham.
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Occasional rain, as just a random weather effect, would be fine -- for any zone.
And yes, the existing KR contacts could be nuked from orbit and that would be okay, provided the old ones remained available in Ouroboros.
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All the factories affect the air quality, causing constant rain and smog |
Originally Posted by Creole Ned
Kings Row is just another part of the city.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
I still don't get how Radiation Armour would have protection against Cold. Surely coolant would be it's weakness?
On the Kings Row revamp, I'd say no to persistant night time or rain, there are other zones which could use those kind of effects better (Both could be used in Creys Folley, rain in Brickstown, perma-night in St Martial).
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
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The sky is always smoggy/cloudy there. I'll grant you that.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
All the factories affect the air quality, causing constant rain and smog
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I could go for it raining with every nightfall. Maybe the chemical smog cools down when the sun goes down and drops as rainfall.
I'd just hate to see Kings Row turned into something too unreal and gimmicky.
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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They didn't want to break anything trying to make the Talos war walls red on the portion that borders Dark Astoria.
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Originally Posted by Creole Ned
No to both. I strongly dislike zones that artificially skip the day/night cycle. You can handwave it for a place like Dark Astoria with all its darkity dark evilness (and why are the war walls surrounding it still blue on the outside, anyway?) but not for Kings Row. Kings Row is just another part of the city.
Occasional rain, as just a random weather effect, would be fine -- for any zone. And yes, the existing KR contacts could be nuked from orbit and that would be okay, provided the old ones remained available in Ouroboros. |
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It can't rain all the time.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
A Kings Row revamp needs to include perma-night or perma-rain - or even both, just to let everyone know that it's out Gotham
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The Way of the Corruptor (Arc ID 49834): Hey villains! Do something for yourself for a change--like twisting the elements to your will. All that's standing in your way are a few secret societies...and Champions of the four elements.
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Never been to London, have you?
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Originally Posted by Balanced
It can't rain all the time.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
Never been to London, have you?
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I think it was a Crow reference though!
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Originally Posted by Agent White
Never been to London, have you?
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Good show.
On topic, I can accept it raining during the night cycle in Kings, that'd be pretty cool.
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
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I was just poking fun at it from an immersion point of view. I didn't expect the war walls on the outside to actually be changed to red.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
They didn't want to break anything trying to make the Talos war walls red on the portion that borders Dark Astoria.
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At least I didn't do that walking against the wind ****. |
Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I think it was a Crow reference though! |
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Originally Posted by Creole Ned
I was just poking fun at it from an immersion point of view. I didn't expect the war walls on the outside to actually be changed to red.
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The Way of the Corruptor (Arc ID 49834): Hey villains! Do something for yourself for a change--like twisting the elements to your will. All that's standing in your way are a few secret societies...and Champions of the four elements.
If you weren't able to visit us for the City of Heroes Player Summit last month or if you're just wondering what we've been up to since then, you'll want to read this article by Josh Augustine at PC Gamer. Josh has images of the concept art by David "Noble Savage" Nakayama for the player-created Post-Apocalyptic costume set and updates to the player-created power set, Radiation Armor from Phil Synapse Zeleski!
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/30/pl...heroes-summit/
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