I24 Overview is up!

AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER.

Seriously. I just about cheered at work.

I'm most excited for the new T9 VIP sets and the new Invention sets. Those respective categories have needed some love. I'm also RIDICULOUSLY happy to see XP Debt protection and Mez Resist in IO bonuses go away. Those bonuses were largely useless, especially at later levels.

Now if only I could convince the Invention guys to make sets for melee powers that grant defense and melee/ranged powers that heal...

Well I didn't CHEER, but I did read off the list to the wife.

Thank you in advance, Devs! This seems to have "a little something for everybody", which appears to be what most of us have been wanting for a while. Not an easy juggling act to pull off.

I'll have to see Tech Knight before making a judgement call, but I'm not enthusiastic for more Tech pieces. We have far too many as is :\

That said, I'm liking everything else about I24 so much. Especially the zone events. Paladin reworked, a Family raid in St. Martial, and an actual prison break? Sold.

Even better is seeing Legacy enemy groups get their collective spines straight and rise again. It'll be awesome to watch the old groups come into the spotlight like they did so long ago.

Edited to Add: Here's hoping those new villain schemes are fun; nice to see redside getting some content love! Maybe now I can finally stop saying 'for the greater good!'

... dammit. *drinks*

Wow, that looks VERY nice. Lots of fun stuff for everyone.

This all sounds really interesting. Us taking it to the Praetorian Hamidon, new 7-20 and 30-50 content, fun stuff. And, y'know, power customization.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim Pretty much pokes a giant hole in the "time progression by player level" thing we've all thought was going on, which makes First Ward's timeline that much more ambiguous.

Eh, it is what it is. There's no real easy way to handle changes to the game world or progressing storyline without this kind of stuff. Not unless you lock all storyline stuff behind Incarnate stuff, and then it's "the story begins at 50!" Which is bad. So I can work with this. It really helps not to think overly much about it and just roll with it.



When will then be now?
Colonel Zwillinger: Soon(tm).

...so there was nothing in the Capone's vault but some empty gin bottles.

Seriously, most of the surprise was spoiled by the devs in the weekly Coffee Talks so this feels entirely anticlimactic. I hope the beta starts today or tomorrow, because this is beginning to drag. We all know i25 is the 'big one', anyways.


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Nice to see new content added to KR, Bricks, and St. Martial.

Edit: Ooh, didn't notice the Prison Break zone event for Bricks at first. That looks great!

2 blue zone revamps, 1 red one - the devs' hatred is unending

In the banner image, is that Back Alley Brawler wearing Marauder's wrist cannon, or has Marauder defected to the good guys? Or did the artist make a mistake?

"The majority of Praetoria except for one last bit of civilization outside of the city has been destroyed." I sincerely hope that this means just Praetorian City, not Praetorian Earth. Please tell me that all of the other cities that were rebuilding didn't fall to the Hamidon during issue 24. I feel bad enough about what we did to the city; if we helped kill off almost the entire remaining human race in that timeline by depriving them of their last protectors, if the IDF we fought in the Magisterium trial weren't just the last troops Tyrant had handy but were the last actual uninfected human soldiers on the planet, I don't think I can stand knowing that.

St. Martial's Secrets ... oh, yay. Why can't Longbow attack some place that actually needs conquering, like Port Oakes or Sharkhead or Warburg? Why are they utterly determined to bring the war to the only even minimally functioning parts of the Rogue Isles economy, Cap au Diable (previous issue) and St. Martial (next issue)? Does it really offend them so much that Governor Aeon and Governor Sonata are doing a better job of governing their territories under Arachnos than, say, the US and local governments are doing in governing comparable neighborhoods like Steel Canyon and Founder's Falls? Go invade your own selves, clean up your own messes before knocking down something that's actually working, you filthy mercenaries. I'm entirely serious here. First Praetorian City, now the only actual nice zones in the Isles -- are you guys determined to turn this game from a superhero game to a post-apocalyptic wasteland game? Is that why you nominated Post Apocalpse as a costume set at the Pummit? Are we really not going to escape the Agony Hall future?

Do the new Kings Row and Brickstown story arcs replace the old issue 0 content? Do they include any art revamps to the zones? Are there really going to be 13 whole levels' worth of new content in King's Row, or is that just the minimum and maximum level range for the content?

What even is a Zone Event, in this context? Something multi-phased like the Troll Rave event in Skyway City that everybody ignores?

Is the Coming Storm postponed to issue 25? And how many issues will it run? Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm on record as saying that I'm bored to death with interdimensional and interplanetary invasion forces, and would love to know when is the earliest the story will do anything I find even minimally interesting. Knowing that it isn't even starting this year does would not encourage me.