I24 Overview is up!
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2012-08-07 09:42 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
New intrepid informer up on Nature Affinity too. Wonder if we're getting that before Bio Armor
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A teaser image has already shown Marauder in Atlas park - what his exact role is post-war remains to be seen |
Originally Posted by InfamousBrad
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?
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Are we really not going to escape the Agony Hall future?
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| Do the new Kings Row and Brickstown story arcs replace the old issue 0 content? |
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| Do they include any art revamps to the zones? |
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| 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? |
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| What even is a Zone Event, in this context? Something multi-phased like the Troll Rave event in Skyway City that everybody ignores? |
The 2 new ones are likely to build on newer players' expectations following the Giant Shivan mini-event in the tutorial.
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| Is the Coming Storm postponed to issue 25? |
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| And how many issues will it run? |
But with the Cominh Storm being a major story arc, it's likely that they'll have planned out the key plot points and events of it well in advance, like they did with the Praetorian war storyline.
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| 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. |
@Golden Girl
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No mention of the Nuke Change?
Other than that, looking great.
Paragon Studios will provide me with prosthetic eyes, right! MY EYES POPPED OUT WHILE I WAS READING THE OVERVIEW!
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TO THE END!Villains are those who dedicate their lives to causing mayhem. Villians are people from the planet Villia!
Sweet. Spirit of Kings Row, my Kat/Regen go-to-gal, will be thrilled to defend her birthplace! 
Are the new IO sets purple, purchaseable with Reward Merits/Alignment Merits/Random Rolls, how many slots are they (3/5/6) and so on?
Love the new Brickstown event too, villain love again it feels good!
Can't wait for Beta! 
Questions about the game, either side? /t @Neuronia or @Neuronium, with your queries!
168760: A Death in the Gish. 3 missions, 1-14. Easy to solo.
Infinity Villains
Champion, Pinnacle, Virtue Heroes
One change to KR that I'd like to see would be for the PPD HQ to become a mission hub like City Hall, with its own indoor map.
@Golden Girl
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Out of this issue, I'm mainly VERY PLEASED to see that the derpy debt reduction values are being peeled off IOs ... at long last! And also VERY PLEASED to see new IO sets being added. I'm not a power player, and I'll often play without enhancements, or with mostly expired SOs or whatever, but I've got a lot of toons dinging 50 these days, and that's when I start to look at them and plan out slots and IO sets, so I'm happy to see that some of the longstanding problems in this aspect of the game are finally getting addressed.
I'm also glad to see the Martial Arts type additions to blaster and dom sets, though they're not quite what I envisioned and I'm struggling to find synergies. (I think I might go with dark/martial dom, and possibly beam/martial blaster, if redraw isn't a killer.)
I haven't ever been able to care for the Praetorian material, so on content this issue is another dud for me. I'm thankful we got tips missions a while back, because aside from the wonderful Summer Event we had and the occasional TF, that's all I do these days.
There was a hint of something big in Issue 9?
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Silly. All of my Tankers have been gathering dust, because, well...Incarnate system + Brutes. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
As you're a Tank, I assume you had it set to -1?
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Yowza! The new reveals are just about as nice as what had already been revealed. <3
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
BP lore pets YAY!
*squees like a little schoolgirl*
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It was where the Battalion were first mentioned as a force that the Rikti had defeated.|
Originally Posted by Profit
There was a hint of something big in Issue 9?
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The original intent was that the Battalion was going to be an enemy group so powerful that the new IO system was going to be required to defeat them - that changed when NCSoft bought the game and backed a dumper truck full of cash up outside the studio and asked the devs what they wanted to do with it.
The original Battalion plan was put on hold, and a huge transformation of the whole game was started instead, which eventually gave us an endgame system - and the Battalion idea was then repurposed to be a threat so dangerous that Incarnate powers would be needed to defeat them.
@Golden Girl
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And TSOO!|
Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
BP lore pets YAY!
*squees like a little schoolgirl* |
Now I'm just kinda hoping for CoT and 5th Column
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I wonder if the BP lore pets will include a Ravager. I've always wanted a pet Ravager.
I don't think the CoT or 5th Column will show up unless they get incarnate level versions of themselves.
my daughter will be excited that we get to team with the Shining Stars again
overall it looks like a good caretaker issue, and I don't mean that as an insult. lots of good, solid fixes and some content that people may not be thrilled about but will still be enjoying for years.
Aw still no Psi Melee, I've been keeping my fingers crossed ever since it leaked!
Besides that, there is a fantastic amount of great content for look forward to! Roll on i24
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There are Incarnate CoT in DA |
Originally Posted by Mad Grim
I wonder if the BP lore pets will include a Ravager. I've always wanted a pet Ravager.
I don't think the CoT or 5th Column will show up unless they get incarnate level versions of themselves. |
Plus, plenty of Lore pet types don't have Incarnate versions - like Nemesis, Longbow or Cimerorans.
@Golden Girl
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I *LIKE*!
Especially the whole Prison Break thing. I've always found it entertaining that the Prisoners have broken out, and what do they do? Stand around the place shouting about how glad they are to get out, and no way no how are they going back in...
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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Don't the 5th Column also appear in one DA mission as Incarnate? And they ARE linked to an Incarnate (Reichsman)|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
There are Incarnate CoT in DA
Plus, plenty of Lore pet types don't have Incarnate versions - like Nemesis, Longbow or Cimerorans. |
The Cimerorans are linked to Imperious.
Longbow is linked to Ms. Liberty, and by association, Statesman.
We don't know if Nemesis himself is, or is linked to, an Incarnate.
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Sounds like lots of nice things. Disappointed that we'll have to wait to find out what the Tech Knight armor will look like... I guess I'll just have to start saving up my tokens for them now, just in case they're awesome.
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It's because they've been in the Zig for so long that they don't know how to function out in normal society, and are actually afraid to actually leave... so they just stand at the edge, waiting to be taken back inside.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Especially the whole Prison Break thing. I've always found it entertaining that the Prisoners have broken out, and what do they do? Stand around the place shouting about how glad they are to get out, and no way no how are they going back in...
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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There doesn't have to be an Incarnate link for Lore pets |
Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
Don't the 5th Column also appear in one DA mission as Incarnate? And they ARE linked to an Incarnate (Reichsman)
The Cimerorans are linked to Imperious. Longbow is linked to Ms. Liberty, and by association, Statesman. We don't know if Nemesis himself is, or is linked to, an Incarnate. |
Phantoms and Robotic Drones aren't even a real faction
@Golden Girl
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Looks good...
So is the nuke change gonna be in i24.5?
Looks interesting, and I wonder what the new I-trial will be.
... dammit. *drinks*
@Golden Girl
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