Community Coffee Talk August 15, 2012
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Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-08-14 19:47 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I don't get it, why are those underlined?
I'll have to check it out though !
@War-Nugget
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Originally Posted by Wavicle
CoH players are stupid and incompetent compared to WoW players.
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I'm quivering with anticipation for this one.
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It's a scramble.
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Originally Posted by War-Nugget
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I don't get it, why are those underlined? I'll have to check it out though ! |
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I saw the FB post after I posted..
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Originally Posted by Agent White
It's a scramble.
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@War-Nugget
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Originally Posted by Wavicle
CoH players are stupid and incompetent compared to WoW players.
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Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
I'm quivering with anticipation for this one.
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You beat me to it!
Just sucks you gotta be Tier 9 to get a quiver. Hopefully they come out with another kind of quiver for everyone else.
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They haven't even announced it yet, where'd you hear that?
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
Just sucks you gotta be Tier 9 to get a quiver. Hopefully they come out with another kind of quiver for everyone else.
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The Tech Knight set is on beta right now in a very unfinished state - but it has a quiver.
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Originally Posted by Mad Grim
They haven't even announced it yet, where'd you hear that?
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We already know there will be a quiver in the Post-Apoc set, as well. I'd assume there would be a generic one as well.
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
Just sucks you gotta be Tier 9 to get a quiver. Hopefully they come out with another kind of quiver for everyone else.
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Always remember, we were Heroes.
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It's funny how they still love to "gate" this kind of new content. When capes first came to the game you had to be at least level 20. When wings first came to the game you had to be at least a 15 month Vet to get them. I suppose forcing the first arrow quiver to be a Tier 9 costume item upholds the tradition of making sure they are limited at first.|
Originally Posted by Xzero45
Just sucks you gotta be Tier 9 to get a quiver. Hopefully they come out with another kind of quiver for everyone else.
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I guess this allows them to get more in-game feedback to make sure they are good before they offer a more universal option in the future. Still, it seems like a low enough risk item now that they wouldn't have to go through the motions of artificially limiting it like that but who knows. *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
We already know there will be a quiver in the Post-Apoc set, as well. I'd assume there would be a generic one as well.
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1 or 1:30pm EST I think.
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Originally Posted by Aisynia
When does this start? It will be my first live session.
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Okay so it's a while away.
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Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
1 or 1:30pm EST I think.
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I'm only ladylike when compared to my sister.
will check it out. and thanks!
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Great game while it lasts.
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It's 26 minutes away as of my post.
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Originally Posted by Aisynia
Okay so it's a while away.
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I think Scabbards are still a long way off, simply due to the large number of different sword models used by the game, and by each power set. With the quiver, all of the arrow-using power sets use animations that draw the arrows from the same spot, and all of the arrows are relatively the same size.|
Originally Posted by Bullet Barrage
So, what about that scabbard?
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Also, they can only draw these types of times one way: full or empty. The character model would either be left holding a sword in their hand with a sword still visible in the sheath, or drawing a sword out of a seemingly empty sheath. A quiver of arrows is supposed to run out eventually, true enough, but given the number of arrows a quiver holds, that detail is more easily ignored.
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from a marketing perspective you are not gating new content. You are providing exclusive content to veteran players. you change the exclusive content to something new and fresh so that veteran's appreciate the exclusive content.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
It's funny how they still love to "gate" this kind of new content. When capes first came to the game you had to be at least level 20. When wings first came to the game you had to be at least a 15 month Vet to get them. I suppose forcing the first arrow quiver to be a Tier 9 costume item upholds the tradition of making sure they are limited at first.
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the goal is not the restricting new content, it is giving veteran's a bonus
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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
we need pics of the new skulls
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There were pics of them in an old thread. They basically use player parts with a new mask. Nothing too special. Even the new type "death doll" or something like that, uses the heart w/ skin option (I think). I'll try and dig up the pics.
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They say that, but I think the difficulty may be overstated. It explains why creating a scabbard isn't as simple as just making a belt that looks like it has a sword hanging off of it like some people seem to think, but that's all.|
Originally Posted by Winterminal
Also, they can only draw these types of times one way: full or empty. The character model would either be left holding a sword in their hand with a sword still visible in the sheath, or drawing a sword out of a seemingly empty sheath.
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We've had costume parts that change their behavior/appearance based on whether a specific power is active for years now (wings, rocket/winged/piston boots, jetpacks), and auras that only turn on when the character is in a combat stance for a while too. The Vanguard shield has "on" and "off" graphics -- and it even has an animation to transition between the two. I don't see any reason a scabbard couldn't work like the Vanguard shield.
I think it's more of a "this would be a LOT of work and we're very busy creating other awesome things" situation than a "we don't have the tech to pull it off at all" one.
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If that's the marketing folks' way of sugar-coating the behind-the-scenes engineers' request to make sure revolutionary new types of costume graphics don't break the game in general then more power to them. |
Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
from a marketing perspective you are not gating new content. You are providing exclusive content to veteran players. you change the exclusive content to something new and fresh so that veteran's appreciate the exclusive content.
the goal is not the restricting new content, it is giving veteran's a bonus |
It was actually quite obvious, especially in the case of capes, that the Devs were at first not completely ready to have every single player overloading the servers with capes. As time went on and improvements to the servers happened it became evident that they no longer had to gate capes behind level 20 characters.
Just to be clear I have absolutely no problem with the game gating new content. I just realize that oftentimes they do it not just to arbitrarily "give veterans a bonus" but instead to control the amount of server bandwidth that's required to accommodate things like new costume item concepts.
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