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NCSoft and Cryptic Studios have released a new video featuring some of the much anticipated new content from Issue 11. " A Stitch in Time". The video, which is narrated by Floyd "Castle" Grubb, shows off the new powersets - Willpower and Dual Blades - as well as explaining how each of the new powers work in some pretty good detail. The video also shows the new weapon customizations that can be chosen inside the character creation screen. You can check out the video right here!
New hairstyles! Sure there are other things like new powers and weapon customization, but come on! New hair Styles! Curious to see what the next issue holds in store for your melon? Take a peek at this thread on the official forums to get a look at all the new do's that are waiting for you in both mens and womens styles! Finally...I can have a fauxhawk! *squeeee*
Organizers from ComicsOnline.com are giving you the opportunity to dress up as your hero or heroine and strut your stuff in New York City! The folks behind this rather intriguing endeavour are two of Champion Server's finest, Terrence St. John and Kevin Gaussoin and it will take place during the Nexus Crisis event, a masquerade party that will be held on October 27. If this has perked your ears up and you want to know more, you can get the information you need right here from the official CoH site!
It's the time for Ghouls and Goblins in the world of City of Heroes and Villains again! That's right the Halloween event kicks off today and will continue all the way through till November 4th! For those unfamiliar with the CoH Halloween event from previous years, the event allows you to go around knocking on doors found through out the cities trick or treating. When you knock, you will either get a trick - which consists of being attacked - or a treat which this year can add up to a temporary power that lets your look like one of the CoH NPC heroes! What are you waiting for? Get out there and get some goodies!
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Ok before you get too excited, it is a community created trailer from Samuraiko Productions and not officially from Cryptic. Although not official, it is still pretty nice, but on the other hand, there is no new footage from Issue 11. So stop listening to me ramble on and take a look at it for yourself! You can either check it out their site or on good ol' Youtube.
World of Warcraft is known for some players that take the game waaaay to seriously and have the mentality that if you are not as great as them then you shouldn't be playing at all. These wonderful people have come to be known as elitist. Our topic this week is have you run across many in City of Heroes? I know I personally have, where if you don't have the same opinion of how to do something or how to slot a character you are condescended and talked to like an idiot. For the most part City of Heroes is a welcome and fun place to be, but let's hear if you have had the unfortunate experience of running into these "players".
Want to know more about the behind the scene peep that help bring life to City of Heroes? Boomtown has posted up part 7 of their "Ask a Dev" series and this time around they interview Senior Programmer, Vince D�Amelio. So who is he and what does he do? You can check out the full interview right here!
There are lots of us out there that love to have those little action figures that are of gaming personalities such as a Master Chief figure or a Link figure, but how would you like a action figure of your toon? Better yet, how much would you pay to have one made? There are stores that can create an action figure for you from images that you supply, unfortunately they are super expensive. So our topic this week is how much would you pay to have an action figure made of your toon?
The Vault Network is once again very excited to announce the launching of our latest site, Tabula Rasa Vault. Please take a moment and drop by to see what is going on with this highly anticipated game crafted by MMO legend Richard Garriott.
Wanna take a sneak peek into what some of the goodies in store for Issue 11 will look like? We happened to snag a few images, that you can find right here, that show off the new Dual Blades as well as the new Willpower. As well you can see the character customization screens where you can choose which type of swords you want to handle. Pretty friggin sweet if you ask me! You can view all the new Issue 11 screens in our gallery!
If this is not some kind of cruel joke, there will indeed be weapon customization in Issue 11!
"Sometimes an assault rifle just isn�t the right tool for the job, or character, especially when he or she should be using a sniper rifle instead. Players can now change their weapons in the same way that they change their costume parts! From within the costume creator and tailor screen players select the new �Weapons� region. A number of new options are now available for appropriate power sets. Current power sets that benefit from this upgrade include Assault Rifle, Mercenaries/Assault Rifle, Bow, Broadsword, Claws, Villain Claws, Dual Blades (see below), Katana, Ninja Blade, Mace, Robotics/Pulse Rifle, and Thugs/Dual Pistols."
There will also be a Flashback system, whereby you can "travel through time and relive major events from the history of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles!"
And on top of this, New purple invention sets which are even more rare. This kinda scares me but hopefully they won't be too buff.
Ever have a tough time trying to think up a new name for your created hero? Well now there is a nifty tool that you can use to help you along. The Naminator can not only help you with Super Hero names, but it works for just about every other category as well! Now when you create a new character, you have no excuse for "Superdude." as a name! You can check out the Naminator right here!
It's hard to say exactly what this means, but with the recent wallpapers Cryptic released, it's starting to look to many people like Issue 11 will deal heavily with the prospect of alternate timelines.
Regarding the Willpower's visual impact, Back Alley Brawler had this to say:
"Much less than Super Reflexes."
He also had this to say:
"Hey guys, a couple of quick caveats to these screenshots.
1) These are mainly grabs from the activation or pulses of the the various toggle/click effects. The first screenshot is of the Tier 9 power. The 2nd is an activation effect from one of the toggles, and the 3rd is a random pulse that happens when one of the toggles are on. Overall, these really represent the MAOF (maximum avatar obscuring factor) you'll see from all of the Willpower FX. That's marketing for you.
2) There's really only one common visual effect for all of the toggle powers, and it's fairly subtle. There are different activation effects and some random pulse type effects here and there, but for the majority of the time you're running around with any of your toggles on you've got one persistent effect.
4) We'd already pretty much decided that what we have now is still too much. We still want this to be a defense set that is very minimally FX graphic intensive, but trying to find a delicate balance between having nothing at all and having functional indicators of what powers are active is tricky.
This is basically the first pass on these FX. We've still got closed beta and then open beta coming up. Plenty of time for everyone to get a good look at this set and its FX in game and make comments about it. Plenty of time for us to make multiple iterations and try to find a happy medium that will make everyone happy. "
For this weeks poll, we are asking you denizens of Paragon where you got your start. For some reason, every time I start a new toon, I always pick Atlas Park. Maybe it's the allure of Ms. Liberty, I don't know. So our question to you is when you start your toons, where do you pick to start? Atlas Park or Galaxy City? Hit the poll and let us know!
As for our last poll, we asked if you would like to see vehicles included in the game. Two thirds of you said you would like to see vehicles in the game and I am one of them! I actually picked the majority side this time. I think that's a first.
With the server transfer option looming after it was pulled recently, we here at the vault are wondering how many of you will be taking advantage of the program. Are you planning on forking over the $9.99 to pack up your belongings and move to another server and if so why? Which server are you thinking of leaving and which are you thinking of joining? Having my only 50 on Pinnacle, I just might have him pack a bag and head over to another server like Virtue for a bit and see how he likes it.
Not quite sure how I missed this news tidbit, but it seems the Character Transfer and Renaming program that was planned for the 19th has been delayed due to some unforeseen problems when it hit the live servers. As of right now there is no word on what the exact problem was except that there was an issue with the design of the system itself. They are trying to get it back online though as soon as possible however. You can read the full update here on the official forums.
To help get you geared up for the eventual release of Issue 11, the official City of Heroes site has released an Issue 11 wallpaper in a variety of different sizes. Although there really hasn't been much said about issue 11, the wallpaper hints at something quite - pardon the pun - cryptic. You can grab the wallpapers right here at the official site!
After the scheduled maintenance today - which was to start at 6am EST and is to end at 11am EST, the Character Rename and Transfer service will be implemented on to the servers. For those not familiar with what all the renaming and transfer of characters entails, you can check out this thread on the official forums. As well you can check out this thread for more information on the entire dealy with the server maintenance.
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