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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Press Conference Coverage

  • Bah... the count down to E3 is started... we're gonna see more and more developers trying to grab a bit of spotlight so that they get extra coverage during E3... I'm sure this press conference is not unrelated to the AoC launch but really... these guys are a few months away from release... there's nothing unnatural about trying to make some waves here.

    And frankly I've seen much more pathetic attempts at attention grabbing from developers in the past... Like when NCSoft decided that they were going to "unveil" 2 Tabula Rasa logos per week up until release... seriously that was really sad. I've seen plenty of "3 screenshot releases" from AoC too... not as pathetic but still a little lame.

    All in all for anyone following developement on WAR... you really cannot complain about the shortage of info coming out of EA Mythic... all the newsletters are filled with 50+ screenshots and concept art (which truely looks awsome) and Paul does a good job of sharing info on features, whether you like his style of delivery or not (I do). It was very surprising for me to see them release so many screenshots of stuff that is still in developement... without any lighting effects or fog or environmental shading... generally big companies like EA are way more secretive.

    AoC looks like a really good game and the innovative combat system with mounted combat is very exciting. The crew at Funcom however are pretty bad on the marketing side of things. The staff sent to public events often comes off as overgrown 14 year olds with very giddyish attitudes towards their M rated content. Their main PR guy is ridiculous... he said in an interview when asked about nudity (paraphrasing) "Actually many female journalists come to tell me they're excited about the prospect of playing a sexy character"... yeah right lol... AoC looks good but even if I get a kick out of em, I still think Funcom's PR generally does the game a disservice...

    Anyways... I'm sure both games will be succesful. AoC is more innovative while WAR seems more reliable in terms of providing content and stable and proven game mechanics (and I can't say no to leveling though PvP).

  • Posted: 5/02/08 7:58 PM
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• • City of Heroes: Powerste Proliferation

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    Originally posted by Nightbringe1
    

     

    Originally posted by Romse
    

    So no electricity for Tankers (or Scrappers) yet?

    Someone seriously dropped the ball here.

     

    I think the brutes were a lot more upset about not getting Ice / Ice

    Ice / Ice is self defeating for a Brute in terms of mechanics. Slowing in the incoming damage and powers like Hibernate just totally work against them. Radiation Brutes or Weapon Brutes are in a much higher demand than Ice Brutes.

     

    Electricity needs some adaptations to make it to a Tanker or Scrapper set because of the Conserve Energy... which needs to be replaced by something else... however it is within reach...

    Tankers get Dark/Dark... I've never seen this requested even once. Mechanically it will work well... Tanks will self-heal and seeing as they aren't great for damage... they will get great debuffs which will help them and make them more useful to teams... but It's not a very "heroic" power.

    What Tankers wanted the whole Shazam thing.

    Brutes have been asking for big sticks for a long time and now they will get to go about a clobber people with Pipe-wrenches and Baseball bats... it's a great addition.

  • Posted: 4/11/08 8:40 PM
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• • City of Heroes: Powerste Proliferation

  • So no electricity for Tankers (or Scrappers) yet?

    Someone seriously dropped the ball here.

  • Posted: 4/07/08 9:30 PM
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• • City of Heroes: Rikti's Revenge

  • I think we can officially say CoX has gone into maintenance mode or milking mode... which ever you prefer.

    With Champions Online just announced, they're not even in a position to make announcements about issue 12 to keep the player base interested.

    Great game... it's getting a little dated though.

  • Posted: 3/08/08 11:41 AM
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• • Stargate Worlds: Jaffa Get a Makeover in SGW

  • They look fine... for starting characters.
    the bottom of the pic says Jaffa Male Base.

  • Posted: 2/22/08 1:55 AM
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