Per Doyce, LJ CoH, and just about everyone else who wasn’t stuck on a phonecon whilst repairing their Firefox installation …
Funny stuff is going on … and me stuck at the office, dammit. 🙂
Although — Margie tells me that most of the servers are showing as “Down” or “Unknown” — except the Test Server, which shows as doing just fine. Heh.
As for actual rules changes, I’ve mentioned some here previously, but a few other items gleaned here and about:
- Costume/appearance sliders are available to all characters via Icon. Just send money …
- Knockback! For (well, against) heroes!
- Lots of new status effects for villains. Various new power protections from same. Lots of power changes, enemy power changes, enough other crap to apparently render every guide up on the boards obsolete …
- Coalition Chat! That should help the Alliance of Champions quite a bit.
- PvP Arena yadda-yadda-yadda.
- Experience distance/map/mission limits yadda-yadda-yadda.
- Construction on University Campuses has begun in Steel Canyon and Founder
Already got us linked with Liberty and Phoenix on coalition chat. Easy Peasy – even is PC ended up the but of a few jokes.
Also, no excitement. That thread was from Issue 2.
Oh, and the area was down.
Why, yes. Yes, that thread is (post dates starting 9/16/2004). Heh.
The “executive summary” review of features is here.
Wow. The Arena just down the stairs from the front of HQ in Galaxy is — a huge change in the landscape.
Cool, but unexpected.
And so is the University under construction in the south end of Steel. “Whoa — what happened to those buildings?”
I do like the idea of an evolving cityscape.