The devs are soliciting player opinions about upcoming zones.
The City of Heroes and City of Villains universe is expanding and we want to hear from you about it! As we contemplate where your heroes and villains might venture next, we want to know what excites you the most.
Below is a list of 11 themes we are currently looking at! Tell us what you think by selecting your top 2 choices.
Let your imagination run wild and picture how these themes might fit into the existing CoH and CoV world.
Hmmm. The choices are:
- The Moon – Blasted landscapes and futuristic moonbases. Sounds like wandering through Boomtown. On the other hand, imagine 1/6 gravity (leaping! knockback!) and vacuum issues.
- Mars – Lower gravity and atmo problems, too, but some cool alien landscapes and hidden civilizations could be cool.
- Space Station – Sort of like the Moon crossed with the Shadow Shard. Hrm. Never mind.
- Rikti Home World – City of Rikti! Has possibilities (especially if we expand the number of types of Rikti we see). I want to see Rikti civilians and cops running around in fear at heroic presences.
- Arctic – Not that interesting per se; it would depend on what’s hiding out there in the ice and snow. Though the extreme weather bits could be interesting (slow reduction in endurance, health, speed, except for folks with cold resistance).
- Desert – As the Arctic.
- Underwater – Slowed movement, breathing issues, and “flight” for all. Could be fun.
- Post-apocalyptic – I can visit there via Portal Corp any time.
- Jungle – Oh, boy! Perez Park II. Bleah.
- Circus/Carnival – City of Carnies. Oooookay. Whatever. I guess it could be pretty.
- Gothic Horror – As opposed to Dark Astoria? Again, could be pretty.
So a fair number of interesting possibilities, but aside from the environmental threats and prettiness, the key will be what sort of story, critters, threats, and backstory is going on there.
That said, I think I’ll vote for the Moon and Underwater.
Arctic, Arctic, Arctic!!!!
Says Noelle … 🙂
I voted for the Underwater and Gothic Horror zones. The aquatic since they have already started in that direction with the “underwater bases” and “fish people’ in CoV.
The gothic Horror they tried for in Dark Astoria fell really flat in my opinion. It just isn’t spooky enough. I want to have something like a ‘Call of Cthulhu'(tm) game. I want to be sitting on the edge of my chair, breathing rough, going..”Holy hell…son of a….what the?!” DA didn’t do that for me what-so-ever.
DA is spooky, but not spooky. It’s a lot more annoying (SJing/flying into buildings) than scary. The ghosts are kind of cool, but after a very short time, it’s all just irksome.
Trying to make something very (and persistently) scary would be kind of cool, I agree.