{"id":1932,"date":"2011-07-28T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T01:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2011-07-28T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T01:34:20","slug":"the-city-of-heroes-panel-from-sdcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2011\/07\/the-city-of-heroes-panel-from-sdcc.html","title":{"rendered":"The City of Heroes panel from SDCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video of the CoH panel at the San Diego Comic-Con.  Alas, doesn&#8217;t include the Q&#038;A at the end.  <\/p>\n<p><OBJECT classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"  WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=391 id=\"videoPlayer\"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/cne_flash\/production\/eidothea\/release\/eidothea.swf?ver=008_14\"><PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=\"noScale\"><PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=\"lt\"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=allowscriptaccess VALUE=\"always\"><PARAM NAME=allowFullScreen VALUE=\"true\"><PARAM NAME=flashvars VALUE=\"bwr=0&#038;playerMode=embedded&#038;movieAspect=16.9&#038;mapp=embedded_640&#038;gen=1&#038;viewMode=sd&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;paramsXML=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.gamespot.com%2Fpages%2Fvideo_player%2Fxml.php%3Fid%3D6324837%26mode%3Dembedded%26width%3D640%26height%3D391%26newplayer%3D1%26skin%3DeidotheaEmbedded640_169.xml\"><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=\"opaque\"><embed  id=\"mymovie\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"391\" flashvars=\"bwr=0&#038;playerMode=embedded&#038;movieAspect=16.9&#038;mapp=embedded_640&#038;gen=1&#038;viewMode=sd&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;paramsXML=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.gamespot.com%2Fpages%2Fvideo_player%2Fxml.php%3Fid%3D6324837%26mode%3Dembedded%26width%3D640%26height%3D391%26newplayer%3D1%26skin%3DeidotheaEmbedded640_169.xml\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" scale=\"noScale\" salign=\"lt\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" quality=\"high\" name=\"mymovie\" style=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/cne_flash\/production\/eidothea\/release\/eidothea.swf?ver=008_14\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\/><\/embed><\/OBJECT><\/p>\n<p>Discussed a lot of the Freedom features, but also some of the other keen stuff going on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new &#8220;Street Justice&#8221; (brawling) and Beam Rifles power sets. \u00a0These will be premium sets, it sounds like, even for VIPs. \u00a0Street Justice is combination-based (like Dual Swords?).<\/li>\n<li>Updates to the downloader (start playing within 5 minutes), as well as to the introduction \/ character builder and to the Tutorial. \u00a0It all sounds really nice, and a great way to make the game more attractive for the new players they&#8217;re expecting.<\/li>\n<li>Atlas Park has gotten a total makeover with their new rendering technology, and the missions\/contacts have been redone.<\/li>\n<li>Mercy Island isn&#8217;t quite as made-over, but the missions\/contacts have been revamped, and you actually start down in the main burg to the south, rather than up at Ft Darwin.<\/li>\n<li>The low-level &#8220;Death from Below&#8221; sewer raid &#8220;event,&#8221; similar to the Incarnate Trial tech only for Levels 1-5.<\/li>\n<li>Added training missions in levels 5-19 (to make up for the very short tutorial).<\/li>\n<li>Issue 21 &#8211; the new zone &#8220;First Ward&#8221; in Praetoria, Lvl 20-25, complete with the new villain groups and the zone-wide Giant Monster (Seed of Hamidon) event, and the new underground Incarnate Trial (Avatar of Hamidon).<\/li>\n<li>Quality of Life improvements &#8212; dynamic icons over potential contacts&#8217; heads; find contact button (with info!) for a nearby contact (and you can even teleport directly to him\/her); and \u00a0now travel powers will now become available at Level 4* and there will be &#8220;high end&#8221; travel powers, too.<\/li>\n<li>Signature Stories &#8211; key storylines, new story arcs monthly, hero and villainside (free for VIPs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It all looks pretty cool!<\/p>\n<p>The Prezi presentation can be seen more fully <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/vvvu_aav4koa\/city-of-heroes-freedom-sdcc-2011\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>* Young whippernappers got no idea of what life was like with travel powers only showing up at 14 &#8230; jogging through all the zones &#8230; including the dangerous ones like the Hollows &#8230; damned kids these days &#8230;<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of the CoH panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. Alas, doesn&#8217;t include the Q&#038;A at the end. Discussed a lot of the Freedom features, but also some of the other keen stuff going on: The new &#8220;Street Justice&#8221; (brawling) and Beam Rifles power sets. \u00a0These will be premium sets, it sounds like, even for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2011\/07\/the-city-of-heroes-panel-from-sdcc.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The City of Heroes panel from SDCC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-heroes","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}