{"id":682,"date":"2006-08-29T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T04:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/08\/more-i8-news\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T04:53:04","slug":"more-i8-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/08\/more-i8-news.html","title":{"rendered":"More I8 news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview with Matthew Miller<\/a>. Items of note:<\/p>\n

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Well, first off, we did a major overhaul to the City of Heroes zone Faultline<\/strong>. It includes new contacts and missions, as well as a better street-hunting experience. We also have brought the randomly generated missions that we had in City of Villains (which villain characters got from the newspapers and brokers) to hero characters. The City of Heroes version is called “police band missions<\/strong>,” and these can lead players into safeguard missions where they must protect Paragon City
\nfrom vandals and stop major crimes in progress. <\/p>\n

Next, we have the “veteran rewards<\/strong>” program, which gives perks and thank-you gifts to players for their characters based on how long they’ve been playing the game. There is a new set of rewards every three months. Finally, we added arena kiosks<\/strong> to the Pocket D area, so heroes and villains can more easily challenge one another in the arenas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All sounds good, aside from the (ho-hum) arena kiosks. Though, frankly, I “defend” missions sound a lot less fun than “kick the snot out of everything” mayhem missions. And you could make them heroic (“Raid this Arachnos base! Destroy as much of their invasion fleet as you can!”). Evidently that doesn’t sway the Devs:<\/p>\n

Safeguard missions are not mayhem missions, and we never tried to make them that. Heroes don’t go around destroying property, but rather, their job is to protect it and to stop crime. Villains are proactive, and Heroes are reactive. In the end, they both have something similar to do (accomplish an objective while on a very tight clock), but the games play differently, which we like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As for Faultline:<\/p>\n

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For one, the construction in the zone has uncovered a lot of the old hero bases from before the Rikti War. These bases were home to the supergroups of old, and it’s where they housed dangerous technology. After the Rikti war, these bases were simply forgotten about, but Lord Recluse has sent Arachnos troops into Paragon City to scavenge these bases for hidden treasures. The rebuilding of Faultline has kind of kicked over the anthill…there have been Arachnos forces in Paragon City for a while now, but only now
\ncan the Heroes do something about them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Coolness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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