[CO] State of the Game: January 26th, 2010

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Greetings, Champions!


Welcome to the 2010 reboot of the State of the Game! We’ve been
keeping our shoulders to the wheel, our noses to the grindstone, and
our foot on the pedal to bring you some great updates for Champions
Online. There’s a lot to talk about, so now that the preamble has
ambled, let’s dig into the meat of it!

The “Kitchen Sink” patch is slated to hit the live servers tonight,
and this bad boy has a slew of changes that are based a great deal on
your input over the past couple of months. We’ve touched just about
every area of the game, from items to characteristics to powers to
costumes to sound to graphics to zones and missions to UI to... well,
you get the idea. I won’t delve into every last detail here (that’s
what the patch notes of incredibly large size are for) but I did want to call out some highlights.

Powers


The Archery, Celestial, Darkness, Fire, Force, Ice, Might,
Munitions, Power Armor, Single Blade, Sorcery, and Supernatural power
sets have all seen improvements. The long-discussed (and cried out for
by the community) changes to both Swallowtail Cut and Force Cascade
have been made.

Items Get More Offensive


Items which previously were described as granting an Offensive
Combat Value bonus for certain kinds of attacks had not been actually
giving that bonus. These items have been rebuilt and redesigned, and
now have a chance to grant a short duration (20 second), very high
intensity boost to OCV on attacks of the designated type.

Lemuria Rises!


The performance issues in Lemuria have been greatly improved. We’ve
had extremely positive response from our players on the Public Test
Shard as to how well the zone plays now, so we’re hoping that this is
the end of “Lagmuria.”

Nemesis


The appearances and powers of your Nemesis can now be edited for a
modest resource cost at the MCPD crime database. Defeated Nemeses can
also now be reactivated from the MCPD crime database if you don't
already have an active Nemesis.

Crafting


There are changes and addressed issues with various blueprints and
components, but most exciting is that bind-on-Equip Crafted Travel
Device blueprints may now be dropped by White Rhino, Dr. Demogaard, The
Bronze King, Vikorin the Blind, and Shadow Destroyer. Get out there,
fight some bad guys, and gain the knowledge required to make some of
the wildest travel powers in the game.

Team Looting


There are a lot of upgrades to the looting system that grants better
distribution amongst team members, address issues with players thinking
they took an item when another player already claimed it, and changed
both round-robin and need-or-greed team looting to be on a per-item
basis as opposed to a per-bag basis. There are also changes to the
Master looting system, and the overall team looting threshold is now
met on a per-item basis rather than the highest quality item in the bag.

And Oh, So Much More...


Many more topics are discussed in much more detail in the patch notes,
so make sure to give them a read. We’re constantly working to improve
Champions Online, so keep playing and let us know how about your
experiences!


What’s Next for Champions Online?


We have a lot in the pipeline and this is a good a time as any to
break some news! The development team has been working on not only
improvements, but also on some amazing new content and game systems for
your enjoyment. We don’t have exact dates set for all of these
features, but they are coming in the short term as opposed to being
long range plans. As we get closer to release on these, we’ll let you
know! And away we go...

New Costume Sets in the C-Store


We’ll be rolling out a new costume set every week for the next three weeks, starting with Steampunk Cyborg!

I See a Blood Moon a Risin’


By popular demand, we’re going to be bringing back the Blood Moon
event with a few twists and upgrades based on your feedback. The
concept is that the event will trigger the day before, of, and after
every real-world full moon. We’re using the same technology we debuted
with Clarence in our Misfit Toys event to make battling Takofanes and
his minions more interesting and challenging for heroes of all ranges
of experience. Look for announcements in the upcoming few weeks as to
when the Blood Moon will rise again!

This One Goes to Eleven


We’ll be introducing difficulty levels that players can set both for
individual heroes and for their team. With 1 lower and 2 higher levels
of difficulty to select from, players can create a challenge that fits
their play style and ability.

Flashing Back


Cutting-edge temporal technology invented by the genius tinkerer
Juryrig allows heroes to travel back to moments in their own history.
Have a moment of personal glory that you want to relive, a mission that
didn’t quite go the way you wanted, or missing an elusive perk? Here’s
your chance!

Vibora Bay Watch


We’ve had a big secret here at Cryptic, and we can’t hold it in any
longer. Over the past few months we’ve been working like mad on our
first expansion for Champions Online! Vibora Bay is one of the Gulf
Coast’s largest and most exciting cities. It’s a center of commerce,
culture, tourism, and some incredibly strange goings-on. It maintains
unusual traditions of mysticism and religion along with an eclectic
group of inhabitants and frequent paranormal activities. Heroes
constantly face threats of global proportions, but this time the crisis
is greater than ever. The apocalypse has come, and it rides upon the
half angelic / half demonic wings of Therakiel.

A web page is currently in the works that will feature screen shots,
a video trailer, and detailed information on this level 37 – 40
mega-adventure pack, so stay tuned for more information!


That’s all for now, heroes - see you online!

Y para los no profanos (usease los que no estamos en el Co pero tenemso curiosidad) en que se traduce este parche?

Al parecer la zona de "Lemuria" era como la DaLAGran del WoW y ya lo han arreglado...han cambiado bastantes poderes, la forma en que actúan ciertos items y por fin van a permitir que, una vez creado tu Némesis, le cambies el aspecto y demás.

Han añadido un drop de los patrones del poder de viaje especial a algunos bosses y también algunos cambios y parcheo de bugs en el sistema de loot.

Buck escribió:Al parecer la zona de "Lemuria" era como la DaLAGran del WoW y ya lo han arreglado...han cambiado bastantes poderes, la forma en que actúan ciertos items y por fin van a permitir que, una vez creado tu Némesis, le cambies el aspecto y demás.

Han añadido un drop de los patrones del poder de viaje especial a algunos bosses y también algunos cambios y parcheo de bugs en el sistema de loot.

Eso es bueno porque quiere decir que el juego se ha asentado bien y empiezan a refinarlo y optimizarlo.

Si.. por ese lado es bueno... pero por otros, como el hecho de estar a la vez con la beta del Star trek Online, no lo es tanto.

Y el juego creo que dista mucho de estar "asentado". Si aguanta con un buen número de personas su primer año y van sacando expansiones, ampliando el HE y tal sí se podrá decir eso; pero de momento yo lo dejaría en que se ha "posicionado" bien.

Tienen que rematar la faena. De momento el juego es muy interesante y ahora han de hacer de algo muy interesante algo muy bueno... y de algo bueno, algo mejor.

Tiempo al tiempo.

Hombre yo le veo mucho mejor ritmo y salud que precedentes que se hundieron a lso 2 meses, me refiero a casos como el Conan y el War

Gaehrn escribió:Hombre yo le veo mucho mejor ritmo y salud que precedentes que se hundieron a lso 2 meses, me refiero a casos como el Conan y el War

Hombre, tanto como hundirse... A mí me siguen enviando emails con promociones y expansiones para recapturarme (jamás! XD), así que tienen que estar aún en funcionamiento. Creo que tiene una buena base de jugadores el WAR también.

De todas formas, lo que sí es cierto es que estos juegos que los lanzan como si fueran la panacea de todos los males de los mmorpg acaban no pudiendo siquiera sufragar los gastos del lanzamiento. Por lo menos el CO ha ido avanzando poco a poco y sin ánimo de someter a ningún otro juego, lo que le da un punto muy positivo.

El CO se sustenta, yo creo, en la base de que en su género (los MMO) hay mucha competencia; pero en su contenido (los superhéroes) apenas hay nada. Raro es el jugador de otros MMO's que no ha visto su vida influenciada por los cómics

Pero claro...por mucho que el contenido te garantice unos mínimos no puedes dormirte en los laureles.

De momento, van bien. Espero que, como poco, sigan así.

Yo creo que esa es la clave, el CO no compite, y no es su objetivo no es un WoW killer, ni nada para que la gente deje el WoW por otra cosa, es ofrecer otra opcion de juego para aquellos que les apetezca otra forma de jugar.

Todos los que han querido ser WoW killers han fracasado por algo simple, nos podemos quejar mucho del WoW pero la verdad esque a nivel GLOBAL y no por puntos no hay nada que lo supere.

Y todos los que probaron otra cosa cosa y querian algo como WoW han vuelto al WoW, que si que les parecera una mierda , o el pve, o el pvp, o el leveo, o que no es harcore, o que vete a saber que cosa, pero sigue estando esa otra que te gusta, que muchas veces es justo la que otros odian.

La ventaja del CO tambien esque lo divertido no es llegar al ultimo nivel, sino explorar tu forma de crear tu personaje, y eso de momento tiene mucho mas partido.

No consiste en darle millones de opciones al jugador,sino que las que tengan sean divertidas.