Empyrean wrote:

Ok,
a) that was a GREAT Devmas (that was all in-game in-engine, right?)
b) I watched that glitch video five times. I almost did a spit-take the first time. Santa's gonna be sooooore in the mornin. It should be on a show called "When Physics Attack!"

All in game, yes.

Two best things about the Glitch video ... the trashing of the front porch, and the musical selection.

Best thing about the first video? The credits and logos and sound at the END of the video! So inspiring! *^_^*

nightchrome wrote:

Just great! It's clear a lot of effort is gonna go into making dance parties the absolute best in this game.

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Very nice. Love the possibilities of the weather/environment stuff. Santa dance animation on point. Santa paunch is impressively rotund. The logo reveal and music at the end - very sharp, very professional looking and sounding.

Thanks for the Christmas present MWM, I enjoyed it. The end part with the game title was cool, you need to keep that for whenever your ready to make a game trailer. Merry Christmas guys, and hope we can bare the wait for this game. I may never have had the chance to play COH but I hope that this game will be great.

Redlynne wrote:

Best thing about the first video? The credits and logos and sound at the END of the video! So inspiring! *^_^*

I'm not seeing the credits or logos, only the "Happy Holidays from Missing Worlds Media", then the ads for other videos.

Mind you, what I am seeing of the video is impressive enough! But I am concerned that some people (me, for example ^_^ ) might not be seeing the whole thing.

Here I sit getting all excited because the snowfall actually accumulates on the ground....

I'm making plans to kill baby New Year 2017 so 2018 would come faster. That or steal that DeLorean the crazy inventor down the street has, calls himself Doc Brown.

Unfortunately we can't fix the KS post. It was posted hastily and the person in question accidentally linked the wrong vid and deleted the other vid. We didn't discover the mistake until past 30 minutes, which means we can no longer make any changes to the post.

So we can have rain snow and possibly falling leaves and fog and maybe some lightning.
Awesome.

Fire Away wrote:

No worries. I kind of liked the version of the video that didn't come dripping with the obligatory save CoH movement slogan push that you seem to relish (in this case, a thinly veiled reference to calls to action). Think your Marketing Department can take a shot at something more original and player base inclusive? You can't blame a guy for asking. Anyway, I did enjoy the videos and keep up the good work.

Harsh, dude. "Answer the call" is so generic, it could apply to damn near every MMO in the space-time continuum. It's not like they posted a clip of Catgirl McMittenhands holding a torch in front of Paragon City Hall with the hashtag #AtlasPark33 in blinking red letters.

Yeah, I saw the 'answer the call' (internally, before release) and thought 'well, it's pretty generic, but it'll do for now'. CoH reference really did not come into it at all.

Shadow Elusive wrote:

Yeah, I saw the 'answer the call' (internally, before release) and thought 'well, it's pretty generic, but it'll do for now'. CoH reference really did not come into it at all.

*whispers* Answer the Call...

Great Work All.

Take a breather. ;)

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Happy Holidays to All! :D

Deathwatch101 wrote:

cause status effects like reduced movement?

"It's snowing in game? Guess I'll log off until the snow stops then."

If the environment causes any negative status effects, you KNOW that that's exactly what some people are going to do. They'll just stop playing until it's over. Some may stop playing and just not come back.

Having the environment intermittently cause negative status effects is a Bad Idea™. Why? Because the Path Of Least Resistance is ... to stop playing.

But, what if I just want to play, and not have to check out the cute Weathergirl every thirty minutes, to see if my Achilles Thumb kinda weather is playing at the local Thug-a-torium? What if I just don't want to have to worry about it? Do I take out some Umbrella Weather Insurance? Maybe Captain Underpants has to wear his thermals, this week? Maybe the villainous Heat-Wave has taken over the weather and everyone has to strip down to the girl armor, to keep from melting?

Hmm, actually, I'd rather have villainous weather-manipulators causing nightmares, instead of just being at the mercy of random weather. Maybe a mission where we trick Cold-Front into fighting Heat-Wave for control of the city ('s weather)? Both villains wipe themselves out and the heroes make them Roomates in the super-maximum free prison?

Be Well!
Fireheart

City of Heroes ran on a 1 second (real time) equals 1 minute (game day) accelerated cycle, so we're assuming that City of Titans will do something similar.

Part of the reason why City of Heroes ran on such a highly accelerated time frame is that the Spawn Maps changed with the day/night cycle ... and nothing else.

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So in City of Heroes, no matter what was going on, every 12 minutes (which equated to 12 hours of day/night cycle) you'd functionally get new spawns all over the map, thereby keeping the map "refreshed" for Street Sweeping. So 1 hour of game time was more like 2.5 days of day/night cycle in game.

Now [i]ideally speaking[/i] (as far as I'm concerned) ... it would be wise for City of Titans to "break with tradition" (or precedent, if you prefer) and NOT tie the Spawn Maps to the day/night cycle. Instead, what would be the smarter play would be to tie the Spawn Maps to the [i]current weather conditions[/i] rather than whether it is day or night right now. Why? Because day/night is a binary cycle ... it's either one or the other. Theoretically you could do things leveraging dusk and dawn as well, but those states don't last long enough, relative to the remaining day/night cycle, to be sufficiently meaningful. But current weather conditions will have more than a simple binary state of day/night. You can have Sunny and Clear, or you can have Sunny and Partly Cloudy. Or you can have Overcast with high clouds, or low clouds. You can have "windy" conditions. You can have foggy conditions, that could be anything from "Dark Astoria" levels of pea soup to something which is still foggy but visibility goes a bit further and is more like hazy mists. And then you can have precipitation. Rain. Hail. Sleet. Snow.

Now all of those weather conditions are more complex and offer a larger matrix of possibilities than just a simple (binary) day/night cycle that refreshes every 12 minutes. And let's be honest with ourselves here ... *I* want a more complex set of Spawn Maps for NPCs to Street Sweep than just a simple day/night cycle can offer. Weather offers more variables, and also makes possible things like "clearing the streets" when it rains, rather than having the same columns of pedestrians walking down the sidewalks continuously, rain OR shine. By tying the Spawn Maps to weather conditions, you make it possible for the "face" of the city to be more than just two things.

So in that respect, I wouldn't mind if the weather (randomly) changes (a little bit) every 10-12 minutes in City of Titans (and with the changing weather conditions, the NPC Spawn Maps) ... but then put the day/night cycle onto something more like 90 minutes elapsed per day/night cycle, instead of just 12 minutes.

desviper wrote:

An ice storm power that slows within a radius is totally cool

As a big Ice/Ice Tank and Storm Defender player - I agree ;^p

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an unavoidable slow effect EVERYWHERE would be super annoying.

Also agreed. That would be annoying as hell. Like having an accuracy debuff at night because you can't see as well. Environmental debuffs like this are probably a bad idea. MAYBE as part of an individual mission or special winter event map.

I understand the need to assume the worst and cry foul at any and every opportunity. Open up your mind to possibilities to more than just the worst outcome.

In terms of game mechanics an ice storm could be bad for normal people. They tend to avoid the weather and ride it out in the comfort of their own home. That shouldn't deter heroes & villains, but it would impact the world around them. What if this terrible ice storm that plagued the city just merely slowed characters slightly at the onset of attempting to move (just enough to notice but in no way impact top speed or power activations)? Weather should not stop supers from going about their business, but they shouldn't necessarily be completely immune to everything either. All that is needed is small reminder that you are living in that world.

The reason I asked about the day night cycle was to roughly gauge the length of a storm (or heat wave or wind storm, etc). Given that information you can better judge how to attack the problem (or opportunity). Weather should be used as a lever for villainous intent. Sometimes that clear day means the fringe scum will only risk getting caught out in broad daylight if they are desperate.

Yeah, we've been talking about weather effects for years and repeatedly conclude it's too much trouble.

As a 'zone' effect, or in an instance, it might be an interesting story-telling element, but applied to the whole game it would just be... bad.

It's really not a matter of 'open minds', friend.

Be Well!
Fireheart

Kassandros wrote:

I wouldn't mind slowing down the day night cycle. Felt too fast in CoX. And I'd love weather. Wouldn't lead me to log off at all... would lead to me enjoying the game more.

is 2 minutes alright from sunrise to sunset?