So I'm not sure if this topic has already come up, but I've been thinking a lot about lore and story.
In CoH, there was kind of a "major story" that went down as you got later into the game, specifically the business centered on Shadow Shard, Rularuu, and Ouroboros among other things. Plus there was the whole "building up to Battalion" thing that was also going on at the time of the shutdown.
It has me wondering, are there going to be big story developments like that at some point in CoT as well? Obviously not specifically Battalion or Rularuu or Ouroboros, but some major events that bring a bunch of folks together? I think it would be really cool!
It still hurts my soul we never got into the Battalion storyline.
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We have many stories planned. Some will be part of paths, some will be more accessible to people outside of a given path. Some will be for heroes, some for villains, some for both. We have some of the stories leading up to those showing up in the launch content, but not all of them. We have plans and plans and plans. We got that covered.
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Conundrum, tangent...how many writers does MWM have working? I thought I recalled DrT say there was something like 60 people on the project (although only about 20 are active as devs on the forums) I'm curious what proportion are writers. How goes the mission system development? You have all these plans and plans and plans how are you going to get all of them into the game?
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We currently have 10 writers, with varying levels of availability. Different availability means they produce material at different rates.
Mission system development is progressing, I'm sure. I haven't personally had an update lately.
How are we going to get them in? Well, we have a plan for that. No, really. We have a plan with regards to what types of content will show up when, how we want to stage certain story lines that have to be built up and/or discovered, etc. We have somewhere in the range of 50 spreadsheets and another 50 documents, just planning out things.
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Well I wouldn't really think it should be something that every path eventually funnels into, but a space sauron type of character could be interesting for superman style adventures.... someone like darkseid or thanos or CoX's shiva could be fun.
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I agree, I would LOVE something like that! I also definitely don't want to be forcing everyone's personal hero story to push directly into a huge fight like that specifically. It would run counter to the stated intent By MWM to allow heroes and villains to build their own stories.
That said, I think having these kinda optional big stories and baddies that heroes and villains alike can group together to face would be cool too. A la Hamidon or Rularuu etc etc
Name: Safehouse
Ranger: Gunner
Primary: Force Blast
Secondary: Atrophic Aura
Tertiary: Kinetic Melee
Travel Power: Parkour
Status: Traveling. Following rumors of a huge city in Massachusetts that is teeming with supers.