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City of Heroes: PAX: Kinetic Melee, Electric Control, Incarnates Announced
MikeB
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We were just at the City of Heroes: Re-inventing a Superheroic MMO panel where Paragon Studios announced two new powersets in addition to the Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning sets that will be included in Going Rogue. Also announced was the hotly anticipated endgame system that Matt "Positron" Miller has been working on.
The system will be called be Incarnate system (many CoH players should be familiar with this) and it will consist of new content and special Incarnate levels that confer new abilities to your character. Rewards commensurate with the difficulty of the Incarnate content will also be part of the system. Going Rogue will include a single Incarnate level, with the level cap of 10 to be introduced in Issue 19 later this year.
For Scrappers, Tanks, Brutes, and Stalkers a new powerset called Kinetic Melee was announced. To give you a general iea think of what telekinetic melee combat would look like. The set is very visual and utilizes a ton of knockback and down effects. You'll have greater range than most melee power sets when using it. A video was also shown at the panel, though Paragon Studios will not be distributing it. Fortunately, we managed to grab some shakycam of the clip, look for that later today.
Next up is Electric Control for both controllers and dominators. Not much was said on this set, but you can probably imagine how it will work out given the existing powers in the game. Electric imps were seen (gremlins).
We'll have slides and videos coming in soon so check back often!
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Spiffy.
Sweeeet. I hope kinetic melee comes with some sort of speed siphon power
In City of Heroes, Incarnates are those few heroes who've been given the power of the gods from the Well of Furies. For example, Statesman is the incarnate of Zeus, and Lord Recuse is the incarnate of Hades.
I wonder if the Incarnate system will allow the players to gain god-like powers?
This all sounds pretty awesome.
Very cool stuff coming!
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Nice! Can't wait :O
Lord Recluse actually has Tartarus' powers, Hades and Tartarus are two different gods, just of similar things. but this is awesome can't wait
Tartarus was the name of the real of death... not a god per se if i do not remeber totaly wrong.
This have been a good conversation
Found the video for Kinetics Melee here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQPqPwayfI
Oh damn that looks epic. :O!
Glad they gave out more info on end game content. I can't wait for that.
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Hola,
Quick question...and most likely a stupid one...
Is CoV getting new content or just CoH?
I'm thinking of playing CoV again, I've been gone over 1 1/2 yrs.
Is it worth coming back?
Oops, that was two questions...sorry
Jim
mmm incarnates
One of the big new things for the expansion is side-switching. Your villain can become a hero and vice versa.
Also, they merged City of Heroes and City of Villains into one game, so if you only bought Villains, you can play Heroes now too. Much of the new content will be Praetoria, which will be neither villain nor hero, you have to choose which you will be at level 20. Both heroes and villains will have acess to the newly announced Incarna system.
Demon summoning and electric control sound very interesting.
I played CoH for a long time before I got bored with it, but it remains my most loved mmo and I still return from time to time to see what's changed.
I'd resub to see this new stuff.
So how soon is that soon? Hopefully, it is not a CoH Soontm or we will be waiting a long time.
Thanks to those that posted youtube videos already. Can't wait for GR's release. Looks like an exciting year for CoH content.
Paragon has alot planed for coh.Great to see they are keeping the delopment cycle going.Cant wait to see the new costume parts introduced with going rouge as well.
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The Pits of Tartarus was a never ending pit/canyon in the Underworld that Kronos was cast away into after his son's beat him. Hades is the God of the Underworld.