New, villains-only powersets: Nothing is going to make the CoH player base scream louder than seeing a set of new powers enter the CoH universe, only for them to be unavailable to player heroes. But there are features that will raise points of contention between dedicated CoH players and those players who are actively looking forward to CoV. These complaints will be driven by poorly worded statements (eg: “You will need to have CoV if you wish to build player bases” may not be 100% true), speculation, justified concerns and player irrationality. To be honest, the first thing I see coming out of the player base as more CoV information is released is complaints.
Will the devs have learnt about the missteps of CoH and take the necessary measures to avoid them? Will CoV be “better” than CoH? Exactly what effects will the Rogue Isles (which will unfortunately be called the “Rouge Isles” by a lot of people, prompting imagery of bad guys with lots of eyeliner) have on Paragon City? Apart from some answers on PVP, CoV information is thin on the ground. Which leads to a lot of speculation about what will be in CoV.
Although I doubt the devs really get their kicks out of announcing features that don’t exist, it’s probably for the best that player expectations are managed as much as possible. Although slightly frustrating, this lack of information is probably for the best – the second a dev announces something, it is taken as gospel and if it doesn’t appear or changes, devs get accused of “lying”. The big event since the last column was the launch of the City of Villains main site, complete with incredibly limited information about what CoV will contain. I haven’t written a column for about a month, which is mostly my fault, but time flies when you’re busy. Total casualty figures remain unknown, though low estimates placed them in the tens of thousands.A View from Atlas Park: City of Villains, or City of Complaints? In the end, of all the great super-powered heroes who called Paragon City home, only eight survived. After months of desperate fighting and incredible sacrifice, the Rikti were stopped-though not entirely defeated. It was on this ruined battlefield that legends died and were created. It was here that thousands of heroes and civilians made their last stand. Every major city in the world was attacked, but none were more devastated than Paragon City. A true city of heroes.Īll that came to a disastrous halt on when aliens known as the Rikti invaded the earth and began their war of mass extermination. Through the efforts of Statesman and those who joined him in the war against tyranny and crime, Paragon City truly became a beacon and inspiration for heroes world-wide. Since 1931, when a prodigal son returned with the powers of an ancient god and called himself Statesman, Paragon City has been the center of the super-powered hero universe.
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