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Fatal Error's pretty cool

sekimensekimen Posts: 297 Arc User
edited July 2013 in Champions Online Discussion
I played twice through it today and I'd like to say a few positive things:
  • I love the new environment and the general feel of the instance. I know it's just moving down a long corridor to beat up mobs, but it still felt like "Virtual Reality" as pop culture dictates it. The cube mobs really cheered me up.
  • Skull difficulty! Thank you for not scaling us down :)
  • The cutscenes were nice, the short chats with the Champions gave me a chuckle... It generally felt well put together. Nothing amazing, but it had heart and helped the atmosphere, so thumbs up from me

I won't criticize the "just go from point A to B beating up mobs", because as it is right now, I think it's a decent introduction mission. Just please make sure to mix it up a bit in future installments of this arc and this might be my favorite of the "temporary" content.

As I've always said, for boss battles, please look at the non-Vlad encounters in Therakiel's Temple for inspiration. Those are some of the best fights in this game. Also, since it's virtual reality, this is the perfect opportunity to use our Nemeses again as virtual "optimal countermeasures" or something.

EDIT: Also, invisible spider monster wasn't much of a battle, but it was pretty damn freaky looking.
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  • echokoumoriechokoumori Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    the story arc were getting right now isnt temporary as the devs said this one is going to be permanent content the last one will be in the custom alert rotations
  • rianfrostrianfrost Posts: 578 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    played it, liked it. new art assets are a rare treat, the powers look good, and its perm, and it feels right for a tech/robotic character. i also liked the personality of the chats with the characters, co gets dinged for being too campy, and i can see it at times, but this time the jokes were short, to the point, and hit the right characterizations. it felt better. overall, its a positive step. it will have to be the first step of a process but its going the correct direction. now lets talk new costumes that are not in the lockboxes. but em in the store, i bought the emote pack, my money is in my mouth...ok that metaphor is one you do not want to do literally...blehh.

    i did notice 2 things that annoyed a bit, the enemies all flying reminds me of lemuria, melee can be annoying, i did it with my martial arts framework guy, and it was not hard, per se but it was a little annoying to have to track down the guy i popped into the air with the sweep kick who decided to just hang there and shoot. also the spider constantly spawning guys got a little irritating. also not impossible but annoying.

    now, can we get one in the "world" where we fight hi-pan in the alert? that one is amazing.

    Edit, sorry got the wrong directional pan.
  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,898 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Fatal Error is a good fun mish good job Cryptic...BUT!

    All the black and red and floating blocks made me think of 80's video games , THEN! it made me think of Donkey Kong ( how high can yew try \o/ ) THEN! it made me think about ......


    THE FORBIDDEN NERD QUESTION!...

    What happened to Donkey Kong Jr? ... wheres he at these days ...google it NO ONE KNOWS!

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  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,334 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    nepht wrote: »
    Fatal Error is a good fun mish good job Cryptic...BUT!

    All the black and red and floating blocks made me think of 80's video games , THEN! it made me think of Donkey Kong ( how high can yew try \o/ ) THEN! it made me think about ......


    THE FORBIDDEN NERD QUESTION!...

    What happened to Donkey Kong Jr? ... wheres he at these days ...google it NO ONE KNOWS!

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  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,898 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    Your Google Fu has failed you, young Padawan. He's running around Donkey Kong Country, riding a mine cart, when he's not in Super Smash Bros.


    I thought that but I was WRONG!


    Cranky Kong was the original DK the current DK is his grandson ...Jr the current DK's dad is just gone, no where to be seen..HES BEEN ABDUCTED! ...I blame The Greys and ultimately Cryptic I just know that somehow this is all their doing @_@"
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  • akirasanbeerakirasanbeer Posts: 228 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Step in the right direction....though could use some ambient background noise/music.
  • agentnx5agentnx5 Posts: 2,026 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    It's a well designed mission. Reminds me of the Champions back in 2011 for design quality, which is nice.

    Major pro's?

    CONSISTENT art theme.

    Even the powers used by the foes match the "digital world" art theme. An nice detail touch.

    Major work on redesigning models, and making new costume unlocks to boost sales (even if they are unfortunately behind lockboxes)

    Release of new emotes!


    Lots and lots of good stuff came out with this patch, and best of all? THEY DIDN'T BREAK THE GAME WITH A CATASTROPHIC GLITCH! I mean, it's sooo nice to have a new content patch that didn't actually break other content (or level us down from 40 to 1)

    There's only two criticisms I can offer for room for improvement:

    1. Mob spawns do NOT scale up for a full 5-person team. It should. Elite works correctly, but the spawn sizes do no scale up to epic levels, like they really should.

    2. A bit TOO linear, just point-A-to-point-B. Much of Champions is like this, but I'd like to see more of stuff like where you have choices and different choices give different results. Would improve replay value too, which is a win-win for devs and players.

    akirasanbeer wrote: »
    Step in the right direction....though could use some ambient background noise/music.

    Yeah the work done by Spirals on the audio for Whiteout was excellent, kind of miss having him on the team...
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  • rianfrostrianfrost Posts: 578 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    ok, here is question for turtle, was this content from the new people at cryptic north?
  • dr490nbr347hidr490nbr347hi Posts: 276 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    rianfrost wrote: »
    ok, here is question for turtle, was this content from the new people at cryptic north?

    I'd like to tell myself that it was, because then I know that they're doing what we were told they would.
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  • tigerofcachticetigerofcachtice Posts: 552 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I thought it was great too, but largely because it's the opening salvo for something more. For now:

    - great portrayals of the Champions, way to use them in a fun way
    - great voice acting from Dr. Silverback and SOCRATES, finally a voice to the face
    - the virus is a Blackredder! Like SOCRATES saw so many Blackredder costumes she broke

    But like I said, it's because this looks like the opening salvo for something more. It's like it's a simple mission because the Devs had to take time doing all the art assets. So this was just the appetizer while they cook up the main course. Looking forward to what's next.
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  • sekimensekimen Posts: 297 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    akirasanbeer wrote: »
    Step in the right direction....though could use some ambient background noise/music.

    Yea, shame there wasn't any. I had to play some chiptunes in the background to kill the silence.
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  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    The instance does have music and sound available. Its just buggy and doesn't play most of the time.
  • bwdaresbwdares Posts: 1,522 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    crypticbuxom wrote: »
    The instance does have music and sound available. Its just buggy and doesn't play most of the time.

    Buggy? Damn that spider!
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  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,216 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    crypticbuxom wrote: »
    The instance does have music and sound available. Its just buggy and doesn't play most of the time.

    Its default 'heard this twenty thousands times' music.

    And apparently there is some kind of 'ewyaewyewya" noise.
  • jaguar40jaguar40 Posts: 204 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Fatal Error

    I like it. It's pretty cool. Someone said it seems to be a nod to Tron or something of the likes. Got me wanting to go and see what this Tron thing is about.
  • arblaquearblaque Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I get the Tron feel and like the binary numbers on the defeat of the enemies. Anyone else old enough to think Automan when the bad bits started floating into attack? Ah terrible 80s television.
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  • jaguar40jaguar40 Posts: 204 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    arblaque wrote: »
    I get the Tron feel and like the binary numbers on the defeat of the enemies. Anyone else old enough to think Automan when the bad bits started floating into attack? Ah terrible 80s television.

    old enough but one of those programs that must have slipped my notice.
  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,334 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jaguar40 wrote: »
    Fatal Error

    I like it. It's pretty cool. Someone said it seems to be a nod to Tron or something of the likes. Got me wanting to go and see what this Tron thing is about.
    Well, it did go live on the 31st anniversary of the release of Tron, a fact which makes me feel really freaking old by the way...
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  • agentnx5agentnx5 Posts: 2,026 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    sekimen wrote: »
    Yea, shame there wasn't any. I had to play some chiptunes in the background to kill the silence.

    What are you all talking about?

    When I played I heard this song when I got to the boss room:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4cgLL8JaVI



    I guess I'm just more in-tune with my cybernetic implants than the rest of you users.
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  • forrksakesexcoforrksakesexco Posts: 436 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    But we're all getting DIGITIZED..... That's what the baddies did to their victims in Captain Power and the soldiers of the future.
    Cryptic is obviously going to delete all our accounts to make room on the servers for more lockboxes.
    I can't believe I'm the only one who sees this!
    It must be true it's on the Wiki
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  • zahinderzahinder Posts: 996 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    Well, it did go live on the 31st anniversary of the release of Tron, a fact which makes me feel really freaking old by the way...

    .. ... ....

    ******mit.
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    edited July 2013
    echokoumori wrote: »
    the story arc were getting right now isnt temporary as the devs said this one is going to be permanent content the last one will be in the custom alert rotations

    You sure this is true where did they say this?.

    I whuold like to find out cuz this has to be the best mission/alert ever made in my eyes. (Im a fanboy of this stuff sorry).

    I mean the other alerts are still here like nighthawk and red dragon.


    But anyways could you send me a link where they said this?



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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited July 2013
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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Is the carrier mission gonna be a repeat of the fight from White Out?
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  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Nope. The mission is generally inside the carrier. You fight robots, throw switches, and have a showdown with Cyberlord.
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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    roughbearmattach wrote: »
    Nope. The mission is generally inside the carrier. You fight robots, throw switches, and have a showdown with Cyberlord.

    Is he going to be a stand-n-spam fight?
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  • theravenforcetheravenforce Posts: 7,152 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    smoochan wrote: »


    Is he going to be a stand-n-spam fight?

    Not really, he has periodic back up and a few attacks, knockback and I think a back hand sort of hit.
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
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    No. He's going to be jumping on the walls and making cartwheels while singing Kumbayah.
    He wasn't tough opponent in Whiteout as a main villain, why he should be any different as an "decoy".
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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
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    flyingfinn wrote: »
    No. He's going to be jumping on the walls and making cartwheels while singing Kumbayah.
    He wasn't tough opponent in Whiteout as a main villain, why he should be any different as an "decoy".

    Because superheros :<
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  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,334 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    smoochan wrote: »


    Is he going to be a stand-n-spam fight?
    "Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or just another bug hunt?"
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  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Cyberlord is a miniboss, nothing more, nothing less.
    He isn't Legendary or Cosmic or anything--just a run-of-the-mill supervillain.

    In fact, Cyberlord's status as a second-stringer is a significant plot point in the story.
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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    roughbearmattach wrote: »
    Cyberlord is a miniboss, nothing more, nothing less.
    He isn't Legendary or Cosmic or anything--just a run-of-the-mill supervillain.

    In fact, Cyberlord's status as a second-stringer is a significant plot point in the story.

    Ah okay, so then it's fine if the fight is boring.
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    edited July 2013
    smoochan wrote: »


    Ah okay, so then it's fine if the fight is boring.

    To be fair, Cyberlord isn't exactly running at peak efficiency in this mission. There are...factors, involved.
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  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    We don't even get a snazzy end cut scene to the second mission. What a sham.
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