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This build is scheduled to hit PTS at 10:30 am, 8/14/13
Greetings!
We're updating PTS with this build to test stability, as well as the changes listed below:
Release Notes:
FATAL ERR0R: Cybermind
Bug Fixes:
Other:
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Greetings!
We're updating PTS with this build to test stability, as well as the changes listed below:
Release Notes:
FATAL ERR0R: Cybermind
- The conclusion to our FATAL ERR0R arc, a level 40 5-player Custom Alert. Defeat Cybermind within his own digital domain!
- Known Issues: Some of Cybermind's powers are lacking FX art. Some of the cutscenes are not final. Some loot is placeholder. There is no music.
Bug Fixes:
- We have made a change to "Homestead Security" to make it less likely that the mission will fail to complete.
- We have made a change to the Deomonflame mission "The Queen Beyond the Pale" that should prevent the Demon Key from becoming stuck in a wall near the end.
Other:
- We have disabled the sidekicking change that was introduced in the .28 build. This feature requires significant tuning and will be re-enabled for further testing at a later date. Thank you for your feedback!
- SOCRATES terminals now have an updated look to go along with the FATAL ERR0R arc.
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Dat. Level 40 Alertin' power, just seeing this is a massive win. Here is hoping it stays level 40.
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So yet another alert with no exposition. How did we get there? Its all so sudden. No game plan set by an NPC (preferably Dr. Silverback) and then jacking into the system. Just we're in the system.
I guess someone knocked us out while we were on the john and kidnapped us. Poorly done here. This is gonna be another Hi Pan and Leviathan disconnect between parts isn't it?
I hope there's at least 3 more cutscenes going on in this from the opening BEFORE we get into the system, the boss' defeat rather than cut to where Cybermind actually is, and a resolution cut scene to wrap it up.
Woah, mechanics. This was quite fun and different from the usual fights we have.
The one problem I had with it is the pillars that grant the color buffs do not overwrite or refresh the buffs. This causes some problems mid fight when you have to fight the cubes. Unless you let the buff wear off you will die during cybermind's next acid rain phase.
Make the buffs pillars overwrite or refresh a buff.
Edit: Cybermind's costumes appear to be rewards. Yay!
I think lordGar said that the cutscenes weren't done yet. If thats the case, it would explain why there's no premise behind this.
On a sepperate note...I for one want that freaking helmet...And a Socrates AF if available.
Is Cybermind getting some perk hookup? I'd love a mentalist or tech title associated with him like maybe...Brain Drain? Brainiac? Mindwiped?
WUT THE PHUCK did you do to poor Socrates!?!?!?
This NEW LOOK is ABSOLUTELY HIDEOUS!
There is nothing CREATIVE or NICE LOOKING about this design! PERIOD! SHE HAS EARS NOW!!? This thing looks like a Hologram of a CONEHEAD for crying out loud!
NEW SOCRATES IN REAL LIFE...
AND it gets BETTER! You took away Socrates MOST APPRECIATED FEATURE!!:eek:
SHES TOTALLY FLAT MAN!!!
If you want to make SLIGHT adjustments to her current look you may, but they better be ACTUAL IMPROVEMENTS! This thing you have on PTS CAN NOT go live! For the sake of all that is BEAUTIFUL about Champions Online, do not bring this eye soar into it!
Were you guys actually planning on going through MC and changing all of Socrates's Statues into this thing too? URGH!
I WILL MISS YOU SOCRATES!!
If you guys want to change something, how about just making the Hologram match the Statues better?:biggrin:
Wait what?
The end to this story arc is a lame Alert?
GOOD GOD what ever happened to story?
Missions?
-sigh- What a waste.. it'll be like the Bleak Tentacle monster and I'll do it once or twice and then .. bleh..
Oh well off to PTS
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Oh wait, never mind. .there's not enough people to test it with right now
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Good Stuff
1. The cutscenes were good--short and to the point.
2. The mobs were actually reasonably tough for level 40s.
3. Socrates voiceovers were nice.
4. Cybermind fight has interesting mechanics--you can't just stand and spam. Heroes need to pay attention.
5. Lockout was not final, at least--if everyone dies, you get another shot.
6. Fight was definitely not too easy.
Bad Stuff
1. The corridors you go through were a bit bare and such. Just move, fight mobs, move. Meh.
2. Many folks are not going to like losing travel powers. I dunno.
3. THE COLOR BUFFS DO NOT ALWAYS LAST THROUGH CYBERMIND'S STORM ATTACK! That means you just die.
4. There is no warning or suggestion that there is a lockout mechanic taking place.
5. Cybermind's final stage was the least difficult . . . disappointing.
Suggestions
0. Needs an opening that explains why we are inside a computer world again.
1. Maybe have some ambush mobs or some traps or environmental hazards in the corridors.
2. Needs a Socrates voiceover about lockout or something.
3. Color buffs need to last longer.
4. First stage of Cybermind should be shorter, and final stage should be much harder. He should keep that giant buffed form longer.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
Negative:
- Color coding attacks and resistances need to be made clearer, either have SOCRATES prompt us OR have the cutscene explain it better. I.E. Running to the red pillar and standing o red block = resistance to Viral Storm. It was implied it was just standing on the block = safe.
- Feels like a glorified Hi Pan Alert instance, only longer. I was hoping for a more Lemurian Harbinger scale instance...
- After two thirds are gone: He says: "Let's wrap it up people" and the squares turn off and a Viral Storm kills everyone. Got a feeling this is a bug.
- Perma NTTG can be an issue when running for the pillars, may want to allow SOCRATES to grant a window of opportunity to allow us to get there faster?
- FX for his immunity. Try giving him a Data Shield or something.
- Empowered Version in final stage is a bit "sudden". Could do with FX. Seems like his own special MoTM (Master of the Mind) But instead Master of the CyberSpace (MoTCS), needs an icon and I think the attack Viral Empowerment is invisible..
- Feels a bit strange that he has almost 3 million HP, but it is doable, since it is not timed.
- His empowered form could do with a cutscene of gloating from him maybe? And perhaps a way to nerf him (back to normal out of empowered) using the pillars is in order? (This ofc is provided he stays empowered for a longer duration)
Positive:
- I liked the Firewall bit and the environment and the fight mechanics (once we as a team figured them out).
- The Voice Over for Cybermind, complements his real world look
- We were actually level 40! YAY!
- I have a feeling he will have more interesting attacks, at first I thought he had copied my Force Detonation when he sent it back to me! :eek:
Neutral:
- Lockout mechanic, yes and no, yes because this is not timed and when everyone dies, we can try again. No because lockout is annoying.
SOCRATES Feedback:
Please, do not do this to SOCRATES. Even if it is in honour of FATAL Err0r, it's a major fashion disaster and a considerable fall from what she currently looks like. If this carries to LIVE she will die. No one will want to save an ugly looking hologram
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True.
I forgot and/or was optimistic that they wouldn't be that lame.. ah well
Here we are now going to the West Side
Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day
Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm
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The old model was charming because it looked like a single piece and not just parts put together. She was custom and impossible to copy.
Now its just a generic body with a stupid point attached to the back of her skull.
If anything make her look MORE like the promotional art of this event.
If you do this, Socrates would be the perfect example of the downhill tumble of this game's consistency and care put into it.
So no cut scenes ever. What would you do to make the setting chronologically sound?
Otherwise, she looks fine.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
a) Make cut scenes skippable.
b) Failing that provide enough material in the text to cover what needs explaining.
Cut scenes are only cute or informative the first time you see them. The 50th they're a damned annoyance, and this content is meant to be repeated.
I rather have cut scenes instead of walls of text.
However much you dislike a "wall of text" you will only have to read it once, unlike a cut scene which must be endured over...and over...and over....
I would also say that calling anything you are likely to actually see in an MMO a "wall of text" is absurd. You'll get one or two short paragraphs, tops.
And Socrates new look is meh.
Now there is a time and place for cutscenes, but I think CO goes overboard and it hurts mission replayability. The recent Forum Malvanum alert is a great example. A high dps group would have nearly half their time spent in the alert watching the same cutscenes they'd all probably seen many times before... cutscenes which could have easily just been VO as they're fighting.
Cut scenes would be nice if you could move around and do things for sure. Aren't there some missions in game where NPCs walk around doing their thing while you can follow or beat up enemies? Resistance does this partly while James Harmon does his speech introducing the Teleportal or Griz with the wall mines in the sewers. More of that, please.
Cut scenes were not necessary during the whole ordeal for that last part in the sewers. It would be nice if this Alert was tweaked to do the same kind of explaining while we just go go go.
Oh lord I wanted to run the Forum Malvanus but the unskippable cutscenes that went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and...
Yeah, that.
So when in doubt, make it text. Or make the voice play while running from place to place. During the boss battle itself it seemed like Socrates was trying to tell you the boss' weakness (although it seemed to fail most of the time). So there is that hope at least.
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As far as the new socrates look, i personally think it looks terrible, the whole head just seems very awkward to me.
If that were true, the facial features would've been slightly improved.
-There are more cutscenes in the works.
-The main reason for the SOCRATES visual change was to make it more usable for more purposes. The old design for SOCRATES was just a single piece of geometry, which wasn't flexible. Now she's a real costume.
The devs have also given it a ton more polish of polish: In the words of LordGar, "it looks way better." Her head's angled back again, and she has a unique pose that's closer to the original pose. We're glad for the feedback, the team hopes you'll like the polished version when it's on PTS.
By making the new version a costume, they'll be able to use SOCRATES as a non-static NPC and in AFs. So really, you can blame Nepht for giving the devs the idea in the first place. :biggrin:
Do you know when the Telepathy Issues will make it to PTS for fixing and testing?
Currently Mental Leech's heal component flat out doesn't work on anything and tooltips are still wrong as well as a number of other bugs.
I've added FATAL ERR0R: Telepathy and Tooltip Errors to my sig as links which provide information on what the bugs are.
Here's hoping these get fixed soon
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We blame Nepht for a lot of things around here.
Do you know if there will be another code push before tonight's playtest?
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With regards to the PTS test/livestream tonight, if there's not another push hitting the PTS which fixes the color buffs what's the point? As it is you'll end up with a lot of annoyed testers giving you feedback on something you already know is broken and likely little else.