Hero Con 2009 - Opening Ceremony Keynote - 02

[StuartTheGamerNerd]

16:41  nice job with the new shader/lighting system...it only took them 5 more years to get while other failed MMO's like Matrix Online already had it sense the beginning of this game >.>

[Sithunlimited1]

how is this different from reagular citty of heroes????

[CerbyForPresident]

its 2010 and they still have heroes and villains (in combat) stand like fucking wrestlers... thats what killed the game for me, that and the repetitiveness

[Altaranalt]

God Champions was disapointing. I started playing CoX a few months after buying Champions and must say I'm enjoying it way more. CO was just too silly and too much 4th wall breaking.

[quenr123]

so i was wondering is their lots of people online still playing?

[Toboe599]

Soo with Ultra-mode,will all the buildings etc. look as good as Nova??It'd be nice if they could amp up the graphics all across the board. :)

[GamerSG1]

Coolest heroes mmorpg ever dudes

[theSkYkAlEiDoScOpE]

the audience is very nerdy but that s okay . i love them for who they are

[EvilMuppet1979]

I can't wait for this - it looks as if opens up all sorts of roleplaying opportunities. Exploring what it means to be a hero/villain is what these games should be about.

The alternate characters look awsome - especially Marauder. I can't believe you're allowed to join the fascist cops. I've gotta get me one of those.

OMG, and the costume parts as well... everything about this looks amazing!

[atomcrush]

Nerdgasms left and right!

[Floah0293]

1 word: AWESOME

[Grabazoid]

"...and the crime wave continues, in Paragon City, as most heroes are checking themselves out in shop windows." :P

[dusty668]

However the crime wave is moderated as well because the Villains look fabulous too!

[overfiend87]

awesome, been a while since I've been on CoX and I really can't wait for this to come out since I can then finally get my villain to turn good that he will do.

[TheAndyB247]

You cant pre order it, all what it is for I17 is that you can buy the Dual Pistols and Demons for £39.99 and get it earlie with

I17 which includes Ultra Gfx mode is well as many other things.

[fdythunre]

OMG!!!! I love this vid!!!! T_T

Thank you SOOO much for this look at heaven!!!

I have got to tell my SG about this!!!

[Rockhard1492]

14:46

"We can fly!?"

I cracked up at that part!

Seriously though, I am so pumped for Going Rogue! I already got back stories planned for my side-switching characters, as well as costumes and color schemes to reflect their alignment. WHY CAN'T I TIME TRAVEL!??!

[CoHScrapper]

Man, how many times was the word "Nice" used?.. lol

[RydWolf]

CoHScrapper: FAR TOO FEW!

[Sparx1]

6:23 - "There is no other superhero MMO!" xD

[charleyboy74]

Wicked powersets

[CrimsomS]

So the Praetorian Clockwork are a "servant" class? Huh let me guess, one of the clockwork becomes sentient and organizes them into an army as some sort of, lets say king? But really seeing the Psychic Friends Network and the Resistance who are most likely the counterparts to the Fortunatas/Mu and the Freakshow, just make me wonder what the Praetorian Arachnos will be like.

[Atlantis1982]

@CrimsomS From what I have read, they would fall under the resistance if at all.

[TechbotALPHA]

There is no Praet Arachnos. It was confirmed on the forums that the Praet Dimension has no Recluse, due to the fact Marcus Cole killed Stefan Richter at the Well of Furies.

Ghost Widow, hoever, is apparently still alive, given she never joined up with Arachnos and therefore didn't die.

[CrimsomS]

If I remember correctly Arachnos was founded by The Weaver not Recluse, he just took over after The Weavers murder. So its entirely possible that Arachnos has a heroic (or not) counter part. Eitherway I'm more interested about the members and not the organization itself. Mako, Sirocco, B.Scorpion, Daos, Kalinda, Sands and so on.

[callac]

I want too see the Demon Summon!!!

[thatnylesguy]

omg that will be great! Demon summoning looks good

[heolstor]

at what time is Demon Summoning?

[neo54311]

if you preorder going rogue, early access is sometime in april.

[Carlosforme]

@neo54311 Do you know how to preorder it? or no details on that yet?

[VoidDragon77]

@Carlosforme No details yet. Should be within the next week though.

[xzero0100]

rogues will be great i cant wait.

[Dejaelife]

notice positrons cape has a "villian" logo on it. i knew it ! the villans are special to devs going rogue makes more sense now.now wonder why villians can own heroes in pvp and the heroes get the redheaded step-child treatment with debuffed powering.

[thatnylesguy]

lmao so true

[ChekhovsGun]

!! Eeee! Nice one.

[ChekhovsGun]

Dat cube-mappin'.

[ChekhovsGun]

Thank you so much Vangelus, white-and-red dove-releasing pistols/pain corruptor gone good, I think!

[h1ck0k]

Why do they have to laugh like idiots during the graphic preview?

[Vange1us]

Before I started recording we agreed to use off-screen cards to annoy those who couldn't attend

[ObsceneAntichrist]

Did he just say no war walls? Oh man. Sold.

[tzmakis]

war walls? those blue on every map?

[ObsceneAntichrist]

The walls that seperate each zone. Yep.

[tzmakis]

im curious what they will add in walls then :D

[Wastonn]

14:47

"We can fly?!"

I laughed so hard after that.

[MARDLtransmit]

I shat a bear.

[StealthBlue]

"Matt Miller is resposible for the positron task force. Who's the clown here?"

[Shinkada]

Dual Pistols = Bricks shat.

Everything I'd hoped for, and everything I didn't actually expect them to do.

They only showed 8 powers though. Here's hoping the missing ninth was a sniper shot...

[NYCPulpHero]

sniper shot? with pistols? okay then. sure, forget about the fact that ARs for Blasters and Defenders provide that power....

[Shinkada]

Some of us choose sets based on theme and style, not merely written numbers.

Since AR only has one snipe power, and nearly every other ranged damage set also has one snipe power, I wasn't aware it was the definitive 'sniper' pool.

Maybe someone who likes dual pistols also wants a sniper power?

[NYCPulpHero]

why would a gunslinger want to snipe if the class is obviously meant for close to medium range combat.?

and Im fully aware some choose sets for theme and style. I did the same for my cowboy from hell MM strictly working on Dual Pistols and 1 Call thug power. it was a ridiculously challenging thing to do but very satisfying in the end.

Though I hope we more variety in pistols and be able to color the other firearms.

[Shinkada]

Because of contrast! You even see it a bit in this vid. The demonstrator likes to use the token Heavy-Damage Short-Range ability to finish off enemies executioner style. A slow, powerful, single aimed shot contrasts very nicely with the bullet dance that is the nuke.

Another awesome possibility for the ninth power would be a ricochet shot that acts like a fast Chain Lightning.

I just hope another poster wasn't right in suspecting that the 'mystery' ninth power is conserve power. :C

[NYCPulpHero]

*winces* knock on wood! Say no Conserve Power!

I cant help but wonder how many Deadshot, Punisher, Bullseye and Gungrave clones we'll see in the game *has a flashback to the 50 million shield users who looked rather patriotic(

[Shinkada]

Required: A 'Huge Rifle' pool so I can make a Fangoram clone. Oh God, the baron hat would be perfect for it.

But yeah, I really hope it's anything, JUST NOT CONSERVE POWER.

Even if it's another considered ability, a reload that adds a short +recharge boost or something like that. That'd be fine. Just not something as completely useless as conserve power.

[NYCPulpHero]

i like the way you think!

What server are you on? I'm running the Reichsman TF this sunday at 7(est). Want to join me on Liberty?

email me your characters and backgrounds. I can tell you would be a great teammate

[Shinkada]

All of my chars are on Virtue. I don't really stray from there due to the whole unofficial RP thing. Additionally my account isn't actually active right now. Thinking of renewing sometime soon, I need to level up my delicious new blue-energy melee Brute.

That's a shame, too, because I'm yet to fight Reichsman and am really looking forward to taking him on.

Mostly so I can shout HEEERE'S BISON.

[tzmakis]

tbh we saw him nuking and then continue attacking without popping any blues, there is a chance he used conserve power

[DispariScuro]

Rumor is the big dramatic spinning PBAoE is a mini-nuke like RoA or FA. So crashless, with a recharge somewhere around 60s.

[CrusaderKal]

It's beautifull !!!! AWSOME JOB !!!

[clawhands44]

"But we decided to leave the silly stuff to the other superhero MMO."

Owned.

[NYCPulpHero]

best quote ever.

[slyraventhefirst]

Win!

[JohnnyAndre]

21:16 epic

[YouAreFreakingDumb]

to XBurimX,

Obviously your a idiot who hasn't really played any MMORPG in all of history.

The entire City of Heroes/Villains game has the same animations for every different power, you hit off one power, its gonna be one animation, you hit off another power, its gonna be a different animation, go back to the first power... OMG same animation as it was the first time. DUH.

You haven't even played CoX or any mmo at all have you?

STFDASTFU

[XBurimX]

u cant tell me about games i dont like this one i dont care how good graphic it is i play aion from ncsoft but this one does not look for me i play only top 10s STFU

[FeralDemonKai]

Fatt Miller. lolz

[Geribellou]

The Cape Radio FTW !

[XBurimX]

i dont see nothing special on this game i got boored just by watching it same skill every time

[Darjia]

Thanks for bringing the camera so that the people that couldn't go were able to see this new stuff very exciting thanks :)

[blueberrywine69]

thanks and what server do you run on?

[archabaddon]

Thanks for taking the time to post this vid to the CoH community and teh Interwebz! 5 stars for you :)

[nelz0r]

26:12 - 26:14

I agree!

[Airhammer50]

all I can say is..

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaah

Airhammer Justice Server bABY !!!

[chiggz]

Awesomesauce all way round!!!! GR is shaping up to be Epic and hopefully rejuvinate CoX as it seems to be dropping drastically in Pop :( Can anyone confirm or deny info on new Maps?? Please please please say that theyre introducing all new maps for GR an hopefully rest of CoX?? That and 'Fixing' PvP :p Anyways thnx for posting this up Van. Muchos Gracias!!!

[pizzaholic]

at 14:45 "We can fly!?" lmao, that was awesome

[TroyHickman]

Speaking as someone who has made nerdism his career, I think you've paid those folks a high compliment... ;)

[endocry]

That audience is acting like such a bunch of nerds it makes me embarrassed I play online games.

[Vange1us]

Your array of priorities make me want to kiss you.

[tzmakis]

same

[Zero21x]

@endocry nah this is how your supposed to act lol at things like these if not it would be boring

[kojirodensetsu]

11:45

[kse3]

Thank you so much for posting this! But please, get a tripod! =)

[Vange1us]

I went all-carry-on, I couldn't fit it in my suitcase. :(

[illiado]

lol, at 22:31, when he goes all gun-kata-ey, you can see doves flying out as part of the VFX.

[midgetsnowman]

Epic.

[LtZerge]

OMFG

:DDDDDDDDD

[WalrusDawgs]

we can fly???

[VictusDwayne]

He curved the bullets OMFG!

[TroyHickman]

Those new graphics are AMAZING!

[sarahk0]

his face should look like he's visited hiroshima after that many flamethrowers he has no helmet!

anyway pleasepleasepleaseplease can we have shiny costume texture option like ghost widow/arachnos soldiers! e.g. just plain black or whatever but shiny! the leather textures are rubbish give us more badass latex-looking like they have :(

[Jundas]

Shouldn't you be asking that somewhere the devs will see it?

[Blankstate]

My god. I've been joking that I would do just about anything to finally get ahold of a Dual Pistols powerset after playing for five years. Now I'm certain of it. My main is supposed to be a super-soldierized Malta Group Gunslinger and this will finally make his character complete; the style and everything matches.

A lot of it seems familiar from my Dual Pistols posts on the boards, though... They even took my idea for Fire, Cold, and Toxic rounds, to the next level I suppose. XD

- @foxmasters

[carrigator]

what game is this and wat is it for, is it just called going rouge

[randomneuralfirings]

"Going Rogue" is the upcoming expansion for City of Heroes.

[gkscotty]

Game is City of Heroes / City of Villains for PC/Mac. The upcoming expansion is Going Rogue.

[gregofleeds]

deffo making a dual pistol praetorian guard dude

[Kaperdabomb]

rofl t vangelus "i love this crowd so much"

[Kaperdabomb]

i loled everytime they turned off the colour thing witht eh city and everything, the audience acted like such children =P

[DawnofNSSD]

nerds XD

[Chazzmatazz]

Dual Pistols looks like quite a showy and distinctive set.  I hope that we can look forward to some graphics upgrades to other sets like Martial Arts and Broadsword. Great looking graphical upgrade from what I could see here. Looking forward to CoH, the next level.

[redroban]

If you wish to skip to the good bits, the start of the graphics upgrade is at 12:00, while the setup leading to the awesome dual pistols demo starts at 21:00

[pbsallad]

Man... Thank you so much for uploading this! You are awesome.

[Catharctic]

Thanks so much for posting these! Love the COH community!

[DemonFIare]

A-fuckin-mazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[SkarmoryThePG]

.....I take back everything I said about CO's gun kata being unbeatable. HOLY CRAP.

[GothamKnight2009]

So LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNG but cool vid.

[amnaimranh]

so damn LONG!!!!!!!!!!