City of Heroes Q and A with Mathew Miller

TVG had a rather lengthy sit down with Matthew Miller, the lead designer of the NCsoft/Cryptic Studio MMORPG, City of Heroes. Here are some of the more interesting bits from it:

• Bits on what to expect from Protect and Serve: New missions and new contacts. Also many of the old Supergroup Bases at Overbrook have been sealed off and deemed unsafe after the earthquake and the Rikti War.
• The lowdown on Police Band radio missions: The Police Brand radio is sort of the games' "random mission generator". If you run out of missions, or simply tire of doing the missions your contact has offered, you can check the Police Band to see if there are any crises that need to be handled.
• And some interesting plans for the future: In the coming years, Miller says that they'll be having a big story arc that is going to change the play dynamics for both heroes and villains, as well as a bunch of cool end-game (hopefully he doesn't mean the end of the game, but the end of your character leveling) content. You know, stuff for your Level 50's to do.

Okay, let me go through that again, this time a bit more formally. Protect and Serve will feature a mutated form of a random mission generator, new missions, new contacts, and a step forward in the storyline. For the future they've got plans to keep the Level 50 people occupied, and they're boiling up their own version of a crisis (I'm hoping it doesn't involve multiple earths). Pretty much good news.

City of Heroes Issue 8: To Protect and Serve is the eighth free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes in April 2004. For a game that's around 2 years old already, it's nice to see that the updates and the expansions are still coming out. That only means that the community is alive and kicking.

Buy: [City of Heroes]

Via TVG

TVG had a rather lengthy sit down with Matthew Miller, the lead designer of the NCsoft/Cryptic Studio MMORPG, City of Heroes. Here are some of the more interesting bits from it:

• Bits on what to expect from Protect and Serve: New missions and new contacts. Also many of the old Supergroup Bases at Overbrook have been sealed off and deemed unsafe after the earthquake and the Rikti War.
• The lowdown on Police Band radio missions: The Police Brand radio is sort of the games' "random mission generator". If you run out of missions, or simply tire of doing the missions your contact has offered, you can check the Police Band to see if there are any crises that need to be handled.
• And some interesting plans for the future: In the coming years, Miller says that they'll be having a big story arc that is going to change the play dynamics for both heroes and villains, as well as a bunch of cool end-game (hopefully he doesn't mean the end of the game, but the end of your character leveling) content. You know, stuff for your Level 50's to do.

Okay, let me go through that again, this time a bit more formally. Protect and Serve will feature a mutated form of a random mission generator, new missions, new contacts, and a step forward in the storyline. For the future they've got plans to keep the Level 50 people occupied, and they're boiling up their own version of a crisis (I'm hoping it doesn't involve multiple earths). Pretty much good news.

City of Heroes Issue 8: To Protect and Serve is the eighth free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes in April 2004. For a game that's around 2 years old already, it's nice to see that the updates and the expansions are still coming out. That only means that the community is alive and kicking.

Buy: [City of Heroes]

Via TVG