City of Heroes: Mission Architect Comments by Jon Blyth
Popping the quest in.
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iokthemonkey
11/05/09 @ 14:05
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Agreed, Dizzy. I logged in a while ago, poked the MA terminal and then just couldn't be arsed. I've since cancelled my account. It's not that CoH is BAD. It's just a bit lacking and I've better things to do with my time...
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TriggerHippie
11/05/09 @ 14:23
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This is a game I wanted so much to like. I bought the original and then tried again when Villains came out, but I just never found a hook. Glad to see that its going well though. Obviously a lot of work still going into it.
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Silvervein
11/05/09 @ 14:24
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First off, I play city...as I did for last two years. Of the mmo's on the market, it does suit my tastes most (after sony destroyed swg).
It's a pretty neat article, and covers most of the architect options. So far, there are literally thousands of player made missions available. Some are bad, some are so so, some are nice. It's a good move I think, to introduce architect to the game. I have fun with it, and so do many others. It certainly spices things up in game. |
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iokthemonkey
11/05/09 @ 15:01
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What is "sunshine" and will I need to update my drivers to appreciate it?
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"here's a very annoying problem here, though: you can only test your storyline from beginning to end. You can't pop in and just test the fourth mission,"
Actually, you can. You can drag the stories left to re-order them, so just drag story 4 to be story 1 and try it like that. Pity they don't bother telling you that in the MA of course. The big problem for the Devs with the Mission Architect was that everyone realised they could populate their missions with the wussiest enemies who give the best rewards and milk them til they mooed, which left a bad taste in the mouths of those who wanted to use it to make proper stories. And now the devs have stomped on the milking all the farmers are now irate and shouty instead. Still the nerdrage is nothing if not entertaining
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Blacknimbus
11/05/09 @ 19:00
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@FTM
You can get your first 10 levels in an hour by doing a sewer mission. |
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I could probably make something significantly more interesting than the majority of MMO quests using this editor given enough time, but I think they have missed a trick by making it quite so easy to make content. Playing a few of the top rated missions during the reactivation week I found they were incredibly generic. Given the vast amount of missions already on the system I'm not sure anyone will dedicate the time needed to make a truly top-class mission for fear of it disappearing under a mountain of drek.
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