Ask Cryptic: Revelation

[StormShade]

It's time for another round of Ask Cryptic! Now that you all have had a chance to check out this exciting new expansion, we'd love to hear some of the questions you have regarding it. So what are you waiting for? Post your questions here, and we'll pick out and answer as many questions as we can, and get back to you with answers next week.


Link to the news article.

[Dardove]

There are a lot of new costume sets for each of the factions in Revelations, with many pieces that have to be unlocked. Will these new costume pieces show up in the c-store? If so, will these costume pieces continue the tradition of steampunk costume set and have pieces that can't be earned ingame in it?

[Supreme56]

Any discussions on the tier 4 powers and changing their potency? It seems that Gigbolt/Force Cascade/Chest Beam pretty much blow them out of the water, and they're a lot easier to obtain as well.

[karami92]

I have read that there will be an instance in vibora bay to hang out in. I have also heard from the same dev source that it will not likely be in PTS before the official release. The question I pose to thee at Cryptic is...... PLEASE OH PLEASE what is the instance?! That is all....

[Symbea]

I think it's fair to say Vibora bay is a great piece of work but as it comes so late I think the lower levels miss out on a really great city. Is a city for lower levels planned after the extremely positive response to Vibora bay?

[Ms.Magnificent]

I'm just wondering as a player that like to theme my heroes/villians around specific frameworks offset by some key skills from others for PvP/survivability, with the coming Teir 4 powers:
*Being that there are only 6 of them are they exclusive to the major frameworks (ex: Elemental, Brick, Psychic Powers, and so forth) and...
*If that is the case what will be the requirements for getting them (How many powers from <set> or major framework to get them.

[Krimsin]

What does a dragon coming out of the sky have to do with Martial Arts?

Jet Li never needed to make a dragon come out of the sky...

[isometry]

Until this point CO has had open power selection: from level 26 and onward every character can choose from the entire set of powers with no restriction. Given the new restrictions on Tier 4 powers, does this mean that the future vision of the game has us moving away from the open power selection system and towards more specialized character builds?

[OptimusMatrix]

I'm really excited about the latest editions to the game. I've been discussing the future outlook for Champions with my supergroup members... As far as new areas to explore in the CO Universe, Is it likely there maybe a space station map or other instance that takes our characters off planet to defeat the Qularr and other aliens on their own turf? Since a good majority of heroes come from other planets, It would be a logical step to include adventures beyond our solar system.
A space station port or base would be a great launching pad for this. And the number of villian and henchmen types could be numerous from alien armies to space pirates and bounty hunters. IS there any talks of possibly staging this?

[christanr]

Originally Posted by isometry

Until this point CO has had open power selection: from level 26 and onward every character can choose from the entire set of powers with no restriction. Given the new restrictions on Tier 4 powers, does this mean that the future vision of the game has us moving away from the open power selection system and towards more specialized character builds?

Not a restriction all powersets had a ''you have to quire Y amount of powers to get X'' and also this is frameworks so it means paranormal ego elemental crushing and a few others I can't recall so if you pick 10 powers from magic, celestial, darkness, and supernatural you have access to the power for paranormal damage same with other sets