Issue 12: Slashcry Champions Online Podcast « Slashcry Champions Online Podcast

10Nov/094

Issue 12: Slashcry Champions Online Podcast

Outline:

Character Update
News
1. Power Balance Articles on TenTonHammer.com/CO
  1. http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/76328 - [Part 1] - 42.5% of stat budget comes from gear
  2. http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/76412 - [Part 2]
2. Interview with Bill Roper on http://www.techulous.com/news/exclusive-interview-champions-onlines-bill-roper.html, where he mentions CO devs helping with Star Trek Online.
3. Public Playtest: http://www.champions-online.com/node/594672 - Special items
  1. Wednesday, November 11th 5PM-7PM PST
  2. Thursday, November 12th 1PM-3PM PST
Discussion
1. How was Blood Moon for you?
Community
1. Teaming http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/335/feature/3699/page/1
  1. Do you team?
  2. GUI?
  3. Roles?
2. Developers spotlight player organized event http://www.champions-online.com/node/594670
Tips:
1. BFF Report CO Review Series: http://www.zam.com/bffreport.html?bffreport=03
2. Worst to Best: WHITE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE
3. Guide to Custom Channels: http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=76576
4. Friend create the nemesis
Moment of the Week

Listen Now:

Sata
November 11th, 2009

Balancing usually slows down, a few months into the game. The supply and demand theory, at it’s best. I’ll keep an eye out for FoxBat, on the Test server.
wolfgang
November 11th, 2009

@Sata — will hopefully Foxbat spots you and you win a Toy

I guess on the power balancing I was trying to say that 11/5 patch is not that big of a patch. Mostly tweaks and mission fixes, not a lot of power changes. I also don’t want to see a ton of power changes each patch because that just upsets people.

However, if you read the patch notes thread — people seem to think a patch now is no longer good enough unless it does a million things. You really can’t please the MMO community — reading massively, mmorpg, etc… is painful these days. Everyone seems to hate everything.
picky
November 11th, 2009

At around minute 53 you can hear Buddy making his first appearance in the Podcast.
Dozenz
November 11th, 2009

He was getting restless at that time. If I didn’t let him jump on my lap (which you can hear him hit the keyboard tray) than he would have kept barking at me.

Picky and Wolf can speak from experience that I exercised some self control with that