DC Universe Online

[Midnite]

Finally watched the creation video. Gahh.. the naming of your character is at the end. 
Anyways, I'm leaning towards the PC version. What about you people?

[Tortuga]

My guess is that it has a naming system more similar to Champions Online then City of Heroes.

[lugaru]

Finally watched the creation video. Gahh.. the naming of your character is at the end. 
Anyways, I'm leaning towards the PC version. What about you people?

PC if at all... still deciding.

As long as "no names are taken" much like Champions Online I'll be happy. It would kill me if I have a superhero I created and have to go with another name because somebody else used the name a day before.

[MJB]

...I'm leaning towards the PC version. What about you people?

There's no way this computer will handle running that game so I'm picking up the PS3 version.

[electro]

The point of the mentor is to have someone your character gets missions from.  Correct?

Mentors also determine which training area you'll be starting in & provide the villains you'll be battling

[UnkoMan]

The mentor thing is sort of weird since they were also saying stuff like, "If your character is magic you'll be mentored by Wonder Woman, if your character uses tech you'll be mentored by Batman..." and I forget for Superman.

Yet I've a character who is magic in origin, but I'd prefer he start off in Gotham, and use Batman as a mentor.
Likewise, Unko himself has no powers and uses tech, but I still picture him fitting more into Superman's world.

I suspect that will mostly be the determining factor for people.

[Glitch Girl]

I haven't had a chance to view the videos yet, so this may be answered therein... Are there only three mentors? I was under the impression there would be more. 

[lugaru]

I haven't had a chance to view the videos yet, so this may be answered therein... Are there only three mentors? I was under the impression there would be more. 

They make it pretty clear that there are 3 BUT this game has an evil side so I would not be surprised if they are 3 with maybe The Joker, Circe and Luthor on the other side of the coin.

[Mr. Hamrick]

If there are only three then that kinda sucks.  What about having the GL corps as a mentor?  or The Flash?

or John Constantine (a personal choice of mine)  or The Question (another one i'd chose)

[UnkoMan]

Or The Creeper!

But seriously, is it a bit odd they didn't choose more of the Justice League. (Like Aquaman!)
I am betting the mentor thing will break down as Batman in huge numbers, Superman in fairly large numbers, and Wonder Woman in pretty small numbers.

[electro]

Since they all have there own missions & villains to fight I bet they will all be played equally - Other mentors with there own villains & missions will be released in later updates to keep us hooked for years - As for a initial release with 6 mentors total that's alot of content really to keep us hooked till the updates start rolling in - If we played all the mentors all the way threw then we would have 6 characters reach lvl 30 - That's quite a feat - Did anyone catch the new Inside the Studio video where they hint at secret identities content

Video : http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=439044672329

[MJB]

Is 30 the level cap? I don't recall reading that anywhere.

[Reepicheep]

The mentor issue (if you can call it an issue. More of a shrugging inconvenience) is less how much content it offers, but how the selection of mentors apply to our potential character concepts.

Personally, I'm not too fussed. Its basically the same as CoH's origins, dictating where the character starts, but with two less options.

I guess you'd draw these lines:
Natural/Tech/Science - Batman
Mutation/Natural/Science - Superman
Magic - Wonder Woman

Placing science under two mentors, since science is quite a vague origin.

[lugaru]

or John Constantine (a personal choice of mine) 

John Constantine as a mentor?!

"Your mission is to get me 2 packs of Silk Cut and a bottle of Whiskey". "Congratz, you completed your mission, as a reward John tricks a demon that has been hounding him into going after you instead".



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Honestly if Champions Online takes forever to create villain missions I'm certainly making the jump to DC. I dont know why Champions is the only game out there without villain quests... I guess they want to go the City of Heroes route and release it in a few years BUT the fact that it already exists for City of Heroes and soon DC Online really makes them look bad.

[Mr. Hamrick]

or John Constantine (a personal choice of mine) 

John Constantine as a mentor?!

"Your mission is to get me 2 packs of Silk Cut and a bottle of Whiskey". "Congratz, you completed your mission, as a reward John tricks a demon that has been hounding him into going after you instead".



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Honestly if Champions Online takes forever to create villain missions I'm certainly making the jump to DC. I dont know why Champions is the only game out there without villain quests... I guess they want to go the City of Heroes route and release it in a few years BUT the fact that it already exists for City of Heroes and soon DC Online really makes them look bad.

ok, good point.   The point I was getting at is for the inclusion of "lesser known heroes" as mentors.  I don't really see Wonder Woman, Batman or Superman as really all that appropriate for the mentoring of "magic based characters".  As for the Constantine reference, he was sort of a mentor to Timothy Hunter in "The Books of Magic" series.  (He showed up a few times in the ongoing series not the original limited series as I recall.)

As for the whiskey, I could go for some Jameson right now.

[electro]

Is 30 the level cap? I don't recall reading that anywhere.

Scan down threw the video's till you see "The DCUO panel for Fan Faire 2010! (part 3)"
- So far this is all that's been talked about for level cap - Hopefully they will raise the Cap to around 50

Link : http://www.facebook.com/SOEFanFaire?ref=ts#

[JeyNyce]

Not trying to sound funny, but where's Aquaman as a mentor?  Where are the sea levels?  As a nod to the old Super-Friends toon, they should have made Aquaman a mentor so it would have been the original 4.

[Trelau]

Sea levels are said to be "reserved" for a future expansion. Just like alll the space level are kept for the future (and probably first) expansion wich will add the actual green lantern corp.

[JeyNyce]

So, looking into my Crystal Tek Ball I see 3 possible updates/ expansion pack coming out:

Space missions
Sea Mission
Milestone characters/ Dakota missions - I'm fighting hard for this one.

[JeyNyce]

Come get your beta key (Only if you pre-order)

http://www.dcuniverseonline.com/betakey/

[bat1987]

I will pre order the game, but the guaranteed closed beta access is NA only .
At least it gets us Europeans in the open beta.

[marhawkman]

The mentor thing is sort of weird since they were also saying stuff like, "If your character is magic you'll be mentored by Wonder Woman, if your character uses tech you'll be mentored by Batman..." and I forget for Superman.

Yet I've a character who is magic in origin, but I'd prefer he start off in Gotham, and use Batman as a mentor.
Likewise, Unko himself has no powers and uses tech, but I still picture him fitting more into Superman's world.

I suspect that will mostly be the determining factor for people.

They might add more in expansions.

[Spe-Dog]

I was hoping that the Corps, any color really, would be added as a possible power source for a character.  Has anyone heard a yay or nay on that?

[bat1987]

They have the Hard light power set(green lantern type) in development, but they said that it prolly won't be available at launch.

[marhawkman]

Which means they'll add it in expansion 1....(probably)

[Midnite]

Iconic Battlesuits - Wonder Woman, Black Adam

[bat1987]

Black Adam's suit is sweet!
Luckily we won't be seeing people running around in the same gear since we have option to keep the stats and not the look for each piece. Gotta admit, some of those suits look great.

[UnkoMan]

The best part of that video for me?

Seeing Dr. Fate fight Black Adam.

[marhawkman]

This of course makes me wonder if Teth-Adam will be a supervillain mentor.

[Midnite]

Came across this first video, at first I thought this guy was just a fan upset about the P2P. But after the delay and the beta he made some more videos. He does have some valid points.

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