I suppose I could be convinced to bring some APR-related enlightenment to the masses.
Let's see here... Zone wise...
Atlas Park - The zone with the most work into it, by far. Perhaps 70% finished. All the streets are laid out, many of the buildings are in place, Trees are even starting to be put down in places.
Steel Canyon - 20-30% completed
Galaxy City - 20-30% completed
Independence Port - 10% completed
Founders Falls - 20-30% completed
Talos Island 10-20%
Perez Park - 10%
"The Hollows" - 10%
Sirens Call - 5%
Pocket D - 50%
and of course, the zone we unveiled our move to Unreal Engine 4 with...
Ouroboros - 95%
Technically, I can walk around any of the zones atm. I'm nothing but a Rikti Drone, and I've got no powers or anything.
Since we're going to be using a version of the City of Titans UE4 build, more work on character creation and powers and what have you is dependent on their work schedule. Not that APR is lacking in work in the mean time!
The geometries from the meshes are currently mostly pulled from Legacy CoH, but rarely are they un-modified. Many meshes have simply had to be re-built from scratch for one reason or another.
Don't even get me started on textures. -shakes head- 64x64 textures for the sides of buildings might have cut it in 2004.
I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff...I really should write all this down. heh
I would be willing to watch a video of you walking around in those zones. Not boring at all to me.
I see a lot of possibilities and it is great that the team is thinking out of the box.
For those worried about the Original CoH shutting down - this opens the possibility that you may be able to fund your own server. If you have funds once the game is in escrow and you can load that snapshot onto a server - nothing would stop you from leasing your own copy and hosting a server.
That's very cool....this would be a reason to think the game is never going away again.
I am still hopeful that somehow character data can be rescued. One of my biggest concerns if character data is not available are that many veterans will not return to the game. I was thinking about this last night and im coming from my own personal view and I know the shared views of others.. Its twelve years later since the launch of City of Heroes. I am not the person I was then. I am married now.. with a family.. different responsibilities that require more time. I dont have the time to sit and play hours and hours and hours on end like I did previously. And in all honesty I dont want to play the same content over and over and over AGAIN that I already have. If I had to start over and remake every character and earn and purchase all those enhancements all over again I just dont know if I would want to do that. Would I remake everyone.. no.. but they are some core character that I would and even those are 25-30 plus characters..
I just ran into this issue this morning. I used to play with a married couple and we hung out on Skype while we played. They, like me, played almost exclusively with lvl 50 characters. We ran the various TF's together mostly. The guy was way more into tricking out his characters with purples than I was. We used to get into discussions about the merits of frankenslotting vs all purple sets. He always went with purple sets no matter what. Anyway...
I kept him up to date on all this and sent him a message last night with what we just heard. He just came out and said he wouldn't come back without his characters. (He had a
LOT more 50s than I did so would be losing much more) That's two accounts lost right there.
I'll be coming back of course. I used to run two accounts because I liked to dual-box and team different characters together for fun. I'll
probably run two accounts again...can't be sure though. The incentive for that won't be there at the beginning with a "fresh start". A lot will depend on how quick I can get a couple of my old favorites back to 50 in playing shape again. A little worried about my two Tankers I tended to play a couple of times a month. I was a good enough Tanker for radio mishes and stuff, but wouldn't dare try to tank a TF. Something tells me my Tankers won't be coming back.