This is cool. =D
I like the notion that a higher-level hero would still, y'know, stop to pound on the little guy, as it were. Crime and crisis situations are, y'know, crime and crisis situations. The examination of security levels - that's a clever one. As is the notion of Sell-Sword.
I don't recognise that character. Knight of the Peace, I know, yeah - but Sell-Sword? Is he another one of yours?
On the subject of fatalities incurred...I can't point you to a reference for it, but I'm absolutely certain that I read a developer interview a long time back where one of the CoH devs noted that...
...well, if you read the combat messages in CoH and CoV, it always says 'Heroname has defeated enemy'. And for the most part, missions are 'Defeat enemy and guards', and so on. They use the word 'Defeat' quite intentionally, because it is ambigious. You can be arresting them. You can be killing them. It's left to you, the player, to determine exactly what's going on.
Granted a lot of missions do hint that you're simply subduing them, heroside - and villainside, a lot of missions imply you're actually killing people. But it rarely, very very very rarely, actually says it. I like that.
-- Acyl
I like the notion that a higher-level hero would still, y'know, stop to pound on the little guy, as it were. Crime and crisis situations are, y'know, crime and crisis situations. The examination of security levels - that's a clever one. As is the notion of Sell-Sword.
I don't recognise that character. Knight of the Peace, I know, yeah - but Sell-Sword? Is he another one of yours?
On the subject of fatalities incurred...I can't point you to a reference for it, but I'm absolutely certain that I read a developer interview a long time back where one of the CoH devs noted that...
...well, if you read the combat messages in CoH and CoV, it always says 'Heroname has defeated enemy'. And for the most part, missions are 'Defeat enemy and guards', and so on. They use the word 'Defeat' quite intentionally, because it is ambigious. You can be arresting them. You can be killing them. It's left to you, the player, to determine exactly what's going on.
Granted a lot of missions do hint that you're simply subduing them, heroside - and villainside, a lot of missions imply you're actually killing people. But it rarely, very very very rarely, actually says it. I like that.
-- Acyl