What happened to the original villain groups?

[FDR's Think Tank]

Does anyone know what happened to Fear Factor and The Killing Crew? These two were originally planned for the game, but never saw the light of day... Were the models even done for the game, only to be repurposed into a different faction? Maybe the powersets? Or was it dropped when Cryptic sold the game? Was there any concept art or lore that might have been saved from the old days, or did it all get lost?

[Yuro]

Per one of the AMAs the former Paragon devs did, they were renamed: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Lore_AMA/Sorted#286

[Greycat]

Back on live, I did a guide to one of the old trailers. Had some discussion on these:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120905065800/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=117073

 

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- Enemy groups.

This is the other thing that brings up discussion. Some of the names are familiar, some... not so much. Listed:

Circle of Thorns
Seraphim
The Lost
Revelation (from the font, I'd assume a tech/space/future group)
The Rikti
Twilight Men - we know them as Malta
Nemesis
Fifth Column
Freakshow
Killing Crew - a search found this:
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Take this with a grain of salt, but I heard that Killing Crew was the original Sky Raiders. Thw went from blood thirsty mercs to, well, greedy government trained blood thirsty mercs.

 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Greycat