Some notes on I28p2 and AE

[ZamuelNow]

Some things will seem obvious but there's some quieter things.  First, the notes as posted:

 

 

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Architect Entertainment

New Custom Enemy Powersets

• Pyrotechnic Control: Now available on custom AE enemies.
• Psionic Armor: Now available on custom AE enemies.

 

Blackwing Industries

• This group is now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

 

Freaklok

• This group is now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

 

Skulls

• The new high level versions found in Kallisti Wharf are now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

 

Wyvern

• The new high level versions found in Kallisti Wharf are now available to be used in Architect Entertainment content.

 

Kallisti Wharf Office Maps

• All existing Kallisti Wharf Office maps in AE have been moved to a new category: 'Kallisti Wharf Office (Legacy)'.
  • These older maps are overly-populated, but we can't remove them due to their usage in existing AE arcs, so these maps will be labeled seperately instead.
• The new correctly-populated maps and new layouts used in Kallisti Wharf are now found in AE under 'Kallisti Wharf Office'.
• These mission map tileset pieces have had an extensive decoration pass on all rooms which will automatically apply to existing AE arcs using these maps.

 

New Mission Map

• Unique > Rikti War Zone > Rikti Space Station: New map added. Comes with baked-in map-defined Rikti turrets and generators and low gravity.

 

While we can obviously see there's reduced spawn density with the new Kallisti Wharf maps, what the announcements don't point out is that the new set has layouts the Legacy set didn't have--Tiny 4 and Medium 2, 3, and 4.  The Rikti Space Station has windows and those windows have outer space outside.  Neuron and Antimatter should be jealous.

 

Of things that aren't explicitly AE but affect it, the glowies on the Freak-lympics map were fixed to not have a random one in the wall.

[Ankylosaur]

Love the official Langston presence in Kallisti - supports my All That Glitters series almost too well. Updated Calamity in Kalissti Wharf to just reference it a little.

And now there are Wyvern higher-level than 44 too - not planning on incorporating them, but still.

Edited yesterday at 02:54 PM by Ankylosaur

[Darmian]

2 hours ago, Ankylosaur said:

Love the official Langston presence in Kallisti - supports my All That Glitters series almost too well. Updated Calamity in Kalissti Wharf to just reference it a little.

And now there are Wyvern higher-level than 44 too - not planning on incorporating them, but still.

Little bit of prescience there!

[ZamuelNow]

That reminds me to remind everyone else to check your arcs if you use an enemy group that got adjustments this patch.  Not a full playthrough (some of you have a lot of arcs) but at least seeing if they'll start since that will often reveal if something shifted.

 

Another thing that affects AE that isn't AE is the costume editor.  There's a lot of Blackwing stuff and proliferation of pieces but there was a collection of new pieces for the powersets that use rifles: Shotgun, Advanced Shotgun, Grenade Launcher, and Advanced Grenade Launcher.  These are NPC pieces made available to the player.  In particular, the grenade launchers are the Council/5th Column versions allowing you to either make customs who fit in with those groups or simply have a gun that leans more towards heavy arms as opposed to a machine gun or a laser.

[Ankylosaur]

1 hour ago, Darmian said:

Little bit of prescience there!

 

Well - thanks to you! If memory serves, you pointed out the Langston trucks by the Maxwell Stadium to me while I was putting that together. 

In fact, All that Glitters - which in part justifies Langston's expansion to Paragon City through the reclaiming of hazard zones on behalf of the City, helps justify why they are in Kallisti at all. I presume some of the new arcs touch on this (and why Arachnos has a presence) but on the off chance they don't, mine kind of works to do so.

[Darmian]

56 minutes ago, Ankylosaur said:

 

Well - thanks to you! If memory serves, you pointed out the Langston trucks by the Maxwell Stadium to me while I was putting that together. 

In fact, All that Glitters - which in part justifies Langston's expansion to Paragon City through the reclaiming of hazard zones on behalf of the City, helps justify why they are in Kallisti at all. I presume some of the new arcs touch on this (and why Arachnos has a presence) but on the off chance they don't, mine kind of works to do so.

I'm just wondering what you are going to use the new Rikti spaceship map for, complete with cannons, low gravity and a death zone!