Dev Diary - Blackwing Industries: On Wings of Hexagons & Chrome

[Blammo]

Coming back from a wee hiatus I see Blackwing and nearly had a stroke thinking I missed out on a collectible.

There must be a way to tie the amazing CoH to Blackwing pencils. 

[ZeeHero]

Plot Twist blackwing industries ARE the pencils, turned into humans by dark magic.

[Phytoplankton]

On 6/29/2025 at 4:40 AM, Max Firepower said:

I like the reverse taunt concept - but I was thinking you meant like a placate, so the buffer could buff.  This sounds more like SoA's Surveillance or Sentinel Vulnerability?  Is it a targeting mode that tells the other AI mobs to collectively target and really try to hammer that focused target?  

 

I am a fan of 'corner pull' work for aggro management as a longtime tanker fan-boi.  Maybe the player base will relearn this lost art because of this.  😉 

 

I think I need to check out KW.  I've been rolling the new sets and am just getting to KW range.  

 

Thanks for your work!  I like your projects a lot!

Yeah, I really get tired of running around, alpha striking a group mobs, then running to the next group. That's boring. I remember, back in the day, when players would have to coordinate and PULL! to fight groups of mobs or wait until the tank agros before attacking. The skill, and fun, seems to have gone out of the game without it. Remember when fighting Hamidon was a REAL project and took more than a few minutes?