City of Heroes is gearing up for it's next major free expansion. Again they're adding some massive stuff in for nothing!
This time, we have the new Day Jobs component - when you log out of the game, your character will gain some bonus based on where you are when you next login:
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Scholar? Caregiver? City Official? Now when players log out of City of Heroes / Villains they’re just getting started! A character’s day job is determined by the actual in-game location from which he or she logs out. If players log out from a University their day job is considered to be a Scholar. If they log out from City Hall they're a City Official. The benefits are thematically appropriate to the location. For example, a City Official earns extra Influence, a Scholar is granted Salvage, a Caregiver is granted Health Regeneration Buffs, etc.
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New powersets - Pain Domination which is the villain inverse equivalent of the hero Empathy set. And the massively demanded Shields powerset - finally you can make your Captain America clones (Admiral Australia here I come
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there's a new merit system to let you earn the super rare items in a different way without having to devote 8 hours to a task force that probably wont give you the item you want...
new costume sets, enhancements, zone changes annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd
the player Mission Creator!!! I don't know if this is the first MMO to let players create their own game content, but it's a major allowance.
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First the City of Heroes Character Creator set a new standard for player creation and customization. Now, Issue 13 takes another giant step, allowing players to design their own missions and story arcs to share with the entire City of Heroes community. Using an intuitive interface similar to the game’s detailed Character Creator, players can create missions from the ground up. Players will determine details ranging from environments, mission objectives, and enemies, to written fiction and character dialogue; giving their stories nearly infinite depth and personalization.
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everyone who's played the game knows how awesome the character creator is - so if the mission creator is even half as good, this should be pure awesome on buttered-mother****ing-toast!