I've been absent for a bit. Over the past 4 months I've gotten married and had a baby, so I've been somewhat distracted from myother passions. The dust seems to have settled a bit now so I thought I would take a look and see what's happening.
It looks like Chris Cao has graced us with a couple of game play article on the DCUO MySpace site. He addresses two main issues that deserve attention.
First, the ever debated issues of PvP. It seems as though DCUO will tke a pretty standard approach to the matter. Certain Servers will be dedicated as PvP servers, arenas will be in place in some areas, and certain missions and/or actions look like they will flag you as PvP available. All in all, I like this kind of option. While I'm not a huge fan of PvP in general and usually enjoy the story arch portion much more, I like the idea tha certain missions can get you involved with PvP so that when I do have the itch I don't have to jump servers.
Secondly, he has a nice article on movement powers. We knew Flight and Superspeed were in the mix, we now add to that "Acrobatics". My favorite piece of the details Chris gives us is that the movement/travel powers are much more than simply travel powers. The idea that flight can have a sonic boom effect etc. The powers do much more than simply facilitate point A to point B. They have game play effects in combat as well.
Though, I wil mirror other people's comments and hope that this is merely a precurser and the list will grow further. Superjump and Teleport are noticably lacking. I imagine such things are on the drawing board however. Also, in a world with Aquaman, I am assuming underwater travel may also hitthe boards at some time, likewise with vehicles.
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