City of Heroes Issue 7 Q&A

Boomtown had the opportunity to quiz Cryptic Studios senior designer Matt Miller about the Issue 7 update for City of Heroes and City of Villains. Here’s a taste:

Q: The Mayhem Missions must be another highlight of Issue 7 can you tell us more about how they are going to work and how the villains’ powers interact with the destroyable objects?

A: Players will access Mayhem Missions through Newspapers. Currently, as you complete Newspaper missions, you occasionally get a Heist in CoV. This is a bank job or casino robbery. Now instead of a Heist, you will be transported to an instanced part of Paragon City to cause destruction and mayhem, and maybe even pull off a bank robbery in the City of Heroes while you are at it.

Nearly every object in the world is destroyable. This means cars, dumpsters, mailboxes, bus stops, statues, crates, fire hydrants, everything. In addition, the physics engine work that went into the objects blowing apart will really set these missions apart from normal gameplay.