City of Heroes/City of Villains Issue 7 Preview

MMORPG.com is offering up their own preview of Cryptic Studios’ upcoming Issue 7 update for City of Heroes and City of Villains. A snippet:

One of the selling features of City of Villains and City of Heroes has always been the ability to fight the super-powered players on the other side. Issue 7 will see another layer added to that. A battleground has been added that gives a real purpose to the fighting. Players on both sides will now be competing for waypoint pillboxes, the goal being for your side to possess six of the seven valued points. As one side or the other takes a waypoint, the visuals of the area will change to reflect the new owners. Let’s take a statue of Atlas as an example. If the villains happen to take the pillbox near to the statue, the image will morph and show Lord Recluse holding the world on his shoulders. Flyers can also gain control of “heavies” that will follow them around, jugernaughts of destruction that you can fully control. The goal of this area and the new and exciting mini-game is to “keep players immersed in the game play”. Rewards can be earned in these areas that players can carry outside of the zone and into their regular gaming.