Issue 8

Overview

Issue 8, titled To Protect and Serve has not been released yet. ETA November 2006.

Confirmed content

Veteran Reward System

System that rewards players for every three months that their account has been active. (Confirmed by Positron) New set of rewards every three months. Veteran Rewards created for the first 3 years.

Please see Veteran Rewards for more information.

Other Content

• First set of new story content to build up towards the next big story arc.

• Major Overhaul to Faultline with new contacts and missions, as well as a better street-hunting experience.

• Addition of "Police Band Missions" which are randomly generated missions. (The Hero equivalent to Newspaper missions.)
  • These can lead the Heroes into Safeguard missions which are the hero versions of Mayhem Missions. The Hero job is to protect and to stop crime.

• Addition of Arena kiosks in Pocket D so heroes and villains can more easily challenge one another in the arenas.

• Players will be able to change their titles at levels 15, 25, 35, and 45, and once to level 50 they will be able to change their titles an unlimited number of times, for no Inf cost, just by visiting a trainer. [1]

• New costume options. Confirmed ones include "Galactic Glasses" and goggles on forehead.

• Wings as costume pieces.
  • Wings will be an unlockable costume piece via the Veteran Reward system.
  • Positron has stated that there are two types of wings in I8 [2]. Demons/dragon/bat wings and angel/bird wings are shown in the preview images.

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Possible content

NONE OF THIS POSSIBLE CONTENT IS CONFIRMED. DO NOT TAKE ANY OF IT AS DOCTRINE!

• Nictus (evil Warshades) and an evil version of Peacebringers for City of Villains, unlocked by getting a villain to level 50.
• Character transfer service (Server to server transfers). (Mentioned by CuppaJo as being close to done, she was hopeing for it to make I8. Not "Confirmed" yet since it's still not certain it'll make it in.)

NONE OF THIS POSSIBLE CONTENT IS CONFIRMED. DO NOT TAKE ANY OF IT AS DOCTRINE!

External Links

• Positron E3 interview with the confirmations mentioned above.
• Confirmed Issue 8 features on the official site.
• UK site preview of Veteran Rewards