I'll bring my sleeping bag this Thursday.
Few thoughts after playing to level 8, these are mostly comparisons against when I played CoH last year.
1) There's finally a stealth class. Ya, they'll probably get nerfed soon just like every stealth class in every MMO but I'm loving it. I can one hit kill yellow level mobs and can take off 3/4 the life of an orange with my stealth attacks.
2) One of my other problems with CoH was I didn't feel much like a hero, I do feel more like a Villain in CoV. I like the newspaper/information broker system so much better then the contact system the hero's use.
3) The free jet pack for the month take care of my traveling complaint. I'm sure I wouldn't be level 8 by now nor enjoying the game as much if I was running around everywhere. Seriously, until you get a travel power the game shouldn't place things as far out as they are.
4) Level design is much better in these new zones then the CoH ones, mostly due to them being more diverse. The zones aren't as boring to look at, also there are lot more NPC animations then a year ago. I was running around looking for council members and would run into gang fights where the NPCs would be ducking for cover and hiding around corners as one group shot their guns then jump out and fire back.
5) Also it seams like combat has been sped up, I was playing one of my old heros and it felt like I was doing more damage. It's been a while so I don't know if that's true, but for one thing my stalker kills things much faster then my Tanker or anything I made back in CoH and I don't even think I'm the highest damage stalker class.
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As for my character, I don't have any Screen shots yet so I'll have to post some later, he's a Energy Stalker (both energy attack and energy defense) named Shadow Scorpio. He's the evil brother of my Tanker,
Blaze Scorpio, I choose energy because of the confusion effect on many of their attacks since I like to solo.
