Castithan Charge Pack Discussion Thread

Have they tweeked the charge weapons and blade? They look pretty weak in the video compared to other alternatives.

If you guys don't start taking care of your customers current bugs and complaints, you won't be able to sell this pack.
Sorry.

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Originally Posted by Sledgehammer70

This thread will now be the main DLC discussion thread. Please keep posts constructive and on-topic and make every effort to be respectful to others that are posting. Rudeness, Insults, and Trolling will not be tolerated, and this thread will be closely monitored.

Castithan DLC Details:

You get this when you buy the DLC for $10:
– Access to play the Castithan Species
– Access to a new Story Mission Line with new Battle Arena Game Mode
– Access to the new Castithan Battle Arenas
– Castithan Charge Blade & Ceremonial Mask as a reward from Story Mission Line
– A unique version of the Raptor, a new 4 player truck of doom
– A unique Castithan version of an outfit
– A Charge Weapons Starter Pack
– Access to New Pursuits
– New Xbox and PS3 Trophies and Achievements
- One time option for a single character to have their appearance change, name change, and species changed

You get this in the DLC for free:
– Access to the new Charge Weapons Class and Castithan Blades
– Access to Sieges, a new Open World Game Mode
– Access to the new Monolith Major Arkfall
– Access to a new PvP Map – Military Academy
– Duel your friends and neighbors in the Duels Game Mode
– Enemies, lockboxes, and events can drop Charge Weapons
– Select a new voice for you character
– Multitude of game improvements from UI to content

You can buy these individually from the store:
– New Mods that tint the color of your Castithan Blade
– Lockboxes have a chance to get Charge Weapons
– More versions of the Raptor, the new 4 player truck of doomed compensation
– Character Customization changes: Appearance change, name change, or everything change

Release Date: Not announced at this time.

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Wow, 27 pages already. I have a few good insights in this thread worth considering before you release Charge Blades. Dahanese/Sledge/Morgana, I'd like to get your attention on:

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Originally Posted by X64

I'm looking forward to having dual charge blades, that would really look awesome! (looks at avatar) Well dual charge blades with 1/2 damage from the usual then can land more hits on proper timing.

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I think this is answered already, although I'm just including this one for emphasis that this should be considered in the future of charge blades.

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Originally Posted by X64

Based from the E3 video, the Charge blade right click attack animation is too slow. And there are no waves or lines of air that come along with the area attack, making it look like it's a hammering effect instead of a slashing effect.

Furthermore, Charge Blades should be a lot more shinier than just a blue plain sword. They have energy flowing within them, they should not look like cattle prods IMO.

These are one-handed swords. The slash should look crisp and should create some sparks if it was metal or some hellbug chunks if it were bugs. The concept of charging them seems pretty okay but it should look like slashing as if you were at an action movie.

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Maybe it's lazy adaptation to look at the right click of the charge blades exactly similar as the right click of the fist superweapon found at the Rampage over Dogpatch.

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Originally Posted by X64

The swings of swords should look fluid and full of energy.

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These are energy swords, not some medieval contraption. Making it bright and shiny is the way to make it like it's really meant for charging.

Many are disappointed in the raptor. I am suggesting that if you can get the turret of the Cerberus to attach to the raptor and fire 0 dmg tracer rounds instead of iron shells (paintball gun), it will be a sweet deal to the social aspect of the game. This way, there is a purpose on why you want to get in your friend's vehicle. Again I suggest it as a filler while you're working on its accuracy.

That's all for now, thank you very much if ever you get to reply and confirm.

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Originally Posted by Arsenic_Touch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tlMpb-S-E

For those that haven't had a chance to see what the charge blade and castithans or the sieges can look like.

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so its a light sabre then??? im gonna guess $5 usd to change the color
Sweet attacks but are they gonna get repetitive like the skinning animals cut scene like GTA horse?

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Originally Posted by Aaricane

So just checked out this bored for a release date on this DLC, didn't have time to read through 26 pages of post.

So has a release date been given?
I heard it was this month but I have my doubts.

Info anyone?

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The way Trion does things.... October.... That is, if it ever gets done...

sweet I cant wait, should be cool.

i'm curious if we will see some new enemies using charge blades against us.

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Originally Posted by Yewa

i'm curious if we will see some new enemies using charge blades against us.

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yeah the white emo people of the tv show in pvp

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Originally Posted by Yewa

i'm curious if we will see some new enemies using charge blades against us.

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DM already Melee with a charged blade I believe. If you watch closely you can watch them sheath it when they finish their swing.

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Originally Posted by Maitreakow

DM already Melee with a charged blade I believe. If you watch closely you can watch them sheath it when they finish their swing.

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yeah, I'd like a charged knife like that. But I'm thinking more of enemies that use charge blades as main weapons, basically charging towards you with it and using the same attack moves that we will have.