City of Heroes Q&A
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Q: Will we ever see new epic archetypes? I know we're supposed to get some form of kheldian for villains, but what about incarnates? Are they coming? If so, when? If not, which epic archetypes are being worked on?
A: Epic Archetypes (EAT) are never easy. Even simply opening up Kheldians to Villains is ripe with unforeseen consequences and problems. And designing one from the ground up, creating the new powers, animations, FX, sounds, and mission content starts getting expensive development wise. Then there is the game balance factor to consider.
EAT's have been on the features list of most of the issues since Issue 4. The problem is, when determining workloads and schedules, they are unfortunately some of the first things that are cut. From a production standpoint, when given the choice between an expensive feature 10% of the players will get to see and enjoy, and one that 90% of the players will get to see and enjoy, it's almost a no-brainer.
That being said, EAT's will remain features to add to the game. We are not abandoning the concept (I'd have told you if we were). We just need to get them into a schedule and have them stick.
