City of Villains has issues...

And Cryptic Studios' next free expansion for City of Villains / City of Heroes, Issue 7, contains some of the hottest content we've seen come down the pipeline in at least a year or so! We've steadily shown you Issue 7 screens as Cryptic graciously released them to the press, but nothing could prepare us for what we saw in person...

Finally, one of my original, comparatively meager complaints against City of Villains was the lack of truly villainous content. All that changes with Mayhem Missions. You used to get a bank or casino heist mission after completing five newspaper (randomly generated) missions. These special missions will go into the regular rotation, and Mayhem Missions will take their place. Basically, you grab a team of villains, enter a special instance, and wreak as much havoc as you can within a given timeframe. Commit federal no-nos like destroying mailboxes, municipal misdemeanors like fire hydrant destruction, and those innocent civilians wandering around... heh. It ain't GTA, and you can't defeat them, but you sure can beat them like a pinata. Discrete thresholds based on how much damage you do award bonus time. Just about everything is destructible, including buildings!

And that is just the tip of the iceberg. For those of you craving dynamic (malleable) content as opposed to the static worlds we're used to... well, read up! The NCSoft / Cryptic Studios preview of CoV / CoH Issue 7 at TenTonHammer!