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The Black Knights are a CITY of HEROES villain group that premiered with the new Night Ward zone in Issue 23.In doing the concept, I had two key goals:
1. Figure out a series of armor layers that together could cover the whole villain group, from scrubs to bosses AND
2. simultaneously make sure the assets could work on the player models. With the original Medieval set woefully out-of-date and never that historically accurate to begin with, we really wanted to use this opportunity to address those problems and give players something worthy of the era
Definitely a lot of things to accomplish in just one model, but I think we got it right.
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Comments: 41
The helmet is pretty clever. Unobstructed peripheral sight, and a small visor to cover the peripheral for added protection.
Thighs look pretty vulnerable.
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yeah ya did too bad we never got to play with it
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You got to find the Black Knights in Night Ward at least, but I guess they didn't quite get around to releasing the player parts.
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Don't screw with that guy. The color scheme and overall design is very cool.
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This set is amazing, and the concept art is great! Good to know that this is going to players soon, because I always thought it looked like it was optimized for player characters, but I haven't seen any confirmation elsewhere.
You still out of the loop on a (rough) release date?
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Haha of course 
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Some porting work would have to be done, but yeah, these were concepted with player conversion in mind. That's as much as I know.
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Naturally, not everything that looks like it's made for players can just be copy-pasted to the Costume Creator. Well thanks for responding to my comments, keep up the good work!
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I remember when the nightward arcs released there was so much talk about the new enemies. And when people found out excalibur is only for titan weapons there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Because it really is an awesome sword design.
I love how the armor works not just for the heavy knights but the lighter staff fighters, and the dark mages too.
Plus I'm quite hopeful it will mesh well with the cyborg bits to make an awesome steampunk robot.
Very well imagined and very well implemented.
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Great post--thanks! I hadn't heard that about the sword, but it warms my heart! My hope for the armor is that it'll give people 2 things simultaneously: realistic medieval armor (from the base set) plus a big bulky look that's more fantastical. VERY curious to see how it mixes and matches too.
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As soon as I saw this armor in game I thought "Oh please make this available to players 
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Well, they announced some version of it at the recent Player Summit. No idea when or how it'll actually be deployed, but stay tuned.
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Ooh. That means we are getting these soon. Awesome! I was wondering if those options would be available to players
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They said as much at the recent Player Summit, but it may be a while before they're officially out. I'm out of the loop on that.
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I don't pay much attention to every announcement anymore. If it's not on the launcher I kinda let it slide.
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Fair enough. Should be coming soon-ish.
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I think the correct term of usage here is; WANT. DO WANT.
Loved these guys, hope to see this coming for us players soon
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just what i need XD
good work as always.
awesome helmet
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Another absolutely amazing concept!
I so wish we City of Heroes players could get this as a full blown costume set. Yeah, we got the Chain Mail and Leather Armor pieces, but my Super-Knight needs his Plate Mail, dang it!
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Stay tuned! File this as coming SOON (tm).
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love it but can i ask you some thing how did you do this wiht out any line in the side
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It's painted in Photoshop and uses no lineart. The trick there is that you need a heavy value contrast between the figure's edge and the background color (here, the figure edge is white and the bg is dark gray). So you get contrast w/out needing a holding line.
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gah thast so hard i thinking and my head go like the tv wiht no channel can you show it detail by detail i will love to lear it
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Doesn't require a tutorial. It's just a matter of contrast.
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i Know it dosent but i see and learn that way you know
QAQ its hard to learn by jurt readying you know?
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