So I still play City of Heroes from time to time with some real-life friends. The only reason I even log on these days is to hang out with people that I know, and have some fun experiences together.
Anyway, for the next issue of the game, the Rikti invading again, and some players participating in the Beta of the new issue have released a video promoting the update. It really does look to be pretty cool, with high-level players participating in the Rikti War Zone being able to cause or avert invasions across the entire CoH world. The villains and heroes are also united in this zone, with new story arcs to play through and new Rikti factions to defeat.
One of the more nifty features seems to be that Rikti drop ships will appear elsewhere in the CoH/CoV universe based on the actions of the player, with players who participate in repelling the invasion in that suburb given some kind of in-game reward for their actions.
Yeah, the game still has a lot of “go to this random map which looks like a lot of other maps, defeat everybody in there, and click on the glowing objects” for it, but the new stories they are producing are kind of nifty.