Exclusive: Champions Online recaps 15 months of heroic adventures

Sub: Disregard Comments Full of Hot Air. Discover ur self its F2P after all!

Don't worry about those types of negative comments as it has NO effect to potential new player like me. The barrier to entry has been taken away because of the F2p model and I can rather try the game myself form my own thoughts o the game myself.

@(Unverified)

That is more content than most developers deliver in the first 12 months post launch.

@bobfish

Not any studio that counts. For example, Turbine, old Cryptic under NCSoft, Blizzard, any other Cryptic title, Funcom, Squaresoft, Icarus, Sony

I might have missed one, but the rest of the studios are too poor (on many levels) to count. If you wanna compete with the big boys and charge like the big boys, you better be ready to deliver like the big boys. They haven't. Champions is the redheaded stepchild of their studio. You think they're really letting anyone with talent still work on that piece of crap?

@smackphat

Early in the morning and you're already a sourpuss. cheer up, remember its only a game.

@smackphat
I registered to point out you missed A LOT of work that was put into this game within 15 months; talk to the people who were in Closed Beta, and see how far this game has come.

2 Adventure Packs, a (mini? no, more like LARGE) zone with huge amount of content, missions, 3 open missions, mazes and lots of "gathering areas" is just the start of it..

A re-look at ALL melee powersets, making them function completely different then they were 15 months ago. A re-look at ALL pet powers, making them worth taking and fun to play with.

A NEW powerset; Celestial - potentially bringing the game on-par with people who wanted a healing group.

NEW and more improved "build" sets, including Brawler and Sentinal.

A re-work of the tutorial zone (which included new text and descriptions).

A new PVP mode: Zombie Apocolypse.

..Should I continue??

Re-work on the power structures to make passive defenses and offenses more on-par; including Defiant mitigations.

A whole lot of new costume pieces (and yes, this is important because a HUGE amount of the community wanted more costumes!)

A whole lot of new pet models available since the pet-pass.

New ways to play in-door missions; Elite Mode with more drops, better drops, and more challenging aspects to TEAM, which also leads me to....

... Scaling Missions based on Team members.

Re-work to the Supergroup menu and information finding.

A huge amount of costume and emblem pieces in the C-Store.

The list, obviously, goes a lot longer then this... So before you complain that CO hasn't changed in 15 years, play the game for longer then 10 minutes to understand what has been changed.

@Th3Proph3CY

I was in closed beta. I also bought a lifetime on purpose. My finger didn't slip. But 5 months after launch with not a peep about what they were working on aside from the lame-o events and the whole vibora bay controversy that got Daeke fired. I was there. I was there when they announced the change to adventure packs, which oh by the way, there have only been 2. They aren't much longer than the weekly episodes that Star Trek Online pumped out nearly a dozen of in a fraction of the time.

Also, there have been two guys, two, who have been working on the powerset adjustments. Stuff that shouldn't have taken 15 months to fix. There are still entire swaths of powers that don't work or don't work right. Ice, anybody?

So don't come at me like I haven't been there since the beginning watching this (not quite) Titanic sink oh so slowly into it's own busted (for almost a month without a gold post) Lemuria.

@Arcade why so serious ^_^
To me the clip was beyond cheesy and while watching i started compare his delivery with those late night infomercial actors. so funny.

@tororosso

I'd point out that right now the plan is to allow you to access everything but the adventure packs. The 37-40 stuff is free.

@smackphat

Also archetypes instead regular power choices for the f2p players.

@Daemodand

agreed, something with cryptics engine in both CO and STO isn't handling resources as well as it should. Also agree with the poor graphics, everything looks so plastic and shiney, the characters in STO have reflective skin when the graphics are up, it's ridic

@madbassman39

Yeah, I just wish it had more content, a better world, actual different storylines, a better costume system, more choices when it comes to bodies ( or sliders) and something to actually do at endgame instead of just collecting feat points to buy more powers I'll never end up using.

I don't know, honestly, if I will be buying DCUO... I was seriously looking forward to playing the game, and then I got into the beta....

SOE seriously dropped the ball on alot of things, but hey... gameplay is very action game like. Lets just hope the next few patches can fix some of the glaring omisions.

@DiscordSK You just hit all the points. A better world is my biggest. Super Heroes need cities, the other stuff is great, but the main focus should be a major city that spans a huge distance. MC is cool but not big enough and it looks and feels a tad dull. CoX had Paragon City perfect, but I prefer game play of CO more.

DCUO did the story line just right, and I am really enjoying that game. Customization leaves a lot to be desired, but it's not too bad.

@madbassman39

The trouble with DCUO is that you're going to see huge launch numbers, but then a massive exodus of players after the free month. The game is pretty much content-locked at this point, and players can see all there is to see is about 3-4 weeks of play. It's a fun enough game, but many people will be hard pressed to pay monthly for it.