CITY OF HEROES! AND VILLAINS

Metzger Meister

Gear Girl wrote: »

OP shamelessly stolen from so many people.

Breaking News!

* April 14, 2009- NCsoft NorCal is now called Paragon Studios.
* April 14, 2009- The Architect Edition of the game is now on sale. It includes discs containing all content up to issue 13 as well as a free month and your choice of two booster packs. The booster packs are the previously released Cyborg Booster Pack and the new Magic Booster Pack.



Issue 14 - Architect

The Great PA Mission Architect List

KurnDerak

Title: The meow heard 'round the world
ID : 19479
Synopsis: N/A

Fallout

Title: From the Dust Returned
ID : 7581
Synopsis:Five glorious missions full of satanic nazi technozombies from space! The story is mostly conveyed through the mission contact, but there's plenty of action to keep groups happy too! Tough bosses, full custom everything, polished to a mirror sheen. No annoying "collect all" or "kill all" missions.

Fearghas

Trailer
Preview of 5th Arc

Title: The Legacy of Joe, the Longbow Eagle
ID : 1009
Synopsis: The heroic adventure of a lifetime, the beginning of our story! Go back through time with the help of a homeless bum and his garbage can to ensure time flows properly so that a young man named Joe will become a Longbow Eagle! Find out how exactly this seemingly random event is directly tied in with your hero!

Title: The Mind of a Villain
ID : 8774
Synopsis: The beginning of your villain's journey to power and much more! Your villain has decided to begin their grand plan and to do that, they'll need some funds. Find out how a simple bank robbery can lead your villain to strike fear into the very hearts of heroes in Paragon City!

Title: Business of a Hero
ID : 8787
Synopsis: Hero Corps has been looking for new talent as of late. What will happen if your hero signs a contract to join their organization? Decide for yourself if your hero is a "company man" who will further the goals of Hero Corps, or a hero who will save the people for the people!

Title: Faith in the Family
ID : 8795
Synopsis: A young woman named Naomi Murphy contacts your hero, begging for your help on a situation on small island in South America. She claims you're her last hope! Beware though, this small, unknown island holds a terrifying secret for your hero, and the world at large!

Scooter

Title: Cutting the Web
ID : 37935
Synopsis: It's about chicks who are demons.

Mimas

Title: The Sole Success of Project Saturn
ID : 38383
Synopsis: N/A

Sk

Title: The Bad Seed
ID : 43432
Synopsis: It has Devouring Earth, Longbow, and more Devouring Earth!

Robziel

Title: Rescue the President
ID : 49020
Synopsis: N/A

spookymuffin

Title: Heaven or Hell
ID : 25046
Synopsis: You kill God.

Narbus

Title: Fighting Destiny
ID : 62491
Synopsis: You find a new Destined One who may be strong enough to upset your place in the Rogue Isles. So you gank the fuck out of him.

Recommended by PA

Title: The Footsteps Initiative
ID : 2291

Title: Saul Rubenstein's Discount Task Force
ID : 1012

The Mission Architect
Issue 14 brings with it a new feature that has the potential to be both riveting and alarmingly horrible, player created content! With the introduction of the new mission architect system players can create, test, publish, rate, or just play custom missions and story arcs.

Creation and Customization
Players can tweak nearly everything including environments, difficulty, enemies, enemy placement, mission objectives, mission events, ambushes, contact dialogue and character dialogue. They can even create entire custom enemy groups from the ground up drawing on City of Heroes already robust character creation system and power selection interface. Each story arc can have up to five missions and each mission can have up to 25 objectives. Here is a nice guide to the mission architect.

Hall of Fame
With high enough ratings and enough views your arc can be upgraded to the hall of fame giving players even easier access to your work.

Developer's Choice
Arcs that are hand-picked by the developers can be listed here for much the same result as the hall of fame.

Tickets
Each enemy group in an architect mission has a chance to drop tickets. Harder enemies will grant more tickets than weaker enemies. Tickets can be used to unlock mission architect content or buy recipe rolls.


Other Additions

* One global chat handle rename token granted to everyone.
* Some arena changes.
* A bunch of new badges related to the mission architect.
* Faster flight and hover yay!
* Some pvp changes.
* New pvp origin enhancements earned by defeating others in pvp zones.



Issue 13 Information

Issue 13 - Power and Responsibility!

Day Jobs (Offline Character Progression)
Scholar? Caregiver? City Official? Now when players log out of City of Heroes / Villains they’re just getting started! A character’s day job is determined by the actual in-game location from which he or she logs out. If players log out from a University their day job is considered to be a Scholar. If they log out from City Hall they're a City Official. The benefits are thematically appropriate to the location. For example, a City Official earns extra Influence, a Scholar is granted Salvage, a Caregiver is granted Health Regeneration Buffs, etc.

Once characters have accumulated the required amount of time for each Day Job, they are rewarded with the appropriate Day Job Badge and Title, increasing their “earnings” for that job. Multiple Badges can be combined to unlock Accolades and the ability to accumulate additional new rewards. Almost every location within Paragon City and the Rogue Isles has an associated Day Job, resulting in a wide selection of jobs and rewards!

New Powersets

* Shields – Heft a Shield for Heroic or Villainous Ends! This new powerset brings a classic power to City of Heroes: Shields! Now, you can arm Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers with a powerful shield to protect themselves and their allies.
* Pain Domination – Villains can now bend the power of pain to serve their own ends! Those playing a Corruptor or Mastermind have access to this new powerset. The antithesis of the Hero healing powerset “Empathy,” Pain Domination brings parity between Heroes and Villains with a distinctively evil flair.


Leveling Pacts
A new innovation to MMOs, this system allows you and a friend to create new characters and have your XP be permanently in sync, whether both characters are online or not. You will always be the same level, even if your friend plays ten times more often than you do!

New Cimerora Missions
New Hero and Villain story arcs expand upon the history and lore, and delve into the players and politics of Cimerora.

The Merit Rewards System
A new game system that allows players to earn tokens by completing Trials, Task Forces, Strike Forces, Raids, etc. The most challenging and time consuming tasks grant the most reward tokens, which can be redeemed throughout Hero and Villain zones for recipes, enhancements, salvage, costume pieces, badges, inspirations and other game items.

Multiple Builds
Ever want a build solely for PvE or for PvP? Now you can have both at the same time with Dual Builds. Second build acts like a respec where you can re-choose all your powers, but keep in mind enhancements do not copy over to the second build, you will have to recycle or re-buy enhancements.

Other features
New Invention Origin Sets, new Costume Sets, a Patron Power Respec, Zone Refinements, and more!

Issue 12 Information

Issue 12 - The Midnight Hour!

What's new in Issue 12?

The Midnight Squad
An organization of mystics, the Midnight Squad has a secret to end the Rikti Invasion, but without your help, it will remain 'Lost' forever...

Cimerora
"The Midnighters hold many secrets within their walls, including a highly coveted Ouroboros crystal, enabling them to travel to the far reaches of time. There is a familiar threat in an ancient land and the Midnighters need the help of both Heroes and Villains to stop it. Players step foot upon the ancient land of the Roman Cimeroran Peninsula, where they battle deadly creatures, defend an ancient city and ultimately come face to face with the enemy of time itself. Throughout this journey players uncover the mysteries of power and the origins that guide them today."

Roman Style Costumes
Unlocked through achievements ingame, make your Hero or Villain look like a true gladiator.

Epic Archetypes...for Villains!
When a villain hits level 50, they now have two epic archetypes available: Arachnos Soldiers and Arachnos Widows. Each of these can branch off into their own different powersets - Arachnos Soldiers can work as either a Bane Spider or a Crab Spider and Arachnos Widows as a Fortunata or a Night Widow. All of this comes with a unique story, costume set, missions, and more.

Powerset Proliferation
With Issue 12 comes a brand new opportunity - almost every Hero and Villain archetype will gain access to powers that they didn't have access to before!

Hollows Zone "Gameplay Makeover"
"Significant changes have been made to the Hollows zone to make it more fun! NPC encounters have been rebalanced, including new spawns, new villain groups, mission door improvements, and a mobile hospital has been added to the entrance of the zone. Additionally, Meg Mason, a new contact, has been added to give out repeatable missions."

What else?
Configurable new power trays - customize your UI by placing them anywhere you want.
Contact display redesign - display your contacts as active and inactive, sorting them by a number of criteria.
Inspiration conversion - change three of one kind of inspiration into one of another.
Level-up boost - gain a massive (if temporary) boost to your stats on a level up, as well as full HP and Endurance.
Chat improvements - right click on character names in chat window to ignore, add to friends list, invite to team, etc. Drag any item (enhancement, inspiration, salvage, etc.) into the chat window so that you and others can click a hotlink to view the complete info box.
More real numbers - players can now display stats on powers before they choose them enabling more informed power selection and new temporary powers allow players to display enemy stats.

Just the FAQs

How good is CoX?

Soooo good.

In this thread we discuss all things City of Heroes and City of Villains. For those new to our world here is a brief FAQ.



Get ready to put the tights on because Cryptic is serving up a 10 Day Free Trial. What does that mean? It means you get a the chance to play the Best Super Hero based MMO of All Time*for FREE!
*By best we mean only, though it is very good.

10 Day Free Trials, EXCELSIOR!

Any active (or inactive) subscriber can send out a few Friend Invites which have a 10 Day Free Trial. We simply need your e-mail to do so. If you decide you like the game and subscribe for two months the person who sent out the invite gets a free month of game time. Very niiiice.

PA plays on the Virtue server.

If you want in, make with the post asking for someone to PM you, then respond with your e-mail. We don't want to accidentally send one person multiple invites since there are only a limited number available. If you end up liking the game we recommend you buy the City of Heroes Architect Edition which for 20 dollars nets you both City of Heroes and City of Villains with discs that contain all content up to issue 13 as well as a free month and your choice of the cyborg booster pack or the magic booster pack.

The 411 on City of Heroes/Villains, yo.

Character Creation is likened onto a game of its own.
At launch CoH had something like 3 trillion potentially different costume configurations. Since then they have easily doubled the number of costume pieces, not to mention added face scalers, particle effects, wings, capes, trench coats, etc. So the current number of potential costumes numbers somewhere in the range of awholefuckinglot.



If you've ever wanted to be a robotic undead pirate with a leather fetish and fondness of 80's colorful fashion who can shoot electricity from his hands THIS is the game for you.

Download Mid's Hero Designer for a list of all powers and Archetypes in the game.

The Otaku Suppository

How piss poor can your PC be to run this?

Wait a minute. This isn't the OP I signed up for. WHAT DID YOU DO METZ?

Metzger Meister

Not sure.

Phonehand

when is this free

i only play free things now

Metzger Meister

Gear Girl wrote: »

Gameplay and Power to shoot lasers from your eyes!

CoH/V has your standard MMO ability bar where you click it and perform your special attacks but it isn't really your standard MMO combat.

* Regular mobs die faster and you fight a hell of a lot more than one at a time. The bigger stuff, like Bosses or Giant Monsters, obviously take longer to kill.
* You can strategically use Line of Sight and Knockback to your advantage.
* Combat in large teams can quickly turn into chaos because of the number of enemies being fought at once. You'll see ten guys get blown off the balcony you are fighting on by an Energy Blaster while the Mind Controller forces the Boss to beat up his minions as the Tanker hordes another 15 enemies on him after the Defender just buffed the Scrapper to godhood who proceeds to run off and kill the next spawn over.
* A small army of Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, etc under your control.
* Ragdoll physics make you feel like a man. Mobs crumple when they die or get knocked around instead of playing the same animation every time.
* Lasers...from your eyes. And various other places.
* Mount? You don't need no mount! Flight, Super Speed, Teleportation, or Super Jump are obtainable at lvl 14 and allow you to haul ass around Paragon and the Rogue Isles instead of just walking. As early as lvl 5 you can obtain a temporary Jetpack to fly around with, just ask how in game.
* PvP so fast it'll make you feel like a twitch gamer. Various PvP zones with different goals and rewards, like Battlefield style capture points or obtaining your own nuclear missile. No joke, you can get your own orbital nuke (store up to three) to use at anytime.
* Badges which are like Xbox 360 Achievements for your character. You get EXP for finding exploration ones, you get others for killing X number of mobs or doing certian missions or finishing Task Forces, etc. If you get the right combination of badges it will unlock special powers or permanent Health and Endurance boosts.
* Special "GTA" style missions. Stop a bank from being robbed, defeat some vandals, prevent an arson, stop a jail brake, etc. Alternatively as villain rob a bank, vandalize everything, start an arson, break a fellow villain out of jail, etc.
* Physics engine that leaves shell casings, blown up robotic parts, ect on the ground that you AND your powers can interact with. Knock an enemy into a tree and a shower of leaves fall. Use Tornado in an alley and garbage gets thrown up from the dumpsters. Kick a guy of a balcony only to see his neck get caught between the railings so he dangles there in a gruesome, gruesome way.

Here are some videos!

Everything is in flash format now so here is a link.

Great CoX Resources
ParagonWiki is all kinds of useful and ever growing.

Red Tomax's Guide is really clean and efficient, very nice.

What server are the PA super groups on?
Virtue, the unofficial RP server. Not that we really RP.

How do I join the PA Chat Channel?
To join simply type /chanjoin "Penny Arcade" and hit enter. Then right click a chat tab, click edit, and add Penny Arcade to the tab.
A useful bind is /bind l beginchat /send "Penny Arcade" This way every time you hit l (or any key you choose) it lets you talk to every member of the PAcrew who is on, no matter what character they are playing as. Alternatively you can just right click on the chat window and select the Penny Arcade channel and type away. Also you could simply set the Penny Arcade channel to the default in your chat tab and hit the little A button to type.

Yeah but how do I get in the Super Group?
The best way to go about this is to ask if anyone in the global chat can invite you. All PA supergroup members have invite powers(though you may need an officer to kick). The command is /sgi name.

What PA SGs are there?

Hero
Power's Allegory - Virtue - Main Hero SG
Power's Allegory - Victory - Secondary Server SG
Power's Academy - Virtue - Alt Hero SG
Power's Apex - Virtue - 50s Retirement SG

Villain
Power's Affliction - Virtue - Main Villain SG
Power's Affliction - Victory - Secondary Server SG
Social Entropy - Virtue - Alt Villain SG

Are there any rules for the SGs?
Don't be a giant ass, we don't like asses. Well we do but only when they are p.h.a.t.
The SG activity fluctuates so sometimes we have to boot inactive members. We do so based on last time they logged in.
The SG humbly requests everyone play in SG mode as much as possible as that is how we earn Prestige(rent/building money) to keep our base (and the teleporters) open.

I'm in! Now how does this SG costume work?
Click Super on the text window, Settings in the section that pops up, click accept on this new page, now toy around with the colors. You can opt to turn the SG emblem on or hide it. To turn on SG mode click the Enter/Exit Supergroup Mode in the Super window.

Tell me about the Archetypes and Power Sets.
Just download Mid's Hero Designer. It will be much easier for all of us.

Is there an easy way to find badges/plagues? I'm lost in Perez Park! Why can't I find any Circle of Thorns?
Whine, whine, whine. Back in my day we didn't know where anything was and we liked it. Now we have an easier way...you cheater. Here is a link to a webpage with a download that replaces all in-game maps with ones that have badges, plaques, mobs, and even Perez Park trails in them. Enjoy. You can also just view the maps right on the website.

The game runs slowly for me: is there anything I can do to improve that?
Buy a new computer.

Alternatively, add this to the Target bar in the shortcut to the game:

-useTexEnvCombine

After turning all the settings down, you should be able to get a decent framerate. Though meant for laptops, this could also give you a better experience if you're using an ATI graphics card.

You can also try a /sync from time to time if you are experiencing a lot of rubberbanding.

How do mobs spawn in missions?

JaguarStryker wrote:

All TFs/Trials always spawn at a set rate above the highest member of the team (usually +2 to the highest member). Also, the amount of enemies in a spawn in any mission is determined by the number of people in your group, changing on the ODD Numbers. So the same amount of enemies will be in a door for a 3 man group as for a 4 man group. Pick up a 5th member and the spawns will go up.

Basically for determining the amount and level of enemies in a mission or TF, it goes through these steps:

For TFs/Trials:
1) Highest level party member
2) Number of people in party
3) Mission Difficulty setting of the Leader

For Missions:
1) Level at which the mission was received
2) Number of people in party
3) Mission difficulty of the owner of the mission
4) Level Cap for Villian group/Story arc

Where can I download the client, if I need to?
Click this Linky. The CoH and CoV client are one in the same.

Any questions? Ask away.

Dr.Funkenstein

Why play this when I can just play Champions 8-)

Metzger Meister

well, pm me your email adress and i'll see about emailing you a ten-day trial code. it gets me free time, gets you playing the game, and is rad.

Forever Zefiro

Is Champions good

The Otaku Suppository

They should bring more MMOs to the 360 so I don't have to buy a new computer to run these things.

Dr.Funkenstein

Its pretty good

The combat is definitely an improvement and you go so fast with super speed

The only real problem is a don't have anyone to play with but that just because its a closed beta

FAQ

oh man metzger I just remembered

I had a dream last night that you were having open heart surgery

Phonehand

The Otaku Suppository wrote: »

They should bring more MMOs to the 360 so I don't have to buy a new computer to run these things.

i played this years ago and my computer pretty much sucked so i don't think it's too intensive

Agent Cooper

I am keen on Champions

I wish I was keen on DC Universe Online but I'd just hang around Two-Face all day

until the coin finally comes up scarred

Fallout

SHIT YES BITCHES this game RULES

i heard champions sucks and the dudes that are making it are the ones that made all the worst decisions about CoH

but whatever

come play CoX! It's sick!

Kazhiim

can you fully design the moberts you fight in architect missions, or just the special duders

Wallhitter

Kazhiim wrote: »

can you fully design the moberts you fight in architect missions, or just the special duders

The answer is...A)

All the moberts, Kaz! ALL THE MOBERTS!

Kazhiim

ALL THE MOBERTS YOU SAY

PERHAPS I SHOULD CANCEL THE SHITFEST THAT IS EVE ONLINE AND PLAY CITY OF wait I'd need to download the client again fuck that noise

Fallout

Kazhiim wrote: »

ALL THE MOBERTS YOU SAY

PERHAPS I SHOULD CANCEL THE SHITFEST THAT IS EVE ONLINE AND PLAY CITY OF wait I'd need to download the client again fuck that noise

or you can go out and get the architect edition box

it's $20 and with that you get a disc current to the newest patch, a month of playtime (worth $15) and a free costume pack (worth $10)

the new magic costume pack came out like four days ago and it's sick

Bucketman

I just transfer Bucketman off of Virtue to Freedom I think so I can play with my friends because my best friend has the biggest boner for super heroes. I do to. we played for a month then quit. we are now awaiting Champions. However if some of you peeps make really good content I'll play it. Espically Pony.

aslo in one more month of playtime I get Samurai Armor.

Metzger Meister

PROFESSOR POMPOUS REPORTING FOR DUTY!

After a tragic accident stranded this time-bandit profiteer in the future, where he was going to sell priceless antiques (remarkably well preserved via the magic of time travel) with which to facilitate vast piles of cash money money in the past.

Bucketman

god they announced Swinging and Digging travel powers for Champions on top of Flying, Speed, and Jumping

Metzger Meister

Swinging? Do you fucking dance your way to places?

Kovak

i am gettin in on this

Bucketman

Metzger Meister wrote: »

Swinging? Do you fucking dance your way to places?

Think more Spider-man

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/844881/cryptic-studios-mmo-project/videos/champions_trl_swinging_041709.html

Metzger Meister

OOOOOOH. That makes a lot more sense. Also, I'ma repost the directions for getting in on chan-chat! Maybe we can all hang out and play together tomorrow and be bffs.

Metzger Meister

What server are the PA super groups on?
Virtue, the unofficial RP server. Not that we really RP.

How do I join the PA Chat Channel?
To join simply type /chanjoin "Penny Arcade" and hit enter. Then right click a chat tab, click edit, and add Penny Arcade to the tab.
A useful bind is /bind l beginchat /send "Penny Arcade" This way every time you hit l (or any key you choose) it lets you talk to every member of the PAcrew who is on, no matter what character they are playing as. Alternatively you can just right click on the chat window and select the Penny Arcade channel and type away. Also you could simply set the Penny Arcade channel to the default in your chat tab and hit the little A button to type.

Wallhitter

I rp! i'm textfighting as I type this message.

Metzger Meister

Man I could never rp as Professor Pompous. It'd be all him stroking his muttonchops and shouting things like BULLY! while he pummeled things.

I should have chosen Tech, now that I think about it, but I went with a mutation brawler or whatever they're called.

Agent Cooper

So I watched the swinging trailer

Is Cryptic trying to get sued by Marvel again?

Bucketman

Agent Cooper wrote: »

So I watched the swinging trailer

Is Cryptic trying to get sued by Marvel again?

spider man isn't the only guy with a grappling hook or something

BYToady

Metzger Meister wrote: »

Swinging? Do you fucking dance your way to places?

No, you trade sex partners to get from place to place. Jump on a girl, bamf, stand up from a new girl across town. The sexiest teleport.

Agent Cooper

Bucketman wrote: »

Agent Cooper wrote: »

So I watched the swinging trailer

Is Cryptic trying to get sued by Marvel again?

spider man isn't the only guy with a grappling hook or something

No

But a guy swinging around in a black suit with white, stripe-like markings?

Plus they put the Hulk in some of their promotional stuff earlier.

BYToady

Ok, so how is Champions online going to differ from CoX?

Bucketman

Agent Cooper wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

Agent Cooper wrote: »

So I watched the swinging trailer

Is Cryptic trying to get sued by Marvel again?

spider man isn't the only guy with a grappling hook or something

No

But a guy swinging around in a black suit with white, stripe-like markings?

Plus they put the Hulk in some of their promotional stuff earlier.

oh then yes. I mean they have a full set of characters from the Champions world they COULD just re use. I don't see why they arn't

BYToady

Because if it used the Champions system for character building I'd consider playing it, of course, it won't, because that would be totally insane.

Zombiemambo

Issue 13 brought about some pretty badass additions

I'm tempted to hop in again, that Pact thing looks pretty sweet

Fallout

levelling pacts are great, real good for couples or what have you

also everyone should play The Footsteps Initiative

best MA arc yet

Sars_Boy

alright

gonna finish this 4 hour download today

forgot to leave my computer running all night

will be saving/murdering people ASAP

Muggins

FUCK YOU METZGER

YOU ARE NOT GETTING ME BACK IN THIS SO EASILY

I'll wait until Champions comes out because that looks infinitely more badass.

zimfan

if Champions doesn't charge monthly

I will be on it so hard

Dog

you can play this on a eee 1000he