Champions Online - Free to Play

[Tbone]

Note: This game is now free to play!

If anyone has a premium FilePlanet account and doesn't plan on playing the open beta of Champions Online, I wouldn't mind having your key. I really just want to see if the character customization is all it's cracked up to be! Surely one of you has a premium account - at the very least we could share a beta account to take a look! Thanks!

[Manic Velocity]

I was able to get into closed beta. The character creation lives up to the hype.

The rest of the game, however... meh. If you've played City of Heroes, you've played Champions.

[Tbone]

I've never played City of Heroes. lol. Champions isn't particularly appealing to me, but Broin said he had some friends raving about it.

[Manic Velocity]

I definitely see the appeal of creating your ideal superhero, but I found the gameplay of both games rather boring. Lots of "go here, kill this, collect these, report back". I know this is the gold standard of MMO's these days, and maybe that's the problem for me. I really want something different.    

But by all means, don't take my word for it. Give it a shot. The character creation really is fun. Every MMO should offer such extensive customization. I just couldn't find much reason to care about the world my character was inhabiting. Every hero was accomplishing the same goals that I was. It all seemed very static.

[Subb]

I found CoH fun. It only gets fun after the first 10 levels though and if you're in a task force or supergroup

Wouldn't mind getting to play C:O, too.

[ArchNemesis]

That's why i have very little interest in most MMO's T_T

Everything is the same =/


The only thing i'm looking forward to is SWTOR because of the AMAZING job Bioware did with KOTOR.

I have hope that these people can make an MMO that lives up to the Old Republic name.

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

I actually ended up with two beta keys.. i pre-ordered at best buy like a nimrod on a complete and utter whim; just wanted to play -something- and knew nothing of it other than hearing whispering about it here and there...

I've enjoyed it as something to do when I'm bored from time to time... it doesn't seem to have anything other MMOs havent done before, other than the amazing character creation. -But, didn't CoH do that?

Anyway, they do have a nice "travel power" thing that you learn pretty early on. Just after the tutorial, you get to choose what power you want. Some of the ones I can think up off the top of my head are: Rocket boots, rocket jump, flying, tunneling, super jump, teleportation (all i've tried so far, and it's awesome!) and i know there were a few others like ice surfing and some kind of telepathy thing.

I'm playing under the name of Zephix Leer right now. Made a melee oriented character who'll eventually have darker shadow powers as well.

So far, I'm dual sword/kicks. Sort of a cyborg ninja type of teleporter.

Tip: If you decide you want to PVP, be sure to get a super power that will root people, especially if you're pure melee, otherwise you spend a lot of time chasing people while getting pounded by missles or something.

[Broin]

Two BETA keys... Well if you have an extra one feel free throw it my way.

[Tbone]

Someone was nice enough to share a key with me. Look what I made!



Notice the knives on the legs! The bottom of the trench is flowy! I made him a stealth archer and maybe he could even fly at some point, I dunno. I haven't had a chance to really play the game yet. I was too busy making the character! Pretty sweet!

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

Well, sorry but the beta key was actually being used by my girlfriend who decided she wanted it. :/

A bit late now anyway... Sorry Broin!

[Subb]

Anyone gonna play his post-launch? I'm seriously considering this after playing B:AA to fulfil my superhero lust

[Tbone]

It is a lot of fun just to be able to fly around and look cool. After I finished the initial quests, I got my fire flight ability. Talk about a Furious Angel...

[Subb]

Sweeeet - just bought it over Steam and downloading as I post this... you still playing, bossman? If so, what server?

[Tbone]

Did it go live? I was beta testing it with Jeyk. I found it entertaining. My problem with these types of MMOs is that it's hard to group up with people. You have different instances, and then quests are specific to level, so unless you've been leveling at the exact same pace as me, we'll never end up playing together (unless you wanted to just help me out with no benefit or vice-versa). The PvP is an instanced thing as well. I meant to try it out, but if it's gone live, I'm guessing I'm locked out.

[Subb]

I think so... downloaded it, but now there's a patching error and I've sent a support ticket to the creators - seems a lot of people on the forums are having the same problem :/

I'll give it a day or two, if not I'll demand for a full refund