City of Heroes Issue 9 released

By Robert Purchese Published 4 May, 2007

Invention System goes live.

Issue 9: Breakthrough is now available to download for City of Heroes and City of Villains.

The biggest new feature is the Invention System. This lets you salvage usable ingredients and recipes from downed foes, either to create into powerful items yourself or sell on the new consignment markets.

You'll be able to piece together unique sets of equipment to permanently boost the abilities you chose to enhance. Plus there's 10 new sets of wings to mould onto your back: Angel, Demon, Dragon, Burned, Bone, Bat, Cherub, Insect, Tech and Fairy.

There's also major new rewards on offer in some swanky new high-level missions, which will see you battle off Lord Recluse's evil forces from Paragon City. And those of you at the top level will be pleased to hear that the end-game raid challenge, the Hamidon Encounter, can now be undertaken by villains and has been revamped for returning heroes.

"The new systems added to Issue 9 should give players a lot to do outside of combat," said Matt Miller, lead designer for the game. "Now players can be craftsmen along with being heroes or villains, and earn a living by custom building items and taking them to the consignment market for sale. This is a big component to making the 'City of' world a deeper and richer experience."

City of Heroes is an MMORPG that lets you create and play as a superhero. This is the ninth big update for the game that launched back in 2005, which has amassed a sturdy fan base.

Head over to the City of Heroes website for more information.

Alternatively fly into our City of Heroes review to find out why it's one of the best games on the market.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Kosumo #1 5 years ago

    Hmmmm this is actually tempting me back to it. The last time I actually played was the CoV Beta, but this looks good. If I'm staying home this summer then I might just have to fire it up again.

  • Whizzo #2 5 years ago

    If you've ever had an account with CoH/CoV it's unlocked over the weekend. I tried it out a couple of nights ago and it seems ok but not that exciting.

  • paralipsis #3 5 years ago

    Hate to sound a little cynical, but this piece reads a little more like advertising than I would like. Maybe I'm wrong...

  • Laserbream #4 5 years ago

    Finally, phat lewts in CoX!

  • Olemak #5 5 years ago

    As they reactivated my account for the weekend, I had a quick look-see at the system. It worked well enough, with a lot of new high-level enhancements for the various powers. So maxed out characters should be able to spend a lot of time getting the optimal enhancement build with this system, and I'm sure they'll keep adding more recepies for costume parts and temporary powers. The system looks pretty deep and rewarding - adding the crafting and auction action of WOW to CoH, in a way.

    I liked it, too bad I just don't have the time to spend on games like this any more. If I did, this is the game I'd return to.

    Spotted a crafting reciepe for a temp power (I think) called "revolver"... nice, if it does what I think it does...

  • gaystation3 #6 5 years ago

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