City of Heroes wants you back

By Robert Purchese Published 1 October, 2009

Big reactivation push next weekend.

NCsoft is planning a major City of Heroes push for next weekend, hoping to rekindle the superhero flame with reactivation treats.

Anyone returning to the game in "good standing" can play free from next Thursday, 8th October to Sunday, 11th October.

Furthermore, any Heroes or Villains spraying on the Spandex over that weekend will be awarded double XP, Influence and Infamy.

NCsoft hopes this will be long enough for you to try the improvements made since you left, the biggest and most recent being the Mission Architect, which lets players make their own quests.

Check out our hands-on impressions of City of Heroes' Mission Architect to find out more.

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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 (11) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • jim1975 #1 2 years ago

    think you mean october

  • Bodd #2 2 years ago

    Just in time to coincide with the end of Champions Online's first month - who could have expected that?

  • Grump #3 2 years ago

    I resisted giving CoH a go in order to wait for Champions Online. CO was quite dissapointing for me so is it still worth giving CoH a go?

  • Benno #4 2 years ago

    CoH > CO

  • gkscotty #5 2 years ago

    Despite sharing a similar theme, CoH and CO are different in many ways - mainly because CO is apeing WoW and CoH predated WoW.

    The most glaring differences between CO and CoH is that CoH is more heavily instanced (in tileset buildings that some people find too repetitive. That's NEVER bothered me though) and CoH has much, much MUCH better teaming while CO seems to emphasise soloing by making teaming too awkward. CoH's teaming is pure fun and much more rewarding, but soloing is still viable if you want.

    CoH doesn't stick so slavishly to the 3 henchmen = 1 hero balance in CO either. With the new difficulty settings, my lv29 Brute has been slugging through packs of 10-12 henchmen and Lieutenants by themselves.


    (and before anyone predictably brings it up, yes, MA farm exploits have been fixed and people are actually playing the real game now)
    Edited by 1 at 01/10/09 @ 16:25

  • Benno #6 2 years ago

    i think i might come back, i enjoyed coh

  • Sar #7 2 years ago

    "CoH > CO"

    So true.

  • Sar #8 2 years ago

    Oh and I'm currently updating my client to give the new stuff a spin next weekend as well. Haven't played in a year, so should be nostalgic if nothing else :)

  • JohnnyFireBlade #9 2 years ago

    Nothing's going to make me go back to CoH, or indeed buy any NCSoft title again. They've screwed me around several times over recent years (CoH US to EU transfer didn't include Villains and eventually lost my characters) and the clincher was the last time I tried to go back to them. I'd changed my email address and forgotten my password and to log a support ticket for it, I had to log in!

    Most user-unfriendly company I've dealt with in a long time.

  • Slipstream #10 2 years ago

    I tried to go back to them after a long while and wasn't getting much help on my retrievals so I gave up. CoH/CoV are fun games for a while though.

  • Dizzy #11 2 years ago

    After playing CO I think I would faint of boredom going back to CoX.