City of Heroes wants you back News
MMO PC News by Robert Purchese
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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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)
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JohnnyFireBlade
01/10/09 @ 16:37
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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!
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Slipstream
01/10/09 @ 18:02
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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.
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