New City of Heroes update

By Ellie Gibson Published 5 July, 2005

And City of Villains trailer.

NCsoft has annnounced plans to release a new update for comic book-inspired PC MMORPG City of Heroes.

Titled Issue #5: Forest of Dread, the update will be free of charge to existing subscribers when it's released this summer. It features an all-new Zone for heroes to explore - the mystical land of Croatoa, which is inhabited by villains such as Fir Bolg, a giant, and someone called Tuatha de Dannan.

The update will also include a new epic Task Force and two power sets - Archery and Sonics - for use by Defenders, Blasters and Controllers.

New Zone Events will "test heroes to the limit, asking them to stop arson attacks and break up an out-of-control superpowered rave." [complete with glowsticks?!] Plus you can expect new mission customisations and badges.

Meanwhile, NCsoft is still hard at work on CoH's alter-ego - City of Villains - which will see Paragon City coming under threat from a whole new batch of evil geniuses, vengeful scoundrels and superheroes-gone-bad. A new trailer for the game, complete with a narration by lead designer Jack Emmert, is now available for download.

Issue 5#: Forest of Dread will be released in August, and City of Villians will slated for a release by the end of the year.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (5) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Psi #1 7 years ago

    meh.. lost interest in this grind game ages ago...

  • Harpe #2 7 years ago

    A "Fir Bolg" sounds exactly like something WoW players should be familiar with and wasn't "Tuatha de Dannan" the castle out of midget, evil crone and Val Kilmer featuring blockbuster 'Willow'?

    I'm sure there's someone on here who can help me be more specific than that.

  • tonynibbles #3 7 years ago

    Sounds cool

  • Horse #4 7 years ago

    The Tuatha de Danaan were a mythical people supposed to have inhabited Celtic lands before us normals got here.

    A Fir Bolg is something else in Celtic mythology too, can't remember what though...

  • jiveguy #5 7 years ago

    Tuatha De Dannan was an Irish 70s trad group combining the vocal stylings of Enyas minge and a midget on the banjo. Fir Bolg is the Irish word for "Hot Bollocks".

    Further investigations have revealed this to be wrong, Tuatha de Dannan were a group of fairies, and the Fir Bolg were men with brown sacks that came from Greece and settled in Ireland.
    Edited by 1 at 05/07/05 @ 14:55