Next Champions Online update revealed

By Oli Welsh Published 19 November, 2009

Nemesis Confrontation has Lair, costumes.

Cryptic has published details of the next update to its superhero MMO Champions Online, Nemesis Confrontation, which will be released next Tuesday, 24th November.

Featuring a Lair and some new costume sets, it's not a huge update, but it's coming out just a month after the last patch Blood Moon so we'll let Cryptic off. Plus, it headlines our favourite feature of Champions Online - player Nemeses.

The new Lair pits a team of max-level players against alien gladiators and the villain Shadow Destroyer, but also against their individual Nemeses, whom the Destroyer has recruited. You can play it to unlock costume sets themed around the Lair's enemies, or pay for the same sets in the game's item shop.

More info at the official website.

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  • lucasmax #1 2 years ago

    Sounds good, hopefully they can keep up adding lairs and group missions on a regular basis.

    They still need CoX style grouping though. A low level hollows or Perez style map with massive +5 mobs should do the trick. And scaling mission instances would be a boon too, dont know why they left that out tbh.

  • spudsbuckley #2 2 years ago

    Shame that the game has already pretty much failed.

  • skullstorm #3 2 years ago

    Here we go again.

    Failed to do what exactly? It hasn't 'failed' in the slightest. The game is still running and has a decent number of subscribers. The average any mmo should normally expect and is certainly sufficient enough for the game to keep up and running.

    Of course mmos will 'fail' to meet WoWs number of subs, they always have and always will. They don't need those numbers. You need to realise mmos have always had a smaller, niche player base and have always functioned that way, very few have ever collapsed.

    WoW is in a league of its own and should be considered outside of other mmos, as it's the ONLY one that has ever seen that kind of popularity.

    mmorpg's are still a niche market. WoW isn't.


  • Sar #4 2 years ago

    I tried this over the free weekend they had at Halloween, and tbh I'm glad I didn't buy it.

    The game was glitchy and performed poorly (I have a decent PC, so it's not a h/w problem), and made me realise that Cryptic learnt very little from CoX about engine optimisation.

  • skullstorm #5 2 years ago

    @Jozzy

    Yeah I agree. Perceptions have changed too. I guess that since the publicity for mmo's has gone up due to wow, the average 'wow player' has become more aware of the genre itself. However, when these players grow bored of wow and look into other mmo's they expect the same standards and sub numbers which just aren't possible for the vast majority of the genre.

    This problem also effects publishers and developers too, believing that it is somehow possible to achieve similar success they forsake the smaller, actual 'mmorpg fan' market and arguably make a loss at both. I don't neccessarily see them as complete failures despite not having achieved their goals.

    Hopefully developers will develop for the market that has been there for them all along, the mmorpg player rather than the wow player.
    Edited by 1 at 19/11/09 @ 18:56

  • lucasmax #6 2 years ago

    It runs great on my 2yr old pc.

  • iokthemonkey #7 2 years ago

    Spuds just hates all MMOs. :)

  • DDevil #8 2 years ago

    I'm still enjoying Champions Online, but I'm thinking of cancelling my sub at the end of this period. Don't know if this'll change my mind, but there's absolutely no end game for me to stick around for.