Valentine’s Day, 2008 was certainly a day to remember. The who’s who of Paragon City turned out for the wedding between two of the city’s luminary Heroes: Manticore and Sister Psyche. Despite the best planning for security, Lord Recluse was still able to infiltrate the nuptials and crash the party!
Now, you can relive every moment of this very special event. The City of Heroes team worked with one of the game’s biggest fan comic book creators, ChaseArcanum, to create an exclusive Comic Book regaling all the details.
Additionally, we have a transcript of the wedding ceremony, including the vows.
We hope everyone had a great 2008 Valentine’s Day!
There are many exciting developments in Paragon City surrounding the celebration of Valentine’s Day this February 14th! Be sure to read about them all!
Manticore and Sister Psyche to Wed!
Spring Fling In-game Event Begins Feb. 14th
New City of Heroes Wedding Pack Now Available!
For all the details of these announcements, check your e-mail or click here to read it all!
On Tuesday, February 12th, the game was updated to a new version which includes many new improvements, corrections and refinements. Chief among the changes are the new “Real Numbers” user interface addition and the “XP Smoothing” features. For more information about these two features, read the following Q&A sessions with the developers behind them:
• Matt "Positron" Miller talks about XP Curve Smoothing.
• Programmer CW Bennett answers questions about the Real Numbers feature.
For all the details visit the Patch Notes page.
The February 12th update to City of Heroes and City of Villains includes new features to the User Interface designed to reveal the "Real Numbers" that drive the game’s combat systems. Programmer CW Bennett answers some questions about these new features in this short Q&A.
Over the weekend of February 8th through the 10th the City of Heroes and City of Villains servers saw some record numbers of recent concurrent players as super heroes and super villains logged on to enjoy the exciting times of Double XP! Characters playing during this weekend reaped the rewards of advancing their characters at twice the normal speed! While there were some issues of overcrowding that plagued the Freedom server, overall, a lot of fun was had by all!
When we look at the message forums, we see a lot of ensuing discussion about the weekend. Mindscythe, in his thread Thank you for the weekend, talks about his 40 hour marathon play session. UnSub ponders the Top Ten Things the Double XP Weekend Achieved. Other posters deal more with the joys of extended gaming play sessions and our City of Heroes gamers prove they are no different than others. In the thread Double XP Accomplishments! _Shadow_ remarks that he accomplished “Eating Cheerios at 1:22 AM” and Doomlord goes on to regale his “…creative side by making sculptures out of the pile of Mountain Dew cans filling my desk while waiting for people to zone.”
We want to thank everyone for making this Double XP weekend so memorable! We are certainly looking forward to the next one, later this year!
~ The City of Heroes Development Team
RevolutionSF, an online magazine dedicated to celebrating the best in science fiction, fantasy, comics and gaming, takes a long look at City of Heroes and City of Villains. In their recent article, they contrast the good and the bad of the game. Overall, they have a lot of great things to say:
Now through 11:59 PM Eastern on Sunday, February 10th Double XP is on! Log in now to receive double the Experience, Prestige and Influence or Infamy for all of your accomplishments in the game!
Have fun!
City of Heroes Team Lead Designer Matt "Positron" Miller answers questions about the coming changes to the experience rewards and the smoothing of the “XP Curve.”
Double XP Returns!
Villains, prepare to plot your take over of the world in double time! Heroes, clean the streets of scum twice as fast! The ever popular Double XP weekend returns!
Starting on Friday, February 8th following our weekly maintenance period, all defeat rewards, including experience, prestige and influence or infamy will be doubled! This will continue through the weekend and conclude the night of Sunday, February 10th.
To discuss this event, join us on the Official City of Heroes Message Forums.
NCsoft's new President Chris Chung was recently interviewed by Philip Kollar at 1up.com.
The New Year is always a time for reflecting upon the year past, as well as setting goals and outlining plans for the year to come. In looking back, we feel that 2007 was a banner year for City of Heroes. Three major free expansions, among the 21 total game updates over 12 months, made for exciting times! We added a completely new game system with Inventions, bringing “loot” and strengthening our economy, invited players to fight off an alien invasion and travel through time, among other things! Click the links below for highlights:
Do you enjoy writing stories about your in-game characters? Are you an artist that likes creating City of Heroes themed pieces? If so, then why not submit your creation for possible inclusion to the City of Heroes Fanzine?!
If you haven’t seen the first issue of the Fanzine, you can view it here.
We’re looking ahead to the next issue of the Fanzine and would love to showcase your fiction or art! The deadline for submissions is Feb. 11th. You can find out more at the Fan Submissions web page.
