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Champions Online: Reloaded is live!
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The Reloaded update for Champions Online is now live, including the much-anticipated launch of vehicles!
This update introduces a number of customizable vehicles, with thirteen available chasses and slottable powers and buffs.
These vehicles and MODs are available from a number of different sources, including a new Hover Tank Arsenal lock box and direct through the C-Store. In addition, you can get a number of non-weapon MODs through the new "Assault on UNTIL Sky Command" mission.
Vehicles are live now in the latest update, Champions Online: Reloaded. We've also updated our wallpaper and screenshot sections of the site!
Load up and take flight, Champions!
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This update introduces a number of customizable vehicles, with thirteen available chasses and slottable powers and buffs.
These vehicles and MODs are available from a number of different sources, including a new Hover Tank Arsenal lock box and direct through the C-Store. In addition, you can get a number of non-weapon MODs through the new "Assault on UNTIL Sky Command" mission.
Vehicles are live now in the latest update, Champions Online: Reloaded. We've also updated our wallpaper and screenshot sections of the site!
Load up and take flight, Champions!
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LOL, no wonder.....there isn't much of anything good to say about this pointless and unheroic vehicle system. Guess they are fed up with the,in my opinion, justified criticism.
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What exaclty does this update include other than vehicles and one special event/mission for said vehicles? Near as I can tell nothing other than a few power fixes and that deserves this much hype??
I would pay good money for a Slappmobile O_O"
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Nicely done, Cryptic. Nicely done. Not.
@Ysale ingame. I do RP and stuff!
Wise decision on their part. Think this business decision will be one remembered as what not to do.
I never thought I'd find myself feeling the way I did when SWG released their "combat upgrade".
I saw bikes in various pictures, but are they not in this patch?
When XP earnings during a Double-XP Weekend still feel like I'm underperforming,
there's something terribly wrong with the reward system...
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Original Join Date: Feb 2010.
You'll get a super-fast hover board. Faster then travel powers since it doesn't slow down when attacking...Or something.
And no bikes. Nope. Nope nope nope...
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And fear not! Hoverbikes are sure to be added and locked in Scamboxes in the future. ;D
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The REAL answer needs a question first.
Are you survivable DPS? If not then yes you need a vehicle. They made the mission with modded vehicles in mind.
Guess they wanted to protect themselves from the Justified customers and their reactions to the system, which aren't very good, honestly, I can't see why they try to put things similar to things from STO into CO, even though they won't work here, vehicles are a PERFECT example of this, they're obviously trying to copy STO's premium ships, and think that they fit in here, the problem here is that not every single hero out there is a vigilante or soldier with no powers like superspeed/flight/teleportation/etc. and even some of the technology themed heroes (namely powered armors) won't even use, I mean, they already have a vehicle in the form of power armor and jet boots.In my opinion, pouring all resources into a 1000 Zen priced DLC with a new zone, missions, and what-not would have been WAY more productive, because more players will use it.For vehicles also, if they are a must-have in the game, at least STO gave free low tier ships, they think that the low tier stuff here costs close to 2000?!
I'm sorry to say but I really can't see the whole vehicle system as it is now ending well, probably like the nemesis system and adventure packs, and by that I mean something that was at first shiny and new, and then abandoned because not enough people used them.
Consolidate currency!
Munitions additions
Petition to take in game report spam function out
Why not to do surveys and free offers
anymore
My main character is Blackflight
Why is it ruining the game for you if someone else has a toy you don't want?
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Deliciously nutritious!
:eek:
Cryptic is as Cryptic does, I guess...
:rolleyes:
When XP earnings during a Double-XP Weekend still feel like I'm underperforming,
there's something terribly wrong with the reward system...
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Seems legit.
Show off bikes, get tanks.
Remind me next time I sell something to label it as waffles and have a box of nails instead.
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Nope. Aside from guns to use and the cup holders, you got very little in customization.
Don't worry, at least there is no difference between vehicle chassis! Except that some are better then others...
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Good-bye, DevSlayer title, you will be missed.
Still Waiting on: Archer and the Ultimate Ninja!
Any chance we can finally get the vibro sword laser sword skin?
"CO once had devs, but they all fled to STO and NW because they feared Caliga." -matixzon
(yes its a travel power as well, but i want the device version - its better and doesnt use powers or advantage points)
I guess to really take advantage of this update im going to have to come up with additional alts.
They either need to restore the Prototypes back to their original state or Cryptic/Perfect World may be on the losing end of a very NASTY lawsuit and federal investigation.
Life member here since beta, am curious as to how much the game has changed..
aww man my devekiller title is gone poo
It's definitely something now. Not very pleasant if you read the forums.
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I don't understand why you are so completely devoted to ignoring any mention of the possible shifting focus of development away from the core gameplay, e.g. "blasting Black Aces across the room with [your] Chest Beam," caused by intruducing a system that will garner more money by selling powers and higher ranked/tiered mods and vehicles.
Or maybe the possible PvE balancing issues created by overshadowing current powers and combat.
Don't get me wrong, I like, you're usually pretty good peoples, but this seems like blind contradiction/denial.
My god! I find myself totally agreeing with pion in a point he is making against a counter-argument by jonsills.
To be serious though, you make a very good point above man. Kudos.
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Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Deliciously nutritious!
And yet, when I don't bother thinking about those things, my gameplay experience is exactly what it was last week, except with fewer server crashes (which, reading between the lines, had to do with the old Hawkwing top speed, and people reaching it and crashing the system).
Essentially, I've been trying to tell people, both blatantly and through examples like the above, that if you don't like the new vehicles, don't buy any. I'm not likely to, especially at those prices. They will only keep a system going as long as it's turning a profit (as the lockboxes apparently do); if it doesn't, they'll change it until it does. Cryptic is, after all, a business, and will try to maximize the bottom line any way we let them get away with.
And all the angst floating about the forums and Chat today won't change that bottom line one way or the other - it's just a rather aggravating waste of bandwidth.
Edit: And the new mission only requires that you be able to fly. I helped save the Sky Command carrier with Happifun Security System X-4, who wears a jetpack and is protected by three levels of Invincibility.
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On a more serious note I'm a little disappointed in this "full fledged vehicle system". It's still just a glorified become device which hardly seems like a system of its own. Not to mention that there is no visual customization after purchase (which sucks when in a game all about customization) as well as so few types. I only count two, a jet and a tank. Sure there are some slight variations of, but it's still just a jet and a tank. All the promo stuff is showing bikes we can't even get which is shady, but I just think they should have spent a bit more time to make it an actual full system worth of a name changing update.
I think:
Q
1: vehicles should come with base stats of that type no matter the chassis and rely on mods to change them at all.
2: be customizable in looks as well. Have a few base models with a few interchangeable parts.
3: incorporate clear canopies so you can see whose in it (tailor option)
4: have more than just two base vehicle styles at launch.
5: should be a lot less expensive if they're a single character unlock.
That'd be nice. Now I get the reasons why they didn't make it so we could seriously fiddle with the looks of these things in the Character Creator, most of which comes down to UI stuff being a boatload of work and easy to mess up. Fair enough. But honestly, all I want to do is change the color. Like go from something hot orange to more earth or industrial tones (because, damnit, I like browns and greens and greys). How about a list of skins we can pick from, that have no bearing on performance or anything, but can be swapped out for different colors?
It's just... I'm a whole lot less interested in buying a hoverbike or whatever if my only options look like GI Joe toys. And not the cool GI Joe toys either. I mean the florescent orange and purple tank with a catapult on it.
Or barring some kind of skin swapping system, maybe just sell a variety of color patterns that are no different than the base model except that one is red, one is black, one tank is desert camo, one is forest camo, one is arctic camo, one is UNTIL colors, another VIPER colors, etc. A bunch of otherwise identical things, same price for that model, just different color schemes. So the Stealth Hawkwing becomes Stealth Hawking - Black, with also Stealth Hawkwing - Arctic, Stealth Hawkwing - Military where you throw on some old school browns or something.
If you're wondering why people feel a tad exhasperated, it's because, well... the feeling is you guys spent months working on this and not new missions or stories or zones or comic packs or powers or costumes. Instead we get this... odd looking toy, and word is you're now working on sidekicks... which sounds an awful lot like a device you activate that summons an AI pet, and that's all you get.
Heck, I think most people would've prefered more with the hovertank if it looked like an Abrams with the treads replaced by hoverjets.
Another nice touch would have been being able to put emblems and logos on them to match the ones on the hero. This game was built around complete customization, so I'm a little sad that its not updated and enhanced more.
Just think of going after Doctor Destroyer while you're on a tiny tricycle!
Reminds me a lot of this
Why do we have a C-Store again?
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I can dig that. I really hope production for the rest of the game doesn't suffer.
Temp Hoverboard device providing 130 flight speed with no energy penalty.
This is just .. unacceptable.
I'm not buying this, and this whole year is seriously making me reconsider NWO as well
Cryptic under PWE is just out to pillage and burn the player base it seems
Here we are now going to the West Side
Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day
Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm
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Word. They burn your wallet and **** your base!
@Ysale ingame. I do RP and stuff!
Here, let me give you money for it (a perm version that is - i wont keep re buying a temp one)
Again, why do you play CO if all you do is whining of vehicles and 'lack of new content'?
YOU and the other complainers are destroying the fanbase with your alarmist nonsense.
And the 'destroying fanbase with nonsense' thing, yea, there is no truth about in any of those complaints. The content is fine and the vehicles are fine, like the 200 Drifter Salvage one. Since no one has released any info about what it actually costs.
Really.
How long have you actually been playing?
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
Godtier: Lifetime Subscriber
Who you to complain about their complaint about all the complaining?
(Especially since the complaints are the equivalent of a kid getting a 8gb iPhone instead of the 16gb and threatening to run away from home over it.)
Wait? Whaaaa..?