Board 8 > Now that City of Heroes is free... is it worth playing?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Given that a big part of the appeal of the game was being able to experiment with odd combinations of powers, being restricted to Archetypes and two character slots seems to defeat the purpose.

Is it still worth a go as a cheapskate freeloader? Anyone on B8 playing it?

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I played a free trial at one point. It was fun just messing around and pretending to be a superhero.

To be honest, it's one of the few MMOs where I wouldn't mind roleplaying. It never seemed to get to serious, always keeping the feel of the popular image of comic book superheroes.

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I'd be down for starting with a bunch of B8ers if anyone else is.

Last time I played CoH was just when Villains came out. Pretty good MMO, and I can assume it's only better.

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i played a little bit when it was getting started. it was fun for awhile, but the grinding was boring. was kinda nice flying around (less so without the flight upgrades).

i wonder how much has changed...

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I'd be up for that.

Also, by this point all the people making ripoffs of copywritten characters have left. Maybe?

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How much to be able to design a character better? I mean, I doubt I'd play an MMO, but still.

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Can someone tell me the difference between a 'free' and 'premium' player in this one?

Too lazy to search because I'm only mildly interested

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How is the character creator?

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So I looked it up anyway, it's not that bad from what I understand. A lot better to be F2P here than let's say LOTR Online.

I'm up for doing this, anyone wanna choose which server to play on and create a topic etc?

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I'm already playing a hero on Freedom server

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Freedom server it is


I'll see if I do Hero or Villain soon enough.

edit: Anyone wanna create a topic so we can get more users in on this?

I'm too lazy to keep track of nicknames and such and make a decent introductory topic so I'm just asking!

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Hmm, I can't get the installer to start on Win7. Some sort of runtime error.

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So I started it up. I'm also on the Freedom server so let's just make that the board 8 server?

SOMEONE MAKE A TOPIC

I'm called VincentLauw and I'm a yellow dude in spandex with a visor. I've got electric powers and I'm ranged cause that's how I roll.

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I can only download the EU version, is it normal?

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I downloaded the US version just fine, dunno how but I did

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I don't understand, my ergion is correctly set to North America..

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This sounds like a fun idea. Something to play when I'm bored.

I want to be a villain.

But I need a good name for an Anti-B8 villain.

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I play CoH still and have for a long while.

It's absolutely worth playing. Super fun game with a ton of content. I'm not sure how much is gutted for the free players, but I'm sure it's still great fun.

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GANON1025 posted...
How is the character creator?

Character creator is arguably the best of any MMO. There's a few other contenders, but character creation has always been CoH's thing.

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
GANON1025 posted...
How is the character creator?

Character creator is arguably the best of any MMO. There's a few other contenders, but character creation has always been CoH's thing.

Eve's character creation blows everything out of the water no contest.

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it's really a shame that the rest of eve is mind numbingly boring

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There's a few things you can't do with Char creation for free.. Let's say about 30% is for premium/VIPs only like capes and what not. You can still buy them if you want to though, not sure how much they cost.


So Freedom server's ok for everyone? WHO WILL MAKE DAT TOPIC GUYS

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Not me, my topics never seem to attract many people.

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Still can't install. Will join when I figure out the problem.

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Redownload it or something?


I'm thinking of making the topic myself now but that will end up being a disaster. I don't know too much about the game yet anyway to write a proper intro or something.

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I can't seem to be able to log in even after already changing my account information once and typing it in correctly every time. No idea what's up with that.

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BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

Well looks like everything's going really well for everyone! I'd help but I have no idea where to even start


www.google.com

!!

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Man, I totally want to get in on this because I love CoH but I literally only own a netbook right now and I doubt it would run well.

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The problem seems to come from trying to connect to the US game. How did this all go for you, VL?

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From: Some_Character | #030
The problem seems to come from trying to connect to the US game. How did this all go for you, VL?

I don't know! I didn't even know it had an EU version before Ayuyu said so. I just download the installer from http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/freedom.php and let it do its thing.

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downloading now...

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From: SlymDayspring | #029
Man, I totally want to get in on this because I love CoH but I literally only own a netbook right now and I doubt it would run well.

I've got a really bad pc and it runs fine enough even on low/medium ish settings. You can always try!

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Strangely enough, it seems to work now after a second password change. I am Pantheloneon, a lone warrior with electrically charged punches and healing factor. I am not so lone as to not like company though.

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

apparantly you can only whisper to friends if you have purchased points (5 bucks at least)

And I can't do it with my phone so that sucks (no credit card/paypal account)

OH WELL

You can look each other up I guess and meet up or something


edit: nvm you can just pick friends channel I think lol

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The sewer seems to be the first real dungeon in the game, so it's better to attempt that with multiple people. But I think I've done enough for the day.

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SomeC - sheer explosives since meeting that crazy hobo.
BlAcK TuRtLe grabbed the Guru victory, slow but steady.

Me too, dinner time and stuff


maybe I'll do some more tonight

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Some_Character posted...
The sewer seems to be the first real dungeon in the game, so it's better to attempt that with multiple people. But I think I've done enough for the day.

Well, the sewers used to be the way to level up through 1-8 real fast. They recently made a trial for it now (Death From Below, I believe?) and it's a good way to level now too. I recommend forming a team for that though, since you'll get more experience and fun times from it.

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I have never really been into MMOs, but I have always had my eye on this game since it came out. I may try it out within the next week

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ERRBODY ADD "specsauce"

i haven't even done character creation but yeah woo

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Still can't install. Will join when I figure out the problem.

Have you got your non-Unicode wotsit set to Japanese? I did that to play Gyakuten Touhou, and changing it back to English fixed the problem for me.

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BlackMageJawa posted...
Still can't install. Will join when I figure out the problem.

Have you got your non-Unicode wotsit set to Japanese? I did that to play Gyakuten Touhou, and changing it back to English fixed the problem for me.

I fixed it, hence my post in the other topic. I just installed through NCSoft rather than using the proper installer.

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