On September 25th, the Valiance Online developers announced that the game was soon moving into its alpha testing phase with non-combat power use, crafting, more character customization… lots of stuff. Lo and behold, the alpha testing has begun! Unfortunately for would-be players, the testing is currently all internal, but players will be updated as there’s more information and should be able to start testing on Steam before too much longer.
Valiance Online is one of the several fan attempts at a City of Heroes revival following that game’s shutdown, in case you had forgotten. It aims to replicate many of the features of the original along with player alignment and player-run stories.
Source: Official Facebook; thanks to Robert for the tip!