Good news for players of City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers: The planned server moves – from The Netherlands to new destinations in Canada and Germany – appear to have gone off without much of a hitch yesterday, with downtime well under two hours. Do note that if you’re an EU player, your server has been renamed Reunion, so don’t panic. And if you’d like to be on (or off) that EU server, you’re getting 20 transfer tokens every three days to make that happen. The group says it’s buffed up its GM staff with some EU GMs and is working its way through the ticket queue now. (This is the point at which you gotta be wondering whether working a thankless unpaid job like support for *checks notes* 62112 players is sustainable, yes?)
Here’s what else is going on around the CoH community:
Homecoming is now allowing multiboxing “within reason” as long as there are no queues. “As for what’s within reason: Two or three,” the devs write. “A team of 8 MMs to yourself is not reasonable.”
Piggies! Piggs are well-known to players as the files that make up a lot of the data of City of Heroes, and thanks to Ouroboros, developers will soon have an official Pigg editing tool. They’re calling it Piglet.
Homecoming’s latest patch adds the promised custom XP buffs, tweaks rewards for morality missions, and makes respec recipes buyable for inf. Check out the patch notes.
The not-yet-active Rebirth server announced its full team this morning, including 23 Senior GMs. (GMs themselves haven’t been announced yet, if we’re reading this right, as of the time of this writing, but you can go see for yourself in that channel.)
Ever wanted to help design badges? Homecoming’s looking for ideas for exploration badge titles.
Finally, it’s not rogue server stuff, but it’s definitely newsworthy for City of Heroes fans: SEGS – the Super Entity Game Server folks working on rebuilding the entirety of the game legally – released their 0.7.0 “Awakening” build this past week.
The Red and Blue test servers are up and running with v0.7.0. #CityOfHeroes #MMORPG pic.twitter.com/ehiU6yl56n
— Super Entity Game Server (@segscode) May 17, 2019
You know what I have been seeing lately though. Copies of known heros flooding the game. Last night I was on a team with a guy that looked and even had the name of The Rocketeer. That might become a problem for the servers if Disney/Marvel notices this. Then you can bet NCsoft would step in. People have been seeing a lot of Marvel heroes running around. What do you think Bree?
I don’t really have time to log in for a better picture right now, but I still wanted to show off Kaneck Prime, my first character as I discover this game.
Love the color combo here! This costume really shows off some of the newer (“newer” hehe) costume pieces from the end of the game, when Paragon had seriously stepped it up over spandex. Love it.
Aww, thanks Bree! I had to invert the colors on a few pieces, like the legs, to get the best look. Overall, I quite like how disparate pieces can look great together, like the more mystical pieces with the mech suit.
I look forward to making more heroes and villains to see what I can come up with.
Wow, love the colors you did. Great costume all around. How long did it take you?
Kaneck is pleased. You get to live.
It must have taken thirty to forty minutes. I knew I wanted a power armour, so mech and tech pieces are what I looked at first, but I looked at a lot of stuff.
Still looking forward to SEGS, SOH, COT and all the rest.
For sure i’ve not written them off, if anything if it wasn’t CoH i’d never paid any attention to them, now on radar.
I am too but they’ve got to give us better animations and less ‘Unity store asset’ looking characters than I’ve seen to date. The buildings look great and I want them to succeed but so far they’ve lacked that ‘spark’ that CoX has for me.
Note: I’m not accusing them of using stock assets, just that the characters in game we’ve seen look that way.
I’m with you on the rest but I’m wondering how much momentum SEGS is going to keep with the actual game being out there.
Well, its been distracting, but SEGS still has the same goals as before. We can’t copy any of the stolen code, but it is easier to recreate with live servers to compare to.
Correction. A team of 8 MM’s is not reasonable.
8 Robotic MM’s is jut downright torture.
When it was live I took my bots/traps on an 8 MM team at high level so 48 pets + stuff like my acid mortar, ff generator, etc. It was a mess, but a fun mess!
Back on the live servers I went on an a all-Mastermind ITF run. So much chaos, so much fun.
:EDIT: In the screen shot, I’m Officer Reed, a Thugs/Thermal.
Those buffs are WILD. Dang. <3
I seem to recall there being a bug at the time that caused the MM pets to show a lot more Leadership pool power buff icons than they were actually affected by, but yeah. All the buffs.
This is random: Do you remember how you drag out a chat window the way you’ve got your combat log dragged out into its own separate window? I tried that last night and couldn’t get it to work. Am I doing it wrong or is that a custom mod or something?
If you look real close, you can see that the “1” on the main chat window is green. This is the Hit Rolls tab that I have in the middle. So click one of those numbers, add channels to the tab, and put it where you want it.
DOH! Thank you. Total brain fart there. Been too long. <3
No worries, it took me a moment to remember how I’d set that up as well. So much of the game is coming back to me like I’d never left, but not all of it.
Somewhere in amongst that UI is the actual game. o.O
Big CoX fights are like sticking your head in a box full of fireworks and shouting ‘Pass me the lit dynamite, I can’t see!’
Love, love, love!
I recently ran a TF (in the caves… with Council) on +1 with THREE masterminds on the team. And no tank. We only had a couple of minor deaths and they were usually of the “blaster runs in and nukes” variety. It was awesome even though I had to turn the volume off. Downside was collision with the all the minions running through the caves!
You can get by with pretty much any mix of archetypes outside of Incarnate trials and Hamidon raids. The ‘all defender’ Statesman Task Force is the stuff of legend in the CoH community.
Also the server transfer was done incredibly quick, which was awesome last night. So glad to see all the work from everyone on COH right now! :D
Such a ride! Got 38 2 nights ago so able to foot stomp again! How her stiletto heels survive her stomping so hard it causes a localized tremor I’ll never know but it’s the last power in super strength and oh so fun!
Haven’t been pushing the leveling. I’m enjoying the story arcs mostly (I’m currently in the middle of 5 of them at once right now), a little with alts, chilling on a few other games as well, I’m going to savor this!
I totally want to cool the grouping down, i was really into the stories, as in they really make the content shine.
Sure you can click through take your mission and have fun cracking skulls and that alone is great, but if you take the time to read and follow the stories the content feels so much more compelling in as why you are there cracking skulls, arresting people excuse me :)
Almost 30 then it’s alt city and grouping is limited to my main. I really want to dig into the quest lines they are (to me) well written and interesting, it makes the solo game in many ways better than grouping, i got so immersed into the world and my character via the stories, then group happened.
As far as savoring, yea all the way, i was rushing swg when i first got into emu’s and that’s just a decade plus of brain washing from “new” games and everything has to be now, and instantly rewarded.
I’m still waiting for NCsoft to show up and rain hard on this parade.
I’m enjoying it in the meantime. I’m HOPING that things are going okay between Leandro, TonyV, and NCsoft in their NDA’d talks, and that whatever good comes of that will be for the betterment of the entire community, but my hopes aren’t too high on that until the final buzzer.
I’m not worried about it and i worry about everything.
It’s been a month already. If having a public LLC with servers in Canada isn’t a neon sign that the boot ain’t comin’, well..