Champions Online (XBOX 360 AND PC)

humanji

I think you can still get Beta access from Fileplanet. You just have to sign up to a free account and then get your code.

I just realised this weekend that when i bought my life time sub. The Game was "not" included.

I have to buy the game now !

humanji

lol, they always find a way to screw you!

Niska

"Life time sub" - game (and life) not included.

Anyway got an open beta key, looking forward to poking around after I get home form work.

humanji

Well you may not be poking around for a while. There's a 3.6gig patch and it's slow as hell.

Niska

Well I won't get home 'til after 04:00, so the strain on the servers may be less then.

humanji

I hope so. As it's going now, I'll still be patching by 4am. After 2 hours I'm up to 7.5%.



edit: AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! I just remembered I'm also in the Mortal Online beta, so I popped that on to see how much patching that needs. 3.4 bloody gig! B*stards!!!!

Kiith

So your in the Champions Online and Mortal Online beta? Ya, i hate you. Its official :P

humanji

Well if it's any consolation, I probably will never get to play them as they're taking too long to download. See? You have youre revenge.

Is there any way of getting a key now ? I got a life time and bought it from play.com

humanji

Play should of emailed you out a key. Or you can sign up to Fileplanet and you can get one.

Sarn

You have to subscribe to fileplanet to get into beta, registering doesn't work.

humanji

Well I'm a free member on fileplanet and it worked for me. Strange.

I got to play it last night. I'm really enjoying it. I wasn't too impressed with the character creation at first, then I realised that the title for each section was also a drop down menu, giving you a sh*t load more options. I spent a good hour just messing about with it.

To be honest, the whole thing was a bit daunting at first. I was level 6 before I found a trainer to get new skills. I don't know if that's because I'm an idiot or because it's meant to be that way. But when you get there, there's a hell of a selection. A few more instructions would be nice, though. All the descriptions of the powers assume you've been playing MMO's for years and know all the lingo and the UI itself seems to assume you know what you're doing.

And one thing that I thought was a great idea was that once I got to the trainer, I was able to select a special travel power. In City Of Heroes you had to be level 14 (I think, it's been a while) before you could get the fly/jump/run fast skills and even then they were pretty pathetic until you were able to boost their power. But in this not only do you get to choose a skill early on, but they work really well. When flying, you don't move a 2 miles and hour, you zip along. And the different types of travel powers are brilliant. You can have rocket boots, jump boots, a hover disk, a hover rock (don't ask), you can run fast, you can swing like spider-man, etc. It's brilliant.

I heard before that you can customise your powers in how they look, but I don't know if that's something I unlock later or something. And you're meant to be able to create you nemesis too, but I assume that's later too (although I thought it would have been nice to create a nemesis at the start and then you play the game, only for them to appear after you've forgotten all about them, but that's just me).

I'm not too sure about the combat. It's pretty much the same as every other MMO but you also have a block button which I'm not sure if there's any point to it. You hold down the shift key to block an attack, but you'll still take damage, and the time spent blocking could be better spent just knocking seven shades of sh*te out of them instead.

As I said before, the UI seems to assume you know what you're doing. I'm sure the manual will explain some of it, but they could of mentioned some of it in the tutorials. There's loads of slots for stuff that it doesn't explain what they are. And for some of the slots they have one slot that shows, then you open up your inventory and it shows another 2 for that category. You put bonus items in there, but I don't get why they show one of them and not the other two? Or why they show them at all, as it's basically your equipment that can't be activated. It was fairly confusing.

I'm not too far into it, so I don't really know what the missions are like. So far they're fairly varied, but what you'd expect from and MMO (find x amount of items, kill x amount of baddie's, collect lost items, escort NPC etc). I'm happy that they have those open missions like in Warhammer. They were great fun and so I'm looking forward to doing more of them.

Can't think of anything else to report about it. I was planning on hooking up my 360 controller to play this, as I thought the game was designed with it in mind, but it seems pointless since there's so many buttons needed. Has anyone else who played it had a controller connected?

edit: Oh and if anyone is about to start playing, don't call you character "The" something. The way the dialogue is formated makes it come out wrong. For example, I made a character and called him The Electric Midget. But when I talk to people they say "Good job, The Electric Midget!" I know it's a small thing, but it kind of grates on me.

-Al-

Did you have to enter a key to play it? I only have a free account on FP but I dont want to download 2gigs to be asked for a key which I cant get

humanji wrote: »

Well I'm a free member on fileplanet and it worked for me. Strange.

I got to play it last night. I'm really enjoying it. I wasn't too impressed with the character creation at first, then I realised that the title for each section was also a drop down menu, giving you a sh*t load more options. I spent a good hour just messing about with it.

To be honest, the whole thing was a bit daunting at first. I was level 6 before I found a trainer to get new skills. I don't know if that's because I'm an idiot or because it's meant to be that way. But when you get there, there's a hell of a selection. A few more instructions would be nice, though. All the descriptions of the powers assume you've been playing MMO's for years and know all the lingo and the UI itself seems to assume you know what you're doing.

And one thing that I thought was a great idea was that once I got to the trainer, I was able to select a special travel power. In City Of Heroes you had to be level 14 (I think, it's been a while) before you could get the fly/jump/run fast skills and even then they were pretty pathetic until you were able to boost their power. But in this not only do you get to choose a skill early on, but they work really well. When flying, you don't move a 2 miles and hour, you zip along. And the different types of travel powers are brilliant. You can have rocket boots, jump boots, a hover disk, a hover rock (don't ask), you can run fast, you can swing like spider-man, etc. It's brilliant.

I heard before that you can customise your powers in how they look, but I don't know if that's something I unlock later or something. And you're meant to be able to create you nemesis too, but I assume that's later too (although I thought it would have been nice to create a nemesis at the start and then you play the game, only for them to appear after you've forgotten all about them, but that's just me).

I'm not too sure about the combat. It's pretty much the same as every other MMO but you also have a block button which I'm not sure if there's any point to it. You hold down the shift key to block an attack, but you'll still take damage, and the time spent blocking could be better spent just knocking seven shades of sh*te out of them instead.

As I said before, the UI seems to assume you know what you're doing. I'm sure the manual will explain some of it, but they could of mentioned some of it in the tutorials. There's loads of slots for stuff that it doesn't explain what they are. And for some of the slots they have one slot that shows, then you open up your inventory and it shows another 2 for that category. You put bonus items in there, but I don't get why they show one of them and not the other two? Or why they show them at all, as it's basically your equipment that can't be activated. It was fairly confusing.

I'm not too far into it, so I don't really know what the missions are like. So far they're fairly varied, but what you'd expect from and MMO (find x amount of items, kill x amount of baddie's, collect lost items, escort NPC etc). I'm happy that they have those open missions like in Warhammer. They were great fun and so I'm looking forward to doing more of them.

Can't think of anything else to report about it. I was planning on hooking up my 360 controller to play this, as I thought the game was designed with it in mind, but it seems pointless since there's so many buttons needed. Has anyone else who played it had a controller connected?

edit: Oh and if anyone is about to start playing, don't call you character "The" something. The way the dialogue is formated makes it come out wrong. For example, I made a character and called him The Electric Midget. But when I talk to people they say "Good job, The Electric Midget!" I know it's a small thing, but it kind of grates on me.

humanji

-Al- wrote: »

Did you have to enter a key to play it? I only have a free account on FP but I dont want to download 2gigs to be asked for a key which I cant get

I clicked on the Champions Online Beta banner that they have, and on the next screen there's an option to join the beta. Once you click on that you are given a key and a link to download the client.

-Al-

humanji wrote: »

I clicked on the Champions Online Beta banner that they have, and on the next screen there's an option to join the beta. Once you click on that you are given a key and a link to download the client.

Ah right, Im just presented with package sign up options when I click on the banner.

humanji

Strange, I'm not paying for fileplanet, but it still let me do it. Try pre-ordering from play and once you get you beta key, cancel the order if you don't like it.

-Al-

I wonder was there a hole on fileplanet the allowed free members to get a key a few days ago, may have closed it up now.

Ive preordered it on play, if I like it I might get it on thehut, its a few quid cheaper there although I wont get the fancy flappy wings!!! :eek:

Sarn

I can confirm that non-subscribed filepanet users can get an open beta key again. Time to start downloading.

I have been playing it again and i like it again. For some time there i was really getting p1$$ed off with it. I have now purchassed the swinging and i love it. I have been thinking that maybe level 5 is too early to get a travel power ? ?

humanji

I don't think so, because there's no real "run" ability, so it speeds up travelling. A lot of the missions (like most MMO's) have you running back and forth through areas, so it does make things easier. Plus, some of the powers really add to the game. Like, I've got a character with the teleport ability, and being able to teleport behind someone during combat really adds a bit of fun to the game.

One of the things I hated about City of Heroes was how long it took you to get travel powers and how weak they were when you got them.

Dcully

Must admit this looks like a fun mmo, i might just get this.
Is it September 1st release date?

james2008

Hi Guys,

I am going to order this today but considering that it's getting close to release date I want to buy it online and download the client. I see Gamestop allows you to download the client but it's an American site. Does that mean I will only have access to USA servers on release date?

Any other direct download suggestions welcomed also?

humanji

Must admit this looks like a fun mmo, i might just get this.
Is it September 1st release date?

I think it's Sept. 4th.

james2008 wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I am going to order this today but considering that it's getting close to release date I want to buy it online and download the client. I see Gamestop allows you to download the client but it's an American site. Does that mean I will only have access to USA servers on release date?

Any other direct download suggestions welcomed also?

I don't know about whether you'll only be able to play US servers, but if you buy the game from Play.com, they'll send you out the physical copy (usually before the game starts), but you'll also get a weeks headstart. So I assume they'll give you a link to the client before then (or maybe that's when the physical copy arrives.

edit: just noticed that on the link it says the headstart is now closed. http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/6080087/Champions-Online/Product.html


edit 2: I see Direct2Drive and Steam both sell the game and have UK/Europe regional settings so you'd most likely get the european client from them. Just make sure you state that you're in Ireland or UK and that you're paying in Euros or Sterling.

-Al-

I cancelled my preorder with play after i got the beta key but I still got my head start key today

Still in two minds about this game though. Alot of the time it just feels too much like CoH and the lack of world pvp is bit crap. I like the idea the DC comics MMO has with heroes/villians and it would have been good in this game.

humanji

I'd say what they're going to do is what they did with CoH and release a villains pack some time in the future, as well as more PvP stuff.

-Al-

humanji wrote: »

I'd say what they're going to do is what they did with CoH and release a villains pack some time in the future, as well as more PvP stuff.

Ya I thought that might be the case. Their star trek mmo has world pvp and factions though doesn't it?

Dubhthamlacht

I'm having to wait for my order from Play. But that doesn't worry me. Initial release days for MMO's are generally a bit chaotic and usually calm down after a few days. For those that are playing the early release what's the first impressions? Do you forsee any early patches for fixes/content?

Dcully

Anyone pick this up yet?
Any first impressions ?

humanji

-Al- wrote: »

Ya I thought that might be the case. Their star trek mmo has world pvp and factions though doesn't it?

I'm not sure. I think it does, but they keep changing things about that game so I've bugger all idea what it's about now.

Dcully wrote: »

Anyone pick this up yet?
Any first impressions ?

I have the headstart, but Play.com f*cked up the codes so I only got them yesterday and am downloading the client now. Hopefully it won't take too long to get back to the level I was at before.