Champions Online's official State of the Game makes its public debut

by Kyle Horner Jun 18th 2009 at 10:00AM

Filed under: New titles, News items, Champions Online

It's always appreciable when a developer makes as much effort as it can to not only listen to their community, but respond in kind as well. The fairly regular Ask Cryptic features have gone great lengths to achieve a nice give and take, but we're really excited for the first public State of the Game for Champions Online.

There's a lot to take in, but we've decided to focus on the first topic, which is about power selection. The current system has players visiting an UNTIL database whenever they level, but many players weren't happy about having to check in with "The Man" every time they grew stronger. Plus there's that time sink in having to go run back to a computer with every new level.

Thankfully Cryptic has found a good middle-ground on the issue. They're keeping the UNTIL computers, but adding a "Hazard Vault" where new powers can be tried before they're purchased. In a game where the look of your character is of the utmost importance to a large portion of the player base -- including us here at Massively -- we're completely stoked to hear this news. Try before we buy? Oh yes, please.

Tags: ask-cryptic, atari, beta, champions, champions-online, cryptic, cryptic-studios, leveling, state-of-the-game

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Wisdomandlore said on 10:38AM 6-18-2009

The game has a lot of great ideas and looks fantastic...let's hope for a solid launch (I wonder how many "beta testers" will break the NDA and tell everyone how horrible the game is?).

JP said on 10:49AM 6-18-2009

Um... That state of the game doesn't make the Sept 1 launch date very enticing.

Developers really need to let the beta testers play and fully fleshed out game w/ all mechanics for 1-2 months.

While its great they are adjusting to what beta testers are offereing, this sounds like theres a lot of implementation still going on, and these new aspects will need to be tested and retested.

I mean, they still have to implement new zones and the WHOLE nem system?

Federico said on 10:56AM 6-18-2009

I'm so looking forwards to this game

ScytheNoire said on 11:01AM 6-18-2009

Ummm... it doesn't address why there aren't more people in the Beta... you know, like me. :P

Richter said on 9:47PM 6-18-2009

I'll tell you right now the game is horrible. I had such high hopes for it, but it feels nothing like a superhero game. Just a boring, ugly grind right now. I keep going to uninstall it, but I leave it on my drive in the hopes that the next patch will somehow fix things.