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October 30, 2020

Halloween Greetings From Ship Of Heroes

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We’ve received a new progress update from the team working on Ship Of Heroes, the superhero-based MMO scheduled to reach completion in 2021….and they brought along a Halloween-themed special video. Ship of Heroes conducted three of their largest server stress tests to date last September. Called Invasion Tests, they were the first truly open beta tests in development history. Mass amounts of heroes were summoned in the same area, and then the game was dumped with tons of enemies to see how many the server could handle. Though they were pleased with how well their coding held up, more tests need to be conducted before release. Here are the recently published notes: Creating and debugging mission content is one of the main focus areas of the SoH dev team right now. They openly say they are preparing for a launch, though no firm date has been set at this point. But apparently, this mission was created during the month of October, which augurs well for the amount of mission content

September 17, 2020

The Results From The Ship Of Heroes Invasion Test

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Late last month, the superhero-based MMO Ship of Heroes conducted what it called a series of “Invasion Tests.” At certain points, the game was dumped with as many enemies as the server could possibly handle. Because a high volume was needed to properly judge how well the game would hold up under such conditions, this was the first Ship of Heroes beta test that everyone was allowed to join. Ship of Heroes conducted three of these Invasion Tests over several Saturdays. They’re now in the process of revising the game based on the data collected, but overall, they say the test went smoothly and there should be no delays for the launch in a few months. “Enabling big battles is one of the most technically challenging features for MMOs,” states the notes provided by Heroic Games. “One of the things that the devs are showcasing in the invasions is that most of the powersets planned for the launch at the end of the year are already in the game, and

April 14, 2020

The Results Of Ship Of Heroes’ Community Event

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Ship of Heroes is an upcoming superhero-based MMO that’s a lot like City of Heroes, except it is centered around a large ship. You ride the ship to various locales, beat up the bad guys in every city, and then travel to the next one. Heroic Games, the team behind Ship of Heroes, has been conducting alpha and beta tests since 2017, and their most recent test was their biggest ever…the Community Event, where anyone who asked could join in. Heroic has conducted several beta tests before this one, but they’ve been closed affairs exclusive to those who donated at least $50 to the project before last October. They decided to open the gates for this new test, though, and granted keys at open request. Over twice as many players joined the open event as there were in the last closed one. This most recent beta included sixty new costume pieces, fully functional vendors, an early peek at the crafting system, and a level cap of 20. Here are some

March 22, 2020

Ship Of Heroes Opens Up Beta To All Supporters

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Ship of Heroes is an upcoming MMO that resembles City of Heroes, except it takes place on a ship. You ride the ship to various locales, beat up the bad guys in every city, and then travel to the next one. Heroic Games, the team behind Ship of Heroes, has been conducting alpha and beta tests since 2017, the most recent of them being the Character Creator Beta in late 2019. This beta was previously accessible to anybody who donated at least $50 to the project before October 15, 2019. But in the light of recent events and the current social isolation of millions, the Ship of Heroes dev team has decided to open the beta up to anyone who asks…not just donators. “We’ve had some questions so we thought we should let people know that most of our team works out of their houses anyway, and while there are a few situations where the kids are at home, which is fun but distracting, we are mostly just plugging away

November 1, 2019

The Ship Of Heroes Character Creator Beta Test Has Begun

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Ship of Heroes is an upcoming MMO that resembles City of Heroes, except it takes place on a ship. You ride the ship to various locales, beat up the bad guys in every city, and then travel to the next one. Ship of Heroes has been conducting alpha and beta tests since 2017, and today, their most important test to date commences: the Character Creator Beta. This Beta is accessible to anybody who donated at least $50 to the project before October 15. What can you expect if you meet that requirement? The dev team shared with us their latest notes and observations: The Ship of Heroes team is answering a question that comes up in their forums and social media: just how much can I change my character’s physical size and proportions? The SoH CCT allows an enormous range of silhouettes. Players can directly control fourteen sets of morphs (plus height) to either bulk their characters up or slim them down, including precise morphs for parts of the body

October 22, 2019

Ship Of Heroes Developer Video #2: The Power Of Morphs

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it won’t be long until the closed beta for Ship of Heroes commences. The sign-up to test the Character Creator Tool (CCT) closed on the 15th, but basically, anybody who donated at least $50 to the project before then will have beta access. The test starts November 1. Ship of Heroes is an upcoming MMO that’s a lot like City of Heroes, except it takes place on a ship. You ride the ship to various locales, beat up the bad guys in every city, and then travel to the next one. Ship of Heroes has been conducting alpha and beta tests since 2017. Today the game’s developers, Heroic Games, published their second developer video, showing off the improvements they’ve made and how powerful the CCT has become. Ship of Heroes is showing their latest work in terms of improvements to the character creator in this newsletter, particularly with regard to the high variability of the faces, hair, skins, and bodies that can be created in their game. A player can

October 14, 2019

Ship Of Heroes Reveals: The Hospital

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It was only a few days ago that we last wrote about Ship of Heroes, but within that time, Heroic Games has revealed a new location and published screenshots and videos of it. This is the hospital, one of the areas you’ll be able to wander around when the Character Creator Tool goes into closed beta this November. To participate in the Beta, you must donate at least $50 to the development of Ship of Heroes — and the cutoff date for this is TOMORROW, so you must move fast. If you’ve donated before, but the amount didn’t equal $50, you can donate whatever amount will add up to that. Ship of Heroes is about to launch a Beta test for donors focused on their character creation tool (CCT). In preparation, they are revealing the interior of the Apotheosis City hospital. Beta participants will be able to run around in the hospital, and players will be able to get missions there in the future. The hospital is an interior instanced

October 11, 2019

Ship Of Heroes Beta Testing Begins November 1

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Ship of Heroes is an upcoming MMO that’s a lot like City of Heroes, except it takes place on a ship. You ride the ship to various locales, beat up the bad guys in every city, and then travel to the next one. Ship of Heroes has been conducting alpha and beta tests since 2017. Today the game’s developers, Heroic Games, at last revealed the date for the game’s first closed beta test for its Character Creator Tool (CCT): November 1. “We are fulfilling our 2017 promise to open the CCT to everyone who has donated at least $50 over the last couple of years, and let them create original characters using our character models and costumes,” says Casey McGeever, CEO of Heroic Games. “We’ve received a large volume of suggestions and requests over the last couple of years, and most of these have been added to our character creator.” To participate in the Beta, you must donate at least $50 to the development of Ship of Heroes — and