Leveling and Augments Video Happy Memorial Day to all of our supporters! In this video we’re tackling some technical aspects of leveling, character progression, and buffs. First, a brand new fire Devastator runs into some Prometheans. Note that she is level one, but the Prometheans [...]
Sword Blossom's Origin Story This weekend marks the 15-year anniversary of the launching of the closed MMORPG, City of Heroes. We want to honor that anniversary with a newsletter that reveals more of the backstory for one of the signature heroes aboard the FHS Justice. There are five heroes [...]
The Best UI in the Galaxy As you can tell from the title of this newsletter, our marketing team is feeling confident. We often get questions about the UI of Ship of Heroes. So we thought we'd provide an update on some of the work we’ve done recently on [...]
Video 27 -- Internal Footage City Improvements Game developers often share videos among themselves as a way to convey progress. These videos are generally not very polished – they're simply intended to show the current progress in a part of the game. We're currently [...]
Upgrading to Engine Version 4.21 In the middle of 2016 we originally began the development of Ship of Heroes with the then-current version of the Unreal Engine, version 4.11.3. As development proceeded, we upgraded our engine version several times, and each upgrade brought new features, but also required a [...]
2018 Holiday Video Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Our successful login tests on December 15th took everything we had, so recording this video had to wait until after the Christmas holiday. But we have some very exciting new game elements to show. [...]
2018 – Accelerating to Lightspeed The Year in Review It's been a very good year for our Ship of Heroes team. Despite some delays, we've surpassed every challenge and pushed forward, moving ever closer to launch. Those of you who were with us all year have seen extremely rapid, [...]
Registration for the First Login Test A screengrab from recent automated FPS testing in Ship of Heroes On December 15th, at about 10 in the morning eastern time, we’re going to conduct a login test with Ship of Heroes supporters and devs. In [...]
Restorative Nanites Powerset The 30th of November marks six years since City of Heroes closed. Two years ago, we launched the Ship of Heroes website and announced that we were using the closed MMORPG as a major inspiration for a completely new game. CoH [...]
FPS Success in SoH An FPS test with 103 heroes and 103 Nagdellians under the Arch. FPS is 31.6. Blue Man is our lead coder's favorite test character. Hello, Ship of Heroes supporters! This newsletter is quite different from what we’ve published in the past. [...]
