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. [...]
2018 Halloween Video Happy Halloween, Ship of Heroes supporters! The arrival of Halloween kicks off the holiday season for many of us, and Halloween will be one of the three confirmed special event periods aboard the Justice. Last year we showed off the Dark Magic [...]
Day and Night in Apotheosis City This video shows off the current state of the game map, especially the new day/night cycle effects on the look of the city. In order to give you the best sense of just how good this change looks in-game, we’ve sped [...]
Civilians and Cars Video Hi everybody! In this video Dr. Strikewell takes a little jog through the Arch Park in the center of Apotheosis City, and shows us how immersive an MMO can be once there are civilians walking around and cars driving along the [...]
Civilians and Cars One of the key goals in any game is immersion in the story. One facet of immersion in an MMO is allowing significant numbers of players to be one the screen at the same time. But the players are not the only people in the universe [...]
