Invasion Event Newsletter With this newsletter, our Invasion Beta Event has officially ended for now. Over the three runs, we observed that Devastators were overwhelmingly the most popular character archetypes for the event (Tankers were second), and that the community has a preference for us to make the fight more [...]
Fight the Berserker on August 29th The first run ended… quickly. On Saturday the 29th, we will have our third run of the Nagdellian invasion. We’ve made changes in response to the first couple of runs, and we think we have fixed most of [...]
Operation Valhalla On Saturday we will have the first instance of our next public event: an alien invasion reminiscent of the massive invasions and task forces of City of Heroes. To prepare for this event, we’ve created a big battle simulator within Ship of Heroes [...]
Nagdellians Invade! We are very pleased to announce that we will hold our first community test of the Nagdellian Invasion on Saturday, August 15th, 2020. We will be activating a sign-up sheet and looking for about forty volunteers for the Beta test of the invasion event in Ship of Heroes. [...]
Internal Video Six – How Fast is Too Fast? In the recent SoH community event, we got some feedback that our combat is now too fast. So we went through the various powersets looking for the fastest one. Twin Swords currently delivers the fastest combat experience [...]
Internal Video Five – First Test of Riot at the Arches We just finished a surprise community event in which we let anyone with a forum ID from the SoH forums test out the current state of Ship of Heroes. During this event, we did [...]
Community Event Success Apotheosis City looks great at sunrise. The March-April Ship of Heroes community event has now ended. This was a free event we hosted to add a little fun into the lives of our community members, many of who have been stuck at home [...]
Community Event Newsletter With the launch of this newsletter, the Ship of Heroes community event is now fully underway, and will likely run for about two weeks. This is a free event we're hosting to add a little fun into the lives of our community, many of whom are [...]
The Street Fighting Powerset - Development Video #4 “Ahh! There’s sand in my eyes!” This is our fourth developer video – we’re showing you what we see internally as we build a new powerset. This isn't the first internal video of this powerset; it's roughly [...]
The Speed of Melee Combat Video Over the last ten years, the average speed of melee combat has been increasing in MMOs, with faster attacks and less time spent waiting before the next attack. At the same time, movies like the Avengers have adopted and [...]
