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The Mission Event and Utility Powers When a hero starts glowing like that, you know things are about to get serious. Signups for our upcoming mission Beta event will begin on July 31st! The event itself is scheduled for August 7th. More on that soon, but today, we want to update you on some aspects of powers in SoH that are important, and easy to overlook.   For those of you who were not able to join our previous events, when [...]

The Mission Event Begins in July!   The Red Sigil will feature heavily in the upcoming event. We've been working hard to set up another Ship of Heroes Beta event, and now the time is approaching.  We have wanted to show off a full mission arc for some time, as well as some other missions.  It did take longer to bugfix than we had hoped, but you can expect to try out these missions in late June or July.  We [...]

Summer 2021 Schedule The FHS Justice uses futuristic liquid coolants to keep the engines from overheating. Our last newsletter talked a bit about the kinds of events we did in 2020, as well as our winter holiday content. In this newsletter we want to talk about the next upcoming event, our overall plans for 2021, and some new areas of Apotheosis City that we’ve created.   We're creating a lot of different types of content this year: task forces, holiday events, [...]

2020 Holidays Mission Video Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We’ve had a great year at Heroic Games.   Among other achievements, we conducted a very large community event in March and April to keep people entertained during the pandemic. Our second major event of the year in September was focused on big battles, and we determined exactly what we needed to do to get 100+ customized characters in close-quarters combat. We also applied FX and animations to all of the [...]

Creating a Mission Map in SoH Hello, everyone! We hope that you're all happy and full of Thanksgiving goodness. This is part three of a series on how we create missions. You can see the previous parts here and here. We previously covered how the mission design is created when the mission’s story is written. But what happens when the art team gets ahold of that design? Today's video features James Smith, who leads our small team of technical artists [...]

Mission Creation in Ship of Heroes We've been asked if enemies will ever switch sides and work with the heroes. The answer is yes, at least for the Yekus mercenaries. Other factions are less… flexible. Our audience loves to play MMORPGs. But most of us only have a very general idea of how they are brought to life. Today we want to explain a little bit about how we create interesting missions in Ship of Heroes, since it's something we're [...]