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Winter Fashions Aboard the F.H.S. Justice: Formal Wear and Mages’ Gear While we’re working on adding more mission content to Ship of Heroes, here's an update on something that you may not have thought about in a while: our character creator. Even though we’re busy working on missions, we’ve managed to add several new costumes to our expansive collection. “Of course I have the authority to go in here. Just look at my outfit!” Technical [...]

Halloween 2020 Happy Halloween! In space, no one can hear you gorge on candy. True fact. We’re sure that all of you have noticed that missions and mission content are the current focus at Ship of Heroes. A lot of the features of the game are already coded, so it's time to add more and more playable content. Our last newsletter talked a bit about the kinds of missions we’re creating, and the vision [...]

Missions in Ship of Heroes Part 1: The Vision "There is a link to a poll at the bottom of this newsletter. Please VOTE and let your voice be heard."   Now that we have completed our sixth major community event, the invasion tests, it's time to go into detail about missions in Ship of Heroes. This newsletter is the first of several about mission content. Some of you may wish to be totally surprised by the game content – if so, stop reading now! [...]

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 structured and less chaotic. So we are working on that, as you see in the list below. “This one isn't an invasion. It's just a street party that got a little [...]

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 the crashes, so come on down and see how it looks on the 29th. The invasion will be a recurring event once Ship of Heroes launches. Now the invasion has increasing [...]

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 to test and perfect a few elements for larger invasions and big battle situations. We call our simulated invasion “Operation Valhalla”, and we are using it to figure out how big a “big battle” can [...]