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The Superspeed Travel Power Video Back when we first announced Ship of Heroes, we planned to launch with three travel powers: flight, superspeed and teleportation.  Of these, we judged that flight was the most difficult to get right, so we created that one first.  Now we're introducing superspeed to the game.  We're also taking the opportunity to show off a few other movement-related animations that we’ve added to the game.  And we’re planning a future video on improvements to our [...]

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 are level two and level three – their names are color-coded in yellow and orange to show the difference. Devastators should be very careful around higher-level enemies. [...]

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 aboard the FHS Justice who are the top authorities on fighting the main threats to the ship: Ambassador, Strikewell, Meltdown, Sword Blossom, and Iris.  Together, they are popularly referred to as the "big five."  Today, [...]

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 UI features and capabilities.  Here are a few shots from in-game which address questions we’ve received.  The first set of pictures shows that a player can adjust the size of all of the UI elements [...]

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 our video creation process, so in the meantime we'll be publishing some internal footage to keep you updated on what's going on with Ship of Heroes. Improved textures in the [...]

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 considerable effort by our coders and artists to adapt and upgrade our game code and art to the new version.  For the last nine months we’ve been developing exclusively in UE 4.18.  But it is [...]