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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. As always, you are free to record the event. If it crashes or glitches, we will just fix it. And as a community-based game, we’re not too shy about letting all of you see what [...]

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 – the Blink and Slash power puts a Brawler right on top of enemies without warning, and the other attack powers have short recharge times. In other words, a Twin Swords Brawler is a burst [...]

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 some additional unscripted testing of our riot event, in which players must face waves of enemies. In this video three devs and nine players responded to the call to test the riot code for the [...]

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 due to the coronavirus. The event was a resounding success – more than twice as many people created characters and jumped into the city this time as did during our formal character creator Beta back [...]

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 at home due to the coronavirus. This is not a real Beta in which we would ask you to keep an eye out for bugs; there are bugs aplenty, and we're already working on fixing [...]

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 number 12. At this point, we think Street Fighting is ready to share with our community so that we can get feedback. Street Fighting is mostly a single-target powerset, and it's our second unarmed melee [...]