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Champions Online Beta Sign Ups Open
Chris Faylor
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City of Heroes and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios today opened registration for the closed PC beta of its superpowered MMO Champions Online.

Those seeking to role-play the virtual life of a super hero can apply for beta access on the game's official site, with the PC-only beta slated to begin in mid-November.

"This closed beta is an exciting step in the evolution of Champions Online," said Cryptic creative officer Jack Emmert. "All of us here in the Cryptic offices have been playing the game for a while now, and we're excited to invite others in to have as much fun with Champions Online as we've been having internally."

Champions Online is scheduled to launch on PC and "current gen consoles" in spring.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • atom519 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    October 13, 2008 12:42 PM

    Oh snap, count me in on this!

    Played CoH/CoV for over a year and loved them. Here's hoping they properly addressed the flaws in the original two.

    • i poop from there legacy 10 years
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      October 13, 2008 12:58 PM

      i loved CoH. leading the raid on Hamidon, doing all the Task Forces, the PvP while pretty unbalanced was fun with a couple friends. im going to sign up too. i played CoH longer than i played WoW. and WoW has a ton more content. but the ppl in CoH were more friendly and i liked that.

      • atom519 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 13, 2008 1:02 PM

        Have to agree with the playerbase being more friendly in general, I met quite a few online friends with CoH.

        Hamidon raids were a blast. I was really sad to log on after a couple months of inactivity and learn they nerfed the rewards and no one runs them anymore. :(

        Unbalanced is an understatement for PvP, but yes it was fun.

        • i poop from there legacy 10 years
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          October 13, 2008 1:25 PM

          ya. Stalkers were just so stupid. all they did was hit, run til invisible, then hit again. guaranteeing a critical everytime. so annoying. and the NRG punches were ridiculous.

          but one of my major gripes was with the Stone Controllers pet. Stoney was soooooooooo effing stupid. he was so bad he was useless. i havent played the game in ages....did they implement any kind of user control over pets?

          • atom519 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            October 13, 2008 1:42 PM

            I don't think so. I had a 50 earth/bubble controller and yes, that dumb poo was a freaking retard.

            Like you said, the scrappers were insanely overpowered shortly after they released the arenas (didn't play for too long afterwords to see if they patched classes) - but we had a pretty solid 3's team of controllers that made us damn near invincible.

      • The_Archon legacy 10 years
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        October 13, 2008 1:02 PM

        Not right now you don't. Sorry, just wanted to do that.

        I enjoyed CoH too, but I like being evil more, glad to see they have that built in from the get-go here. I'll sign up.

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