Champions Online Vacation - Contact info

Howdy brethren and sistren! I just pre-ordered Champions Online from Direct2Drive. The countdown is eight days til Beta, and I'm looking forward to a lot of spandex and butt-kicking. I'm planning on playing Champions (mainly) and Free Realms (with the kids) for approximately a month and a half after the 8/17 beta-date. That being the case, I won't be on Warhammer much during that period. I haven't read much on the upcoming patch (I like feeling surprised :) but I'm hoping that by the time my superhero vacation is done, the patch will be out.

Anyway, is there anyone else in the family that is going to spend some time defeating eeevil in Champions?

Once the beta erupts on 8/17, I'm going to post to this thread with server, character, etc. In the meantime, if there's enough family support, maybe we can think about branching out into Champions (at least for a while). Any ideas on a name for a Guild branch in a superhero setting?

I'll be getting champions as well. I don't have any plans on dropping Warhammer.

Herms and I have also pre-ordered from D2D. Tropic Oil Man and Captain Ok shall once again fight the dastardly evil doers!

I'll be there. Sadly, I won't be able to play beta until the last three days. I'll be on vacation.

I have no plans on dropping War - but maybe I need to check out this Champions ... I played COH but only for 6 months as it got boring after that.

Damn - I preordered - was hoping I wouldn't like it - my limit is 3 games - so FallenEarth is getting postponed as I already play 2. The PvP sold me - as long as there is some form of it besides duels - I got to try it and I've always liked the Super Hero thingy. Pretty sure I will either go Supernatural or Sorcery both appeal to me. What time will you be posting the info on your server/character - I won't be in game until after noon on 8/17 pst.

I will be joining Damihdez and others as well in the super hero world. I have canceled the account with Warhammer as of this morning. I can only afford one game at a time. I am not saying I will not return but, want to see the new options out there. I am preordered on it so will have Beta as well to work with on making the decision. I will give the game max 2 months before finalizing and see where warhammer is at that time. I will still stay active on here with the family but, not in the warhammer universe for the near future. I might also get more into free realms.

Have fun. Hope it is better than CoH. CoH felt like a giant cookie cutter.

I had fun in COH for 6 months - and it was a lot of fun. After that it was ho-hum. Champions has some PvP from the start - and hopefully they will keep adding stuff. - I'm also such a geeky gal (and proud of it) that I paid for 6 months up front since it will get me into the closed Beta of Star Trek On-line which could be my dream game - or a complete dud. But I will still be around here for some time. since I'm going Sorcery/Supernatural I plan on keeping the name Morigana if it is available.

@ Morgiana: I probably won't be able to log on until the evening of the 17th. Work is a drag that way :( I will check this post before logging in, though, so if you log in earlier than me just drop a line on here with the server. I'll do that also in case I don't see one listed here yet. @ everyone else: Or if someone else beats us to the punch, I'll just join the first server listed by anyone in the family :) I haven't settled on a power set yet, but the Chainsaw Gauntlet looks fun. I'll probably try everything knowing me.

OK will do. After reading the some of the posts on the forums - is there really different servers? They made it sound like one big world with different instances - when one fills up another one opens - so you just join the one your friends are in. I'm still reading on it. I'm really trying to figure out the power set thing - since you can dabble in anything you can really mix and match for all sorts of possibilities... little Electricity - little Sorcery - little ice .... It is going to be tough to decide - just going to come up with what I want my character to be and do - and pick skills that go with her. I think I'm going to mix Ice, Electricity, Sorcery, and Supernatural for a Druid type character - other option is same skills sets but different skills from them for a Vampire - would be heavier Supernatural with the claw, bite, and enerrgy drain - I also want to call me a pair of wolves with either character. Morigana Wolfram - no fancy butt kicking name. "Wolfram" is connected both to the sorceress and the vampire characters in obscure ways. Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Parzival calls the famous Sicilian volcano Etna "The Mountain of Morgan the Fairy". Wolfram and Hart was the demonic law firm in the series Angel.

I haven't come up with any serious hero personae yet, but I did think of fun dark knight type. His power set would be based around martial arts and a chainsaw gauntlet, and I'll name him Faceripper :D

Morigana Wolfram just doesn't roll off the tongue - so it bothers me. I may go totally unique - or just crazy. I have been know to reroll a character just to change the dang name. I have to be happy with it - or they don't get played. I agonize too much over dang names - I know I do. May do ... Anubia I've based many characters after Egyptian goddesses - and this was a play on Anubus. I can give her an Egyptian look. Anyway - I'll post here as soon as I figure it out and I'm in.

typo on Anubis - cang it. And will add... This works with my Supernatural/Darkness/Force power sets. Anubia was my Necro in AOC - probably my favorite character in that game.

Damn, Beta starts today and I'm in NY with my cousin. He owns a Mac and his PC is too crappy it can't even play Warcraft III. So I can't play champs until Saturday night. But as for characters, I might go with Metalhead -former guitar tech turned superhero- using Power Armor/Gadgeteer.

They are have some major issues with the patcher and - problems with files provided by File Planet - whether it's FP problem or Cryptics - no one is saying. Lots of angry peeps though - only few have made it into the game from the posts. I've been in enough Open Betas to realize it is part of the testing - but the file screw up was a simple issue some one should have caught. Seems some files weren't placed in the right folder. Numerous work-arounds posted on the boards, and if I find one that works I'll let you all know - right now my patcher is frozen - been attempting to get in for several hours using the posted work-arounds.

Herms and I gave up patching after 4 hours. We will try again late tonight. From what I understand, the patch which we all need now was up on Saturday.. Why they would not let anyone pre-patch (since we could pre-download the client) I do not know. In addition, the first instructions from Cryptic was to move the very files you downloaded in the client.. Which then get zeroed out and you have to patch the whole 3 gb instead of 900 mb (when I did this my 3 gb install went to 18 mb.. heh). They later removed all the help info as it just made things worse. Even with 900 mb to go.. after 3 hours I had only gotten 100 mb down.. and that is with the app crashing and getting disconnected over and over. Oh well. I guess Champs is off to a rough start.

I have, as of yet, found no solution. But I am a pesistent bitch. Tomorrow I am off to Phoenix so I won't be messing with it until later tomorrow night - but I still have a few hours to work on it before bed time. Just relaxing and watching TV while I try.

OK - I uninstalled the previous downloads - although maybe I didn't have to - and then did exactly what was on the main page for Champions... downloading the latest file from FP they linked - and downlading the independent file they linked and loaded it from that file. Afterwards it was a 32 mb file which patched in minutes and I was in the game for about an hour - but I'm tired now. Camed my character Nytemare - as she is going to be a sorc/vampire. I actually do feel kind of super in the game - at lvl 1 I took on 4 lvl 3s and survived - I was surprised. I was exploring and made a wrong turn. The faces are kind of bland - but the costumes themselves are pretty nice - so if you use a lot of head gear - that won't matter. Reminds me a lot of COH but with a tad better graphics. some features are lacking that I am use to in more complex MMO-s but I just want to have some fun. Need - sleep/// Told you all I was a persistent bitch - never get on my bad side....I'm also manipulative - evil combination. Safe journ...

So I finally found a PC here in NY that can manage to run the beta. I didn't had any problems patching the game but it took me about 8 hours to finish it. I wasn't able to play the game in length because I was stuck in the Character Creation screen. There's just so much to do in it, much more than Aion. I probably made 7 characters in total until I decided to try out Devastator. He's my character tribute to Warhammer Universe -Devastator which is the name of the T3 armor set in WAR and his look is based on Space Marines. I only got to level 2 though and decided to stop because my cousin's machine is grunting.

Okay, I now have gotten into the game a played around a bit. First impressions are that it's a lot like CoH, but grittier. This is a good thing for me, and may hold my interest for a while. The power sets I've used so far are a lot of fun, especially the travel powers. Crafting is pretty detailed; sort of R&D-lite, and the system looks like it will be pretty amusing. And yes, it looks like there is no server separation per se. The whole game is instanced and partitioned off. Kind of a neat way to handle things. Characters: Faceripper, Spinechusher

I love playing around with characters - just created Wendigo - A Indian Shaman whose spirit was called backed due to the atrocities man was committing on the earth and is now embroiled in the battle to save the planet. she will be using bits of all the elements - fire, ice, lighting and wind (force) and she'll fly around on a chunk of the earth. Plan on doing some summoning also from Sorcery... Wish I could have a feather cloak....

CO has an incredible character creator. I was impressed. The game itself is fun. The "energy builder" power in all the sets is an auto-attack but most of them have different use animations which makes them seem different.. I think that is nifty. As an example.. When using the Force energy builder it just goes off over and over.. The Telepathy one does the same but has a bar that appears on the screen and goes down in cycles.. another power has a bar go up... The travel powers are awesome. Imagine COH then add in a whole buch more cool power... I made a man-mole mutant who found Jesus. He knows martial-arts and has the underground "tunneling" travel power. He runs haunched like a beast, in a padded tunic and tightey-whitie briefs, while a golden halo floats over his head. He is known as: "Holy Moley" So far it is fan and a well made game. I like it a lot.

It's awesome that you get your Travel powers as early as level 6. I like that a lot. Yeah, the role-playing potential in this game is limitless. I've made huge hero with rock skin, he's the son of a Mountain God that became a vocalist for a rock band and calls himself B.A.R.D (Bad Ass Rock Dude). I made Metalhead, a guitar and sound engineer (he works for B.A.R.D.) that uses his sonic gadgets to fight crime. Finally, I also made Anoron (the name of my War Lion in WAR), he's a guy who loves martial arts and a body art enthusiast. He went through extreme surgical modifications to his body to look more cat-like (kinda like that Stalking Cat dude in RL).

I'm playing a character by the name of Frawg. I love the way you can choose an open framework for your character in Champions. I'm going up the Sorcery chain right now for the healing and the holds. I went ahead and bought a lifetime account. I quit CoH after about 6 months. Went back to play CoV which kept me occupied on and off for a couple of years. I have always enjoyed the unique look of my characters in CoV. Frawg is 7 ft tall, green, and totally naked with the exception of a few well placed fins. I will miss raiding with Gaiscioch in Warhammer. But I'm sure our paths will cross again now that I know where you all live. ;) I've been speaking in game with some old friends via Xfire. Xfire is cool because you don't have to have some set up a server. Xfire hosts your chat rooms and it's free. I may give Aion a try - it looks gorgeous. Look me up. Corae, Coronita (Camille)

I also purchased a lifetime account. I think Herms will as well. $200 is a good deal. If you play around 14 months it pays for itself. I found out something cool in CO.. You pick which stats increase your damage.. No matter what powers you chose. All stats have effects and increasing them will apply that effect more to your abilities.. But none of them directly increase damage for any ability or power by default. At level 6 and level 13 you chose a super stat. Each of those stats, when raised afterwords, will increase the damage you do with your powers. No other stats increase damage (but their original effect will still increase). In most all games STR increases melee damage. In this game it ONLY does so if you chose if for a super stat. STR (if chosen) could just as well increase Fire ranged damage.. or Martial Arts or Power Armor or even Munitions (hand guns). This allows you to make the hero you want with the stats you want. As an example.. Lets say you want some weak, skinny, nerdy, martial artist. He has read everything on martial arts and knows where to put his finger to paralzye or even kill you.. like Spock. So you chose Intelligence for his first super stat.. Representing his knowledge. Whenever you increase INT from then on, all his martial arts abilties will do more damage. Since you did not chose STR it will not help his ability damage.. if that makes sense =) I have just started doing Hero Games where 2 teams fight it out in a UFC Cage match. First team to 15 kills wins. The PvP can be really cool. This is a cool game and very fun. I am a happy camper so far.

One other thing that is really cool is that you can pick up things in the city.. Mailboxes, benches, streetlamps, cars, 2 1/2 ton trucks, etc.. If you are strong enough.. and you can hit people with it or throw it at them to hurt them. You can fly/superjump with it in your hands too. Not many Heroes or bad guys like having an Armored Car thrown at them (and in most cases it will kill them at my low level). Objects are rated: Light, Medium, Heavy, Massive, Gigantic, Colossal, and Titanic. Massive requires 50 STR. Gigantic requires 80. I have not been able to lift anything more yet. Also, the travel powers are really cool. You get your first one at level 6 and the second at 35. There are many types of flight, couple kinds of jump, acrobatics (mix of speed and jump), superspeed, tunneling (bad guys dont see you underground and cant hurt you), ice-sliding (like flying but slower ups and faster downs), swinging (like spiderman), and teleporting (which is like flying at high speed while phased out of reality). Yep.. I am liking it a lot.

Got to stop posting on Champs =)... But... Anyone can have any name for their toon since your name is: XXXXXX@Displayed-Account-Name I set my displayed-account-name as: Asakara One of my toons is named: Tropical Oil Man So to talk to him you would need /tell Tropical Oil Man@Asakara This way you do not have to worry about losing your favorite name to someone else. Some of my names (all @Asakara): Tropical Oil Man (will be my main) Atomic Albino Smashamatician (with his smashmatical mathmatical formulas) Filipino Fury Flaming Frank The Suggester (I have a suggestion!) Dr Quackglow (Quack-Quack-Quack-Quack) Holy Moley Dr Scharpwinkel (more of a villian) Judge Mental Ok.. Sorry to hog the thread =)

Judge Mental! That's one cool name. The thing about Champions is that you can't stop making toons. So now I don't know who's going to be my main. I really like flight in the game because there's no timer! (unlike some other game, LOL).

Well - I'm actually ashamed of myself now. Please don't bash me - but I made a Jedi - yep - a Jedi.. Main line is Force Powers with Force Bolts, Force Eruption, then gadgets where I got blaster - finally I have laser sword from the power armor line. I'll also pick up some electrical powers along with more force powers and munitions bots and medical droids higher up. She flies around on the flying disc - but on release I'll probably take teleport as I have tried it out and like it a lot. Her name is Kalypso Kane - which was the name I was going to use in Fallen Earth, but I dropped it. Her background story isn't as a jedi though - but when you see her with her flowing hooded long coat and she starts using the laser sword - you just have to think...

Well - ultimately I have settled on an Asian looking character who has a blue tinge - combining many aspects I like - took her from the movie Big Trouble in Little China which is one of my favorite "Saturday Matinee" class movies. She will have Martial Arts, Electric, Force, and Munitions - mainly becasue I want Gun Kata - her name is ... Kalypso Kane @ morigana - she will be my first character made once the headstart begins - and I'm gonna try and stick with her for quite a while. See you all in game - will be back here to check thread so I can begin a friends list.

Umm...Looks like this game is going down even before the launch. It's funny that during the open beta people were praising this game in the forums. Then they closed the Limited Time Offers yesterday -stating that supplies are running out- and then shit started flying in the forums. People are now threatening Atari and Cryptic that they'll cancel their pre-orders if they don't reinstate the offers. I'm actually one of the many who wanted the lifetime offers. Just because it'll be cheaper to get that without worrying about a monthly payment. I don't really care about the STO beta access or the in-game bonuses that come with it. So I'm pretty PO'ed as well. Just sucks that they told it's a Limited TIME offer when it's actually a Limited Quality offer

*Quantity, not quality.

Well, Beta is over now and I can tear myself away to jot down a note here ;). Overall, I like the game, but I think it could use some improvements. The quests generally make you feel like a superhero, but are also generally cookie-cutter type quests. For example, I got one quest to disable a base's radar dishes and AA guns, and then load a virus into their computer system. Awesome! But before that I had like 20 kill-quests, and afterward I had like 20 kill-quests. Travel powers freaking rock. Custom frameworks freaking rock. Unfortunately, I've found that the set frameworks don't. PVP is disappointing. The setting of it is really cool; it's a UFC-type reality TV show with supers. But they end up being crazy-fast kill fests with very little strategy. I've also found that the extent of the tactics seem to be "fly or die". Character creation is tons of fun, and nemesis creation is even more fun! Faceripper's nemesis is an Force-using angel with an army of Darkness-imbued infernals at her beck and call. All in all, it is a lot of fun, but I'm not sure how long past a month it will keep me interested. My account is @Damidez, and I will probably have a Damidez character after launch. I did like the way Faceripper turned out, so he will also make a comeback after launch.

They reinstated the offers until Aug. 31st. and much of the whining on the forums is actually sarcasm - if you just read the topics they seem real - but when you open up the thread they are being sarcastic over some of the posts that are actually whining - problem is - makes it look much worse than it is. The good part is they sold many more subscriptions than they thought they would - there were always plenty of people in the game - bad part - lots of those people are age 12. Bad part .... I can't keep from making characters - I'm addicted to creating personas. Bad part - I'm not fond of the cage matches but I never checked out the Prison Break Scenario for the PvP - I'm hoping they add more scenario PvP along the lines of the prison break. Good part...lots of spawn points so I can get back into the action really quick. Fighting the Megadroids at "End of Beta" event - I was spawning almost at the feet of one of them - inside instances you respawn at the beginning of the instance - it was nice. I think I can drag 6 months out of it as long as I don't go crazy playing it for 8 hours a day.

Yeah, the reinstated it. Though I think that was more of a PR move to make us think that -by bringing back the offers- they care about the community. Worse, they're making us think that they sold a lot so we'd buy more Lifetime Offers because the game is going to be huge. Then they'll go Tabula Rasa on us. Man, I'm so pessimistic today. Must be the weather and the migraine.

Just a reminder, early access starts today. So those of you who've pre-order from retail stores (Best Buy, Gamestop) and those who paid for a limited offer can get on in the action today. Anyways, I've decided that my main will be The Hoodlum. He's a combination of two Marvel characters, The Hood and Deadpool. Both of which are also gun totting characters. My e-mail is The Hoodlum@Skron

f*&# I still can't get past making characters - it's insane - I have 4 to lvl 10 or beyond and going to start my 5th. All of them have background stories too. I'm gonna get rid of one - she just didn't cut it... But right now I have Witch Gun Nytewing Vertigo and Kalypso Kane is being made shortly. all @Morigana

OK - I am playing as.. Cloudburst@morigana She is a custom build Ice/Elec/force and I played her up to lvl 14 and I'm now tired. I'm not going to far off the beaten path with her since I want to keep her themed with thunder/lightning/sleet-snow. Right now I fly around on the ice sled - which is the hardest damn travel power to control - falls like a rock when you stop moving forward - but it's the only thing that fits the character. Eventually I can get the Mist Form in Ice - and fly around as a cloud - not sure how fast it is though. They did a nice job on all the travel forms - the ice one makes you slip and slide all over the place - more so than any of the others. I actually feel like I.m on ice. Hate the falling when I stop - but it is suppose to be like gliding on ice - not floating.

Greets to all, So Champions turned out to be not so stellar in my opinion. Launch day brought a HUGE nerf which nerfed about 40-50% of a player's relative power vs bad guys and a big XP nerf to slow progression way down. The weeks that followed brought more and more nerfs which helped divide the community into ragequitters and fanatical fanbois. When people would say they don't feel like a Superhero any more the fanbois would say that you are NOT a Hero but a Champion who is trying to get to being a hero.. Meh. Crafting was pretty decent at first. Then they nerfed the heck out of it and limited what stats you could put in a specific slot. They also removed crafting recipes (and deleted ones already purchased from your toon w/o compensation). I maxed crafting before the nerf and lost a bit of cash from the deletion of purchased recipes. Crafting went from all right to somewhat lame over night. The kicker for me was when they removed the ability to see NPC names all the time so you have to spam TAB to find a target rather than just looking at the screen... and they said that seeing NPC names "always" was never supposted to be an option. It is like taking your car in for service and they board up the side and back windows.. saying windows were never meant to be on the car in those locations. The only MMO to not allow players to always see NPC names.. let alone the only one to take it away from their customers. There is a real lack of content. There is enough to ALMOST get you to level 40 solo but only if you do everything. So when you make an alt you only have the excat same quests to look forward to (and you have to do em all again or grind). Blah. When you get to 40 (which I did with one toon and Herms did with 2 toons) you find there is very little to do. You can get 5-6 missions from a computer a day which takes about 30-45 min to do them all. You can get a single Nemesis mission every 6 hours.. Or you can PvP 5v5 or FFA in arean matches (which is not much fun since people get too personal and focus on you the whole night no matter what... let alone PvP builds vs concept or PvE builds). Oh well. I think I will be heading to Fallen Earth for a bit, though I am watching the Warhammer forums now and again. Be well my friends and allies. /sorry if there are typos. I tried to find them. =)

Long time no post, compadres! Kurly and I are still smashing it up in Champions, and I see Moreden and Bulzeye there weekly at least. For the rest of the family, I thought I would drop some pics of Damidez here for your viewing enjoyment. No ETA on the end of my WAR-vacation yet, but I definitely miss running around and lighting fires with y'all!