Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Champions Online: Your OTHER Chance to be a Legionnaire

It may never make it to market, but I think Cryptic's past track records gives it a fairly good chance of going live, so I thought I'd start a thread for it.

I've signed up for the forums. Has anyone else done so yet?

Haven't signed up yet but I certainly plan to do so. It would be neat to be invited to beta for this game. From everything I've read it will be a great deal of fun though I have zero familiarity with the Champions RPG on which this game is based.

Okay, I've now signed up on the Champion United board.

I'm not in on this one. I'm already subscribing to COH/COV and this fall there is a Stargate MMORPG I plan on joining. I really can't aford three so I'll be passing on Champions

i just might give it a try since i never got around to COH. it says it's coming out on the Xbox360.

Seymour, I know you tried Champions. Have the recent changes caused you to stop playing it?

I haven't played it since it launched. What kind of changes have they made?

I've only heard it second hand from the COH Forums, but apparently their next issue is going to be a paid expansion with just a small level of content, and it's apparently blown up in their faces.

Apparently Champions Online will be going free to play in the first quarter of 2011.


I tried it and found the animation style not to my taste, but it did have some nice features. Those of you who left COH might enjoy giving it a try when it goes free.

So does anyone here currently play this? I just discovered it recently and kind of want some tips before I download it. I've been burned with clunky free games like this before.

I've got a lifetime membership, so I won't really be able to tell what the 'free to play' crowd will be seeing. (Lifetime subs go straight up to the higher tier, as if I was still paying extra for extra bells and whistles.)

It's an interesting game. I like some of the features, such as attacks that, instead of costing power, build up power, so that you can then unleash your better attacks. More comic-book-ish to blast, blast, blast and then hit them with the slobberknocker, I guess than the CoH approach of leading with your big nova sniper blast and then finishing them off as they run at you.

Having one of the 'flight' options being hovering on a floating rock, like Terra, was also neat.

But burrowing, as a movement power? Wow. That's the uber-suck. Not only is it junky (since it's stopped by bumps in the terrain, like sidewalks), but let's just raise our hands and list off as many super-heroes who *tunnel* into combat, shall we?

If you do give it a shot, ActorLad, be sure to test all of your power options *before* you leave the PowerHouse (the building you train in). Once you leave, the powers you selected are 'locked in' and harder to change later with what they amusingly call a 'retcon' instead of a 'respec.' Test them in the PowerHouse, see if you like them, then swap around and play with some others, until you find the one you really like. (Ice Slide, for instance, is *way* less useful than the Flying Rock movement power, or any of the other Flight options, and Teleport takes a lot of getting used to, much like in CoH, and might just flat out not be worth the effort to use.) As long as you don't leave the PowerHouse while testing, you can swap them around for free, until you get one you are happy with.