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IGN recently visited Paragon Studios to get a sneak peek of City of Heroes Going Rogue™! They got an up close and personal view of the expansion and experienced first hand some of its most exciting features. Now they want to share their initial impressions with you, so head on over to IGN to see their thoughts on City of Heroes Going Rogue!
To join in the community discussion of this announcement, please go here.
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This week's winner managed the rare achievement of getting both myself and EMpulse to laugh out loud at the same time.
Congrats RedSwitchblade!
Hang on, hang on... trying not to laugh here... it's just that 'seers' in my world didn't have buckets on their heads. We saved that honor for Tyrant.
Please contact me Red with the costume code of your choice!
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San Diego Comic-Con is only a week away and Going Rogue is just around the corner...which is why we're celebrating it with a Preview Party/Player Meet and Greet at the show!
But now, in addition to previewing Going Rogue, hanging out with the Developers and the Community Teams, enjoying some refreshments and partying down, there is even more fun available for those attending!
We're going to be running some activities during the event that could win you a memento! But you'll only know about them if you become a "Fan" of ours on Facebook or if you "Follow" us on Twitter and then link your smart phone to receive notifications from our pages during the event! Don't miss out...do it now!
Go here to become a Fan of our Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/CityofHeroes
Go here to Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CoH_OCR
Comic-Con is all about getting in touch with your inner pop culture geek, so we'd like to encourage those of you planning on wearing a costume during the convention to wear it to our event! Everyone who comes to the party in their Comic-Con Costume will receive a special raffle ticket that will go into a ballot box. During the party, three lucky individuals will be randomly picked to have a custom made drawing of themselves in their costumes sketched by our Art Lead and Comic Book Artist, David Nakayama! So strut your stuff all dressed up and win perhaps one of the best remembrances from the show that anyone can offer you!
If you have already RSVP'ed for the festivities from 7:30pm - 11:00pm on Friday, July 23rd at the Hard Rock Hotel's "Edge Room" you should have already received your confirmation email (check your account!). If you haven't RSVP'ed yet, there is still time to do so and space is limited so it's important that you RSVP and arrive as close to 7:30pm as possible, for when we hit capacity (400 bodies), no one else will be let in until people start leaving! Remember, you must be 21 years of age or older to attend.
Go here to read about all of our San Diego Comic-Con activities and to find out how to RSVP to the Going Rogue Preview Party/Player Meet and Greet. PLEASE check with the people you are RSVPing for before you do so to make sure they are not RSVPing for themselves! Too many people are RSVPing for the same group of individuals resulting in duplicates and triplicates of the same names!
We hope to see you there (in costume and with your cell phones hooked up to Facebook and Twitter!)
To discuss this announcement, please go here.
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Welcome to Creative Caption Craziness -- a fun weekly forum game. Every Friday, well post up a new pic for you to write your most creative caption for. Youll have until 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern / 1:00am British / 2:00 Central European Time to post it, then the judging will commence. The winner will receive the forum title of Caption Champ [date] and the Costume Code of his/her choice from one of the following:
- Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
- Freakshow Tank Boss
- Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
- Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
- Knives of Artemis Lt.
- Praetorian Clockwork
The winning entry will be re-posted in the thread (along with the authors name), as well as in a thread consisting ONLY of the winning entries as they are picked, so that people can see all the winners at a glance if they want to. It will be your chance to achieve some small measure of forum immortality!
Now just a few rules, to keep things civilized:
1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly Creative Caption Craziness with your caption submission.
2) Your reply must contain a single caption to the picture posted in the thread. Entries with more than 1 caption will be disqualified.
3) Your submission must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 15, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.
5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!
6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
7). If you win the City of Heroes® Creative Caption Craziness Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
Visit here to read Official Rules and Conditions for the Creative Caption Craziness Contest!
So without further ado, here is this week's picture!
Good luck, and have fun captioning! -
My hat is off to you kidengineer! I didn't feel like this one was quite fair, but you've managed to prove me wrong.
Congrats, Please contact me with your code request! -
As part of our ongoing "Ask a Dev" article series, we are proud to introduce you to our next developer: Lead Programmer Matt The Television Stults!
Self portrait in oil. Im way prettier in person.
City of Heroes "Ask a Dev" with CoH Tech Lead Matt The Television Stults
Introduction:
Matt The Television Stults:
Product Facts
Contains:
H20, deoxyribonucleic acid, glycogen, various proteins, lipids, apatite, glucose, degrees in science and fine arts, more time spent in formal education than he cares to admit, 20 years under successive Bush and Clinton administrations, equal time spent in Iowa and California with a close minority of time lived in Colorado and Texas, previous employment in the fields of programming, illustration, assorted retail, food service, barista-ism, academic research, etc.
% of day/% of daily value: (actual amounts may vary dramatically)
Code:Warning! Contents may explode under pressure. Do not puncture! Do not make contact with eyes. If you do, please call a physician immediately.Sleep: 33%/29% Programming: 1%/7% Communicating in various forms: 32%/22% (meetings): 20%/10% (electronic): 11%/8% (water cooler): 2%/4% Walking: 8%/7% Driving: 2%/0% Reading: 10%/22% (for work): 4%/2% (for pleasure): 6%/20% Playing CoV: 4%/9% Attempting Wit: 10%/5% (to the chagrin of those around him): 9%/<1% (to the amusement of those around him): <1%/8%
What The Television does on the City of Heroes Team:
14 hours in on Thursday, 9:35 PM:
A Tech Lead does not program. Well, sometimes, if he is lucky. But not as much as he would like. And come to think of it, he probably over committed himself this morning when he agreed to fix bug 14386 himself because, frankly, hes got to find out what is going on with the new L***** requirements and put together a proposal for getting it into the game sometime this year. Lets face it, if the team doesnt get started yesterday, a 2010 ship date on the L***** is basically as likely as getting out of here before 12:00AM, and yeah, thats going to happen. Also, whats up with bug 14382 that K***** is working on? Design has been waiting on that for, like, 12 years now and if K***** isnt done yet, theyre either going to be late on the M***** task, or have to work all night again. And another all-nighter by the design team is not something the tech lead wants on his head. So its follow up on 14382, L*****, 14386 and then (please, please) sleep. But a Tech Lead does not sleep.
Please use this thread to post your questions for The Television!
Questions will be collected on July 24th from the forums and not long after that, we'll post Matts answers and introduce our next dev and ask for your questions for them. -
Screenshot the Spot!
How well do you know your City of Heroes/Villains locations?
Hello, hello and welcome to the Screenshot the Spot forum game where every Wednesday until 4pm Pacific Time (7:00 PM Eastern Time / 12:00 PM GMT / 1:00 Central European Time) you can win your choice of a costume code from past Con seasons and the Forum Title "Screenshot Spotter [date]".
The object of this game is to be the first to 1). Figure out the location in-game depicted in the screenshot and 2). Post a screenshot that is closest to the one I have posted , with your own character in the place of the character present in the screenshot. Sounds easy right? Well there's a catch. The location isn't going to be as obvious as you might think so make sure you pay close attention to the picture details and hints.
The Pictures will start out masked and more and more of the image will be revealed as time goes on as long as no one has correctly identified the location by posting their own screenshot. If by the end of the day no one has identified the location, the full picture will be revealed and no one will win for that week (BOOOOOOO!).
Rules:
1. Your post must contain a screenshot of the location depicted in the initial contest post, but with your character in the place of the character present in the screenshot.
2. Screenshots must remain less than 800px X 500px to qualify.
3. UI needs to be turned off (Menu -> Options -> Keymapping -> scroll to bottom under other "Toggle Screenshot UI")
4. Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly Screenshot The Spot Contest with your screenshot submission.
5. Your reply must contain a single screenshot. Entries with more than 1 screenshot will be disqualified.
6. Your submission must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
7. To enter the contest weekly, as of January 13, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.Quote:If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
8. Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!
9. Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
10. If you win the City of Heroes® Screenshot The Spot Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
Visit here to read Official Rules and Conditions for the Screenshot the Spot Contest!
Have fun and good luck!
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 - First Screenshot
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Brand new comic series!
"Tales from Paragon City" #1
(Click on the image to download the PDF)
"Tales from Paragon City" is a look at life in Paragon City (and beyond) from the eyes of many of the unsung heroes (and eventually villains).
In this first issue, we look at the start of the heroic career of KDave, an otherwise ordinary civil servant who is willing to do anything to shake off years of being stigmatized as the worst that one could ever be in the City of Heroes... "normal".
For more about "Tales from Paragon City", visit The Battlerock X Chronicles at:
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Hey folks,
Just wanted to let you know you might be seeing a new face around. Moderator12 has joined us in helping to keep the forums fun and safe, so please feel free to say hi to him in this thread.
I know you all will be on your best behavior for the next couple weeks to give Mod12 a chance to ease into things.
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From all of us on the OCR Team;
Happy Fourth of July!
Enjoy the time off (if you get it)! We're all spending the weekend trying to think of compelling arguments to give management that we deserve Bastille day off as well. -
Congrats Gumba Masta on this week's winning caption!
Left Officer: "Mmm-mmm, this new creme filling's delicious. It's completely covering the taste of mind control drugs."
Right Officer: (in a monotone-voice)"All hail Emperor Cole."
Please contact me for your costume code Gumba!
All hail Cole! -
Welcome to Creative Caption Craziness -- a fun weekly forum game. Every Friday, well post up a new pic for you to write your most creative caption for. Youll have until 5:00pm Pacific to post it, then the judging will commence. The winner will receive the forum title of Caption Champ [date] and the Costume Code of his/her choice from one of the following:
- Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
- Freakshow Tank Boss
- Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
- Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
- Knives of Artemis Lt.
- Praetorian Clockwork
The winning entry will be re-posted in the thread (along with the authors name), as well as in a thread we will create consisting ONLY of the winning entries as they are picked, so that people can see all the winners at a glance if they want to. It will be your chance to achieve some small measure of forum immortality!
Now just a few rules, to keep things civilized:
1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly Creative Caption Craziness with your caption submission.
2) Your reply must contain a single caption to the picture posted in the thread. Entries with more than 1 caption will be disqualified.
3) Your submission must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 15, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.
5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!
6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
7). If you win the City of Heroes® Creative Caption Craziness Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
Visit here to read Official Rules and Conditions for the Creative Caption Craziness Contest!
So without further ado, here is this week's picture!
Good luck, and have fun captioning! -
Wow we had a nail biter here folks! As Redbone was the first to post the picture AND the accompanying text, he gets the win.
Congrats Redbone! Please PM me with your costume code request. -
Screenshot the Spot!
How well do you know your City of Heroes/Villains locations?
Hello, hello and welcome to the Screenshot the Spot forum game where every Wednesday until 4pm Pacific Time (7:00 PM Eastern Time / 12:00 PM GMT / 1:00 Central European Time) you can win your choice of a costume code from past Con seasons and the Forum Title "Screenshot Spotter [date]".
The object of this game is to be the first to 1). Figure out the location in-game depicted in the screenshot and 2). Post a screenshot that is closest to the one I have posted , with your own character in the place of the character present in the screenshot. Sounds easy right? Well there's a catch. The location isn't going to be as obvious as you might think so make sure you pay close attention to the picture details and hints.
The Pictures will start out masked and more and more of the image will be revealed as time goes on as long as no one has correctly identified the location by posting their own screenshot. If by the end of the day no one has identified the location, the full picture will be revealed and no one will win for that week (BOOOOOOO!).
Rules:
1. Your post must contain a screenshot of the location depicted in the initial contest post, but with your character in the place of the character present in the screenshot.
2. Screenshots must remain less than 800px X 500px to qualify.
3. UI needs to be turned off (Menu -> Options -> Keymapping -> scroll to bottom under other "Toggle Screenshot UI")
4. Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly Screenshot The Spot Contest with your screenshot submission.
5. Your reply must contain a single screenshot. Entries with more than 1 screenshot will be disqualified.
6. Your submission must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
7. To enter the contest weekly, as of January 13, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.Quote:If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
8. Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!
9. Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
10. If you win the City of Heroes® Screenshot The Spot Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
Visit here to read Official Rules and Conditions for the Screenshot the Spot Contest!
Have fun and good luck!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 - First Screenshot
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Quote:There is a minimum 8 weeks in between wins. And to those who feel like they might never win, don't lose heart! The next image might be the one you have the perfect caption for.Originally Posted by Hallowed
A bit late to notice this...
YAY!
Now to go look at the list...
You tease.
Also, not to be greedy, does winning put me out of consideration for another code? If so, I'd like to still participate (these are fun), but would, in the event that lightning strikes twice, bequeath my winning unto another. -
Guardians of the Dawn Spotlight #14
(Please click on the image to download the PDF file)
Fresh from his appearance in the "C.C.C. Compendium #5", the secret origin of StarCygnus is revealed! What is his connection to Shadowborn and to the "Guardian Exiles"? And how will that connection come back to hurt the Guardians?
Plus, Captain Paragonna's actions are now under scrutiny. How will this affect the leadership of the Guardians?
Special guest appearances by Lady Grey, Statesman, Mender Tesseract, and one "special" VIP.
And don't forget to check out the official website of the Guardians of the Dawn!
http://GuardiansOfTheDawn.wordpress.com -
Congrats to this week's winner Hallowed!
Don't make me use this SuperSoaker(TM) lady! Just do what I tell you! Don't mess with me! I'm all wound up today.
Go ahead and PM with your choice of costume Hallowed.
And for all of you who didn't win this week, I strongly recommend checking in next week. I've got a sneaking suspicion that an image from Praetoria might be showing up. -
Welcome to Creative Caption Craziness -- a fun weekly forum game. Every Friday, well post up a new pic for you to write your most creative caption for. Youll have until 5:00pm Pacific to post it, then the judging will commence. The winner will receive the forum title of Caption Champ [date] and the Costume Code of his/her choice from one of the following:
- Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
- Freakshow Tank Boss
- Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
- Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
- Knives of Artemis Lt.
- Praetorian Clockwork
The winning entry will be re-posted in the thread (along with the authors name), as well as in a thread we will create consisting ONLY of the winning entries as they are picked, so that people can see all the winners at a glance if they want to. It will be your chance to achieve some small measure of forum immortality!
Now just a few rules, to keep things civilized:
1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly Creative Caption Craziness with your caption submission.
2) Your reply must contain a single caption to the picture posted in the thread. Entries with more than 1 caption will be disqualified.
3) Your submission must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 15, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.
5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!
6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
7). If you win the City of Heroes® Creative Caption Craziness Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
Visit here to read Official Rules and Conditions for the Creative Caption Craziness Contest!
So without further ado, here is this week's picture!
Good luck, and have fun captioning! -
Congrats Alexander_Drako on an impressive win! Go ahead and PM me for your costume code.
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Screenshot the Spot!
How well do you know your City of Heroes/Villains locations?
Hello, hello and welcome to the Screenshot the Spot forum game where every Wednesday until 4pm Pacific Time (7:00 PM Eastern Time / 12:00 PM GMT / 1:00 Central European Time) you can win your choice of a costume code from past Con seasons and the Forum Title "Screenshot Spotter [date]".
The object of this game is to be the first to 1). Figure out the location in-game depicted in the screenshot and 2). Post a screenshot that is closest to the one I have posted , with your own character in the place of the character present in the screenshot. Sounds easy right? Well there's a catch. The location isn't going to be as obvious as you might think so make sure you pay close attention to the picture details and hints.
The Pictures will start out masked and more and more of the image will be revealed as time goes on as long as no one has correctly identified the location by posting their own screenshot. If by the end of the day no one has identified the location, the full picture will be revealed and no one will win for that week (BOOOOOOO!).
Rules:
1. Your post must contain a screenshot of the location depicted in the initial contest post, but with your character in the place of the character present in the screenshot.
2. Screenshots must remain less than 800px X 500px to qualify.
3. UI needs to be turned off (Menu -> Options -> Keymapping -> scroll to bottom under other "Toggle Screenshot UI")
4. Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly Screenshot The Spot Contest with your screenshot submission.
5. Your reply must contain a single screenshot. Entries with more than 1 screenshot will be disqualified.
6. Your submission must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
7. To enter the contest weekly, as of January 13, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.Quote:If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
8. Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!
9. Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
10. If you win the City of Heroes® Screenshot The Spot Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
Visit here to read Official Rules and Conditions for the Screenshot the Spot Contest!
Have fun and good luck!
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 - First Screenshot
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Just a quick reminder to everyone that this is happening tomorrow. I hope you all are as excited about Super Booster V: Mutant as we are!
Good luck all, -
Couple more interesting tidbits:
With less than two months until the launch of City of Heroes Going Rogue, many of our partners are working to promote Going Rogue.
If you visit the AMD Games site at game.amd.com, you may see some familiar faces. Or check out Razer Zone, where Going Rogue is now one of the featured games -
Another week with a lot of strong entries. Sometimes however, it's the short and simple ones which work best.
Congrats Lord_Goat!
You must be this tall to buy Going Rouge!
Please PM me with your choice of costume code.
Thanks, -
The folks over at BigDownload have sat down with Melissa Bianco as part of their E3 coverage, and asked her a variety of questions about City of Heroes® and City of Heroes® Going Rogue. Learn about the origins of Going Rogue, Praetoria and its ruler Tyrant, as well as a few hints on the future of CoH beyond Going Rogue. Its definitely worth a read!