Cathedral of Pain

So I paid for City of Villains back in 2005 but I have yet to be able to use the Cathedral of Pain that was advertised on the box. I looked in the base for it but nothing. Can I get some sort of refund for this? Come this October I will have waited 4 years for this.

In all seriousness though, is this actually going to come out, or are we have supposed to have forgotten about this with colored powers and the upcoming Rouge expansion?

On the back burner so far several of us doubt it'll ever see the light of day.

Of course, several of us thought power customization would never happen, so nobody really can say yes or no. We're not the developers.

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As long as there is a "this base cannot get raided ever" button that allows me to ignore raid pathing requirements when and if the CoP gets re-instated I will be happy.

The CoP was, from what I hear, incredibly broken on implementation and would have to be rebuilt from the ground up. Not to mention the entire Item of Power system was scrapped for Inventions in the meantime, PvP is more unpopular than ever, and bases updates seem to have been scrapped, nobody is optimistic about it anymore.

That and the entire Cathedral of Pain concept- that is, multiple teams working together- seems to be of the outdated MMO mindset that CoH has moved past. This game doesn't have WoW-style 'raids', besides the Mothership and Hamidon, of which the former has few tactics beyond 'rampaging horde' (and we love it that way), and the latter is considered a niche thing.

One of my SG-mates went to Comicon and brought back news that Positron said that the Cathedral of Pain will be back "at some point"

Not anything terribly solid...but there it is.

The CoP/IoP/base PvP concept as originally designed will probably never be back, simply because it is meant for a style of play that CoX has precious little of. In many MMOs, it is nearly impossible to do really well in the game unless you belong to a big active group. Solo-friendly CoX, however, makes it easy to have very small groups that perform all the functions of a big group. So there just aren't that many mega SG/VGs around, compared to the ones like I'm in, that has over a hundred alts but only five actual human beings in it.

However, I do foresee that someday there will be some sort of SG/VG-only mission named Cathedral of Pain. I don't know if Items of Power will ever be back, but if they are and still have the PvP requirement, I doubt many groups will bother to get them.

Well even if the CoP was that horribly broken (the vets that I know that used it said it wasnt, some people were using it for farming, etc), make the a central new issue focul point with new base content like, say, I would love to have a base like some of the CoT or Council mish maps, on a smaller scale.

It wasn't broken per se but an aspect of it provided infinite XP if you knew what to do and the devs couldn't figure out a way to fix that without breaking the whole CoP trial so it was pulled. Read about it here

Perhaps in Going Rogue it might. I hope it comes again.

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I just want the Power Liberator badge to be re-introduced to the game. As a consumate badge hound, it grates I cannot acquire this badge.

Indeed, I asked Posi and Ocho and others about some of these long standing things. COP is still on the burners. back burner, but still a work in progress and not entirely abandoned. Now: don't get your hopes up for it to be like you wanted it in 05, and don't think that it'll be anything in particular, when they make it it'll be what it'll be. I know some folks will give huzzas but others will still be complaining about it not being "the way it was".

Y'know, I'd honestly be happy if they'd just release Rularuu for us to fight, whether or not it had anything to do with the CoP. And I'd kill for the CoP map in AE, if it's anything like what I've imagined from descriptions. Let the CoP itself die, I say, but salvage the working bits for something else.

As time goes on many features will be tried and if they dont work will be pulled. The Devs are always trying new and innovating ideas and it is easy to go to far then have to try another approach, we saw this with the MA system, we are seeing it now with going Rogue being temporarily replaced with Spectrum.

I have also been assured CoP is on the backburner but not forgotten. They have many ideas that have been constantly asked for by players. The devs will try everything and give us the best ones they can in the short span they have to work on it. It is not easy to appease over 180,000 people.

Overall This game has received far more constant attention by the Devs than other MMORPG's and i still call CHAMPION Server HOME! My apartment is on the top floor of the VDO building looking out over Atlas Park, the view is great