Tips for Starting Out in City of Heroes - MMORPG.com

MikeB · May 2019

Tips for Starting Out in City of Heroes - MMORPG.com

While many of you are returning to City of Heroes on certain private servers, I’m sure there are some of you out there who are playing the game for the first time. As a game that came out before World of Warcraft took over the genre, CoH does a ton of things differently and that can be overwhelming, so here’s a couple of tips to get you started out on the right foot.

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Grintch · May 2019

Where can you find places to play?

Scot · May 2019

The P2W Vendor " sells and gives away a bunch of the previously locked behind MTX or pre-order/deluxe edition promotional items found in the live game."

Classic

Alpius · May 2019

The whole 'Don't stress the Meta' section is something I cannot push enough. So many people ask what the best power combinations are for X, or the most viable set is for Y. It really doesn't matter, just make and put together whatever you want. Sure, it might not be the super elite 0.1% top DPS build, but in this game, with a competent group, anything is doable by anyone.

ananit · May 2019

Grintch said:

Where can you find places to play?

the most populated servers right now are the homecoming ones.
if you type in : coh homecoming in google, the first link should be their discord server.
here you'll find how to create an account and how to play and the announcements regarding upcoming updates and downtimes.
there are other servers sprouting left and right but they don't have nearly as many players.

Amathe · May 2019

Scrapper is a fun archetype. Nice balance between offense and defense. Good for soloing and in groups.

ragebullet · May 2019

i thought talking about private servers is a no no?

Tiller · May 2019

ragebullet said:

i thought talking about private servers is a no no?

Over the years they have eased up on those rules. Back in the day yeah, warning and/or ban.

MikeB · May 2019

ragebullet said:

i thought talking about private servers is a no no?

For forum posts, keep it to our private server discussion subforum. And we only allow the discussion of private servers for games that are no longer live.

nyxium · May 2019

It speaks volumes when MMO's from times past are preferred to the garbage they release today, Albion Online is an exception as I quite like AO but CoH isn't AO. The Golden Age of MMO's is preferrable to the Modern Age of MMO's, which are mostly dross and politically correct MMO's these days.

black9ice · May 2019

So someone 'stole' the server code or reverse engineered it (highly unlikely) and the community is in support of this illegal behavior? HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Horusra · May 2019

black9ice said:

So someone 'stole' the server code or reverse engineered it (highly unlikely) and the community is in support of this illegal behavior? HAHAHAHAHA!!!

there is a reason the MMO community is not really respected.

black9ice · May 2019

Horusra said:

black9ice said:

So someone 'stole' the server code or reverse engineered it (highly unlikely) and the community is in support of this illegal behavior? HAHAHAHAHA!!!

there is a reason the MMO community is not really respected.

Problem is most people now days do not respect any others intellectual property and believe they have rights to access, view, sell, trade such property.

black9ice · May 2019

Is this a website now that supports software piracy?

BaronMunchausen · May 2019

nyxium said:

It speaks volumes when MMO's from times past are preferred to the garbage they release today, Albion Online is an exception as I quite like AO but CoH isn't AO. The Golden Age of MMO's is preferrable to the Modern Age of MMO's, which are mostly dross and politically correct MMO's these days.

This is SO true and I am never a fan of political correctness. I am so happy/glad that CoH/CoX is back in some form or another. Maybe companies should start looking slightly in the past on what made MMO's well..MMO's. Not the super 'I need 1 billion FPS' game or the PTW games.

CoH is THE Super Hero game (got tired of DCUO after a week of playing and the game that uses the HERO RPG system just did not cut it either) but never, ever get tired of playing CoH..

So when are we going to bring back Star Wars: Galaxies??? ;-)

Daakkon · May 2019

BaronMunchausen said:

nyxium said:

It speaks volumes when MMO's from times past are preferred to the garbage they release today, Albion Online is an exception as I quite like AO but CoH isn't AO. The Golden Age of MMO's is preferrable to the Modern Age of MMO's, which are mostly dross and politically correct MMO's these days.

This is SO true and I am never a fan of political correctness. I am so happy/glad that CoH/CoX is back in some form or another. Maybe companies should start looking slightly in the past on what made MMO's well..MMO's. Not the super 'I need 1 billion FPS' game or the PTW games.

CoH is THE Super Hero game (got tired of DCUO after a week of playing and the game that uses the HERO RPG system just did not cut it either) but never, ever get tired of playing CoH..

So when are we going to bring back Star Wars: Galaxies??? ;-)

SWG has been going for quite a long time. Pre-CU servers, post-NGE servers, etc..

Gutlard · May 2019

A new superhero game couldn't hurt either. I enjoyed CoX, but played it completely solo. I never did check out DCUO, but I love Marvel/DC, so maybe Marvel can come out with a shiney new MMORPG? And allow players to create content?

Gut Out!

Amathe · May 2019

Gutlard said:

I enjoyed CoX, but played it completely solo.

You can definitely do that. Many people did. I did some. But soloing gets dull after a while because you are either just doing basic missions or street fighting. The more fun things would not usually be soloable. Back in the day groups were easy to find.

Spriggen1337 · May 2019

best tip i can offer is not to play it!

Scot · May 2019

BaronMunchausen said:

nyxium said:

It speaks volumes when MMO's from times past are preferred to the garbage they release today, Albion Online is an exception as I quite like AO but CoH isn't AO. The Golden Age of MMO's is preferrable to the Modern Age of MMO's, which are mostly dross and politically correct MMO's these days.

This is SO true and I am never a fan of political correctness. I am so happy/glad that CoH/CoX is back in some form or another. Maybe companies should start looking slightly in the past on what made MMO's well..MMO's. Not the super 'I need 1 billion FPS' game or the PTW games.

CoH is THE Super Hero game (got tired of DCUO after a week of playing and the game that uses the HERO RPG system just did not cut it either) but never, ever get tired of playing CoH..

So when are we going to bring back Star Wars: Galaxies??? ;-)

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MadFrenchie · May 2019

Horusra said:

black9ice said:

So someone 'stole' the server code or reverse engineered it (highly unlikely) and the community is in support of this illegal behavior? HAHAHAHAHA!!!

there is a reason the MMO community is not really respected.

Source?

Tokken · May 2019

Love COH, but miss Marvel Heroes. nuff said.

CaptFabulous · May 2019

black9ice said:

Is this a website now that supports software piracy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware

AlmostLancelot · May 2019

MikeB said:

ragebullet said:

i thought talking about private servers is a no no?

For forum posts, keep it to our private server discussion subforum. And we only allow the discussion of private servers for games that are no longer live.

Pretty big distinction between emulation and utilizing actual stolen binaries and source code though, no?

So in principle, this site is supporting the theft of intellectual property by even allowing this discussion at all.

I think I'm done here, this is beyond unethical to say the least. I've seen a lot of questionable things take place here over the years, but this takes the cake.