{"id":2112,"date":"2012-09-03T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2012-09-03T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T02:39:55","slug":"trying-champions-online-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/09\/trying-champions-online-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Trying Champions Online again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Looking for our City of Heroes replacement (mutter mutter mutter), Margie and I loaded up Champions Online. \u00a0Rather, I loaded it back up; Margie still had it on her machine from our last go-around.<\/p>\n

Very initial thoughts:<\/p>\n

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  1. We are former subscribers. Trying it F2P, we eventually found it a lot easier to simply create new accounts. That’s because our accounts are “full” of our previous characters — which are unplayable as F2P players because they use freeform archetypes. \u00a0CO doesn’t make this very clear up front or during the whole process.<\/li>\n
  2. It was also kind of messy distinguishing between our old Cryptic Online accounts and the new Perfect World accounts, esp. since sometimes you can use either, other times you have to use the PW account, and in both cases they really don’t want you to have the same display name for the forums and onscreen as your account name, and both are limited to just characters and numbers, no spaces or dashes or underscores.<\/li>\n
  3. The new character tutorial has been trimmed down a bit in terms of what adventures are available during the Qularr invasion. That got us out of it faster, but also lost some of the more fun bits.<\/li>\n
  4. There’s also still that sense of mad rush with attackers attacking even as little tutorial bits pop up to help you through what you’re desperately trying to mash keys to avert. \u00a0Blocking wasn’t really discussed, and the whole need for energy buildups, etc., either flashed by without my spotting any info about it.<\/li>\n
  5. There are some nice on-screen button prompts for things you can do in proximity (Talk to X, Open Door Y).<\/li>\n
  6. There’s additional narration \/ dialog to frame the whole invasion and all, which is nice. On the other hand, we lose the big salute\/parade at the end, which is sad.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We didn’t get much beyond that in our first play with two newly-rolled characters (fire blaster and strength tank). We’ll continue trying, though. I’m anticpating how the level-up process has evolved, if at all, as well as how level-balanced things work out in the non-instanced field of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Looking for our City of Heroes replacement (mutter mutter mutter), Margie and I loaded up Champions Online. \u00a0Rather, I loaded it back up; Margie still had it on her machine from our last go-around. Very initial thoughts: We are former subscribers. Trying it F2P, we eventually found it a lot easier to simply create new … Continue reading “Trying Champions Online again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-online","category-gameplay","category-mmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}