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The Ship of Heroes site has been updated with a blog post to show off a brand new female costume that was created using the SoH Design Studio. According to the post, the costume will be available for players “to use in creating and customizing their characters”.
The Ship of Heroes site has been updated with a new blog post to lay out Heroic Games’ philosophy about alpha and beta testing. For its purposes, Ship of Heroes entered “alpha” when the character creator test was conducted. The second event was earlier this year when the team escorted players and media through combat testing. Soon, a third event will take place later this summer.
The latest developer blog has been published on the Ship of Heroes site. In it, Casey McGeever reveals the importance of the Milestone Schedule, both as a tool to keep development on track and as a way to keep the community apprised of what the team is currently working on. In addition, McGeever writes about the reality of milestones — that sometimes dates slip — and how the developers work cooperatively to “ask how [they] can recover the schedule”.
The Ship of Heroes forum has a new post from Casey McGeever to provide the community with some insights into where the developers have been spending their time for the past several weeks. McGeever calls it a “stream of consciousness update” and writes on six different topics.
The Ship of Heroes forum has a new post from Casey McGeever to let fans know what the team has been up to most recently. After tying on bandanas and pulling out the virtual dust cloths, the team is hard at work with spring cleaning activities designed to scrub out and reorganize extraneous code. “It’s complex and a bit grindy to do, so we force ourselves to do it periodically,” McGeever writes.
The Ship of Heroes team is steaming along in the development of the budding superhero game. As a result, the timeline for the 2018 has been updated with new additions and new details about what is in the current pipeline.
The Ship of Heroes site has been updated with a new post to show off the Apotheosis City map that is said to be “larger than the starting maps in City of Heroes and probably also SWTOR, for any of the first four game-entry worlds”. The map shows off what will eventually be an open location in an urban landscape built using modular construction units.
The Ship of Heroes team is wrapping up a series of alpha combat runs with members of the press and community. During these runs, the team determined that there are nine crucial issues to work on in the coming months. Improvements will come across a variety of systems including sheathing / unsheathing weapons, unbalanced FX between powersets, recharge times on abilities, blink powers and others.
The Ship of Heroes site has been updated with a new developer blog to let fans and backers in on some exciting news: “The first combat alpha for Ship of Heroes will begin in the second half of February”. Developers will be personally escorting groups of 3-4 donors, supporters and press through the available portions of the game and let them perform “street sweeping” to try out the current combat mechanics.
Recently, the Ship of Heroes team spent time during a live stream discussing the Villain groups that will be coming to the game on launch. To expand on the lore behind villains, a new forum post has been published to provide some observations about villains. You can learn more about Nagdellians, Promethians, the Yekus Mercenary Clan and other details that came out of the stream.