Alien Invasion Ends City Of Heroes Beta

Thanks to the City Of Heroes forums for its reports on the Rikti alien invasion which signaled the end of the PC MMO's Beta phase. Elsewhere, there's also a large gallery of screenshots from this major Beta-ending event involving "a major [alien] strike... against Paragon City", and starring the other-dimensional villains from Cryptic Studios' superhero-based MMO game, which officially launches on April 28th. The event coincided with the wiping of the Beta characters - hence high-level alien-inflicted carnage, with "75-100 [heroes] just lying dead in Atlas Park", as well as the original poster's delight that he "managed to organize a mass suicide jump... before the Beta ended. About 20 of us jumped off the tallest building... [but] we all just sat at 1 HP." Update: 04/23 18:55 GMT by S : A press release from NCSoft regarding their E3 line-up announces plans for first expansion pack, City Of Villains, which "will allow players to take on the role of villain in Paragon's modern metropolis."

More from Gamespy...

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Fargo from gamespy has also put up his (rather entertaining) account of the event:

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/508/508603p1.html [gamespy.com]

Re:Variant

[spezz]

The new spider-man game is going to be like that. There's street level crime (literally, you don't just fall and die in the mysterious fog anymore) and you can take missions that progress the story, or just smack around thugs. I'd assume it comes out this summer after the movie, but if that's the sort of game you're looking for, keep an eye on the E3 coverage.

Soon?

[Anonymous Coward]

-cough [macplay.com]-

another gallery

[Mandrake]

I took a bunch of screenshots during the endgame also here [mandrake.net].

My favorite is this one [mandrake.net] which shows how big the ships were compared to, say, really tall buildings.

Great game, I'm going to enjoy playing it live, also.

Re:Rikti Invasion

[Michael Belrose]

2.0 ghz, 512 megs SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9600. My computer's no slouch in the graphics department. However, I shouldn't be expected to be running a 3.2 ghz with a gig of DDR and a Radeon 9800 Pro to participate in an MMO event.