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City Of Heroes User-Generated Content A Hit

Nearly five years from its launch in 2004, coh continues to survive and thrive under the newly-rebranded Paragon Studios. And thanks to the recent Issue 14: Architect update, it seems to be doing even better than before.
In CoH Influencedescribing the progress of the game's newly implement user created content. According to Paragon's Matt "Positron" Miller, "Like every system we design here, the Mission Architect system has been a labor of love that we have poured over every little decision on. I feel like everything we have worked on has really been worth it when I see that within 60 minutes, we had 360 entire Mission Arcs (each containing up to 5 missions) available for other people to play. By midnight on day one, we had over 2600 arcs, and exactly 24 hours after launch we were already at 3800 arcs." 

That's quite a lot of story arcs. More data after the jump.

"Users are now talking about which Mission Arcs are fun, and which ones are brutal. They have set up threads in our forums where they "Review" each others' work, giving critiques and criticisms on the arcs published by others," he wrote, adding that users have been churning out movie-style posters, comic-style covers and even machinima to promote their creations.

As of right now, there are 6259 "Heroic" arcs and 2240 "Villainous" ones, with 2860 of those arcs getting five star ratings from the users. Miller also said they were delighted to see users making heavy use of the costume editor to create custom enemies, offering something new on a regular basis for even longtime players.

"One of the biggest problems with MMOs is you eventually learn what all the critters you are fighting do, and the game can get pretty rote. Developers make new critters, but there can be months before you get new ones. Now players have the opportunity to be constantly making CoH Influence with new, interesting capabilities that can challenge and vex themselves and their friends, any time they want," Miller wrote.

In the end, "even the most Pollyanna dev on the team never expected the feature to take off this fast, with this amount of awesome buzz behind it," Miller wrote.

Seems like the coh andCoH Influence are hopping again. Any longtime players going to check out the new material?


 

[Source:Gamebuynow] [Author:Gamebuynow] [Date:09-11-20] [Hot:]
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