Champions Online is deep into beta and a lot is happening. Want the scoop on what is being worked on and what progress has been made? The devs at Cryptic have put up the most recent State of Game to keep fans informed!

There’s a Room That’s Filled with Danger

After talking about the UNTIL Terminals in last week’s State of the Game, we looked at what the main complaints were. Basically, it broke down into two camps. First, there were concerns over immersion and appropriateness for certain hero concepts to be telling “the man” about their powers. Second, some players felt like it was a waste of time to arbitrarily go somewhere to gain new powers without any benefit they couldn’t gain in the world at large. Within these discussions, the idea was thrown out that it would be cool if you came back so you could try out powers before committing to them.

We heard you, we listened, and we’re going the extra mile to make it happen.

We’re now making a specific location, a “Hazard Vault” if you will (no, not the final name, please reserve your comments), that heroes can access from numerous locations in the world. This common area will have test dummies set up so that you can try out new powers and see how they look and work before making them an ongoing part of your character. This is also where players will come to Retcon their powers, advantages, and so forth.
Making Your New Character’s Easier to Make

Both the character and costume creation systems in Champions Online are incredibly flexible and powerful. This has many positive effects for our players, but also presents some problems because of the complexity of the systems. We’ve been banging away at this issue for the past couple of weeks and are currently in the process of simplifying the character creation flow without losing any of the power behind the system. We should start seeing the first stages of this (power set selection) in beta next week.
There’s a Crisis Coming to Monster Island and Lemuria

Both of our new Crisis zones are in QA testing so we can get them out to beta next week. These are unlike our other areas in many ways, and will be using some cool new technology to get players grouped more organically. Speaking of which…

There is much more to catch up on so please visit the official CO website to read more!