After much discussion, we’ve managed to narrow down the many excellent entries for Union’s Team Costume Contest to the final five nominations. Read on to take a look at each entry before heading over to the Official Message Boards to cast your vote for the costume that will represent Union in the Super Summer Slam Spectacular Grand Finals…
After much discussion, we’ve managed to narrow down the many excellent entries for Defiant’s Team Costume Contest to the final five nominations. Read on to take a look at each entry before heading over to the Official Message Boards to cast your vote for the costume that will represent Defiant in the Super Summer Slam Spectacular Grand Finals…
The next major update for City of Heroes, Issue #5: Forest of Dread adds no fewer than four completely new Power Sets to the game, expanding the options available when creating characters of the Blaster, Defender and Controller Archetypes. Heroes can now become master archers with two Power Sets based on bows, or harness the power and energy of focussed sound waves with two Sets based on Sonics.
You can learn all about these new Power Sets in the lastest addition to our Feature Updates section - just click here to see what will be on offer.
And, if you can’t wait until Issue #5 is released to give these new powers a whirl, you can try them out on the European Training Room (Test Server) right now, where an early version is currently being put through its paces. For information on setting up and accessing the Test Server, see the instructions on the Official Message Boards. You can read what other players think - and give us your own opinion - on The Training Room board.
With the completion of the second week of the Super Summer Slam Spectacular Pentad Cups on Defiant and Union, we now have updated versions of the Double Elimination Brackets available for download.
Week 3 is going to be exciting, as the Winners Brackets move into the first Quarter-Finals of the competition - this week’s winning teams will meet next week in the first Semi-Final, to decide which team will go through to the Finals from the Winners Bracket. Of course, due to the nature of Double Elimination Tournaments, they could meet again in the Final…
To view the Brackets, just click on the links below. To download them, right-click and select the appropriate �Save� option for the browser you�re using:
Defiant Heavyweight Week 3
Defiant Bantamweight Week 3
Union Heavyweight Week 3
Union Bantamweight Week 3
If you have any questions or there are any errors on the brackets, just leave a comment below.
As Lord Recluse continues to spin his devious web, more information is coming to light about City of Villains. Head on over to the official site to read two new interviews and a secret report on his lieutenant Ghost Widow, who’s journal can also be found on the site.
Continue readingOnly ten days after the heroes of Union beat Hamidon for the first time on the European servers, the combined might of Defiant’s foremost heroes defeated the monstrosity on July 18.
After a truly epic battle that raged for three exhausting hours, the single greatest threat to Paragon City was finally vanquished, and there was - by all accounts - much rejoicing and slapping of backs.
You can read more about the raid on the Official Message Boards by clicking here and here. Congratulations, everyone!
The staff from PC Zone will be throwing down the gauntlet to all heroes on the Defiant server this evening, in the second ‘Fight Club’ to be held in Paragon City.
If you fancy a bit of a bash in the Arena for the fun of it, or you’re on an S4 team and feel like a spot of practice, log onto Defiant at 6.30pm this evening (Thursday 21 July) and head over to the Arena. Unless they’ve been sneaky and changed their characters since last time, you should find the PC Zone super-crew online as the heroes pictured here. From left to right, they are:
Paul Presley, Section Editor AKA Ginger-Vitus!
Jamie Malcolm, Deputy Art Editor AKA Dr McThistle!
Jamie Sefton, Acting Editor - AKA Yorkshire-Man!
Will Porter, News Editor - AKA Night Porter!
To catch up on the latest PC Zone online gaming, make sure you visit Zonegames.co.uk.
We’ve just finished work on downloadable versions of the Double Elimination Brackets for the Super Summer Slam Spectacular Pentad Cups.
With these PDF files you’ll be able to see how your favourite team is doing, while the teams themselves should find that they come in handy for tracking their progress and planning future matches. These Brackets are up to date for the end of Week 1 of the competition, and we’ll be updating them each week as the Pentad Cups continue.
To view the Brackets, just click on the links below. To download them, right-click and select the appropriate ‘Save’ option for the browser you’re using:
Defiant - Heavyweight
Defiant - Bantamweight
Union - Heavyweight
Union - Bantamweight
If you have any questions about the Brackets, or we’ve made a mistake and you want to let us know, just leave a comment below.
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The Super Summer Slam Spectacular got off to a roaring start last week, with the first round of matches in the Heavyweight and Bantamweight Pentad Cups on both Union and Defiant.
After the anticipation of the registration period, the teams were raring to go, and the week provided some spectacular matches, ranging from closely-fought tactical battles to stand-up, knock-down brawls. The Arenas of Paragon City reverberated with the sounds of heroic battle, the cheers of the victors, and the cries of the fallen.
For the full results, read on…
Continue readingAll heroes should be concerned by the rise of Lord Recluse, and Statesman has advised all of Paragon City’s faithful defenders to keep themselves up to date with the news from his deadly foe’s new home, the Rogue Isles. To this end, we recommend you check out the new images and movie recently released on the official City of Villains site.
Continue readingThe deadline for entries for the Super Summer Slam Spectacular Team Costume Competition is Monday 18 July, so if you haven’t entered yet, you still have the weekend to get the creative juices flowing and design a costume for your server’s Pentad Cup winners to wear in the Grand Finals.
The creator of the winning costume design will get to see their server’s teams wearing the costume in the Grand Finals of the Super Summer Slam Spectacular! Fame, fortune and glory will surely follow. Even if they don’t, you’ll be able to console yourself with a host of shiny prizes from us.
For full details of how to enter the competition, see the ‘S4 Overview and Rules’ thread on your server’s S4 message board:
Defiant: S4 Overview and Rules
Union: S4 Overview and Rules
If you have any questions, be sure to post them there - and remember, you only have until Monday to enter!
Continue readingOn Friday 8 July, the ultimate threat to Paragon City was beaten back by the valiant heroes of the Union server in the first successful Hamidon raid on the European City of Heroes servers.
Despite several valiant attempts on Union, Defiant and Vigilance, the protoplasmic monstrosity had proved an unstoppable foe, laying waste to hundreds of heroes over the last few months. Now, though, the bravest and brightest of Union’s heroes have proved that ‘the big H’ can be beaten.
We’d like to congratulate all the heroes involved, and give a special mention to Chaplain, the Level 50 Empathy Defender who organised and ran the raid.
For more information, see the following threads on the Official Message Boards:
Great work, everyone!
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Team registration for the Super Summer Slam Spectacular (S4) closed at 6pm yesterday, and today we’re happy to announce that the competition has begun, with the announcement of the first matches in the Pentad Cups on all four City of Heroes European servers!
Over 80 teams registered for the competition in total, and over the coming weeks they’ll be battling it out to win their servers’ Pentad Cups and earn a spot in the Grand Finals, where the winning teams from each server will compete to become European Champions.
For full details, see the S4 boards for your server on the Official Message Boards:
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