I’ve been playing champions online for a whole week now and I thought I would try and do video updates as a play and share my thoughts with you guys. This is the second video in the series and hopefully you guys will enjoy it.
 
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 I’ve been playing champions online for a whole week now and I thought I would try and do video updates as a play and share my thoughts with you guys. This is the second video in the series and hopefully you guys will enjoy it.
 
          Part 1:

"He looks like...a furry." Bahaha
 
Good job, I really want to see the nemesis part and some end game. SO HURRY UP D:<

You make some really good points in these videos about what's wrong with this game. Even during the beta people noticed that some skill sets were OP (like the beast power)

You make a good point about the specs. Some work and some don't..and its tough. 
My main is a munitions/tk user...and I never die. I can take 5 lvl 22s at lvl 19 and walk away with over half my life left. 
The main reason for this is my block...i have TK block, which lasts for a couple of seconds after its released. Most things damage me 7-25. Even 3 lvls higher or Master Villains. 
I can only suggest that people don't remember to block enough or some powers just arnt effective enough. 
That said, I die in 5 seconds in PvP. Its totally unbalanced at the moment..unsurprisingly. 
 
anyway great job on the vids

For a robot, your character has nice calves =)

Awesome stuff Matt.

I love that quest just because its one giant Anchorman reference

First of all, I really do enjoy your videos. You should really perhaps make a blog one day to explain what software and such like you use to record them, I've always wanted to record some playthroughs of games but never really been sure what software or setup to use!
 
Secondly I recently had my 6 month subscription offer to Champions Online refunded to me after playing through the 1 week 'grace period'. Mainly due to the reasons you've highlighted in the video. The game, while being unique and having immense potential, is really not doing so great right now. Enough MMOs have launched in the past in a poor way that you would think Cryptic may have learnt a lesson from them. Sadly they have not.
 
Bugs that were never in the Open Beta have sprung up in the release version, power sets that worked before in Open Beta have been nerfed to the point people are forced to re-roll new toons because they cannot play using the power(s) they want too since they just don't work. Quest rewards in the form of XP and resources are ridiculously low compared to Open Beta which has seriously slowed down the levelling process of most characters and forced people into a corner in regards to retcon costs.
 
In the Open Beta by level 10 I had around 4 gold, X silver, Y copper and could retcon my entire character. Now by level 10 you'll be lucky to have 1 gold and almost 2/3s of it will be used to retcon just one, maybe two, powers or skills etc. Usually when an MMO is purposefully slowing down the levelling process and money the game population earns it is due to limited or weak Mid / Late-game content, lack of variety in gameplay and as you said in the video, bland environments to explore. This is all in an effort to maintain people playing for as long as possible to suck up as much subscription money from them as possible. A dirty but understandable tactic.
 
I know I sound rather harsh in my critique of Cryptic and Champions Online. But I had such fun in the Open Beta with the game that I immediately went and paid for the 6 month subscription offer, only to find the final release felt like a totally reverted and broken mess. Not to mention the fact that Cryptic failed to advertise openly that 6 month subscription offers still required you to pay for a retail copy of the game to 'activate' your game account. Paying close to £70 to continue playing Champions Online past the one week grace period in its current state just seemed like a bad investment.
 
I'll likely pick up Champions Online later down the line, say 5 or 6 months from now, when hopefully by that point Cryptic will have sorted out the power sets and perhaps added in new content and areas to explore. 
 
One thing I do want to mention in regards to your comments about PvP. It is rather broken at the moment but that is due to everyone using the same cookie-cutter builds because a large majority of the actual power sets are not working correctly or just not worth investing in at all. Case in point PFF and Field Surge are broken completely almost a week into the game and now everyone is rolling Regenerate as their passive. It creates this absurd situation where everyone is Wolverine. They regenerate damage, deal out damage and PvP becomes less fun and more simply a case of whoever lag spikes first dies.
 
Hopefully Cryptic take note of how Guild Wars has split versions of their skills between PvE and PvP. So a nerf to the PvP usage of a skill doesn't hurt its use in PvE and vice versa.

hey nice videos.  I haven't had any trouble playing the game so far, but I play with my brother so I have never even attempted to solo the quests.  We have still been destroyed quite a bit against about 4 enemies at a time.  I love it, but yeah they still have to work out balancing issues and what about respec costs...

Yeah...I'm a fire guy and I die ALL the time. I've just recently figured out I'm suppose to put most of my stuff into "recovery" and "presence". Did not know that until I rerolled and read that in the character screen. It would be better if they had something in the abilities screen which tells you "THIS ability is powered by THIS stat" because from the description I have no idea why recovery and presence would be good for a fire guy...

 Thanks for all the feedback guys. I'm planning to do a few more videos ending with a full review. Any suggestions for what you would like to see in upcoming vids?  

I generally agree with what most people are saying. But a few things. That part of MC looks all slummy because they're (as in the in-game story) are still building the city and that's part is still the leftover of Detroit. Also... I really like the desert's look *shrugs*.  
But yeah, hopefully the polish out the bugs in the next few weeks.  
 
@IzzyGraze said:

"Yeah...I'm a fire guy and I die ALL the time. I've just recently figured out I'm suppose to put most of my stuff into "recovery" and "presence". Did not know that until I rerolled and read that in the character screen. It would be better if they had something in the abilities screen which tells you "THIS ability is powered by THIS stat" because from the description I have no idea why recovery and presence would be good for a fire guy... "

Game actually looks really interesting. I have a crap PC and didn't really like CoH, but if the game actually does come out on the 360, I might give it a shot.

Nice videos. I'm on the fence about this game. It looks great, but I don't want another PC game. I hear it's coming to the 360 and PS3 in march. Maybe by then they'll have the PvP worked out and possibly an expansion pack with more areas. Like I said good videos. In the next one or two get to the level where you're allowed to build a villain for yourself. That might be what tips me over and makes this a buy.

I like the look of the game, but I don't really want to pay monthly if none of my real life friends are playing.

I have the game sitting on a pile of software right next to me but haven't installed it yet.  Between the complaints people are having now over powers, combat, leveling, etc...and the lag issues, I think I'll wait a few more weeks to before I use up my free month of play.  I do enjoy the videos.  Good work on that front.

People complain too much about the game.. 
I may be one of the lucky ones who doesn't really have a problem, but people spend too much time comparing it to stuff thats been around for 4+ years. It only launched a week ago. 
New patch and free recon for all today though...hopefully it will help those who have problems

" People complain too much about the game.. I may be one of the lucky ones who doesn't really have a problem, but people spend too much time comparing it to stuff thats been around for 4+ years. It only launched a week ago. New patch and free recon for all today though...hopefully it will help those who have problems "

Yep that about sums up my feelings too

" I love that quest just because its one giant Anchorman reference "

"  Thanks for all the feedback guys. I'm planning to do a few more videos ending with a full review. Any suggestions for what you would like to see in upcoming vids?   "