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City of Heroes Character Editor Available
1up reports that the amazingly versatile Character creator that City of Heroes players have enjoyed since launch is now available for free to download. You can't really do anything with the characters you create, of course, but it's still pretty cool. It's officially being released for the Korean launch of the game. From the article: "Not only does it include all of the game's hundreds of costume options, but auras and capes are available for screwing around with from the start, which is spiff if you want to see how they're going to look on your guy before going to all the trouble of getting him to level 30."
That's the most fun part of the game!
Wait a sec... Haven't they always said they wouldnt do something like this because of the time investment it would take to separate it entirely from the game?
SO THATS WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN UP TO!
Thats why 'soon' took forever...
I love to slaughter the english language.
Wow, you know your a geek when you download a 200MB file to play barbie.
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Capes are now available at level 20, not 30.
Oop, old news: they've been that way since inception.
-( koutetsu )
Auras however are available at lvl 30.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
anyone else got a green cast over the characters? I'd think it was some oddity of my graphics setup if it wasn't also coming across on the screenshots &c.
My kids will love this, especially my son. It makes a nice contrast to my daughter's Barbie Princess dress-up game.
I've probably spent more time in the character creator than I have the actual game. This would have saved me at least $100 just on the purchase price alone. I may have paid for a month or two somewhere in their too, but not much more since the game gets so boring.
I was in the CoH beta, and I spent more time at the character creation screen then playing. Now I can go and relive the fun times I had in CoH! ;-)
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I'll be renewing now. After my favorite character took a heavy hit from the ol' nerf bat, I've been one of the hangers on who just dicks around with the character creation system.
Ah, who'm I kiddin'? Clobbering a dozen street punks in the face at the same time is harder to give up than smoking.
Quite simply, the costume creator in CoH/V was the biggest surprise in the game.
Most folks I know that either participated in the beta or played in the game after it went Gold, were blown away. Never before in a MMO have been been given such a wide range of choices. It wasn't unusual for most folks to get the game, sit down and think "Yeah, whip up a character in 5 minutes and away I go!" An hour later, they were still tinkering with their costumes. Sure, later on it took a lot less, but it wasn't hard to spend an hour just LOOKING at all the options, since you would tweak colors and patterns to see how it changed.
The biggest reason they could do this in CoH/V? The costume stays the same, regardless of "Enhancements" you obtain. With other games, your equipment/armor determines how you look. In CoH/V, it doesn't. Your costume is your costume, though you can alter it at various levels, as well as get auras and capes at certain levels.
Nobody else that I have seen has come close to offering new characters the ability to NOT be a cookie cutter. Your identity was YOU, not "ohh, I got this fancy breastplate! It's not an upgrade, but it sure looks cooler!" type stuff.
Other MMOs need to take note. It may be more difficult if you want armor to determine looks, but how many times have you found a super piece of equipment, and then put it an, and said "MAN, this is ugly!"??? I know some of the best equipment in WoW was uglier than sin. Anyone recall the "Do you want fries with that burger?" helmet that paladins had as part of their class armor? One of the meanest things I have ever seen in a MMO! I still laugh at that one.
It's cool that they released that to the general public at no charge. Try it, and you will see what I mean.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Apparently the NCSoft legal types are taking a close look at this now. The guy who put together a guide to using it, including a registry tweak to make it run in English, has had to take down his guide - http://www.wrathgame.co.uk/WRATHArt/character_crea tor.htm
;-)
I wouldn't have thought the registry tweak was such a problem. I mean, if they didn't want it to run in English, they shouldn't have had English as the internal default that it uses if you use regedit to deny your windows account permissions on the KRCOH key, should they?