Ever have a problem keeping up with all the chatter in the standard two chat windows? Need to see the combat messages, Triumph Watch, Team Chat, Super Group Chat, and monitor the Broadcast window incase that hard to find Tank is LFT? Well, here ya go!

If you’ve been curious to try out all of those interesting powersets in Villains, here’s your chance!
This event will start May 24th at around 11:00 am Central and end on May 26th around 8:00 am Central. To get started, simply create a new character on test server, and it will take you directly into Recluses’ Victory, instead of Atlas Park, Galaxy City, or Outbreak.

More info here…

Have absolutely nothing important to say regarding CoH, but since I can, here goes one of my favorite clips of all time:

United States of Whatever

Just announced at E3, the next game in the NCSoft portfolio, Exteel.

Build your mech. Fight other mechs. Learn new moves. Customive every single aspect with new parts.

Price?

Free to download. No monthly fee.
Let me mention that again - it’s FREE folks.

Now - how free? Hard to say. I can tell one way they’re paying for it is in advertising revenue - in the downloadable trailier I saw billboards for AMD, CityOfHero (Korean version) and possibly more. I’d also bet that eventually there will be special things you can buy with cash for your mech - $1 here, 50 cents there - it adds up. (Kinda like Second Life.)

After a brief and highly unsatisfying trip to Warburg, I headed over to Siren’s Call. Went to the vendor there and purchased a stealth suit. When I noticed that the suit wasn’t automatically appearing in my power tray, I went to manually add it and Surprise, Surprise there was my Holiday Jet Pack, fully fueled and ready to go! And, no, I did not buy a Raptor pack, as during my last respec I dropped TP and Superspeed and SuperJump for Fly.

Turns out that I7 includes some SIGNIFICANT updates to existing CoH zones. For example our efforts as heroes to clean up King’s Row have been largely successful! Green grass, trees with leaves and many other improvements, including a new Paragon City Police Department - and TONS of new animations etc. Trolls however have moved into the zone so keep your eyes peeled!

Let’s hope this isn’t another “Bright Astoria” bug - I’m hoping there’s more of these to come Makes me feel like we’re making a difference!!!

As I’m sure you knew from the moment I posted, I spent about 4 hours on test yesterday (and am planning on spending about the same amount of time today) checking out the cool newness.

Initial impressions:

The whistle to call thugs for Masterminds is the same noise as the Werewolf whistle. It is going to get old REALLY quick, as it’s going off every few seconds in Mercy somehwere. Eeesh. However the thugs themselves are fine