# Champions Online
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [August 27, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910 "2009-08-27T14:50:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/1 "2009-08-27T14:50:08Z")
Early start is tomorrow at 10am PST.
Anyone else in this? At first I was dubious… but I gotta admit, over the past few weeks of playing the closed beta, and then the open beta, it’s grown on me. I feel that it’s stronger, at ship time, than CoH was when it first started. I guess it helps that it’s the same creators, and that they were willing to learn from their mistakes.
So, let’s start up a supergroup!
My username is Parfex.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/2 "2009-08-27T14:51:47Z")
**Champion roll call!**
Skywatcher!
😃
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/3 "2009-08-27T15:01:58Z")
Been playing for a few months. It’s really not as good as CoH, to be honest. But it’s your call.
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/4 "2009-08-27T15:07:42Z")
I’ll be there as my time permits. @Pleonast.
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### Author:  [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/5 "2009-08-29T00:05:46Z")
Seen a space marine in ultramarine colors
Thats me…Space Marine
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/6 "2009-08-29T01:21:24Z")
I’ll be inhabiting the character Ghostflame.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/7 "2009-08-29T06:56:23Z")
I played a little bit early today @just_some_guy but the servers seem to be down now. I couldn’t reach the patch server but even when I bypassed it I couldn’t reach the account server. ☹
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/8 "2009-08-30T02:03:06Z")
I assume everyone is currently playing. I’ve just hit level 15 on my first character despite a lot of interruptions.
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/9 "2009-08-31T15:17:07Z")
I’m up to level 12. They seem to have readjusted mission xp back up to something relatively high. I’m still seeing a few bugs that I bugged back in beta.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/10 "2009-08-31T15:39:17Z")
Things are… hinky… in the 22-26 zone. XP wise. Feels like ‘hell levels’ if you remember your old EQ.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/11 "2009-08-31T22:14:00Z")
Tell me about it; at level 22 I started taking all those 24 missions. Now I’m at 23.9 and my inventory is filled with level 24 to 26 equipment. I think if I spread myself out a bit more I’d be doing better but I’ve been trying to save most of Canada’s content for a second character.
So, has anyone taken down Gronk yet? He landed in the middle of my public mission and lost over two thirds of his health to the swarming VIPER troops but I couldn’t finish him off. No one seems that interested in hunting him down either. It doesn’t seem like it would take a large team to finish him, just five or six characters. Maybe we should all team up next weekend and go for it…
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/12 "2009-09-01T15:07:19Z")
I started a “SDMB” channel, if anyone wants to chat in game.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/13 "2009-09-01T15:34:37Z")
I’ve a question; are US and Europe servers seperate, as the usually are?
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/14 "2009-09-01T17:07:05Z")
No. There’s only one server, divided into shards. You can manually switch between shards, if you wish. When you’re in a team, you’ll stay on the same shard as your teammates. And it’s also supposed to send you preferentially to shards with your supergroup and friends.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/15 "2009-09-01T20:51:36Z")
Hehe I forgot I had preordered this. Well Might as well install and see what’s going on.
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/16 "2009-09-01T22:04:32Z")
> [@Pleonast](#):
>
> No. There’s only one server, divided into shards. You can manually switch between shards, if you wish. When you’re in a team, you’ll stay on the same shard as your teammates. And it’s also supposed to send you preferentially to shards with your supergroup and friends.
That’s good news, thanks.
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### Author:  [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/17 "2009-09-02T01:45:13Z")
Does CO have issues with Dual Core GPUs? I can’t even run it on recommended for some reason. I’ve determined it’s not processor or memory and it happens with SLI on or off but without stripping it down to almost minimum I get absolutely abysmal frame rates, and I have 2 GTX295s. My only other guess is that it may not play nice with Windows 7, but I doubt that’s an issue considering Windows 7 is practically Vista underneath.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/18 "2009-09-02T02:57:53Z")
Massive across the board nerfs on launch day, wow this guys haven’t changed at all.
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### Author:  [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/19 "2009-09-02T12:54:37Z")
What nerfs? I didn’t play beta so I really wouldn’t know. I’ve also only played the tutorial thus far and looked around in the canada/ desert areas.
So far the game seems alright to me, but I’ll need to play some more to really be sure. Right now I’m enjoying the character creation part. I’ll try to look into the CO forums later, too. I’m hoping they’re at least civil. City of Heroes forums are usually fairly mature, When Age of Conan came out I was put off by the jerkishness of most of the players that posted in the forums there. I’m hoping the CO forums aren’t as unpleasant.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-online/507910/20 "2009-09-02T13:12:21Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#):
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> What nerfs? I didn’t play beta so I really wouldn’t know. I’ve also only played the tutorial thus far and looked around in the canada/ desert areas.
They reduced the effectiveness of defensive powers and it was necessary. With the energy power set force field I had to be completely overwhelmed to be threatened.
I figured for the first month of release power sets are going to be tweaked almost daily so it was no skin off my nose but you know how MMO players get…
Oh, and release day seems to me to be the best time to make a serious adjustment. A small subset of the players are the only ones who would be affected and everyone else would be coming into the game looking at the new baseline.
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