Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

[Red Dragon]

Went down to gamestop yesterday, spent 5 bucks, got the promo code.

EST(Eastern Time Zones) - 1:00pm
CST(Central Time Zones) - 12:00pm Noon
MST(Mountain Time Zones - 11:00am
PST(Pacific Time Zones) - 10:00am

Let's get excited.

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

Yeah, I am going to be forced to wait till tonight to get it started.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

File unlocked, time to download a 3 gigabyte patch!

[Ryner]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

Is it an actual open beta or an open beta only for people who have it pre-ordered or have a fileplanet subscription?

Cause that's not open.

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

You can get into beta if you had an account with fileplanet too, I believe.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

Is it an actual open beta or an open beta only for people who have it pre-ordered or have a fileplanet subscription?

Cause that's not open.

It's "open" in the fact that the NDA has been lifted.

Otherwise your correct.

Also, tons of errors and crap with the patches. Crappy Fileplanet screwed up the installer, Cryptic cant run servers, and I still get stuck at 0.4% even 11 hours later.

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

I was at 53% before it stopped. We only have about a week before the beta closes. Not sure if we are even going to be able to play the game.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

There is a stand-alone patch out now if you check to forums it takes away like 100 megs, at least on my end.

I am installing both the pre-order client and the "new" client. Hopfully that will help as well.

I've done a few betas before and I have never had the trouble with a patcher like this one.

EDIT: Holy crap, theres a new button on the launcher, it says "play" what do I do now?

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

So many glitches still.

Costume glitches, enemies that can't be targeted, ect. They really need to iron these out more.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

I've heared about these, I haven't seen them myself though.

I came in thinking I wasn't going to like this game very much. After I played it it just sucks... you in. I literally spent 5 hours at level 8 just trying out different power combinations to see what I could do.

I really hope at launch though, enemies get a huge damage/HP buff. I can just fly around and cast Pyre on anything and have it die in 3 seconds. Then it has a damage DoT on it, so anything that doesn't die from the 700+ damage, takes 100+ damage a second.

Oh, and the Open Beta is going to be open to the public for free by the end of the week. Just thought I would add that in there for Ryner.

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

I had turn into a giant when I was randomly clicking on an item. I was huge!

Everyone was asking about the giant for a long time. I ended up turning back to normal when I died. It was pretty hard to see the enemies that high up.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

Yup I know what item you are talking about. I got that item in the tutorial zone as well. It was quite fun.

There is also a skill called Minaturation Drive that you can upgrade to make it so your opponent not only turns into an ant, but you also turn into a giant. Not as big as that glitched item. But pretty big.

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

It seems that having a projectile power is a must in the game.

I really like clobber and lighting strand. (or however you spell that.)

There are some really tough enemies that make it hard to solo. I just wish they would have started with a larger chat screen. It seems that it will be somewhat hard to really communicate with others while fighting without a mic system.

The customization is out of this world. You won't see any repeat characters. You can tweak the body in so many ways and the same with the face.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

The customization is out of this world. You won't see any repeat characters. You can tweak the body in so many ways and the same with the face.

I dunno. I've seens aorund 30 Gokus so far.



Oh ya. Anyone that's in it there is an event going on that will give you a special item for launch. Also they are setting everyones level to max so you can fiddle around with your character!

That is... If the servers were up...

:doomandgloom

[Vonwert]

Re: Champions Online Open Beta starts today.

Is that today?

I heard about the event, but that won't be till later this week.