Official CoH Announcement : i14 Open Beta Begins!

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You have been waiting patiently and now the time has come! City of Heroes content Update Issue 14: Architect has now officially begun its Open Beta phase. Now is your chance to play and give feedback on one of the most in-depth player created mission systems in an MMO to date! Your story/mission masterpieces will be available in-game for all your fellow gamers to play and rate - and the higher their rating, the more YOU benefit!

So what are you waiting for? Instructions on how to get to the Training Room / Open Beta server can be found here!

As you create your unique stories/missions in Open Beta, all your content will be saved locally on your computer within your beta directory. When Issue 14 goes live, you'll need to copy that information over to your default installation of City of Heroes. Check out this link to find out exactly how to do this for the PC and Mac versions of the game.

Need more reasons to create kickin' missions during Open Beta? Well, here they are:

Dev's Choice

Developer's Choice stories are hand picked and represent the team's personal favorites within the Architect system. Dev's Choice picks will appear on their own special "Dev's Choice" list and will be recognizable by the following icon:

But wait--there's more! Any player whose mission achieves Dev Choice status, will also receive the associated Dev's Choice badge:

Will your mission be one of the first to get awarded Dev's Choice? Stories flagged as Dev Choice during Open Beta will have the potential of getting migrated over to the live servers once issue 14 goes public. The exact number of stories and which stories they will be...will be decided in the weeks to come. Once Issue 14 goes live, the Dev's will periodically add more Dev's Choice picks to the list!

Hall Of Fame

The Dev's get to pick their favorite stories/missions, but so do you! Based on the number of people who play your mission and how high others rate it, your piece of playable content could reach Hall of Fame status! Who doesn't want to be considered the best-of-the-best among their peers?

Hall of Fame designated missions will be identifiable by this icon:

The creators of Hall of Fame missions will also receive the Hall of Fame badge:



But it doesn't stop there. As other players rate your missions with high marks, you will earn tickets. So your climb to Hall of Fame status could be a very prosperous one!

Each City of Heroes game account can publish a maximum of 3 stories (each of which can contain up to 5 missions). However, if you reach Hall of Fame status, you will be rewarded with a fourth story slot!

And don't worry...if your mission gets awarded Dev's Choice, you can STILL also achieve Hall of Fame status (and vice versa).

Even though you can start rating missions in Open Beta, those ratings will not carry over to when Issue 14 goes live...so unlike Dev's Choice, there will not be any Hall of Fame designated missions when Issue 14 becomes public. But, as soon as the Issue has in fact released, the race to Hall of Fame is on!

So jump on to the Test Server and start creating, playing and rating those missions now! You never know...your uber mission-creating skills just might make you a community super-star! Or, if mission building isn't your thing, just sit back and enjoy playing all the cool content being generated by your fellow players. You can actually level from 1 to 50 by playing through mission architect content! And don't forget - by playing and rating you can help raise the best stories/missions to the-top-of-the-heap and get the players creating them their well deserved props!

Welcome to Issue 14 Open Beta! We hope you have fun!

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