The first update to Champions Online has been announced today on the Champions Online official website. The update will be entitled "Blood Moon", and from what we can gather, it appears to be a Halloween event that will also bring with it a new power framework: Celestial.

Details below:

When Takofanes last strode across North America he killed all who crossed him to swell the ranks of his undead army. The first attempt America's superheroes made to stop him resulted in the death of half a dozen of them. A second more concentrated attempt managed to drive Takofanes from the battlefield, but he could not be defeated. Now Takofanes has returned once again with hordes of his minions, citing prophecies of doom and proclaiming his coming reign over humanity!

• Explore the new Celestial Powerset. Use the power of the Seraphim to heal and strengthen your allies, or release the fury of the Nephilim in a battle against evil.
• Beware the Zombie Apocalypse rising in Canada! Battle against zombies in PVP, but no matter what, do not fall there. Should you die, you shall return as one of the undead horde, bound to fight in Takofanes’ name.
• Fight off ravenous werewolf packs, but be careful lest you get bitten and infected with their dark magic.
• Stand against undead heroes who once fought in the Battle of Detroit, and do your best to free their souls from Takofanes’ necromancy.
• Challenge Takofanes to drive him from our land, but beware – you must fight the dark sorcerers who serve him before you have any chance of facing the Undying Lord.

The Blood Moon Rising page can be viewed here. It also appears that the site will be updated with a video featuring the  update in the near future, stay tuned!

 BRAINZ!!!!

It would be nice to see some of the more rabid micro-trasaction haters come here and recant some of their doom.  I think I heard on a number of occasions, from a number of posters,  that no content updates would be free.  Here is the first content update, and it doesn't look like fees will be involved.

Also, they just changed respecs so that you can completely respec a character.  Might cost a lot, but it's possible.  Another thing that the MT doomsayers said would never happen.  Although, with the framework of this game, I never expected them to allow you to completely respec $$ or no.  That was a pleasant surprise indeed.

Yep Champs is getting better day by day and was pretty damn good to begin with.

As far as the Zombies and werewolves are concerned one of my main chars is a robot.  How do they infect a robot with Lycanthropy?   Nevertheless they are going down  DOWN DOWN

Originally posted by chriswsm

Yep Champs is getting better day by day and was pretty damn good to begin with.

 

As far as the Zombies and werewolves are concerned one of my main chars is a robot.  How do they infect a robot with Lycanthropy?   Nevertheless they are going down  DOWN DOWN

 

 

Zombies are just ebil like that so they can do anything.

i just hope you CAN get infected, im sick and tired of "ooooh zombies, vampires, werewolves LOOK OUT" and the threat of infection never surfaces it just ":oooooh be carful!"

Originally posted by Paks

Originally posted by chriswsm

Yep Champs is getting better day by day and was pretty damn good to begin with.

 

As far as the Zombies and werewolves are concerned one of my main chars is a robot.  How do they infect a robot with Lycanthropy?   Nevertheless they are going down  DOWN DOWN

 

 

 

Zombies are just ebil like that so they can do anything.

I concur! By the way, the entire MMORPG.com staff? You guessed it, we're zombies!

Originally posted by chriswsm

Yep Champs is getting better day by day and was pretty damn good to begin with.

 

As far as the Zombies and werewolves are concerned one of my main chars is a robot.  How do they infect a robot with Lycanthropy?   Nevertheless they are going down  DOWN DOWN

 

 

Originally posted by bstripp

It would be nice to see some of the more rabid micro-trasaction haters come here and recant some of their doom.  I think I heard on a number of occasions, from a number of posters,  that no content updates would be free. 

I doubt that you did, actually. Speaking for myself, I never said that nothing would be free, just that less would be free, and the amount of stuff that was free would diminish over time. It's quite possible that Cryptic has caught the wind and realized RMTs in a P2P game are very unpopular.

Here is the first content update, and it doesn't look like fees will be involved.

See? Even you're not SURE.

Also, they just changed respecs so that you can completely respec a character.  Might cost a lot, but it's possible.  Another thing that the MT doomsayers said would never happen.  Although, with the framework of this game, I never expected them to allow you to completely respec $$ or no.  That was a pleasant surprise indeed.

According to their stated policy, having an in-game respec opens the door to offer it in the cash shop. Keep watching.

It does look like it might be interesting content, and being Canadian, I am concerned about the zombies.

Originally posted by MikeB 

I concur! By the way, the entire MMORPG.com staff? You guessed it, we're zombies!

Anyone who plays MMOs is by default.

New powerset is cool.

The 'Zombie Apocalypse' seems possibly a bit like the Halloween event of CoH by the same name (though it doesn't possibly turn you into a zombie).  We won't know 'till later if it actually ends up being similar at all(outside of the whole red sky thing).

Overall it looks more like a bit (and quite possibly fun) limited time event with a new powerset tacked on than it does an addition of long-term content.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

Originally posted by MikeB 

I concur! By the way, the entire MMORPG.com staff? You guessed it, we're zombies!

Anyone who plays MMOs is by default.

Agre....e......uug...hh.....   BRAINZ!!

You mean beside the many players who are wolves and undead already? gee