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Champions Online News - Blood Moon Preview!

Posted by Michael Bitton on Oct 14, 2009  | 6 comments in our forums

The Champions Online Blood Moon page has received a major update! The new page is a one-stop shop for all your Blood Moon information needs, including links to recent Blood Moon dev diaries, the power list for the new Celestial powerset, details on the new event perks and item rewards, and a bevy of new screenshots; some of which feature characters sporting some snazzy new costume pieces!

Here's a rundown of what you can expect in Blood Moon, which will be hitting live servers on October 27th, and will run through to November 10th:

  • New Power Set: Celestial! Our first new power set being added to Champions Online, Celestial is a support and healing based set with dual-purpose abilities.
  • Dawn of the Undead Heroes! Takofanes has trapped the souls of the Heroes who fell during the Battle of Detroit and are commanding them to spread ruin across Millennium City! Players who can save all 13 Undead Heroes will unlock the Celestial power set two weeks before anyone else!
  • BITE! Players will have the chance to join the Wolf Hunters and rid the land of the abominable Werewolves. However, falling to one of the beasts will force you to rise under the curse and become one yourself.
  • Rise of Takofanes! The Undying Lord has risen, and is appearing throughout Millennium City. Those who are strong enough to defeat his retinue will receive unique perks and rewards only available during the Blood Moon event.
  • Zombie Apocalypse! A brand new PvP map is here to stay! Survive as long as you can as endless waves of zombies approach, but beware, because those defeated will rise as a zombie and become the enemy.

We've also updated our gallery with all the juicy new shots, check them out here!

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Database82 writes:

Whaaaaaat!! Zombie apoc sounds sooo friggin cool.

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10/14/09 10:53:56 PM
 
Soupgoblin writes:

 They mentioned a patch in early October that was supposed to include more missions and power revamps.

When does "early October" start?

 

Sure, zombies are cool, but they still have issues with broken powers and huge mission gaps in leveling. You get forced into FOTM builds just to be a viable superhero. The one good side effect is that in PVP, you know exactly what powers people have, since if you aren't FOTM, you are just a blood smear on the wall.

Blood Moon is gravy, they need to work on the meat & potatoes first.

 

 

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ilistrat writes:

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11/05/09 12:41:49 AM
 
win.mach writes:

A long time ago, the Earth was ruled by demons. The demons constantly fought each other for survival, but soon found themselves fighting a new race of beings: The first humans. The demons then became imprisoned in ice after a great cataclysm. They would remain there until the ice melted, after which it was said Satan would rise and lead them in Armageddon. That time has come in Go Nagai's Devilman.
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11/10/09 6:53:08 AM
 
abyss610 writes:

hm have to say this has peaked my intrest in the game again. mostly because of the Werewolf thing, reminds me of good ol EQOA when they introduced Weres to that game. tho Everquest Online (ps2) we went out TRYING to get infected(was so random took some people months) and it was perminant buff, could shape shift at any time. down side was there too they eventually introduced were-hunters that would wreck you if they saw you in town lol well kicked my alts ass alot(lost alot of exp) i got the were form at the lowest possible level (30). he was an Elf ranger (bow path) werewolf ,named Oberon,damn miss that game :/

but yeah, ANYWAY think i'm gunna re-sub i had already been thinking about it, hell i downloaded it like last week just hadn't gone through with the subbing part yet >.<

p.s. been awake like 20 hours sorry for the ramble and i'm sure plenty of spellin errors

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