Ship Of Heroes Preview Player Bases And Teases Next Public Beta Test
Heroic Games Corp. dives into player bases in their latest Ship of Heroes dev blog. As with guild housing in most MMORPGs, player bases function as a place where players can hang out with their superhero buddies and can be customized using a variety of pre-set options such as walls, texture and color, ceiling type, windows, staircases, furniture, pets, and even ambient music.
“We think that every superhero needs a cool, secret lair, or a place to meet up with allies, or just a chill place to hang out and drink a cold one.”
“The current bases are not big enough to serve as a 50-hero guild hall, but we intend to add bigger starting spaces later, along with plaques that can carry custom messages,” said the devs. “Some games have player housing but not bases, or the reverse. Some have both, but they’re separated. We think it’s more fun to have the full set of options for whatever building you’re making. Want to stock up your home with medical kits and weapons? You can. Want to set up your supergroup mega-base with beds and sofas, or even individual rooms for members? That’s fine, too.”
Player bases will be included in the superhero MMORPG’s next public beta test which the team says will be kicking off “in the next few months.” Beta participants can also expect to see a myriad of improvements including an engine upgrade and Steam launcher and patcher integration.
Meanwhile, several fans apparently couldn’t wait for Heroic to start selling the game and found a way to access the hidden purchase page on the official site to pay the devs right then and there.
“Now, we’d like to repeat that there is no option on the Ship of Heroes website that allows any-one to purchase Ship of Heroes at this moment in time… but one is coming soon,” they said. “Apparently some of our fans are so incredibly skilled that they found the hidden page on our site for buying SoH later on. They activated the right page and paid us, all to try to pre-purchase the game early. Wow! It’s extremely impressive, and definitely not the kind of hacking we were worried about. We have offered a refund to all who contacted us post purchase and tried to hide the pages better to avoid any billing problems for you guys in the future.”
Takes the whole “Shut up and take my money!” meme to a whole new level. Before you start trying to hack into the Ship of Heroes website yourself, don’t forget to check out player bases in the video below.
