This game is pretty cool.

Jetrpg

This is typed poorly but i do not care to take the time to edit sorriez.

 

Honestly  champions online was not even on my radar more than 2 weeks ago, i got into open beta spent one entire day trying to get the darn game to even patch (it was messed up , largely file planets or cryptics fault, but the 2nd day it was an easy install and patch).

So i have been playing it and its simply amazing, im not sure how well end game and instancing will turn out (currently 13 and have only been in  VERY VERY small instances just for quests, not a real "instance"). As for the pvp the pvp instance servers are all messed up and for about 1-2 hours or less after they reboot them you get insta to 1 min queues and the pvp is pretty fun.

There are quite a few quest that are bugged , but so far there are soo many quests that it really doesn't matter.

The crafting system is very interesting and so far useful.

The shining positive of the game is the character creation both looks and abilities. (THEE MOST SAND BOX IN THE LAST MANY MANY YEARS).

Not only do i see cyborgs , androids, beast men, MASTER SPLITER (no really it looked just like him and that was his name), devils, succubus, humans, magic beings, elemental beings, giants, piggmies, and many more, you have abilities, that often fit those characters, and you pick your abilities color (lazer a doesn't look like lazer b, its a fricking pink lazar or a bluegreen one, etc), and for many where you shoot them from (head, fists, palm, chest, etc) is an option.

After all this you pick EVERY ABILITY YOU GET, you even pick the stats you get, AND WHAT STATS WILL INCREASE YOUR DAMAGE. So you can pick con and str and have a toon that does a ton of damage has alot of hp and then once again does a ton of damage because con helps dps and str helps dps.

The travel powers kick the junk out of other games , people are talking about aions flying, that is a joke. I have flown in CO i can fly and fight and if i fly for a while i can fly faster then faster again. I can also charge up my flight to take off in a burst of speed. But there is more, i can super jump crossed the land, or jets boots fly which has less manuverability than flight but moves faster (but takes longer to move at max speed), i can command whatever i stand on (even air if i am falling) to take form and ride it as if it was a surf board, i can have superspeed and move faster than anything else, or train acrobatics and move and jump and flip faster than anyone else can do normally, i can also swing or teleport. No my friends the travel power of CO are immensely fun, and all can be used in combat but at a price (maybe, my characters energy Regen is so high [as are most are] that the extra cost to fight mid air is not so bad).

 

So what more could it offer, oh there is more.

You pick every ability as i said, but that means from any class/power line. So i can shoot guns, wield two blades, and shoot lazer beams out of my eyes, have a forces field, tell robots to attack , with just like my character was always ment to have those skills.

Melee seems to have a disadvantage at low levels in pvp, because you don't have extra power (ability) picks to get a ability that hold , roots, or stuns and enemy relalibly (stil melee hurts really bad). There are also many types of attack aoe, line, single, pbaoe, cone (alot of cones), and alot of abilities that allow you to move enemies, (a few tractor beams to pull enemies to you, alot of knockbacks to hit them away, etc) ONE OF THE FUNNEST THINGS TO DO IS PICK STUFF UP AND THROW IT AT YOUR ENEMIES. (based on str [one ability uses your mind and the ego stat to do this]) we are talking about cars, trucks, stone slabs, giant street lights, crashed ufos, crates, boxes, a tons of stuff. and these are thee most damaging attacks in the game (as you can't spam them and need stuff to throw , the heavier the more damage they do ... its aoe too).

You then further have too choose which abilities to modify and how; more damage, extra effects, turn it into an aoe attack, etc.

 

 

Now that i have said what is very fun about this game, there are some issues, i have hardly seen instances (i hear they are in but i hope they are good).

Until you hit level 8, your caracter seems a bit bland (you have a max of three active abilities .... lat least you get your travel power at lvl 5).

Many quests are bugged, and the pvp system crashes ALOT.

End game im not sure how the game will be or what the point of it will be.

Im not the biggest fan of such limited pvp, but i have seen a few videos of end game pvp and it looks ok at best (still playing your character is an enjoyment for me).

ITs biggest downfall is simply that its not seen as a big or good game, so very few people are looking at it and really for the level of playability and sheer enjoyment of really creating YOUR character it deserves more attention (in other words people don't think its the next wow killer and clearly it will not be, but it has more hopes for me to play it for more than 2-3 months than any game i have played/beta'e din the last few years, but still this may fail to be true if end game is poor and i have not played that yet so...).

 

Finally i leave you saying once you customize you character select your base powers and stats and get through the tutorial , you then just start the real customization of your character as there are tons of more character creation item unlocks and purchases (with an achievement system seen in  cox) that often allow you to change the looks of your character and sometimes the ABILITIES of your character.