Comments on: Champions Online Review

By: Shadow War

Shadow War — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Of course my idea of a content gap is different from yours. I don’t care if I have to do a quest a level or two over me, as long as I can reasonably solo it, or complete it with the suggested number of players. If I had to do a 29 quest at 28, and didn’t even notice the difficulty, it doesn’t exist for me as a content gap. This might be an issue at the higher levels maybe where I run out because of my outpacing the current quests, unless they have a sring of 40+ quests for me to do there as well.

By: Shadow War

Shadow War — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:39:19 +0000

A lot of the comments so far have been on questing and leveling. I’ll give a quick glimpse of my experience (seewhatididthere?). I hit a slight wall at level 26-27. Then I got mail from Socrates that told me I had a mission I could access via my “Crime Computer”. My howzie-whatey? Yes, my crime computer. In my journal, on the bottom left hand side is a button to access it. This brings up waypoints to every NPC that has quests available to me in every zone I have access to. So far, I have not run out of quests that I can easily do solo, and I’m half way to 31.

That said, I have done EVERY quest I can possibly find or get my hands on. This means replay value is tanked to the absolute bottom, which is bad news on a game that is so insanely alt-friendly.

By: Pete S

Pete S — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:08:38 +0000

OK so it sounds like I’m just getting to the problem areas. Dang, I was hoping I’d somehow missed it.

Thanks for the clarification!

By: Dresden

Dresden — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:07:27 +0000

I am currently at 23 and had to throw myself at red quests to get there. I have done all of the “Help a Citizen” quests, the normal city quests, the desert, and Canada.

I am sure I could find a quest here or there to do, but I am definitely in a tough spot right now. I have only a couple red quests left.

By: Ferrel

Ferrel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:54:03 +0000

I started having trouble around 17 or so. Each quest just didn’t seem to reward me that much anymore and I had to bounce back and forth to make any progress. I didn’t invest much time in mob slaying for exp (which is semi-effective).

I can do some of the higher level quests as well as I’m a similar build as you but I always worry that if I do that I’ll run out of quests later on. I basically consider it a gap if you have to take quests outside of your range to move on. That is something I should have defined.

By: Pete S

Pete S — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:58:17 +0000

Can I ask at what level you start running out of content at? You’re not the first to voice the concerns you have with leveling speed and grindiness but *knock on wood* so far I haven’t encountered it. The other night I went from 16 to 18 in a couple hours, which felt speedy to me, and this character has never taken a quest in Canada so I have that whole zone to head to if I run out of quests.

But maybe I haven’t reached the gaps yet, or maybe I just lucked into a powerful build? (Munitions/Telekinesis with a touch of Supernatural [Regeneration]). I am commonly soloing quests a few levels above me, so maybe that’s helping me ‘keep up’ with quest content? I also, I guess, ‘grind’ a lot in the form of chasing down craft skill items, which usually have a mob around them. Not sure what kind of exp you get from grinding mobs though…

It seems like CO is a hard game to compare experiences in since, as you point out, it’s easy to gimp your character (and if its your first character you might not even realize it is gimped). I used the free Retcon to ditch some powers I wasn’t using any more and so get new ones I didn’t have pre-retcon and I can surely feel the difference in power.