Gallery of Villians

by Oozo

Here are some of the characters I made for the Champions Online Open Beta. Most are really villians. I guess I'm really just not a very nice guy. It's much easier to be a villian than a hero, IMHO.

And, of course, my favorite...

Champions Online: A PvP Short

by Oozo

As mentioned previously, I love the animations in Champions Online. This short movie gives emphasis to those animations from the point of view of a duel swords hero. The big hitting ability you see in this movie has a 6 second buildup. It is extremely hard to land with all of the knockdowns and interrupts in the game.

It does continue to build while you move though, so with some good timing and a bit of luck you can land it. And it's quite satisfying when it does. :)

Champions Online: First Impressions

by Oozo


Looks like I will be making the move from Warhammer Online to Champions Online. Champions Online has it's problems in the area of PvP balance, but it has one BIG intangible going for it. It's fun, despite it's PvP flaws.

The animations and pace of action is very good IMO and should be enough to keep me going for awhile. I'll see what I can do with the PvP aspect of the game. I'm not really a FoTMer type of personality and this game is going to be all about the FoTM if you want to do well in PvP.

Below is a short movie with commentary I did from first day open beta clips. There are anti-kiting melee abilities. The one thing you will absolutely need to avoid if doing a melee-concept for your character are melee energy builders. You must use a ranged energy builder or you will be severely gimping yourself for PvP. And, that's unfortunate.

The last fights with Oozo are done with an ability called Thunderbolt Lunge. Honestly the ability was on the OP side of things. It has been nerfed recently and given a cooldown, so it's no longer spammable.

Champions Online PvP: Cage Match

by Oozo

Well, this is very impressive footage to say the least. The movement animation is just superb. The spell animations are very good. The gameplay looks to be very smooth. It's seems to be fast-paced, but people also seem to be fairly durable.

There are points in this movie where you see the character get CC'd. A message comes up that they can hit F to remove the CC. Interesting.

I'm looking forward to checking this game out.