City of Heroes Freedom Facepalms Thrice

The City of Heroes Freedom Facebook Facepalm promotion is back for the third time. Like the game on Facebook, go to the "Free Giveaways" tab and follow the instructions to get the /facepalm emote.

Read the announcement on the official forums.
Discuss the facepalm promotion on the official forums.

Forum Changes and Costume Powers Removed From Store

The selection of forum topics is being streamlined to make the forums more newbie friendly. Personally, I think it's a good change overall, but we'll see if the combined Archetype forums cause any problems.

Forum change announcement at the official forums.
Forum change discussion at the official forums.

Was it poor sales? Was it the upcoming Halloween event? It's anyone's guess, but if and when the costume powers come back, let's hope they're at a more sensible price point and have had their text cleared up.

Costume Power removal announcement at the official forums.
Costume Power removal discussion at the official forums.

PLAY FOR FREE. FOREVER.

City of Heroes Freedom Issue 21 Officially Launches!

City of Heroes Freedom game client download page at the official site.

Read about it on the official forums.
Discuss it on the official forums.
Official City of Heroes Freedom launch video at YouTube.
City of Heroes Freedom mini-site.

Mr. Wrecking Ball Takes Grandville

Mr. Wrecking Ball in Grandville. One of my favorite screenshots.

City of Heroes Freedom Official Launch September 27 & New Referral Program

It looks like City of Heroes Freedom officially launches on September 27! Also, the referral program is starting up again. I thought we'd seen the last of that program, but it's coming back!

Also, the rolling reactivation has been officially announced (see first link below) so download the launcher and client and try to log in every day (even before the 27th!) until you get in!

City of Heroes Freedom launch announcement at the official forums.
Launch discussion thread at the official forums.
Refer a Friend announcement at the official forums.
Refer a Friend discussion thread at the official forums.

New City of Heroes Freedom Story: Shivans

Read the story "Shivans".
Announcement on the official forums.
Discussion thread on the official forums.
Unofficial discussion thread on the official forums.

Rolling Reactivation for Inactive Accounts

If you used to subscribe to the game but currently don't, dig up your credentials, download the client and try to log in because Paragon Studios is doing a rolling reactivation of inactive accounts, making them Premium. No guarantees, but your account may have already been activated.

Read about it on the official forums.

Latest Ustream Covers Signature Story Arcs

The Signature Story Arcs are now available for play and the latest Paragon Studios Ustream Coffee Talk gives more info on them. Be warned, it is quite spoiler-laden so if you don't like being spoiled on new story content, give this one a pass.

Positron popped up briefly in the stream to clarify how SSA rewards will work. Apparently, you only get the once-a-week reward for doing any one of the SSAs on one character. Doing additional SSAs in the same week on the same character will yield lesser rewards. So if you were counting on getting more than one Alignment Merit on one character per week by doing more than one SSA, you're out of luck.

Check it out at Ustream.
The Intrepid Informer: Issue #12 covering the SSAs.
Read the unofficial Ustream summary thread at the official forums.

My Freedom Roster Issue #2: Magnaniman

Magnaniman INV/SS/NRG Tanker

Here in Issue #2 we have my Hero Exemplar Magnaniman.

His costume is one of the most complimented ones I've ever created. This caught me by surprise since the look is exceedingly simple, but people love a classic! He was also the first Tanker I ever got to 50. He's the Tank that taught me to appreciate Tanks.