“I have always been an advocate of using the theater of the mind,” said Matt “Positron” Miller, Lead Designer on the titles. Our market is those gamers who want a full gaming experience without having to listen to the game.” Visual Sounds will be included in the upcoming Issue 12, which is being re-christened “Issue 12: Pow, Biff, Boom, Bam!” in honor of this new system. “I know it sounds crazy,” said Brian Clayton, the Executive Producer and head of the NC NorCal office, “but our research shows that a lot of people are building their own computers nowadays, and sometimes you forget to purchase speakers or headphones. Here are a few quotes from that announcement. In 2008 NCSoft NorCal announced Visual Sounds were being introduced to the game, based on comic books use of onomatopoeia.

After April passed it was revealed by Positron that the badge data was the joke and that the badge was never intended to be released.įor a third year in a row the development team added fake data to the game files to fool players into thinking they were getting something, this time, a Toy Bat Temp Power. In 2006 the development team was back once again, this time with a badge called April’s Fool, which was first found in pigg files in March. Though…now that I think about it, that might have been for the best. Players spent all day trying to work out how to unlock it but sadly it was never a real power. In 2005 a power description was added to City of Heroes for the Temp Power Vomit. Either way, here is the history of April Fools Day in City of Heroes. Some of them were great ideas that should have been introduced, some of them…less so. In fact, there was always someone who failed to realize what the date was and would fall for the joke every time.

Though they weren’t always well received at the time. City of Heroes has a long and wonderful history with fun April Fools Day jokes.

People still play city of heroes