***Official DC Universe Online Thread***

One of the main reasons of the big drop off is Rift. But give that about 2mths and people who left DCUO for that will come back. Same with Dragon Age II. Me, on the other hand, I am staying loyal to DCUO. You couldn't pay me any money to move from it to play another MMO. No sir. :D
 
CK61938 said:
One of the main reasons of the big drop off is Rift. But give that about 2mths and people who left DCUO for that will come back. Same with Dragon Age II. Me, on the other hand, I am staying loyal to DCUO. You couldn't pay me any money to move from it to play another MMO. No sir. :D
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Yup that what I thought as well, also think that DCUO would be wise to start there Free trail the day that the free month at Rift ends, don't get they hype around that game to be honest, found it extremely bland to say the least.
 
CK61938 said:
One of the main reasons of the big drop off is Rift. But give that about 2mths and people who left DCUO for that will come back.
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I think it will be a lot longer than 2mths, Rift is getting very good reviews across the board.

First major patch this morning which included a lot of fixes as well as things they couldn’t add in time for launch. Already talk of next patch with a lot more content to come.

I like DCUO, but Rift is fab!
 
wab said:
Yup that what I thought as well, also think that DCUO would be wise to start there Free trail the day that the free month at Rift ends, don't get they hype around that game to be honest, found it extremely bland to say the least.
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Bland in what way? Did you only play beta? what lvl did you get up too?
 
Vuvuzela said:
I think it will be a lot longer than 2mths, Rift is getting very good reviews across the board.

First major patch this morning which included a lot of fixes as well as things they couldn’t add in time for launch. Already talk of next patch with a lot more content to come.

I like DCUO, but Rift is fab!
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Isn't that like most MMOs that come out? They add a patch on release (which DCUO did), then talk of what's to come. Again DCUO did this on Wed night announcing what's coming out in March.

Rift might be getting reviews across the board but games like that don't appeal to me. DCUO appeals to me simply cos it's a DC game. Nothing else.
 
'Wes said:
How big is the playerbase for DCUO? Just curious because it's SOE, and their track record hasn't be decent.
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Hard to guess but not very big at the moment, I do think we will see a few players come back as I do not see Rift keeping them, its a bland game with only one thing I found fun which was the actual rifts, but you can only do so many of them before it becomes bit stale. I do not think Rift is a bad game its just meh, nothing to it the game just lacked substance if you ask me, but then its each to his own.

Guess Time will tell.

To the other guy got to level 42 I think.

As said we will have another big update this month, looks like a new raid and Duo instance.

With a few fixes/changes to other aspects of the game.

It really is a great game, different to whats out there and fun to play, being a while since I could say that about any mmo to be honest.
 
So still no news on when the new update will be released but I wouldn't be surprised if it's next Tuesday. In keeping with the tradition of missing specific dates on releasing patches, SOE and DC are keeping us "interested" with what's to come in the new update.

As I mentioned earlier, we'll be getting Penguin and Two-Face instances. Two-Face in PVP Legends and Mister Mxyzptlk as part of a St. Patrick's Day event.

I have noticed also, that many people are only coming online now to do raids with their league. This is mostly apparent with my league now. We've done that many hard alerts and duos, that we now just raid between Thurs and Sat nights. I am on every night though cos I can't not be on it lol.

Anyway, we're just hoping the 3rd and final raid Batcave raid is on the next update cos damn, we are itching to complete that :D

Incidentally you do all 4 raids (Khandaq, Outer Caverns, Inner Sanctum and Brainiac Sub-Construct), that's roughly 50 marks of Distinction right there.

We have heard also that they are thinking of adding new gear for the new raid. Not necessarily Tier 3 gear, but more a case of new gear to collect for styles and such.

Anyway, hope everyone that is still playing this is enjoying it and hope to see some of you back again real soon.

I might be getting Crysis 2 this weekend so I think I will be playing that for a bit. I haven't even played any other game since DCUO came out lol.
 
I am still liking the game but the EU PvE Reality Lost has suffered a massive drop in players at present, the villain side is suffering badly and now the heroes are losing the players in their droves. I don't think I have done a duo, hard alert or raid in over 2 weeks now as the league only seems to have 3 active players now, a drop from over 50 players a few weeks ago.

If the player numbers don't improve soon I can't see myself resubbing come May when it runs out.
 
Ok guys...seriously, if you haven't already gotten the new patch, what are you waiting for? Word is going round that this is the best patch so far. The new Penguin/Two-Face instance is brilliant. The new Green Lantern duo is the best duo so far. They've made huge changes to the Chat UI system and it looks tons better.

My league did the final Batman raid where we took on the behemoth himself, Brainiac. Took 170mins to do but we did it. Epic stuff.

Certain exploits have been removed including the ability to put items into the shared bank, which many of us took advantage of for our alt characters lol.

Oh and even tho it was last month, there's a new St Paddy's Day event added. Expect fun stuff from Mr Mxyzptlk. And collect a new range of Celtic gear from the 5th dimensional imp.

I'm taking my time over this patch so as to not to rush like most people do and then before you know it they're bored again. It's like I keep saying, it's an MMO for a reason :)

Size for the new patch is under 700MB.
 
Ahh...it's been a while since I was last here lol.

A lot has clearly happened in game since then.

The latest update came out last week. This features two new hard alerts and a new duo.

The two hard alerts are Oolong Island and Ra's Al Ghul. And between the two of them, Ra's is the best one.

What is most notable now about the hard alerts is they have put them in two categories. You have Tier 1 and Tier 2 hard alerts. Tier 1 hard alerts require your tank and/or controller to have between 200 and 350 dominance. Tier 2 hard alert requires them to have 500 dominance. This is the minimum. There is a reason they are now doing this and I can safely say it has something to do with the next update (Update 4) which will see some Superman content being brought in. I've seen a trailer and we finally get to visit the Fortress Of Solitude. Excited doesnt even cover it :D

I did mention there was a new duo, right? Well this is taken from the Two-Face/Penguin mission they brought in from Update 2. And they've made it a little more tricky than before.

There's a "Spring" event that involves Swamp Thing and Poison Ivy.

All in all, the game is still going good. There's talk of a server merger (not between platforms tho) and this is due to happen sometime before Update 4 is released.

I know many people have left the game of late, especially given the massive hacking issues Sony have had of late. But I am still enjoying the game as much as possible. Now just bring on Update 4 please :D
 
Incidentally, if anyone is interested, DCUO and SOE have opened up a public testing server to test out the new Fortress of Solitude raid from the upcoming Update 4:

http://forums.station.sony.com/dcuopc/posts/list.m?topic_id=29961

Download and install the client, then simply copy the UNREAL3 folder from your current DCUO files. This will save the need to download another 13-16GB worth of data. After that, few more patches to be downloaded, but check it out :)
 
So Folks,

Picked this up yesterday - but only managed 20mins of play time; i went for the EU servers but population said Low on them all; would i be better off on US servers? If not which EU server is best - and do i want PvE or PvP??

Also (and i know it will be a way off...) - how do i get a Superman embroided cape? Any good online resources for quest/item info?

Cheers!
 
McDaniel said:
So Folks,

Picked this up yesterday - but only managed 20mins of play time; i went for the EU servers but population said Low on them all; would i be better off on US servers? If not which EU server is best - and do i want PvE or PvP??

Also (and i know it will be a way off...) - how do i get a Superman embroided cape? Any good online resources for quest/item info?

Cheers!
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Regarding servers, wait a few weeks. Cos they are currently testing out a mega server. This means all servers will pretty much merge as one to combat the low population across all servers at present.

So it wont matter if you are on EU or US as both are showing low population. Also the thing with PvE and PvP is that when the servers merge, you can actually switch between PvE and PvP within the server itself instead of logging out and back in.

If you follow the link I posted above, download and install the public test server client and you will see what I mean :)

And I am guessing your request for a Superman embroided cape is for yourself and not for your character? If so, I honestly wouldn't know where to begin. Perhaps making your own might be a good idea :)
 
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