City Of Heroes Spiritual Successor Valiance Online Gets Crowdfunding Campaign

Francesco De Meo

City of Heroes is a game that needs no introduction for fans of MMORPGs. The title developed by Cryptic Studios, was one of the more interesting games of the genre available in the past thanks to its very interesting setting, characters and features. If you are missing playing City of Heroes, you definitely need to keep an eye on Valiance Online, which is one of the spiritual successors of the game.

Valiance Online

Earlier today, the team behind Valiance Online has launched a crowdfunding campaign for the game (developed with Unity 5). The first phase of the crowdfunding campaign aims to seek funds to cover some of the game's basic costs as well as allow the team to upgrade the character creator, implement the first set of story missions and more. You can learn more about the Valiance Online crowdfunding campaign by going here.

Up until now, SilverHelm Studios has managed to make some very good progress on the game through volunteer work alone. Valiance Online now features a playable environment, basic character creation, several power sets and more. The crowdfunding campaign is just one of the steps the team is taking to pay developers for their efforts, so that they can be committed full time on the development of Valiance Online.

Valiance Online is a massively multiplayer online game set at the end of the 21st Century in the fictional city of San Cielo. In the game, players are able to control super heroes and villains and take advantage of superhuman powers and advanced technology.

Valiance Online is a “living world” superhero massively multiplayer online game which player choices and actions are paramount. Set at the end of the 21st Century in the fictional city of San Cielo, players take on the roles of heroes and villains who battle using superhuman powers and advanced technology.

Valiance Online is currently in development for PC.

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About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.

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