Game update6 Apr 2026Patch Notes April 6, 2026IMPROVEMENTS Crafting · Added a new line of crafting: the Gadgetry line. · You can now train and use both Gadgetry and Advanced Healing. You previously could only train a single trade skill per character. · The top crafting skill will now update automatically when changed in game, rather than lazily. · Support Pack: It is now slightly more difficult to create Improved Support Packs. · Reduced t…
Badges · Added new Red Sigil slayer badges Crafting · Reduced the quality requirements of rare harvesting results. · Introduced new higher quality crafting resources. These resources can be used in the place of the lower quality variations to produce higher quality results. These new resources can be found as rare spawns on harvestable nodes or as loot. Events · Winter Event : Order has been re…
Presents, Christmas decorations, monsters from the cold roaming the city streets, and a big invasion. Christmas fun to be had by all! The Christmas 2025 holiday event has started and will run until Monday January 5, 2026. Apotheosis City has been decorated for the holidays with Christmas decorations and presents. Those that sparkle deliver surprises depending on whether you have been naughty or…
Following the recommendation of our current players, we are reducing the price of Ship of Heroes and removing the subscription. Ship of Heroes still has no other monetization: no microtransactions, cash shop, addons, or premium anything. Stay tuned for our next announcement of new content included in the price.
IMPROVEMENTS Powers · Ice Blast - Added a small casting speed debuff to Zero Degree Bolt to provide a little more variety to Ice Blast attacks. Also reduced its cooldown time by 5 seconds. · Ice Blast - Replaced the energy recovery debuff with an accuracy debuff on the Ice Blast power and reduced the duration of its effect to compensate. · Street Sweeper - Gave the Slug power a small damage inc…
A New World: New California Colony The New California colony is a small, poorly-defended colony of miners hiding on an empty world, deep inside Nagdellian-controlled space. Sending civilians into Nagdellian territory is insanely risky and generally illegal, since the colony will surely be massacred and looted eventually. But agents of an evil empire managed to sneak onto the world and set up a…
As promised, the Halloween event is currently running. Go trick or treating, destroy the various monsters roaming the city and watch out for the exploding pumpkins! Halloween has come to Apotheosis City, bringing new dangers in the form of skeletons, jack-o-lanterns, vampires, and werewolves. This includes multiple new bosses and some new missions. Trick or treat? New Trick or Treat doors can b…
Updates for every patch are posted here: GENERAL Staying inactive at the login screen or in the character creator while an update to SoH or the Steam client was available could cause a crash when attempting to play a mission. This has now been fixed. If you stay inactive at the login screen or for longer than 15 minutes, it will automatically exit the game. EVENTS Improved the code which calcul…
Updates for every patch are posted here: Halloween Event · Halloween has come to Apotheosis City, bringing new dangers in the form of skeletons, jack-o-lanterns, vampires, and werewolves. This includes multiple new bosses and missions. As well as new Halloween Treat items that you can collect and then turn into a new Treat Collector for Halloween themed badge and title. · New Trick or Treat doo…
Daily updates are posted here: Top fixes · Servers are now stable · Improved public instancing routing for grouped players. · Fixed some spots where NPCs could spawn in places that characters were unable to reach in some cases. · Fixed a bug that was causing auto cast to disable itself. Adjustments and fixes Powers · Fixed an application issue with resistance augmentations. · Percentage based h…
September 26, 2025 Events Evolutionary Dead End: Generic Nagdellians have been added to the second phase of the Evolutionary Dead End Public Quest. General • Reduced tank innate resistance bonuses. • NPCs received a small accuracy boost. Maps • Adding in missing alien plant foliage. • Removed extra civilians in the frozen assets building. Ambassador • Ambassador outside city hall no longer leav…
Ship of Heroes is a game with a brand new story not seen anywhere else. Discover the ups and downs of life on a massive generation ship – an entire nation traveling through space. See a unique vision of humanity’s future 500 years from now. Unravel unique mysteries and learn what’s really going on aboard the FHS Justice. Then explore planets, visit alternate dimensions, and more… This entire ci…
Launch date and time Ship of Heroes will become available Monday September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM EST. Pricing The initial download and an active subscription will give access to everything in the game. There are no microtransactions, no cash shop, no premium addons, no deluxe launch package. The initial download of $60 plus an active subscription gives access to everything currently in the game a…
Ship of Heroes has great player housing and superhero lairs! Most MMORPGs have some sort of housing system. If a game is a medieval fantasy, it can be easy for the devs to simply buy some assets and allow a player to put down a house, or take over a section of a dev-built castle. But what about in the future, aboard a prosperous nation-in-space generation ship? Well, we think luxury should be a…
Teaming is fun! We’ve incorporated the best suggestions from beta players and the best ideas from other MMORPGs into our team play. The result is very satisfying already, and it’s only going to get better from here. You’re not forced to join teams Most parts of SoH can be played solo. Right now, the only exceptions are our two large raids. They contain spectacular fights and give good loot, bu…
Ship of Heroes is having a Playtest this weekend to test the server arrangement at different levels of loading. This is a technical test. There will also be an invasion event on Sunday. How to participate New Players Sign up early to avoid delays. Donors Donors who are already in the donor beta have access to the playtest. No registration required. Donors who want to participate but have not ye…
Ship of Heroes will launch on August 18th, 2025 on Steam. Ship of Heroes is a sci-fi superhero MMORPG for PC where advanced technology and magic interact. It will be available on Steam. We've come a long way, starting as a small indie team with big dreams. Our vision was to create a new superhero MMORPG, but in a style closer to the golden age of MMOs. One that allows a large numbers of highly…
Giant explosions! More seriously, today we'd like to share a few of our favorite animations in Ship of Heroes, and why we think our animations and FX help to make the game exciting. Reviewing and upgrading animations and FX was a major project lasting many months. And no wonder: there are animations for when hero and enemy powers fire, reaction and impact animations for the target, movement ani…
Enter the halls of power and make your mark on history. Ship of Heroes is an exciting new Sci-Fi MMORPG with beautiful vistas and thoughtful art direction. In today's video, you'll see several of our favorite in-game scenes that highlight the varied visuals of SoH. All scenes are exactly the way players would see them except for the minimized UI. In our video, there are no cinematic cutscenes s…
One of our favorite new costumes created this year! The biggest news of 2024 has been our announcement that Ship of Heroes will be launching in Q2 2025. All year, we've been preparing the game for launch by adding, improving, and polishing one area after another. So 2024 has been a year of tremendous progress. Visual FX get a boost Our attention turned to visual FX and animations first, so we s…
New MMORPG Ship of Heroes will launch in Q2 2025! Many parts of the game are working and integrated and launch-ready now, so we’re fairly confident about this date. Right now, we’re fixing bugs and filling in the last gaps, which should take 4-6 months. And SoH already includes some exciting features that many modern MMORPGs lack. Ship of Heroes is a PVE superhero sci-fi MMORPG set in the far f…
In the last two months, we have implemented quite a few changes to improve the player’s experience. Some are fun additions; others are Quality of Life improvements. Here is a partial list, as some are too small to mention here. There is a big new rez platform next to the hospital. You and your fellow heroes will be rezzed there if you die in the city. After you land at a random location on the…
This is a general update on how our program of polishing the game is proceeding. We are currently upgrading the powers visual FX, improving consistency within each powerset. This builds on the ongoing animations upgrade. This video is a sneak peek at the results. Nothing says "Impending doom" quite like a big, flashy circle on the ground. At the same time, we've also made quality of life improv…
The number of auras available has just increased by 500%, going from the original 5 to 30. This video illustrates just a few of the new auras in action. When we first started showing off the character creator in Ship of Heroes, we promised that we would make it bigger and better as the game evolved. And we’ve kept that promise – adding standard faces, many, many new costumes, and other features…
Joining raids should be fun. Different raids should be accessible throughout the game, not just as end-game content, and they should reward gameplay skills and organizational leadership skills. But raiding is also a social activity, and many of us don’t want to be stressed when we socialize. How do we balance these ideas? We let players decide whether they want to lead a raid and earn extra rew…
Ship of Heroes has always been a story MMORPG, and in the past, we have published about the backstory , the major characters , the setting and the many challenges that humanity faces in the future. We decided a few years back that providing character voices for our NPCs was much superior to text-only, which is used in many older MMORPGs. In fact, quite a few older MMOs now have player-created v…
Raids In the last few months, we have built and tested a raid UI. The raid UI ties in with our new multi-threaded chat system, so it is a pretty complex set of systems. Players are organized into color coded teams, each with one team leader, under one raid leader. The raid UI is designed for a maximum number of 101 heroes with a maximum of 10 teams. Side kicking is enabled, bringing lower level…
In Ship of Heroes, you can create your character to exactly fit its story, your story. In this update, we create four very different characters and demonstrate how to use just a few of the features in the character creator. Physical Appearances, Costumes, and Powers are Independent This gives players complete freedom to create unique avatars. Ship of Heroes’ character creator offers a fantastic…
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