- Patch Notes May 25, 2026 - 26 May 2026
IMPROVEMENTSDanceYou can now show your new dance moves in the Beta Club or in the street. There are 6 new emotes /dance, /dance2, /dance3, /dance4, /dance5, and /dance6 in addition to /crowdcheer (ymca) and /twist.CraftingThe frequency of drop of some crafting items has also been adjusted.SocialThe social window will now list players in all areas, not just the local area.The social window is now able to grab the level and archetype of all players.Character CreationAdjusted the ordering of costumes in character creation to highlight the most exciting costumes. Newer costumes are now listed first. This does not affect existing characters or saved costumes.AuctionsAdded a Market history tab to the bottom tabs in the Auction window. This will allow you to see recent market purchases. You can also view the recent pricing history on individual items in the lower right hand corner, if that ite…
- Patch Notes April 6, 2026 - 6 April 2026
IMPROVEMENTSCrafting· 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 the threshold required to create Improved Stun Grenades.AchievementsAdded a badge for completion of 70 achievements.QoL Improvements· Increased buyback inventory space.· Adjusted the in-game badge UI for better legibility.Equipment. Increased grenade damage across the board.NPCs· Reduced the base health of Snow Storm in the Snow Lair.· Reduced the difficulty of the Nagdellian Warbeast.MapsImproved navigation in the Data Recovery map.BUG FIXES Badges· Fixed a badge related issue. Players may see some stea…
- Patch Notes February 10, 2026 - 11 February 2026
IMPROVEMENTSBuying and Selling Items· All vendors will now buy all types of items. You can now sell standard items at infusion vendors, augmentations at housing vendors, etc. The only type of item they will not take are mission items. Crafting· Dopadrive, Histisol, Tri-ADP, Magneflux, and Mitomembranes are now more common.Powers· Ranged powers have received a boost to their range. This affects both players and NPCs.NPCs· The Nagdellian High Commander's target marker now matches their size.· Added general Item Traders outside of Ship Security and Sword Blossom's Office.· Increased the aggro and pursuit ranges of some NPCs. This is to counterbalance the ranged power increase. BUG FIXESMissions· Justice Corps instance missions can now utilize a login queue, if necessary.· The mission difficulty setting no longer resets after restarting the client. NPCs· Fixed the NPC Eclipse power. UI· Fix…
- Patch Notes January 7, 2026 - 11 February 2026
BadgesAdded new Red Sigil slayer badgesCrafting· 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 restored to Apotheosis City. The winter event has ended.Maps· Justice Corps Removed some extraneous objects outside the buildingNPCs· Slowing Shot: Fixed issue where players could be given extra speed after slow effect ended· Snow Storm now has a ranged common attack and will perform his special attacks more often.· Reduced the collision capsule size of Snow Storm.Powers· Fixed an issue with Slow effects not properly reversing their applications.· Ice Blast: Brain Freeze has received a +33% damage increase.…
- The Christmas holiday event is on! - 9 December 2025
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 nice.Snow creatures have infiltrated the city and are now roaming the streets. Good thing heroes like you are patrolling. Sometimes, they even try to stand between you and your presents. The audacity!The snow monsters did not come alone. A whole slew of creatures from colder worlds have come and brought their crystals. The role of these crystals is a mystery but destroying them wins the fight. That fight is actually an easy invasion started by coming under the arch. You can form a league to do it…
- New Low Price - No Subscription Required - 18 November 2025
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.
- Patch Notes October 27 - November 10, 2025 - 13 November 2025
IMPROVEMENTSPowers· 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 increase.When summoning pets, the pet will now receive bonuses from the following augmentation modifiers: Accuracy, Damage, and Defense. Effectiveness augmentations can be used for this, as well as direct stat modifiers.Added a crowd control immunity timer, for both NPCs and players. If you are crowd controlled, you will gain an immunity equal to the duration of the crowd control after it expires.Reduce the recast time of Regroup from 60 to 10 seconds.Missions and Other worlds· Portals to other locations (…
- New Content - 29 October 2025
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 teleporter, aiming to mine its rare and valuable ores. Their reluctant laborers were snuck in and supplied by teleporters - a very expensive travel method, but profitable in this case. Now the FHS Justice's network of informants has detected the colony... but so have the Nagdellians. The empire has abandoned its civilian miners to their fate, so the FHS Justice has connected to their teleporter to provide them with an escape route. While the first waves of Nagdellian raiders are beaming down from…
- Halloween Event 2025 - 27 October 2025
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 be found in Apotheosis City, primarily centered in the Science Park district. These doors could give you a free treat or reveal a trick in the form of an ambush. You can collect new Halloween Treat items and turn them into a new Treat Collector for a Halloween themed badge and title.A Halloween mission contact, just south of the Arch, in the little graveyard is offering several missions. It’s amazing how those trans-dimensional energies are manifested in the 25th century!Mission contact south of the…
- Patch Notes - October 12 to 21, 2025 - 22 October 2025
Updates for every patch are posted here: https://shipofheroes.com/forum/patch-notes/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. EVENTSImproved the code which calculates the average player level inside of area wide events, so that it will handle full area instances better when players are straggling into an area wide event instance.Halloween Event · Improved Halloween enemies in the science park.· Added a notification of where to go when defeating a Lord of Pumpkins· The Trick or Treat door at the Lights Out entrance has been removed to avoid players getting a Warlord or other boss spawn when trying to enter the missi…
- Patch Notes Oct 4 - Oct 11 - 13 October 2025
Updates for every patch are posted here: https://shipofheroes.com/forum/patch-notes/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 doors can be found in Apotheosis City, primarily centered in the science district. These doors could give you a free treat, or they could reveal a trick in the form of an ambush.· Two new Halloween themed instanced missions can be obtained from an Occult Researcher near the Arch in Apotheosis City.BadgesIf you manage to obtain 25 Halloween Treats, you can obtain a reward including a new title and achievement from a new Treat Collector in Science Park. This NPC…
- Patch Notes - Sept 27, 2025 to October 3, 2025 - 4 October 2025
Daily updates are posted here: https://shipofheroes.com/forum/patch-notes/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 health effects now have their values properly reflected in tool tips.· Reduced Gut Punch's cool down time from 5 to 3 seconds.· Reduced innate tank defense and resistance bonuses.· Passive buffs now begin at half effectiveness at level 1 and then scale up to full effectiveness by level 20.· Powers will now properly consume energy.· Reduced the magnitude of resistance buffs.· Fixed an issue with Flash of Insight's duration.· Made some small downward adjustments…
- Patch Notes - 27 September 2025
September 26, 2025Events 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 leaves after helping new players. • All of Ambassador's arc and challenge missions can be obtained when he is at the city hall steps, or you can continue to get them in his office inside ship security.MIssion Training Mishap: Added a catch to make sure the return to Officer Rick mission completes when returning to him.Social The supergroup window now includes instructions for how to form a supergroup if you are not a member of one.UI Improved Augmentation information in Tool tips.September 25, 2025Badges •…
- Ship of Heroes is now available! - 22 September 2025
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 city, the main hub of the game, is only one small part of a massive spaceship.Ours is a vibrant setting, totally unlike the standard of feudal villages, or modern towns on Earth. The ship’s hub area is clean, bright, spacious, and full of cool sights to see. Building interiors are worthy of exploration. Or you can fly around the Hazard Zone and watch the alien plants. It can be fun to just chill and look at the beautiful scenery.The Hazard Zone lives up to its name, but it's also very pretty.Just lik…
- Ship of Heroes Announces Pricing and Launch Details - 19 September 2025
Launch date and timeShip of Heroes will become available Monday September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM EST.PricingThe 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 and added in the two years after launch. One month access is included in the initial download fee.Once in the game, players can choose their term of subscription:1 month: $153 months: $42 (Save 7%)6 months: $78 (Save 13%)Yearly: $144 (20%)ScreenshotMicrotransactions on the Steam store page refers only to the subscription, as it is implemented through the Steam microtransaction system. There are no actual microtransactions in Ship of Heroes.What is included· 10 character slots· The full character creat…
- Player Housing - 14 August 2025
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 an option. And in the future, nothing screams out “luxury” like beautiful spaces and decorating, plus atavistic features not expected aboard a spaceship like fireplaces, pets, and those oh-so-expensive artifacts from old earth called “books.”We’re starting out with ten initial housing models. Some of you will recall that we have previously conducted two open beta tests of our housing system. As a result of those betas we have fixed all known bugs and we’re giving you a bunch of options so that your…
- Teaming is Fun and Rewarding - 7 August 2025
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 teamsMost 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, but players who’d rather solo can earn the same items elsewhere. So, when you do join a team, or a raid league, you know that everyone else chose team play over soloing. They aren’t being forced or pressured into it.Team sizes are flexible up to 10No mission requires a specific team size. Team sizes are flexible up to 10 members. Bigger teams face bigger enemy groups with more elite foes among them. The most challenging battles also scale in this way, rewarding advanced team compositions and tactics,…
- Playtest this weekend - 1 August 2025
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 participateNew PlayersSign up early to avoid delays.DonorsDonors who are already in the donor beta have access to the playtest. No registration required. Donors who want to participate but have not yet accessed the Donor Beta can either join it or register for the Playtest. Which one is best? To help you choose, consider these differences. PlaytestDonor BetaAccess EndsAugust 3August 17Access GuarantiedNoYesAdditional ContentNoneThroughout the beta Returning Players who are not Donors YesNoSoH or SoH Playtest in the Steam Library*Access granted for the Playtest durationSignup for the Playtest * You may need to reinstall through SteamInvasion Event Sunday at 3:00 PM ESTTo test our server setup there…
- Realease Date Announced - 3 July 2025
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 customized characters to be on the screen at the same time for raids, costume contests, etc…. And our community wanted a new story with superheroes in an action-packed sci-fi setting. Most of all, people wanted a friendly game where it'd be safe to join teams of total strangers, because they're generally positive and helpful.To accomplish these goals, we chose the Unreal 4 engine, and we made countless decisions about graphical quality, textures, animations and FX, powers, city design, advanced cha…
- How Animations and FX Make Ship of Heroes Exciting - 6 June 2025
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 animations for heroes, civilians, and enemies including non-humanoid enemies, idle animations so heroes and NPCs do not stand there stiffly, emote animations, and special purpose animations such as dancing in the Beta Club and animations related to NPC roles. Both heroes and some enemies can fight in flight, which greatly increases the number of animations. We have not taken an exact count, but in total, somewhere between 500 and 1000.Players often come to love and identify with their favorite combat…
