When the apocalypse hit and the server bays were taken offline, City of Heroes lifers seemed fated to spend the rest of the decade in exile. City of Heroes never managed a World of Warcraft-like cultural zeitgeist, but the game's optimistic mid-century modern glean, and the fantasy of creating your own Justice League, resonated with a small, eternally dedicated community. In 2012, NCSoft terminated Paragon Studios, the developer that supported superhero MMO City of Heroes since its launch in 2004. Here's the quick version of what led to this moment, in case you missed it.
Last I played on my 1070 though it seemed to be quite smooth, at 1440p with all maxed.The community wanted to retake their city, and they wanted to string up the supervillains responsible for letting them go hungry. Though there was still some drama between different teams/projects/private servers eventually things released as intended and now its playable for free and open to the public! I should mention I don't have anything more than a 1070 so I can't speak to 2080 Ti performance. Many fan projects from mods to private servers get shut down because of a long, public "We're working on this thing!" lead up period (see - the Chrono Trigger Crimson Echoes sequel, the Metroid 2 Remake etc) so keeping things quiet until they were ready to go was understandable on something of this size. Last year, after over a decade they figured they could probably avoid NCSoft calling out the legal dogs as much, and planned to release the content in a way that once the genie was out of the bottle it wouldn't be able to put it back in. For years they worked more or less in secret, updated and got things working for a private server, plus developed an entirely new "issue" past the last official one.
Apparently when the main servers shut down, one of the devs basically dumped ALL the game content client and server alike - up to and including not only the latest update, but unfinished bits too - to a small covert project. If you're willing to give it a shot now, CoH/CoV has returned from the dead in a rather unprecedented way.
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