City of Heroes Issue 15: Anniversary goes live

City of Heroes Issue 15: Anniversary has launched, bringing a whole new chapter and new content to the comic-book inspired MMO. Commemorating the game’s recent five-year anniversary celebration, Issue 15: Anniversary brings City of Heroes its 15th free content update, which introduces new content, missions, features and customization tools.

Issue 15: Anniversary marks the revival of The 5th Column, the most popular villain group in the game, through 10 new missions. Players can tackle these villains in a Hero Task Force or a Villain Strike Force, to uncover the mystery behind the resurgence of this long dormant foe. Along with the new missions, players can now customize their characters with more than 20 extra character faces, Vines and Ulterior themed costume sets and several new costume change emotes - visual animations that come to life when characters transition between costumes within the game.

Additionally, Issue 15: Anniversary introduces players to new mission creation enhancements, testing tools and navigation services as part of the recently launched Mission Architect system. These features make it easier to create custom content before sharing it with the public, and help streamline the process of searching through user-generated missions. Since the release of City of Heroes’ Mission Architect system, two months ago, users have developed and published more than 200,000 stories, according to NCsoft.

For more information about City of Heroes and Issue 15: Anniversary check out www.cityofheroes.com.