City of Heroes: Mac Open Beta Launched!

NCsoft launched this week the Mac Open Beta for their City of Heroes MMORPG, along with new and exclusive in-game items.

Lead designer Matt "Positron" Miller posted the following announcement on the official forums, welcoming the Mac newcomers:

Hey Mac Players!

The Mac version of City of Heroes is now in Open Beta. This means that the Mac clients can only access the Training Room, and we have lifted all the restrictions for PC users who can also access to the Training Room. You will start to see a lot of new faces as more and more Mac players come in for their first taste of City of Heroes.

If you are one of those new faces, I would like to say "welcome!" I was very excited when our partner TransGaming showed us what they could do to get City of Heroes running on the Mac, and immediately wanted to get this into the hands of Mac players as soon as possible. Of course, we also want to make sure we have worked out as many of the kinks and bugs in the Mac client as possible, and unfortunately that has caused us to push the full release of the Mac version of City of Heroes to January, 2009. We are very confident that by that time we will be able to offer you the best in super-powered massively multiplayer gaming for the Mac.

Once again, welcome to the new players, and I hope you enjoy our game and our player community!

-Matt "Positron" Miller

Mac users have no excuse now not to join the fight in Paragon City, especially with all these wicked new suits and items available just for them:

For more CoX Mac images, check our gallery!

Source: City of Heroes Forums

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I found the info regarding the Mac exclusive items and standard game features:

Mac Special Edition includes the following exclusive in-game items:

Mission Teleporter Power - Players can save time and get right into the action by teleporting directly to their active mission.

Exclusive Valkyrie Costume set - Costume pieces include two varieties of wings, a cape, a skirt/kilt, pants, boots, shoulders, chest, gloves, belts, and helmet with multiple details.
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Game Features:

" Explore your good and evil sides playing as both heroes and villains
" Create a truly unique heroes and villains with their own back stories using the most robust character creation tool
" Soar through the skies of both massive world environments, Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™
" Battle huge monsters and other creatures
" Heroes and villains collide in player-vs.-player zones
" Design fortresses of good or evil - Construct massive strongholds and home bases
" Destroy everything in your path in villain mayhem missions
" Create multiple characters with an unprecedented 12 character slots per server

The Teleporter looks almost like cheating :P

Of course. Mac people are criminals. Haven't you seen the commercial? Cool Mac dude, in his faded jeans, probably steals Doritos from the convenience store. Livin' on the edge. Smug bastard.

ive got to go check this out

thanks for the update

You're welcome! Let us know how that turns out for you.