I enjoyed the Invasion Event, but have to agree with a new player that it's a harsh experience to exit the Tutorial and zone into AP Plaza mid-invasion to lag out and/or be killed just getting up the stairs to level up at Miss Liberty.
I'm all for the sentiment of : " I Wish Folks would learn to pick a better Clustering site for the Invasions so the new beginner's actually have a chance to experience the actual game-play in non-tutorial mode for a few minutes before getting killed by either lag of critters to high to tackle"

Uh, Issue 10 isn't out, yet. It is on the test server, though.

What a poorly hyped release! The headline quote is "...and there are so very many of them!" Save us from the cliches! "The night was hot and heavy, like a fat lady in a sauna."

Which is sad, since from my experience in the game, it should be plenty fun to actually play, assuming you can assemble a decent team.

And, lest I escape without committing sarcasm: heroes and villains fighting together against a common foe? That's brilliant! I don't think that's ever been done!

I just have one word for it.....

AWSOME. No need to say anymore. I wasnt sure I was gonna like it, logged onto test the other day for the first time. Fought a couple minutes and im in love with the new issue. I cannot wait to be part of yet another invasion by the Rikti......

I was in the closed beta from the start of it. The early versions of the invasion were really rough. But that's why they do the closed beta, to fix the problems with what they want to implement. I have a screenshot of just how rough it was. In total, I counted 42 Rikti porting away from me in the screenshot after I had died.

I really enjoy the Rikti War Zone rebuild of the Rikti Crash Site. There is some fun stuff in there and the storyline is actually quite interesting. Without giving any spoilers, there is a huge twist in the story at one particular point. Quite brilliant actually.

This issue really sucked during closed beta - you'd have been unable to do anything else until the invasion was over and you'd be permanently in debt to the cap. They seem to have fixed it up pretty well in open beta, though.

I have been on the test server and tried this out. The Invasion's were very fast paced for me and gave me the feeling of really fighting off Aliens bent on destroying the world.
I will have to try the mission's out in the reworked co-op Ritki war zone and see how they are

Just recently got back into CoV so I am really looking forward to the villian/hero coop stuff. Ought to be fun.