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Each bad guy encounter and instanced mission is ripped straight from the pages of Marvel, with thugs, villains, zombie armies and aliens all waiting for healthy doses of justice from Spineder-Man And His Amazing Friends sic. In fact it'll take you about two weeks at an hour or two per day to get to a level that seems reasonably impressive, at which point one or two piranhas of doubt start to nibble at the paddling toes of contentment in the tropical sea resort of playability.

Suddenly you're blithely ignoring all the petty crimes happening all around you as the protagonists are too low a level for you to bother with - something that breaks the immersive qualities that being a superheroic defender of the weak and innocent was bestowing upon you until now. The comic book heroes of our youth would happily stop any mugger, help any cat in a tree and aid any old woman to cross a road, however powerful their muscles and shiny their cape.

No deed too small for they. For you however, resplendent in your level 15 finery, the crime-ridden streets are just really, really inconvenient. That woman screaming for rescue from a terrifying gang with lasciviousness on their minds will just have to fend for herself. You're far too important to be foiling such low-level crimes like that. Hold fast, fair damsel, a less experienced hero will be along shortly to protect you.

Worse still, should you opt to clean the streets Batman -style of all crime, you'll be shouted at by the lower-level heroes for 'XP stealing'. It seems the class barriers in hero-world are alive and well. But there are worse issues than this. Repetition rears its head like an ugly old man rising for the fifth toilet trip that night.

Early on you start to realise that COH is little more than a blastathon. Superteams can be formed and high-level characters can add prefixes to their sobriquets or gain access to capes, but there's none of the socialising depth seen in most MMOs. Just log in, fight a bit, level up, log out. A more literal case of 'Wham! Thank you ma'am' we've yet to see in gaming.

That's the moment when the clichdd MMO mechanics surface like a stricken submarine of limitation in the ocean of possibility and the emperor realises the people are pointing at his hairy crown jewels rather than his imaginary new threads. And it's the point when most COH players decide to go back to the drawing board and create a new character. That's the dilemma you see. Heroes is all about its early game. Character creation is excellence itself and experimenting with the hundreds of power set combinations is rather thrilling.

But for the game to retain an audience beyond its free subscription month and for NCsoft to start seeing real profits , it needs to have a worthwhile sense of direction added. Something for the fledgling heroes to be aiming at in the months after pulling on their tights for the first time. Certainly, the game deserves to succeed, as it's obvious Cryptic Studios wants to take the concept of a superhero MMOG seriously.

But until it does expand, City Of Heroes is merely the best start of a game we've ever seen. What Goes Through the minds e creators of your favourite games? Rick Dakan, one of our founders and Michael Lewis, our original investor, thought MMOs were great and they thought it'd be natural to do a superhero game. Good ideas are nearly always the most obvious, but when trying to market the game nearly every publisher turned us down. We only found two takers, one of which was NCsoft.

No two heroes look the same and that was what we aimed for. We were extremely aware of copyright issues - I know a lot about comics - and there are things that I specifically made sure weren't in there. You'll notice there are no web patterns or spider insignias; those are things I didn't allow. Typically, there's no big 'S', there are no bat symbols: we deliberately avoided them. I ended up with several hundred and so I started looking for categories such as what role they fill, what they do and how they act Once I'd figured out the categories, the archetypes began to fall into place.

There are two archetypes which are extremely common: one is the speedster and the other is the guy with wings. We decided to make super-speed a travel power instead of making it an archetype in itself, and we decided to allow r everyone to fly". There are a list which I feel are a part of the comic-book universe, and I want to cover them. Off the top of my head there are shields, magnetism, pistols and staffs, various underwater abilities, pets and so on.

There are powers which wouldn't work in the game: shrinking and growing for example, they just wouldn't make any sense. Shrinking would be another form of invisibility and growing is impossible as you wouldn't be able to move around, but those are staples of comics that we had no way of recreating.

We'd like to add new powers with the expansions we do; every four or five months we plan to add two or three new sets. It just seemed natural; a good, innovative idea at the time. The players definitely use it more than I thought they would, and they abuse it more than I thought they would too, which leads to some unforeseen realities. The fact that other games like Dark Age Of Camelot have adopted the sidekick system was a huge compliment.

You'd want to drive, but our zones aren't that big. If there were 50 people with cars, they'd be running into each other all the time. You'd have to design the entire game just to be able to use cars, and that would be a significant effort which I'm not really sure is needed in the game.

I'd like to do them, but we're not ready to think about it at the moment. Superheroes are tied to their urban environment, so setting COH in a single-city world made sense. We couldn't get past the ratings boards with those.

We didn't find the ratings restrictive though, as I had no interest in creating a game where you can randomly kill people; as long as you don't have that, you can avoid the 'mature' rating.

You can't go and kill some man in the street; it just isn't the game I wanted to make. There are many other fun games which allow you to do that and that's great, but I wanted to create comic-book villains which are in comics today and were in comics 20 years ago. There are only so many leather jerkins a lad can take, before he begins to long for the touch of, well, more clingy garments.

Populated by an astounding array of men and women in tights, we may finally have an antidote to 'EverCrack'.

The problem with doing superheroes is that with the wrong approach, they come off more camp than a Boy George lookalike contest. But Cryptic has managed to strike the right note - minus playable supervillains - and its love for unrealistic powers shines through. To make your spandex dreams a reality, COH features a character creation system thorough enough to please Stan Lee. Particular attention has been paid to the most important facet of justice -costumes.

The complete line of fins, flares, half-masks, bionic arms and micro-managed colour schemes is enough to make a sidekick-in-waiting out of anyone.

Capes and robes are out, though, because they unduly tax the rendering engine. Typically, when a publisher proffers 'thousands' of customisation options, it might as well be promising to halt that receding hairline as well. It was released in Issue 27 on October It will also ask to install a shortcut on the Desktop and Start Menu.

After installation is completed, the installer will exit and run the launcher for the first time. You can click the download icon on any profile to start patching immediately. If you used Tequila before and are satisfied with the Homecoming Launcher installation, you may choose to delete the Tequila folder to save space; they are completely independent of each other.

Note that the install process does not copy screenshots and Architect Entertainment data, so ensure those are saved before deleting the Tequila folder; and note that unlike Tequila, multiboxing must be enabled specifically in the new launcher.

More information is available in the Homecoming Launcher forum ; there are separate guides listed for installation on MacOS or Linux. The Homecoming launcher is intended for use on Windows. However, it will run in MacOS and Linux in an appropriately set-up system using Wine or a custom installer. This will let it see you have all the games files and all the score files homecoming now due to server migration.

Make sure "Homecoming" is highlighted in the Tequila launcher and hit play. It is suggested for players to go into option and make sure to put a checkmark in the "Close Tequila after starting the game" box. Too many people were leaving the Tequila launcher open all the time and then getting errors after an update as Tequila only checks that when it starts up. In the Tequila launcher you can hit option and verify the files to make sure it all works proper.

I couldn't find anything specifically for CoX so I just googled 'mouse cursor missing in game'. One of the hits said to turn off mouse trails. This is more than likely caused by your anti virus detecting one of the. Windows 10 users note that windows defender can cause this too even if you think it is off. Files deleting themselves is also caused by this.

Adding an exclusion to Windows Defender on windows Adding an exclusion to Windows Security. Adding an exclusion to Norton Antivirus. Adding an exclusion to Eset. Adding a whitelist and exclusion to Avast. Adding an exclusion to Malwarebytes. For crashing problems, including crashing on start up, you can also try deleting the tequila. Note: When at the log in screen after changing your setting hit apply then to close the window look for the tiny tiny red circle under the cancel button.

If you still have problems you need to disable display scaling on the "launchers" which means on "Tequila or Island Rum". To do so you just right click the shortcut for either Tequila or Island Rum, click properties and choose the compatibility tab and make sure to check the box for "Disable display scaling for high dpi settings".

Click apply and ok. You can do the above for all the. You can run Regedit to access and modify the values if needed. See page 4 for more details on the regedit fix. One user had problems updating with Tequila and found his patch. Working tequila. You can also just delete the tequila. I thought about the Windows Registry. Ran regedit and looked around. Had a "params" string that was empty, "". Hmmm, if Tequila chose to use the Registry params over the Tequila. Tequila asked for the directory to install City in, told it to use the one it was already in, and off it went.

Updated a few. Logged in. I checked afterwards with regedit. And now I know to check there. Jacke reported an interesting issue: sometimes perhaps some versions of? Remove everything inside the Tequila key. Most of these problems have been experienced by people using modern laptops. We're working on a better way to broadcast these problems for them to know about, and also discussed some possible future software solutions that could be built to overcome this hurdle and keep City of Heroes' game client functional on future hardware.

The latter will be further explored by our team down the road once server proliferation and i24 development is at a comfortable stage, but if anyone has a development group familiar with this type of development who would like to get started or lay out the groundwork, there's a lot of people out there who would appreciate it.

So I put an ice pack under my tablet, and the temp stayed so low that it never throttled, and I could play just fine. I'm willing to bet that most of the people with integrated GPU are using devices with little to no cooling, and Win10 is overzealous when it comes to heat throttling. Install and Troubleshooting Guide v2. WayBackMachine old forums. This section assumes you have a basic knowledge of what Wine is, and can use either Winetricks or PlayOnLinux. Note: Warpshot Lexi is currently working on an install script to support Lutris, so you can automate everything with one click, but it currently has some issues with setting up Tequila.

There are currently 3 launchers available for Linux. There is also an Island Rum port as a work in progress, which may be covered here at a later date. See the page for info on how to set it up. Again, see the page for info on how to set it up. If you get stuck on the loading splash screen before login, try adding -renderthread 0 to the launch parameters.

Source and credit for this. Note this is a WIP and first write up so there may be changes and more clarifications edited in later on. Credits to Arakendo for providing the download for mac users and putting time into making this possible.

For now I will provide a 30 day link to the file and will make either a torrent or a permanent link to this site later on. Everything you need to play the game should be bottled in including wine, the game files and Tequila.

Extract the archive using Keka and double click the app file and run it. Put it in your apps folder but it should run fine anywhere. Now to avoid the MacOS security problem. Downloaded the torrent, Ran tequila its in the same folder as COH made sure the XML and txt documents weren't on read only mode, and ran tequila as Admin and still getting this error?

Please note this procedure has been updated as of 16 May to reflect the change in Homecoming's file name. Further updates have been made to update more GPUs. This process was created by the SCOTS team in order to allows you to create what is known as a driver shim. This is basically a way to force the Intel driver which is the root of this issue, not City of Heroes at all to work in compatibility mode for an older version of Windows.

Usually this sort of thing is handled by the folks who made the driver or by a game's developers. That's not a universal solution but some report it does the trick and is much simpler. Ask how in one of the support channels on the Discords if you're unsure!

Please note as well this will not likely improve performance for folks who can already get into the game. This is generally intended for allowing those with the affected GPUs to launch the game at all or who experience crashes almost immediately to play. This is somewhat of a work in progress as to specific GPUs and such.

Please bear with us. I will be happy to update this as we go. Anything I ask you to type will be enclosed in "quotes". DO NOT include the quotes, they're just to make clear what you need to type. Any bold text below is either a button label that you need to click or the name of the window or list where we are. Right click the Start menu in the lower left of your screen and choose System.

Scroll down to Windows specifications and look for the Version. It should be , , , , , or The application should be at the top. If not, start typing the name above though there's no obvious box to type in. Click Yes again to allow it to make changes to your computer it needs to be run as an administrator. If Custom Databases is not present, click the New button above.

Otherwise, skip to the next step. Type anything you wish in the middle Name of the vendor for this program box. If so, select the one with the City of Heroes icon, not a folder icon.

Click the Add button to the right then click the OK button below. This brings you to the Create new Application fix window.