Greycat

New little thing going on with the launcher, at least on my laptop. I've had the install here for a good while. Fired it up, it said HC had an update - which failed. (Details were just "installation failed.") Odd, but ok... Close, restart launcher. Shows me as "not logged in," with HC, beta and prerelease all not installed. Log in - successful. Install. Close window, out of curiosity. Relaunch. EULA comes up. Accept. Nothing showing installed again. It *sees* the current install - the "installation" goes from 0-100% pretty much instantly. Haven't restarted, am about to do so. Install location's not under program files - c:\games\homecoming. (System - Lenovo Legion 15", Ryzen 7 5800H, Win11 Home, 16 Gb RAM.) launcher.log

Nope. Mine's always up in the corner, targeting, health/end/etc. moved over to make room.

Well... no. It's not nVidia bound. Old Intel integrated graphics were awful, granted. (Haven't tried the newer ones.) But that doesn't mean you're stuck with nVidia - AMD's Radeon cards work decently. For that matter, I've got an "htpc" (well, that's what I say I use it as...) running a Ryzen 5 5600G which runs COH - not all the shinies are up on it, but it does all right, and that's more a limitation of how much of the system RAM it can steal. .. hmm, I should see how it runs on the i5-13600's built in graphics...

Absolutely. Some aren't bad, some are .. eh. But there's reason enough to want animal/beastly heads (just starting with having representatives of various gods, for instance) that can't be done now.

Level 1-10. You don't have to rush.

I see them frequently. Everlasting runs through quite a bit. And no, I'd hate to see the split iXP come back. It was nothing but an annoyance and a "come pay to grind" addon.

Illusion Armor (you only think you're protected.) Illusion Melee (you're not really hitting them.) Mind Armor (you run around in a football helmet.) Empathy Melee (you run up and stick bandaids on people.) Empathy Assault (YOU WILL FEEL BETTER WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT!) Traps melee (hitting people over the head with bear traps) Necromancy Armor (I Wear Dead People) Trick Melee (never know what'll happen next!)

No, there are no plans about adding the rest of the incarnate powers. We only have (scant) information about *one* of the next tier of powers (Genesis, which put down AOE debuff patches,) and the names of some of the others. The incarnate powers, frankly, are a bolted on mess meant - on live - to create a "Pay the subscription!" grind. Thus having a special currency for Alpha (Shards,) Threads and Incarnate XP - separated into physical and psychic - for each side of the tree we have now, which were only obtainable in specific trials (for instance, Lore might get Psychic XP for doing TPN, but the other side would get nothing.) The next tree would have its *own* types of Advanced Incarnate XP, and its *own* salvage to deal with (like the repurposed Transcendant merits,) and so on. That system can stay *just* where it is, frankly (better yet, get rid of shards to remove one MORE extremely-limited-use currency.)

Unless we've heard differently recently, it's not possible to do. Archetype, Origin, Primary and Secondary are baked in at character creation. (I've generally suspected this being in part to how the game originally was, where we had vastly different "origins" and they had a direct effect on what you could do, how many powers you could take, etc. - the design that was dropped... oh, pre-beta, i believe. But that's a guess on my part.) Plus, of course, with 1000 slots - versus the 8, then 12 (if you bought both COH and COV,) then later 36, you had to pay for live one way or another - rerolling is easy, which makes arguing for breaking into whatever the lock is for those to do a "total respec" a harder sell. I'm not *sure* how viable a ... let's call it "reputation transfer" would be, or if it's even technically possible. Transferring history as far as contacts and "completed" arcs, exploration, etc. over - especially given that some give accolades or other benefits. Obviously this wouldn't be IOs (different powers, possibly a different AT,) and likely not INF (easy enough to transfer on your own) transferring over. I know it's something I wouldn't have minded when new sets came out (or were proliferated) that fit a character better, especially when getting to 50 was much harder. If it *is* possible, it'd probably be the most accessible way for this type of "reroll" - you're still rerolling your character and using another slot, but (say) if it's your main badger, you're not starting over or having to decide between a character you're not as fond of any more but who has 1000 badges and the new one you love that just has 12. (It'd also probably be something you'd have to ask a GM to do, versus a slash command, arc or contact.)

If you're curious about which do what (in and out of combat,) I'd suggest heading to test and getting your combat attributes monitor monitoring your various defenses and stealth radius. (Sometimes hands-on just makes more sense than "well, this stack of numbers says this, I think.")

... there might be one enhancement, but it's not a "knock stuff around willy nilly or use this" choice. *Learn to control your knockback* (at least for AOEs) is the name of the game. And that's done through positioning. Obvious things, sure, like "Don't stand next to the tank and knock everything away," but also "On a PB, you have fly. use it. Knocking back into the floor is enhancement-less knockdown." Knock things *into* patches/melee. And on a 'shade (or if you want to make the investment into a pool on a PB) there's always Shadow Slip. (Side note, once you're at least 50+1 and have threads - or cash - to spare to pick up Ultimates, MSRs will love your Warshade for Slipping those tasty, tasty Rikti into the meatgrinder.) Ancient PB guide of mine - I mean, old forums, 2010... https://web.archive.org/web/20120904221601/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=238237 Obviously some things have changed, but it's a perspective. I'll still slot a Winter's Gift in because Dwarf has so few attacks... one fewer on a PB, after all, since the heal's not also an attack.

That's going to depend *entirely* on the person. Some people have proposed that not having to grind Prestige for base items any more was a bad thing because it took away something to "work for." Or not having to unlock capes, try to get Vmerits for all the Vanguard costume parts/auras and the like. Others feel the exact opposite - COH is a game which allows a *lot* of creativity, and hitting an artificial wall and not being able to finish (say) a rec room in your base because you need 10,000 prestige more, or not being able to make the character you want right away so you can enjoy them and express who they are from level 1, was *far* more annoying. I "have everything," but I don't care. I'm interested in lore, and in RP - and the latter's what keeps me logging in. The storylines my friends and co-conspirators come up with and what happens with them (and just hanging around with them.) Nothing prevents anyone from making their *own* goals. There are plenty out there. Run all the arcs through Ouroboros. Get all the badges. Get one of each AT to 50 (or 50+all T4s.) Get one of each powerset up there. Run a superteam. Run a super*group.* See if you can max out on all the merit types. Whatever it is, if someone "needs" a goal? *Make one.*

Depends on the character and the "mistake" (which, honestly, I hesitate to use as a term.) I pick powers as I level because they may fit, or what I'm fighting at that point might call for whatever it is, or because it fits a theme. So, most of the time I'll let it go. Sometimes I'll use a second build or respec if it *just* doesn't work. If it's due to something like a powers update/change... eh, see how it does. Honestly, I rarely respec, mostly out of laziness. I'm not going for "must be uber" builds. I'm going for "fits the character."

Ehhh.... doesn't it kind of cheapen those badges? Why not just ask for the value needed for those badges to get cut in half? ... or is this just a sneaky way for you to get rid of that patrol XP faster? 😉

Well, first thing - Do you need them? Is there a full-body-costume you *need* to have for some concept? Are you going after "all the badges?" I get the occasional drop. I have characters that still have the 10 from halloween. I pretty much forget they're there (unless I'm 3-ish mil away from something on the AH, then I check to see if that character has any.) Other than that, they don't give anything I particularly care about. I don't particularly like the concept, honestly, but I can pretty much just pretend they don't exist, too. If they're affecting your enjoyment of the game and there's not something specific you want them for? Treat them like legacy salvage and ignore them.

Should've been ready to get ready already.

That's typical. More of an issue if you're in the middle than on the sides - it can only (as I understand) draw so many entities. If you're ranged, target through a pet of some sort if possible.

Veracor hit 20,000 recently. >.<

Obviously a tax program lives behind there.

It's a money sink. *shrug* (And no, I'm not particularly serious about it.) Purchase a power - 10m, 50m, 100m, 250m, 500m, 1b. Go to a zone with at least five people in it. Cannot be a supergroup base. Activate power. There's a (very brief - 3-5 second) rain of cash. Each person gets 1000 inf just from what lands on them. (With a cap of 50 in most zones, yeah, this is burning cash...) And for the next *brief* period (3-5 minutes? *shrug*) burning piles of money appear on the ground, with random amounts if you find and click on one. No, it won't ever equal what the person spent on the power. Though the cash piles *can* scale with the amount spent. Max in a pile is ... what, 1 million, say, at the 500m and up power. But that's rare. Just for the person who has everything, including money to burn.

Yes you do. You just don't get multiple bonuses. (You get, say, "1:00 for cars!" once, not for every ten you destroy or whatnot.) Some stuff doesn't give a bonus, but quite a bit does. (Cars, trucks, think PPD cars are separate, dumpsters, etc.) Safeguards, of course, you get time for stopping people who are destroying stuff...

Currently, no. And I don't think I've seen any suggested. "All-X" raids/TFs/etc, sure - someone was going through each AT for an all-that-AT ... i think ITF... a while back, probably over a year, but that's the closest. Live, I had at least one emp in Green Machine, and some friends and I ran quartets of shield users, Khelds and electric blast (everyone having ball lightning with the chance to stun IO in it is useful...)

Part of it is depth, as I recall. Poking my nose in in Steel has the first few rooms of Hellions at level 6-7 (looking while on a 50.) Going down a level gives Lost at 9. (Edit: Or not, the ones at the Baumton exit are 9, though they're "down" slightly...)

Neither my energy blast characters nor peacebringers would benefit from this in the least. The *only* thing I'd want KB dropped from are *pet* powers, for the simple reason that they're not controlled by people (who should, in theory, have the ability to say "I don't want to knock things that way, this way would be more useful" and/or to learn over time.) We do have the flexibility to control it. - Positioning and - if (*generic*) YOU really don't want it, YOU can slot an IO. As far as "no one will ever force you to use those options?" We ALREADY HAVE people trying to force people to slot IOs. I've had it happen to me, with people who have no idea how I play. One team, at least, said OK and then *actually commented* that they never realized you could do things like... blast enemies *toward* the tank. Another was so insistent I basically dropped and put them on an ignore list because of how they were about it. So, yes, people *will* try to force others to use these options. I've already had that experience personally and have seen it tried to get forced on others thanks to the IOs... as predicted when they were created. Saying otherwise, especially if it's a toggle or P2W option, is just plain wrong.