[Any teaser what is being worked on? (January 2024 edition)]

1 hour ago, Azari said:

Eye beams powerset for blasters. Like cyclops from x-men.

I feel like Energy Blast just could get alternative animations.

[Focused Feedback: Sheathed Weapon System]

Tried everything on female characters.

Some weapons have different sheathed and unsheathed models.

Also when you select between sheathing or not, it seems like it treats weapon selections as two completely separate things. Not sure if intended.

And some sheathe placements need some work as well I think.

[Some way to track hours played]

On 5/18/2021 at 7:24 PM, Kismette said:

If you have any of the Steam version of CoH, you could technically use that to track your hours played.  It wouldn't be accurate now if you're only about to this and if you already have play time recorded from back on live.

 

You'll have to redownload/reinstall the old files though (via Steam, of course), after that, right click on 'City of Heroes' from your library list.  Click 'Properties' from the pull down menu and from the General tab below, for the Launch Options, type:

 

"C:\Homecoming\bin\win64\launcher.exe" %command%

 

win32 if you're using 32-bit to run the game and the target location of launcher.exe should be where you've installed it if anywhere else.  Finally, run it like a regular Steam game.

 

Now I don't know if this is allowed though 😅

Tried it. It actually works! Thank you, I've never heard of that trick before.

[Some way to track hours played]

On 5/18/2021 at 7:24 PM, Kismette said:

If you have any of the Steam version of CoH, you could technically use that to track your hours played.  It wouldn't be accurate now if you're only about to this and if you already have play time recorded from back on live.

 

You'll have to redownload/reinstall the old files though (via Steam, of course), after that, right click on 'City of Heroes' from your library list.  Click 'Properties' from the pull down menu and from the General tab below, for the Launch Options, type:

 

"C:\Homecoming\bin\win64\launcher.exe" %command%

 

win32 if you're using 32-bit to run the game and the target location of launcher.exe should be where you've installed it if anywhere else.  Finally, run it like a regular Steam game.

 

Now I don't know if this is allowed though 😅

That sounds interesting. I actually managed to make Steam see Tequila as a Steam CoH Launcher by making a shortcut, putting it into a Steam CoH folder and renaming it, but it didn't work with Homecoming launcher. Gonna try your approach.

[Some way to track hours played]

So, sadly, CoH lacks a convenient way to keep track of the time I spent playing the game. There is no /played, you need to talk to a specific NPC and it's only on per-character basis. I used to use Xfire and Steam to keep track of my gaming time, but Xfire is long dead and the Steam doesn't work with Homecoming. Would it be possible to add (an optional) tracker of my "hours played" to Homecoming launcher?

[UI Scale vs Window Scale]

So I just found out that there are two different settings, UI Scale and Window Scale.

Spoiler

 

 

As you can see, both seem to change interface size. However, UI Scale also changes the size of HP bars that you see over characters heads and the aiming crosshairs (or whatever it's called.)

Are there any other differences between UI Scale and Window Scale? Is there a way to change those HP bars' size separately? I also wonder where does the game store UI Scale settings. I skimmed WDW files, but those seem to store only Window Scale settings. How do I copy UI Scale settings to another character?

[A Question from The Homecoming Team]

I feel like licencing the servers or making them dependable on NCsoft in any way is a bad idea to be honest.