[Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Max)]

DC has a history of just redoing the same popular storyline over and over again without changing too much (voice actors, artists, story pacing all change). It's their attempt to hook a new audience in to their story telling universe and rake in cash from the die hards and fanboys. 

 

If you want to enjoy the actual story, take a look at the 1980s version.

[Wrong game version repeats]

37 minutes ago, VULCAN said:

  Well my tequila has done great jobs since many years so I did not feel the necessity to stop using it.
Anyway now I've changed to HC launcher so it's ok.
Unfortunately it does not work the same way tequila did 😞 I can only log once, whereas it was easy on tequila to use my two accounts simultaneously. How can we do the same with this officila launcher ? 

 

[Old School Vision and Retro Vision don't seem to do anything]

28 minutes ago, Zhym said:

The "Old School Vision" and "Retro Vision" powers don't seem to do anything when I activate them.  Is that happening for anyone else?

 

I'm on a Mac, FWIW.  I assume that's the reason (probably something related to WINE).

What are your current graphics settings?

[Excellent military costume additions with Page 7]

I'm actually really impressed with the accuracy of these costume models. The author(s?) clearly have an understanding of U.S. military uniform accoutrements. I know some folks asked for these specific items, I think @Oubliette_Red at one point had a costume request for one item. And the fact that the Modern Beret is colorable, the ranks are also. Good stuff!

[Wrong game version repeats]

To continue with dispelling the misinformation posted in this thread, the Official Homecoming Launcher is not new, it's been around for over three years. It's been supported by the Homecoming Team longer than Tequila ever was.

 

There are no bugs that need worked out - it was beta tested almost four years ago. As I said on the first page of this thread, the Official Homecoming Launcher is faster than Tequila in getting updates, much more secure than Tequila, and its more compatible than Tequila with other operating systems. 

 

And to continue on 'getting the word out' - the announcement of the Official Homecoming Launcher was put out through all Official channels when it debuted over three years ago. It's continually recommended on every Official channel by the Homecoming Team every time a new patch or update comes out for folks to switch. If players choose not to observe announcements from those Official channels, that's their prerogative.

 

(If there is a new player, they are directed to the Official Homecoming Launcher from the start, for the past threec years).

 

If players have made the conscious choice NOT to use the Official Homecoming Launcher since it was launched over three years ago, that's their prerogative. 

[Excellent military costume additions with Page 7]

If folks weren't aware, there were some fantastic new military-flavored costume additions added in Page 7, Issue 27:

 

Spoiler

• Head > Half Helmets > Helmets > "Modern Beret"
• Head > Half Helmets > Helmets > "ACH Helmet Tintable 1"
• Head > Half Helmets > Helmets > "ACH Helmet Tintable 2"
• Head > Half Helmets > Helmets > "ACH Helmet 1-8"
• Head > Half Helmets > Helmet Detail 1 > "Modern Beret Flash"
• Head > Half Helmets > Helmet Detail 2 > "Modern Beret Detail 1-13"

 

So now instead of that unsat beret headcover from legacy or a goofy helmet from yesteryears, players can finally live out their fantasy as an action hero in full regalia! You can find them in the Half-Helmet section instead of the Hat section (I'm sure there was some sort of technical reason for this). Hopefully on the next go around, they add an O6 (Colonel/Captain) rank to the Head > Half Helmets > Helmet Detail 2 > "Modern Beret Detail 1-13"

 

 

BEFORE

 Soup sandwich

 Nice watermelon, Solider!

 

AFTER

 Modern Beret, Beret Flash, Bald, (No Rank)

 Modern Beret, Beret Flash, Buzz Cut (No Rank)

 Modern Beret, Beret Flash, In-regulation hair length, O-10.

 

 

And finally, the Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) Helmet [as described in game, a bit duplicative to call it a helmet helmet], with 8(!) other camo patterns for your nostalgia needs!

[City of Heroes 20th Anniversary: Time Capsule Event, Q&A With Original Team, Costume Contests]

9 minutes ago, Oubliette_Red said:

 

Not seeing the Patch notes for the Anniversary event.

 

Q: Where do Praetorians redeem their Anniversary tokens?

 

 

 

Praetorian's can go to Echo Plaza, Luna is on the left as characters enter from the truck in Pocket D.

[Anniversary Badges and Tokens]

7 hours ago, Starhammer said:

It's obviously a little late this year, but I'd like to see Luna give the option of buying Anniversary Badges with Anniversary tokens as well. It'd be a nice way to use them up when you have a lot left over after getting everything just by clicking capsules, and it'd be nice to have something else to do with leftovers besides dumping on the AH.

How many Anniversary Tokens would you suggest it cost for an Anniversary Badge?

[20th Anniversary Rewards?]

1 hour ago, Bill of Rights said:

I'm kind of bummed that you can't use the Anniversary tokens to buy the old Anniversary badges, 100 merits apiece is steep.  And the tokens are otherwise useless when you can get all the stuff purchasable with them in one day, when the event is a month long.

The Anniversary Tokens can be used to purchase Anniversary Event inspirations, they can be traded on the Auction House for inf, and they will likely be used again for the event next year. If you consider them useless, I'm happy to take them off your hands. 

[Post your best costume designs here!]

3 hours ago, Braddack said:

my bad, thouth i quick show the costume.

There's nothing wrong with it. I was looking at the last few of the costumes you posted in this thread and couldn't quite get the look in game so I figured there was something used to alter the costume screenshot. 

[Post your best costume designs here!]

1 hour ago, Braddack said:

he needed to be created, Bovine Enchanter, Demon/Nature Mastermind.

 

Is there AI generation in this image? 🤔 I think there's another thread for that in this sub forum. 

[You're not crazy. The Anniversary ambushes are hard for your low level alt to kill.]

10 minutes ago, Kai Moon said:

I checked. Teaming doesn't decrease the difficulty, if the team's low level. The spawns get bigger and higher ranked with the same inflated HP.

As stated in OP, sidekicking up to a 50 is the only workaround to get the difficulty down to a reasonable level.

Now that you mention it, the Anniversary mob types should be using Minion.Grunt attributes, which if the level scaling is applying correctly, would set the entities max hp to 68 at Level 8.

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/archetype-data.html?at=minion_grunt

 

Edit: @ViridianDev any idea about the level scaling? I thought the mob types were all minion grunts.

[You're not crazy. The Anniversary ambushes are hard for your low level alt to kill.]

30 minutes ago, Kai Moon said:

If you're low level, the Anniversary ambushes range from frustrating to actually unbeatable (due to heals and regen).

 

Getting sidekicked up to 49 seems to be the only workaround at this point. Still got very difficult spawns in a low level zone.

 

Images: Level 8 tanker ice sword vs Level 8 minion in Port Oakes; Level 8 tanker ice sword vs anniversary ambush in Mercy.

Have you tried teammates?

 

Edit: That's a cool costume!

[Au Revoir My Friend, you were faithful for many years]

On 4/30/2024 at 4:15 PM, PeregrineFalcon said:

The Council of Fourteen announced, years ago, that they would no longer be supporting the Tequila launcher.

 

Also, people have been talking about this all today:

 

Oh, and here too:

 

And also here:

 

And I expect they'll probably be 4 or 5 more threads about this over the next couple of days.

 

When you find out that the Homecoming Launcher has been officially supported by the Homecoming Team longer than Tequila launcher:

 

[Floating Time Capsule]

30 minutes ago, PhotriusPyrelus said:

Doesn't seem to spawn ambushes when ambushes trigger.  I don't know how to get coordinates, but the location is in the small park due north of the center of The Zig in Brickstown.

Type "/loc" in to chat, (without the quotations).

[Welcome to Homecoming, Original City of Heroes Team!]

5 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

@Glacier Peak, both Ravenstorm and Rockjaw have now joined as well.  😁

Yeah after the HC *Council announced the Red Names for their Q&A thing, I figured it was moot to update the original post. Still exciting to see folks from the legacy team join the community!

 

[The best feature of the new launcher - screenshots]

6 minutes ago, DougGraves said:

did someone say there is a new feature?

Fixed

[Badge Bragging on Indom]

How's the Indom badge collector community looking after the Anniversary Event?

[20th anniversary event badges]

4 minutes ago, Display Name said:

Please switch back to the old-school CoT costumes.

Those robes are pretty culty huh! And the green glowie eyes really make them a sinister looking enemy group. 

[The best feature of the new launcher - screenshots]

Ah yes, that new launcher that's been around for 3 and a half years. Still cool though!

[20th Anniversary Rewards?]

41 minutes ago, Crysis said:

I got to 600 tokens today just running a circle in a zone repeatedly as the capsules respawn in roughly the same area.  During the day there’s almost no competition for them so once you have the route down (thanks to the bind locator) it’s just mindless run/fly/click and then onto next.

 

Then I went to Luna and realized I had already earned all the rewards and had nothing to spend the tokens on.

 

Oh well, at least enough tokens to outfit any alts.  Looking forward to next release.

 

You can use your Anniversary Tokens to purchase Anniversary Event Inspirations Luna.

[Tequila launcher not updating?]

"I'm sure folks will start to look into the new launcher. "

 

Just so that folks aren't misled, the Official Homecoming Launcher has been released for over three years now, so it's definitely not new.

 

"so long as it has moved past removing files from peoples computers)."

 

Just to clear up the misinformation, the Official Homecoming Launcher doesn't do that and that's not what Tequila does either. 

 

 

 

[Experienced (Self, +Partol XP)]

13 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

recharge rate of the power is ten minutes.  I've currently got something like 3k charges

But Yomo, that's over twenty days of non-stop activation to use up all those charges! You'll go mad!

[I'm new here how do you play the game after you make your account?]

7 minutes ago, Zombitch said:

help

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/getting-started/

 

[20th Anniversary Rewards?]

11 minutes ago, Shenanigunner said:

Is there a list of all the 20th event badges, rewards, etc.? I have the 20th Anniversary badge, and the Anniversary(?) badge for opening 25 time capsules. I have three temporary powers (retrovision and the hero and villain toy bats), and four costume powers.

 

What else is there?

 

Also, the magic search bind for Time Capsules, at up to 1000 feet, at least, is:

 

/bind ADD target_custom_next time