Certified Comic Shop

Great stories y'all, but I win. Enjoy... Growing up in the 80's, and having spent thousands of hours playing games like the Bard's Tale Trilogy, the mechanic of having a mage cast a healing spell OR visiting the local temple to heal your party was engraved in my brain. With that context, I started playing CoH around Issue 2. My first time playing, I'm exploring Atlas Park solo and ultimately find myself battling with a Hellion Lieutenant. I eventually managed to arrest him, but I came out worse for wear with my health bar in the red. Not knowing that my health would slowly regenerate, or that there was a rest power, I sprinted to the hospital frantically trying to figure out who in there could patch me up and restore my health. I spent way too long trying to figure it out before finally asking for help in the chat. Imagine my embarrassment when another hero kindly smartened me up 😬 You're welcome.

From I2 until the end, all I really played were melee toons. But I just recently rolled a Sonic/Atomic blaster (Disco Kryptonite) to try something new, and am having an absolute blast (that's a pun) playing him. I have no idea if that power combo is considered "good", but I do know it's hella "fun". Especially when I throw in some light roleplaying. So I guess what I'm saying is you don't need to sweat the power combos, just hit the streets and have some fun.

Came here with the exact same question! I'm having a blast (pun intended) playing my Beam/Temp blaster, but I'm really lost when it comes to slotting, IO sets, etc. @Rayla did you ever find the info you were looking for?

Remember when the Hollows didn't have a hospital, so when your team got wiped you got sent back to AP, where you then needed to sprint (yes, sprint because you weren't level 14 and didn't have a travel power) allllll the way back to the Hollows zone entrance, then book it 3/4 of the way across the zone to get back to the mish door, all while evading large groups of trolls, igneous and other baddies just so you could take one more crack at Frostfire — only to get wiped once again? Sometimes I miss the old COH 😛

I've noticed the same thing for the past couple of days, but for me it's not just been in AE — there's now mega-lag throughout the game in general. Thought at first it was my router/modem or isp as they've been known to have issues from time to time, but after multiple speed tests and no signs of signal degradation, I ruled that out. I'm on a Mac and play on Torchbearer exclusively. I've even noticed that just loading the manifest when launching Island Rum takes 4-5 seconds when it used to load near instantly just a couple of days prior. Wonder if anyone else is experiencing issues like this, or if it's just us two 🙂

I haven't played since Saturday, but everything had been working just fine on my Macbook Pro. I fire up Island Rum this evening, and this is what I get. Game just hangs on "loading". Any ideas what could be happening here and how to fix? This Mac noob could use a hand. Thanks in advance!

@Astrobear The 64-Bit version had been working fine on my Mac since the update until this afternoon when I experienced the same issue as you. I followed your steps above, and thought I was good to go. However when I go to launch the game, the green checkmark appears, but nothing happens. Also as you can see the Safe Modes are greyed out. Is there a step I missed somewhere? Appreciate your help. edit: just saw @Manga's post below mine, which at least provides an explanation as to what happened. Now I just need to figure out how to make the game work again lol edit #2: Restarted my Mac and all is well now 🙂