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Judging from either contact, it appears to be a typical instance mission. There is not a lot of guides covering every mission in City of Heroes because save for specific missions in Task Forces, major story arcs, or in trials, the map is procedural-generation, so there's an excellent chance the map layout is scrambled with every visit. It's not exactly "No Man's Sky" complex, but rather, like a pen-and-paper map with tiles to shuffle and draw from a stack forming a map for the "next" encounter. Even if it's not (Shooting Stars/Hearts of Darkness Story lines), the mob/glowie placement and difficulty can vary with every load. The Homecoming Wiki info is likely all there is to know in advance.

Let's just get back on topic, please.

Trike: Options, Keybinds, change the profile to "Classic" and Save. That should put the camera controls the way you're used to. (Similar topic, come with a picture relevant to this.) Existing characters should not be affected; camera controls are saved with the character on the server unless you change them from the last session. You'd need to set this on new characters going forward. See if that fixes it.

So much for leaving things in good faith. This topic's done. Move along.

You can check transfer status on Closed Beta's forums at the prior site. Otherwise, try logging into the Closed Beta client once you are able to reach a PC and use your Homecoming account login info.

Yes, there's going to be quirks with our Tech Support. Sometimes the customer types something out and we tell them to put it some other place instead. We promise never to charge for it.

Removed some posts. Please be civil when discussing matters like this. Thanks!

The servers have been restored. You may need to repatch to launch. As noted elsewhere, if you see "This Character is logging out", or "This character is logging in", be patient and try again. The auth server is catching up to your client.

The servers have been restored. You may need to repatch to launch. As noted elsewhere, if you see "This Character is logging out", or "This character is logging in", be patient and try again. The auth server is catching up to your client.

The servers have been restored. You may need to repatch to launch. As noted elsewhere, if you see "This Character is logging out", or "This character is logging in", be patient and try again. The auth server is catching up to your client.

Maintenance is in progress. You won't be able to try again until the red banner up top is gone.

Removed some posts. Brought orange slices and mint tea. Take a breath. We're all here for a video game. And exhale.

TL;DR (or "Another Link; Didn't Click"): "How can I join Closed Beta" is in the works. No ETA on when.

That's probably not it then. It'd have to be a huge mismatch or one of the components being bad quality, which is easy to test with other things to rule that out: if you got another bluetooth headset to try on the USB Adapter, or pairing the headset to your phone and seeing if something happened with them. Chipset Drivers would cover the sound card (Bluetooth is an output device, the sound card still processes the audio regardless) if you still want to give those a shot. If you're unafraid of trying an "at your own risk" fix, @BlackSpectre shared an article not so long ago regarding using OpenAL Soft to try to restore 3D Audio to City of Heroes on modern hardware without trying to use modern peripheral soundcards. (Most of which are either PCI-Ex 1X and weird to use, or USB and laggy.) https://gnd-tech.com/2020/08/how-to-enable-3d-audio-in-directsound3d-and-openal-games-without-a-sound-card/ -- I did it on a Windows system and it seemed to make the game sound less muddled, but it's hard to know if it's using the library or not since City of Heroes uses the Windows Audio system defaults. (Multiple sound devices? Select it in Windows, in-game Options just has volume and that's it.) Worth a shot. There's no uninstall, except for following the directions backwards. I used these instructions on my Windows system: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Sound_card#Universal I don't advise using the instructions for specific audio hardware, as most of those 'helper apps' are reaching a decade old or longer. (That RealTek tool was out when Windows Vista walked the earth and majestically ate leaves out of the tops of trees.)

Bluetooth devices have a list of supported profiles: handsfree with the worst quality, headset (AM quality audio), and A2DP (CD-quality audio). How old is the TP-Link Bluetooth dongle and headset? (If they're both recent, it's likely they're fine. If one's older than the other, I'd check to make sure both support A2DP.) Profiles is a match-game: to get A2DP working, both the dongle and headset have to support the profile.

Disable doesn't cover Team or Duals, since they're opt-in. To not receive Team or Duals, you'd revoke the Enable Inspiration choice that turned them on. They don't count as the single inspirations. (This also impacts the 3 to 1 convert feature, as Teams and Duals are take em or leave em.)

The mission is timed, alas, so it doesn't appear in Ouroboros. You'd have to be Level 25-30 to do it (if Laurie isn't a contact in that range and you're not terribly close to 30, completing a Safeguard mission would grant her as a contact after doing some radio missions.)

There's a new thread in the post above. Go use that one. This one is mildewy. (Also I politely disagree, I'm using a Mac Mini and it plays great. M1-M3 isn't the doom everyone thought it would be, it runs circles around Intel Graphics.)

Unless headphones are in use under Bluetooth, that's likely not it. (If it is, let us know, there's some stuff to try.) When updating drivers, is chipset drivers included in your routine? (Depends on the computer: most models will come from the OEM, some systems such as Gaming PCs that are custom built, you'll visit the Motherboard manufacturer site.)

Might need to put in a Support ticket for that one, since it involves our Forum Access. Check your PMs here for more info.

Quoting to reaffirm: For the live service, everyone starts again at Level 1. No Beta shard characters will ever be playable on Live shards.

If you share what's happening with your system, we might be able to see if it's 100% related to this issue and offer help.

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Is the option for 3D Sound lit in the in-game Options screen? If so, turn that off to return to 2 channel sound. Otherwise, there may be a sound feature from your computer that picks up on "Environmental Audio" or EAX support that CoH uses, but shortly fell off the radar after 2005 in most hardware manufacturers. You'd have to dig into your sound settings to see if/what has changed. A good 90% of computers these days use motherboard embedded audio. If there is nothing about environmental or 3D audio in your system settings, don't be surprised.

It may not catch all crashes, but if it does and the Crash Reporter window appears afterward, be sure to send a "memory dump".