Faultline

Why? Short version: you're running an old and insecure operating system. This will make it marginally more secure. Windows XP shipped with Internet Explorer 6, and TLS 1.0 support (disabled by default, to boot) and it hasn't updated the root certificates in quite a while. This means that if you try to visit any website that uses HTTPS, or download a file from them, it either will not work, or it will complain about invalid certificates. Even if you don't use Internet Explorer as your web browser on Windows XP, most "embedded" browsers in the operating system are an Internet Explorer component behind the scenes. For our purposes, this means that Tequila will fail to download the game unless you install these updates. All the files mentioned in this post can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/FaultlineHC/TLSonXP Step 1: Install Internet Explorer 8 Short version: run 001 IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe and follow the prompts to install IE8. Restart your system when done. If you already have Internet Explorer 8, you can skip this step. Otherwise, download Internet Explorer 8 from https://download.microsoft.com/download/C/C/0/CC0BD555-33DD-411E-936B-73AC6F95AE11/IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe or use the installer provided in the above link; it's the same file. Internet Explorer 8 is also limited to TLS 1.0, but unlike Internet Explorer 6, it can be upgraded to support TLS 1.2. Step 2: Mark your system as PosReady 2009 Short version: double click 002 Enable PosReady.reg and let it merge the keys with the registry. PosReady 2009 is the last version of Windows XP Embedded. This is needed in order to install the following updates, since Microsoft never made them available to retail versions of Windows XP. The included .reg file will change the one registry key needed; it has no effect on the system other than letting these updates install. POS stands for Point of Sale, not the other thing that you are thinking of, although that also applies to Windows XP at this point. Step 3: Install Security Updates Short version: run 003 windowsxp-kb4019276-x86-embedded-enu.exe, 004 ie8-windowsxp-kb4316682-x86-embedded-enu.exe, 005 ie8-windowsxp-kb4230450-x86-embedded-enu.exe, 006 windowsxp-kb4467770-x86-embedded-enu.exe and 007 WindowsXP-KB3055973-v3-x86-Embedded-ENU; let them finish. Restart your system afterwards. These are the updates that add TLS 1.2 support; they can be downloaded manually from https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=kb4019276 https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4316682 https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=KB4230450 https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4467770 and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48214 or use the installers provided in the above link; they are the same files. Step 4: Enable TLS Support Short version: double click 007 Enable TLS Support.reg and let it merge the keys with the registry. This file sets up several registry keys to enable TLS support on system components, and allows Internet Explorer 8 to display the flags to enable them. Without this, the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 options will not show up on Internet Explorer 8, even if they're installed. This file will also add some WindowsUpdate URLs for updating security certificates. Step 5: Update Security Certificates Short version: run 008 Cert_Updater_v1.6.exe and let it finish. This will update the security certificates to the latest version and allow sites to load without root certificate errors. This file is a modification of the rootsupd.exe file from Microsoft in order to run on XP; details on how to download and create your own are here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/175170-root-certificates-and-revoked-certificates-for-windows-xp/#comment-1095349 Step 6: Enable TLS! Short version: Open IE8. Go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced. Scroll all the way to the bottom and check the boxes "Use TLS 1.1" and "Use TLS 1.2". After doing that, you should now be able to use Tequila to download updates again, and Internet Explorer 8 will be able to load most HTTPS websites. That said, don't use Internet Explorer 8! If you must browse the web on Windows XP, you should download and install Firefox, that still supports Windows XP and provides much better security.

Oil Slick is internally called Gymnastics for ... some reason. Don't ask me. If a power called Gymnastics (display name) is not in the powers tray, the code looks for powers that have an internal name Gymnastics and finds Oil Slick. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=blaster_support.tactical_arrow.gymnastics Added to the issue tracker. No idea on the Fire Shield one, I'll look tomorrow after work.

If you are looking at the task manager while the game is on the foreground (that is, run the game as a window, have Task Manager next to it and then click on the game) it really should show you the priority changing to Above Normal. It will always show Below Normal when it's not the foreground task. If you are 100% certain that Task Manager shows Below Normal while the game is your foreground window, the next step is to use something like Autohotkey to determine what is the foreground task. But I can't think of anything that would do that outside of gaming overlays or something else that wants to draw on top of the active window.

You type it in the chat window. If you want to add it to the client parameters, use a dash: -priorityboost 1 Once again though: in the Task Manager (with the avanced view on, with extra tabs) go to the Details tab, then edit the columns to add a Priority column there. You wil most likely see that the game runs on Normal priority (or Above Normal, with priority boost) as long as it's the foreground window.

Not sure when the GMs plan to run the shard event, but adding a manual trigger like the other invasions have is on my to-do list. The plan is to trigger an invasion after completion of the final mission in SSA2. Bit of an issue is that this invasion isn't set to use different triggers in hero and villain side, so it may trigger on a hero zone when the villain SSA2 is completed or vice versa; that needs to be addressed.

This is most likely not true, unless you have a program in your computer messing with proces priority or taking focus away from COH yet somehow letting you control it -- gaming overlay maybe? COH sets itself to Below Normal when it's not the foreground application, so whenever you check Task Manager, it will of course be with COH in the background and appear as Below Normal. If you go to the Details tab and add a Priority column there, then swap to COH, you will see it switch to Normal whenever it has focus, and Below Normal when it doesn't. You can use the slash command /priorityboost 1 to make COH run at Above Normal while it has focus, but again, as soon as it is put in the foreground it will drop back to Below Normal.

This should have been fixed on yesterday's patch. Enjoy your Bug Hunter!

This has been fixed now, LRT should now work fine.

I just changed the manifests to use https instead of http, see if that solves the issue for you. It is not ideal for downloads that don't need to be secured because the https handshake makes the download start slower, but it'll help if you have anything in the route that is intercepting unencrypted http and messing with it.

Both links point to the same place and are working; do you have a firewall/antivirus that may be blocking Island Rum?

That's been there forever. It's only on Tights though, so maybe that's why you didn't see it before?

Different thing; that is done via granting or revoking a temporary power. May change in the future but not page 2.

I still have no idea why you didn't receive the Long Range Teleporter power alongside the badge, but at least I have a fix for not being able to purchase/claim it from P2W. It will be live on Tuesday.

Please don't make this thread about Kinetic Melee - we're trying to get eyes on all the bugfixes on the patch in order to publish it to live on Tuesday, and discussion on Kinetic Melee is not helpful. The critter Flight AI tweaks, Spirit Ward FX and power changes that aren't just a simple number change are the priority.

Confirmed the problem with Long Range Teleporter; no idea why yet. But Task Force Commander is not bugged; you are missing the Manticore TF.

That... is very bizarre. I'll take a look ASAP.

Not going to happen, an Arena vendor would not match the lore of the zone. With the addition of a PVP Helicopter connecting all the zones on top of the hospital, the vendor you need is one loading screen away. The Siren's Call vendors are part of the zone minigame and will not be permanently unlocked. This is not an issue, this is a minor inconvenience at best, in line with having to go to a trainer to train. Telling other players that they're wrong when in fact they are not is also poor form. Just because you don't like something, it doesn't mean it's wrong and needs changing. I made the accolade additions to the Siren's Call vendors, and for a time I toyed with unlocking them, but decided against it in order to preserve the minigame of the zone.

Go to another zone. 100% availabilty at all times. Or run one of the missions in the zone, that are now available up to level 50 - they all reward accolades for free, 100% of the time. The Siren's Call power vendors don't have 100% availability, and that was a conscious choice.

The Siren's Call vendor locking when your side (hero or villain) doesn't own the zone is working as intended, and has been since Issue 6. 🖐 🎤

I think the patch notes made things more confusing here. I did the renames with a specific framing in mind: * Sprints take Sprints sets. * Run powers take Running sets. * Jump powers take Leaping sets. * Celerity slots in powers that take Running or Sprints sets. * Unbounded Leap slots in powers that take Leaping or Sprints sets. This would be like creating a new set and giving it the "Flight and Defense" category, it just means it can be slotted in Fly and also in Fortitude. Don't think of them as two new categories, think as a single new category (Sprints) with these sets slotting on either one.

No, this is explicitly to cater to people who used the old Invisibility power to intentionally set themselves to OAS so they can walk through enemies without damage auras affecting them and drawing aggro.

We already have some of COH rewritten into cross-platform C that will build on anything, but it's an ongoing, low priority process. Porting the client to ARM specifically is not going to make the game run on Android; while COH uses OpenGL, it uses a rather ancient version of it that no mobile phone that I know of supports. If there's an OpenGL guru who wants to tackle rewriting the rendering pipeline into modern OpenGL, definitely get in touch. Even if it doesn't immediately result in an Android client, it's an important step to get there, and it will benefit the desktop client as well.

I hear you; this was meant to address issues with the mobs re-spawning on top of players that were not ready for them (they ignored spawn distance range unlike other street mobs in the game) but it looks like we need a better solution. There's a cave area in particular where mobs would respawn in the front while players were making their way to the back.

While that is what it is currently doing on Live, that is not working as intended and will be addressed on the next patch.