Voltor

While working on a friends Win 7 box that needed some cleansing i decided to test the vid card and went to install CoH, on a whim I decided to try the beta launcher. Installed it no problems, and it worked after clicking accept. This PC did not have Tequila or CoH already on it. So am I going to have to remove Tequila and reinstall the game on my gaming rig?

Happens to me too on my old XP and win 7 boxes and sometimes with 10, awaiting update.

Experiencing this on my Win 7 and Win XP boxes as well Win 7/64bit Reinstalled, made sure Antivirus was not blocking it, nor is my firewall.

My old WinXP box installed the launcher but after clicking it and agreeing to the agreement nothing happens. Checked task manager, the launcher appears then vanishes. Same with my Win 7 box.

If there is a pattern I have never found it. change the PB sequence sometimes just for grins of course.

I've gotten them on several alts, they can be a challenge due to the fact that player characters since issue 13 in PVP zones are under the "diminishing returns" system which means you will not be at full power like you are in the PVE zones. Check your combat stats and look at your resistance and defense stats and you will see what I mean. Meanwhile your targets are L54 and at full power They spawn in pairs and it is random, you may get the same pair a few times or not. If there is a pattern to induce the spawning of specific characters I have never found it. 4 pillboxes gives the first spawn, defeat them and then take a 5th pillbox for another spawn, defeat them then take a 6th to reset the zone, or have someone with opposite alignment take a few pill boxes then take them back. Some tips: 1. Don't broadcast that you are going to RV, that is an open invitation for griefers and trolls. Form your team in Atlas near the entrance or Grandville near the entrance and have everyone go into full hide mode from searches, etc. Trust me its a good idea to do that. 2. Some AT/power sets could solo them but if you have a team of 3 or more that would be better 3. Poison daggers can help a bit, Warburg nukes might make them blink 4. Lore pets, longbow or banished pantheon, T3 or T4 versions. 5. Have one of the heavy robots in the zone under control as well. Heavies are slow but tough, they cannot be teleported, nor buffed/healed but the incarnate power incandescence will move them. 6. Head to the pillbox that they are targeting and take control of its guns in addition to your heavy and lore pets, all pets and guns to aggressive mode and open fire. 7. A healer/debuffer is recommended. Separating them can be done if someone with taunt or long range attacks can get the attention of one of them and pull them away. They spawn in these pairs: Black Scorpion and Mako: Black Scorpion has a taunt, take him down first Scirocco and Ghost Widow: Ghost Widow is the far greater threat, take her down fast With any of those spawns, Lord Recluse could be randomly inserted in place of one of the other AVs. If he shows up he is target #1. The Blue AV's Positron and Synapse: when you get the alert that heroes are coming, if Synapse isn't there in about 20 seconds then it isn't them. Also Positron can sometimes take some time to arrive so nail synapse first. For Positron remember he is a walking meltdown. Manticore and Back Alley Brawler: though Manti's arrows can be a royal pain, Bab's fists are a greater pain. Take Bab down first. Penelope Yin and Ms. Liberty: these are the replacements in the zone for the slain Sister Psyche and Statesman. Penelope Yin's PSIONIC damage is the far greater threat, take her down FAST. Also be glad Statesman is gone, I faced him in that zone on live, and he was the greatest threat of all the AVs.

So Tequila opens up and validates the 32 and 64 bit clients with no problem, starts to download files for the beta/test server then errors out. Luckily it stays open long enough for me to launch the game, However what can be done to stop it this time, besides installing the new launcher?

Or just unslot your incarnate powers.

Whats this option when someone is right clicked "Add player to focus group" ?

Makes sense, so another question......about that Energy Melee.....:)

No bugs yet but curious why Eternal night was adjusted for the event?

Just revert the issue 13 changes to Energy Transfer, also I believe once upon a time EM had mag 3 stun in its attacks and it was nerfed to mag 2. Revert Energy Transfer back to what it was, and increase the stun mag to 3

For me the easiest is this: Warp from your SG base to First Ward, after you appear in the graveyard, face due east and use your travel power to go to the nearby sonic wall

I still used my energy melee alts after the change, just didn't use energy transfer as much. Recreated one, brought it to 50 but have set it aside in the faint hope that HC would revert the power to pre ish 13 whil I work some new character concepts and rebuild my badge hunters

Yeah i have an energy manipulation blaster so that power is a nice throwback, as to Total Focus, it could use a boost but Energy Transfer was the one power in the set that was wrecked with the ish 13 changes

Or better yet, a compromise of sorts, bring back the classic energy transfer power and make it selectable in power customization for the energy melee set or else make a set called Classic Energy Melee that has the original version of the power in it. Either way, players get a CHOICE which one they want.

Also for those that have forgotten what Energy Transfer was like pre ish 13, I suspect a quick scan of youtube will reveal many videos prior to issue 13. My problem isn't with the entire set, just energy transfer. The rest of the set is quite viable, but the fact that its strongest attack is now so messed up in terms of attack time that it is almost tempting to not take that power.

Seriously when you start charging energy transfer to take down a target and the rest of team spams attacks that take the target down before energy transfer discharges, you know there is a problem with the power.

was never a fan of the hold up both fists and charge up animation/time that they changed it to with issue 13. It used to be rapid punch with a glowing fist, similar to falcon punch or the iron fist. Can we please get that back?

How about giving granite the minimal FX option that some other armors and powers have? Same durability, same penalites but now you can wear costume and cape and aura instead of being a lumpy rock pile

Hm, been awhile....perhaps energy melee? Back in the pre-issue 13 days Energy Transfer was fast punch that swung in arc with the fist glowing, definitely would have been Falcon Punch. Post ish 13 energy transfer wouldn't work for Falcon Punch but possibly one of the other attacks from that set. Other wise, Street Justice melee, super reflexes, reactive interface, Mighty Judgement T4 core. Slot up Crushing Uppercut and ribcracker, Super speed for travel, also flurry and hasten.

Once you isolate which badges require team ups for example: 1. any Task force or Strike force ( yes some of us can solo them at times but not all) 2. The no defeat/no temp master badges 3. Arena badges, especially swiss draw (so glad all my incarnates have that one now) 4. The three badges for assisting with weekly TF 5. incarnate trial badges 6. some of the holiday event badges such as: halloween banners, hunting jack/eochai/unseelies (soloable but more efficient with team/league), Lord Winter and Winter Lord, 7. AV's in Recluse victory (again some can solo these, best worked on a team) Then you can just solo the rest such as 1. the defeat badges 2. Ouroborus 3. Map badges 4. history badges 5. inventions and more. You can collect the badges at a quicker pace.

Well my invulnerable/ss Tank that is HERO alignment only has completed badging.......they now sit at 1286 badges, having obtained badges that only a hero only alignment character could gain. Badges it will never get: All redside exploration badges including redside tutorial, Abyss and Monster island The 4 red side plaques Alignment badges for turning Vigilante, Rogue, Villain and for helping someone complete and alignment mission different from my alignment. As a hero I can't help vigilante, rogue, villains pursue their agendas. Also the alignment badegs for maintaining Vigilante, Rogue, Villain align for 7 days, I did run a hero morality mission to reaffirm myself as hero and claimed those badges The 7 redside strikeforces Mayhem badges, Any accomplishment/achievement/defeat badge that requires being vigilante/rogue/villain, this includes the badge for defeating 1000 Longbow, while there is a mission in RWZ where you face renegade longbow I refuse to fight them The 6 redside day jobs There are 21 gladiator badges that require being redside The 7 seven badges for defeating the hero's in RV The AE badges for completing a vigilante/rogue/villain themed mission. So that's 245 badges it won't be getting.

Found my math error, all is well.

Hm, the 15th anniversary badge brought the total in game to 1531, I have a second alt closing in on the magic number yet by adding the amount of badges it still needs combined with the total it has, it comes to......1532? My main did log in for the anniversary and has 1531, and I can see nothing missing (except bug hunter which doesn't count).