AboveTheChemist

I think they probably could be made today. I think most of the character action/synchronization was done using demo editing. I have tinkered quite a bit with demo editing on Homecoming and while I've never attempted anything as ambitious as the scenes in videos like those, I've done some cool stuff and I think the capacity to make similar scenes still exists. From there it's just a matter of some video editing skills to edit the scenes together and add a soundtrack or dub in some vocals.

Based on the screenshot it looks like a bug I introduced during the first few months I made vidiotmaps, and that I resolved a couple of years ago. My guess is that you have an old vidiotmaps install still hanging around in your data folder. You should have seen a popup notification about that from City Mod Installer but I can't recall offhand if it will rename it for you. The easiest fix is to take your <CoH Root Folder>\data folder and move it outside your CoH directory structure. That will remove all your old mods so if you have used mods other than vidiotmaps, you'll need to re-install them via the City Mod Installer. Otherwise, if you just want to remove vidiotmaps, check out the vidiotmaps thread here and follow the instructions in the section titled Removing/Deleting Old Installations.

I stand by my statements, but I don't want to get into the economic weeds of it. And I certainly don't want to come off as trying to dictate another player's playstyle (especially if auction house trading isn't your thing), so if attuning via catalysts puts the biggest smile on your face then that's all that matters.

If you want to tinker with different enhancement slotting and don't want to waste cash, you can always create a copy of your character on the Brainstorm test server (under Account > Beta Account on the forum page top ribbon) and try different enhancement combos there. All types of enhancements are available for free via the freebies menu. You can access that using the little chat bubble button at the end of the chat bar, or use /popmenu freebiesmenu. One other thing that wasn't explicitly mentioned previously is that while you can attune enhancements using enhancement catalysts (as shown in the YouTube video you linked), you are throwing money away by doing so. Attuned enhancements cost the same as their non-attuned counterparts on the auction house (which Major_Decoy mentioned) so it makes way more financial sense to buy attuned from the auction house per Major_Decoy's screenshots above rather than attuning using a catalyst.

You are welcome! Worst case scenario is that you grab the exploration badge and just have to wait for the timer to run out and fail it. If I am wrong about any of the above (and I easily could be!), hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along and correct any of my mistakes.

I think you can just pop in and grab the badge without completing it. If you want to complete it, you can head to the bank to rob it and defeat the good guys. The initial timer should give you plenty of time to do that, if you would rather complete it as normal, but you can do side quests to add to the timer if needed. Otherwise I think Lord Schweinzer gives you the option to abandon the mission and take the failure, but my memory is pretty hazy there. I personally love mayhem missions so I've always completed them normally and done the side quests, so speedrunning them just for the badge isn't my area of expertise.

I prefer keybinds over macros, but the bind(s) I use are: F10 "beginchat /bind SUBTRACT target_custom_next enemy alive " I press F10, which populates the chat bar with most of my bind. I just need to type in the name of the critter (partial names work) I am looking for, then hit enter. I can then spam the SUBTRACT key on the numpad to search for the critter in question.

The contact is Dakota Berg in Brickstown or Tyrka in St. Martial depending if you want to do it blueside or redside, respectively. Setting the third mission of their SSA to -1x2 should be sufficient to get the Hero Slayer badge and unlock Lord Schweinzer to run the mayhem missions. It's been a while since I have done it but I think 15 minutes seems reasonable to just pop in and get the exploration badge for each mission. The Invader badge wiki page has a list of the coordinates for each exploration badge (use the copy link on the wiki page) that you can paste into chat and head straight to the badge.

I missed this thread when it was first posted, but I parsed my logs for the one character I have with a lot of vet levels (96 as of now) and it looks like the costume change and respec tokens are granted at a rate of one every 15 vet levels, starting at vet level 15. I checked the other rewards (threads and emp merits) and found a few minor errors in relation to their reward schedules on the wiki, so I overhauled the page with the new values that I got from my logs. I also got rid of most of the references to the old vet rewards program, since it's no longer relevant. Granted, I only have the one character with more than a handful of veteran levels, so I couldn't verify the data on another character. So if anyone finds any errors, feel free to correct them.

I use Brainstorm extensively, for many different reasons. I do most of my mod- and wiki-related data gathering there, due to various beta commands (via the freebies menu) and other testing-related freebies that are enabled there, and because new badge/emote/recipe/enhancement data is most reliably available there. I've got several characters set up specifically to make gathering new badge data as efficient as possible, and I've also got a few characters set up to test and collect vidiotmap data efficiently. That way I can be ready with new mod/wiki updates as soon as a new page goes live. Sometimes folks will pose interesting questions on the forums (or, less often, discord) that I don't know the answer to, but that I can devise a simple testing scenario for on Brainstorm. So I'll pop on Brainstorm, gather some data, and try to at least partially answer their question. I do also test new content for each page. I focus mostly on non-powers related tests, because I detest getting into the weeds on powers. That still leaves a lot of stuff (story arcs, badges, emotes, recipes/enhancements, commands, etc.) to be tested, so I try to test as much as I can. I never end up testing as much as I like, because wiki/mod data collection takes up some of that time. Overall, Brainstorm is an extremely valuable resource that I utilize often. I am grateful for its presence because the tools it provides make my life much easier. And for those Brainstorm users that might not know, I have a simple travel/amenities hub set up there that you are welcome to use. The passcode is PPOC-5.

I found an issue that, while minor, I thought it might be worth pointing out. There is an enemy NPC called 'RIP Official' (Rogue Island Police group) in Mercy Island that doesn't show up in an entity search on the site. I searched through all the entity JSON files (from the downloaded CoD archive) as well and can't find an enemy NPC with that name. I also searched through the leaked i24 data and found some info on the Rogue Island Police NPCs, but the names are all P-strings in that data. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to correlate the P-string to the actual text. I've attached a screenshot, and these NPCs are found in the general vicinity of [-2414.0 240.4 296.0] in Mercy Island if you want to see them in game. I thought it might be the NPC that belongs to rogueislandpolice_officer_official.json, but the NPC in that file is named 'Ripper'. The 'Ripper' name is also used by the enemy NPCs in the various level ranges of the rogueislandpolice_officer_<level_range>.json entity files.

BlackSpectre put a ton of work into creating/updating a page for the /emailsendattachment slash command on the HC wiki. I'd start there, but I would also check out the host of threads that have been posted to the forums over the years regarding the use of said command. Briefly, it has issues if the character/global name has spaces, and in general it seems to be a tricky command to master (based on what I've read over the years in those threads I linked). I've never personally used it, though, so I don't have first hand experience with it.

To be fair, I added the bolded part to the wiki yesterday after I did the testing on Brainstorm. If you had looked at that page prior to my edit, it would have just mentioned purples and PvPs. I also edited the Winter and Archetype origin pages to denote that the set bonuses are available down to level 1 (those pages previously said level 7).

I just ran some quick tests on Brainstorm, using the Join Ouroboros arc (second mission) to scale down to level 1. I slotted 3 Avalanche and 3 Superior Avalanche into one power. The 2-piece and 3-piece set bonuses for both the normal and superior sets were active at level 1. The enhancement bonuses granted by each individual piece scaled down to level 1 as expected. To see if the effects on Archetype Origin enhancements were the same, I slotted 2 Ascendancy of the Dominator (AotD) and 2 Superior AotD into one power. As above, the 2-piece set bonus for each set was active at level 1, and the individual enhancement bonuses were scaled down to level 1.

It happens to me periodically as well. I've never tried to take inf/items from the 'previous' AH listings, I just wait a minute or so and it switches to the correct listings for the current character.

Badger has been updated with the four new badges introduced with the i27p6 patch. I don't have the full spoilery details on exactly how to obtain the three new accomplishment badges (Loop Hero, Underdog, and Pollster) yet, but when I have those details I will update the info for those badges. Otherwise, if anyone notices any issues please let me know.

Dataset (in top post) has been updated to remove the Thrill Seeker locations in Atlas Park and Mercy Island, which no longer exist. If anyone notices any issues, please let me know.

The top post has been updated to include the i27p6 badges. If anyone notices any issues with the data please let me know.

I've published an update to include the four new emotes (three variants of mug drinking, and eating watermelon) from the Issue 27, Page 6 patch. The updated file is available at the post at this link, and in the City Mod Installer. More details are available in the changelog in the linked post above. If anyone notices any issues, please let me know!

Updated (in top post) to add the four badges for i27p6, and to remove the Thrill Seeker badges from the now-defunct AP and Mercy Island AE locations. Please let me know if you notice any issues.

If you are on the Beta servers (an assumption I made based on where this is posted), you can get attuned (and any other) enhancements from the freebies menu. On the right side of the chat bar is a button. Click that to bring up the emotes/notoriety quickchat menu, and on the Beta servers that menu also contains an option to open the freebies menu. Or just enter the following command into the chatbar: /popmenu freebiesmenu

It is a triggered event now. From the Nov 26, 2021 patch notes:

Just to follow up on Booper's solution, the likely reason that you aren't seeing it in the location in your screenshot is that you have a custom quickchat menu installed that is overriding the default Beta server quickchat (which contains the freebies menu). You'd need to move/delete your custom quickchat menu in order to see the freebies menu in the location you were looking in the screenshot. That may or may not be a viable solution in this case, but I just wanted to let you (and anyone else that might come upon this thread with a similar issue) know the likely cause.

99% of the temp powers I get, I click 'Remove from Tray' almost immediately and never think about them again. One that I do use sometimes is the Iron Blade power from Croatoa. It lasts a good while and can be re-acquired. I use it as an extra attack power on a few lower-damage characters. It does decent damage even against non-Fey, and allows me to continue to avoid P2W like the plague.

I forgot to follow up, but thanks for the additional info. It makes more sense now. I actually wasn't aware that renaming the folders would still cause issues, but that makes sense given the info that is contained in the individual texture files. I've added a caveat in the top post that a simple rename won't work for removing the old installation. Your world texture quality setting is interesting, too. Usually a 'very high' setting would not cause the bug I mentioned to appear, so there's more going on than I fully understand, for sure. At any rate, I am glad you got it all sorted and working correctly.