Koffin

For that kind of concept character, an Electric or Energy / SR Sentinel, with the Ninja Pool might be nice. You'd even get a mind trick (placate). 🙂

Thanks for the tip! That allowed me to get back into the game. I tried turning different options back on, one by one. Setting Shadows to anything other than the default setting causes the game to reload assets (maybe?) and that reload somehow locks up.

I have just switched to a new graphics card (from Geforce 980ti to Radeon 7900XTX, on Windows 10). Uninstalled old drivers and Nvidia software, installed AMD Adrenaline drivers from the official website. Unfortunately, I can no longer load into a city zone anymore. I can log in to the client and create or select a hero normally. (So at least rendering 3d characters is ok.) After selecting a character to jump into the game world, the zone loads, ambient sound effects start playing and then the loading screen remains frozen. Waiting for anything to happen ultimately ends with "Client not responding". I have tried a number of other games, and sadly CoH is the only one where I hit a wall. 😕 I have tried looking for similar issues via search but have not caught one just like this. Please let me know if you have encountered something like this (and hopefully fixed it too 🙂 ).