Extremely New Player (Never played CoH) looking for advice on build.

[Warboss]

3 hours ago, Psyonico said:

It's been so long since I've joined a new global channel,  but I'm assuming the chan_join command doesn't actually add the channel to a chat tab,  so that needs to be done as well. 

 

To do that,  right click the tab and choose... edit(?) I think... and then you can add the channel to the list visible on that tab. 

 

After you've done the chan_join, select one of the numbers in the top right of the chat window, if the tab doesn't already have a channel assigned, you should see "add Tab", click that and you can select TankHQ. Or as you mentioned, you can right click on the tab title and select "edit" from there select TankHQ.

[Psyonico]

You can chat in the channel in a couple of ways... the easiest is to click on the "Help" in your chat box, doing so will bring up a list of all channels you can send a message to.  Global Channels included.

 

The other way is to create a bind to automatically send a message to a channel, I've got a global channel bound this way, you can do it by pasting the following command into your chat:

 

/bind rshift+enter beginchat /send "TankHQ" 

 

 

then, whenever you press right shift and enter at the same time, your chat box will automatically be set to send a message to the TankHQ channel.  The nice thing about this method is that it actually saves what channel your chat box is set to and bypasses that to send a message to TankHQ