Casual_Player

My paradigm for playing has always been to play slower than the developers make new stuff. So long as there are new arcs and TFs out there to explore, I'll be around.

The problem is, after 7 years now, I've just about caught up. I've got another couple of high-level villain arcs left I haven't done, and most of the First Ward arcs to go. The SSAs go a long way towards filling the 'new stuff' void, so I'll likely be here a while longer.

But if I reach a point where I'm playing the new stuff as soon as it comes out, with nothing else new to keep my attention? That'll likely be the sign that it's time to go.

I'm cautiously optimistic that there'll be interesting new things to see and do and keep me re-subbing, but I think I can see the end of the tunnel from here.

I've only done it once (not eight times), but my experience mirrored Ironblade's. I tried the SSA.2 on a character who had not done tip missions and was offered the non-A-merit rewards table at the end. I then spent a week or so running through tip missions until I finished the morality mission and got the 50 reward merits (villainside, btw). Went back yesterday and took on the Rulu-shin again, and this time got the Villain merit. No need for further confirmation, and I still don't have the Frenzy power.

Not sure who's experience was bugged, but I'm hoping it's Zombie Man's. I don't care for random missions and I don't see myself running 2 dozen tip missions per character just to get alignment merits out of the SSAs.

Butch Deadlift!

We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!

Also, if you're going for manly:

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things

Are you kidding?

Stuff like that link is why this forum exists!

A+, would click goofy link again.

Nifty!

How do you get the devil thing to spawn? Or the Bored Gal to vomit out the candy? I've seen the witches and the candy buckets, but have not fiddled with them enough to make extra stuff happen.

I'm looking forward to this. I've liked everything the Wachowskis ever made, including the Matrix sequels and Speed Racer.

But "Lana" Wachowski just creeps me the heck out. The less I manage to hear about that person's personal life, the happier I am.

From the new Cheezburger site, Set Phasers to LOL. I've been trying to be good and not just repost half the stuff from there to here, but Rory demands his own thread.

I dare not refuse.

Yep, that was the fix.

Sorry, "fix".

Turning off my virus protection so I can download a patch is not fixing the issue.

It's a bad workaround at best. If this was some piece of 3rd party, never-heard-of-it freeware that was interfering, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But this is Norton.

Now, it's possible that this is something that Norton has changed recently and not CoH, but unless this is a repeat of the Spotify fiasco I sincerely hope someone on the coding team is working on this problem.

Because as much as I like this game, I like having a working firewall better.

Really?

The 10-minute alignment merit was nerfed and you're claiming it's theft?

Support has tentatively solved the problem!

I'm an hour and a half into a download and everything is going well so far. *crosses fingers*

It looks like the culprit is Norton. Don't know what changed in the downloading protocol two weeks ago, but Norton didn't like it. I'm not happy having to disable parts of my antivirus software to get the game to patch, but it's some progress.

Will report in again after this plays out.

Nope.

I'm the only account on the machine and I'm logged in as the administrator.

So, I decided what the heck, it can't be any worse, let's just trash all the CoH files and reload from scratch.

I searched for and trashed everything with 'City of Heroes' and 'NCSoft' in it except for my browser bookmarks.

I then went to the main CoH page as if I were a new user and followed the instructions for downloading the game. Went to https://na.cityofheroes.com/en/freed...-downloads.php and clicked on the little apple button. Opened up the launcher file once it had downloaded and moved it into applications. (Skipped the registration page) Fired up the launcher.

The launcher started downloading the game. The moment it got to 'checking downloaded file,' BANG - I got the Hash Failure message once again. 15 clicks on the 'continue' button later, it actually tried to extract patch data and I got the error message "/Applications/City of Heroes.app/PS/CityOfHeroes_Main_0.0.0.0To0.0.0.1/PatchManifest.xml could not be loaded". Then the NCLauncher 'unexpectedly' quit.

So if I were a new player and wanted to try this game out, I could not. The game simply will not load on my machine, much less load a new patch. I don't know what's failing- the NCSoft Launcher or what. But something is just refusing to work.

Same thing happens if I launch from the app directly. The launcher pops up, wants to download the new patch. I say 'yes' and we fall into the same hash failure series of errors.

I think my next step is just to burn everything down to the floor and reload everything from scratch.

Got my points.

Sub date is the 18th.

Now if I could only get the game to work. Razzin' frazzin' stupid mac updating bugs.

Yes, City of Heroes appears under 'Installed' on the NC Launcher. As do City of Heroes Beta and City of Heroes Test.

If I open up the triangle and click on repair, it works fine while it checks on Cider. However, I get the hash failure message immediately afterwards. If I try to continue on after that, I get the error message I posted in the OP.

Darn, I was kind of hoping the Beta thing was the problem.

Thanks guys,

I've taken the problem over to the Mac forum. Hoping for some headway there before I break down and actually submit a ticket.

As for hash, I'm a scout leader, so this is my usual acquaintance with it:



Mmmmmmm, yummy!

Bubba,

I g-mailed you the 5 million entry fee last week and promised to drop my entry in the thread- thusly:

Sister Psyche is the one who dies, and I'll add that I think Emperor Cole does it. I think this is the pre-requisite to sticking her psyche back into Aurora's body, thus causing all sorts of problems for Manticore and Calvin Scott. (Neither seem to me to be the 'sharing' type.)

I haven't been in game yet this week, nor played SSA2 or checked the top of the thread, but if you need me to up my entry fee I'll be happy to send you the inf.

Regards, CP

OK,

There is an program calling itself "City of Heroes" in my Applications folder. But if I click on that program with the Quicklook button, the window that pops up reads

"City of Heroes

Version 1.0

City of Heroes Beta v1.0.6998

44.8 MB

Last modified October 13, 2011 1:49:47 pm"

I'm guessing that 'Beta' in there is the problem. I do in fact have beta still loaded on the machine from over the summer, and if I quicklook that I get a different v1.0.etc, but it otherwise reads the same.

Should I kill off the beta files? Just delete everything scorched-earth style and start over?

I'm still new to macs, so you may have to walk me through this.

When I click "properties" on the launcher, my local version says 0.0.0.0 and the server version says 2110.201110070353.1.0

Under 'install location' it says /Applications/City of Heroes.app

Is that incorrect? When I hit browse and go looking for some other path to set, what should I be setting it to?

Oh, and I was wrong about the error message I'm getting. It's not the same as it was two days ago (I re-posted the two-days-ago-message above). The error message I'm getting is actually: "/Applications/City of Heroes.app/PS/CityOfHeroes_Main_0.0.0.0To0.0.0.1/PatchManifest.xml could not be loaded."

This message pops up after about a dozen clicks on the 'continue' button of the Hash Failure message.

OK, I'm heading into phase two of a broke-down game.

Tuesday, I tried to load the new patch. Nothing doing, got an error message saying "Hash FAILURE!" and "Downloaded patch does not match expected patch hash!"

It gave me the option to try and continue, so I followed along. The "Validating Files" part went OK but then in the "Checking downloaded file" portion of the process I got this error:
"/Applications/City of Heroes.app/PS.CityOfHeroes_Main2110.201110070353.1.0_Repair/PatchManifest.xml could not be loaded!"

I posted about this on the tech/bug forums and got no real answers. So I figured I'd just uninstall/reinstall the game and go from there.

Welp.

Uninstall worked, but now the game won't INstall. At all. The installer gets installed, but then I start getting the same error messages I got two days ago.

I'm running OS 10.6.8 on an iMac with the following stats:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Boot ROM Version: IM121.0047.B0A
SMC Version (system): 1.71f22
Serial Number (system): C02FD3RXDHJF
Hardware UUID: 9AD65B14-3DC1-548B-B2B5-C071F3E0BCA8

Help?

OK, so I tried the 'continue' option this time. It gave me the option to try and repair things, so I followed along. The "Validating Files" part went OK but then in the "Checking downloaded file" portion of the repair process I got this error:

/Applications/City of Heroes.app/PS.CityOfHeroes_Main2110.201110070353.1.0_Repair/PatchManifest.xml could not be loaded!

Is this the patcher giving me fits? Do I need to re-install?

That's the message I got today when I tried to download the new patch.

Plus: "Downloaded patch does not match expected patch hash!"

I quit rather than continue (my two options at the time).

Could someone explain what this means, and how to fix it?

I've been waiting for the right thread to bust this out.