Fuzzy Kittens

Two words that should NEVER be used in combination: Manos, sequel.
/e shudder

No

This happened to me when I installed the game on windows7. After scouring the forums, the best I could find was: "just wait, it'll get past it". I can't tell you exactly how long I had to wait (between 5 minutes and an hour-ish), but I can say that despite the 32 years the downloader was quoting me, it didn't take that long. Basically, I just left it running and did something else; when next I checked, it was working normally - at some point it will continue the DL and install normally, but until you get to that point the progress bar won't move and you'll see a ridiculously long time estimation. For the record: I tried deleting coh.checksum (several times) as well as uninstalling the game and starting over - regardless of what I did (other than letting it run/sit there/whatevertheheck it's doing while quoting a multi year time frame), I still got the non-moving progress bar and a time estimation in excess of 20 years for completion.

I bugged this in game and will continue to do so until it's fixed. I have to go to the combination screen (power by power) to be able to read the numbers, and I find that unacceptable.

On Freedom, there were multiple event zones, but the celebration event did not take place in all of them. For instance, we had Atlas, Atlas2, and Atlas3 at the start of the event, but (to the best of my knowledge) only Atlas saw anything spawn. When Talos was called as the new location, we, again, wound up with multiple zones: this time Talos and Talos2 (eventually) saw spawns, Talos3 did not (again, to the best of my knowledge). In the future, could we pretty please get a point of clarification posted in event announcements: where, exactly, the events are going to take place if there are multiple instances of the zone in question (only the original zone, only the original and it's second counterpart, etc.). What we had, in practice, on Freedom last night was first come first serve with an attendance cap - that's not what I'd expected from reading the In-Game Server Events post. If this is how events are going to/have to occur, it would be immensely helpful if the event announcement could spell this out ahead of time. Lag aside, the portions of the event that I was able to take part in were pretty cool. It was the time that I spent in Atlas2 and Talos3 waiting for the event to start (and eventually realizing that it wasn't going to) that wasn't so cool.