Kitsune Knight

Haven't you seen all those old black & white movies where when the group gets in a tight situation, the woman begins freaking out and to snap her out of it the (hero) guy hits her? It's exactly like that.

Please post a CoH Helper and HiJack This log. Generally the problem is an out of date driver or some malware on the machine... those two programs will help quite a bit in figuring out what's wrong.

Assuming they have no other Knockback protection (or resistance), then it should work fairly well, although you won't be able to have much of an attack chain with constantly spamming Force Bolt.

If you would rather not try, that's your prerogative. If you would like a good work-around that takes about two seconds to perform, then I need more information than 'it didn't work'.

There's quite a number of posts about this. It's not universal, and based on some traceroutes it would appear that it's most likely an issue with one of NC's upstream ISPs, and not an issue on the client or server side themselves.

You can bypass the updater by running one of the following commands (assuming default installation location:

32bit Windows: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh
64bit Windows: "C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh
OS X: /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/cider --use-dos-cwd c:/coh -- c:/coh/cityofheroes.exe -project coh

First off, the Login Server where you login to the game, or the updater which updates the game (the one where you accept the EULA)? If it's the latter, that's been happening to some people, and can be bypassed (assuming no patches are out) by running:
32bit Windows: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh
64bit Windows: "C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh
OS X: /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/cider --use-dos-cwd c:/coh -- c:/coh/cityofheroes.exe -project coh

For windows, I'd recommend just copying the command, pressing Windows key + R (to bring up the Run command dialog), pasting it in, then pressing OK. On OSX, I believe you need to go into the Applications folder, then the Utilities subfolder, and then run 'Terminal.app', then copy the command, paste it into the terminal, and press Enter to run it.

All of those commands assume you used the default installation directory, and will bypass the updater. If your client's version is not full up to date, you'll be unable to login successfully (you'll get a version mismatch error).

RF2009 (RadioFreedom moved there, as the original channel got clogged with inactive accounts) is incredibly popular and active. Most anything going on on Freedom will be announced there, plus it's a general purpose channel for all sorts of things (there is no off topic on it).

Go to C:\Program Files\City of Heroes (on 32bit, or on 64bit go to C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes) and see if you have a 'data' folder in there, and inside that data folder you should have a folder named texture_library. If you do, you most likely have it correctly installed.

Remember, you'll likely need to restart the game to see the differences.

She gets lost occasionally. Best to just punch her in the face.

Shut up, you're ruining my conspiracy theory that you work for ATI!




(wake me up when Intel either leaves the graphics accelerator market, or comes out with something half way decent).

As Deacon said, you can't change your patron arc or patron badge once they're selected.

Several issues back, they were changed to act more like an unlockable version of the APPs, in that your patron arc unlocks access to all pools, from there after it might as well work the same as APPs. Your first and second build can have different PPPs, and you can change your PPP with a respec.

Have you tried checking to make sure the software/drivers are fully up to date? And just to be entirely pedantic, the executable is cityofheroes.exe, not COH.exe.