Leandro

Mine is stuck in "Loading Code". Did they run out already?

Edit: I tried Chrome and IE, and I tried Chrome from my laptop. No dice.

Edit 2: Connecting from my neighbor's insecure wifi (to get a different IP) didn't work either.

Keyes is also much better with a minimum team size, especially if you're going for badges. Less people equals less chance of someone screwing up and getting caught in the green beam and/or dying.

I am not in the closed beta for i21, but the Beta client is on my NCsoft launcher, so I start it after every update just to see if I'm in.

Well, after today's 200MB patch, this screen greeted me:



The screen is the same even if you run the game using -cov or -uiskin 2.



Note to mods: in the past, we have been allowed to discuss things in the Beta client that are still accessible to everybody, such as costume changes.
This new splash screen can be seen by anybody who has the Beta client installed, whether they're in Closed Beta or not.

Something else:

I moved my COH install to another directory while I let Steam download the whole thing again. This is the same as a completely clean install for someone who just bought COH on Steam.

The game would not run afterwards.

Turns out Steam does not install several required DLL files in the COH folder. New COH installs via Steam must use the repair function or the game will not launch.

I started my first character on Galaxy City, back when I was a complete newb with no clue of what to do. A friendly scrapper gave me a bunch of hints back then, and one of those was making me swim near the Perez Park gate until I got a "Badge Earned!" popup (the Land Locked badge).

That would be the beginning of a very long obsession with collecting badges...

I opened Steam today and COH suddenly didn't seem to be installed anymore. I clicked Install and it started downloading the whole game again, 4GB. I canceled and ran the NCsoft Launcher manually; game would not start. I selected "Repair/Consistency check"... and it started downloading the 4GB again.

The good news is that the version on Live is the same as the version on Test, so I just copied the Test folder contents on top of the Live folder and it worked just fine.

So... be careful if you have COH on Steam. Make a backup before you let it update.

Windows Vista/7 introduced User Account Control, which doesn't allow programs to write files into protected locations like Program Files unless they are ran as Administrator. Splasher only works if you have it running as administrator and/or have User Account Control disabled in the Control Panel.

Happy birthday, you crazy scrapper!

Don't worry too much about blocked ports. I'm behind an ISP NAT that blocks all incoming packets that aren't responses to something originated on my computer. I still can use the NC Launcher just fine. A quick inspection with ProcessExplorer shows that the NC Launcher initiates a bunch of HTTP requests when it starts up, and it sends some more HTTP requests when it wants to update a game.

If you're sure there's no software in your computer interfering with it (antiviruses, I'm looking at you) then the problem is most likely with your ISP. The best way to test if there's a software conflict in your computer is to make a fresh install of Windows in an external drive (Windows XP SP3 will do just fine for this; you can install it without a CD Key for a month, so you don't even need that big of an external drive) and running the Launcher from there, with no other software installed. If it runs there, something in your Windows install is messing with it. If it doesn't, time to grab the pitchforks and go after your ISP.

Another test would be to install the NC Launcher in a laptop, and then try some wifi hotspots in public places or friend's houses. If it works there but not at home, you know switching ISPs will fix the problem.