LeperDave1

Originally Posted by Atlantea

I completely understand. I like Champions and DCUO both. But they were always ALTERNATIVES to COH to play when I wanted a change of pace.

THere is however a VERY IMPORTANT THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR STARTING GAME EXPERIENCE IN CO.

(And yes - it's important enough to "yell" in all caps to draw your attention)

The character creation engine is intentionally HOBBLED on your first character into and through the tutorial. The VAST MAJORITY of the costume choices available are locked down and menued in the way that you describe.

My advice, should you want to try again:

DON'T try and recreate one of your characters from COH first thing out of the gate in CO. Instead, choose one of the ATs they give you and stick with the costume they give you and run that character through the tutorial.

When you exit (level 6-7 likely) STOP THE GAME. Shut it down. REBOOT IT.

Come back, DELETE your test character, and start again, and the options will have been unlocked for you except for the pieces they've put behind pay and unlock walls, which still means that the character creator is opened up by an order of magnitude and is much more open to use.

It wasn't like this at launch. I HATE this change for CO because it is doing EXACTLY this sort of thing to new players - making them not want to play the game.

The game is MUCH better than your initial experience. Take my advice, try it again. Then make your decision.

And know that I still agree with you that it is not a replacement for City of Heroes. Nothing ever will be. But if all else fails and the worst happens. It's probably the best option we'll have available. That's why I'm working to try and help people make these transitions when this subject comes up.

I hope this helps you.

Originally Posted by JJDrakken

-shakes head-

Can't a guy enjoy a day of XP?


JJ

Originally Posted by davidzenyugen

One theory I read on Kotaku was that the CoH servers are needed to convert to more profitable guild war 2 servers, and that that process has already begun. GW2 has sold out its digital copies and they want a faster response to the demand. I don't know if it's true though.

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

while it is good to see coh in the news, i think that some of the wording that some of the articles takes does make it seem more like a protest, almost half or more of the articles use protest in the title

Originally Posted by Adelante

BTW have you read some of those public listed names? They are already obviously fake. You guys will lose credibility.

I'd like to save this game as much too but I just don't agree with this strategy

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

Freedom Force on Steam is $4.99.

The combo pack with the sequel, Freedom Force vs The Third Reich is $7.49.

Buy it. Trust me. I will be very surprised if you can find a single developer of this game who has not owned it at one point or another. While I abhor the whole idea of Metacritic (actually, it's the power it holds with investors that I abhor) there's a reason it has a Metacritic score of 90/100.

Originally Posted by Torment And Agony

Someone posted this offline costume creator earlier (TY TY!). I just got around to installing it and its awesome.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/62u5cg7ixq29qe0/2h-gR8vv8l/CoHCC.zip


Theres a readme file explaining how to change it from korean to english - if you change "kcoh" to "krcoh" in your regedit search - you should have no problem.