Please carefully read the instructions below to download City of Villains for the head start. To find out how to set up your per-order PlayNC account, please read this post.
If you HAVE City of Heroes:
- Launch City of Heroes.
- When the head start begins, open City of Heroes. There might be a small patch but after that you should be ready to play.
- On the Character Creation Screen, select an empty character slot and you will be given the choice to create a hero or a villain.
- Select villain and you will be ready to play in the City of Villains head start!
You must have applied the special pre-order CoV Disk!
If you do NOT HAVE City of Heroes:
- Download the ZIP file here.
- Extract both files into the same directory. You may create any directory you want, we recommend a directory entitled cityofvillains.
- Once you have extracted the files, double-click CoVUpdater.exe to begin downloading/installing the client.
- After the download is complete, you will need to double-click the CoVUpdater.exe to launch City of Villains.
Note: To make launching CoV easier, you can create a shortcut on your desktop to CoVUpdater.exe.
Please carefully read the instructions below to download City of Villains for the head start. To find out how to set up your per-order PlayNC account, please read this post.
If you HAVE City of Heroes:
- Launch City of Heroes.
- When the head start begins, open City of Heroes. There might be a small patch but after that you should be ready to play.
- On the Character Creation Screen, select an empty character slot and you will be given the choice to create a hero or a villain.
- Select villain and you will be ready to play in the City of Villains head start!
You must have applied the special pre-order CoV Disk!
If you do NOT HAVE City of Heroes:
- Download the ZIP file here.
- Extract both files into the same directory. You may create any directory you want, we recommend a directory entitled cityofvillains.
- Once you have extracted the files, double-click CoVUpdater.exe to begin downloading/installing the client.
- After the download is complete, you will need to double-click the CoVUpdater.exe to launch City of Villains.
Note: To make launching CoV easier, you can create a shortcut on your desktop to CoVUpdater.exe.