Issues with using Steam/Valve to connect to CoH

Jeava · 05-04-2009 06:53 AM

Hello all!

I'm a newish player to CoH and have been a Valve/Steam user as well for awhile in the past. Previously to the announcement that CoH would be available on Valve, I had been playing the 14 day free trial normally.(i.e. I downloaded the client locally and played it through a local directory on my computer.) When the game designers announced they would be using Steam I decided to buy the full game via steam. The game downloaded in steam normally (as far as I can tell, Steam doesn't ask for a file location.) However as it stands now, I can't use steam/valve to connect to the game. When I open Valve and go to my games tab and try to enter CoH from there, it gives me a pop-up "Game not available". I thought this was due to server downtime but i've tried connecting though valve many times at different times but always with the same results. Has anyone else ever experienced the same issue and have you solved it? Thanks for any help

Rulker · 05-04-2009 06:55 AM

The servers are usually down for maintenance from 9-11 AM EST.

If you can't get on now that's most likely the reason.

EDIT: Also check out the server status page.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...er_status.html

Jeava · 05-04-2009 02:34 PM

As I mentioned in my posting, the issue doesn't have anything to do with server up/down time. I've attempted to log into CoH through Valve while I am sure all servers are up and running normally. When I click on the game in my list the error happens before I even get to the updater. Valve itself is saying the game is unavailable.

Flameshot · 05-04-2009 07:45 PM

Have you tried just running the Updater from within the folder it was installed to? I'm not entirely sure as someone who has a successful account running within Steam would be better equipped to answer, but as far I understand Steam/Valve is strictly a way to get the game. You would still run it from your machine, Steam is just a distributor in this case.

I'm sure someone will correct me if this is incorrect.

We'll see....

CaptainGooch · 05-05-2009 05:36 PM

Games purchased via steam install into the directory Steam>Steamapps>common>(Game Name)

By going to this directory YOU CAN launch the game via the updater if steam will not launch it.

I was planning on posting for help in reference to the updater. It would checksum then attempt to verify image then go back to checksumming then it would stop with nothing to read on the updater status. Left the updater running for a bit and now its fixing some files. Go figure.