Updater stuck at Connecting..#

I can't log into the game because my updater gets stuck at the Connecting..# phase. I've let it get up to Connecting..#30 a few times before I got sick of it so I'm pretty sure it'd go on forever. I was able to log in a few days ago without a problem and nothing's changed with my computer or connection since then.

I've read a few times that there's some way to bypass the updater, but I can't seem to find it. I'm on a Mac, if that matters.

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Dunno how to do it on a Mac. However, you might try to run multiple copies of the updater until one of them connects... up to 20 I think is what is sometimes needed.

You don't happen to be on Satellite internet, are you?

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You don't happen to be on Satellite internet, are you?

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I am.

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I am also on satellite internet and i most times leave my updater open over night so i can play in the morning, and as soon as i click next on the first updater i open a second one to begin the process. My updater has reached Connecting #386 at its highest.

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@painfullvirus
Make a shortcut to C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe -project coh (assuming default installation location on 32bit OSes and not the Mac client) and you won't need to wait in the updater unless there's a new patch. That'll simply launch CoH, bypassing the updater.


To the OP: Assuming you're running the native client (if you're using Boot Camp/Parallels, VMWare Fusion, etc, the instructions above will work), I'm not sure how you'd go about running it in safe mode.

Looking in the Mac section of the forums, I think I found something that might work...

/Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/cider -- cityofheroes.exe -project coh

That's assuming that you put the CoH .app into the Applications directory. Also, not really sure how you go about creating the equivalent of a shortcut on a Mac off the top of my head... If that doesn't work, I'd recommend asking in the Mac Users section of the forum.

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I am also on satellite internet and i most times leave my updater open over night so i can play in the morning, and as soon as i click next on the first updater i open a second one to begin the process. My updater has reached Connecting #386 at its highest.

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The trick for sat is to open 5-10 updaters all at once. One will connect relatively quickly then you can close the others as they error out.

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The trick for sat is to open 5-10 updaters all at once. One will connect relatively quickly then you can close the others as they error out.

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This. I know two people on satellite who use this method (although I think five might be on the low side).

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I tried creating that short cut, but when i copy & paste what you have typed, i get the following message "The file C:/Program can not be found"

You are correct however i did just do the basic install and have changed nothing about where it is located and such

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Those / should be \

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I just posted a solution to this problem in the Mac Edition Guide:

https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat...=1#Post13805790

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