Issue 15 releases!

The time has come! Your hard work beta testing has paid off and we are now pleased to announce that Issue 15: Anniversary is now officially released and available on the live server! This unique content update, while moving the game's story and progression forward, marks the return of the popular 5th Colum villain group by allowing you to play a new Task Force and Strike force that re-introduces them into the game...

With the return of old foes, a powerful adversary who has been trapped is now free! Whether you protect Paragon City or serve Lord Recluse, a time of change is before you. What does the opening of the Omega Team Time Capsule hold in store for Paragon City and the Rogue Isles? Find out, by playing Issue 15: Anniversary!

What are you waiting for? Jump in and get playin'!

For the full scoop on Issue 15: Anniversary, visit the official <a href="http://eu.cityofheroes.com/en/news/game_updates/C860">Issue 15 Overview page</a>!

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so why can't I jump in exactly?

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@Boy Wonder

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You can now

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@Golden Girl

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I get an error, or rather an updater warning.............

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@Boy Wonder

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I get an error, or rather an updater warning.............

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That's informative.

What's the error say?

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@FloatingFatMan

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Here ya go FFM "Can’t delete file C\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.eu.temp some other program has it open! Aborting"

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@Boy Wonder

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Make sure you're out of the updater program, go into the CoH game folder, and delete that file manually, also the checksum file; then try again.

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@FloatingFatMan

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i15 is here, let's get all excited and- oh wait, it's just a new tf followed by 2 poor costume items. And it took a NEW art department member to come up with these? Get your old guys to work on some art stuff, and have the game designers come up with new powersets for us -.-

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i15 is here, let's get all excited

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New Issues are always exciting
I'm enjoying I15 so far - I even logged on way earlier than usual for it

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@Golden Girl

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I could jump up and down in the water alllllll day to be honest with that new sploosh sound

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All the new footstep sounds are great - they make us sound more solid.

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@Golden Girl

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I would be a lot more excited if;
1.) Riechsman didnt turn immortal in the last mish, meaning we had to abort. IS the MM temp power working? Apparently the US side reported that a LOT. And its STILL in live? Im sorry, does BETA testing actually DO anything these days?

2.) Would help if petitioning actually worked, for said problem. Petitioned, no response, hence the abort.

3.) If reported trolling actually got dealt with in a certain thread, which is being ignored right now, it seems.

Im sorry, the weather is making me irate, but maybe a litte irateness is called for to get stuff done around here?

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i15 is here, let's get all excited and- oh wait, it's just a new tf followed by 2 poor costume items. And it took a NEW art department member to come up with these? Get your old guys to work on some art stuff, and have the game designers come up with new powersets for us -.-

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That is not fair. It takes weeks for someone new in any dev team to learn the ropes and feel confident enough to produce content.

This Issue was never meant to be a full blast Issue but it is still a lot more than just the customary Anniversary badges.

While I am not asking for everybody to be enthralled by Issue 15, please don't be so quick to disparage that work. While some devs were working on Issue 15, others were working on something else, as some of you correctly suggested.

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I think you've hit the nail on the head there Avatea. In retrospect it probably would of been better not to have tied The Fifth Anniversary with Issue 15 as there was sooo much anticipation for it. That said I did find the new TF blue-side really disappointing (but mainly from the angle of a missed opportunity on story-telling and the repetition of rehash as i saw it).

And yes, we all should have patience with new blood learning the ropes. From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks and all that jazz.

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It would have been FAR better to NOT call this Issue 15 as the very name gives people expectations. Perhaps instead, it should have been called a "5th year anniversary special"?

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@FloatingFatMan

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I would be a lot more excited if;
1.) Riechsman didnt turn immortal in the last mish, meaning we had to abort. IS the MM temp power working? Apparently the US side reported that a LOT. And its STILL in live? Im sorry, does BETA testing actually DO anything these days?

2.) Would help if petitioning actually worked, for said problem. Petitioned, no response, hence the abort.

3.) If reported trolling actually got dealt with in a certain thread, which is being ignored right now, it seems.

Im sorry, the weather is making me irate, but maybe a litte irateness is called for to get stuff done around here?

[/ QUOTE ]It is hard but doable you just have to use the temp power at the right time and not all throw it at him in one go completed this on test without to many problems

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I would be a lot more excited if;
1.) Riechsman didnt turn immortal in the last mish, meaning we had to abort. IS the MM temp power working? Apparently the US side reported that a LOT. And its STILL in live? Im sorry, does BETA testing actually DO anything these days?

2.) Would help if petitioning actually worked, for said problem. Petitioned, no response, hence the abort.

3.) If reported trolling actually got dealt with in a certain thread, which is being ignored right now, it seems.

Im sorry, the weather is making me irate, but maybe a litte irateness is called for to get stuff done around here?

[/ QUOTE ]It is hard but doable you just have to use the temp power at the right time and not all throw it at him in one go completed this on test without to many problems

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The power that is supposed to break his Unaffectable phase, right? Well, used it when he went Immortal, 'Unaffected', same as everything else. Dull pain/mass regen later, we're back to wailing on him until he does it again. And again. Id infinatum.

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I think many of the people here Avatea will distinctly remember the devs massively hyping i15 an awful lot a long while back to be the BIG be-all-and-end-all issue that we haven't had in a very long time. (I'm at work atm so I can't trawl but certain someone could find an assortment of links and statements to prove that this WAS meant to be the biggy.) No dig at you Avatea, but sadly its just another big yawn for most. While the vill TF is wicked fun (if buggy and obviously not tested enough), its nothing we won't get tired of in a month's time and the last serious content was the RWZ. Thats one hell of a gap. Given all the 5th maps that exist and the new tailored ones many of us are wondering why we haven't got something like a small Axis Earth zone/arc at all.

And yes it is more than the anniversary badges - it was the single biggest badge revoke since I started in i7.

But, instead we'll have to wait for GR and pay for the content we aren't getting for free anymore.

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Bit of a solo-player here (and my highest character is level 40) so not too fussed about the TF and SF.

On the other hand, I've managed to increase the number of custom NPCs in my story arc from 12 to 27 (allowing me to flesh out the villain group) with plenty more room left over than I had before, so no complaints here.

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It would have been FAR better to NOT call this Issue 15 as the very name gives people expectations. Perhaps instead, it should have been called a "5th year anniversary special"?

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Or, as I refer to it, patch 15.

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I think many of the people here Avatea will distinctly remember the devs massively hyping i15 an awful lot a long while back to be the BIG be-all-and-end-all issue that we haven't had in a very long time.

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That was before the switch of the MA from I13 to I14, so that pushed each Issue back one place - I16, with power customization, is a major Issue.

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@Golden Girl

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I think many of the people here Avatea will distinctly remember the devs massively hyping i15 an awful lot a long while back to be the BIG be-all-and-end-all issue that we haven't had in a very long time.

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That was before the switch of the MA from I13 to I14, so that pushed each Issue back one place - I16, with power customization, is a major Issue.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Excuses. We've heard them all before.

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@FloatingFatMan

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Doesn't mean that they're not true

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@Golden Girl

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Explanations are always called excuses by the pessimistic. You'll just have to wait until I16 to see if what GG has suggested is correct, but by what's been shown so far (blue fire imps etc..) it is possible that I16 can be quite a major issue. Mind you I don't want to hype anything up at this point.

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Explanations are always called excuses by the pessimistic. You'll just have to wait until I16 to see if what GG has suggested is correct, but by what's been shown so far (blue fire imps etc..) it is possible that I16 can be quite a major issue. Mind you I don't want to hype anything up at this point.

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That was said about i15 too. It was also said that i14 would have more than the AH in it, and it didn't really, aside from a few more PvP changes.

I used to be a great optimist about this game. I once had more enthusiasm for it than GG on speed. Constant disapointments from the devs have led me to extreme pessimism instead.

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@FloatingFatMan

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