Anyone having problems with the char creator?

Made a toon yesterday on Champion, chose powers, etc, entered the name, game asked if I wanted the tutorial, I clicked 'yes' and I got 'name already taken' message. Okay, changed the name, clicked 'yes' on the tutorial and the game crashed with the sound you get when clicking 'yes' looping.

Ran the game again (verified files), the toon I had created wasn't there anymore. Recreated him, chose the same name that wasn't taken, and it said it was taken, probably because the game 'registered' the name I put. I gave up and went to sleep.

So I create the toon again this morning (had saved costume and power colors at least), same name that I tried and the game froze, cool, name available again, clicked 'yes' on th tutorial (to get the badge), game crashed.

Restarted the game, toon wasn't there again, name taken when I recreated lol. So I chose a different one, but I chose 'no' to the tutorial. Game crashed the same way when I clicked on 'go to Burke', but at least when I restarted the toon was there and Mercy Island loaded and I could play my new lvl 1 corr but no tutorial badge for me .

To make an experiment, I created a toon on Liberty and another on Victory, same crashing deal and no toon showing up after restarting the game (I had rebooted my computer too twice in the process to make sure it wasn't Windows acting wonky like it does when you leave it turned on for days) when I chose 'Yes' to the tutorial.

Logging in with any toon I already have is fine.

Oh, btw I only tried creating villains so idk if the hero creator will give me this.

Anyone had a similar problem? It was the first time I created a toon after the last patch.

Thanks!

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No problems here, just created a villain and running through tutorial.

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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

I am having the same problem but can't even get as far as you. I haven't been able to make the new demon summoner since it came out.
I only get to the screen to choose the name and then crash every time. It has happened probably twenty times now. I send the crash report every time but haven't heard anything back.
I tried making other characters to check and the same thing happens.
I don't know what is happening. I am going to open a petition in game, suggest you do the same. Sending the crash report seems to do nothing.

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You won't get responses from a crash report. That's something for the Devs to look at for problems.

Start a new thread listing your problems and paste the results from running CoH Helper into that thread. If you are running Vista or Windows 7 be sure to right-click it and select Run as Administrator.

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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

Weird. And phantom, once in my experiments the char creator did lock in the name screen before I managed to enter the name.

At least I managed to create a toon and after the crash it showed up later after restarting the game (the only time I had selected 'no' for tutorial), but I'll open a petition since it seems to be pretty harsh on you since you can't even get a new toon to the game (and hey, you got GR, you must be really mad at this since I suppose you really wanna try demons).

I'm already contacting support back and forth because my toons look plain since i17 (Intel gfx issues, shader fix doesn't work) and their solutions... like 'try to run in safe mode' are kinda lulzy, yes I tried them all but no deal, I've been playing much less than I would normally because all my toons and npcs/enemies lost their reflections, shadings, etc. But that's another matter, just citing it because that's what I'm really worried about.

Funny thing, haven't had any problems ever with the game since i9 except for very casual random crashes in the market that almost everyone I know had.

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