The Going Rogue Loyalty Closed Beta starts tomorrow!

In preparation for the Going Rogue Loyalty Closed Beta starting tomorrow, Thursday, July 22nd, 2010, the game client will be made available for pre-download in order to alleviate the expected load on our patching servers.

The North American Beta client is available here.

And the European Beta client is available here.

Please bear in mind that this is only a pre-download for all of you who have taken part in the Loyalty Program that ran between August 15th and November 15th, 2009.

Access to the Closed Beta servers will be effective from Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 on. Participants will be receiving a Beta invitation and their access to the Closed Beta forums will be enabled on the same day.

We know you've been eagerly waiting for this particular phase of the Closed Beta to start and thank you for your patience with this.


Known Issues:

The first attempt to grab the installer may result in a 5-10 second download of an empty .zip file. If this occurs, just try again and you should start the full download.

The CohBeta folder will install by default to Program Files\NCsoft\CohBeta this is different from the usual default of Program Files\CohBeta.

We do not have a Mac version of the Beta installer but you can access the Beta with a Mac in the following way:

1. Control-click on “City of Heroes” and choose “Duplicate”.
2. Rename the copy "City of Heroes Beta".
3. Control-Click on the "City of Heroes Beta" and choose "Show package contents".
4. Open the Contents folder.
5. Open the Info.plist file that is located in the Contents folder with TextEdit and edit these lines at the end of the file just before the </dict>, and </plist> lines:
<key>CiderGameOptions</key>
<string>-- cohupdater.exe -beta</string>
6. Close and save the Info.plist file.
7. Double-click "City of Heroes Beta" to download the beta client.


Here is a link to the Player Help - Mac Users section of the forums.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=582