"No response from this server."...

I have the same issue. I was able to log in earlier this morning but when I started up the client again, I got a small update.
I'm trying the fix to see if I can log in after...

Update: Applied the steps and it fixed the problem! I didn't have to reboot the PC but I did restart my dsl modem.

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The other thread on this issue has come to the conclusion there are 2 versions being patched. Seems to me that its the luck of the draw whether your updater gets the version that is in sync or the one that is not. My updater has switched its mind several times on me. Don't know enough about computers to know if the ipconfig command would do anything to encourage the game to find the alternate version.

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Cross-posting

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I'm pretty sure the issue is that there are different versions of the patch released on Saturday on the login servers. So you could hit the good server one time, then hit the bad server the other time. Here's a fix, if you're able to login (you get the good patch), setup a bypass icon that looks like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project coh

Obviously the path above should point to your COH installation.

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I saw this in one of the other threads. Add "-ps 64.25.34.144" to your shortcut and it will force your updater to use a patch server that has the correct patch on it.

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THOSE EXPERIENCING THIS ISSUE, PLEASE READ THIS:


I'm posting this again, even though it's been posted several other places:

What's likely happened is that one (or more) of the patch servers got either a wrong version of the patch, or didn't get it at all. If your updater happens to connect to that server, it will see your game as not being up to date, and will "fix" your data so that it matches its version -- which is wrong. This is why the problem can be temporarily fixed by logging off and on: you'll probably connect to one of the other patch servers, all of which will patch your game to the right version. Problem is, every time you run the updater, you run the chance of connecting to the bad patch server.

There are two things you can do to fix the issue or keep it from happening:

1) If you are currently experiencing this problem, add the following argument string to the end of your CoH UPDATER shortcut: "-ps 64.25.34.144" (without the quotes). It should look something like this:

"C:\yourpath\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -ps 64.25.34.144

This forces the updater to always connect to the listed patch server, which does have the proper patch on it. This should be enough to fix the problem and keep it from happening again until the folks working the servers can properly resolve the issue and you can again use all the patch servers.

2) If you already have the right patch applied and want to keep from getting hit with the problem next time you start up the game, you can either use the above fix, or you can just bypass the updater completely by making a shortcut to your cityofheroes.exe file (NOT CoHupdater.exe), and adding the following argument string to the end of the path: - project "coh" (quotation marks included). Downside to this is that you'll need to run the updater whenever there's a patch.

That's all there is to it.

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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."