Wisp Aura?


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So if you have a mac you are **** out of luck?
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Well i do play on my beast of a windows machine and my mac book pro, the sad thing is my macbook pro with its dual core processor and weaker graphics card and less ram does actually play it at a higher graphics with less slow down :-O

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You need to use the NCsoft Launcher to unlock the Wisps Aura.
HAHAHA. Not happening.


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I think the joke was that people who run macs are SoL in general, he was insinuating that being SoL and having a Mac had nothing to do with CoH.

Also the statement he was joking about, had to do with the launcher not being available for mac, not CoHs performance on the mac in general.
Oh I know that, I was just replying to the typical "mac hater response" with the fact that, yet again, Mac does something better than Windows.

And to state the fact that despite it performing better on mac, the devs still seem to all-but ignore that there is a mac version when it comes to things like this launcher issue.


 

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"Incentive," huh?


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"Incentive," huh?
Carrot and the stick.



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the devs still seem to all-but ignore that there is a mac version when it comes to things like this launcher issue.
They don't ignore it - they're just sensible about the priorities, as almost everyone uses Windows - making sure the Windows version of the game works is much more important than making sure it works on Macs too, so the Windows version gets the attention first.


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So if you have a mac you are **** out of luck?
That is what you get for supporting the evil Jobs Empire.


 

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Oh I know that, I was just replying to the typical "mac hater response" with the fact that, yet again, Mac does something better than Windows.

And to state the fact that despite it performing better on mac, the devs still seem to all-but ignore that there is a mac version when it comes to things like this launcher issue.
In this case it really doesn't matter whether the Windows version of CoH is better or worse than the Mac version. When 90% or more of a playerbase runs a game on one platform everything related to that platform is going to get 90% or more of the attention of the Devs. I realize that concept may be annoying to some people, but is it really that hard to understand or accept?

Yes this game is technically "multi-platform". But it's really only multi-platform because the Devs tinkered with it just enough to make supporting a Mac baseline cost-effective enough for them to hassle with. Obviously I'm sure our Devs love to get the extra money they get from people who play their game exclusively on the Mac. But let's not fool ourselves here - the Devs could stop supporting the Mac baseline tomorrow and the overall impact to their subscription numbers might be statistically significant but hardly crippling.


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You need to use the NCsoft Launcher to unlock the Wisps Aura.
What's a NCsoft launcher? Why would I need it, this is the only NCsoft product I use.


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What's a NCsoft launcher? Why would I need it, this is the only NCsoft product I use.
Yes but how can NCsoft subtly advertise the existence of their other games if they don't force us to use this new unified launcher?


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And it apparently only unlocks it for the test server, not live. I guess it's either bugged, or not worth the effort.

But test the launcher anyway.
Test server has separate account settings from Live. This is one of the reasons why you have to wait around 24 hours for access to be restored if your account is ever lapsed.


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If you hate looking at the launcher so much, you can always make a shortcut to NCLauncher.exe /LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes; it will only flash the main window briefly and then load the game without further ado.
Best tip of the thread.


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Yes but how can NCsoft subtly advertise the existence of their other games if they don't force us to use this new unified launcher?
Thankfully Leandro post a perfect tip for getting around that.

I'm glad because I wouldn't touch the rest of NCSoft's offerings with a ten foot pole. While wearing gloves. And a toxic waste outfit.

Yes that's how I really feel.


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Really, what Kheldarn said. I'd heard all the doom and hate on the other forums, and was prepared for the worst.

I just finished installing and setting up. It was utterly painless. And it updated test in half the time it would normally take.

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I don't get it either - it's just a game launcher, that's all
Really...

It's like "How dare a company advertise their other games!!" "How dare they make a system that works for all of their games and is easier to maintain than having a separate one for each individual game!" "How dare they make one launcher so I don't have to have three separate shortcuts for the Live, Test, and Beta servers cluttering my desktop!"


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*Shrug*

I like the launcher. It's efficient and has a simple interface. Nothing cluttery or in your face. Heck, its built in patcher is more effective the regular CoH one by a fair bit. My patch apply time was cut almost in half from what I'm seeing.

Anyway, this is an interesting aura. Not sure who I'll give give it to, though. The whirling motion reminds me of the Ember Shield animation.



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Want your wisp aura and never see the nc launcher again?

You're in luck you can do just that!

Install the nc launcher and run it once to launch coh... bam you now have your aura

then edit your short cut to point to the:

old.CohUpdater.exe

on my computer the path in my shortcut looks like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\old.CohUpdater.exe"

So it boots up using the original method and I never have to see the icky nc soft launcher again after the first time!


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That will only work for a limited time. Eventually, the launcher will be required.
Do you know that for sure?


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