Discussion - Join the CoH Devs in the Keyes Island Beta Test!
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Posted on: 2011-05-24 10:25 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
On the Launcher click on File, choose Settings, Advanced tab and then select North America instead of Europe. You'll then have to restart the Launcher.
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Originally Posted by blueruckus
The NCSoft Launcher... go to Settings and the third tab change it to North America. You'll have to restart the launcher, but the Beta should launch.
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Not entirely moot as I'm not sure they'll have the launcher corrected by the time we're able to reschedule.|
Originally Posted by Diggis
Cheers guys, although it's Moot really.
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Fingers crossed and all.
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Shame but would have been a poor turnout i think with only an hour to let people know it would be back up.
Hope i get a steamy pack!
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Don't for get that you Euro types can still take part in the American test event this evening - it's not exclusive to American accounts, just like the Euro event wasn't going to be exclusive to Europ accounts.
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I don't think there will be that many "Former EU" players who have lvl50s on US servers that they can use for this. Except perhaps some of the more hardcore players |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Don't for get that you Euro types can still take part in the American test event this evening - it's not exclusive to American accounts, just like the Euro event wasn't going to be exclusive to Europ accounts.
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Cheers, @RoboTank
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Sadly the character copy tool is not going to be ready in time for the EU Test. As such, we'll be rescheduling the EU test for a later date. My most sincere apologies to everyone who was looking forward to testing.
Silver lining though - the Community team will be jumping onto live EU servers (Union, Defiant, Vigilance and Zukunft) in Pocket D during the originally planned playtest hours to give away some Steampunk pack codes and other various costume codes (between 8:00 PM BST -11:00 PM BST). Avatea will be making an official post shortly regarding the what servers we'll be on at what time. Again, my apologies for the rescheduling and we'll see you all in Pocket D this evening! |
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Originally Posted by 0verload
Ok, we're down to six hours to go and still no way any EU account can attend. I know it's early morning for you guys but can we have an update please?
I'm actually expecting a revised date for the test at this stage though. |
Could we please get answers to some basic questions for those of us unfamiliar with connecting to your beta server(s)?
1) What server are we supposed to connect to for this trial? The name we will see on the screen, not what it is called internally, or whatever. The choices I see when I run the beta client are:
Beta Server 01 (tells me "Account <account name> is not allowed on this server. reason: Public access to this server has been disabled."
CoHBetaWorldServer_13 (tells me "Wrong game version, run patcher and reconnect, server 2010.201105030029.1, client 2050.201105190739.0)"
2) What build should our beta client be? Mine is at 2050.201105190739.0 where it ended up by following the procedure you outlined in earlier posts.
3) If this build is not correct, is there a procedure to correct the problem? Spending the many hours required to re-install the beta client is not really an option at this point.
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Beta Server 01 is the correct shard for Beta testing.
Player access to the shard should be available shortly.
Client and Server should both be 2050.201105190739.0.0 for the start of Keyes Island Beta.
If you are running NC Launcher, you can right click on CITY OF HEROES BETA and verify that your client is running the same version as the server.
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Egad, it's the evil twin Skippy! THAT'S where he's gotten to. Thanks much for the info. Sounds like I was doing nothing wrong, and the problem was I was too eager.
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Originally Posted by Skippy Sidekick
Beta Server 01 is the correct shard for Beta testing.
Player access to the shard should be available shortly. Client and Server should both be 2050.201105190739.0.0 for the start of Keyes Island Beta. If you are running NC Launcher, you can right click on CITY OF HEROES BETA and verify that your client is running the same version as the server. |
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Unfortunately no. All existing characters on the two test servers got wiped during the server list merge testing, and since the European servers aren't listed in the character copy tool list at the moment, no characters can be copied over either. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Don't for get that you Euro types can still take part in the American test event this evening - it's not exclusive to American accounts, just like the Euro event wasn't going to be exclusive to Europ accounts.
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The only options left for me, and the majority of my European friends, is to join with low-level characters created on either the test server or on one of the US servers, and let the Devs work their Devine magic on them first, or to transfer a high-level character over to the latter and then copy them over, which costs money.
And for the same reasons joining in on the US test of the new Keyes Island iTrial later today isn't a viable option either.
@Nanas (on Defiant)
Beta Server 01 finally allows me in but no characters are present there, don't recall if I had any this instance from the previous open beta, if this was the open beta instance. CoHBetaWorldServer_13 boots me back to the login screen if I select it. I've queued up a couple of characters for the copy tool but dunno if or where they will land.
If I may make a suggestion to the devs, next time you schedule an event on the Beta server you might want to be better prepared than this. You ask us to make steampunk costumes but there is going to be little time to do so at this rate, still don't know if the character copy tool is working, or if I'm even able to access the correct instance.
EDIT: character copy tool confirmed functional, just had mine pop up.
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Don't you have any left on the Beta server from like the GR beta?
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Originally Posted by Bananas
Unfortunately no. All existing characters on the two test servers got wiped during the server list merge testing, and since the European servers aren't listed in the character copy tool list at the moment, no characters can be copied over either.
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I'll be there doods!!!!
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Hardcore players = Farmers? (No offense to said targetgroup)
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Originally Posted by RoboTank
I don't think there will be that many "Former EU" players who have lvl50s on US servers that they can use for this. Except perhaps some of the more hardcore players
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I get the impression that we're supposed to be on that first Beta server that just says "Not Allowed." since it's a simple flag fix to enable access, rather than the (probably meant to be internal) COHBetaWorldServer.
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Unfortunately my NC Soft Launcer totally refuse to acknowledge the existance of any Beta server, no matter which localisation it's set to.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Don't you have any left on the Beta server from like the GR beta?
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I thought they'd removed it after the Going Rogue beta ...
@Nanas (on Defiant)
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Just logged in. Beta Server (Beta Server 01) is wiped. All GR beta characters are gone (at least, on my account).
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Don't you have any left on the Beta server from like the GR beta?
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The server merge whipped it clean. everyone needs to copy new toons.|
Originally Posted by El_Furioso
Just logged in. Beta Server (Beta Server 01) is wiped. All GR beta characters are gone (at least, on my account).
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Which is unfortunate for EU players.
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Does the beta server really need over a 4gb download?
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As it is another copy of the client, yes.|
Originally Posted by Global_DJB
Does the beta server really need over a 4gb download?
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However the copy trick to minimize the download might still work. (look honeys various test server installation threads.)
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Just checked the beta server - It doesn't even have the Steampunk pack on record, let alone enabled for use.
On the live servers the three emotes associated with the Steampunk pack (Inspiration, Train Whistle, and Hot Temper) show up on the emote list - not so in the beta server.
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Originally Posted by Shubbie
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I still can't get into Beta! It keeps saying my account is unpaid!
(It's paid through July 19, by the way).
Silver lining though - the Community team will be jumping onto live servers in Pocket D during the originally planned playtest hours to give away some Steampunk pack codes and other various costume codes (between 8:00 PM BST -11:00 PM BST). Avatea will be making an official post shortly regarding the what servers we'll be on at what time.
Again, my apologies for the rescheduling and we'll see you all in Pocket D this evening!
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