Discussion: City of Heroes Freedom and Issue 21 VIP Beta starts August 9!

I must say, the queue screen is quite nice.

Yeah I'm another one of those people that is trying to login and I'm getting the "not open to the public" message whenever I try to select the beta server.

It's red! Meaning people are actually playing! I'm gonna EXPLODE in jealousy!!! lol.

I've never seen the queued to join screen before. Not bad really, but would be nice if I could turn the music off.

Hmm...
I see the beta forums, but I'm not able to login to the beta servers. :/
Anyone else experiencing this issue?

All I'm getting is a prompt that says my username and/or password was incorrect.

ALL the Badges! (I can get. 1396)

It might help to bump the queue limit a bit right now guys. I KNOW it's only one server but come on. This isn't a test of "ooh, the game is so choppy!" and you're not running a rikti raid on it right now.

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Please be patient as the log in server is most likely getting hammered right now.

We have forward those of you who are reporting inability to access the Beta server.

Thanks!

How do you clone a character you have already to the beta server? Or where's the thread for it

Okay well, alt-tabbing after enabling ultra mode resulted in a VERY hard crash, for which a reset was required. But then I can alt tab now to type this. Unsure what happened there.

Noting one thing. Due to not being able to access my account info, the current character generator can't unlock (or even display) street justice for me.

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Account Server is down.

Means I can't unlock more costume slots or anything either. Vunderbar.

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Because there's no way to ascertain Paragon rewards, it's as if I'm stuck as a freebie account. My incarnate powers don't work, I can't join chat channels, NADA.

Rage: 00000000000000000000


Going to give it a couple minutes. If they can't get it going I'm going to just log off and stay. It's annoying to be completely locked out of the stuff we're supposed to be testing.


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Okay it's KINDA working right now. As for "nothing will be taken away". 14 of my 17 paragon points are assigned now, but I still can't access my Ninja run, Sands of Mu, etc.

The new tutorial, I'm kinda "meh" about. It kinda reminds me of a Cheesy Other game intro.

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Okay the store REALLY needs to hide one-time purchases that you've already bought.

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Buttons for claiming things from e-mail are absolutely illegible.


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It allowed me to buy Ninja Run, even though I already had it.

Yeah. This store system needs a LOT of TLC. And maybe an overhaul or two.

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Started out as a fully-skinned female.
Zoned into Perez.
Came out the other side as a completely black male model.
(Click image to see full-size).


My costume slots were opened earlier and were showing clones of my prime costume.


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And alas, poor Galaxy City, I knew him Horatio!

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Looks like nothing is unlocked on the server when you start. I couldn't choose a transferred Widow and could only create the base archetypes available to everyone and none of the new sets - including temporal man. Testing now to see if I can unlock with a throwaway character and then get on with anything locked.

Aww, No Time manipulation.

I also cannot log in (though, I can see the beta server. Yay patch notes to occupy me!)

Also unable to log into the beta server... although I can actually see it!

Was able to login, but not access Time Manip, Street Justice, or any of the GR sets that I have access to on live.

I am getting an error that says incorrect login/password.

Nope: I'm getting the always-delightful "Public access to this server has been disabled".