City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Getting on Beta and Test

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-12-07 11:40 in Player Questions

 

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I recall how to get on Test and Beta [Create them on my PC] but since we use the NCSoft Launcher now, that old way of taking the cohupdater and adding -tes or -beta after it's location doesn't seem to be possible now.

Either that or I'm just not seeing how. Does anyone know how I can install Beta and Test now that we use the launcher?

 

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It's in the test server forum.

IIRC make a shortcut to auto-start CoH and add the flag to that.

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From ParagonWiki:

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How to Play in the Training Room

IMPORTANT NOTE: If a copy is to be made, then you will need to have sufficient free space before copying.
To play City of Heroes in the Training Room, a different build or copy of the Game Client program will need to be created on your hard drive.
Running this Training Room copy of the program after installation will bring up a similar updater and login screen to the Live client. However, once a player logs in, he or she will see only one entry in the server list: Training Room. Select this server and play as normal.
PC and Windows computers

For PC computers, using the NCSoft Launcher the method is as follow:
  1. Copy the shortcut (or make a new one) for the NCSoft Launcher.
  2. In the copy, edit the properties so that the target contains the correct parameter for your account at the end. The command line should appear as:
    • If you have a North American Account:
    (path)\NCLauncher.exe /LaunchGame=CohTest
    • If you have a European Account:
    (path)\NCLauncher.exe /LaunchGame=euCohTest
  3. Run the new shortcut
    • The NCSoft Launcher will prompt you for a path to install the Training Room client.
    By default, the installation path of the normal City of Heroes game client is C:\Program Files\NCSoft\City of Heroes, the default installation path for the testing client is C:\Program Files\NCSoft\CoHTest.
Mac OS X computers

For Mac OS X computers, there is a separate .app available for the Training Room
  1. For North American Accounts: visit ftp://client.coh.com/Test/US/ and download MAC_CoH_Test_Server_US.dmg
  2. For European Accounts: visit ftp://client.coh.com/Test/US/ and download MAC_CoH_Test_Server_EU.dmg
  3. Mount the .dmg and copy City of Heroes Test.app to your preferred Applications folder
  4. Run City of Heroes Test.app


Speed up Installation

Both of the previous methods will start a new installation and download 2.8GB+ worth of files and executables
The test client's installation may be significantly sped up by using the following process:
Fast Install with NCSoft Launcher (PC Only)

  1. Before starting the process above copy the entire contents of the City of Heroes directory to a new directory.
  2. Start the NCSoft Launcher using the CoHTest parameter as specified above.
  3. When the install confirmation comes up click "Customize" and select the previous directory as the installation directory.
  4. The launcher should then see this as an existing install and simply update instead of doing a full download
Fast Install with NCSoft Launcher (PC or Mac)

  1. Follow the previous steps and let the updater start downloading
    • The status will start with "Connecting Attempt #1..."
    • Once connected, it will change to "Checksumming...", "downloading" or "fixing"
  2. Cancel the updater (click Quit in the lower right hand corner)
  3. Copy the contents of the piggs subdirectory of the normal client's installation folder to the test client's piggs subdirectory NOTE: The piggs directory is specified to avoid issues with .checksum files in the root coh directory.
    • PC normal default: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\piggs\ test default: C:\Program Files\CoHTest\piggs\.
    • Mac normal default: /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/coh/piggs test default: /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes\ Test.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/coh/piggs
  4. Run the Training Room application (Cohupdater.exe -test or City of Heroes Test.app).
  5. The updater then 'fixes' the files in the \piggs\ folder with any modifications currently being tested, which is significantly faster than downloading a new version of every file.

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On a related note, don't expect to copy any characters over from the live servers. The copy tool is broken, and has been for months.
And will continue to be, possibly for months. Zwill says the web team hopes to have it working for the I22 closed beta, but gave no guarantees.

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