Help Captain-Electric?

He asked this (and was never answered) in a thread that is now closed:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...71#post4424271
P.P.S. This also means I need to know where to download the most recent client for City of Heroes.

I honestly don't know...
For the most recent client, I would have thought you just need to start up the launchpad and it'll download.
Obviously the best thing to do is to copy it over from your previous installation, but if you cannot do that... using the launcher is the only way I know of (assuming the launcher still allows this and all).

Help our friendly hero return to action within our fine city!

Is it not possible to download it from the launcher anymore?

I started it from a hard copy of the game and it found all the patches on its own.

I also think you can log into your NC account and get the installer from within your account profile. The only thing that ISN'T available anymore, is the trial version that used to be on the public part of the site.

He's got a link.

Now I think we should help Captain-Excitement with his costume!
I mean... c'mon:


(Psst, I actually love his costume, but I feel like teasing him)

Captain-Red-Pants could use some big boy pants!
Anyone have any design ideas for him? Post 'em up!

If you have the NCsoft Launcher installed, all you have to do is make a link to "C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\Launcher\NCLauncher.exe" /LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes and it'll redownload if necessary.

I will need to do the same thing myself when my replacement harddisk gets here late Wednesday. It was a really bad time for my harddisk to die on me.

I regularly backup my CoH folders just for cases like these.

I installed a new SSD and it made it a snap to reinstall the game by having those backup files.

Install Launcher. Start installing Live game from Launcher. Let it run for about a minute. Stop installing. Copy files from backup to folder. Let it Repair and get into the game.

Same thing worked for Beta.

Since there wasn't an option for the Test server on the Launcher I just used something similar to what Leandro did only I used /LaunchGame=CoHTest instead and once it started installing I let it run for a bit, copied the files to the folder from my backup and then ran a Repair.

Heroes and heroines, thank you so much to those who replied here and via PMs. And sorry for getting back to you so late, but it was a long day and an even longer night for Captain Weekend, and I'm just now checking the forums and downloading the game as I type this. And--Electric-Knight--you're a lifesaver for making this thread. I saw your post early this morning (yesterday morning at this point I guess) on my Android and it made me really happy, but I've never been able to log into the forums via my phone.

For everyone's information, currently (until December 1 at least) the most simple way to get the game is through the launcher, which is here:
http://us.ncsoft.com/en/launcher/ncsoft-launcher.html

The launcher only takes a couple of minutes to install, then you can download and install the game straight from there.

If you're wondering why I didn't make this assumption to begin with, it is because I was sure I remembered reading posts several weeks ago by players who said NCSoft had stripped away methods for getting into the game for those who didn't already have it installed. I wasn't too worried about it because I assumed this community is full of players who believe in preparedness (i.e. backups and mirrors)--an assumption that was proven correct based on PMs received today. I'm pretty sure, now, that I misunderstood what I read or that over time things got garbled in my head based on NCSoft removing download links from the City of Heroes website.

Also, just in case some intended viewers missed what I typed in that other thread, I'll cut and paste something I wanted some people to see.

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Originally Posted by Captain-Electric P.S. A few people have sent PMs in the past week and I'm sorry and apologize that I haven't answered back. My computer spent a few nights in pieces, while I cannibalized my computer case and fans to build an entirely new system, then a bad cold, then work, then a couple new games to test the new rig out on, have majorly distracted me during this week. I have been reading these forums and the Titan forums every night on my Android so I'm not out of the loop on anything, but I can't log into the forums via my Android for some reason. I did not mean to blow anyone off, especially two of my biggest Paragon heroes who asked for some feedback about things.

I actually considered using my Going Rogue CD to install the game (which I doubt would have worked owing to the new launcher), but I ran into a problem the other night when I realized my trusty old DVD drive is IDE and my computer is now fully SATA. It was too late to hit the store for a new drive or IDE to SATA device, so my roommate had the bright idea to load a bootable Windows 7 image onto a flash drive and stick it in my motherboard's fancy USB 3 port. It worked and I installed Windows off a little thumb drive hahaha. It was fast too.

City of Heroes is now downloaded and installed and it's time to crank up those Ultramode settings like I never have before (actually I have to go to bed now ...well maybe just a peek ).

Here's what I put together for about $700 between Cookes--errr Frys Electronics and Microcenter. I was planning on only spending $400 or $500 or so and wasn't going to upgrade my GPU yet, but...it called to me from the shelf

Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti video card
700 watt power supply
My first quad core CPU, AMD Phenom II
8 GB of RAM
My first terabyte HDD