# Wanted! City of Heroes Players! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023 "2005-01-10T10:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 92
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1823 "2013-07-29T12:53:52Z")
[http://tppdevblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-phoenix-project-update-wednesday.html](http://tppdevblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-phoenix-project-update-wednesday.html) Interview with developers at the sublink, also a video of a working patcher. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1824 "2013-07-29T13:05:19Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I couldn’t get this thing to work on my Mac, but I finally got around to installing it on my Windows laptop. How do you fly? It let me create a level 1 character, and I could run around AP, but that was it. You can do almost anything except (1) click on a door or portal and have it do anything and (2) actually beat anything up. You can fly, which is nice if all you want to do is explore. Use /fly or press 1. You can go to any known map. At all. Every city, trial zone, and mission. You need a complex list of map names. You can execute any emote, including many not formerly available to player. Again, long list of internal names needed. You can spawn and mess with almost any NPC form. (Name list, again.) Here are the key resources: [City of Heroes codex](http://home.roadrunner.com/~scuzzbopper/maps.html) (long list of map names, links to other things) [Titan Icon instructions](http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Titan_Icon) [More Icon instructions](http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php?topic=7288.0) You will basically need the codex open in a browser window to play around, as the map links etc. need to be cut and pasted. It’s not really the game… but it’s really all the old familiar places, and a few of the faces. Fuck NCsoft, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1825 "2013-07-29T16:55:30Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > You will basically need the codex open in a browser window to play around, as the map links etc. need to be cut and pasted. It’s not really the game… but it’s really all the old familiar places, and a few of the faces. Thanks for the links. Guess I could have just scrolled down the same page I downloaded the thing from :smack: This bit here really makes me wish I’d downloaded the i24 beta: > [@](#): > > Detach Camera > /detach\_camera · Issue 24 Client Only! · Default keybind: F2 · Detaches the camera from the player; excellent for precision placement for screenshots. While the camera is detached, W/A/S/D move the camera, Q/E rotate it, Space raises it, Z lowers it, PgUp/PgDown tilt the view, N/M roll, and B resets the roll to zero. I can remember griping on the CoH forums that there was no way to take a full-screen screenshot of my characters where their head was at the top of the screen and their feet at the bottom, because the character’s head is always centered on the screen, leaving the character as a small figure in the context of the overall shot. You could zoom in and get an upper-body+head shot, but you couldn’t get a full-body, full-screen-size shot. (This wasn’t a CoH-specific gripe - it’s the same with every other MMO I’ve looked at.) I remember specifically suggesting implementing some kind of “screenshot mode” where you could … detach the camera and move it independently of your character. I wonder if this was an actual feature of the original i24, or if the Icon developers simply could only make it work with that version. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1826 "2013-07-29T17:11:45Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [http://tppdevblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-phoenix-project-update-wednesday.html](http://tppdevblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-phoenix-project-update-wednesday.html) > > Interview with developers at the sublink, also a video of a working patcher. I’m glad to hear there will be a Mac version, except I’m pretty sure my current Mac won’t be able to handle it - I’m already having trouble with the graphical demands of WoW’s current expansion. I _do_ hope, though, that the Mac version will be native, not the Windows client inside an emulation wrapper like CoH (and now Guild Wars 2) used. Though it might not matter; I’m hoping to have myself an actual “gaming PC” before too much longer, though my finances don’t currently allow it. While I’m a Mac fanatic, I’m growing tired of Apple’s neglect of the gaming community. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1827 "2013-07-29T18:13:22Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > This bit here really makes me wish I’d downloaded the i24 beta: Somewhere in those first couple of posts I think there is a link to a torrent of the i24 client. You can download it and unzip it to a different folder of your HD, then put icon into that folder also. I did it and now have 4 Icon shortcuts on my desktop, 2 for each client. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1828 "2013-08-06T18:39:01Z")
> **[City of Heroes successor built on blood, sweat and Kickstarter](https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/24/4545140/missing-worlds-preparing-to-launch-kickstarter-for-city-of-heroes)** > > Missing Worlds Media will launch its Kickstarter campaign for The Phoenix Project, the spiritual successor to super hero MMO City of Heroes, on Sept. 8. The studio is terribly excited, and maybe a... Might be of interest. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1829 "2013-08-21T15:35:04Z")
I was just watching my recording of the Avengers and realized I really wanted to play some City. I’m hoping that the Phoenix project will be as good as the intentions. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1830 "2013-09-06T17:31:02Z")
In two days, you may want to check out the kickstarter, then. That’s where the new video’s going to be. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1831 "2013-09-06T18:37:35Z")
Every time this thread gets bumped my heart rate goes up and I allow myself to think, “Maybe…” Goddammit. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1832 "2013-09-15T23:34:03Z")
Seems to have been delayed slightly. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1833 "2013-09-29T16:23:44Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/o7cF0vGjZlk/maxresdefault.jpg "MWM Legacy: Teaser #1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7cF0vGjZlk) A video. There seems to be some strange message at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1834 "2013-09-29T16:45:26Z")
Not only overdue, but coinciding with the start of a slack week for me. Here’s hopin’. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1835 "2013-09-29T18:39:52Z")
Kickstarter made them do a playable demo of what they have, which was not on their list of stuff to do until much farther down the list, after they got the software the Kickstarter is supposed to help purchase. So it has taken them quite a while to get that done and submitted back to Kickstarter. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1836 "2013-09-30T13:30:07Z")
Looking forward to this. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1837 "2013-09-30T14:51:39Z")
I just realized I never did explore Terra Volta, I always just breezed to the reactor. This makes me sad for some reason… ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1838 "2013-09-30T14:58:47Z")
You could explore it now using Icon. No mobs or fighting, but the stuff is still there. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1839 "2013-10-01T01:59:12Z")
Wednesday, 12:01 AM. Zombie Man’s working on the project, you know that? Running the forums. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1840 "2013-10-01T07:59:45Z")
I had nothing better to do tonight, so I found myself watching the 2012 movie “Dredd”, the second attempt at at Judge Dredd movie. And holy crap, whoever was in charge of visuals in this movie must have been a COH player. Seriously, this movie was set in Skyway City, and the indoors set dressing was pure COH instanced missions. I also spent the whole movie thinking, "Is the villain Lena Headley? Because my first exposure to that actress was as the mom in the Sara Wossname Chronicles on TV (the Terminator show), and then as Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. My, that actress can surprise me every time with her makeup effects so that I’m never sure if it’s her, but her facial expressions and bodily moves can’t fool me. (Seriously, I’m good at picking up body language. There was, a couple years ago, a new female employee at my last job, and after watching her for a while, I had to ask her if she was the sister of another female coworker. And she _was_ the sister. But they didn’t look anything alike. What clued me in was that they _moved_ alike. I was watching this younger sister from behind, when I realized, “She “looks” just like [older sister]!” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1841 "2013-10-01T20:56:16Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > I just realized I never did explore Terra Volta, I always just breezed to the reactor. > > This makes me sad for some reason… I soloed 90% of the time so there are some zones I don’t think I ever visited (at least Hero side). The ones that were only used for Task Forces and Trials. Maybe once or twice. If at all. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1842 "2013-10-01T21:37:36Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I soloed 90% of the time so there are some zones I don’t think I ever visited (at least Hero side). The ones that were only used for Task Forces and Trials. Maybe once or twice. If at all. I soloed 90% of the time, too, but I managed to explore every zone I could enter. I am finding Icon more useful to look at the zones I never got to - the Hive, the Reactor, Grandville, some of the far-flung other-worlds zones. I still consider my supreme feat running a Level 1 alt with zero points to Portal Square. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023.md?page=91) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023.md?page=93)