City of Heroes [Archive]

Kai

19-05-2004, 11:54 AM

Is anyone playing this?

I'm going to start playing it tonite - looking forward to it!

It got a raving review on gamespot, 8.9!

This should keep me busy for a while!

check it out on www.cityofheroes.com

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Strobemeister

19-05-2004, 09:05 PM

let us know what its like, i've also seen good reviews.

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.

Kai

20-05-2004, 09:51 AM

will do... soon as i get to play it. went out for a business dinner last night, so i didn't get time to play. but i'll make up for that tonite.

eventhough my shipment of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Season 1 - 4 arrived today from Amazon.com - so much to do, so little time!

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lewstherin

20-05-2004, 09:59 AM

Kai, I assume you will play City of Heroes on your MyWireless connection?
I'm particularly interested to know whether the combat involved in CoH is playable on MyW

City of Heroes looks sweet ;)

Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the SA consumer needs to make it happen

Kai

20-05-2004, 11:01 AM

Hi there lew

yep, i will be playing it on MyWi indeed.

i have a friend that's been playing it on MyWi - and he has had no problems.

looks very sweet yes, i'll be playing tonite - WOOT!

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Comrade Borris

21-05-2004, 02:21 PM

So how was it then?????????????

Kai

24-05-2004, 07:57 AM

it was FREAKIN' awesome!!!

the most fun i've had in a long time - hence the playing till 03:00 on Saturday morning AND on Sunday morning... now i'm zombie!

grrr... argh! *does zombie walk*

the fact that i'm busy getting flu doesn't help much, 'cos it'll detract from my playing time!

it's lots of fun guys! for sure! Definately a good game to play!

If you guys going to play - come to the Freedom server and give Tanque, Modain, BlueByrd, Nikla or FlameKnight a shout...

i'm Tanque, the others are all friends also from SA.

Don't hesitate to give me a shout if you want more info on the game.

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lewstherin

24-05-2004, 11:38 AM

Yo Kai. Give us a low down on the performance of the game over MyW - lag details, problems etc
Also how much is the CoH subscription costing you?

Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the SA consumer needs to make it happen

Kai

24-05-2004, 12:33 PM

lowdown follows:

i have had very few hiccups with the connection - every now and again (very seldom) i get a warp or two, but other than that, no problems whatsoever. Fights - I don't loose a lot of them, so that has to say something? :) The reactions are immediate - no lag.

I have three buddies that are playing it on MyWi as well, and they are also trouble free.

I had a bit of a slowdown (lots of warps) on Saturday afternoon, but not for too long...

it runs really well on MyWi.

As for the subscription: You pay $50 for the game (includes your first month) and then $14.99 a month after that.

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lewstherin

24-05-2004, 02:22 PM

Thanks dude - I'm very encouraged...if anything I may well get MyWireless just for the ability to play online MMORPGs...just with all the chaos surrounding speeds etc, I'm a bit worried about signing up for any length of time...

If I do end up getting MW, I'll definitely look you guys up in CoH...

One more question - where did u get your copy of CoH from?

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Kai

24-05-2004, 04:48 PM

i got it from a friend who downloaded it with his MyWi :)

it's an 850Meg download - i know someone who downloaded it overnight on his 256k MyWi package :)

that's one way of getting it - download. You can also order the game from Amazon, but downloading makes much more sense, or if you ask me nice enough, I might cut you a copy :)

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lewstherin

25-05-2004, 08:51 AM

I assume it was a paid download cos otherwise you wouldn't be able to get into the servers?
And yes I may just start pretty pleasing, let me see what happens with getting a MW connection [;)]

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chopsky

25-05-2004, 01:53 PM

If City of Heroes is playable on MyWireless, does that mean it will DEFINITELY be playable on ADSL? I stand corrected, but does ADSL not achieve better international latency than MyWireless?
Cheers.

martin

25-05-2004, 03:18 PM

It should be the case but you have to remember that ADSL has port shaping. I think City of Heroes, like many others, runs on non-standard ports.

Kai

27-05-2004, 12:36 PM

it is a paid download yes. you pay first, then you get access to download the game.

it's a serious amount of fun though! :)

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GougedEye

10-06-2004, 02:28 PM

Kai,

Which server are you guys playing on? Three of us going to start tonight / maybe tomorrow night and would like to go where other SA players are.

GougedEye

10-06-2004, 02:38 PM

Yu can download the game without paying, but you need the cd-key to play which is going to cost you anyway. But if you shop around you can get it elsewhere for cheaper than $50. I generally use www.cdromshop.com and ask them to e-mail us the cd-key and then destroy the box. Saves on shipping. This works great and they have done it a number of times for me and my friends (Star Wars Galaxies, City oh Heroes, Dark age of Camelot etc.). Never had a problem. In fact we have done it so many times that they now advertise it as a service on their site.

anyhow, if you want to download it :

(ftp) : client.coh.com
user : coh
pass : client

coh_cd1.zip
coh_cd2.zip

The files are about 450mb each. Took me roughly 2 days to download on a MyWireless 128. You will need a decent ftp proggie to get these. I use Bulletproof ftp. The files are hidden so make sure you use list -al

Or if someone just wants to buy the keys and is too lazy to download, they can get copies of the disks from me (Randparkridge area).

lewstherin

10-06-2004, 03:38 PM

CoH for $39.99, courtesy of Froogle:
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/236184.asp?site=Froogle

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Kai

10-06-2004, 06:29 PM

hello guys.

we play on the Freedom server!

looking forward to seeing you! my ingame name is Tanque.

welcome! :)

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Kai

11-06-2004, 09:28 AM

so?! tonite then? didn't hear anything from anyone last night. then again, i didn't play 'till too late.

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GougedEye

11-06-2004, 02:56 PM

Hmmm Yes. Actually played a bit last night. Actually quite a lot last night but it was very much seeing how things work and trying out new characters etc.

Nikla

11-06-2004, 03:11 PM

Hello there, GougedEye.

I have the privilege, or maybe that should read misfortune of being one of the peeps playing CoH with Kai at the moment. :)

And ja, it would be great if we could hook up with another bunch of South Africans playing.

There’s 4 of us playing at the moment, and we’ve had a long history of playing MMORPG’s.

We cut our teeth playing Discworld, a text MUD based on the books by Terry Pratchett. We then moved on to Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Anarchy Online, StarWars Galaxies, and CoH, all this over a period of 10 or so years, so we like to think of ourselves as a family.

So looking foreward to seeing you online soon.. :)

Kai

11-06-2004, 03:52 PM

'ey! I AM here!!! :)

4? I thought we were five? I know Rathys is tiny, but let's not forget about him! [:D]

I wouldn't admit that I'm ANY relation to you Nikla! would be bad for my image! :)

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Kai

11-06-2004, 03:53 PM

GE - what's your ingame name?

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GougedEye

12-06-2004, 09:37 AM

Good Question. As I said, I have been changing characters etc.

Probably play with Either :

Maleficium, or
Cimmerian

Rolfy

07-07-2004, 04:15 PM

Hi,

I am playing CoH on Victory using the new unshapped 4GB package. Lag is terriable with tons of rubber banding but ping times are very good with 330ms during daytime hours.

Even in the evening's it is laggy and it is better on my MWeb dialup modem.