If you uninstalled the City of Heroes client after the official servers shut down, shame on you! But, we got you covered. And if you lost it because you uninstalled the NCsoft Launcher and it deleted your game folders including all screenshots, costumes and story arc... I'm really, really sad that it happened to you. We got you covered as well. There's three options: BitTorrent, Mega and SugarSync.
BitTorrent
This torrent is pretty well seeded at the moment, so give this a try first. If you don't have a torrent client, I personally like Tixati.
Magnet Link: City of Heroes Beta (PC)
Magnet Link: City of Heroes Beta (Mac)
Torrent File: City of Heroes Beta (PC)
Torrent File: City of Heroes Beta (Mac)
Please seed! This is not a big release full of people downloading it, it's just for the City of Heroes community and those who refuse to let the game go away.
Mega
The client is split in 7 separate files. Download them all, then use an archive extractor like 7zip to extract everything.
CoHResurgence-Split.zip
CoHResurgence-Split.z01
CoHResurgence-Split.z02
CoHResurgence-Split.z03
CoHResurgence-Split.z04
CoHResurgence-Split.z05
CoHResurgence-Split.z06
SugarSync
This is only available for the PC version of the game; Mac version is Torrent-only.
SugarSync is a folder sharing program, like Dropbox, but the free account has 5GB of free space to begin with, so it (just barely) fits the i24 client.
If you don't have SugarSync use this link to sign up for an account. Please note that you don't need to do any of the stuff like inviting other people to earn more space; the 5GB from the free account will work just fine. Just create the account, verify the email, and you're done.
Once you have the account, send me an email and I will add your email address to the Issue 24 Beta folder. You don't need to use your real email address, open a brand new Hotmail account if you wish. I won't add the email address to any mailing lists, but SugarSync might.
Setting up the client
Once you have downloaded the client, you need to download Titan Icon and put it in the same folder as City of Heroes, then double click it to launch the Costume Creator. The version of Titan Icon includes in the download does not allow you to run around the city; you need to get the latest one.
If this is the first time you run City of Heroes on that computer, the default graphics settings will look like crap. You can go to the Options window once in game to fix that.
You can also launch icon-npc.bat from the same folder in order to launch the costume creator with ALL the pieces unlocked, even those that are limited to NPCs only.
i don't see that icon-npc.bat file you mention above. where is it located at after downloading the torrent and opening it all?
Kuntos, in the Windows torrent it's called something like "Start Costume Creator (NPC Mode)" and is in the download directory instead of the COHBeta folder. The Mac torrent doesn't include Icon at all because I don't have a Mac so I can't test it.
@Leandro--
Thank you so much. As far as I am concerned, this release more than saved my beloved city.
All the best.
-Richard
@p3hndrx
thank you now i have city of heroes you are best thanks go to netside now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD
So I never got around to uninstalling the real game when the servers went down - so I have a bunch of CoH still lounging about on my drive. Is there a way to avoid a 4 hour download?
Yes: just go to the Titan Network forums and download Icon:
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7288.0.html
Here's a message i got. Any help?
Failed to load texture library. It is likely that City of Heroes is not properly installed. Re-installing or running NCsoft Launcher may fix this.
So is this some type of offline character creator or is it the actual game? I thought the servers were offline.
Is it possible to play with someone else on the same workgroup network?
(1) Is the Beta server or Training Room (Test Server) still accessible? Or is there anyway to run around the server locally instead of online?
(2) I really miss CoH... :(
HI, i have the Mac Beta but it doesn't open, it just closes right away. What do i need to do?
we realy need to start City of Heroes Freedom with Issue 24 of the internet. standard game play. no online access at all
if people are still stuck not to not wish to follow my example
then try this back up plan.
Let NCSOFT KOREA die. there stocks droped 50% at 10/2012 ( Month/Year) it droped even more and more every month after City of Heroes Died. what NCSOFT done is kill there Number one money makter they ever had. even about 5 or 6 other MMORPG that died before COH. NC soft had been in a loosing streak.
What I hafed is these facts. why movew the billions of dollars of City of Heroes that ran for 8 years and move money to Guildwars 2?
City of Hereos was not loosing money. it was making money. it broken the minumal and recomanded requirements of accounts needed to Run City of Heroes.
and whats worse cryptic Studios and NCSOFT is the owners of City of Heroes do not give a f u c k about us customers. its realy sick
talking to these fools on the phone or reading emails.
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Civil law suits
a compnay that invented 3D graphics had done a civil law suit against NCSOFT over copy right
a law suit NCosft is done a law suit against another MMORPG called Tera over copy right and game code of lineage 3 that not in the market and not even set to go on the market. a fake MMORPG
at least untill further notice. the Korea Judge having understanding NCSOFT clames over the mater due to the fact Lineage 3 is not in the market how can any one get the scorce game code on a game is not on the market?
NCsoft dose love being in civil law suits. even demadned me to do the samething.
all right let all the customers make a civil law suit against NCSOFT. that way NCSOFT cannot hide from the fact. its going to kill NCSOFT us COH fans can rehire Paragon studios see who can we can hire to run and publish and to the billing for City of Hereos
I do not want Google and Disney Interactive they had been lots of customers making complaints against the two. knowing how big corperation dose busienss if the game dose get saved its going to die again and go over the same problems over and over.
This is why I recomand no 3rd party compnay owning City of Heroes
think about it. all your Guildwars /Guildwars 2/ Lineage 2 fans
be warned. one of these 3 games are going to die next with in the next 6 months or will be anoucned to die with in the next 6 months
due to the finace iusses. NCsoft is not going to last much longer.
too many customers had been fired from there accounts thanks to NC soft and the 3 law suits and the finace lost of all the accounts droped and the money spent on MMORGS that died over the life of NC SOFT think about it. what MMORPG is going to die next that is owned by NCSFT? Guildwars Lineage 2 and Guildwars 2????
think about it!