City of Heroes never managed a World of Warcraft-like cultural zeitgeist, but the game's optimistic mid-century modern glean, and the fantasy of creating your own Justice League, resonated with a small, eternally dedicated community. In 2012, NCSoft terminated Paragon Studios, the developer that supported superhero MMO City of Heroes since its launch in 2004. Here's the quick version of what led to this moment, in case you missed it. If it's not the right manifest, type in the correct one.The community wanted to retake their city, and they wanted to string up the supervillains responsible for letting them go hungry. In Island Rum, this is shown when you click Menu (the palm tree button) > Manifests. If it's not the right manifest, click Options and add it to the list of manifests. In Tequila, this is listed underneath the Play button. Changing the manifest may require a few additional files to be downloaded. Once Tequila or Island Rum has finished downloading and verifying all the client files, make sure that the "manifest file" you're using is " ".
You'll use this username and password at the City of Heroes login screen. While you wait for Tequila or Island Rum to download the game files, make an account on these forums. Once you've verified your account, go to the game account page to create a username and password for the game. Island Rum will begin processing the download list and downloading files.
If Island Rum asks to install anything, click OK. Type "CoH" in the input box at the bottom, then click the Save button at the lower right. Click your hard drive, then click Applications. In the file selection window that appears, press the Up button next to "Path:" until you see the name of your hard drive in the list on the left. Move Island Rum to your Applications folder. Skip to the "After Installation" section below.) (That's all the steps you need for Windows. The files are about 5 gigabytes, so this will take a little while. Tequila will now start downloading the client files. If you followed the steps above, it'll be "C:/Games/CoH". Point it at the same place where you just put Tequila. Tequila will ask you to select an installation folder. Open the installation folder, drop Tequila inside and launch Tequila. If you don't know what that means and aren't sure where you can safely install the game, follow these steps:Ĭlick "New Folder" on the toolbar, or right-click in an empty space in the window and choose "New > Folder"Ĭreate a new folder inside "Games" and name it "CoH". You can place CoH anywhere that isn't a protected location on your hard drive like the Program Files or Users folders. Make an installation folder for the game. Depending on your computer configuration, you will see one or more hard drives listed here. Go to"This PC" (Windows 8.1/10) or "Computer" (Windows 7).
You can also click the folder button on your toolbar (in Windows 8.1 and 10) or select "Computer" in the Start menu (Windows 7). Press ⊞-E (the Windows logo key and E at the same time) to open an Explorer window.
( The next few following steps are the manual configuration needed for Windows users, so if you're playing on Mac, skip down to the section "Installing on Mac".) Windows users download Tequila, the official launcher for CoH: Homecoming We want to make sure everyone who wants to be a Hero, Villain, or one of those fifty gray shades in between can do so, so this guide here is going to lay out just how you can get yourself all set up for to play.ĭownload the correct launcher for your operating system: Citizens in fear of the street.Īnd stop the forces of evil from taking over!