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An autumn's October greetings to all you do-gooders or evil-doers out there! It's that time of year again! ...what time you might ask? Spooky time! Oh yes! It's almost time for the Victory's Halloween Event 2023! October 1st - November 1st So, what new things does this year's Halloween event bring? I'm glad you asked! Each year, the fallen fae of the Unseelie Court attempt to invade our world by opening rifts when the spirit realm and the mortal realm are at their closest during the spooky Halloween season. Fortunately for us, they have been thwarted every year by the valiant efforts of Heroes and Villains who stop these spooky beings in their tracks! However, this year they've decided they will need to bolster their ranks if their attempts at world scaring are to succeed. The Unseelie Court's Hollow Reapers have devised a method to bring new levels of frightening to our world! These reapers have used their spectral scythes to widen the rifts, allowing even more powerful creatures of the night to invade when somebody is tricked whilst Trick-or-Treating! This can't be good... What does this mean for our brave Heroes and sinister Villains? What's New in Halloween Event 2023? New Trick-or-Treating Enemies! Five new Elite Boss enemies that can now spawn while Trick-or-Treating above Level 25! Ancient Vampires Spectral Werewolves Arisen Mummies Crone Matriarchs Hollow Reapers These spooky new Elite Bosses will reward five-fold experience and influence for each one defeated! Have any alts that still need some levels? Haven't tried out Symphony Control? Want to build a character for Advanced Difficulty modes? This would be a great opportunity to find some time to go Trick-or-Treating! Each of these new Elite Boss mobs also count for the older defeat badges. Spectral Werewolves count as both werewolf and ghost defeats. These new mobs spawn at a lower rate than other Trick-or-Treat enemies and were designed to be tough. For the best results, try Trick-or-Treating with a group! Looking for an efficient Trick-or-Treating spot? Might I recommend the motel near the hospital in Peregrine Island? Ouch! Best be careful, these spooky Elite Bosses are looking for unsuspecting victims to scare! New Halloween Event Badges! + Aether Rewards?! Five new badges for defeating each of the new Trick-or-Treat Elite Boss types: Vampiric Heritage - Defeat 5 Ancient Vampires from the Halloween Event to earn this badge. Spectral Anomaly - Defeat 5 Spectral Werewolves from the Halloween Event to earn this badge. Mummy's Curse - Defeat 5 Arisen Mummies from the Halloween Event to earn this badge. Unholy Cabal - Defeat 5 Crone Matriarchs from the Halloween Event to earn this badge. Reaper of Souls - Defeat 5 Hollow Reapers from the Halloween Event to earn this badge. Not only that! But each of these new badges also rewards 2 Prismatic Aether Particle salvage as a bonus, for a grand total of 10 possible on each character! Wow! Ten whole Prismatic Aether Particles that you can earn on every character! Costume Goodies! Fancy any of those Halloween costumes and wish you could keep them permanently? If you earn all five of this year's new Halloween event badges, you'll have enough Prismatic Aether currency to purchase one permanent Tier 1 Prestige Costume of your choosing from any of the BenevoLabs vendors found at Vault Reserve locations! Nice! The Halloween Salvage vendors are also offering a new limited-time Fir Bolg Prestige Costume, which will be available for the entirety of the month of October each year! The Fir Bolg prestige costume costs 10 Prismatic Aether Particles + 50 of each Halloween salvage type. All Tier 1 appearances have been added to the Halloween costume temporary power rewards pool, this year should certainly be diverse! The 'Halloween' in the Halloween costume temporary power names has been removed to make them easier to read in the power menu. Other Adjustments The Bored Guy and Bored Gal in the Dr. Kane's House of Horror trial have been given updated looks of their own. Trick-or-Treat Werewolves now throw coffins instead of rocks when using their Hurl power. New to Halloween in City of Heroes? Check out the legacy spooky activities! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Halloween_Event Badges, Badges, Badges! There are a ton of event badges to be earned during the Halloween Event each year! Here's a list of all the badges up for grabs! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Halloween_Event/Badges Zone Trick-or-Treating! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Halloween_Event/Trick_or_Treat Go to any zone appropriate to your level range, click any mission door, and you'll be surprised with either a Treat reward or a Trick spook! Treats will reward a variety of things: Halloween costume temporary powers, these come in many flavors! Collecting many rewards badges! Halloween salvage that can be redeemed for an extra costume slot, a spider vanity pet, and more! Talk to the Halloween salvage vendor appropriate for you: Heroes: Annah in Croatoa Villains: Granny Beldam in Nerva Archipelago Praetorians: Acantha in Imperial City If you are wearing a costume power (Halloween or Prestige) while trick-or-treating, you can receive a Whispered Rumor tip mission that allows earning up to six badges! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Mission:Tip_-_Whispered_Rumor Inspirations! Sometimes though, all you get is a rock... Tricks will spawn Halloween enemies! Worry not, as these enemies can be defeated for badges! Zone Giant Monster Hunts! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Halloween_Event/Giant_Monsters For the duration of the Halloween Event, you can find the giant monsters, Eochai and Jack-in-Irons, randomly throughout standard zones! The pair are worth an exclusive badge for the first time defeating each, but every time they're defeated grants 6 Reward Merits to everyone who participated! After being defeated, a new Eochai or Jack will respawn somewhere in the same zone shortly afterward, so if you search the zone, they can be defeated many times repeatedly for lots of Reward Merits! Eochai is glad to get out of Croatoa for once! Zombie Apocalypse Zone Invasions! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Zombie_Apocalypse Keep an eye on the Zone Event channels! Frequently during the Halloween Event's runtime, zones will be attacked by a Zombie Apocalypse! During this event, waves of zombies will spawn anywhere there are players and can be defeated for badges and experience! Group up somewhere with a lot of allies and mow down zombies for rewards! Don't stand too close to Police Drones though! Deadly Apocalypse Zone Events! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Deadly_Apocalypse Keep an eye on the Zone Event channels! If a spooky fog and four banners roll in, it's time for a Deadly Apocalypse! In this event, players must coordinate to defeat enemies simultaneously at all four Banner locations marked on the map. As the Banner's defenders are defeated simultaneously at all four locations, the protection on the Banners will gradually weaken. Remember if there aren't people at all four banners fighting, you won't be able to make any progress! Eventually, the Banners will become vulnerable, and players can destroy each one for a total of four badges! Once all four Banners have been destroyed, a Greater Mystic Aspect giant monster will spawn somewhere in the zone! If defeated they will reward players with another badge and choice of a temporary power! Dr. Kane's House of Horrors Trial! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Dr._Kane's_House_of_Horror Grab four allies and queue for the Dr. Kane's House of Horrors Trial from the Looking For Group (LFG) tab on your chat window! Face lots of spooky enemies and earn plenty of badges in this short trial that's only available during the Halloween Event! Tip: Prestige costumes also count for the 'Tricked Out' badge criteria! Atlas Park Zone Makeover! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Atlas_Park_Seasonal_Changes#Halloween During the Halloween Event, Atlas Park will get a spooky makeover! Enjoy the change of scenery while it lasts! Eternal Night! For the last two weeks of the Halloween Event, starting on October 22nd, most zones will be covered by an eternal night! If you're interested in hunting for enemies that only spawn at certain times of the day like the ghosts in Croatoa! This is a great chance to get those badges! That's everything for Halloween this year! We hope everyone has a grand & spooky time playing City of Heroes! Thanks Victory Players for being so awesome!

Makes me happy. I was in Beta for CoH and had to drop out for a while in 2010. Came back just in time to create one Praetorian and get the closure announcement. That was a bummer.

The Rikti Invasion event will be running from Sept 6th to Sept 15th. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Rikti_World_Invasion

Glad you found us! The details are a bit fuzzy, but basically it boils down to this: When the game shut down in 2012, a developer leaked the issue24 client / server source to a player, who then ran a secret private server until 2019, when that server's existence leaked, and they released the source code to the public. I grabbed the source, and set Victory up, we've been up since April 2019.

I played COH from start to the end, I am enjoying it once again here. Thanks for making it possible! How did this happen, the revival?

Wait... I see some files downloaded and now it works!! Maybe I just caught it at a bad time

Tried to log in on 12/8/23 and got this message "Wrong game version, run patcher and reconnect, server 20230810_5602, client 20230524_5508" Never had any problem before, is there a patch i need to install?

Hey there, I have an old City of Heroes account that I am trying to recover. I also have an old forum account I'm trying to recover. Both accounts were under the same email address, the one I used to start this forum account. I've tried using the forgotten password many times, but I've never received the reset password email. Michiyo found my old forum account, under the name ladiestorm, and sent an email trying to help me, and I received that email. I also set up this secondary account to be able to get on the forums to get some help... I had to validate my email address, and I used the same email that I used for the original account. Obviously I received the validation email, because I'm here. But no matter how many times I try, I do not receive the reset password email, and without that, I can't recover my old account. I know my email is still active here, because when I accidentally tried to sign up, instead of signing in, I couldn't use my email, because it was already in use. Would anyone be able to help me with this? I desperately need some assistance. Thank you!

I split your posts out to their own topic, as the announcement thread isn't really the best place to get help. I would need a screenshot of what you see to really help further, also a screenshot of the error message would be great.

Top menu -> Account Tools -> Game Account Or Forum Home -> Game Tools -> Game Account Or https://cityofheroes.dev/forums/account-tools/gameaccount.html/

I need to change my password

should i uninstall game then reinstall ?

after game down time my game launcher does not work. all i get is a white screen with outlines of laoncher box . unatainable exception has occured

Hello All, Today 7/24 There was a hardware issue on the Hyper-V host that hosts Victory, I attempted to move the VM over to a backup machine, but that transfer was unsuccessful. Due to this Victory was down for ~11 hours. At this time the server is back up, and I will be keeping a close eye on the Hyper-V server for any further issues. Sorry for the downtime. Thank you.

Solved. Password was too long. Hah. Old tech.

As title says, I get wrong username or password when trying to log in. I've reset it through the forum a few times--even using copy/paste. I have gotten the confirmation of account through my email.

Click System, then Verify, usually this means something interrupted the download of the game files.

That worked, thank you!

Close and relaunch the launcher, then click System, then Verify and see if it finishes the download.

Hello, I was looking very forward to play City of Heroes and I tried downloading the game over night following the instructions under the "How To" option available on this sight but ran into what I'd describe as maybe a tech issue. Below her is a screenshot of the problem I'm having downloading the game. It says that my launcher is stuck at 97%. Could I please get some help with this? Thank you guys in advance!

Im getting the same error and I waited 24 hours

Looks like my anti virus was having some issues, got the game files downloading now, thanks for your help!