Vitality

Originally Posted by Gaia

I did try using a joystick back in 2005 and whilst possible CoH like most PC games is designed to be played using mouse and keyboard and this doesn't tend to translate well to using a joystick but by all means try it.

The buttons will map to either JOY**** or the same as the mouse buttons in general but you are probably largely on your own trying to work out which binds to which control.
Binding a chat message (team chat would be good just please don't spam broadcast) would help identify them.

Originally Posted by T_Immortalus

There should be a "mode" button on your gamepad that allows you to switch from analog to digital which will likely enable it once switched to analog.

Other than that, you may need to enable the joystick under the controls tab in options or reinstall the software for the gamepad or just mess around with the software for it.

Originally Posted by Archiviste

Yes you can.

Go to the main City of Heroes website (http://www.cityofheroes.com/en.html).

On the left hand side, click on "My Account" then on "Download Game Client".

Originally Posted by Novella

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

You're asking a lot of questions today.

I set up my wired Xbox 360 controller to work with the game when I was bored one day last summer. It wasn't particularly fluid... I don't think I was able to get the camera look to work with my right analog stick. It was also a huge pain in the butt to get all my attacks bound to all the buttons, and pretty much ended up not being much fun at all once the novelty wore off.

Anyway, if your controller works with your PC (ie, you have all the necessary drivers installed), you can set joystick commands in the Options menu. Once you've experimented enough to learn what the game calls each button, you can even set your own binds using the /bind command...

Of course, when you realize you've got 10 powers in your primary tray plus however many others you commonly use in your alt trays, plus jump, plus a button to activate/deactivate your travel power... Well, you're going to quickly realize that you don't have enough buttons to do anything.

Originally Posted by SinisterDirge

Not fair. SS, SJ, and Flight suck in caves as well. besides, now that sprint's base speed has been buffed, you dont need much more than that to navigate caves.

I always found tp to be perfect to line up cones and such off a corner, the mobs stack up real well when using tp to corner pull.

Negatives... with the keybinds, you don't HAVE to take hover for it, but it sure is nice if your connection lags at all.

Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man

You can use it as such, Vitality. You just have to rebind the keys to do so.

/bind numpad1 "powexec_slot 1"
...
/bind numpad0 "powexec_slot 10"

A lot of people prefer to use their numpad for situational binds instead of attacks, though. For instance, it's a great way to control a Mastermind's pets while still keeping access to their personal powers on the top row of number keys.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

Yes, you can have your forum name changed, but you can't do it yourself anymore. You need to contact one of the forum reps with the name that you want it to be.

Originally Posted by Thaumator

Is this a serious question?

Originally Posted by Pinny

If you never ever respec a character that has fitness, then this change means nothing to that character. if you respec after the change happens, then you essentially get 3-4 free powers, but those 3-4 powers won't be getting very many, if any, slots.

So the way things stand just picture your character the way it is now exactly, only with an extra 3-4 powers to pick from that'll only have 1 slot.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

No, because that would mean you would get 2 copies of the Fitness powers.

What happens is your character remains exactly the same until you respec it. Upon respeccing, you will get Fitness as an inherent power and lose access to the pool as choosable powers.

New characters will get Fitness as an inherent automatically.