For those who never played a demo before, here's how simplified (in Windows XP and 7):
- Find cityofheroes.exe, rightclick it and create a shortcut to it on your desktop.
- Rightclick on the new shortcut and in the Target field, after the endquotes, type a space, then a dash, then the word demoplay
...cityofheroes.exe" -demoplay
- Now just download any file that ends in .cohdemo like this one of me in the summer event arena SummerEvent_Flo_Andy_FINAL.cohdemo
- Now drag the demo file and drop it onto that new shortcut.
- Sit back and enjoy.
- P = pause.
- F2 = camera toggle. Hit F2, fly the camera around manually, hit F2 again and it will zip back to auto. Rinse. Repeat.
- Escape = exit.
- FYI - There's no rewind or fast forward in playbacks.
- Playbacks loop endlessly like a screensaver. You have to exit the current one to playback another one.
- If you hit Escape and the playback pauses but there's no "are you sure you wanna quit" box, the box is there you're just not seeing it because of your windows settings. Just Hit Enter now and you will still exit demo mode.
More of my demos:
RiktiInvasionRedside_FINAL.zip 1 MB (1,106,105 bytes) Zipped
I modded the camera to circle the event slowly
THEEND01FINAL.cohdemo 5 MB (5,502,560 bytes)
I spent the final few minutes before sunset fighting Rikti in PI on Liberty. Chat is modded to actually display All channels that were recorded but not displaying during playback. Added a villain who joyfully counts down the last few seconds as his plot comes to fruition.