Zloth

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...and it every time i get past the blue loading bar, it brings up an error message from cryptic studios saying the game encountered an error.

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Blue loading bar? So, when you start the updater, it goes through the "Loading" stage but then it blows up when it starts to apply the update? Hmmm.

Try checking the folder the game is in. Right click on it, select properties, and make sure 'read only' is turned off. If you copied the game directly from a DVD, it may have set everything to read-only, which makes it impossible to update.

I think the team probably starteed from another MA building. Last I checked, you have to enter from the same building as the rest of the team. There's really no way to tell which one that is unless you ask them. (Well, maybe if you have that teleport-directly-to-mission perk...)

!?!? It was working fine a few months ago when I last tried it. Did you target the spider then hit follow? That should take you right up to where you can hit it.

Hmmm, well, you've got me stumped. Assuming there are no thunderstorms in your area, I would suggest doing a full disk check on your hard drive overnight. In the meantime, do a /petition in game and get a ticket started up. (They will want your DxDiag so you might as well run it and attach it to your ticket once the ticket gets into the system.)

You can't just click Apply, you have to exit out of the game and start it up again. Go in to the options, set the higher resolution graphics, click OK, and quit back to your desktop. Then start the game again. Don't even bother with the apply button.

P.S. I've also got a CRT. Colors may not be as nice but being able to switch resolutions for different games is just too handy!

Just contact Support, they can get you set up right. Follow the links from www.coh.com.

Yeah, it's most likely that this isn't a driver problem at all, it's a Vista problem. A Vista problem which seems to be fixed in Service Pack 2.

(It looks like testing for SP2 is done. Microsoft made it available to special subscribers on Thursday so I think we should all be getting it in the next week or so.)

Brave David2 - I don't think I would ever try to pronounce Samuraiko out loud!

And yeah, AMAZING video Dark Respite!

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No, that's not "easy to fix." I'm not Memphis Bill1. I do not want a number after my name. If I did, I'd put one there. And if I have a character at the maximum number of letters in my name, you've just mangled the name.

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Also, it makes a terrible mess if you have a number at the end of your name. If you are "Experiment 7" with a 7 on your chest, you are suddenly going to turn into "Experiment 71". Ooops.

If you are going to tack anything on, stick the global name out there, and make it a non-required part. If you send a tell to "Experiment 7" and there are two online, then prompt me as to whether you mean Zloth's Experiment 7 or NotAsCoolGuy's Experiment 7. Otherwise, just send it to the one that's online. You can still have trouble if a person has two characters with the same name on two servers that get merged but that should be a very rare case. (Not so rare if you are consolidating all servers, though.)

Hmmm, quite a few of my costumes don't load into the tailor screen at all. Not much point in converting them, but would you like demos so your program can flag them and tell the user?

And you just want the costume files, not demos to go with them?

Nice! I do have to nitpick a little...

1. I don't think you mentioned that you have to be level 40 to get in.

2. The advice about turning off travel powers while doing geyser jumps ain't right. That's what Goddard tells you, but that's only true for flight and teleport. Superspeed and Superjump can *greatly* increase your ability to steer when a geyser shoots you off. And you'll need that ability. Gravity geysers are not high precision technology.

3. You have to do a small story arc to get access to the Molepoint, don't you? You get it from the second contact in FBZ.

4. You can fall faster than you can fly! Actually, I kinda wish you would have emphasised more that there is *NO* falling damage in the Shadow Shard at all, no matter how far you fall. That would have been a lovely spot to prove it. Turn off your flight, stand on one of those rock spikes above the molepoint island, and "free your mind!"

Very handy videos, though! I hope a lot more folks see them and actually use this zone a bit.

Please please PLEASE announce that the Vault is finally opening!!! Even if we can't see our costumes on it.

Yeah, I'm thinking Rikti re-invasion, too. This time with more lag and fewer mapservers. Beware: the devs camp spawn points (hospitals)!

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Honestly I'm befuddled by the utter lack of publicity about the amazing milestone that this MMO has achieved...

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The press tends to ignore anything that's a free update. If NCSoft had called it an expansion and charged us even $10 for it, I think you would have heard a lot more about it.

Yeah, this is definitely different. They normally release larger patches every week or two after an issue goes live. They also have quite a bit longer to sit on the Test server.

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Driver Version: 6.14.0011.8250
Driver Date: 1/01/0001 12:00:00 AM
Driver Language: English


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What the!?!? I think that's the latest driver version but it's file date is screwy. Better go get the latest drivers again, uninstall the old ones, then re-install.

(Also, your audio drivers are getting a bit old.)

Did you take the demo in-game or did you make it yourself?

(Wiki link for the other folks that have no idea who they are talking about)

Yep, it's in there. Kinda. Open your demo in Notepad and do a search on your name. Right under that you should see a COSTUME command that looks something like this:

0 11 COSTUME 1 7289d4 10.552670

... followed by a bunch more numbers. The first two numbers are irrelevant. The third number (1 in this case) is the model being used (1 is female). The next big number is your skin color. The next number is your height slider.

If the height slider is a positive number it means you are over average height for your size. If it's negative, you are under average height. The question is, how much over or under? I think it goes from -25 to 25 but what that translates to exactly depends on what model you are using.

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Are you back to finish this?


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!!!! An interview with Geko would be quite interesting!

Welcome back aboard, EM!

It's a surprise to me, too. (I'm not sure why - has any community rep lasted much more than 2 years?) Good to hear you're knocking around on Justice, though! See you in the game!

ZOMG! Commies!

Were you able to use the Russian alphabet in the arc?

WOW!

Definitely a diabolical plot. First they gave us the costume creator and had otherwise self-respecting geeks talking about the color coordination of their outfits like we were fashion fans. Then we got the base design, and suddenly we are watching the Home & Garden channel for tips. Now they have us working on our "l33t gr4mm4r ski1z" with a side helping of advertising. I expect the next thing they will do is give us a way to write our own music into the game. Then we can all start learning the table of chord progression and arguing about the value of picardy thirds.

Anyway - great job Fearghas!

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So that's either a poorly worded sentence... or Paragon's got another MMO in the works.

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City of Villains?

P.S. PS, could you put some names to those faces? Preferably cool forum names instead of those humdrum real life names.

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- Upon zoning, travel speed boosts like Swift are suppressed for five seconds.

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Ooohhh! I thought my Stealth power was causing things to go nuts.