Bill Z Bubba

I understand what you're stating, and I've also heard that the lag in that particular case is a server side issue.

The server may not care what my system is rendering, but the fact stands that some rigs suffer less lag than others during the same ITF. That implies that there's something going on there other than *just* the server getting hammered for your particular instance of the zone. And I've never fully bought that argument anyway. 1 section of 1 zone gets hammered but every other zone instance being managed by that server is unaffected? C'mon.

If I'm getting minimal lag while another player on the team flat out DCs when someone fires off a tier9 nova, then something beyond *just* server lag is happening.

This is why I'm in a wait and see mode. We don't know if the devs learned how to streamline some of the more ridiculous performance-degrading zone design decisions with the code changes involved with changing the game to allow for ultra mode. RV, Gville, CaD and Mercy these days are all poorly designed in relation to end client performance.

I'm curious as to whether those that choose not to turn on ultra mode will end up getting some performance benefits related to the back end changes necessary to get ultra mode working. <shrug> We'll see. The devs haven't stated one way or the other that I've seen.

Are they just playing it safe in the 8800s since there were two versions of them?

It was mentioned once in this thread, but I'll hit it again. Since the 9800 was nothing but a slightly up-clocked version of the G92 8800, shouldn't the 8800, as long as you have the G92 version, also run ultra mode?

Yup. Hi yall.

/lights cigar

Looks like all that exercise in the war zone is gonna pay off soon.

/sharpens talons

For anyone that enjoys the vast majority of the sounds in game while they play, yes.

Luckily for us, there are ways to deal with annoying sound FX in game.

I've nuked energy melee's hum and the peacebringer whine completely by replacing the two sound files with dead silence.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=113746
There's the guide.

A few posts into it, someone posted a silence.ogg file for easy download instead of going through the hassle of making your own.

It's honestly very easy.

Create a couple new directories. Copy the silence.ogg file into the correct directory. Rename it to be the filename of the sound you're trying to silence. Done. If you search through the thread, you'll probably find the filename for the effect you wish to silence.


On topic, EA is weak until softcap and a pain to get there. While the heal added to ED helped some, I found it didn't help enough. I still haven't deleted my 32ish claws/ea brute, but that's only because I haven't come up with anything else that fits the name Singularity's Edge.

At least yours doesn't do the damage to YOU.

/frelling Castle.....

And it's even better that it's such an annoying hassle to do so!

Yay for annoyances! They make games so much better!

Unless he's soloing content that he shouldn't be soloing.

Sam, you're doing it wrong. Every brute I have, and I think at last count that was 6 of them on Pinnacle, all are designed to build fury on their own with their attacks.

If you are losing fury while punching anything, especially hard targets that take more than two or three hits, then your attack chain is to blame.

I'm honestly unsure what you could be doing to lose fury against hard targets. That makes no sense to me at all.