Bill Z Bubba

Based on the fact that I have more brutes on Pinnacle than all the other archetypes combined... it appears that I've come to agree that brutes > the other melee AT.

However, I solo most of the time. Were I a team oriented player, I'd have more tanks.

If I ever crank up a dark/shield character or even kinetic/shield again, it would be a scrapper because of the way damage buffs work.

Howdy Tech Forumites,

Long time no read.

Got a testing bug that bounced into my head and got me wondering how many CoH sessions my gaming rig could handle.

At first, without changing any of my graphics settings and using the -stopinactivedisplay 1 flag, I was able to run 6 instances without issue but when I fired up the 7th, it became quite unplayable.

So I set Particle Physics down to None from Very High and that seemed to be enough to allow a 7th smooth session.

However, as expected, I want MORE. Well, ok, just one more. Maybe two.

With 7 sessions, I was pegging 100% CPU utilization on my I7 Intel quadcore with HT proc and I was using right at 10 of my 12gigs of RAM.

So here's the question, what other graphics settings are being dumped to the processor rather than being handled by the video card? Are there any besides Particle Physics?

Thanks much.

Last weekend I moved my main from Pinnacle to Justice so that I could remake him as a brute. I couldn't accept using the inferior version of a claws/sr character any longer and that free server transfer kept staring at me when I'd log in.

The new BZB hit 37 today and I've started reclaiming the buff accolades. When he hits 50, I'll begin the process of stripping the old BZB of his enhancements as I don't have the funds to replace 5 purple sets and the rest of his high inf build.

The only downside so far has been that endurance management is more difficult due to the way claws was changed when it was ported to brutes. Other than that, the higher base HP, higher base damage output and the taunt aura on evasion have all been very nice.

It'll be worth it in the end.

Also remade my first brute at 50 from em/fa to dm/wp.
And deleted a lvl 50 peacebringer. (I should have expected PBs to get something good one day...)

One keybind:
/bind *key* "powexectoggleon combat jumping$$powexectoggleon super jump"

That should bounce you between the two.

Here's what I use for the superjumpers.

/bind j "powexectoggleon super jump$$+up$$+autorun"
This turns on SJ and sends you jumping forward on your way.

/bind h "powexectoggleon combat jumping$$-up$$-autorun"
This turns on CJ and stops you dead in your tracks.

ooo, the incredible "I know you are but what am I" defense. Well played.

sweeet. I needed this.

I'll stick with the original Guide to Defense.

Went gravity/time on my new walking singularity of a woman, Warp Core.

I'd like to see every attack alternate hands where applicable.

Example: Dark Melee Siphon Life and Midnight Grasp are both left handed only attacks. Both should have right handed animations added so that either hand would be used during an attack chain.

Same goes for almost all attacks that are single handed in this game. I believe shadow punch, brawl and claws swipe are some of the few exceptions.