Bill Z Bubba

Creative's workaround for the idiocy that Microsoft pulled was Alchemy. It restored functionality that vista/7 screwed up. (As Necrotron just posted.)

It's been working just fine until today.

Hey, je_saist, your input means exactly nothing to me.

3D sound under Win 7 worked on MY rig prior to today's patch. All speakers were in use. Sounds moved from speaker to speaker as I turned around.

Now everything sounds like crap because the vast majority of the sound is being piped out my front center speaker while the rest are barely recieving any signal at all. And for what? Because the devs have arbitrarily blocked the game from functioning properly with MY sound card.

And I know I'm not the only person using a X-Fi Gamer card.

I'm confusing exactly nothing and you should cease spewing forth irrelevant garbage.


Developers, if nothing else, please provide a command line flag that will force enable the 3D sound option that you have broken. Thanks.

Turn it back on devs. Your reasoning for killing it off was not true then and it isn't true now.

I'd like for the game I've been playing with proper 3D sound for over 5 years, including during beta, to not sound like crap now that this has gone live.

Thanks.

EDIT: Yes, I'm running Windows 7. Yes, 3D sound worked on my rig last time I was logged into the beta server.

Just patched and logged in: I am also lacking the expected "Claim Additional Server Slots" thing. Maybe it will show up after maintenance tomorrow.

Zeph, "Pinn Badges" is the global I hang out on and there are calls for TFs through the day and night. You'll need to be un-silenced by a channel mod after joining, but that's it.

/It IS Pinn Badges that I hang out on, right?

Gorram it! I was just home and decided to come back to work! growlgrumblegrowl

It's a wash. Brute WP > Scrapper WP, Scrapper Claws > Brute Claws due to the fury nerf.

However, the differences are slim in actual gameplay. Were I you, I would choose based on which mechanic was more fun for me: Crits or Fury.

Clobber is currently doing the correct amount of damage for its recharge value as per CoD. KO Blow, on the other hand, is not. But KO Blow is a hold where Clobber is a stun. I've no clue what's going on with repulsing torrent.

Freeze Ray and Bitter Freeze Ray are holds though, aren't they? I have no idea how holds are supposed to affect a power's damage value.

KB, on the other hand, doesn't appear to affect a power's damage value. Granted, I haven't looked at this too closely, it was just something that jumped out at me while I was playing my grav/ene dom.

Ice/Ice blaster is very mean in PvP.

Your spines/regen scrapper, thanks to its ranged attacks should be workable for PvP as long as you get some slow resistance. You shouldn't be having end issues.

Do you have quick recovery slotted with 3 end-mod DOs or basic IOs? Do you have an end-red in each attack? I promise you that it Will feel much different once you hit 22 and slot either SOs or lvl 25 basic IOs.

Standard PvP answer: Melee is bad for PvP in this game.

Standard PvE answer: There are no sucky scrappers. What have you tried out so far and to what level have you gotten them? Like just about everything else in this game, scrappers don't really feel "right" until level 22 and SOs.

To further add, I don't see you running into any issues at all later down the road by ignoring the beta registry entries. Just kill the shortcut and the install directory and leave it at that.

Manually delete your shortcut, the beta install directory and the associated registry entries pointing to that beta install directory.

If you don't feel comfortable mucking about in the registry, after deleting the shortcut and install directory, use something like Auslogics Registry Cleaner to do it for you.

Dom energy assault rocks.

So why haven't you gotten Castle to fix the damage on power push yet?

Claws on a brute is so good that it needs no guide.

Hmmm, can I do math on that?

30% defense + 70% dam-res versus 45% defense.

The first guy gets hit 1 out of every 5 attacks for 30% damage.
The second guy gets hit 1 out of every 20 attacks for 100% damage.

So for 20 attacks that do 100 points of damage each:
First guy takes 4*100*.3 = 120 points of damage
Second guy takes 1*100*1 = 100 points of damage

In that particular case, the softcapped defense guy wins.