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Quote:I know I mentioned it to you in game, but getting a laptop for gaming on in that price bracket is going to be tough. Very tough. Look for a machine with a non-onboard GPU if at all possible. Intel integrated graphics are not going to be wonderful to play on. However, I suppose it may work, to an extent.Originally Posted by _Echoo_
I'm looking for my first laptop and I really want something that can manage CoX and maybe Guild Wars on the lowest graphics settings so I can use it for modest gaming while away from home. My ideal budget's £400 or less but I can stretch it to £500-ish if I have to.
I've found laptop shopping quite baffling, so if anyone has a personal recommendation I would bow to your experience and very much appreciate it.
Given the slight 'issues' that nVidia have had with their laptop parts over the last year or so, I'd be more inclined to go AMD.
And as much RAM /CPU/HDD as you can manage goes without saying.
Factoring all that in, you're down to looking for offers/vouchers/codes.
And I still personally don't like the idea of laptops for gaming. If something breaks, it's not easily replaceable/fixable. But that's just my prejudice, I suppose.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who DOES use a laptop to play using Intel Integrated graphics how good/bad/flickerbook it is though.
If other people with direct experience report that it's bearable, then it may be possible for you to get a cheap laptop and play with everything turned down to low.
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Quote:Issue 6 (ED) - 27th of October, 2005.Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
Yeah, I could certainly see that as causing problems. How long a time period was it between the two?
Issue 9 Breakthrough (inventions) -1st of May, 2007.
So it was 19 months, more or less.
However, don't forget that ED wasn't the main/only cause of the pain. It was the combination of ED and the Global Defence Decrease (GDN or Global Defense Nerf in common parlance) that caused a lot of pain for toons based on defence/resistance.
There was a lot of rebalancing and jiggery-pokery in Issue 5 (31st August 2005), so really the pain and waiting *could* at a stretch be said to be 21 months.
And I'm not going to even touch the whole PR debacle that was Statesman's posting through that period with a 30 foot barge pole <twitch twitch> -
Quote:Glitch - Your Sonic guide mentions Sonic Dispersion once. In the 'How to use' section for Clarity. Admittedly there's not a huge amount that needs to be said about it, but it's still an omission.Originally Posted by Silas
Updated with Sonic guide.
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I wouldn't care what they did to PvP, or if they offered a free Nemesis Horse travel power to anyone who engaged in PvP, I still wouldn't engage in it.
One of the original attractions to me of this game was the complete lack of PvP. I didn't want it then, I still have no interest in it now, nothing could make me engage in it.
Hell, my villain badge toon still doesn't have a load of badges that could be pretty easily acquired simply because they require PvP time. Plus, there is no story to PvP, and that's a big part of why I still play this game after nigh on 5 years.
So no ta, I'm quite happy playing PvE, thank you very much. -
Quote:Half the problem (assuming you're talking about ye olde days) was that 40+ Longbow had in one of their powers, it may have been the Nullifier's Sonic Grenades, it may have been the Spec Ops' EMP Grenades, a Mag 50 (or thereabouts) 0.25sec duration Hold.Originally Posted by Negate
When I first started playing Red Side Longbow scared me beyond belief...due to the fact I saw them drop two Stone Brutes thanks to Sonic Grenade stacking.
So Brutes would be merrily SMASHing away, all their toggles would drop, and they'd suddenly take an absolute bucketload of damage and have to spend 5-10 seconds retoggling, even if they did somehow survive. This led to MUCH swearing over Teamspeak by the Brute player I was usually teamed with.
This is all a little vague in my memory these days, since it was a long time ago, but I definitely remember there being a high mag, very low duration mez involved with high level Longbow, which made them excruciatingly painful to fight if you had any sort of toggles. (remember, this was back when this were all fields, before 'defensive' toggles stayed running through mezzes...)
Anyway, apologies for a slight derail in the thread. In an attempt to stay vaguely OT, I have to agree with one general point in the analysis on TA. It seems to be a weak link in the Defender Primary options, but I'm personally not sure what could be done to it without swinging the pendulum back the other direction toward 'overpowered' and 'FoTM'. -
Quote:Hmm, gimme a sec, I'm pretty sure there was a redname post not long since on that very subject.... <wanders off to check trackers>Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
Sorry to mildly threadjack this for my own purposes but...
looking for a new graphics card to be ready to run 'ultra-mode' when GR comes out, currently have the rather aging ATI Raedon X1950 pro so need a bit of a spruce up for GR.
Looking in the price range of £150.
There you go. Should help narrow your options down a little, at least. -
Quote:Yep, that's why I said they were minor issuesOriginally Posted by RoentgenStorm
I've ordered both components and devices from Overclockers with no problems at all. They deliver the next working day more often than not and their service is excellent.
I was just getting a little twitchy after a week when the only info I could get from them without ringing them up and asking was 'Order in Warehouse Queue' from the order tracking page.
I've had good experiences with them when I've had to RMA stuff before, like the Tagan PSU which arrived half dead. Tagan PSU's are a brand I'm not going to touch again, BTW. I think we had 4 of them pass through the house, and all of them died. A couple arrived dead, or mostly so. Not impressed at all, for what was supposed to be a good quality PSU. -
Quote:I wouldn't even bother with PC World for parts unless it's a 'Crap, the PSU just blew and I need one NOW, to tide me over.' situation.Originally Posted by Dr_HR
aye id argee. pc world for odd parts but nothing more. its rare to find someone there who knows what they are talking about. plus their pc's arent really that good for gaming.
i like Overclockers.com they seem quite good.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ is where I got my new box a few months back when my old PC died. this one to be exact, but in the Antec 902 case and with a GeForce 285 GTX video card.
Had a couple of minor issues with Overclockers, but nothing to stop me shopping with them again.
Oh, and assuming you're asking about it for CoH purposes, the box above has run rock solid stable for the last few months, with all sliders maxed out at 1920x1200. It also merrily runs Borderlands at the same resolution with all the shiny things turned on.
Oh, and re: Roentgen above, The issues with Overclockers were mainly with them not keeping me updated with what was going on with my order. like not telling me the original case I'd ordered was out of stock, and then delays meaning I had to be on the phone to them, prodding them to find out what was happening. Took a week and a half to get the box, when they claim that systems ship within 48 hours. Left me more than a little annoyed, but the performance of the box since has been more than adequate compensation.
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Quote:If he didn't already know about the Praetorian dimension, I'd be bloody amazed. Nemesis already has portal tech, has his finger in more dimensions than an Eye-Eye after walking through a rogue Tesseract, and (understatement alert!) is somewhat prone to 'fiddling' with other dimensions (see Dark Watcher, Unai Kemen, Tina Macintyre, the Shadow Shard etc. etc.)Originally Posted by Arctic Man
Maybe he already knows about it and is the one that made sure that his counterpart there died as a nobody (so he wouldn't have competition)?
On another note, portals and parallel dimensions have been in the game since Issue 1, as far as I know. Even though the overall in game story moves like treacle in Antarctica most of the time, that's still a lot of opportunity for him to get comfortable.
Of course, there are always the other Nemesis' out there to worry about too, Nemesis Rex, for example. We know that Rex and our Nemesis don't get along, and there's no reason there couldn't be an alternative dimension Nemesis working quietly in the background/underground of Praetoria.
It's all speculation until proven otherwise. -
Quote:Yep, I'd have to agree that 1.77Mb of avatar is pretty epic in size...Originally Posted by Cthulhufan
Your forum avatar is epic sir.
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Quote:Given the new difficulty settings and that you can occasionally have to tweak things as you move from team to solo, to avoid running into unwanted AV's, how about a handy dandy Portable Hero Corps Communicator/Fateweaver Psychic Friends Hotline Terminal.Originally Posted by NuclearToast
With only about two months until the next veteran rewards are awarded, it's time to reveal what they're going to be. Guesses?
--NT
With the PHCC/FPFHT, you can get immediate and priority access to state of the art voice recognition systems which will allow you to change your 4XP/SRSLY settings without the inconvenience of having to find an appropriate representative.
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Quote:Slight clarification - CoD can be set to no longer hide your costume.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
Small note, CoD no longer completely covers the costume. I only note this because I thought it did, and almost skipped the power because of it. With i16 CoD can be made very minimal with the right color choices. This is a great guide, and one of the few I have ever read all the way through.
I'm still running with the original version of purple fuzzball on my Dark/Stone Scranker at the moment.
More choice is good though. You like the fuzzball of doom? Have the fuzzball of doom. You don't? You can sidestep it.
Works for me
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Quote:Almost, but not quite. We get a new Katana too, with a much improved geometry at the tip of the blade.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
The above are all available for Broadsword as well.
I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like Katana users only get access to the Chinese Broadsword.
I like this booster a LOT. The animations on [Ninja Run] are glorious, and BaBs deserves plaudits for them. Running back, forward, left and right have subtly different animations. Jumping forward and back have different falling animations. They're all fluid, smooth and altogether a joy to behold. Or at least have been on my 5'ish male Katana/Regen scrapper. I've not tried them on a female or huge toon yet.
The Costume Change emotes are a good addition, even if trying to use them with a weapon drawn (any weapon, even a pulse rifle) causes them to not play.
The Costume parts, well I like them, but they seem to be (at first glance) a bit more of a one trick pony than the Magic Booster parts (i.e. less universally applicable), but beating the High Collar Cape/Cloak is going to be a hard trick to pull off, IMO.
The other emotes? I'm not a big user of emotes, so I actually forgot to try them out...
Speaking of the various bits, it's not too clear, but on the Plaync page, there are links embedded in the Emotes, Costume Change emotes and Ninjar Run headings. They just look like underlined text at first glance, but click them and you'll get a short demonstration video of the emote/animation.
All in all it's sick squid I'm not regretting spending
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Quote:The pandaras aren't mechanical, but they do wear armour/clothing. However, the helmets they wear are a good approximation of a panda head, and they may have been of use to you in getting body patterning sorted. however, since you seem to have gotten something you like (which is all that really matters) now, then it's sort of a moot point.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
That's cool, but aren't the pandas there mechanical and wearing full helmets? I'll have a look at it, certainly, when I have the time.
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Quote:Ideas? Well you could go and play Pandas vs Rikti in the AE and see if you can glean any ideas from the handling of the subjects there.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Any ideas?
Hell, it's a good enough arc to go and play even if you're NOT trying to make some mutant abomination against nature via the costume creator. -
Quote:Umm.... I have to disagree with that, but that's a whole other can of worms. Suffice it to say that as far as the game design goes, SO's are 'par'.Originally Posted by Nem74
I've leveled every AT to lvl 50, but let's be honest, if you don't invest at Wentworths or the Black Market, you're toon is going to be sub par at best.
So far as renewing the game for yourself goes?
a) take a break from it and go play something else/do something else entirely for a while.
b) Do something different to your normal playstyle. If you're mostly solo, PuG, if you mostly Pug, Solo. Roleplay, <shudder>PvP</shudder>
c) start a challenge toon, and impose and stick to a self imposed restriction. My current toon in progress is a Dark/Stone Scranker, who's doing ALL contact missions from 5-50. Currently parked at 44 with XP turned off and going through all the main contacts. (Just getting that toon more or less sorted on endurance consumption was a challenge in and of itself)
d) Only you can prevent forest fires... oh, hang on that's not right. Only you can tell whether it's time to move on from the game, or whether you've found something else more interesting.
e)working on the assumption that you're playing on the US servers, then maybe you should ask around the 'super teams' that seem to be more prevalent over there than over here in the EU. Repeat Offenders is a name I've encountered on the boards. Ask around. Get a new group of playmates.
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Quote:Are you doubting the computer, friend citizen?Originally Posted by Kelenar
Will it give you a temporary power experimental weapon on every mission that has a 60% chance of killing you?
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Quote:See, I'd have Buzz Lightyear and the Rocketeer down as Tech origin, since their ability to fly/do other things isn't as a result of what they are/training, but the technology they have strapped to them.Originally Posted by Tripp Hazzard
Ninjas are "Natural", but so are Batman, The Rocketeer, Buck Rogers, and Buzz Lightyear.
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Quote:Paragonwiki is your friend when it comes to such things.Originally Posted by Alkaiser
6. 5 was Croatoa + Archery & Sonic sets, IIRC; 6 was pretty much Villains itself (assuming you had a CoV serial, before the two were consolidated into one product), along with bringing zone PvP, bases, and whatnot to Heroes.
Of course, I could be wrong. I probably am, too.
Yes, I5 was Croatoa, Sonics, Trick Arrow and Archery.
I6 was 'Along came a spider' and effectively CoV, with a couple of bits for CoH.
I7 was CoV part 2, more or less, with the 40-50 content for villains and an absolute bucketload of bugs thrown in for free. This is when Bodyguard mode arrived, too late in my case as I'd already got my MM playstyle sorted and have never felt the need to bother with it. -
The OP's speculation is a possibility, certainly.
However I'm seeing a lot of people getting hung up on the word 'Clockwork'.
From my reading of the arcs (and I've been through Tina Macintyres arc more than a few times), the name 'Clockwork' was attached to Antimatter/Neuron's robotic lackeys because they look at first glance like the larger Clockwork Princes.
Not because there's any connection to the loon with his brain in a jar.
The Radiation spewing bots of doom basically use a Clockwork Prince model with a new texture.
So if you would care to compare a Clockwork Prince to a Praetorian Nuon, you'll see the resemblance.
Play through Tina Macintyres arc with the original intent, i.e. that this is a completely new dimension with which you've had no prior contact and about which you have no information, and you can see why they'd be referred to using a term with which Tina is already familiar. That, and the fact that the first mission you get from Tina is pretty much universally the Psychic Clockwork King mission, thus informing Tina that Clockwork exist in other dimensions, and you can see even more opportunity for Tina to be mistaken.
However, this term is now causing confusion and making people seek connections with the Clockwork King when there is no such relationship implied other than by visual resemblance (and recycling mob geometry with a new texture about 20 levels after it stopped cropping up in the story arcs).
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Yep, I remember getting jumped in Blyde Square, Steel Canyon way back in I3, about 1-2 weeks or so after I started playing.
It was a very VERY rare occurrence until I15 (I think) tweaked mob AI so that powers they'd always had started to be used more often. (as has already been stated by Obsidius).
On a tangent, it seems to me that the mob AI changes in that issue also made Carnie Dark Ring Mistresses less dangerous, as they don't seem to always start their attack chain with [Mask of Vitiation]. They still use it, but not as predictably as the first or second power. And since it's such a HIDEOUSLY overpowered debuff, I'm not complaining in the slightest
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Quote:So, where do we report any typos/glitches we spot in the arcs?Originally Posted by Niviene
Bill Willingham -
"Quest for Magic" (arc id: 337434) - Irena Faust is tired of being a civilian in a super world, so she's embarked upon a quest for super powers. She thinks magic is the way to go and she has an idea where to s tart. Can you help her?
Ran the above arc tonight, and spotted a few glaring typos, along with a potential mechanic glitch (Glowy in first mission was clickable before it should have been, according to the clues received in said mission).
Enjoyed the arc, but I'd have thought there'd at least have been a thorough proof reading of the arcs before they were released into the stark, uncaring wilderness of public attention.
Oh, and there's a typo in the announcement about the Quest for Magic, since I have no idea where to s tart
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Quote:Ta, I *think* I'm more or less back up and running, apart from the data on the HDD's of my old machine of course. one of them I'll get back eventually, but the main drive on ye olde Athlon64 was a RAID-0, and so I'm just treating it as dead.Originally Posted by Dr_Toerag
Welcome back!
Which is a shame, as all my screenshots, demorecords and so forth were on it, along with other things like Fallout3 saves and such. Nothing major, as I've got a NAS box I keep most of my important stuff on. Of course this is the NAS box which had one of its HDD's die about 2-3 months ago, good job it's a RAID-1
Never mind, onward ever onward.
Now to see if I can get Herostats to work. I *think* I've got TS working properly.
I'd forgotten jsut how much of a grind setting up a new install on a PC can be with all the drivers, apps, tweaks and so forth.
:edit: as a side note, the complete new system option seems to have persuaded Firefox to actually remember who the hell I am on these boards. I may be able to bring myself to use them a bit more if I can stay logged in and not have to login 7 times in a row before it sticks... 1700 quid of course is a little on the 'nuclear option' side of things however, just to get the board login working properly... o_O -
My PC died about a month ago. PSU went, and decided to take the Motherboard with it. Goodbye to the old faithful Asus SK8V/Athlon64 FX-53 system that's served me well over the last 5 years
Since then, I've taken a bit of a break, played through and thoroughly enjoyed Okami on my Wii, and finally gotten round to completing Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii, too (a mere 3 years more or less after the date on my last Zelda save game).
I've also had a week and a half of hassle and annoyance trying to get my new system sorted. But I'll not dwell on that.
I'm currently installing patches/drivers/applications on my shiny, oh so shiny new PC. So while windows is updating, I thought I'd say hello again (not that many people will necessarily have noticed that I was gone).
New system :
Dell U2410 monitor (it's bloody *huge* compared to the old 17" Sony Trinitron I had).
Antec 602 case. *edit* Oops, it's an Antec 902, not 602 */edit*
Corsair 650W PSU.
i7 920 D0 stepping overclocked to 3.40Ghz.
6Gb Corsair RAM.
GeForce GTX 285 1Gb.
1 x 500Gb HDD (will be getting more drives eventually).
LG SATA DVD burner.
Transplanted my old Creative X-FI sound card, G15 Keyboard, and G9 Laser mouse.
Vista 64 bit.... Urk. There had to be a drawback. Got a Win 7 Upgrade voucher though, so I'll likely be trying that eventually.
And a sodding great hole in my bank balance....
So far it seems rather nippy. I've yet to see if that state of affairs will last once assorted bits and bobs get installed. -
Yep, the Total Cat server's been down all evening.
I put in a petition about it, so they should know, but there was still no sign of it when I called it a night.