Dinah
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No, Boycott ATARI.
Atari holds the license to the City of Heroes engine. Contract expires, Atari refuses to negotiate with NCSoft, NCSoft is forced to shut down Paragon Studios.
ATARI decided it would make more money from us as new subscribers to their games than from an ongoing license to a competitor's game. -
I saw 'Gaytor Aid' on Virtue. Someone else should remake it on another server because I was highly disappointed.
Corruptor (Really, not a water/empath defender?)
Dark blood red water (Eh?)
Short, skinny girl with long hair in white and black.
It was like a shiny vampire... but not shiny.
I personally have Strawberry Lemonade. Excuse for pink water!
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Please can we have the little microphone piece that Amanda Vines has? Other similar bluetooth things would be awesome, too. Superheroes and villains need to be able to talk on their cellphones hands free!
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Quote:Ditto. Didn't matter what character I brought, either.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I got my first Rare last night. Everything else has been Commons/Ten Thread Genital-Punch table. -
Quote:Yeah, I was noticing a big difference when I had my Assault toggled, too, and was going to suggest it.Originally Posted by Xaphan
After Support is nicely covered, I'd say Assault is the second pick. I'd suggest the Radial version for this, since it's still useful even if you're at the damage cap. During the attempts I was keeping myself as close as I could get to the damage cap as I could (between the team buffs and using inspirations), so Core would have been a waste. With Radial Assault, I could boost my damage even more, which helped a lot. And for this fight, you need every bit of extra damage you can get.
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It took 7 years and 2196 hours of playtime, on a REGEN scrapper (so getting hit at full power, all the time - no mitigation except when the tank pulls the aggro off).
Nah, it's not broken. -
Thanks! I figured it out. Apparently Windows decided to install a driver 4 times for 1 thing (Onboard digitial sound). Driver conflict that I never noticed because I don't use the onboard digital sound. Uninstalled them all and now I'm back to seeing a much prettier city!
Very weird that it just started causing issues with the latest patch, though. -
Is anyone else having this issue? I never had problems before, but now even on the lowest graphic settings (usually they're set mid to high), and nothing else running, my CPU is pegged at 100% and I'm getting terrible framerates. I22 I would see 20FPS in Atlas or on a trial with much higher graphics settings, but right now it's barely playable on the lowest settings.
I know my CPU is my bottleneck (AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+), but it really shouldn't be this bad. -
Staff Fighting can wait until I have all my badges. Thanks
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Yeah, my beef is with the nonexistant male bits. States looks like a woman from the belt down. Really, cover the top half of him when you're zoning. All woman.
Anyway, a PP was right that when people notice something 'wrong' all attention goes to the wrong thing. Male top with female bottom? Eyes drawn to crotch. Doesn't matter if the star has a hypnosis spiral moving in it, once you see the female bottom, that's where you look. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Golden Girl
If only there was some way of being able to view the clues we'd picked up on an arc to let us work out what to do if we ever ran into some kind of puzzle.Yeah, this. Having read nothing about it on the forums, or on the training room, or anywhere, I just pulled up the "Clues" section. It gives 4 parts (or 80%), and tells you exactly where the 1 missing part (20%) is. Got it right on the first try. It's really not rocket science unless you're bent on making wild guesses for the fun of it. If you get the debuff, then it's your own fault for not reading.Quote:Originally Posted by Mad_Scientist_JC
This. The clues do tell the 80% of the ritual, let you know when you need to improvise, and the improvising choices are mumble some random incantation you've heard, dance, blood let or light incense. The Blood Letting really just seems like the stand out choice, but that's just me.
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I did a ;spittake great inside joke for us oldies Here's the text for those who aren't lucky enough to stumble upon it.
Intended Recipient: Positron.
Introduction of self: U'Kon Gr'ai.
Subject: Earthlings too weak.
Consideration: Earth's surrender.
Reason: You cannot survive.
Request: Worthy adversaries.
Purpose: Improvement of battle skills.
Conclusion: You are grey to my threat scanner. -
Fair enough. How about PNY? IIRC they are a good brand. This one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133356
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Quote:Wish I could, but the fan is integrated into the heatsink, so it wouldn't work :/Originally Posted by Demon Forge
You can do it the ghetto way, just unplug the fan on your card, and buy a 80mm fan that has the same plug, and wire tie it to the card. This would get you out without spending more than 15 bucks or so, but again, is really ghetto.
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Quote:Great, thank you! I think I'm going to be stuck with nvidia, but because I'm also restrained by a 300w power supply, and all of the AMD/ATI require 400w minimum.Originally Posted by newchemicals
If you don't mind going AMD/ATI I would suggest 6570 Runs about $60 and if you send in the rebate you can shave off another $10 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102934
If you want to stick with nvidia....GT 430 is about right for $60 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130579
Just my .02 INF
Is there any reason to go with the brand name and not a different one (MSI, elitegroup, ASUS etc?) Others seem to have rebates on them, where the EVGA doesn't. -
Ok, the fan is busted, so def overheating.
So can anyone recommend the absolute cheapest comparable (or better) card out there? Tax return is mostly "spent" already (medical), but we can probably find a little money to fix this. -
Quote:Oh, I knowOriginally Posted by Hyperstrike
- Don't kill the pagefile. Windows won't ever really let you turn it COMPLETELY off, but some programs respond strangely when the page file is set to "off" and Windows is managing a stealth pagefile.
- From your description it DOES sound like you're overheating. Maybe pull the bad-boy out, clean it out and manually reseat everything. Make sure your CPU cooler hasn't popped off. Grab a copy of CoreTemp too and see what your thermal profile looks like.
I just turned it 'off' to see if it was swapping a lot and causing a bottleneck. It wasn't, so I turned it back on again.
Guess I'll pull it out and take the cover off. Wouldn't really surprise me, there's not much air circulation down where it is right now. Of course, not sure how I can fix that with 2 gremlins running around the house looking at blinkenlights! -
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
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All right, I'm confused and wondering if anyone can help me figure out why my fps tanks and GPU stops processing at random points while playing the game.
NVidia GeForce 8600GT, tried both the most recent and 2 releases back drivers. Running Windows 7 64bit. This is a brand new install, maybe 2 weeks ago? Computer itself is 5ish years old, but we don't have the funds to replace it, so it's what I have.
I play windowed mode all the time, and I have the little GPU desktop widget (along with the CPU/Memory widget, too), and so I can see real time what's going on.
When I first start up the game, GPU is maxed at 99%-100% Usage, CPU is probably running 70% (dual core). A few minutes in (doesn't matter if I'm in mission, fighting, traveling, or standing still), it drops to 49% usage, and my FPS drops probably from 45fps to 28fps. A few minutes past this, fps drops to 4-5fps, and the GPU is showing 0% usage. After 2-3 minutes it recovers back to 48% usage, and the fps recovers back to roughly 28fps.
I tried turning off PhysX, I've turned off real time scanning on MSE, I have nothing else running but the game, and it still does this. Oh, and I killed the pagefile, too.
My only and last guess is that it's overheating? But then why doesn't it ever go back up to the 99% that it showed when it first started? -
Quote:But I like rockin' Radiant Aura! It helps, I swears it!Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Grey numbers being turned off need to get in line behind bright, flashy animations from negligible buffs.
OP, I totally see where you're coming from, and I really think you're the first to mention it. Definitely hit up the suggestions forum, I think it's a good idea. Of course, don't be too discouraged if they can't do it, some things are buried in legacy code and may be much harder to do than it seems. -
Quote:Wow, I didn't realize that saying "Everyone hit F7 please!" in league chat would piss you off so much. Have only ever had to kick 1 person and they weren't replying to tells that consisted of something like "Hey, are you there?"Originally Posted by UberGuy
This level of being a whip-cracking taskmaster is so far beyond what I'm interested in doing to play an MMO it's mind boggling that others do play that way. I form BAFs and Lambdas, and I do occasionally ***** people out for doing really stupid things, like completely ignore instructions or basacally not participating. Despite my willingness to get on people's cases at times, If I witnessed you do this F7 thing, even if you did not kick me (you would not have to), I would one-star you and never do participate in anything you were in charge of. You might get things done, but I'm not so desperate to get things done that I want to be exposed to that sort of approach to doing it.
Note that I'm referring to standard "lets finish and get a reward pop-up", not a master run. I still would never behave this way for a master run, but I would not begrudge others as much for doing so.
The very notion that anyone would want content that promotes such behavior by league leaders bothers me.
The main reason why we do it is so that we make sure no one is AFK and everyone has League chat in their chat box. People forget to add it on new (or old) alts (I've done it) and it's a real easy way to check and send a reminder tell to add it before the trial starts.
Occasionally we have a few people who don't listen to/afk during instructions and wander off, but in pretty much every case if we restate the instructions in LC they come back and do as asked.
I imagine it's quite a bit difficult to run any trial if instructions aren't even getting to the player.
I'm not a slave driver, really. Just like to make sure everyone can hear League chat! -
You're right, I didn't mention master, but it seems as though you created this thread having been frustrated with multiple attempts to get master badges.
I've gotten the master badges more than 2x over and I had lots fun doing it, so I figured I'd chime in.
But I digress. Even on low population servers you should be able to get 16-24 people to locate and hit their F7 key when asked in league chat. Even if it shows up in team, the team leads can verify it was hit. If it someone doesn't hit F7, send a private tell instructing them on how to add league chat to their chat window. If they still cannot listen, it's a wonder how they dinged 50 in the first place (also, they are probably 'that guy' who doesn't press the big green button upon entry).
If you truly cannot find 16-24 players who can see league chat and hit F7. Ever. Then I'd suggest switching servers so you can play with a more competent selection of people. But I'm pretty sure even the Euro servers could find a group capable of that.
Another note: People gather wherever the first person shows up at the Truck Depot is. So have someone go there and go to the first regen terminal before the final reactor terminal is down. Once it's down, they will all crowd around said person, AM will show up and fly straight where you want him, and then Freeze Time will be so short you'll stop caring about it (on a regular run - Master you do have to have players watching out for Oblit & Dis). Whomever has his aggro should go to the next regen terminal so that AM follows him. -
So let me get this straight.
You want a Master of Incarnate Trial to be doable with a group of players who do not listen to their leader?
Really?
I mean, Keyes has it's faults for sure, but if you can't get a tank or brute, or both to taunt AM over to the correct regen terminal, I fail to see how that is the fault of the developers. -
Quote:Before every trial (Lam, BAF, or Keyes), we shout out in league and tell everyone to tag F7. If they don't, and won't listen when someone tells them how to add League chat to their tab, they get booted and replaced (or sometimes not replaced).Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
for points 2 and 3, it actually requires the league to LISTEN and respond to whats going on, ive been on several runs where poeple shout to slow up on the dmg cause of the time stop and yet half of the league is still wailing on him full force, EVERY person in the league has to be on the same page for this to work right
This is an incarnate trial for level 50 players. If you can't listen to a leader on the most basic of tasks, you have no business being on my team.
I mention it because it's been the Achilles heel to many of our 'Loves a Challenge' attempts. I've seen it happen a bunch of times where the disentegrated target keeps running away from the healer of the opposite entanglement but the healer persists and gets the guy killed. I would love to see this go, it adds unnecessary complication to an already overpowered attack.Quote:Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
for point 4, yes ive seen that happen, but very very rarely, most poeple are smart enough to not stand in the middle of the group when they are being disintegrated
I bring it up because the hold animation is (at least pretty sure it is) the same animation as the 'Freeze Time' hold animation (This should REALLY be changed!). I get stuck in Oblit from this hold far more often than because of an actual Freeze Time.Quote:Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
point 5 ive never even heard of being an issue talked about among poeple who hate keyes (including myself)
Oh the pulse definitely sucks. I like the suggestion upthread where it's based on base threat level instead of x% across the board. I was just mentioning that the Vicks kill me more often than the pulse does - they can almost one shot me as a scrapper (and then the pulse would finish me off regardless of how much damage it does).Quote:Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
the major hate in keyes trial comes from the antimatter pulse and the fact that there is NO way to avoid it or lessen it (only make it worse), and the fact the obliteration beam is hard to see because its faint green (which all of AMs attacks are too), and entanglement just adds a helluva lot of screen clutter and does basically nothing 99% of the time
Maybe the Oblit ray is easier for me to see because I'm playing low graphics? I only had a problem when rebirths are done at the same time. When running badges we asked that everyone change their color schemes to be not green and that helped others a ton (this obviously is a design flaw)
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Wow, I read through this entire thread and I can't believe I haven't seen a few things mentioned:
1. The pulse damage and the hospital door timer are one and the same. If you can't make it out of the hospital and back to a group fighting in 30 seconds, there are other problems.
I also want to note here that as a scrapper, the pulse damage doesn't bother me much, but the damn Vickis kill me probably more often than the pulse kills squishies, cause I see the inside of that hospital a lot.
2. Antimatter goes to the same regeneration terminals in the same order every single trial. If you fight him near the terminal he's going to go to, 'Freeze Time' lasts roughly 2 seconds.
3. The 'Freeze Time' happens at 80, 50, and 20 health. You have a health bar visible in the little window. How hard is it to designate one person to shout in request to stop attacking at 85 health until after everyone is clear of the green stuff?
4. Entanglement matters a lot if you are also being disintegrated. If you're targeted and Alpha entangled, stay the heck away from Betas or you will die on the 99% hit every time.
5. His 'Atomic Blast' can hold non-squishies. When it says back away. Back the heck away unless you have break frees on you!
That said, the reactor part is tedious and I would love to see the bottom floor of terminals disappeared.