Firebeam

Do teams not like that power or something?
I love it.

Im still confused about Ultra mode
can soemone tell me exactly what my settings need to be in order to (attempt to) run this game smoothly on my laptop?
thanks

I remember playing COH back in 2006 on my old Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. I'd be sitting at the airport with 2 hours to kill, and I'd log in and play and the time flew by, it was great.

Today, I have a new "gaming" laptop (Dell Studio 15 w/ Windows 7, loaded with processing power and 4gb memory) and when I play COH the thing shuts down after a few minutes of playing.
I've done everything to it, even bought a $60+ chillpad, and nothing. Still wont play.

I dont understand how my old junky laptop could play the COH version from back in 2006, but my fancy schmancy new laptop wont play the 2010 version of COH.

I guess you've added significant "Improvements" to the game, but they've made it so I cant play on my laptop.

I would Love Love Love if the older version were available in a "Laptop Mode" kind of thing, so I could play the game.

And yes, I sign in under Safe Mode and the graphics and gamma alllll the way down so the game is all washed out, and my fancy new laptop still cant play long without shutting down.
and yes I went through technical support and the issue never got resolved.

Please offer the older less intense version for those of us with computers who cant access the game.
It stinks so much to only be able to play a few minutes then get constant shut downs.
I wanna play!!!

I dont know if this is the right place to ask this.
But can I change my forum name
Im tired of marc100 and i want to use my in game global instead.
thanks

I always feel bad for people on the street being mugged. So even if Im level 50 flying through atlas, and I see someone yelling for help I'll swoop in and blow away the level 2 criminals to save them.

Even though its a fake computer generated victim. I feel bad for them so I save them.

im sad.

What does FREEM! mean?

"FREEM!" was a game tip, which I thought was a stupid "tip" to have when it doesnt explain what it is. whats it mean?

This server has been overloaded for the 5 years I've been playing this game.
It's not a secret that its overloaded.

YOU KNOW every night it goes red and lags. It will go red tonight. It will go red tomorrow night.
Why dont you DO something about the overloaded servers?

If this were my business I'd be embarrassed if I had paying customers logging in and lagging and slow every. single. night. for years. and I would fix it so my customers experience is excellent and keep coming back for more.

Bravo on building a killer and addictive game, but the server lags is so annoying.

Ever notice the cars driving in the streets are from like 40 years ago?
does COH take place in the 1970s?

For me Kinetics works the best with Mind.
Mind puts your enemy to sleep and kin saps their power without waking them up.
At higher levels when you have FS, Terrify and Mass Confusion that combination worked great for me.

ah now I see it. thanks guys

When changing the colors of powers it gives a preview of what the powers will look like, but it doesnt show what pets will look like.
So you could change the color of imps and not know what they will look like, so you have to cast them to see.

After you cast your imps, if you dont like it and want to change it then you have to go back, change the color, and wait for imps to recharge before you can cast them again.
you could have to recast them many times before getting the colors you want, waiting for them to recharge every time.

if you could preview the pets color in design mode it would save a lot of time.

so does anyone know how to do this?

In my experience the best troller for soloing and teams is Fire/Rad (well, except fire/kin but im sick of fire/kin). I almost soloed my fire/rad all the way to 50 and it was fun the whole time. Its a great combo for soloing and also very useful on teams. For me it was the most powerful troller I ever rolled.
If you want to feel like an unstoppable God then try Fire/Rad.

My very first 50 was a mind/kinetic and they worked beautifully together. It was awesome to play. Mind puts them to sleep and the kinetics siphons their power without waking them up.
Its a little slow going soloing but it's doable. Teams love kinetics. Hit the mobs with FS, then Terrify (my favorite power) then mass confusion and the mobs are helpless while your team rips them apart.

Believe it or not, Ice/Storm was a very fun combo. You cant really solo with it (at least I couldnt) but its absolutely killer on teams. With Ice Patch and Freezing Rain you always have a patch to drop on every mob. When one power runs out, the other is recharged and ready for you to use. The mobs are popping up and down like popcorn and helpless, teams love it and remember you. I had no problems getting on teams and hitting lvl 50 with that one lol.

I'm playing an Ill/FF right now and its great for soloing and teams and a lot of fun. When you solo you can use your forcefields to constantly knock back your enemies while PA and Phantasm defeat them. In teams the shields are useful for teammates.
I know rad is probably more desired than FF, but sometimes rad is a pain cuz you're constantly using it. The team defeats your anchor first (they always do) so you're always waiting for it to recharge and then looking for a new anchor.
With FF you give your teammates their shields and dont have to think of it again for 2 minutes.

those are my favorite builds.
Imo earth, gravity, ice and plant are slow to solo.

I have an energy blaster and everytime I use Nova I want him to automatically yell a phrase, without me having to do anything. its just automatically tied into when I use Nova.

Is it possible to do this? with a Macro or Bind? Not sure which one. I've never done them before.

if I hit Aim + Build Up and then use Black Wand, will it do more damage than when I didnt use the Aim + Build up?

How many costume contests do we have to have ruined by a griefer going around giving the contestants ice shields to make the judging impossible?

How many times do we hear "No speed boost for me. it makes me run into the mobs", etc.

allow players to reject buffs. thanks

im looking at new systems and many of them are 64 bit.
will COH play on 64 bit systems?
thanks

i was just about to post this too lol
but i can get in now. thanks