Frost

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  1. No, we all hate it

    Seriously, you're probably asking the wrong type of people if it's good since we're all paying to play it here pretty much.

    Yes, you can join clans/guilds. They're called Super Groups in this game, but the concept is the same.

    The people around here are great. There's some jerks and stuff, but most of the people you're going to meet, especially around this section of the forums, are nice and friendly (as long as you're nice and friendly to us of course).

    The graphics/missions/powers question is pretty subjective and you're best off playing to see if you like it. Feel free to ask questions around here if you have anything.

    http://www.paragonwiki.com is a really, really good resource for finding answers to questions on your own by the way. I'd definitely give it a look over, especially if somebody says a term you're not familiar with. You can look up pretty much anything over there and find out what it is. (NOTE: If you come across a cityofheroes.wikia.com, it is NOT paragonwiki. Do not use it, it's no longer updated. The only two URLS to access the real wiki is paragonwiki.com and wiki.cohtitan.com)
  2. The OP is running the windows version. Natively in windows. Ignore the mac stuff please, I think it's just confusing the issue. Just pretend he/she's got a dell or something because that's what it amounts to.
  3. Frost

    Team Dynamics

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warsuit X-5 View Post
    Oh, and the optimum team build is: Fun. A team that has a decent knowledge of how to hit buttons and in what order should have no problem beating most content.
    Yeah. This is more important than the actual team makeup.

    There are definitely some situations and enemy groups which lend themselves to being easier to complete with certain team makeups but there's other situations where the same team that breezed through one bit of content hits a wall where another team makeup would have no problems.

    But there's very, very few situations (if any) in the game that are impossible to do without certain ATs or Powersets. The only thing that maybe comes close is some of the level 50 task forces and Hamidon Raiding. Things like the Lord Reclsue TF and the Statesman TF are definitely made easier by certain team makeups but you can succeed in them with practically any team setup if you're willing to think up new tactics. The Imperious Task Force might be difficult for controller/dominator heavy groups because most of the enemies in there have some kind of status resistance, but it's not insurmountable.

    I usually like to do Task Forces with at least a Tank/brute to take the heavy hits from the inevitable Arch-villain(s) but even that's not required. I'll take skilled players who know how to use their characters and adapt to changing situations over a specific team makeup any day of the week.

    So in conclusion: Go! Have fun! Don't worry about it!
  4. The pylons are like the glowies in the respec trial missions.

    They're just there. They don't actually do anything at all. Leaving them up won't make hami any easier or harder.
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    A plea for help.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lady_Circe View Post
    Thank you to GM Hardy and GM Lloyd for their help in returning my errant e-mails!
    Huh, hope this is the same GM Lloyd that's been working here forever. I rarely remember GM names but I DO remember Lloyd specifically as being awesome.
  6. Frost

    Winter Event ?

    I only said that because that was what happened with one of my characters...he didn't offer me both at first. Kinda weird.
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    Winter Event ?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    Where do you always get the winter missions? Father Time.
    Note, he alternates randomly giving out this mission and the standard baby new year one. If you talk to him and he gives you baby new year, you may need to run a couple of those before he'll throw out the new mission (And you need to be level 20 or higher)
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    Winter Event ?

    The big thing is they've added a brand new mission where you defeat lady winter. That would be about the extent of the new stuff though. New badge and all that. The mission is pretty neat and she's fun to fight (at least she has been for me)
  9. Frost

    Mob problem

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    It's an auto power that takes effect part of the time (something like on 20 seconds, then off 40) and while it's active the creature is highly resistant to mez. If active little purple triangles float around her. This is probably your main issue.
    It's up for roughly 50 and down for roughly 20-25 seconds. (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Purple_Triangles)

    Sadly, it's necessary to make those very powerful encounters non-trivial (Just holding somebody and beating them down does not make for an exciting encounter). Which is bad for controllers and dominators because this nullifies their main form of protection when solo.

    You're probably going to want to look for a teammate on this one.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Residentx10 View Post
    The rest of the "Cartel" only sends me hate mail but be patient next week my eu and na sub ends and I go away.
    Oooh, yay, he brought up post counts!

    Can't wait until next week.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Residentx10 View Post
    You can say whatever you want. I can search the history of the posts and ask questions.
    Necroposting is against forum rules.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Residentx10 View Post
    I'm doing research.
    This should be good.
  13. Frost

    VEATs and You

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SwiftOneSpeaks View Post
    I made a Praetorian and at 20 I got the "Epic Archetypes unlocked" message.

    Prior to this I had unlocked the VEATS but not the hero-side.
    That's the bug. It says you unlocked something but you don't.
  14. If Emperor Cole wants a memorial hospital, are you going to be the one to tell him that's not possible?

    I don't think so.
  15. *facepalm* Seriously...

    Mobs in game do things we can't because they're dumb as a box of rocks. They need to cheat to be challenging.

    Travel suppression isn't going away. Deal with it.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scientist View Post
    My most recent set of CoH/CoV disks are many issues old. When going from an XP machine to an XP machine, I can save a lot of updater time by copying the latest folders, does this work going to a Windows 7 machine?
    Yep.
  17. Frost

    Odd AI?

    I've been fighting a bunch of malta recently on my defender and, I too, haven't noticed any teleporting from the gunslingers. They're not as teleport happy as, say, sky raider porters but they usually at least jump once in a while.
  18. Frost

    Edition Help

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mandu View Post
    Yes a free month comes with the basic edition but for some reason you can't start playing on that unless you register a credit card number or time card code with the account. Most likely it's another RMT combat measure but I don't believe that has ever been verified. For people who intend to keep playing the game this is no problem but I have seen people who just want to try for a month start screaming bloody murder.
    This is not just CoH. Pretty much every MMO on the market is like this.
  19. You want to go to the above linked site and then hit the "Ask A Question" tab.

    Fill in the requested info, send it off and wait for a response.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hollows View Post
    Decided to just roll back my comp to yesterday. I had installed a bunch of updates for the comp this morning and that's when all the problems started. Everything seems to be running as before. Thanks for your help Rajani.
    Going out on a limb here...do you have an nvidia graphics card and you updated to the latest drivers?

    There's been some reports of some people's games becoming crash happy with the latest nvidia drivers for some reason.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DeathSentry View Post
    Otherwise seems like you have to keep swapping in and out which doesn't seem to match some of the major incarnates like States or Recluse who, for example, will have great endurance reduction and damage at the same time.
    I think it might be a mistake to base what the incarnate system will be on what the in game incarnates can do. Satatesman and Lord Recluse are just Archvillain (or hero, but...same difference) class constructs with some souped up powers. They have mountains of hit points and gigantic endurance reserves, along with all the damage resistances and status effect protection of other AVs because of game mechanics that make them challenging for players to face.

    The player incarnate system is a whole other ball of wax entirely. I expect any intersection with what the in-game versions of States/Recluse can do to be purely coincidental.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf View Post
    Not to mention that even if they did have a list of everything in the patch, it doesn't mean everything actually made it Live. I imagine there would be more Nerdrage about X being in the Prepatch Notes and X not making it to Live in that patch.
    It goes the other way too. If there's any exploits they aren't listed in the test patch notes but will be listed in the live notes.
  23. Oh yes, because there couldn't possibly be ANYTHING going on that you don't know about which might be more important than pasting up patch notes right away. They must be eating donuts and talking about what was on TV last night. There is no other possible explanation.

    ...

    How about you stop calling people lazy if you have absolutely no idea what's going on behind the scenes, ok?
  24. The /screenshotui slash command will help here:

    /screenshotui 1 (will show your user interface when taking screenshots)
    /screenshotui 0 (sets it back to default)

    Just type it into the chat box and then take a screenshot as per usual.