GibberingLunatic

Walk animation causes the Crab legs on my solider to go nuts like in the flight animation or swimming animation where they move up and down rapidly instead of just casually moving when your character is at rest (at least it looks more natural that way)

The animation also starts slow till it finishes the first cycle (loop) then goes back to normal speeds.
This could be akin to the height bit if your playing a short character the first animation plays normal and every loop after that plays like you just had a gallon of coffee.

However my character is around 6'3" (my IRL height) and it does this as well.

if they added a jump restriction like they did with the speed restriction allowing us to jump over small obstacles then this would be beyond epic.

Oh. and fix the bleed-over bugs too.

Mission: Create a Distraction
Contact: Crimson Revenant
Location: Nerva Archipelago

Patrol Text has a typo:
[NPC] Longbow Flamethrower: Looking forward to meeting the Brawler?
[NPC] Longbow Minigun: You betcha. I just hope he tinks well of our operation here.

Capos about to throw guys into the river with the cement buckets on their feet, when interrupted use the "walk" animation instead of the "hopping" animation.
Pets have been changed to be persistent during zone changes. Including my Disruptor.
However the description text still says,

at least it isn't running a steady 110 like mine is >.>

It's more technical than anything, it kinda rides both lines. and I don't cross-post.

Before people go off and say "Wrong forum!" Read it first.

Dear Devs,

We know your hard at work designing new things for us time and again. However something I would like to see (Being a bit of a animator and clothing designer in another game that I won't mention here) is the BASIC files or information (in general like, "Use this program, Bodies have X amount of bones, This many polygons are used in the creation of certain costume parts... etc) for animations and costume pieces in the game.

Create a way we can submit this work to you guys and have BaB's and Jay go over it in their spare time and see what can be worked with and what just won't work period.

Cause honestly, With the new Walk and everything and a lot of people saying they don't like how they look and such. Well if they got the skills they can submit alternative walking animations and such (sorta like fly poses, /em flypose1/2/3/etc.) Or more costume pieces for the grinder letting the creativity of the CoX players show within the game as well.

Licencing:
Something like the following would be near-perfect for something like this,


Just a thought

I just hate "End all, Be All" Comments Always give a option. You cannot IMAGINE how many times I've had a issue with something only to be greeted in google search with a couple hundred, "Oh its your drivers" , "You sure your running it right?".
*spits* Yeah, somethin that was working just fine 5 seconds ago MUST be my drivers causing the issue. And when I do something specific and it's repeatable, my video card MUST be broken.

Not saying you are like this flameshot, this is just the general mentality across the board, the easy answer and then let the topic get buried. I like to dig a bit. So forgive me that much (Been a tech rep for about 7 years)

Honestly I think its a bit of both, the games memory leak and the sub-standard video card. The game is sending instructions to the card and then starts dribbling more and more things that were left-over instructions or other graphic caching confusing the card, causing textures, objects to over-lap.

Worst case scenario, the card is reaching the end of its lifespan.
Welp, the card is pretty old anyway and a decent budget gaming card can be pretty cheap and still provide some good quality.

(I remember when I was setting up a rig... the difference between integrated video and a $35.00 budget card was MASSIVE!) So it might be time for a change anyway

Unfortunately I just remembered that 3D analyze will NOT work with City of Heroes. Basically because it has to open the main file and drop its own DX "payload" in the folder and attempt to force CoH to use it when running itself. The launcher defeats this purpose as the launcher quits as soon as you start the game preventing 3D Analyze from "hooking" into the City of Heroes process.

Always something wrong with the computer?
Honestly if it had no problems before the patching and didn't exhibit these problems before hand then something in the game itself is sending the wrong signals to the graphics card.

I've had issues recently myself where my ID pic ends up being something else entirely (one time ended up being a clothing texture for the T-shirt) But has never had this problem when I started playing again and yes, before you ask, the drivers ARE up to date and so are all patches and updates to my operating system. Which is indiciative of a memory leak within the software causing certain objects and textures to get placed in the wrong areas or leaking into other texture calls.

Sometimes its not always the computer thats at fault.

What tends to fix this is restarting the game client entirely. However if its really bad and moves to something else, deleting the checksum.coh file or just re-installing it entirely may be a good option.

I point you to my bug thread, http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=301

It's a memory leak issue. Honestly it shouldn't be doing this right after you log in as the memory gets cleared after it closes. However if you are quitting to the login screen then going back in, the memory used doesn't get cleared. I would suggest restarting the game once about every 3-4 hours like I do. A lot of the issues I had with random glitches and buggyness tended to taper off if I regularly restarted the game at set intervals. Might work for you until they fix the memory leak issue with the BM/WW

Downgrading to XP as well may assist in this endeavour as it uses much less RAM.

A way how to "temporarily" get rid of the crab backpack when a crab.

If you have any outfit saved with the trench coat, load that costume up (it will say theres a problem, so just auto-correct it and it will cut off the bottom of it) once loaded, just change the outfit as you want and exit out. You will be in your new costume without the backpack.

(when you zone however it all goes back to normal. And I've tried to zone using my actual crab armor outfit but it does change all costumes back to the crabpack.)

More unknown "red-line" issues.
Playing CoX for 5 hours+ (according to CPU time)
My CPU usage was up to 78% And my RAM was showing 1.78GB in use. Not including my Page file showing 3000+ MB in use while it was running.

The second it was closed however, my CPU usage dropped to 3% and my RAM usage dropped to 300MB and my page file got slashed in half to 1453MB.

For a 5 year old game this totally needs some "under-the-hood" improvements before GR comes out otherwise its going to be a trainwreck...

Graphics are nice and all, but a game needs a stable underlying code base to work with.

System Specs:
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
RAM: 2Gig
CPU: Dual-core 3Ghz (2 CPU's)
Video: Modified Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset with custom drivers. (supports Hardware T&L, AGP Texture Acceleration, Direct 3D Acceleration, DirectDraw Acceleration, PixelShader version 2.1, Reflections, Dynamic Lighting, DirectX 10 and, over 1,000,000 particles without flinching on the Havok4 system.)
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This system can play John Woo's Stranglehold and Assassins Creed with 0 issues.
*flips on his matrix screensaver and goes to bed*
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So for a 5 year old game at minimum settings, why does it keep choking?

*ahem* BaB's. The Ninjitsu animations are fudged again when they were working not to long ago... Was there a patch on live recently because about 2-3 days ago the hands were not going through each-other and now they are again...

And the new epic walk animation broke the forums o.O

WAIT A MINUTE!


They are actually adding WALK? OMG! *bounces* Finally!
All my characters have a "Normal" life. and well, normal life doesn't involve running EVERYWHERE! Wewt! *logs in quickly to the test server*

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