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No need to get all worked up about it, yeah it sucks and it happened to me too but at least nothing disappeared or broke. It'll take a good while for some people to go through all their characters and set them up the way they were but no real harm done and hopefully everyone will learn from this mistake and prevent it from happening again .

We are currently doing Dam Heroes (New Positron Task Force Part 2) and we're at the "Investigate Clockwork Disturbance" mission. We seem to have run into some kind of temporal disturbance because we've done this exact mission at the same door 4 times now without moving on to the next one. Every time we finish and exit the same mission pops up at the same door and we do it again. The mission text doesn't seem to indicate that this is right, are you supposed to do it multiple times or have we encountered some kind of buggy bug?

The only thing we did out of the ordinary was that one of our members quit as we were entering the mission and now we can't even call Positron because no matter who calls him he asks to speak to the team leader. Any help appreciated although we have already sent a petition. Apologies if this is a known issue that I missed, too sleepy to search forums right now :P.


Edit: solved it seems, the leader logged out and logged back in then the new leader could call the contact and complete the mission. Ignore this unless you run into it yourself!

You guys are way off, CoH 2 confirmed! What is the appropriate amount of time to wait after this obvious announcement before we can start complaining about game balance?

So I've been noticing lately that when I use AoE attacks or debuffs and hit any number of mobs my FPS drops down from about 60 to 10> for a second or five which can be extremely annoying and kinda dangerous when I'm trying to click my self heal at 2 FPS :P.

My computer should easily handle the game at max settings and I haven't noticed any similar problems in other games or while doing other things in CoH, I've tried updating my drivers and I've tried running the game in safe mode on various characters but no results yet. I figured I would check here and see if anyone has run into similar problems before I contact support. I upgraded to Windows 7 around the time it came out but I just started seeing the problem and I've done no other upgrades or changes to my computer recently.

The FPS drop varies from mob to mob and doesn't seem to depend on any particular variables, sometimes it just gets really choppy for a second and sometimes it goes on for 5 seconds straight, doesn't get worse over time so it doesn't look like a leak anywhere. Both my CPU and GFX card are running at normal temperatures, neither one is under heavy load and no other programs I run at the same time get any lag at all.

Specs are as follows:
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
4 GB DDR2
GeForce GTX 285
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Any help appreciated!


Update: after further testing it appears the problem only exists on some characters. When I initially tested it I tried 3 different characters, one brute, one blaster and one rad defender. All three of these had massive lag when using AoEs of any type on anything, when I later tested a lower level brute there wasn't even a hint of lag. Same goes for another lvl 50 blaster and a lvl 50 empathy defender. Now I'm going through my characters finding the playable ones.

How recently did you update your drivers? There was an issue recently with the 196.75 or so drivers that could mess up your fans and stop them from running, might want to check your version.

If you want more details about patrol xp or pretty much anything regarding the game, Paragonwiki is probably your best bet outside the forums: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page

www.i-am-bored.com?

When you say no longer active, do you mean the SG is gone from the registry? Like Kat said, if someone kicked everyone else out and left the SG would go poof.

I'm with the Skype camp, excellent sound quality and chances are there are several people in your SG/group of friends who have good enough machines to host the call. Our SG is small but we all use Skype, usually around 4-6 of us on together and it works great despite the open mic. I used Ventrilo with my WAR guild and while I'm sure part of it was that there were 30-40 people on a city raid instead of the 4-6 people on a CoX team, I didn't like the sound quality at all.

Some people were extremely loud while some were very quiet and I for one experienced significant lag (being in Sweden was probably part of that) but I imagine that all depends on the server itself. Either way I approve of Voice chat!

I say we answer every GR question with a link to this thread and nothing else.

Some sort of scrapper perhaps? Good soloer, good to have in a team but not irreplacable since damage can be found anywhere. I'd say a defender might not be a great choice since it can be hard to replace them if they have to leave unexpectedly but hey, play what you want to I say.

Oh my sweet raptor jebus you people make my blood boil! They could post an announcement saying that every active CoH player wouyld get free money and people would complain about it not being enough money. So what if it's not open to contestants outside of the US? If you really really want to get new gaming gear, save up some money and then buy it. Not everyone can afford to get new stuff all the time (me included) but in that case I doubt video games are high on the priority list.

It's not like the devs sat down and started thinking of ways to screw over foreigners, it's just a fun thing to promote their awesome feature and make some people feel good about what they accomplished that's still subject to laws and regulations. And about it all being a conspiracy and a set up where the hall of famers are going to win, huh? They're not in the Hall of Fame because their arcs suck and besides, it's not like the people at Paragon have anything to gain from picking a popular arc as a winner.

Will there be any indication as to how many tickets are being sold each round and thus how big the prize is? I would be down for a few thousand tickets if I knew I could actually win money .

I imagine SS wouldn't pack the same punch it does right now without some kind of flash or visual aid, the reactions when hitting things make alot of powers look very lightweight already. Having said that, I'm one of the people who wish we could turn of the graphics on alot of powers (fire shield from blaster epics) so I'm kinda with you on this one :P.

First off, CoX has no reason to fear CO, the people who like playing MMOs with other people aren't going to CO. Second, since GR will in fact be a paid expansion and we've been getting tons of free updates for the past 5 years you can just forget about it being as lean as the last couple of issues. I would expect at least as much as CoV since
A) that is the only other paid expansion we've had
B) CoX has competition coming out and, say what you want about the people at Paragon Studios but they're not stupid and won't put out an overpriced expansion with competition coming out so soon

I for one am really looking forward to GR since some members of my SG (small SG so about half of it :P) are liking Champions but still say it isn't superior to CoX as far as MMOs go and hopefully that will convince them to stay on target!

Putting both my arcs up in hopes of comments:

Punching puppies
ID: 17281
Length: Long
Mission count: 3
Morality: Heroic
Description: An alien race comes to Paragon City begging for shelter from their murderous enemies! Will you help them? Last mission contains an EB for those soloing this.


Faceless Minion Boot Camp
ID: 87643
Length: Very Long
Mission Count: 5
Description: Faceless minions are everywhere! From the tiniest Council base to the deepest pits of Oranbega you'll find fine examples of faceless minions of all sizes! But where do all these faceless minions come from? Doctor Creed has an idea and he wants your help confirming his suspicions! Contains 2 EBs.


Now, both these arcs have a couple of plays each but I have yet to get a single constructive comment (the most helpful comment I got was "needs more cowbell") so I would really appreciate any kind of criticism, good or bad :P.

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it is an actual french phrase. it translates literally as "and my [censored]? it is a chicken?" it is an expression of doubt...

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Just checking, I was hoping you were one of those people who say random french phrases to make themselves look cool but alas .

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c'est la vie! or as i like to say more often... et mon cul? c'est du poulet?

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A wee bit off topic but while I do admit that my French is a bit rusty, I'm not sure that means what you think it means :P.

Where's the CHAOS? If this is the event then way to waste the anniversary.

Granted, there aren't any AoEs in /EM but who cares? After BU+Aim+RoA+Fistfull+Explosive+Fistfull , everything except for any possible bosses is dead. If you're using the toon for PvE, You have several ST attacks to finish off bosses and if you're just farming, chances are you set your map to 6 so you don't get any bosses. I'm sure Archery/MM is just as good as Archery/EM but What is the point of getting more AoE damage when there's nothing to kill? :P

I have one of these myself, IOd out and I can do the Council and Demon maps as fast or faster than a fire/kin. Like the OP I got the idea from watching another archery/energy doing it and it is just amazing how fast they can demolish a huge mob, even outside farming. Before I made my archery blaster, I would have said my fire/fire was the ultimate AoE blaster but now I'd have to think about it :P.

What you want is a SS/Elec brute, trust me. If all you want is money, what you can do is run the repeatable missions from Borea, they're super fast (average of 5 minutes) and you get the nice juicy missions bonus for each one. Whenever I need some money I bring ouy my otherwise puny brute and mow through some rikti . To give you an indication of how easy it is to farm, doing it for one week I killed more than 21 000 rikti and earned a couple of hundred mil, counting in all the purple and other recipe drops.