Ice_Storm
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Quote:As for the books, I'll agree that Jordan started to get a little long winded. Winter's heart in particular was a hard and boring read for me. Although it's very sad that he never got to finish his life's work I really must say that Brandon Sanderson has pleased me.Originally Posted by Asha'man
Couldn't agree more with this point. Some people complain about the monthly fee. I consider it a bargain. It's kept me from buying any new shinies for a long time now. And at $60 a pop nowadays, that adds up quick.
@Ice_Storm, I must admit that I haven't read the last couple of books. I trudged through a book or two where nothing seemingly happened, in 1000+ pages... But I'm planning on picking it up again.
Some time back I made a toon with the name Mandragoran. Unfortunately his build didn't click with me so he stalled in the low teens. But I haven't deleted him because of the name.
The last two books that he wrote are just jam packed full of action. It's nice to see that the large amounts of boring reading were worth it cause they led into some truly spectacular stuff in the most recent stuff. It's like the series went back to it's roots and mimicked the fast pace, high action, and high story content that the earlier ones had. -
Asha'man,
First, I would like to say: nice name! I'm also a Robert Jordan fan
I'm looking forward to the day that the devs release a quarterstaff set so I can make a Mat Cauthon tribute character! Boy that's gonna be a great guy to play. I'll probably call him "Son of Battles" or maybe just "Toy" or I'll go with "Carai an Caldazar" if it's not too many characters.
Also, I couldn't agree more. I've played since about when Kheldians were released and even though I've left once or twice I always come back because of how much the devs add in every issue! Every character gets to be completely different, a shield scrapper and a willpower scrapper will both be able to solo content and will both be fairly sturdy characters but they'll feel completely different while you play them!
And I gotta say, the incarnate system has me almost crying with joy. I used to never want to dust off my 50s because there didn't seem any point since I couldn't gain any more levels. But now I gladly hop on my scrapper a couple times a week just so I can get on a TF and earn some shards so I'll be ready for the justice slot!
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I'm not the most knowledgable on blasters but since no one else has responded I'll try to help you out. Someone else will probably come by in a bit and correct me.
I'd probably give the edge to the Sonic/mm in this case since I'm fairly certain that it has better DPS and that it's a fairly single target oriented set. I've heard that people can easily use siren's song on a group, then the ST disorient attack -> Kill disoriented guy, and rinse and repeat without ever having to fight more than one guy at a time.
Course, this would probably be some pretty slow going so if you wanted to ever attack more than one guy at a time you might want the nrg/nrg which is also fairly survivable due to the knock back.
So yea, I'd say sonic/ just because of the AOE sleep...it just might get boring and not be very flashy.
EDIT: and I dunno where you're questing at man. In this city we do missions! :P -
I was just wondering what support set you guys all like teaming with the most and why?
I personally like cold domination the best. Great shields, sleet debuff for large mobs and good single target debuffs for strong single targets, and +recovery!
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I may have figured out a solution!! Just did it on my buddy's computer and did a small test run on two missions and it seemed to work. We'll be trying to test it for a good hour or two later to see if it really works. anyways, for anyone else having the problem here's what I did.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...m_timeout.mspx
This told me to change my registry setting so that the computer wouldn't reboot my display driver as quickly when it got hung up. I put in 8 seconds for TDRdelay.
If someone use uses this please post to confirm if it worked for you or not. Thanks Guys
EDIT: Please, please, PLEASE make sure you create a restore point before you do this. You're messing with registries and can potentially really mess up your computer if you change the wrong thing and I don't want to be responsible for anyone destroying their expensive computer
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Quote:I'm almost 100% certain that this is NOT the problem. The laptop always has a chill pad underneath it going strong and is never in a cramped position. Also, the laptop is never really hot or anything when this problem occurs.Originally Posted by _Zep_
Another common cause of this message is overheating. Hows the room and ventalation?
As for the drivers. We tried to install the Nvidia drivers on the site that Blade suggested. The install seemed to go alright but after the reboot a Black Dos window comes up and started listing off errors. I believe it said something about the LDLL or something like that? After the window runs through several lines of texts we get an error message saying that the drivers are incompatible and have been disabled.
Could this possibly be because it's an Alienware laptop and has some other things such as Lights on the laptop. Would it require special drivers so that they're able to recognize these extra things and run them??
Thanks again for any help,
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Quote:Flame. How in the world do you update your drivers? Me and my roommate both are constantly C***blocked when we try to update.Originally Posted by Flameshot
Ice_Storm, might want to start with updating those drivers.
If I go to the website and download a driver then tell it to install, the program tells me I either A) grabbed the wrong driver or B) am trying to install a driver that's no good for my card.
If I try to use the Microsoft tool to search for no drivers it tells me that I'm up to date....as you and I can both see from that readout there's no way that no one's developed drivers in 2+ years.
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Ok Here's the readout for you. I'll look into the ATI card thing but I'm pretty sure it's running a Nvidia -
Hey there awesome people who are better with computers than me!
I need some help on behalf of my roommate. He plays Coh on his laptop and frequently gets the error message "A video driver has crashed and recovered" as the screen goes black and then he gets kicked from the game.
This is getting very annoying and we would like to fix it. I can give you any specs that you might need later tonight when I'm home but until then, are there any general solutions that we may be able to try? We have tried updating the driver several times but windows won't accept any driver we find always saying that the driver it currently has is better.
We also tried deleting the driver and then rebooting and letting it install a driver on its own but this actually seemed to make the issue worse. He's tried running the game in safe mode and it STILL crashed. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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Quote:Boom there it is. I forgot that Touch of Death doesn't go to 50. Thanks for the help. I knew it had to be in there! haha.Originally Posted by NordBlast
There is level slider on selection screen, by default it set to your level. If you are level 50, so it set to level 50 as well.
Touch of Death is maxed at level 40. That's why you don't see it.
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Since it's winter break I've got some free time on my hands so I figured I'd come back and play around with the side switching, incarnates and other stuff that's been added since I left. Yea, it's been a great choice so far
Anyways, the other day I decided to check out the stuff I could purchase with hero merits and was happy to see that everything except the very rare recipes would only cost 1 merit. Since I've been wanting to get some powers slotted with touch of death on my scrapper but didn't feel like spending money quite yet this was good news.
So you can imagine my dismay when I go to grab two of the recipes with my merits and realize that they aren't there. I've tried messing around with the options but all I could get to pop up was mako's bite...which I don't really want.
Am I doing something wrong or are they only offering certain IO sets for cashing in Hero Merit rewards?
I noticed that I'd be able to pick up very rare recipies after putting in the time to accrue a lot of merits and that's nice and all but I was really looking forward to getting some of the less rare ones before working at the purples.
Thanks for any light you can shed on the situation (sorry about the long winded post)
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Hey,
Before I spend the money on the mutant pack I was wondering what exactly this sword customization is. Is it just another one or two swords or is it finally a way of putting auras on our swords?
I assume it's not the latter since I feel the devs woulda been parading that around a bit more but it never hurts to ask. Thanks
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Quote:Why would bubbles allow you to wade into the middle of a mob and use your Tier 9?Originally Posted by Redd Rumm
While grinding my Dp/Cold Corr (after my 2nd faceplant ) i started thinking what can i do to minimize my end use an stay a live at the same time an it hit me .. Nothing !!!!! lol . an i figured out what would be a great secondary for a Dp cor . bubbles !! they would allow me to wade in to mobs an use my teir 9 ( i think ) but since corrs dont have FF i will never know. I was wondering Does any one know why Corruptors dont have FF ?
Isn't it mostly teammate buffs except for the dispersion bubble?
That said, I don't really know why corruptors don't have bubbles. The thing that throws me off is that masterminds have bubbles don't they? They really should, I'm a big bubbles fan. -
Quote:Woah!!! You serious? I did NOT know that. I'll definitely change it to lethal then.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
It only applies the resistance debuff if you're using lethal rounds so it would be better to use:
Yea, I think the biggest advantages of this will be making piercing rounds always lethal and Hail of bullets always Fire Ammo.
Besides that I think I might change it to just coast on cryo or chemical ammo for the rest of my attacks.
I liked using one of the debuff ammos regularly but I always wanted to use hail of bullets with fire ammo so I could get the max amount of damage out of it so I often ended up just using fire. This should help I think. It's too bad macros don't recharge like our power buttons that would really be a nice QOL thing.
Oh and in response to another thing: putting the toggle on before the power execution works.....but only if there's nothing for you to target. If there's anything on screen it'll auto target them and attack. If not it'll turn your toggle on. So yea, doesn't work for what I'm trying -
Well it definitely works. Not sure exactly how much more survivability it adds. Still though, I think I actually kinda like it. I'll have to use it for a little bit more before I'm sure if I like it or not. Having to doubletap each power really doesn't add as much time as I thought it would. I barely even notice it. Course if you tap too quickly it skips over the ammo swap for some reason and just puts you on lethal ammo. Still pretty cool though I think
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Ok so I was thinking the other day about macros to help me switch ammo while fighting. The biggest reason I was thinking is that I feel like switching ammo a lot will help get all the secondary effects out there and possible increase my survivability (Not that I'm not survivable enough but it could help). So here's some macros I've been fooling around with.
powexec_name Dual Wield$$ Powexec_toggleon cryo ammunition
powexec_name Executioner’s Shot$$ Powexec_toggleon chemical ammunition
powexec_name Hail of Bullets$$Powexec_toggleon incendiary ammunition
powexec_name Piercing Rounds$$Powexec_toggleon incendiary ammunition
powexec_name Bullet Rain$$Powexec_toggleon chemical ammunition
There are some problems. You gotta hit the button twice everytime (once to toggle on the ammo and once to fire off the power). I've been noticing that if the ammo you're switching to isn't already recharged then the power won't fire.
I'm gonna be taking it for a test run in a bit. What do you guys think? Am I barking up the wrong tree even trying to do this? Is there a way that'll work a lot better?
EDIT: forgot one of the other problems, the buttons don't recharge like the power buttons so I'll have to move the power buttons somewhere else on screen so I can see what's actually recharged and what isn't. This is mainly just a problem with bullet rain and Hail of Bullets since they're longer recharge -
Quote:Course this will be followed by a nerf in I21 because everyone keeps forgetting to put the new coversheets on their TPS reportsOriginally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Staff use, Mastermind powerset.
Summon temps. Summon middle manager. Summon CFO. Powers include "File TPS report," "Bug for signature," "Restructure." -
Quote:I disagree. I like fancy animations and I like movies like wanted, equilibrium, and the matrix. Now I have them both in my character and I couldn't be more happy.Originally Posted by Far_Realm
They kind of overdid it on Dual Pistols.
A more serious note: they seem to be trying a lot more lately to make every single animation unique. Look at the initial release powersets and how much the Total Focus animation was repeated. Remember when khelds were released and how disapointed people were that almost all of the animations and powers were just rehashed? Sure, the AT was new and offered a ton of new oppurtunities, but the body movements and the core use of most of the powers was the same as on other ATs and this seemed to really bug a lot of people.
The new and fancy animations for Dual Pistols really keep me coming back for more on my blaster. I wouldn't mind every powerset having cool animations like this. Although I hope they don't all have long activation times on all the higher damage powers. The devs seem to really have a mentallity of "If we're gonna do this we're gonna do it the right way or not at all!" and truthfully that's what I love about this game. -
I'm really mostly interested in the rewards given. I can't imagine what else could be added to the game to make our 50s better but then again I never could have really imagined them adding the crafting system with it's set bonuses and such.
I would love a chance to play my level 50 some more. I spent so much time leveling the guy but now I really gotta try to kick myself in the butt to ever try to go play him again. But hey, I have complete faith in the devs, they've never really added anything that's dissapointed me yet and most of it has surpased my expectations. I guess I'm willing to wait to find out more....
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Hey all,
My DP/NRG blaster is getting close to 40 so I'm starting to think what I wanna do next. I'm liking the blasting sets and wouldn't mind doing another but I'm pretty unexperienced with em. I was thinking of maybe Arch/ice blaster, how do these go?
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Quote:Hm that's unfortunate. Maybe it'll be like powercustomization and one day they'll get around to it. Do any other games have this right now? Cause I know I personally think a big reason why we got power customization was cause the competition was getting it. Maybe if another game tries to implement this the devs will be forced to do it tooOriginally Posted by Lemur Lad
I've talked to Castle in the past about Attraction (reverse repel) effects, and he freely admitted it would be awesome and give him a lot of cool options (can you imagine the Plant pet if he dragged people into his maw instead of just rooted them and plinked them with thorns?).
Unfortunately it's something the system currently isn't capable of. He was distinct about that. Didn't say it wasn't capable or that they'd never work on it, just that it couldn't at present. And to be absolutely clear he never hinted they were planning to work on it either. I still have my hopes though.
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I've really been wanting a yank type power for a while. Something like "GET OVER HERE" for scorpion in mortal kombat. I don't think it'd be hard, I'd assume that they could do a knockback but from the reverse side that the hero/villain is on.
I also think it'd be nice for tankers or scrappers or other melee classes. Often times I'm playing a scrapper and the last guy starts running and I'm left sitting there thinking "Really? I gotta go chase this minion down now?"
Anyone else think this would be a nifty utility power for a new powerset to get sometime down the road? -
Quote:Haha it happensOriginally Posted by Purus
Animation/redraw for BS annoys me but then I have no patience
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Quote:two thingsOriginally Posted by Purus
Looks kinda cool but im a little concerned by the animation times........
1) I was reading on another website that they said this was just an initial build or whatever so everything including animation times wasn't actually locked down yet.
2) I don't think they seem long at all really. Sure they seem slightly longer than normal and they have the two or so powers that have REALLY long animations but most of them seem rather quick. I mean, we've been putting up with the Total Focus animation and some others that are long too for a long time now.
As long as these are the hard hitters that is. If there's a 3 second animation time for the first power selection then I'll be mad haha.
3) I think I said long a few more times than necessary in point number 2
EDIT: also I did a little extra searching and people said this was announced as a set for Scrappers, stalkers, Brutes, tanks. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if a dominator version gets released down the road somewhere. Something about it just kinda has a dominator feel to it -
Just watched the video and I see what you're saying. It's hard to tell since the video isn't just taken from a playing perspective but it looks like there might be 2 ranged attacks and several melee attacks which could fit right in with a dominator assault set.
My problem with it being a dominator assault set is this: what control set can I pair it up with to make a Gambit clone?!?!?! hehe looked pretty cool though