IkThazai

I was wondering who to contact in regards to my Grand Prize. One of the game time codes has 'Expired', after trying to use it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


@Ik's Last Stand
Grand Prize Winner, "Zombie School Girl"

I just transferred some toons on Exalted, and made some new ones. I like having perks for being VIP. This is one of them

Been having the same issue. Faster I move, the more the flickering. My drivers are up to date, and I am rolling with an ATI Radeon HD 5770. Tried defragging hard drive, then repair, then tried adjusting the Screen Resolution/UI to 'Windowed' as support recommended I do. No dice.

The screen flashing is causing me severe headaches, to the point where I can't play. I can handle some flashing (movies, for example), but this is a constant, steady stream of pain for me. Mind you, this only happens when outdoors, and only sporadically in missions.

I'm just glad I wasn't the only one having the 'Flashing Strobe Light' issue.

I truly hope this gets resolved, and soon, as I feel that I have been paying just to get a headache of late.

And no, I am not running any add-ons. I usually play music while goofing off in CoV/CoH, but shut that down. Still no effect. Still having the 'Strobe Light Effect'.

Regards,

Ik

Haha...They should give you that special emote, Samuraiko, for all the awesome trailers you do

Eh...for me just more 'thumb twidling'...no biggie

@Ik's Last Stand

Yayeah! I'm all giggity...Tuesday and Wednesday is my weekend haha...

*Looks at essentials*
*Food...Check!
*Coffee...Check!
*Friends I'm about to play with on Exalted...Check!
*EPIC SOUNDTRACK MIX OF DEFTONES, TWO STEPS FROM HELL, VAST, FU MANCHU, HANS ZIMMER, MINISTRY, WU TANG(don't hate), ABBA(don't hate), TOOL...Check!


See you goons later!

Ik

So rockstar . Thanks for all the hard work, devs

Not to be on a downer.

First, I LOVE the CCs that the American Legion hosts. Gives me the opportunity to see what you crazy goons come up with!

I am...in a bad way. I will be undergoing chemotherapy. I collapsed at work, and I have a tumor.

Found out this past Tuesday.

I wanted to say that I LOVE this game. All of you have been wonderful.

It's hard to write this when I just bought a new computer, and now I am typing this on my old gateway laptop! haha.

Take care, everyone. I will think of you fondly, and hopefully, often.

Big Shoutouts!

The Arachnos Commander...
American Legion
American Wonder
Doctor Von Havencrabs
Crom Cruach
Chasa
George
Odoni
Mylia
The Remarkable staff at Paragon Studios.

This is a small piece of joy I am afforded. Thanks for everything!

Your friend,

Jason S. Moore
aka (Virtue Server)
Ik-Thazai
Hasdrabul Skaras
Carthago
Night Spiral
Bloodlash
Takaroa

(ALL these names are now available)

Thus far, I have been very pleased with the pace of the release of new content, especially the Incarnate stuff. I would much rather have a steady progression, to let the character's own story unfold within the Incarnate arc, rather than be instantly powerful. For me, becoming instantly powerful does not seem fun at all. I would rather take my time with a team,have fun, rp the content(when with rp group , and just have a good time. These issues have been alot of fun, as I LOVE a Challenge(was on an Apex with my DP/Kin/Pow Mastery Musculature Radial lvl shifted Corruptor with 7 Tanks/Scrappers/Stalkers...talk about challenging! XD), I eagerly await the issues to be released this year!

Haven't seen the new issue sneak peek, but I did see something about a Ship City? Very cool

See you all in game!

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue
Ik-Thazai(D3 Defender), Hasdrabul Skaras(DB/DA Stalker), Takaroa(Rad/En/Blaze Blaster), Resplendent Crane(KM/Nin Stalker), Carthago(DP/Kin/Power Corruptor),

I have been reading almost all of the posts on the video card guide, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on laptops in regards to Ultra Mode and performance. What laptop would some of you recommend?

Oh yeah! Almost forgot!

Flying emotes: so far so good. Would LOVE to see a Barrel Roll type animation for when you change direction

In regards to animations, I have a suggestion or two. I don't know if they've been brought up yet, but here goes.

I really like the Redcaps dual blade spin double stab(best way I can describe it hehe). I think that animation would be a great animation option for Blinding Feint and Assassin's Blow(especially for Dual Blades). Also, the spin/stab animation could work with Broadsword and Katana as well.

Assault Rifle: Keeping the rifle snug to the shoulder instead of the hip position could be a good animation option, like the Sniper Shot animation for AR( looks more Spec Op-ish ) In continuing with this, when the character is moving/not moving, the barrel could be pointing down. Also, since your character stops to fire, a kneeling firing position would be another viable animation option for AR sets. Perhaps a reload animation as well, where the magazine is ejected from the rifle/pistol and the toon reloads it. No gameplay value, just for aesthetics , as in a /emote reload that can be used for both AR and DP.

Martial Arts: A few more options would be nice. For example, Cobra Strike. You could add a spinning backhand for that Stun effect . For SS you could go for elbow and knee smashes, but that's probably a stretch hehe.

Oh and just for fun, I would love to see Brutes/Tanks have the ability to pick up cars and throw them(I know this may never happen, but it would be fun on bank missions for both red and blue sides )

That's all I have. Thanks for reading!

Has anyone else noticed that Virtue is always "down" when checking on Server Status? Jeez, this is getting REALLY OLD with the server crashes. :/

Like Kioshi, my Intel 950 is up to date. The live patch for the Intel Chipset Family has done nothing to help me out. My connectivity is excellent, but the shader options are still N/A and grayed out.

Prior to i17 my graphics had a nice, polished look to my toons: armor was shiny, there was depth and shadows to the game. Now, even AFTER the patch, there are reflections on the ground, the characters STILL have a dull, matte finish. Granted I am running on a 3 and a 1/2 year old laptop, and I do not expect to have Ultra Mode be accessible through my laptop. But my graphics looked GREAT for the past two years PRIOR to i17. I used to enjoy getting on and playing this game with friends. NOW, it's a disappointment.

At any rate, that's me. Also want to express that I am not hating on people with better systems, and I am NOT expecting ULTRA MODE on my laptop. I have done everything I can think of (I am not very computer literate) to fix this problem on my end.

Thanks for reading.

Respectfully,

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue

i17 seems a bit rushed. I have had issues with me handsome little Gateway Platinum Series laptop since the i17 came out. Prior to i17, my graphics were GREAT. Had shadows, polished look to armor, and sleek tops, etc. I had my WoW friends impressed.

Post i17:

Bleh. I wouldn't show this game to those friends I was tryin' to convince. Unless you have a rig that blows the Samsung 3D out of the wall, then this game looks horrible. And I have been playing CoX for a little over two years.

Embarassing to play.

But this is just me.

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue

Interesting....Before i17 and Ultra Mode, my three and a half year old laptop was running the game slicker 'n snot. The game looked fantastic. There were shadows coming off the trees, armor was shiny, my toons looked great! Light reflections on armor such as 'Tech Sleek', for example, looked great!

Post Ultra Mode and i17:

Bland. Environments are reflecting things that they shouldn't. All shadows have disappeared. My characters now have flat, bland coloring. Cursor disappears, etc. Shader Qualities, Shadowers, and all else within the Advanced Graphic Options read N/A, so I can't even begin to try and mess with the graphics settings.

On this Gateway laptop that I have(I know very little about computers), I have a DirectX, and a Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @1.60 GHZ (2 CPUs). I don't know what this means, but I have been operating City of Heroes/City of Villains perfectly and beautifully with this for a little over 2 years now. I remember I started messing with the Advanced Graphics Options in November of last year, and the game started to look even better. Ran fine, only a few hiccups over the past several months, nothing out of the norm.

Now Ultra Mode: Again, toons look flat. There are now shadows. Arachnos Flyers are reflecting patterns of itself, a strange "reflection" is occuring on doors, etc.

So, that's my problem in a nutshell. I don't feel the need to get another computer as this one has done fine by me for a while now. Still fast. No issues with any other programming on the laptop itself. So I am kind of puzzled why all of a sudden this Ultra Mode has now made a great looking game on my Gateway laptop now look...bland.

I have contacted Support, and submitted a report, only to have an automatic answer to try something that I have already tried in game.

Thanks for letting me go this long. Longest post ever for me!

@Ik's Last Stand

Seeing comments from people that are making a mountain out of a mole hill: EXPECTED.

NERDS: Give 'em something cool and they'll still whine about it :/

Come March 5th, I will have been playing for two years. I am always ready and willing to help new players who have come from other MMO's or who have started playing as a result of the Free Trial.

I was in AP messing around with my Defender(bet you can't guess what my secondary is :P), when someone was looking for some help with beginning missions. So I helped, and it turns out he came from WoW. He said he is truly enjoying the game, and is having "alot of fun". He asked about the booster packs, and I told them what they were(guilty as charged: I have them all like most). I gave him a big welcome and gave him about ten million influence to start his new character off. We exchanged email addresses, and I gave him the list of sites that could help him out, namely the paragon wiki and Mid's Hero/Villain Designer. I think I have secured a loyal player .

I guess what I'm trying to say is that new players having access to the all the cool stuff like the booster packs and early access to the new powersets DOESN'T BOTHER ME IN THE LEAST. I have also seen people post that the early access to VEATS and HEATS at lvl 20 is bothering them. They feel slighted. Again, who cares if new players can have access to these Epic Archetypes at 20? Let them, I say!

City of Heroes/City of Villains is a GAME. Designed for one thing: TO HAVE FUN. HELPING out new players whenever I can(information, IO creation, TF runs, etc.) is my idea of fun, and I can tell you from personal experience that by HELPING instead of HATING, the game has become so much more fun. I have developed GREAT FRIENDSHIPS on this ideal, and will continue to do so.

Thanks for listening, everyone. Now, LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!

Respectfully,

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue
Ik-Thazai, lvl 50 Dark/Dark/Dark Mastery Defender
Hasdrabul Skaras, lvl 50 DB/DA Stalker
Nusrah al-Qasim, lvl 50 DB/DA Scrapper
Laurentian, lvl 50 Elec/Elec Brute
Takaroa, lvl 48 Rad/En/Flame Mastery Blaster
Judge McGraw, lvl 19 Dark/DP Defender
Bloodlash, lvl 32 DB/WP Brute

Probably a stupid question, but I'm going to ask anyways:

Will it be in the NCSoft Store under Featured Items? Or somewhere else?

*cracks open Coronas numbers two, three, and four...then takes a shot of Tequila*

*Cracks open a Corona, one of twenty-four*

I'm patient. I'm glad that the Devs take their time to get it right. I'm also glad that I have saved up vacation days from work, and I started them today .

Going down my checklist:

1. Booze...check!

That's my checklist hehe XD

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue.

Happy Birthday, man! May Mutant Robot Ninjas give you a day off!

I'm with Melanie on the eagerness factor.

I'm with Psynder13. When and Where can we pre-order Going Rogue?

Here's a thought on the whole debate regarding the pre-order of the Separate Expansion vs. the Going Rogue Expansion with In game item pack.

Allow the Complete Going Rogue Collection to be available for pre-order. Once July hits, the In Game Items would be available to the players to mess with. Sounds reasonable.

Wait. I just checked to see Server Status and my Account. Both are suspiciously down. Hee hee...hoo.

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue

Definitely Shadow Shard Maps, as I have seen in this thread. Perhaps a few of the places in the Shadow Shard, not just the prisons that house Faathim and Lanaru. For example, portions of the Storm Palace area and Cascade Archipelago would be great.

Parts of Rogue Isle Maps would be good too, along the lines of open maps. Sometimes story concepts don't fit with a war wall in regards to MA arcs .

Just my two cents.

@Ik's Last Stand, Virtue
Ik-Thazai lvl 50 Dark/Dark/Dark Master Defender
Hasdrabul Skaras lvl 50 DB/DA Stalker
Laurentian lvl 50 EM/EA Brute
Takaroa lvl 45 Rad/En Blaster

Just curious about the pre-purchase stuff for the availability of Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning in March and April. When can you pre-purchase the Going Rogue? I've looked through the store and didn't find it for pre-purchase.

Apologies to any who have already asked this question and received an answer.

Also, will the Going Rogue edition override a current copy of Good vs. Evil Edition?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Global @Ik's Last Stand-Virtue

Hasdrabul Skaras lvl 50 DB/DA Stalker
Ik-Thazai lvl 50 D3 Defender
Laurentian lvl 50 Elec/Elec Brute
Ghost of Carthage lvl 50 DB/DA Scrapper