Incarnadine

-Giant versions of various body parts, such as hands, feet, and head
-A mirror for the head (that does reflect)
-Claws option that is knives, spoons, forks (going with previously mentioned thrown together costumes)
-Various swords/mace option that is a stick with an open hand on the end, so when you swing it, it looks like you are slapping someone
-Finger guns for dual pistols
-Face paint skins for faces (so it's a face painted to look like a tiger, skull, ect)
-Currently we have option for hook for hand for right/left hand, open it up for both (same with peg legs)
-Chicken hat (http://www.thankachicken.com/Images/heather.gif)
-Oven mitt gloves
-Titan weapon option of pieces of in game billboards

I know this has been brought up a million times in the past as things players wished to see, but heck, we are getting rocket boards, so why not ask?

Having not seen it yet, I am imagining rocket boards as an alternate to fly basically, based on what has been said, maybe working a bit differently, since it grays out other powers, maybe speed isnt the same, but handles about the same.

How about as a sort of alternative to super speed, getting things like motor cycles, horses, and skateboards?

I know that I myself, and plenty of others, would love to see it expanded further to include cars, giving a Batmobile or Black Beauty feel to it, but I can see complications with that. While sure, there was that hilariously ridiculous scene in Green Hornet where they took half the car up an elevator and it kept driving, pulling out a full vehicle in mid mission is simply not practical in any way. Still, I can dream.

And while I know this is not you David, just speaking out loud, I would love to see powers that shut off all other powers actually give you things to do because you are using that power. It could be as simple as Rocket Board giving you access to a power you can only use while Rocket Board is toggled on, that is a boost to speed with a long recharge; or as awesome as "This motorcycle has a machine gun. While on the motorcycle you cannot attack...unless you use the machine gun."

Totally in, and arranging my team!

They don't have Halo anymore...so you never know

While some builds purples are very helpful (such as a perma-dom), I have never found them necessary to a min/max build, and have roughly 10 50s that I consider having min/max builds. Two of them have purple builds, that took me a LONG time to fund, but that was by choice, the rest of them I find to be just as fun and amazing, but in different ways. Even if it is just something like "I built this fire/psy blaster to do nothing but cone attacks, he already does great damage, but his endurance cannot keep up, focus the build around end and recharge" can be min/maxing.

Heck, two of my favorite characters that I consider min/maxed would actually suffer from purples. My stone/mace tank, who is built to be able to handle Lord Recluse with as little outside help as possible, and my kin/ice defender, who has all the attacks slotted to slow instead of deal damage.


Anyway, while not a fan of speed runs usually, I am willing to do them once in a while, and I LOVE talking min/max, so I will definitely be joining!

I really wish I could participate in any of this, but it seems strategically placed within my work schedule. I dont really care about the badge, I've been hoping for events like this for a long time!

Just wish it had been done on a Saturday... :P

Thanks Posi! Really appreciate you addressing that there is a problem, and that it is going to be fixed.

For the most part I have been on some very, very good runs. I've joined quite a few, and had many where either myself or my normal team mates led, and most everyone has been just great. When me or my friends lead, we normally do not do speed runs, we do the "If it's in our way we will kill it", going for shards, and have never really gotten a complaint, but been surprised to see that a lot of people had never done things like the LGTF without someone teleporting them to the end of the mission. Crazy.

Did have a couple really bad ones:

The first was an STF that a friend and I joined in on, where we both knew from the team makeup that we would fail (no tank, only support on the team was me, on my /thermal), but we would probably be fine up until the last mission, and we decided to ride it out for shards. After an hour and a half and we were still trying to kill Aeon, we pretty much gave up on it.


Other was an LGTF, we passed, but it took about 2:45. I dont think I ever took that long on one before. A few people had apparently gotten the time wrong on a ship raid, and started advertising it, a friend and I joined, and when everyone figured out what happened, we decided to run an LGTF, because we had quite a bit of time before the raid actually started. Everyone on the team wanted in the raid, so we started with the understanding that we had to be done well before it started, to make sure we all got in. But the leader insisted that we run on +4 difficulty for the first couple missions "for drops", people insisted on killing everything in sight (including the waves of Clockwork that come at the end of the last mission that you can just ignore and exit on).

On the last mission I suggested something I never do, that we stealth and TP to the back. No one had any form of stealth except me (I am on an empath defender with the power Stealth, not Invisibility, and Fly, not Super Speed, and no stealth proc). I somehow pulled this off, otherwise this TF would have been well over 3 hours. And of course, RWZ was full when we finally completed, and the team missed the raid.




Other then that I have had fantastic runs, 2 bad ones out of the dozens I did during the first 3 weeks of WTFs (havent been doing it much this week on Psyche and Mantis) seems like a really good average to me.

Wasn't too into it, picked it up now and then for everything but the price guide, but it is something I am so used to seeing in comic shops. I dunno, feels like the end of an era.

I'm an all around big fan of the show, I watch it on DVR, but it still feels like Saturday morning watching Spiderman when I was a kid (and I like the intro for that reason).

They are being very true to the characters, and pulling elements out of the storyline from the comics to tell their own story. It has been a little strange seeing things like the prison in the Negative Zone introduced, when in the comics that was introduced during the Civil War event, but certainly not a bad thing, it makes sense in the story they are telling.

I am very interested to see how it goes, and how long it lasts. I am nervous that it is on a Disney side channel that not everyone gets, so ratings simply wont be as high as if they were on the main Disney channel. Hopefully we wont have another Wolverine and the X-Men, which had a really strong first season, absolute cliff hanger, and then cancelled. Dunno if it was due to it airing on a side channel for Nickelodeon, or if it was because of Disney buying Marvel, but it was very dissappointing either way.

-would rather die in an ITF, STF, or any other situation then pop large inspirations...just in case (the thought does not even occur to me)

-have 10 times as many builds in Mids as I have characters, all of them with sets, yet if I choose to make a new character with the same powersets as one of those builds, I still have to do a new one because "What was I thinking when I made this?"

-Have yet to finish a concept in base editing. I start, I do fantastic things, but it never gets quite done, before I loose interest and decide to go smack people around.

-Cannot stand playing scrappers, they feel slow next to brutes.

-Have not played any of the epic ATs past 20

-Have not played stalkers past 8

-Have not run the 4th TF in the Shadow Shard

-Have not even attempted the Cavern of Trancendence trial since getting the badge on my original badger.

-Still cringe when told to go places such as the Hollows or Perez Park, though am also still grateful for the learning experiences I recieved from these places, in the early days of the game. Now I can take a level 2 to Portal Corps, and the only thing that might hit me along the way is a sniper.

-Have never chosen the badge at the end of a villain respec trial.

-Have never succeeded on a LRSF


I'm sure I could list a thousand more XD

Okay, was able to get the 10.9 driver installed and working, first test was successful, though it did seem to hang up when I first opened the contact window, something it had done before when restarting the PC fixed the problem, so I am not 100% sure that this fixed the issue or not, but I will probably know by the end of the day.

If it comes down to it, I still have the install disk that came with the graphics card, so I will try going back to that if I still have the issue.

Thanks for the advice!

I have a Radeon 5770 graphics card, CoH told me to update the drivers, and when I did the game started looking great, smoother, I could finally use FSAA...but...

On certain characters if I open the Contact window, the game will totally lock up, and after a few seconds, fade to gray, and Windows will tell me it crashed, and my display driver stopped working. If I try to load those characters up again, the contact window is already open, and I will crash before I am even able to fully load in.

This has been going on for a few days, at first if I rebooted the PC it would clear the issue, and the problem would stay gone for the rest of my gaming session, but if I waited a few hours and started to play again, same problem. Now, rebooting does not help. I have to log in on my laptop, close the contact window, and then I can play the character once more.

I am really hoping I am doing something wrong here, so I am hoping to get some advice on this. If it helps, I used CoH Helper, and these are my results:

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at December 16, 2010 12:16 (-06:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
System Manufacturer: Acer
System Model: Aspire M3300
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 6144MB
.Net Memory Report: 4322MB out of 5886MB available
Page File: 9894MB (1876MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD10 EADS-22M2B0 SATA Disk Device) 340542MB out of 937382MB (36%) free
D Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH41N SATA CdRom Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x68B8)
Video Memory: 3699 MB
Driver Version: 8.801.0.0
Driver Date: 11/25/2010 8:57:08 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5942
Driver Date: 9/21/2009 3:58:22 AM

Sound Device Description: Realtek HDMI Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5942
Driver Date: 9/21/2009 3:58:22 AM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5942
Driver Date: 9/21/2009 3:58:22 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Acer
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: FRS780M
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: ACRSYS - 20091116
BIOS Release: 20091116000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x1024
3D Resolution: 1280x1024 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: 8x
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 2.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (5)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Ultra
Occlusion Strength: Strong with color bleeding
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality


Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.017
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 1636812 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1900.201011102104.24
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
.\texts\English\Menus has 5 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 38 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\City has 1 file
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files




Any help in this would be greatly appreciated!

I think it would be doable, but very difficult, and would probably take a while. I havent done Tin Mage yet, but as far as Apex, the last fight would probably be fine as long as enough people had some envenomed daggers, Shivans would be nice, but would die from the AOEs everywhere without buffs/heals, but the daggers can stop her regen so long as 3 people spam them.

Ran this today, took a lot of advise I had read in this guide into account. I initially did not worry about the envenomed daggers, we had a debuffer and enough damage to get past the regen quite easily, but when Battle Maiden ran off, our debuffer decided to quit the team for no reason that was ever made apparent.

Battle Maiden came back, and whiped the floor with us. I asked around, no one had the dagger, so I went to the black market, grabbed a few, grabbed the salvage to make them, handed them out and popped out my handy dandy Portable Workbench.

3 people with daggers made this EASY. I think even that might have been overkill, and I know I was not spamming mine anywhere near as much as I could have. I am now seeing that dagger as something I must have with me at all times, except on my debuffers, because of that fight.

Anyway, thanks for the very helpful guide

Awesome. I truly love this community, and it's developers, for doing stuff like this.

Played plenty of other games with rain cycles, and if anything, it annoys me. Sure it is more realistic (...I guess...if it is realistic to rain in 5 minute bursts 80 times a day), but it changes nothing at all. All the NPCs are still out, all the mobs are still out, and apparently I'm the only person sitting there thinking "Huh, maybe I should get my character out of the rain. I like my character, and dont want him to get sick."

CoH does not need that. Maybe something for another game down the line, when everything is being built from the ground up, but lets not waste time with that.

I, of course, would love to see water frozen over during the winter events, some lights and trees put up in City Hall, Wenty's, and other places of interest, heck even a nice blanket of snow on the hill in Talos would be awesome (especially if it was made slippery so we could slide down it). I'd also love to see decorations had Halloween put up, pumpkins at many doors, ect.

But ultimately, it would be fun for the first couple days when it happens every year, and then it would be ignored until the next time it happens. The amount of time to go into something like that would probably be fairly large, and I do not think it would be worth it.

That is the duration of the holiday, it will be released after.

Thanks for the update!

In my bored moments of looking at things I cannot afford, I stumbled across one of the costume codes given away at a Meet And Greet for a Freakshow Meat Doctor costume. Now I have seen stuff like this before, Gamestop gives free stuff for preorders all the time and some people will turn around and sell them for a couple bucks on Ebay, seemingly more to give them to someone who cares then to make a significant profit.

When I saw this item, it was at $225 and still had 2 days left. At first I was amazed that the poster of the code would ask so much, then I saw it already had 14 bids, and the history showed the poster started it at the cost of a penny.

http://cgi.ebay.com/City-Heroes-Nort...item43a30381fd

Good grief this guy is cashing in. I was simply amazed that someone would pay over $200 to be able to have their characters look like this:

Would it be greedy to ask for both?

Seriously, I would love to see either one, and would happily help in any way I could, base design, controlling a character, ect.