Katie V

They upgraded the physics engine to support Nvidia GPUs, which has been causing issues with ragdoll effects. The increased gravity may or may not be contributing to the problems.

Thanks for the heads-up.

*Heads off to try to add a few more viruses to the collection*

It's only "Below Normal" when you're looking at the priority. Once you stop looking and go back to playing the game, it goes to "Normal" priority because it's now the frontmost program. If you're trying to figure out where your lag is coming from, look elsewhere, because it's not a problem with priority.

There are a group of tugboats at one end of the Sky Raider fortress. Each of them has a very small glowie on one side, and there are two additional glowies on the round fuel tanks nearby.

That's...not saying much. I've been working on the non-raid path on one of my characters, and I'm currently estimating that I'll get my first non-Alpha T3 in mid-January.

There are three types of asymmetry here:
1) Asymmetric costume parts. There's nothing preventing this other than increased GPU load: it's easier for a GPU to use a shape and pattern on one side of the body and use it again mirrored on the other side of the body, than it is to use two different shapes or patterns. With asymmetric parts, the CoH client needs to send twice as much data to the GPU, requiring twice as much video memory. On low-end cards, this forces the card to use slower main memory to store some of the data, reducing framerate.

2) Asymmetric options. If you're using the Biker Jacket sleeve on one arm, and medieval armor plate on the other, the City of Heroes server needs to store twice as much costume data, and send twice as much data out every time you come within view of another player or do a costume change. CoH is already borderline on low-end connections, and this will just make it worse.

3) Different body parts are different sizes. In addition to the higher GPU load and network load, this breaks every emote in which one body part interacts with another -- in short, just about all of them, including the basic "standing around idle" postures.

But does it interact properly with fire hydrants?

Assuming no damage resistance on your part, debuffing an attacker's damage by 20% is equivalent to 20% resistance. Note that because of damage debuff resistances, level scaling, and the like, this usually requires applying more than 20% in damage debuffs.

When combining damage debuffs with resistance buffs, you compute the equivalent resistance by multiplying, using the formula
So, for example, a 20% damage debuff and 10% resistance is equivalent to 1 - ((1 - 0.1) * (1 - 0.2)) = 0.28, or 28% resistance. 20% damage debuff and 90% resistance is equivalent to 92% resistance.

Damage debuffs are subject to the same purple patch modifiers as any other debuff. Possible exception: Paralytic Interface may be exempt from purple patch scaling because of how the stacking limit is enforced.

Probably. Damage resistance resists damage debuffs, and raid AVs tend to have high damage resistance numbers.

No. Damage debuffs only debuff the standard damage types.

There are two techniques the game uses to create reflections. The first is called "environment mapping": it overlays the surface with a generic "surroundings" image and distorts and shifts that image to give the impression of reflectivity. This can be done on almost any graphics card, but if you pay attention, it looks extremely fake. The other does some sort of fancy work with graphics shaders to actually show the surrounding area. It's not perfect (it tends to break down at close distances and sharp angles), and it requires a reasonably powerful system.

I suspect what's happening is that the low-power system is using environment mapping (easy to see), while the high-power system is using shader reflections (harder to see, until you know what to look for). Try going somewhere with large, strongly-contrasting objects (such as the Magesterium section of Nova Praetoria, or the central street of Steel Canyon), switching between Environmental Reflections settings, and moving around (shader reflections are easier to spot when you're moving).

I just checked, and you're right. The theoretical maximum for any AT is +49.5%, for a tank, it's +46.5% (unless there's a power I'm overlooking, a tank can only slot Soulbound Allegiance in one power).

You should be able to -- I did it on a Mids' build for SR -- but you'll be sacrificing survival and damage to do so.

They removed this a while ago because accessing the auction house on an instanced map (a mission or a base) caused a massive increase in server load.

Unless that build is being pushed live tomorrow, that's not very reassuring.

It's not missing because it's not new. That arc's been available as a flashback for a while now; I think it was part of the I21 update.

When I'm on my blaster, I hang out around 60 feet back: with three Centrioles in Blaze, my entire attack chain has a range of 65 feet or longer.

It's a bug. It will be fixed with Issue 21.5.

There's a simple thing you can do in this situation: back up. As far as I know, "Targeted" has a range of 30 feet; if you're further away than that, you'll never be selected.

Malta gun drones have a base 75% to-hit. Your gun drone has a base 75% to-hit. Where's the difference?

No. Going from a base 1339 HP to a base 1874 HP on a regen tank will simply give you the ability to handle a 50% larger alpha strike, where a defense or resistance tank multiplies those additional hitpoints with a tank's stronger values for defensive powers for much higher survivability.

That was Arcanaville's I7 analysis of scrapper secondaries.

Executive summary: Regen had the highest "immortality line" and three-minute survival, while SR had the highest 30-second survival. The analysis did not include the effects of pool powers, which hits SR harder than the others (you can softcap SR on SOs and pool powers). If you look at the "peak performance" numbers (equivalent to softcapped SR), SR is the best scrapper secondary for 180-second survival as well, followed by Dark and Invulnerabilty, with Regen lagging far behind.

Basically, Invulnerability, SR, and to a lesser extent Dark scale with incoming damage, while Regen doesn't.

They've said that there will be a way to get it after it rotates out of the rewards list, but they've given no details on how.