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If you were playing any character with any sort of aggro aura, enemies you run past, even greys, would aggro onto you (they might be too lazy to follow if you go fast)... so if someone's ambush was headed in a direction and crossed paths with you, that'd explain that occurring.
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Quote:I'm fairly certain those are mostly Working As Intended by and large (always possible some were an oversight). A humorous thing about Lighting Rod is you can point your destination into the AIR! And most toggles that require you to be on the ground to activate let you later on jump/fly (except for a couple that also do -fly, -jump... Rooted?).Originally Posted by Lightbender
- Some powers just didn't work if you were off the ground (even if you happened to try to activate them while stepping off a 6 inch curb or running up to an enemy in a rocky cave or the rough floor of a crumbling building). For me, Lightning Rod was the most annoying of these, being a tier 9 power. Has this been looked into, at least to prevent the "you're 1/4inch off the ground for a 10th of a second, so your powers suddenly don't work" issue? -
Quote:It's a Nemesis Plot, obviously.
I'm still waiting on support though. I want to know why they won't let me just use my damn card. -
It would appear that at the very least your video card's drivers are out of date, you should be able to get more recent ones from nvidia's website (might as well get the low hanging fruit out of the way).
Also, I recommend using CoH Helper and HiJack This over dxdiag, since dxdiag is obscenely verberse and the others show more information useful directly about CoX (plus, it highlights potential trouble areas in yellow
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Edit: You could also try running (from the Run dialog, accessible by pressing Win+R) the command C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh -console 1 which'll directly start the client with the debugging console enabled. As the game is loaded, it'll output to it whatever it's currently initializing, so when it freezes, you could write down what it gets stuck it, which at the very least could give us a hint at what's wrong. -
It seems like a good number of people are having issues with this over the last week or two. The problem isn't universal (I've yet to be able to reproduce it), and doesn't appear to be on the client side, either.
If you've already fully updated your City of Heroes installation (if you've played anytime in the last few weeks, at least, it'll be current), you can bypass the updater and launch the game directly.
To bypass the updater in 32bit Windows, you'd press Win+R on your keyboard (which brings up the Run dialog), and copy & paste in "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh then press enter. If on 64bit Windows, you'd do the same but use the command "C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\cityofheroes.exe" -project coh (if you're unsure of which you're using, you can just try both... if it's the wrong one it'll say that the location is unavailable or an error along those lines).
If you're running OS X, you can bypass the Updater by open the Applications directory, going into Utilities and opening Terminal.app. In there, copy and paste the command /Applications/City\ of\ Heroes.app/Contents/MacOS/cider --use-dos-cwd c:/coh -- c:/coh/cityofheroes.exe -project coh and then press enter.
All three of those commands assume you've installed it into the default directory. If you installed it somewhere else, you'd need to modify the path to point to the correct directory. -
Basically, a 'min/maxed' build is an optimized one for maximum performance. A 'min/maxer' would be a person that makes (or tries to) min/maxed builds.
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2-3 End Reds should be enough, although for especially long journeys (say, shadow shard), you might have to slow down your teleports a bit between jumps when you get closer to the end (not long enough to fall, but... closer).
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Quote:I'm fairly certain the files are part of the .pigg files, so they wouldn't normally exist independently. Neither of the files exist in the normal filesystem on my system either, so it's not created by the game later. Beyond just fiddling with stuff, I've really no idea what the problem is.
I also did a full search for the files mentioned in the error and they do not even exist I believe they are created when you first log in fully along with the player_name directory I am stuck at the splash screen???? -
Quote:No, they haven't.Originally Posted by MT_Head
Oh cool. Off topic, but maybe you know, have they nerfed the MA/SR set in the last year or so? I had my build all planned out (when I played regularly) but I don't know if I have a decent build now.
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Quote:I've largely soloed my newish Claws/WP Scrapper to 25, even taking out Protean (as an EB). I think it's more so that elec/elec is just weak in the low levels (I hate my elec/elec brute, without Lightning Rod elec/ is rather subpar, and /elec isn't incredibly survivable).
The thing is I should be able to solo as scrapper, I mean, Im not new... -
Quote:Addition, subtraction, and multiplication are complex? It's a very simple mechanic (for the whole attack mechanic... normal tohit is even easier, as it's just BaseHitChance + ToHitMods).Originally Posted by WarronPeace
The calculation is somewhat complex. See this page for more info: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics
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Quote:Actually, when we switched forums, they set up an email address so that anyone could request a name change, largely because the EU and NA forums were merged, so a lot of names got mangled (i.e. if 'Boo' existed on both, you'd end up with 'Boo_NA' and 'Boo_EU'... which annoyed a lot of people, especially when one of the two had zero posts and hadn't logged on in 4 years).Originally Posted by Bossa_Nova
We used to be able to change our names in the old forums, but since we moved here we've been locked into the names we had at the time.
I don't know if they still watch that address for name change requests (or what it was), so they might still let people. -
Quote:Yes. See this article on the Attack Mechanics.Originally Posted by SPiNE
I'm not really sure on how the tohit mechanics work on this game. Do tohit debuffs apply directly to something else's tohit value?
Yes, although most enemies start with a tohit value of 50, but your scenario is current.Quote:First example: if I'm fighting something that has a tohit value of 100 and I use my Darkest Night, which has a tohit debuff of 28%. Would this mean that whatever I'm fighting now have 72 tohit value instead of 100?
Yes (but again, most enemies have a tohit of 50).Quote:Second example: say I'm fighting the same thing again that has a tohit value of 100 but I use Darkest Night AND Fearsome Stare, which both has a tohit debuff of 28% each for a total of 56% tohit debuff. Would this mean that whatever I'm fighting now have 100 - 56% = 44 tohit value?
Tohit debuffs really aren't percentages, just straight up modifiers.Quote:I guess what I'm asking is, if I have several tohit debuffs, would all those debuffs add up together first and THEN apply to my target? Or would it they individually apply to my target's CURRENT tohit value...such as, 100 - 28% = 72 and then take that 72 - 28% = 51.84 tohit value?
It is, and there's two values associated with it. One is to watch your modifiers, and another (IMO more useful) is to watch the final chance to hit (slightly different, but more important IMO as it factors in both tohit (de)buffs, the target's defense, and your power's accuracy).Quote:Also, where do I go to see my current tohit value? Is it in my Combat Attributes? -
Quote:After you calculate Defense vs Tohit (and cap it to within >5% or <95%), you then multiply that by the accuracy (and cap it to within >5% or <95%), and you have your final chance to be hit.Originally Posted by Diggis
Ahh, missed that bit... looks on the table like the To-Hit is even up to +5 and the acc is 1.5 at +5. I'm not sure how defense and accuracy interact. Will have to look into that deeper.
So if they had normal tohit, and you were at 45%, they'd have a 5% chance to hit you before taking accuracy into account (50-45 = 5). If we say they're a generic +5 minion, then that puts them at a final chance to hit you of 7.5% (5 * 1.5 accuracy = 7.5% final chance). -
Quote:Accuracy varies, but is immaterial as you can't do crap about it. To-hit is the only thing that matters when worrying about the soft cap, and rank has no impact on it, and you'd have to be fighting a plus 6 for 45% not to be enough.Originally Posted by Rodion
Remember, this is against even-con opponents. The accuracy and to-hit modifiers vary by level and rank.
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Quote:Yep, exactly. They're only really special in that virtually every attack is counted as one of the three, so generally they give more bang for your buck than damage types (unless you already have a bunch of damage-type defense).Originally Posted by Diggis
Ahh, forgot about Positional. Does it work the same, so if something is positional and fire and the positional has 25% def to the fire's 10% then the positional would be used?
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Quote:All accurate. Defense also has positional types (Melee, AoE, Ranged), and most all powers in the game have both a positional type, as well as a damage type (there's a few exceptions).Originally Posted by Diggis
Defense is how easy you are to hit. So the higher the defense the less likely you are to get hit. And increasing it above the soft cap of 45% gains no benifit unless the opponent uses a debuff or a to hit debuff.
Additionally if an attack has a dual aspect to it's damage (say lethal and fire) only the highest form of defense is counted.
Defense is an all or nothing power, it either stops all of the attack or it fails completly.
Also true.Quote:Resistance is the other side and mitigates incoming damage if it gets past defense. There is no soft cap, but there is a hard cap depending on AT.
Resistance of 75% means you'll only take 25% of the damage of the attack.
This is where I'm unclear though: If an attack has both lethal and fire components I assume that the resistance is applied to each type individually so if you have 75% lethal and 20% fire resistance you'll take 25% of the lethals damage value and 80% of the fire damage value?
It depends on the AT/build, but for a resistance based character, something akin to that is often the best approach (since so many attacks in the game are at least part smethal). I don't believe Stone as any positional defenses, so going typed would be your best bet.Quote:Now to the tricky part... What's better to concentrate on? Resistance or defense and which parts? At the moment it seems to me that getting lethal and smashing defense up to the soft cap and then getting the resistances as high as possible would be the best way. -
I believe this is a known bug.
Also, if you're wanting to take a screenshot of the character creator/enhancement screen/costume editor/anywhere else that's not the in-game part, you have to press 'print screen' on your keyboard, then open an image editor like Paint or Photoshop, then Paste the clipboard contents into it, then you can save that. If doing that you get an all-black screen, you can using the Windows Snipping Tool (under Accessories in the start menu on Visa & 7) which generally works in those situations. -
Quote:No, you were just fairly vague about what was wrong. Still haven't gotten any clarification to possibly help you beyond wild guesses.
Do you actually think this is ok?
I do agree that the updater has some glitches, but IMO it's still better than WoW's in my experience (with CoX's updater, I've always been able to just start it then forget about it for a good while... with WoW's, I have to click 'accept' and 'next' a few hundred thousand times to download every single minor and major patch since the game was created!). I wouldn't mind seeing a rewritten updater, and I've actually been tinkering with completely replacing it, but part of the problem seems to be with the updater server, as well as the upstream ISP. -
Quote:That was my pointOriginally Posted by Master-Blade
But Agg was probably referring to her own post that had the same binds... right down to the ADD key.
Her post wasn't similar but exactly the same!
Semantics ftw!
Awesome, totally forgot about those. Half dozen bind files updatedQuote:*fixed
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Quote:He said similar, not exactly the same asOriginally Posted by Aggelakis
*snicker* *points up* *giggle*
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If it's in a folder named 'data', you just drop that in the City of Heroes directory, otherwise you make a folder named 'data' and drop it in that (unless it has an installer, in which case run that).
It doesn't have to actually replace the files, since CoH searches in the data/ directory then in the .pigg files for what it's looking for. -
The binds I use are (taken from a bind file):
NUMPAD1 "teamselect 1$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD2 "teamselect 2$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD3 "teamselect 3$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD4 "teamselect 4$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD5 "teamselect 5$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD6 "teamselect 6$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD7 "teamselect 7$$powexecname Speed Boost"
NUMPAD8 "teamselect 8$$powexecname Speed Boost"
You have to double tap the key, but I find it simpler than pressing two keys (or three, if you also have ID... or 5, if you're a thermal) -
Quote:I'm not talking about the people I talk to, but about Comcast itself. They're the ones that'll give you used, known defective equipment. They're the ones who have pathetic network availability. They're the ones that outsourced their call centers, knowing exactly what sort of experience it'd give to their customers.Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
No (well, maybe), it's the call center guys who hate you.
And I will never be a customer of theirs again. -
Okay... so what's the issue? Has the download slowed down to an incredibly low amount? If it's been like that for a while, you could just close the Updater and restart it, and it should speed up.