Kitsune Knight

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  1. Kitsune Knight

    Posting Pictures

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    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    Facebook wants everyone to log into facebook
    No, I will not add you!
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ashtoreth_NA View Post
    If you're really paranoid about spyware sites but go to them anyway, I hear you can use your browser in Sandboxxie while running Returnil--reboot and everything goes away. Sandboxxie slows you down significantly, but Returnil doesn't at all. I've been experimenting with running COH with Returnil on my old Dell and its fine.
    Just an fyi: On 64bit Windows, Sandboxie (only 1 'x') operates in a somewhat crippled mode, and isn't able to completely lock down programs (due to Patch Guard's kernel hook protection).

    Also, Returnil is no silver bullet. It, of course, does nothing to protect you after the machine starts up (i.e. if you go to EvilWebSiteOfDoom.biz, then a few hours log into your bank... you're likely screwed). Returnil also isn't invulnerable- if you can get any code running in kernel mode (there are a number of attack vectors), then the code could bypass Returnil and go straight to the physical disk.

    It's long since been common for various nasties to disable/cripple antivirus and other common security software, but now it's becoming common that niche products are also targeted (often changing their behavior to appear innocuous). The best way you can defend your computer is to practice a little thing I call common sense: DO NOT GO TO SITES YOU KNOW ARE SHADY. This alone, will greatly decrease your odds of becoming infected- unfortunately it's rare for it to be followed.
  3. Verification will, largely, depend on the speed of your persistent storage (generally hard disk). I'm running on a slower laptop HD, and get around 35MB/s.

    Traditional hard drives will likely run inside that range, but SSDs (Solid State Drives) will blow any HD away in performance (and price... not in a good way).
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sunstormer View Post
    The point I'm making is in reply to Kitsune knight, who stated a laptop at £300 or under wouldnt play none ultra mode.
    I said it won't play CoH well, and from your description, it doesn't sound like it runs all that well.

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    The point is, people act like laptops are incapable of doing anything and there more powerful than people give them credit for.
    I haven't played CoH on a desktop in quite a long time

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    I got my friends laptop make and model btw. All the info can be found here:
    The Nvidia GeForce 310M is a fairly recent, low end video card. My laptop has a 260M in it (a generation earlier, but near the top end for that generation), and it handles Ultra Mode decently well, so I'm not sure that 310M would be able to maintain a high framerate unless you tweaked the settings some.
  5. Alt+Tab is a system command in basically all versions of Windows to switch between applications. There aren't any ways to disable that behavior (short of resorting to black magic).
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lohenien View Post
    could it have something to do with the lock/unlock taskbar feature ?
    Lock/Unlock just controls whether you can edit the position of things on the taskbar (not counting the launcher icons), it shouldn't be making a difference here.

    My guess would be some third-party OEM software is causing some wonky behavior with window ordering.
  7. Are you running in full screen, or (maximized) windowed mode? I'd take a guess that it's full screen mode... and I only ran full screen in 7 for a short amount of time, but never experienced anything like that.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sunstormer View Post
    Theres a monumentally huge difference between CoH and Crysis in requirements....

    My friend plays UM fine on a similar laptop to the one I mentioned above. If your going to attempt to flame at least try get your facts right
    Ultra Mode requires a GOOD video card, and most laptops do NOT come with even a decent one (if Intel makes the graphics, it's definitely not decent, much less good) unless you customize the order.

    I'd be highly surprised if a laptop for the price you quoted could even run CoH in non-ultra mode well. Without knowing the actual parts (especially the graphics), there's no way we can say for sure (who knows, one of the OEMs might have become oddly nice and caring).
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyger42 View Post
    Would be even worse on those other forums. You -may- get trolled on those other forums for asking a question. But you -will- get trolled on them for starting your post out with something like "I know I'm gonna get trolled for this...". That's inviting the trolls to come play.
    Acknowledging their existence is inviting them to come and slaughter you and do unspeakable horrors to you. If you're lucky, the slaughtering happens first.
  10. Kitsune Knight

    Build Up vs. Aim

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    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    just take both please if you can you will notice on your nuke damage is much better, if anything do it for the nuke.

    edit: aim and nukes are what sepperate blappers from scrappers
    Not all Blast sets have aim. And Aim's damage boost really doesn't make that large of a difference over time (and if you're not a mini-nuke set, your nuke doesn't really, either). Aim is largely an inferior version of Build Up (if you actually slot your powers with accuracy, you'll rarely need the additional tohit... very rarely), and in pve spike damage only has a moderate amount of tactical use... and rather minor in team pve.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by techboi View Post
    I don't believe it is a part of the in-game storyline.

    My only theory is that it wasn't designed with dual builds in mind and fixing this will take (or is taking) considerable development resources (which I imagine are all going into GR and i17).
    Back when dual builds were first added, it was on the Known Issues list.
  12. FYI, Teleport Foe has standard accuracy. 3 slotting for accuracy would pretty much be over kill.
  13. Kitsune Knight

    Monday down time

    From my Super Sekret testing, it would appear that Ultra Mode is either not included, or explicitly disabled in the Training Room currently.




    (I was hoping they'd already snuck in the textures)
  14. Why? You can crank the physics to max in this game with an old processor and video card and notice basically zero difference in performance. Until Physics actually DO something, I don't see any reason to change anything.



    (now... if you proposed a rewrite to that as well... )

    Also, OpenCL isn't what you'd wanna go with, that's too low level, you'd want an engine on top of OpenCL.
  15. Kitsune Knight

    Monday down time

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    Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer View Post
    Fair enough, but it would be a first for this game to discard a number, unless you count the jump from version 6 to version 11, which I always assumed was one one, rather than eleven, when City of Villains launched. Like you said, though, sometimes a version number doesn't get released with software, and we have had weirdness in builds in the past year, with Issue 15 not incrementing to a new version number when it came out.
    You mean, this hasn't occurred since the last time the Devs worked on a project that'd be released out of cycle, of sorts?
  16. Kitsune Knight

    Graphics card

    I'd imagine as long as the other parts are decent (mostly having at least 2 gigs ram in your computer), you should have no problem with all settings on highest (I ran with everything on highest with the 8xxx version of that card, so the one you're getting should be much better). Depending on how much control we have over Ultra Mode options, I'd imagine a decent proportion of them should be usable with the card.

    I say it'd be a good investment if your current one is dated (just make sure it'll work with your computer!).
  17. I know many people that dual boxed, and for a short while (on a trial) I dual "boxed". I also remember running a Statesman Task Force once where our tank was also tanking another task force at the same time (which 'caused the entire team to crack up when he told us), and he was doing a damn good job at it.


    I didn't use two computers, but played two characters on one. I didn't spend a lot of time practicing, but in only a short while I was able to fairly adequately alt-tab between the two and keep them both busy fighting (mind you, making one a support character helps a LOT), and I'm sure if I actually invested the money in it, I'd be able to do it to a level that you wouldn't really notice I was on two accounts at once. Generally when I'm playing the game, I'm alt-tabbing out all the time anyways, so instead of going to read some random article on the Internet, I could be activating one power and queuing a second, and then switching to the other to do the same. It'd require more focus than I generally give CoH... but generally CoH doesn't require all that much focus (it's not that hard of a game!).

    At least in my experience, most of the people playing multiple accounts at the same time do a fairly good job at it. Although on the other hand, the one person I've run into that used 4-5 accounts at once resulted in the worst ever KHTF I've been on (I could have duo'ed it easier with one of the other people on the team set for 8), but that's really been the exception, not the rule.
  18. Kitsune Knight

    Monday down time

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    Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm View Post
    Why is it that you, Little Miss Popular, are able to always to get so much privileged information? Oooooh, you infuriate me.
    Shut up! If you piss her off, she might stop leaking juicy spelling details!
  19. Kitsune Knight

    The Television

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    Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
    The last time I watched television this happened
    This thread is epicness upon epicness. There's a reason this is the best MMO out there, and Television is just further proof of that.


    ALL HAIL TELEVISION!


    (down with Radio!)
  20. Quote:
    * A costume tailor is available in the RWZ, which can be accessed directly by a level 1 character from Atlas Park. People though still make the trek to Steel Canyon.
    * Invention tables are in the RWZ, which allows a level 1 character to craft things without going to Steel Canyon.
    [...]
    * A flight pack can be purchased for 10,000 influence by a level 1 character either by the Arbiter in Grandville or in Fire Base Zulu via the Portal Corporation. Both are reachable by a level 1 character, and will grant a character a travel power at level 1. The flight pack lasts 90 mins.
    Ah... gotta love removing the level restrictions on basically all the zones! The first thing I did when I heard about the removal of level restrictions on hazard zones was to see if I could get to RWZ (I was rather shocked that a level 18 Ill/Rad Troller could tank a spawn of 35+ Rikti for so long... then I remembered PA )
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PumBumbler View Post
    Freedom and Virtue seem to be duking it out over first place.
    Actually, I believe that Freedom is still in first by a good margin... from what has been said in the past, Freedom has MUCH more hardware behind it than all the other servers, meaning that for Freedom and Virtue to be at similar loads (close enough that they switch spots), Freedom would likely have more players, making the load measurement slightly misleading.


    Although in all honesty, the difference in population isn't gonna really make a difference. Not to mention, even the deadest CoX server has more community interaction than most other MMOs out there (depressingly enough )
  22. That's it, I'm leaving again!







    Stop cheering! I never actually left!
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by North_Woods View Post
    I don't think screen size is the issue. I'm using a 46" 1080p panasonic as my monitor. Could it be resolution? I've adjusted the desktop to 1216x684 because icons/text tend to get a little small when I max the resolution.
    It's entirely resolution. Physical size of the monitor doesn't matter.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Demobot View Post
    I understand that anonymous commenting is an amazing new concept, but are threads devoted to these comments really necessary?
    Of course! What else are we gonna do when we're bored?!?!?!?!
  25. I once got +rep rep with the comment: "You are consistently helpful, and polite." ... I think they were being serious!