Knighttime

I have been a fan of the Halloween events in the past. This year, not so much so. The characters I want to get the new badges on already have all the old badges. It really feels like a chore to get the temp costumes when you already have the other badges and are not getting any other feeling of progress.

I also have an issue with the difficulty of the door spawns themselves. They are way too easy. It would be nice if they would at least spawn at your current mission level. I also seem to remember the 1st year event having the mobs spawn at the team size level. That was a BLAST, it could be a real challenge. Having a good size team camping 3 or 4 doors now feels a little silly. I takes, what, 3 seconds for 6 people to defeat 3 even level mobs? Where's the challenge in that?

Electric Hammer and Shield.

Electric Hammer because it looks so cool in my imagination.

Shield because, well because. C'mon, we've had Broadsword from the beginning and it absolutely begs for a shield to pair with it.

I noticed this today also while testing out the new Healing Flames (which totally rocks, btw). It didn't happen to me every time but when it did it was very noticeable. It was definitely some dort of fear, very much like the fear Burn causes. This was while running a police scanner mission in PI.

While running a CoT mission in CoV my frame rates took a steady dive downwards. The mission was set at Malicious with 2 people. I normal get a fairly steady 25 fps or so in door missions. However, this mission started at 25 then went steadily down.

It seemed to me that as I uncovered each CoT crystal my framerate would take a very small hit. Normally I don't think this would be a huge problem, but every room with Circle in it had multiple crystals in it. By the end of the mission I must have uncovered at least 50 crytals.

The other odd thing about the mission was that my framerate would "surge". As it dropped it would also surge up and down, usually by about 3 fps. By the end of the mission my framerate was going from 8 fps to 11 fps about every 1/2 second. This was according to the /showfps 1 command.

I have not had this repeat in another mission yet, but also have not had another Circle mission with loads of crytals in it. My guess is that the crystals of been set to have the wall wrapping effects and the sheer volume of them is overwhelming my PC.

CPU - 2.53 ghz Pentium
GPU - NVidia 6600 GT 128 mb AGP
Memory - 1 gig
Windows XP Home Service pack 2
Video Driver 91.47

Well.........Dang! Gonna miss you Cuppa, you've been a great mod. I've always looked forward to reading you posts. I always knew that they would be either very informative or a lot of fun to read.

Good luck at Tabila Rosa, I might have to try it out now that I know there will be some good folks over there.

What an awesome idea!!

I'm thinking beach parties in Talos at Spankies Boardwalk.