Master-Blade

I went with an Ice_Blast/Mental_Manipulation Blaster.
Since we are going Villainside, I wanted to pick a Hero AT. lol
Her name is Brenda Brain-Freeze.

She is currently parked and waiting in Precinct Five for instructions.

I have several characters with XXV that don't have 25 of them. The easiest explanation is that your account was awarded XXV before the other badges were removed. When the total went below XXV, it wasn't taken away.

Yes, but like I said above, there can be an issue with the global badges... sometimes they are incorrectly not counted for credit, and you still wont get XXV. It appears to be fixed for new characters now, but some characters that were created after the AE badge changes still might not have the proper credit.

This... but my Villain badge toon has a progress bar for Force of Justice because she was awarded Villain Disruptor as soon as she logged in. Since I wasn't planning on moving her to Heroside until much later, it's gonna be a while before she gets a chance to complete that one. haha

I reported this a long time ago when the bulk of AE badges were removed. In fact, it was actually no longer possible to earn XXV on new characters for 2 reasons.

First, there was only 26 remaining badges.. one was hero only, another villain only, making only 25 available to each side. The XXV badge itself was unobtainable because there was only 24 other badges to earn. Even if you earned all 24 of them, there was no way to get XXV to count as number 25.

(On a side note, I've always thought it was a better idea to decrease the requirement for those types of badges y one so it made more sense. For example the badges for earning 100 badges or 500 badges, award them at 99 and 499 so that the "100" actually means it's your 100th badge. Makes sense to me!) Anyway...

The second reason, and it's the reason you are seeing the discrepancy... The global AE badges that are awarded to you immediately upon character creation are not counting toward the X and XXV badges. The only time they seem to count is on the actual character that originally earned it. As far as I can tell, the only characters I've seen with XXV were mainly only the ones that had it before the changes to the AE badges.

I know some new badges were added, so it'll now be possible to get 25 badges again, but until they fix Reason #2 above, you might have to settle for sending a /bug report of your own and try to get their attention on it again.

Like I said, I've reported it back when the system originally changed.. I even sent another report at least a month or so ago again, just to kinda remind them that it's still not working correctly. I just get the usual "we'll forward this to the team" response, and nothing has changed yet.

Technically, you don't really have to re-bind the keys. You can bind each key to 3 powers, and it'll automatically use the power for the form you are in.

For Example:
/bind Numpad1 "powexecname Gleaming Bolt$$powexecname Bright Nova Blast$$powexecname White Dwarf Smite"

That automatically sets up Numpad1 to use each power depending on which form you are in. If you are in Nova form, the other two powers are invalid, so the other two commands are basically ignored/bypassed. (This type of thing will only work reliably if there is only one valid power in the chain when the key is pressed. You wouldn't be able to string 3 human powers in a row and expect each of them to go off. You'd have to use rotating binds as descried above. However, you can string together several powexectoggleon commands to one key and press the key repeatedly to activate each one.)


Anyway, it wouldn't be really hard to set up the type of thing you are looking for as well. You'd just need a few bind files.

Without going into too much detail or focusing on which power is ideal for each key, an example of one of the files would be..
c:\cohbinds\numpaddwarf.txt
Numpad0 "powexecname White Dwarf Step"
Numpad1 "powexecname White Dwarf Antagonize"
Numpad2 "powexecname White Dwarf Flare"
Numpad3 "powexecname White Dwarf Smite"
Numpad4 "powexecname White Dwarf Strike"
Numpad5 "powexecname White Dwarf Sublimation"

An example of your standard 3 shapeshifting binds could be:

/bind Numpad7 "bindloadfile c:\cohbinds\numpadhuman.txt$$powexectoggleoff Bright Nova$$powexectoggleoff White Dwarf$$gototray 1"

/bind Numpad8 "bindloadfile c:\cohbinds\numpaddwarf.txt$$powexectoggleon White Dwarf$$gototray 8"

/bind Numpad9 "bindloadfile c:\cohbinds\numpadnova.txt$$powexectoggleon Bright Nova$$gototray 9"

That's assuming that you place your Dwarf powers on tray 8, and your Nova powers on tray 9 as well. Pressing Numpad7 would turn off either of the other forms you might be in and reset the numpad back to Human Form. Numpad8 activates Dwarf form and it's binds. Numpad9 activates Nova form and it's binds. Make sure to create all 3 files with the inds you want for each form.

Again, this is just a basic layout of what the binds and one of the files would look like. You'd have to decide which powers you want on each key and make the proper files and adjustments accordingly.

I just looked at it a little more, and it appears I also removed the Account Name, and anything with an IP or Web address. I guess I figured that would be internal stuff that is subject to change, except for the Account name, which I left out in case I felt the need to send/display the file for another player. Besides the security factor, I didn't want it overwriting their own name. For this same purpose, I left out the Install Directory as well. lol

Those that use command line switches for resolution could leave those out of the file as well, unless they want to specifically keep their default designated.

On a side note, my modified file also works great for moving my Live preferences to the Test server. I simply edited the Registry path in the first line of the file to point to Test's folder instead.

I think you have your explanation a little backwards. Using your bind, the game will attempt to execute a small yellow first, yes... but regardless if you actually have one or not, it will be immediately interrupted by the next command to use the medium yellow. The only time it will actually use the small yellow is if you had no medium yellows. It then follows that the next execution would be interrupted by use of a Large inspiration.

This means that your command is actually designed to use the Large inspirations first... which is usually what players want anyway.

This is proved by examining Roderick's screenshot above. You will note that Insight is the last item in the bind chain, yet it was the first one to be used (as it's one furthest to the right of the image). You can also look closely at your inspiration tray when you run the command... you might notice the smaller ones "blink" as they get interrupted by the execution of the larger ones.

As far as I can tell, the only bind chains that behave this way are power and inspiration executions.

I actually have a couple of these files set up on my system just in case I ever have to reinstall or whatever. My advice is to make sure to delete the Version number from the *.reg file though, so future game updates don't mess it up. There are a few other things I remove from the file as well, but I can't remember what they are off the top of my head. I'm sure once you look at the file more closely, you'll see the possible candidates for removal as well.

As for running it automatically, that should easily be done with a Batch file. I have one of those set up already to ensure that Herostats is automatically launched simultaneously with CoH. It works quite well. However, I'm not sure how well the *.reg process will work unless you instate some kind of pause, or a flag to auto-accept the "this will write to your registry" warning you usually get when running *.reg files. It might not be hard though.

/bind LBUTTON "+camrotate"

/bind RBUTTON "+mouse_look" (should already be default)

I guess this one depends which keys you are using for turning. You could simply add a command to each of those keys to automatically make it re-center your view each time one is pressed. Keep in mind it will bring the camera directly behind you again, but it wont make any adjustments to the camera height.

Examples:
/bind LEFTARROW "+turnleft$$camreset"
/bind RIGHTARROW "+turnright$$camreset"
/bind RBUTTON "+mouse_look$$camreset"

I'm sorry. I wouldn't say you are old and slow. I think the difference is that instead of spending 15 minutes doing the research/testing and writing up a decent post... I post first, then look it over and edit in any additions or changes for the next 15 minutes. I don't do it on purpose. I just think of better ways to put stuff and then I end up over-thinking it and adding more details.. I'm really bad about that. Heck, I even edited this post too! lol

I was under the impression that PhysX was the way those particles interacted and moved with the environment, making it more "life-like". Having a dedicated card was supposed to make this processing more efficient to increase the framerate. Whether or not it meant more particles came out of exploded objects when the option was turned on in-game, is a different story. That feels like it's more about the option itself being turned on, not what the card is actually creating. Like you said, we already have an option for max particle, and it still wont exceed that.

I could be wrong. I really don't know. I've never had the right card to be able to enable it in-game to compare, but I already see tons of debris come out of objects. It's likely the card is simply making the explosion look more realistic to you, and you are paying attention to it more to try to find a difference that you are now noticing how much extra crap is on the ground. lol

Either way, I'm glad you are happy with your purchase and that you did see a slight increase in performance. If it was worth it to you, that's all that matters, and it might even convince others to do the same.

But we were able to squeeze in 3 teams of DrKhan before it went down...
Win!!!

Sometimes it's more about having fun as well. Either way you look at it, you are still right. It's not usually beneficial to UP the difficulty when the team is already in a bad struggle. Then again, some people have fun trying to push through the hard stuff... though that's likely to not to be the newer players, so that's not who this thread is really aimed at. lol

Oh I remember that bug. Same thing happened to me. Apparently it only removed the "buff" from the leader of the team when the TF was completed. If leadership changed, or even if the TF was unsuccessful and disbanded, the aura would remain for days and weeks. Wasn't it something like 48 hours of online time? That was crazy stuff!

Completely guessing here, but I think the pylons only affect Hami itself, not the Mitos, so it's not essential to take them out right away. In fact, some people even leave the Rikti alive as well and have a tank pull them into the Hami goo to take the agro while we take down the Mitos quickly.

I don't believe there is any right or wrong way to do it... as long as everybody on the team is on the same page and the job gets done.

That's what I did with my default keybind.txt file. Then there is no need to run the command on new characters because that file will be automatically loaded upon creation.