Master-Blade

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Hi!

Simply putting a + in front of a command can have undesired results. It should only be used on functions that use the +, or alone as it's own instruction, "+$$". This bind will not move your character at all though because there is no forward command. See below.

Yes. This is the one he needs.

You have that first part backward. If you turn on Ninja Run before using the bind, it'll enable CJ while pressing the Key. It's only when NR is already active that it'll reverse the effects. You can turn on CJ outside of the bind any time you want without any side-effects.

Additionally, people with flying characters would use the following:
/bind w "+forward$$powexecname Hover$$powexecname Fly"


Furthermore, if you don't want to ALWAYS have "SpeedOnDemand" enabled, you can set up bind files to toggle it:

C:\cohBinds\SpeedOn.txt
W "+forward$$powexecname Combat Jumping$$powexecname Ninja Run"
Shift+W "bindloadfile C:\cohBinds\SpeedOff.txt"

C:\cohBinds\SpeedOff.txt
W "+forward"
Shift+W "bindloadfile C:\cohBinds\SpeedOn.txt"

I used Shift+W in this example, but you could use any key as your quick toggle switch if you wanted. Having it in bind files also lets you easily put them on more than one character.
Just make sure you run: "/bindloadfile C:\cohBinds\SpeedOn.txt" to install the whole thing on a toon.

I'm with the OP on this one. I don't have the Souvenir on some characters either. I checked about 4 characters last night. First I checked the Wiki to see what the name of it was, and it was just listed as "Name Pending", so then I just read through them one by one for anything Rikti related. Then I searched the Souvenir page for the name I found in the game, just to find out they were all from various arcs. I certainly don't have one called "Lady Grey TaskForce", despite having the badge for it. Just to make the souvenir list easier to look through, I checked one of my seldom-use characters as well. He has the badge for LGTF, but not the souvenir either.

Then I logged into a couple other newer toons, but they had the souvenir. I checked my main badge hunter that has MoLGTF, and his LGTF souvenir appears at the bottom of the list. I don't think the souvenirs shift around if you re-do a TF, so he was probably just awarded with the souvenir when he earned MoLGTF, despite having the adge when it was originally released. It seems odd to me. I guess they added it later on, and people who did the TF on release might not have it unless they redo it?

It is? OMG! I must have taken a wrong turn at Aluquerque.

No no. No offense taken at all. I was just trying to re-assure you that there are people here that will certainly do their best to help you, just in case my first comment made you think we were just a bunch of clowns. I mean, don't get me wrong, I consider myself about half and half, and I can admit it. rofl.

Anyway, I agree with the suggestions about the Operating System and driver updates, as well as running the defrag afterward to help the drive's performance. Then run the game and keep an eye on your memory usage, and if the problem starts to happen again, run another report immediately so we see what the state of the system is at that time of the problem. Hopefully, cleaning things up a bit will be enough to make the game playable for you again.

lol. Well some of us actually are/were computer professionals, even if being on the forums answering questions isn't our actual job. We enjoy helping people and we do like to joke around a bit on the side as well, so don't take that first comment too seriously. I was just being silly.

You did the right/smart thing by coming here and asking for quick advice before taking the system in and paying money for help/upgrades you might not necessarily need. The best part about posting here is you get several points of view and several options to try. One person notices one possible cause, and elaborates, while another goes in a completely different direction. We see each others' responses and the OP usually tells us what eventually fixed the problem, and we all gain more knowledge to better help the next person.

Thank you, and yes.. but to be more specific, you don't just move toward the target. You have to briefly use the Follow command on the target for it to reset your vertical axis as well.

I had created a bind to do all this at the push of a button, but I don't remember it off the top of my head, so I'll go look for it...

Edit:
From: Recentering View Up/Down
There is more in the post about making it work for base editing purposes, but I cut it out to keep this post simple and clean. Anybody interested can simply visit the thread for more info, and even see our mind working from post to post as we tried different things. lol.

On a side note, I think the first two people who responded to this thread have the real answers the OP was looking for.

Modify the end of my list:
72, 84, 100, 120

haha.

And you came here? lol j.k

Anyway, it looks like you have 2GB of RAM. While it's advertised as sufficient, and many people play with 2G just fine, it's right at the threshold. The game uses anywhere from 750MB to 1.1GB normally and can even use upwards of 1.5GB sometimes (before it eventually crashes).

That doesn't leave a lot of room for other programs and even the operating system itself to be running at the same time. It doesn't take long before you max out your RAM and it starts using your hard drive to store the data instead, which is a much slower process.

To help speed it up, there are a number of things you can try.. from defragging the drive and/or Windows page file, to closing as many other nonessential programs/processes as you can, to the more expensive option of adding more RAM.

I'm not saying this is definitely your issue, but it's a common cause for such "random" slowdowns. As more memory is needed, it crops up, and as it's no longer needed, the problem goes away on it's own. At the time you ran the COH_Helper report, it looks like you had about 1.4GB free, assumably without the game running. We can get a bit more information with a "HiJack This!" report, which will show us which programs/processes are running in the background with your game. Are there any other programs you use at the same time such as HeroStats or Glycerine, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, Yahoo, AIM, etc?

Did you play with some of the other settings? I'm pretty sure it was something seemingly unrelated that made it stop, and then moving it back didn't make it return. I messed with the same settings trying to reproduce it, but it seems to have completely gone away now. If you don't look at it from a logical standpoint, it might somehow tweak it's way back to working order. lol. I'm sorry you couldn't get it to work again.

Why not just keep the reflection on high anyway? I don't think it changes the fps much.

this.

Nice. my experience was similar. I didn't care about those kind of badges except on my main Hero, but late last year I decided to turn a couple more of my existing 50s into badge toons, one more hero and one villain.

I actually found that badge mission by accident while I was running the arc for challenge badges. I wasn't even looking for it at the time, so it was a nice little bonus. It's also how I found out that even though the heroside stand-alone badge missions don't count for challenges, the Villainside ones that are included as part of a larger arc do, so I still got credit for everything. haha

I agree with you guys. The server actually creating the instance seems to be the larger hangup here. I edited in that info to my previous post before I saw you two respond again.

I can't say I've noticed that. I don't usually log off in "busy" places to notice though. lol That seems odd.

About this.. It seems like the shard you are currently on has trouble letting go these days. For several seconds after getting to the first screen, you can still hear what's going on around you. This wasn't the case before. By the time that screen came up, it was just silence while waiting for the next screen to start loading the new map. Now it seems to act like a curtain going down where you can still hear everything going on until you finally make it off the stage to a back room. lol

It's more noticeable at a train station where you can still hear the train pulling up and door opening.

The worst load times I've seen are going into missions and Bases where the instance needs to be created on the server first, but even just going between zones seems longer than it did before, if even slightly.

I was going to say that too, but I didn't start badge hunting on my Villain until late last year, so I couldn't have said it for a fact. lol

Either way it wouldn't have been very recent anyway.

Well it's not just about a new badge every 3 months.. it's about the reward that comes with each one as well. The longer we are here, the better reward we should get, and the longer we wait for such an award. The current system stinks because it creates threads like yours with all kinds of mystery surrounding the reward and then when it's finally released, everybody is disappointed with a costume piece they don't want or something, even though their last reward was an amazing power of some kind. It's just not very balanced, and it makes the Devs throw in all these nonsense filler rewards like simple merits when their time could better be spent on game actual content, or working on an even better reward months down the line (hence the longer wait as well). I guess nothing is wrong with that, but some people expect more.

(I actually couldn't care less how they do it one way or another, I'm just explaining the viewpoint. I'm happy enough with just the badge, but on the other hand it seems silly. Three months goes by like nothing.)

To add to this.. sometimes the global channels are removed from your tabs when the global channels go down. Double check to make sure they are still in your viewing window, and re-add them if needed. I usually have a /chatload file ready for this.

Like Raj said: "excluding any extra time" it (CoV) doesn't add anything to your account (if you have GvE). Therefore it shouldn't work in that order.

Right, if they have GvE already, then CoV wouldn't add anything to their account. So that's working just as Raj said.

But you do make an important point. If you had both codes at your disposal, the CoV code would be used first, and then GvE.

AFAIK, even though CoH and CoV have been merged, those codes will still stack. Adding GvE on top of that will still work because it comes with exclusive in-game items. I think Architect is the only one that technically doesn't, but you do get to select between a couple booster packs afterward as well.

True. There was a bunch of artwork for almost 100 AE badges too, but we all know what happened to those. It's not like the Vet badges took long to create anyway. They are all the same with a different number placed on top of it. haha

Anyway, I do agree they wouldn't change it. At most, they'd simply cut back future rewards, not change the way the existing ones work.. and I don't expect them to either. I was just thinking of how it would have worked better on launch.

THIS.

It doesn't matter which client you use. The Mac edition is simply another retail code. Anybody can add it to their account to get the goodies and the extra month, even if you don't use a Mac. As mentioned, just like any other retail code, you can only use that specific version once per account.

I have the 5770, and I encountered the same thing a few patches ago. Nobody else was really experiencing it, so I messed around with things a bit:

I checked for a driver... already had the newest.
I verified files... didn't fix it.
I turned the option off and then back on... didn't fix it.

But then I turned occlusion off and on again, or one of the OTHER options like the shadowmapping or something, and somehow the water flickering suddenly stopped. The weird part is I am back to the same exact settings I had before it happened, but it no longer happens. I have not encountered it again since.

It's worth a shot anyway. I just logged in today with no issues yet either. Keep it on Ultra while you try messing with some of the other settings until it stops flashing, then reset it all back to the way you like it.

Good luck!

I agree with this. I don't like the idea of a new badge every 3 months anyway. It gets old real fast. I think the higher it goes, the less there should be.

For example:
3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 84, 96, 108, 120 (10 years).

It doesn't really give you a number 100, but it expands the range so that we don't have to have pointless minor things every 3 months. Instead, we can stay a little it longer and get something better each time. That's even less vet badges than we already have now, so it would have reduced the need for Devs to spend time coming up with something that people end up disappointed with.