MedievalPower

Falling back is awesome!!! Boo hiss to spring forward.

Made a new level 1 sonic/toxic blaster (I know, hax) at the local hospital with MP :-)

If we did it wasn't on her birthday

To my dear wife, Madame Pistacio,

Thinking about these "Happy Birthday" posts over the years makes me sad thinking this will be the last one I post to you for City of Heroes. But I also remember all the great times I've had with you and how much you've done for so many. For the Victory community. For all the servers.

And I'm happy knowing that I and several others will have the good fortune to carry our connections with you well past when the servers shut down and the forums go offline.

Happy birthday, to my generous, caring, loving wife. Wishing you many more!

Love always,

- MP

Thanks to my wife and Isolators runs and Hamster - and DC - I've gotten to do the vast majority of story arcs, task forces and trials - from Cavern of Transcendence, to sewer trials, to Doc Q, to Cathedral of Pain, to masters on all of the Incarnate trials and the Really Hard Way.

I still have several Blue and Red story arcs that I haven't done. I want to do them all. Fortunately over the summer I managed to do all of the Praetorian content and First Ward and Night Ward. I haven't touched the DA arcs yet - need to do those. I'm going to run through the SSA's on both sides one more time to make sure I didn't miss anything. I want to find out what the finale was going to be for SSA2!

I also want to get my Water/Poison corr and Nature/Psi def to 50. Sigh, so many combos I still wanted to do that I never will (Medieval Rage - Battle Axe/Shield brute arch-nemesis of Medieval Power, Shield/something tank, Invuln tank, Ice tank, titan weapons, street justice, beast mastery, dark control, a new stalker). Not to mention the new powersets that now won't see the light of day (Bio Armor, etc.)

And AE... I want to find the "top 10" most epic player created AE arcs and play them while I still can.

Here's a few. I'll probably post more later...

I remember not being able to find Ms. Liberty after getting out of Outbreak and actually filing a petition for help.

I remember at one point wondering what was happening because I wasn't getting invited to teams as often anymore and then realizing my main was on hide for probably weeks.

I remember feeling like the game was running out of steam for me and going to Perez for some random mission while soloing. I saw the Kraken and put up a message on Broadcast that the Kraken was out not really expecting anyone to reply. One person joined me and said I should announce on Victory Forum, Victory Badges and Victory Monsters - I had never heard of these channels nor had I frequented the forums. Everything changed after that...

I remember Des getting Relentless and Heroic mixed up on an ITF

I am totally flabbergasted. I've been playing this game for over 8 years as many of you have! It's like an old friend at this point that I could just drop in on whenever I wanted to relax and have some fun. Just like many of you I'm sure, I've got 2 accounts that I paid a 12 month subscription on with the highest confidence that I would tire of the game before it would end.

I just can't believe this! The devs and moderators for this game are awesome. I wish them all the best and hope they're being well taken care of. I have concerns that is not the case. I hope I'm wrong.

CuppaManga, thanks a bunch for your response! I'll definitely try out the mouse sensitivity setting. I'm not using a 3rd party control panel for my mouse, so that shouldn't be an issue.

I have already tried Recommended mode. It has the same issue. That's what I was using before stepping down to Minimum, but I didn't know about the hardware acceleration, so I'll bump it back up to Recommended.

On a somewhat related note about running in 1920x1080, I don't actually want to run full screen, but it seems that, unlike the Windows version of the game, you cannot resize the game when running in windowed mode except to one of the settings in the fixed list - meaning you can't just click and drag the bottom right corner of the game window, or the right side of the window to change its size. Do you know if there's anyway to override the game so it does allow for that? Because frankly 1600x900 is way too small on a 1920x1080 screen - you lose a lot of real estate. But I would like to run it in windowed mode.

About the MBP Retina, I'm not sure that I want to spend that much time hijacking a machine at the Apple store, but that does give me an idea which I should have thought of before! I have a friend who has one and used to play CoH. Maybe I can convince him to install it and try it out for a little while.

Thanks again!

My Win 7 desktop machine died a few days ago and as a result I have been playing on my work Macbook Pro laptop. I have run into a few issues that affect my gameplay. I have also been considering getting my wife a Macbook Pro Retina which I consider the ultimate laptop, but these CoH issues have given me pause. We both play CoH regularly and if I can't find a way for her to have an enjoyable CoH experience on her new laptop it might as well be a $2k brick as far as she's concerned. Anyway, to the questions!

My work Macbook Pro is a "15 inch early 2011" with 16GB RAM and a 2Ghz i7 with an AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB. Running Lion (10.7.4).

When I play CoH, I hook up the laptop to a 1080p monitor using an Apple branded mini display port to DVI adapter. The monitor looks great most of the time, but when I start the game it steps down to 1600x900 in full screen mode. When I try to raise it up to 1080p resolution, the game looks horrible - similar to old style CRT monitors when you're running at the wrong refresh rate. I normally play the game using this monitor with my Win 7 desktop machine at 1080p without issue.

First question: Should I be able to play the game at 1080p resolution?

Next question, while playing, especially when there's a lot of particle effects going on (teaming with a couple of water blasters for example), sometimes the game just freezes for up to 5 seconds. After it comes back, the gameplay continues normally, but this can happen once every couple minutes. I never experienced anything like this on my desktop. I don't remember having issues like this on Windows laptops either. Is this just a function of the Mac version of the game? Or a limitation of the MacBook Pro? I have the game dropped down to "Minimum" graphics level and this still happens.

Final question about my Macbook Pro... I play the game with an external keyboard (apple USB keyboard) and mouse (MS Intellimouse). This is the same keyboard and mouse I use with my Win 7 desktop machine. Frequently when I'm using my mouse to turn, the game will overcorrect and cause my character to jerk about 180 degrees. This can be quite disorienting often causing me to make a wrong turn or start running in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go. Do others get this jerky mouse movement experience on their Macbook Pro?

About the Macbook Retina. Has anyone played the game on the Macbook Retina? Is it a *perfect* gaming experience? Can you play at full resolution? Does it handle playing on an external display well (for playing CoH on an external monitor)? If the CoH Mac game client and not the laptop hardware is the problem for my above issues, would booting into Windows give me a better play experience on both a retina and on my Macbook Pro?

I apologize for the multitude of questions. Any helpful responses, similar experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Also, rented some scaffolding and replaced the chandelier hanging down from the 20ft high ceiling in our foyer and cleaned up and painted around the 13-18ft high window in the foyer, and painted the upper half (around 8ft - 16ft) of our living room walls.

Traps/Beam defender: 1-50 on a mostly static team that my better half organized. What a great group we had! Capped off the run defeating a +3 Lord Recluse AV at the end of the Project: DESTINY arc. Edit: I wanted to add in some highlights of the content we did on the 1-50 team:

• 2 DFB's to kick off the run
• All the mayhems but Atlas - and no Hero's on any of them. Boo!
• 1 DiB
• Tarikoss SF
• Vincent Ross (in Shark I think)
• Rikti Invasion in Shark
• Silver Mantis SF
• ITF
• Levantera - Intro to Vanguard and her followup arc(s)
• Mort Kal
• Scirocco - all of his arcs - finishing off with deafeating LR at the end where most of us hit 50

Other than that, a few Mortimer Kal's (my favorite TF - what a boon that it was the WST!):

• DM/Elec brute: 32-35
• TA/Arch def: 29-32 (technically hit 32 after the Mortimer Kal SF while defeating Ghost of Scrapyard)
• Dark/Cold controller: 30-32
• Water/Poison corr: 36-38

Happy belated birthday! Hope you had some fun after getting off work.

There's only two ways I've seen the green stuff successfully run:

1. Do two or three runs in a row with the same group of people - so that people have some practice. Players that are still getting stuck in the green during the second run should sit in the hospital for the third run.

or,

2. Use Incandescence: Get 4 or more players who have incandescence. Put them all on one team (or on Vent/Teamspeak) and have them take turns using incandescence on each Obliteration - teleporting everyone out of the green stuff.

Note that (2) can still fail due to just bad luck or someone missing with Incandescence or someone stubbornly leaving prompt on and getting stuck in the green anyway, but I think generally (2) will work better than (1) as you are mostly only depending on 4 players instead of 12.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

This thread should be stickied!

But, seriously, I agree with removing some.

GL!!!

I'll sign up. I'll bring my Rad/Sonic defender (Particle 4). He's all set to go: Ultimates, Furious Rages, T4 Diamagnetic, T4 Longbow Core, a T4 of all the Destinies - your choice which you want me to use (I used Ageless on MP's runs), T4 support hybrid, etc., etc..

@Medieval Power