Mephisto_Kur

I have two of these, also. Both toons were deleted several days ago in prep for this expansion. At this point, I have two "ghost" toons. When I try to select one of them I get a "database problem" error.

Liberty server.

To those above: if you think scrappers are better than stalkers, you aren't playing your stalker right. They are used in entirely different ways. The stalker isn't meant to stand in the crowd and take it. Learn to kite and use guerrilla tactics. Think of how you can tear a group apart instead of how to take all the targets down. Your method is to cause chaos and diffuse a crowd's abilities by spreading them around. Its why you can take an alpha but not much more. Duck in, duck out.

I normally hold off on placate and add an extra normal attack if I'm non-pvp. Placate is just gravy at lower levels and honestly isn't needed until the 20's in pve. If you want to add another attack or secondary power, there is no need for a travel power until your jetpack\zero-g dies. Do those bank missions and you are fine.

Ninjitsu is over rated.

Dark Melee is a great set once you learn its particular dynamic.

Playing a stalker is a change-up on what you think. Its an excellent AT.

I think I speak for all of us when I say "WHAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING."

You've been asked for clarification a couple of times now, and have yet to get a response as to what exactly your issue is.

So far, we know that you had a slow download of the sound.pigg file. What is your connection speed? Are you aware that the sound.pigg file ALONE is more than 300mb in size and is the largest file in the install? You do understand that CoX has absolutely no control over your connection speed or the connection speeds of the internet between you and the download server?

It is all well and good that you want to rant and vent, but we honestly cannot help you if you can't provide basic info such as what exactly your problem is.

Wow, after several years of having and bugging the keyboard problems, finally to have someone else speak up!

While technically, it is a stuck control key... This issue has followed me across three different keyboards across two different brands. It also happens ONLY in CoX. I am a heavy gamer, and the only game that ever triggers any keyboard issues is CoX.

IOW, it isn't your fault, and it isn't the keyboard.

The causes I have found:
running Window mode, click off of CoX and work with a different program (doesn't matter if it is already running or if you start it now). Worst seems to be a browser - chrome, FF, and IE8 seem to all do it more than any other application I have tried to run. I click in and out of Windows Media Player constantly while in game and rarely have the issue, but I pop a browser and there we go.

The fixes I have to use:
1. Left Click on your CoX window to bring focus back. Then left click again on an empty part of the CoX window (dead center works ).
2. If that doesn't work, Left Click to bring back focus, then right click in an empty spot on your CoX screen.
3. If that doesn't work, left click to focus CoX, then hit your LEFT control button.

One of these three things always fixes the issue for me.

Alright, I figured it out.

I do not use the default chat window setup.
I click the little down arrow that hides it, then I open a fresh one with the number 1. I create all my tabs, and leave only that window open. When I pop open the default chat window, the bug does not happen. When I use my custom tabs window, the bug happens.

Private Tells on some toons (confirmed by several others) respond with "AUTO REPLY [chat hidden]" to anyone that sends a tell to that toon while that toon is not hiding in any way.

If the toon is also actually hidden, a loop starts and sends several blank tells back and forth between the two characters.

I play mostly red side. Drop a team message into Sisters or LB and I can normally bring my wife and I if we aren't already doing something.

If the NPCs were ever to actually be voiced, I wouldn't care who did what as long as some of the female characters were voiced by Jennifer Hale.

Running fine -> SATA-II 1TB drive

Be aware that the new 9.12 Catalyst drivers break CoX for some Radeon cards. The release notes say this is a known issue, but does not name which cards are broken.

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalys...ease_notes.pdf

Ninja run has many issues with the female forms. The most obvious are that costumes clip, and the texture specifically on the left side is stretch in odd ways. The worst is that female forms have what looks like... ehem... "junk" when using the ninja run jump animation.

If you don't know what FUD means, that sounds more belligerent than it was meant to sound.

Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt

FUD. Just means "dooooooooooooom!" with fewer O's.

To clarify, when they say "full license" in the EULA, they mean a fully licensed operating system, not a full install disk. When discussing the EULA, you must remember that the license and the media it applies to are not actually the same thing.

If that is the case, it is something specific with either those physical OEM XP disks, or a hardware issue that would be causing the problem. There is absolutely no physical difference between a full version XP disk and an OEM XP disk. The only difference is the level of support directly from MS due to the licensing difference.

Also, you can certainly use an XP upgrade as your license for the Windows 7 license. Microsoft is not distinguishing between the installs, only that the license to use the old OS is valid.

It occurs to me that this may a simple case of you not quite understanding what you are reading.

Windows XP --> Windows 7 is a valid upgrade. It is supported by Microsoft.

However, the upgrade process moving from XP to 7 must be done using the Custom install option. The operating systems are so different that Windows 7 will not actually upgrade XP, it will replace it.

So, XP to 7 is allowed, legal, and can be started using the upgrade disk.

Actual upgrade process gives you a clean Windows 7 drive because XP cannot be directly upgraded to Windows 7.

Do you understand?