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Forget what I said about five minutes. Now I get mapserver disconnects in less than one minute.

I don't know what's up with the game and if it has something to do with my system or account, but I'm getting the vibe that CoH devs are quite inept.

I get map server disconnects, or server disconnects depending on the screen, about every five minutes regardless of where I am, what I'm doing, what programs are running in the background, what graphics settings I have etc. etc.

I tried downgrading my drivers, but to no avail.

Boy am I glad I didn't buy the sub to play this game.

It was only something I heard of, nothing I actually experienced. Though I did experience the frustration of not hitting anyone (then I got SO's).

I tried Electric/Electric scrapper and didn't like it much, at least not yet. The cone attack has a very narrow cone and doesn't seem to hit more than the immediate target 90% of the time, and the AoE isn't point-black AoE, which somewhat decreases its value in my opinion. When I get the AoEs to hit, the damage output is excellent, but when not, I get killed by bigger mobs. No proper grouping experience as of yet, since in the one group I played in where I levelled from about 3 to 12, I missed 80% of attacks.

I didn't get very far with the katana scrapper, that's true. It seemed that others advanced much faster in terms of damage output than my scrapper.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

I've only ever played a Katana scrapper, and I was a bit disillusioned by the low damage of that build. Tankers practically outdamaged me, and I heard about the disheartening amount of villain groups that are immune to slashing.

I've though of creating a new Scrapper. The guides are good, but I can't decide based on them what primary to choose.

1. Conceptually I'm most interested in Electric Melee. How does it fare?

2. How about Dark Melee?

3. What is the best primary in terms of burst damage? Primaries that excel in this are have always been the easiest for me to play in the Blaster/Corruptor territory, especially if there is considerable AoE damage involved.

4. What is the most efficient soloer?

Thank you for reading. Highly looking forward for your advice!

Kyriani, I'm having a similar issue, although it only happens with newly made characters. Pretty curious, huh? Everytime I move, I get to move normally for maybe 2 seconds, and then BAM. Game becomes unplayable. FPS drops to maybe 1, and character warps around the place.

No, I've actually managed to not near about any NCsoft launcher.. I used to have problems with the old launcher throughout the entire summer, so I didn't even suspect...



Well, this hopefully resolved my problem.

I have complained of this before, and I have googled forum posts from a year ago that are essentially identical in content. My launcher cannot connect to CoX server. Connecting #1, #2 ... #25 and so on. It works ever less than it used to. I haven't been able to connect at all for the last three days.

I'm on the brink of canceling my subscription. I sincerely hope someone will finally address this problem.

For your information, I'm running the CoH EU launcher.

I'm using cohupdater.eu.exe.

It works normally half the time.

The launcher won't let me in (connecting #1, #2, ..., #13) so I tried bypassing the launcher making a shortcut of the .exe and adding -project coh to the end of the path. It worked, and I was able to launch the game and log in, but the only server the game found was UNNAMED, trying which crashed the client. Any help?

I don't have unlimited playing time, so it would be nice if I was able to play CoH when I actually have the time. The launcher isn't really working towards this end, so I'd be really happy to receive some help.

I've been having huge problems with Praetoria lately. I virtually cannot play any character there. The game keeps freezing for several seconds at worst at frequent intervals. It happens all the time, everywhere, both outside in the city as well as in mission maps.

Strangely it's the only place where this happens. Another issue I have is that the game keeps freezing rather too frequently, but when it happens, it freezes completely. In the problem I described above, the game runs all the time, but everything just freezes for 1-3 seconds about every 5 seconds or so.

I think it didn't happen before I installed my latest ATI drivers. Is there anything else to be done than installing older drivers? How about the other issue where the game freezes completely?

Note: sometimes the game runs very slowly even in the character select screen if a Praetoria character is selected. However when I click "delete character" it runs alright for as long as the text field is open.

I used to love my fire/em blaster for how easily it could solo things. I used to be able to kill nearly any normal boss, pretty much any with a second try, and never got my *** kicked unless I pulled too much or otherwise screwed up.

When my blaster hit 40 and I thought I'd try soloing some missions again, strange things started happening. First I got my *** badly handed to me by some carnie bosses. Maybe it's nothing, I though, since they got controller powers and some very nasty ranged DPS as well; maybe they're just particularly tough.

Then I got my *** kicked by Crey guys. Paragon Protectors are nearly impossible for me. I tried one some five times and twice I got close to killing him, but first time his Total Focus just dropped me from 2/5 HP to dead, and second time he popped some deflection shield and there it was, none of my attacks made it through. Okay, I thought, bosses are beyond my power now. I won't go into much detail what happened, but it just seemed that the bosses' Energy Blast came thrice as often as my fire, did twice the damage and being Energy it had knockback.

Next I got killed by a group where a lieutenant's total focus dropped me from 1/3 HP while I was busy blasting some minions. All this because one Blaze missed. Even if it hadn't, I would've had hard time. At which point will mere minions become hard to beat?

Is it just the way with blasters on higher levels, or is there something completely wrong about my playing? What used to work perfectly now hardly works against lieutenants. Am I to shun use of Blaze and the EM blapper attacks completely in favour of sniping everything from afar with boost range and flare+fire blast spam and hope they can't fly too?

Thunderstrike? Alright, I'll go bid on that. Last time I looked it was rather expensive, but I'll look again.

I think I might use it on Fire Ball before Fire Blast since I use the latter only for a filler (due to flares being so quick) and longer range attack, and I spam the former constantly when there are at least three enemies.

Thanks for the tip! :>

Hey everyone!

My Fire/EM blaster hit 40 so I though it's finally time I bought some IO sets. The problem is my money situation; I have only some 30m inf and the prices of sets generally recommended by people on consignment house are so high I could afford to buy IOs for maybe one power.

Can you recommend any very affordable sets for me?

Not a clipping thing, but I think this should be fixed. The animated reptile tail does not in fact touch the body when used with tights for example. Here's a screenshot:
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7391/nimetnqg.jpg

Ah, sorry. I will post it in the correct thread.

The animated reptile tail does not in fact touch the body when used with tights for example. Here's a screenshot:
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7391/nimetnqg.jpg

A very minor thing but I thought I'd point it out.