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Quote:1. 0Originally Posted by Bronze Knight
- How many characters have you fully incarnated?
- How many characters have you incarnated?
- How many characters have you rolled with the intention of making them Full Incarnates?
- Do you have any characters that you, for whatever reason, are not going to make Incarnates
2. 1 with Alpha unlocked only, 1 with T3 Alpha, Judgement, Interface, 2 with T3 Alpha only, 2 with common Alpha.
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Quote:I almost always run full screen and that was something I didn't think of changing.Originally Posted by CuppaManga
In windowed mode, the fans don't run nearly as much. That leads me to believe that Cider is not properly optimizing the use of the video hardware in full screen mode.
However, if you have a Macbook Pro and believe the fans are running excessively, you should probably contact Apple. There are a few ways they can fix it ranging from software to fan or logic board replacement.
So far CoH has been the outlier in fan utilization. If everything was causing the fans to go full bore I'd have been on the line with Apple right away. It's handled Handbrake encodes without breaking a sweat but that is probably bottle necked by the USB DVD drive. -
Quote:If you'd bother to read instead of frothing at the mention of Apple you'll see I blamed Transgaming in the first post, you started it. In case you forgot:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
If you want to fight with people about the problems with your rig. Please do so elsewhere.
Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
More like "Welcome to gaming on a laptop." or "Welcome to gaming on an MBP."
Most laptops are simply NOT equipped to deal with the load many games (especially OGL games) can put on a system. As such, they heat up and trigger the fans.
MBPs are going to be ESPECIALLY prone to this as they're extremely thin and have very little room to facilitate air movement.
This is what happens on occasion when form triumphs over function. -
For future proofing they should be a native 58 with inherent Incarnate nullifying auras.
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Quote:Duh.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Likely this is due to the extra load being put on the system by the Transgaming client. So you're not running JUST the game. You're running the game, plus the VM/Emulation layer. Which can be VERY CPU intensive.
So what about your point that gaming on a MBP will always require active cooling due to poor design over taking function? Now I need to run things that are intentionally processor intensive to prove you right? -
Quote:It can run D3 and WoW on 2880x1800 without needing the fans.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
This is what happens on occasion when form triumphs over function.
CoH is the only game to bring them up beyond an inaudible level and it winds them up even when just sitting on the login screen. -
I doubt it counts heals that are completely overheals as participation.
With Fortitude, Adrenaline Boost, and Regeneration aura up on your teammate even a suicidal blaster on SOs only shouldn't require much attention.
Is your one attack slotted with just one recharge? One accuracy SO is good for same level enemies most of the time, two should cover you for a few levels above you and with defender grade tactics you shouldn't have much of a problem with anything short of a Rikti drone or a god mode. -
Quote:I wish there was a non-incarnate mode or Alpha only mode for TFs that can be run at 45+. Though no one else would use it and it can be simulated by not running TFs that exemplar above 44.Originally Posted by Hercules
I have suggested in the forums before that they provide an incarnate mode for regular TFs, where the mobs and the bosses are ramped up for added difficulty - but probably not going to happen - usage of the trial content would plummet.
Of course I also wished that the Alpha system was expanded to cover all slots so there'd be some other way than Heather Heather Heather ... for someone who loathes raiding. So it's T3 Alpha and done for me.
I like my mobs with just a slight hint of trivialization, it doesn't much of that spice to completely overpower the flavor, which is why I don't see much of a point beyond Alpha personally.Quote:Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Most players I've seen don't want to become Incarnates in order to fight harder stuff....they want to become them in order to trivialize the stuff they were already fighting. -
Quote:Well, there's your problem.Originally Posted by ColonelKomphort
I'll say it again: my offense comes from my teammates.
Your offense in this case is Fortitude, Adrenaline Boost, and Recovery Aura (stretching things a bit for that one) and one attack. Two have long cooldowns and one a very long cooldown. That's not really participating.
When I read the first post, my initial thought was "Not sure if healor." You don't happen to have the medicine pool by chance? -
Can anyone tell me the secret to getting CoH to run on my spiffy new retina mbp (2.7 ghz i7, 16GB ram) in OS X without it becoming a space heater?
Blizzard games have yet to spin the fans up. CoH on just the login screen starts them up. Albeit at a low speed. Actually play the game and they go full force. Graphics settings don't seem to matter much. I'm not sure what actually happened but while on AC power with a previously 100% charged battery it started discharging while in Atlas and processor use was hitting 170% while AFK. No temperature warnings but the case was getting hot so I'm guessing the batteries were cooking.
My other MBP lasted as a main computer for 6 years. A few weeks in on my new one is a bit too early to start thrashing it the way the Mac CoH client does.
Thankfully I can justify the Windows purchase for work reasons (but sadly not to the point of reimbursement, yay for firewalls and clients that don't do dhcp over IPSec on just the Mac client).
This isn't a rage quit. Mostly howls of anger over how shoddy a job Transgaming did and the fact Paragon has put up with it. I'd have thought that with a red name getting a Mac they might have thought about doing something about it.
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Just for reference, the CPU temp goes from 30C idle to 66C at just the login screen and the graphics card temp is up to 87C. -
Nothing says fun like a ToV boss going to the other end of the map at warp nine when they get tagged by the acid mortar.
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Insert standard use your own gorram board rant here.
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Quote:IOs are basically CoH's version of cheat codes. Not everyone plays with cheat codes turned on.Originally Posted by Tyger42
So, free players and those who choose to nerf themselves. Gotcha. The latter, that's their own play choice. The former...IMO, their "vote" doesn't count 'til they're paying.
Now those cheats may be used to make a set playable at the modern pace, like any set with longish cooldown location based powers, or they can be made to make tankmages out of formerly squishy ATs, or they can be used to save time by not having fiddle with updating your enhancements every few levels. -
Quote:On my shiny new retina mbp CoH (no matter the graphics settings) spins the fans up almost instantly. That third devil game (in 2880x1800) and the raiders vs. dragons game never* wind up the fans.Originally Posted by TwilightPhoenix
I want to go find and punch Transgaming for not doing a better job with the Mac Client (along with every other developer who takes the lazy way out and just uses cider and wine wrappers).
The cider wrapper must be thrashing my CPU something fierce. Not that I'll do it but I've thought about going back to playing CoH on my 2006 mbp so I don't burn the fans out before their time.
*that I've noticed
edit: CoH runs smooth as silk, it's just disconcerting seeing what doesn't cause the fans to spin up to CoH's near instant fan usage. -
Quote:I dislike Steam for many reasons, but none of the are because it keeps me from stealing.Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
So behind all the ill-will and bad press they've thrown around over the years, there was this really offensive idea: Steam is "awful" because it keeps them from stealing.
Paragon would love the initial hit of money but when the influx of play it for a day then forget about types wipes out the community (how many games did you say you bought just to buy?) they might as well turn the servers off.
DLC is the bane of offline games. I don't need to have everyone knowing what I'm playing or how many cheevos I have. Of course I don't have a Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace account and I don't stream my music, which btw was ripped from my CDs or purchased online. -
Quote:Since it seems like sales are the big draw of Steam if there was a Steam only sale as a non-Steam user I'd be pissed, if there weren't Steam only sales why bother with the overhead of Steam?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I don't see how using other openings to get the game to new players would be bad?
And as was just brought up why would I want Steam to get money for not doing anything that wasn't already done by the bog standard client? -
Honest question: what would Steam bring to a MMO?
There's no savegame files. All character data is stored serverside. The friends list is in game. The client is free to download and at least for mac side you can just drag and drop the package to move it to another computer. (Now if I could just figure what's causing the fans to fire up when D3 and WoW don't trigger them at all...)
Bindfiles and costumes are about the only thing I can see a synching service being useful for. -
Quote:I was hoping they had said something about how and when they were going to fix it.Originally Posted by BViking
Confirmed as a bug by a redname.
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Has there been any official chatter on the level being set to the receiving character's level as being up for fixing?
It seems quite the waste to run the event after getting all the badges on a 50 to end up with an attuned enhancement that doesn't make any use of being attuned. -
Quote:That other game has to mash all the good stuff into the last level and then release an expansion with a new last level to mash all the good stuff into. The TARDIS couldn't unravel all the timey-wimeyness of the CoH story so I'll put up with some weirdness for new non-incarnate content.Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon
That's why I was surprised to see that although the SSA#2 is clearly a sequal to SSA#1, you can access the first arc in SSA#2 10 levels earlier than the final mission of SSA#1. That seem weird to anyone else?
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The Resistance would probably extend their Crusader Care plan to cover the refugees, as long as they had enough hospitals and explosives.
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Quote:Compare GG's color scheme to Tyrant's.Originally Posted by _Tacitala_
Have you ever pondered making Golden Girl's evil Praetorian twin? Same body model, only the bad one is in a black version of the clothes with a daring neckline? Then when evil-Golden Girl (Iron Lady? Tarnished Lady?) comes to Primal and goes villain, she can be GG's evil arch-nemesis? Just think, every time evil-GG did something horrible to gain power it would highlight all of the things GG resisted.
The lady dost protest too much. -
Quote:Nova is up to and including 10. Marchand/Scott will give you Imperial contacts at 8 but you can go directly to the contacts (love that find contacts button yellow side) for your alignment.Originally Posted by _Tacitala_
Manage your experience gain carefully. The cut off points for finishing a stories arcs are level 9, level 16, and level 20. So at level 9, unless you are on the final arc of the Nova storyline for your faction(s), you'll over level the rest of it and be sent on to Imperial. I personally shut off experience at 8 until I move to Imperial, 15 until I move to Neutropolis, and level 20 until I'm sure I'm on the final arc for my faction(s). -
Quote:If only Responsibility was given a Sheridan moment to kick both Tyrant and the invading primal hordes out of Praetoria. At least kicking the primals that are helping themselves to remnants of their city out would be an okay consolation prize.Originally Posted by GadgetDon
True, that didn't happen and might not have worked, there was a war and we needed to take it to Praetoria to avoid Praetoria conquering our dimension. But let's not pretend we did it to "liberate" Praetoria or that the net result of the war was in any way whatsoever good for Praetoria.
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Once per calendar day would be superior. Even with the 20 hour timer if you do it Friday night (after work) you can't do it Saturday morning or afternoon. Once per calendar day it wouldn't matter what time you did it on the previous day.