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What makes you think this is City 2? I thought City of Sidekicks was next.
Edit: Even on Paragon Studios website there are listings but this can't be for Lineage 3 because they only show COV/COH/GR as their products.
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OutaControl,
I laughed when I read your post. I have controllers and dominators...both are consider squishies. I have had the same experiences that you have had. I will say this first...this is the most humbling experience in the game. I have even been kicked from teams immediately because of this.
Let me say this first, these two types are crowd controllers, they are not frontline fighters....I just say that to set expectations. I have tried very hard to semi-adapt them. Personally, I prefer Dominators to Controllers because they have assault powers. For example, I'm in the process of replacing my hero controller with a hero dominator just so I can get more punch/power to my characters. To get the good stuff you must having killing power in this game. Plain and Simple.
Potential solutions:
1. Add stealth/invisibility
2. Let other's take the aggro on targets first, you should be last to enter the fight. I can't say this enough. Use ranged, PBOE, Pets but don't physically get near ground zero. I have been successful with this.
3. If you desire heavy hand to hand, consider a different Archetype.
4. Watch your back, Lambda enemies have constant attacks that will quickly drain you to zero.
Avoid the Warwork and Heavy Troopers, their weapons are designed just to drain you.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Warworks
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Imperial_Defense_Force
Remember every team member has a role but if people crossover sometimes it can create more problems. The controllers/dominators have low hit points because they should not be leading combatting or heavily engaged in it.
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Sweet. I'll go online and finish the other one and break it down to get the level shift I need so badly. Thanks for post.
How long does it take to run posi 2? Speed or regular? It took me from 5 till 9:30 to do both tfs(villain and hero side) last night. -
Quote:That dot is stupid but that prevented a renameOriginally Posted by SinergyX_NA
So far im kinda lucky.
I'm still '@mika.' (yup, still with that stupid dot..), '@rince mace' (wtf? My tank is called Mace X, not Rince...). But, and thats my happy part:
@SinergyX remains mine
Subtle advice for those forced to rename.
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Turg,
As a fellow NA that came over to Union, I have some advice for you.
1. Transfer a toon over. Why?
Union has great people and great SGs. If you start in Praetoria you will get an unrealistic view of Union. I started in Praetorian and couldn't wait to graduate. Lots and lots of soloists. I spent dedicated weekends(playing from US 6am till midnight all weekend) playing CoH and have made slow progress because I had to do everything myself. I canceled my account twice and resubed because of this frustration.....but I finally got my 7 characters out of Praetoria after 5 months(December 2010 - April 2011). Also, Praetoria has what I call the "crazies" or the flakes. I will never go through Praetoria on Union again if I can help it. I saw crazy stuff go down during my time there.
Another comment, when I created my EU account I told myself I would things different than my NA account(single SGs). All of my characters on Union are in an SG and while I'm not totally happy with CoH Large SG implementations I'm happy I have people to play with when I come on. I did the Surge last night and it was great that the SG added me as soon as I came on. This was my only positive about the Surge last night...that I got to play with my SG.
I strongly encourage you to search/research a Union SG and transfer a character there because this is the best way to enjoy this server.
Also, the other reason I created my EU account was to experience large events with less lag. On Freedom, large events are a joke...on Union there is lag but not like on Freedom. When I get my characters to 50, I look forward to doing these things but I have a long way to go because my characters are in their 20s now. If I could do it all over again or now with the GSM(global server merge), I would recommend leveling a charcter on Freedom and then transfering because Freedom is the fastest leveling server in the CoH Universe. This will help you avoid 95% of the problems and let you have the best experience on Union.
2. Setup tabs because they don't use the broadcast channel. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Major Deej
I was lucky to be home to log into the Praetorian Surge on Union....and unlucky to try the same thing on Virtue.
The Union run was excellent! Great team/league, slight lag, but overall was a great experience. When the War Walkers were inside the City Hall building WITH all of the Praetorian AVs, it was a deathfest once you came in through the doors to City Hall (got some great screenshots though!). Once Avatea helped 'thin' the Praetorian ranks a bit, it was more manageable and fun.
Then there was Virtue...
The lagfest there was unbearable. I shifted toons from a hero in Talos, to a Villain in Cap; all the same. After about an hour, I couldn't take it anymore and had to log off. I could've gone to the ski chalet with some of my newer characters than hadn't picked up Winter Event badges etc, but the lagfest really fried me for the night.
I'm sorry to say that the hard work the OCR team tried to manage just wasn't the 'epic' or 'excitement' I was hoping for...for Virtue, that is; Union was a much more fun experience.
I truly hope whatever 'tech' is being/going to be used on Freedom on the 27th, actually works to diminish/alleviate the lagfests, but after seeing what happened on Virtue, I'm a bit sceptical.
I may show up for the other surges, but if the lag gets too much, I'm not going to kill my hours watching a power shoot off after 2-4 minutes of waiting per shot; not fun, nor is it desireable.
Kudos to the OCR team for trying; wish the tech was there to decimiate the lagfest though.
Additional note: also, if you are a league leader for said event (as this was while I was on Virtue), as a courtesy (aid to the team?), please try to refrain from jostling around your MMs from their teams (or new team leaders not the same level as the previous team leader) so much; each time I was 'moved' from my team (more than likely to get the teams reloaded to 8), all my pets died. I'd bring em back up and 3 seconds later, the leader(s) jostled my MM to another team (or give us a lower level team leader), thus killing my pets again. This happened 7 times in just one battle in the span of 10 minutes. I finally gave up trying to bring up my pets, which made my experience in the 'surge' all that more painful. Just a friendly piece of info to think of before League leaders/team leaders do mutiple jostlings of the team leaders, MMs, or other ATs with pets from team to team during the firefight. Set up the leagues as best possible early in, but try to keep the team leader levels the same (50s) and not toss the MMs from team to team during the firefight. Just an FYI to aid in a better experience for all. Thanks.
It was interesting reading your comments about Union. I was on Union too and I had a different experience. I started in Cap and didn't leave because I knew the transit would be painful. We had lots Praetorians but few AVs. We did get Black Swan several times though. A lot left to go to other zones to be a part of the "Action" I stayed. Do you remember the broadcast about "Praetorians are getting enbankments because their aren't enough people people." I posted "Lol" right after that because I told my team to stay put but they all wanted to follow the ball." I noticed my SG teammates coming online and I dropped off and joined them. They were much more "experienced" and stayed in the zone until we were all told to go to St. Martials.
I do have a few questions about this event:
1. Did anyone tried to use acid grenades on the teleports?
2. What av's made appearances on Unions and Virtue? Were they the same as Union. What zone's were involved too.
About Union, I remember Black Swan, Maruader, Desdemona, Mother Mayhem, Neuron, Nightstar, Siege, Bobcat, Chimera but did Tyrant make a show?
About the Freedom Event, I will be bringing the high end machine to see if it makes a difference. It's a Quadcore with 32GB RAM and 2GB video card. I have to find a solution to the lag. -
Quote:the 50% I don't care about, if the base has inspirations chests that will solve that problem. The value of the SG hospital is that you can go back to zone you came from without travel. This was why I added it but if it going to add so much time, then I might have to review other options or go back to the old way. This game has so many trade-offs.Originally Posted by CaptA
Yep, agreed. For most cases it's not the most convenient to go to the base since you can only heal a max of like 50% anyways. I only go when I need to drop something into storage or sell recipes or whatever.
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I like gravity too but you must create a dominator if you do. You'll need assault powers too. I have a controller and dominator with Gravity. The controller takes forever to level because she's a Thermal Rad/Gravity but my Grav/Electric Assault is my killer and her networth is highest of all of my characters on NA and EU at 2Billion.
It took me several tweaks to get my Dominator right. I had to read, respec several times to get the maximum assault melee, range and holds to get purples. I'm pleased with her because she is build on experience from the game and detailed research on the wiki. In her current design, she can string combinations for 4-5 minutes continuously without running out of endurance so she can deal good damage. I do carry extra blues for the heavies so I don't miss out on the loot! -
Okay, thanks but that means that large SGs will have delay everywhere then. This kind of stinks.
Edit: Is there a way to design a base to minimize these effects? Like may putting the hospital is a private room with not extras? -
This movie is average I saw it last night. It might get better because they laid a nice foundation but this can wait for Redbox.
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Why is the regular hospital faster than the SG hospital? I started using this today and had to redirect myself to the regular hospital because it took so long for me to zone. When will someone look at the causes of slow zoning. I missing the game because of this issue.
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I was fortunate to be a part of the first surge on Union today.
You should be a part of this....
Before I start, I want to give a shoutout to the Court of the Blood Countess. I had numerous drops and they were so accommodating.
These events should only be experienced from within an SG.
Thanks Team
Next, in my last few minutes of the surge I experienced this:
http://jumbofiles.com/dm4a5g027zp5/Surge1.png.html
I call this "Video Card Capitulus" Yes, this is the picture. I did have sound though.
Then I experienced the loss of all of my powers and this:
http://jumbofiles.com/zd6mccd17hm8/Surge2.png.html
I can't wait for this to hit the Freedom Server. Union was medium load and the lag was "noticeable."
In tonight's event, we fought Praetorians in Atlas, Peregrine Island, and Cap Au and St. Martials. Fun stuff. I must bring the heavy duty machine(quad extreme HP 8740) to the next one on Freedom. FYI -
Welcome Turg, I have an account here too. Union is nice but don't bring Freedom assumptions here. They have different rules here. Come online for the Surge today if you can today. Union gets it First!
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Later Nightshade, I never played with you but I saw you zip through the zones during my visits.
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Where is everyone meeting? I'm move out of the office to go online to see what this is all about.
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Now that were all one big family now, how do I redeploy my EU client to the Test server or do I have to uninstall it and load the test server client?
Also, when will the EU client officially die? I may hold/keep it installed for 30 days just in case. I'd hate to have a problem and have to reinstall from scratch. -
Quote:http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/DesdemonaOriginally Posted by BigBoss Eyepatch
You're all a bunch of hoaxers! I'll never believe you without photographic proof. And even if you do bring photographic proof, I'll just say its photoshopped, so Ive got you there too.
Desdemona is the tooth fairy of CoX and that's the bottom line because some bald guy said so. -
You need to go to help.ncsoft.com and open a ticket.
Also, did you pay the bill? :-) -
Quote:Group flight has use but "granting" it to others would take too long. This is not a solution. I think prompting the user to accept the power like a TP would be betterOriginally Posted by Soulwind
Honestly, there's one "simple (standard code rant applies)" change that could be made to Group Fly and fix most, if not all, of the complaints about it.
Change it to a single target "Grant Flight" power just like "Grant Invisibility" is. -
Quote:Originally Posted by _Fea_
I've gone from being @Fea to @Belus - I know there were going to be clashes and they had to make a way to decide who has precedence, but I wish it had been based on Vet time or something instead. If someone had the global of @Fea longer than me then that's that.
Still, email has been sent, and I'm hoping I might get to have my name back if it's a dead account. Foolish perhaps, but that's what I'm going with.
I hate to say this but...this isn't really a global merge...it an EU rollup to NA.
Also, it's sad but your names are probably being bumped by inactive users.
They should have done the reactivation weekend first and told everyone if they didn't sign on they would lose this NA globalIDs to EU members. Active members should have been given priority over all else(vet, badges, etc.). -
I noticed this on the Paragon Wiki today. It's about the Blueside Positron WST.
http://jumbofiles.com/mc2spvsl4mze/WST_May2011.png.html
How do we run the first Positron and not the second one? I really need my notices this week. One of my characters needs it for the level shift.
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Quote:sorry to hear that soulstormEU, so what does this mean? Does this mean all of your friendships and badges have to be redone?Originally Posted by Soul Storm
Well for 7 years I have been @Soul Storm and because I received no communication alerting me otherwise I thought I was safe with that. I logged in to find out my new global was @Torsion - one of my lowbie alts. I managed to rename my account handle to @SoulStormEU and some semblance of normality has returned but having literally no communication about it to prepare me and a generic apology (I can see why this is all you are able to say because you picked a method and had to go through with it) really doesn't make it all okay. To be honest I kinda feel like someone with an american account has stolen my identifiy a little bit.
I better check my globalID. I went to check mine and it hasn't changed but I was given the option to change it if I wanted to:
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I use group fly only to move my team(mercs) and not my teammates. I probably will remove it during my next respec. It causes more problems than it fixes. Most are never ready to use fly when I use it and by telling them puts me behind. Right now I can use it only for specific situations and in general my teammates hate it. Reading Bill's comments, I will work harder to not use it at all now.
For example, with mercs they appear next to me no matter what at 179 feet or greater. Why do I need group fly? I have used it only when I had to move vertically up quickly during attacks or in the Shadow Shards. -
Quote:Nice effort, GG. Find out what this is event is really going to be. I feel like everyone's expectation for this is growing larger everyday but as far I can see this is appears to be an event no different than Rikti zone events or basically a zone2zone runaround event.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I made a poster for this today, to show off Tyrant's hardware
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build some Masterminds and play them. I mean if you don't like them then jsut delete them.