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They're "in-game" in some files (souvenir) about the Rikti that you get during Serpent Drummer's missions. The last war the Rikti fought prior to attacking Earth, about a hundred years ago, was with the Battalion.

Which makes me think that the Rikti aren't from an alternate dimension, but are actually from an alternate future.

A Radeon HD 4600 should be fine for medium/high at 1280x1024-ish resolution. It's OK, I suppose, to leave water and reflections on Ultra, although zones that have lots of water (redside; although there's also more detailed buildings, too) and reflective surfaces (new Atlas Park, Praetoria) are going to see a big performance drop. The minimum Radeon worked out by je_saist for Ultra Mode options is a 4770.

There are a few other settings that the posted CoHHelper indicates are at Very High that maybe should be taken down a notch if there are any additional framerate issues. Ambient Occlusion as well, maybe, should be dropped from High to Balanced. If there are problems, of course. If everything's been worked out then it can be left alone.

CoH framerates can vary wildly from zone to zone. I'll be rolling along with my at over 80 FPS with everything on Ultra because I'm in an older zone. Then I'll go to revamped Atlas and BAM! 25 to 30 FPS. And I've got a Radeon HD 7770 / 4GHz FX-6100 / 8GB RAM.

I think he means "Praetoria" in the form of the game engine tech first used there (undercover-style missions are "Praetorian" in that the tech for them comes from Going Rogue).

He's not saying Praetorian characters should be in Kings Row, he's saying it should be a Vigilante/Rogue zone using the tech used for Loyalist/Resistance mission choices.

That would be nice. I wonder if it wouldn't require something like having two characters effectively logged in at the same time, though. (The original being hidden, of course.) Like I said, I don't know what's been tried, so I'm just throwing out another idea under some principle almost opposite of Occam's Razor, since I'd expect the simplest/cleanest options (from the user's side, at least) have already been considered.

VT-x is a CPU feature. ark.intel.com confirms the i5-2500K supports VT-x. Link. (It's at the bottom under "Advanced Technologies".)

You might notice there's also something called VT-d. Neither the 2500K nor the 2700K seem to have VT-d enabled, as this is more common on server chips (Xeons) and non-K chips (Intel's probably being conservative regarding stability), for virtualization servers to allow guests direct access to certain hardware peripherals. Since you're not building a server to allow others to remote in and work off your PC, I don't think this is all that important to you.

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

Been waiting long for a chance to say that?

I would hope that a 40" HDTV is 1080p! But it would depend on the exact model. Text should be clear at the screen's native resolution, which again depends on the model.

@WanderingAries: Others have already posted a lot of the feedback you need. You seem to enjoy technology so I'll go a little more in-depth, but if you start getting bored, don't worry and don't feel bad, what I have to say isn't all that important.
Product pages emphasize certain features and omit common features in higher-end models (ie, after a certain price point they all have a particular feature and it's no longer special/important). And sometimes someone just doesn't enter all the information in. For comprehensive technical specifications you'll want to go to somewhere like ark.intel.com. All modern CPUs have memory controllers built-in. And yes, many CPUs now have graphics integrated into the CPU die, too. They're still not as good as a dedicated graphics card. (Well, the brand new Ivy Bridge CPUs are better than a Radeon HD 5450 or Geforce GT 520, but those are really low-end cards. You won't be using the integrated graphics, so it doesn't matter.)

The big difference between the i5-2500K and i7-2700K is price. The performance difference between them in the vast majority of tasks does not equal $120, except for a minority of people with particular needs; or people who like squeezing points out of benchmark scores.

It's just that one item has a slightly-more-complete label than the other. There are a LOT of numbers that can go into memory timings, but the first three or four give you an idea of the latency and how "tight" the timings are. They're usually just referred to by the first number, like "CAS 9". But CAS 8-9-8 is not as tight as 8-8-8. However... most memory should fit a standard profile that any decent motherboards can automatically detect, so you don't need to worry about timings unless you want to overclock.

Also, I will third the support for G.Skill.

The GTX 590 is a dual-GPU card, which depends on SLI. It has two graphics chips on a single board. While this can lead to improved performance in applications that play nice with SLI, some games don't (like CoH). It also scales better with higher-resolution displays, like 2560x1600, or multi-monitor setups. It also pulls up to 365 Watts by itself.

The GTX 680, by comparison, is a single-chip card that pulls, under full load, 195W. If you've got the money, it's the best single-GPU card available.

The GTX 560 Ti is the definitive mainstream card. (At least, until the 660 is released.) It hits the right price/performance ratio for most gamers. At 1920x1200 resolution it can average 30 FPS in Crysis with Enthusiast settings. If you want to look at other games or resolutions, here's Anandtech's benchmarks for the 560 Ti: Link. You could also look at other cards in the drop-down box at the top, and do side-by-side comparisons. Note that the GTX 560 Ti 448 Core isn't in this particular list, as it's a limited-run card. It's more like "crippled" GTX 570, except even with its legs broken it's fast.

Playing with monopoly money is fun, but to really know what all can go together would take a realistic budget ceiling. You can't just downgrade one item to fix the budget unless you're only off by a little. But that's probably not going to happen if you're looking at an i7 and a GTX 680.

I wasn't saying that was the event unleashing the Well, but an event. Most of the heroes (and villains) becoming active/prominent shortly after 1930 were natural or magic, which is probably more like the inspiration of the Well influencing people to become greater. Splitting the atom in 1938 could have had an effect on the Well's influence in the areas of science and mutation, humanity unleashing that power being equivalent to a sub-atomic Pandora's Box. The Well seems to work by "snowballing". It can empower an individual, and later their legacy becomes a part of the Well's power which can be further given to other individuals (in addition to the original power). It makes sense for there to be more and more events sparking further human developments and ambitions, to create more candidates for using and later contributing to the Well's power.

My Stone Armor Brute with Granite and Rooted can't move in combat. I will win or I will die! Retreat is not an option. (Because detoggling granite is a guaranteed death.)

You don't even need hyper-threading, the i5-2500K has an epic amount of processing power and you should be able to overclock to 4GHz simply by raising the multiplier in the BIOS. No need to fiddle with bus clocks or voltage like in the old days. The benefits of an i7-2600K's hyper-threading are niche, though, which is why the i5 gets so much attention.

A 128GB SSD should be about $150, which is what 64GB SSDs were at just a year ago. You never know what you might want to put on there, and having more space than needed is better than realizing you're running low. I just bought a second SSD for that reason. Once you get used to load times on the few games you've got on your SSD, the games installed on your HDD will feel like they take an eternity to start up or zone.

That was probably so we could have Penny grow up and not be competing with Psyche for "screen time" (or mission/trial prevalence). Additionally, a character that's still trying to establish herself in the eyes of the Phalanx seems more in-line with supporting players as the stars, rather than Sister Psyche, who everyone kept regarding as the most powerful psychic in the world. I think it's the Mind of Mayhem trial, Desdemona has more reservations about letting Penny help than she does about the rag-tag bunch of incarnates that queued up. Even if Penny is on Sister Psyche's level (is she?) no one's treating her like it.

But maybe I'm just being optimistic about the dev's motives.

Edit: On-topic, I'd like to throw my hat in with the folks who want the old badges available via Ouro and, if possible, not to have their current badges renamed.

Level range, I think. As a TF the Flashback can exemp you to the mission's maximum level if you're above it. Not all enemy groups span 1 to 50, and some have sub-groups that are only meant for a particular level range. Some bosses only have flavors for a few particular level ranges, as well. By using TF mechanics the player's character is guaranteed to be a level that's appropriate for the missions.