Surging_Starfall

Zwill: "Some day we'll look back to this day and laugh"

Other guy: "Shouldn't you be more concerned about getting us unstuck?"

Well here are my thoughts and experiences of them.

Alpha: my alpha was resilience to boost tankness, but I've been looking at getting musculature.

Tankness isn't needed everywhere, so musculature would probably be more helpful.

Because of elec, you don't really need Cardiac, but you can stick with that if you like it.

Destiny: I took Barrier mainly for a quick and easy way to res my team, but also to help in those situations that for me into using my god mode. Barrier right before the god mode ends will be like an extended god mode while you eat blues, greens, and turn back on your toggles. C

larion is a must for some teams due to it's useful status protection, but I haven't gotten around to building mine up tbh.

If you really want endurance, Ageless is amazing, when someone on my team uses it I get around 20 regen to endand never need to steal end.

PS: If you get any of the 120 second Destinies, you should be able to use them again immediately after they end(I think they all have a 2min cooldown), but they gradually grow weaker over time.

Judgement: I think Ion is the most effective. It jumps and has more targets it can hit, so more targets, and it won't be limited to a set radius.

Interface: It looks like Degenerative would be the most useful for GMs and AVs, I haven't used it yet, but reducing their HP makes their regen less of a problem.

For some reason I picked Gravitic, and right now I'm working towards Cognitive to have fun with a 20% confusion proc. I imagine a lot of them won't be useful against bosses, AVs and GMs. In teams, only so many of the same proc can stack on the enemy.

Hybrid: To be a team player, I picked up Support. It's cool when lots of people use it at once, but it's pretty meh on it's own. It's like getting a slightly weaker version of all 3 leadership toggles for 2 minutes without end cost. The passive minor endurance reduction is barely noticable and says -52% end cost if you right click it under your active effects. Obviously not -52%.

I often wish I'd gone with Assault when I solo and having more damage is self explanatory. When I get it, I'll probably go for 75% more damage instead of chance for double damage.

Control looks pretty good on it's right branch. It gives upto 40% resistances to some statuses, and toggling it gives damage powers(not all) a chance to give enemies some status effects. The other tree is useless to most classes. I'm still deciding between Control or Assault for my next one since the status protection would be handy.

I usually just eat greens when I need to heal, so I haven't considered getting Melee at all.

Yeah now the kheldians can have matching haste effects.

Why not just lock the color palettes to bright for the bright one and dark for the dark one.

50 slots is still pretty awesome though. I cash in pretty well on my new characters whenever they fill up their 30. Someone who dumps hundreds into the game just for the higher tiers will probably buy them.

I won't get them any time soon since I can't afford them, but the fact they are available is comforting.

Most of the space upgrades cost a lot anyway unless on special.

Sweet more enhancement slots.

Episode 2 was already available much earlier today than when this was posted. Or at least it was available in-game to VIPs anyway.

I'd rather they just made a new engine for the current game. A game with less of the limitations than this one currently has would be great.

I can see it working to get new MM models from the store, just the same way you can get new weapon skins for other sets. It just has to match the pets skeleton and everything will be ok.

The only difference is that weapons are swapped in the costumes options, and the pets would either have to be in there, or have entirely different models for each pet where you'd get the bright/dark options(which has never been done before).

They did add a lot of Lore pets during some issue though, imagine if they released MM models instead that we paid for? However, the Lore pets are just reused models from the game, so it's not the same.

Choosing pet colors would be a great option still, the only option I can imagine being the easiest that isn't 'do nothing'.

DP does two lots of damage with each shot though, and it's Executioners Shot has a really good cooldown. My favorite blaster so far has been DP, but it's very situational.

I'm really looking forward to the animation time changes. In the Summer Event each Executioners Shot was able to take chunks from the AVs at a time and often hit 300+ in just it's initial damage. Mine isn't as high level as yours though. I don't feel underpowered so far, just squishy if I use the wrong combos in some situations and I don't even use damage sets.

I think the Summer event is a good example though, since we are all forced to be the same level there.

If I were to use damage sets and after they buff the animation times, I can imagine DP doing amazing damage.

Hello again.

I was saying earlier how it ran much smoother than win7. But it's starting to slow down to the same speed or slower than when I used win7 now. The framerate is really bad, even with all settings as low as possible.

Before I could play with most settings maxed in characters, lower settings for world, and x4 for the option beneath resolution, so that all the characters looked their best while the world still looked good with great framerate, even in Atlas.

However, last night(or the night before), the load screens were longer, and the framerate was suddenly bad. The only changes were me reactivating VIP and some updates from the update manager, I'm thinking the updates might be the problem, but don't see why they should be.

I tried reinstalling Linux, so if anything I put on their slowed it down, it wouldn't. After installing it, I of course accepted all updates though. So now with just CoH, a fresh Ubuntu, and the updates, I still have the issue.

I might try it again, but this time not update. But there are some updates that are necessary in there. Someone elses advice would be awesome, even if it's "please give us the info from [file] to help narrow it down".

Edit: After maintenance it worked. Before running the game there was another update to wine and some windows related stuff, so that might be what fixed it.

I don't use any protection, because I'm a boss.

Why use the power to destroy a city on a small cabin? The same question applies here.

I didn't think about it tbh, but if someone asks, they'll get an answer that I find suitable, even if that answer never existed before.

I got it working and played it a lot yesterday. It went very smoothly and the frame rate was much better than when I was on Win7.

However, today when I try to launch it, instead of opening the window, the screen flashes black(like when it goes black before CoH shows) for a millisecond, then immediately closes CoH.

Here is what it says afterwards:

I don't have a water blaster yet, but I thought Wet Willy would be a funny name.

@Sam, I usually name my characters based on their powers, because it allows more freedom for the costume if I ever decide to change it. If the name is based on the costume, I'm more restricted to certain parts of the costume. Like my name comes from my first character on this account, Surging referencing his Electricity Manipulation, and Starfall referencing Dual Pistols which have bullets, that shoot, which references shooting stars. He will always be able to do those things, no matter who or what he looks like.

Well it is still downloading, but to get to my point, you just need to get all the things it lists you needing.

To start I double checked my perl version with 'perl -v'

I already have wine

Wget was next http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/ I think I used the most recent .tar.gz version, but I remember also getting the .xz one as I had no idea how to install them(only been using Linux for a week since my first time ever using it).
Since the Install said to use Terminal to run the configure, I tried that but had no idea how to make it find it. Luckily, double clicking configure lets me choose to run it in Terminal anyway so I did that, then typed wget into Term to double check that it's there now.

Next was xDelta, but the link just takes you too a search engine where there is only one xDelta 1.1, and I wasn't able to get it to install the same way as wget. Luckily typing xdelta into Terminal, if you don't have xdelta, tells you what to type to get xdelta. The version might be the latest since it got it on it's own(logical to think that it would get the latest one), haven't checked, but despite the thing about xdelta3, I haven't noticed any issues yet.

For XML::Simple, I just googled it, found http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...::FAQ.3pm.html then found this and typed it into Terminal
perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::Simple'

Finally, after all that, typing perl ./cohlaunch.pl worked up until this point.

Edit: It worked. Had to stop it from trying to launch itself after installing and relaunch it with [ ./cohlaunch.pl -renderthread 0] though.

1. It's been awhile since this but I think for all the server slots you have bought, there is a button called Global Character Slots at the top, which can be used in any server. Across from that button should be one that just that server uses if I remember correctly.

2. These replaced the veteran rewards. You use them to unlock the same rewards as well as new ones through the Paragon Rewards button.

3. At level20 you can start earning tips from killing enemies, by doing enough tips you can eventually get a morality mission that will change your alignment from Hero to Vigilante or Villain to Rogue for your first mission. Vigilante's or Rogue's have the same missions as the Hero or Villain had access to, but can also travel to the Villain or Hero zones as well. Doing morality missions after becoming Vigilante or Rogue can let you decide on being Villain or Hero.


Your questions and any further ones can be answered at paragon wiki.

I'm using ubuntu 12.04 and I think I got it working.

Everything seems to have gone as intended and it's now downloading CoH from scratch. I'll know for sure once it finishes.

It would be more random if they just gave out 1 free Super Pack each Friday, and that Super Pack would contain all possible prizes from all existing Super Packs.

Then players would feel something from it, and experience the gamble of flipping cards and getting 5 different things, then feel determined to flip some more. Same way it would be if anyone who entered a casino were given 1 free roll and they actually won something, something small.

I don't mind the freebie they gave us, I don't even care about it. Why? Because I flipped some cards and got hooked enough to flips LOTS more, making the small market items such as XP boosters fill my email.

PS It was advertised on the front page, guy above me.

Wow, I am so excited about this one!

Now they need to make Spear Fighting, a set that uses similar models but is one handed, allowing for shields and Spartans
Long ranged single target attacks.

Sounds like pay to win

Usually I'd throw points carelessly at anything(exclusing magic carpets, inspirations, enhancements and other 1 time use things). But I'm definitely not doing that for this pet. I even put a lot of points into getting the Black Wolf, but this pet is pretty meh in comparison to that.

What's with all the lame weeks where there is nothing worth throwing points at? The asian set was the only thing worthy in ages since the powerpacks.

I remember at first there would be heaps of things worth buying each week and people would always complain about never having enough points to keep up, were those people listened to or something?

Well since there is ancient japan armors in the midnighters club, I figured we'd probably get it in the future anyway, like how there is roman armor and medieval armor.

The ring also appears in Titan Weapons on momentum only powers when you have momentum, so you know you can use them.

The guy who helped me upgrade my graphics explained that it probably was a RAM problem, since XP ran with less crashes which uses less RAM(I had 1GB RAM then).

I got some new RAM(8GB Ultra Performance Ripjaws) awhile ago, but it turned out to not be compatible with my motherboard, so I plan to just get a new motherboard+CPU in the next 2 months since the RAM is pretty awesome.

So just the AV? I also have Comodo, Malwarebytes and Super Anti-Spyware running. Should I turn them off while playing CoH?

What if I increased Virtual Memory more than 3067 MB? Like to 6000MB or 10000MB? Would there be any issues caused by that apart from it taking up extra space?