Swartzchild

This explains....a lot.

A group of eight of us ran some of first ward a couple of weeks back as part of an SG night. We were running on +1 level enemies, as I recall, and running nicely through the shade/specter parts of the arc.

Hitting the Awakened resulted in absolute carnage. The tumour head seers are pretty nasty when you're getting groups with two or three of them in there, but the main thing was our tanks (we had two, me playing shield and a super reflexes girl) dropping like stones to apparently fairly unthreatening awakened groups.

It now seems so obvious that it was an accuracy buff that was causing it, but at the time I couldn't figure it out. I was scanning through my combat log while we were picking ourselves up after the latest massacre and trying to spot what was hitting me with a massive defense debuff - I could see the enemy hit chances shooting up but couldn't see a consistent previous hit that explained it.

The buff is horrific to anyone relying on defence for survival - as DDR doesn't help and it must stack from different casters (we had a force fielder and a time manipulator in the team so my tank's positional defences were in the 80s, and I was seeing hit chances of 50 and 90% coming in). It also has a decent duration so it's not like devouring earth cairns where you can quickly kill the caster to remove the buff.

To add to the fun, several of the minion awakened can summon a conduit as part of their powers. More joy!

We managed to cobble together various tactics that finally got us going at a good pace, but just about every fight was hanging-on-by-the-fingernails scary. Overall it was a massively enjoyable play session, and kudos to the devs for giving us lethally challenging content.

It was also interesting to note that I happily breezed through first ward solo with an SO'd corruptor at higher difficulty. The awakened get exponentially nastier in large numbers.

Many thanks for highlighting this. At the time of the run Paragonwiki's awakened data was incomplete, and I was still uncertain of what the villain of the piece was.

I'd play around with head auras and empty jars and see how they look. Leaves, flies, tarot cards and victorian decor all lend themselves to some interesting bios depending on how well they show up and how contained by the jar they are.

Of course you could always stick a green binary head aura on an empty jar and give it dual pistols and a trenchcoat, for an all new take on "City of Neos". Shame the aura isn't usable until 50, even if you've unlocked it.

Hmm, we got exactly the same effect today on a Synapse TF. We tried relogging the leader to see if the new leader was recognised by Synapse, but to no avail.

One of the vets on the team remembered an old bug that is caused by the Zombie Apocalypse event happening when you're running a task force.

We went and killed zombies until the event ended, then redid the mission that was looping and it completed correctly and the TF continued, so it seems plausible the event was the cause of the issue.

You are a wise person, because Storm is an absolute riot to play!

If you want to pair storm with a blast set rather than a controller or mastermind I'd definitely consider a corruptor instead of a defender.

I'm biased on this as I recently levelled a storm/elec def to the mid 40s, then deleted and recreated the toon as an archery/storm corruptor (the concept worked either way so I could keep the bio and costume intact).

In team situations I was finding that Storm is a huge team asset, but it doesn't require a lot of activity most of the time. Making sure freezing rain is coming down on all enemies all the time is key, but apart from that and turning steamy mist on, your time is your own. Many of your other tools are extremely situational and only need to come out when things are going horribly wrong and folks are about to start dying. That's when you kick into gear and start tossing out tornado, artfully herding while debuffing with hurricane and so forth.

As, unless things are going badly wrong, you've got plenty of time to blast once your debuffs are set up, a corruptor AT seems to leverage this better. The stronger storm powers on the defender don't outweigh this, in my experience, unless you're only ever active on very large teams - you gain about an extra 5% resistance debuff on freezing rain (35% instead of 30%) and 10% resistance buff from steamy mist. Hurricane's debuff is so huge you can get it well over cap with a single to-hit debuff IO on a corruptor, and tornado's slightly lower damage and stun/fear durations don't really matter as when you use it you're mostly using it for the KB/KU (which is identical).

Of course I may have been prejudiced because popular wisdom has it that electrical blast is a fairly weak set. On a defender, certainly, I found it horrible.

As for what blast set to pick, I'd go with concept and fun as your main decision maker, although a set with strong AOE is useful (if you're teaming AOE is always useful, if you're soloing you can use tornado and lightning storm for single target damage).

A few synergies that did occur to me:

Dark blast will turn you into a disorientating machine as you can stack thunder clap and dark pit to produce a fairly rapidly recharging aoe stun combination that will stun bosses. The slows in snow storm and freezing rain will stop your shell-shocked victims from wandering away too much.

Ice blast works well thematically and blizzard on top of freezing rain won't leave much alive, and is going to look great. Better still, the two freeze rays are holds which include
-knockback. Hold something under a lightning storm and it's going to die if it can't be knocked out of the storm.

If you want to go with a controller, control sets have -kb in the aoe immobilise rather than the hold, which allows you to do the same trick on a larger scale (the control set aoe holds have too long a recharge to be used on every pull, generally, but the aoe immobs recharge very fast). You need to do something to stop the immobilised mobs shooting the bejeezus out of you, but the fact they keep slipping over in freezing rain will help a bit. If you're not in a hurry you can just hide round the corner until at least the minions are dead. You can also keep throwing tornados at the group, as they ain't going anywhere, to add some stuns and fears to the mix as well as significant extra damage. The only set this doesn't work with is Gravity, because it has -kb in the hold not the immobilise. This is a bit of a shame really as wormholing stuff into a corner and pinning them there with hurricane would work awesomely. Oh, one fly in the ointment is that hurricane and lightning storm don't get the containment damage boost, as they're pets.

Just to check, are you currently slotted with Efficacy Adaptor or Performance Shifter?

You may well have been seeing the "Chance for +End" proc in Performance Shifter firing (which you must have used if you six slotted) - if you've subsequently switched to Efficacy Adaptor you won't see that any more, as the Efficacy Adaptor set doesn't contain a proc IO.

As the proc returns 10% of your max End and has a 20% chance to trigger it's quite noticable.

This one's going to be a matter of personal choice. You're going to have higher damage with 3 SOs and musculature than with 2.

Approximate numbers (bearing in mind your total radial adds 16.5% damage that is subject to enhancement diversification (ED) and 16.5% that isn't):

3 SOs = 100%+16.5% = 116.5% reduced to 97.5% by ED then +16.5% for +114% damage

2 SOs = 66.7%+16.5% = 83.2% reduced to 82% by ED then +16.5% for +98.5% damage

So you lose half an SOs worth of damage by only slotting two (or waste half an SOs damage to ED by slotting 3, depending on which way you look at it).

Hmm, I hadn't even thought about changing the settings for stealth, thanks EJI.

To do that I need to turn on "hit by foe" on the settings and maths tab?

Hmm, that means I'm going to need to fork out for the PvP IO anyway to get to softcap.

Hi Brute gurus!

I have an old Claws/Elec brute coming up on 50 and am just about to respec him. I'm trying to balance a build that's capable of tanking for a team when needed, while maintaining a decent damage output.

My current build (details below) is S/L softcapped and fast enough to run an aoe chain of Follow Up/Spin and a single target chain of Follow Up/Focus/Slash, although both chains get very slightly gappy when hasten is down (about 16s downtime per cycle at the moment).

I'm wondering if there's anything I've missed, or could do a bit better. Especially as I do have the option of dropping a +3 def pvp IO into the build, which would allow me to slot lightning field a LOT better, and maybe pick up a little extra regen in places, while staying soft capped. Are there significant gains to be made there, to justify the 2.5 billion price tag on the IO?

Any thoughts or comments are most welcome.

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.942
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Bitter Harvest: Level 50 Technology Brute
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Electric Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Concealment

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Strike -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5)
Level 1: Charged Armor -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(5), RctvArm-ResDam(7), RctvArm-EndRdx(7)
Level 2: Lightning Field -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(9), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(9), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(11), Oblit-%Dam(13)
Level 4: Slash -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(15), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(15), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(17), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(17), Achilles-ResDeb%(50)
Level 6: Spin -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(19), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(19), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(21), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(21), Oblit-%Dam(23)
Level 8: Follow Up -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(23), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(25), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(25), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(27), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27)
Level 10: Conductive Shield -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(29), RctvArm-ResDam(29), RctvArm-EndRdx(31)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), Ksmt-ToHit+(31)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Static Shield -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(31), RctvArm-ResDam(33), RctvArm-EndRdx(33)
Level 18: Focus -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(34), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(34), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34), Decim-Build%(36)
Level 20: Grounded -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A)
Level 22: Lightning Reflexes -- Run-I(A)
Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(36)
Level 26: Taunt -- Mocking-Acc/Rchg(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(36), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(37), Mocking-Taunt/Rng(37)
Level 28: Energize -- Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(A), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(37), Dct'dW-Heal(39), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Dct'dW-Rchg(39)
Level 30: Kick -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(40), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(40), KntkC'bat-Knock%(40)
Level 32: Shockwave -- Posi-Dam%(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg(42), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(42), Posi-Dmg/Rng(42), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(43)
Level 35: Power Sink -- Mocking-Rchg(A), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(43), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(43), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(45), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(45), Efficacy-EndMod(50)
Level 38: Power Surge -- RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(A), RctvArm-EndRdx/Rchg(45), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(46), RctvArm-ResDam(46)
Level 41: Tough -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(46), RctvArm-ResDam(48), RctvArm-EndRdx(48)
Level 44: Weave -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def(48), LkGmblr-Rchg+(50)
Level 47: Stealth -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 49: Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
------------
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(13)
------------
Set Bonus Totals:

• 6% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 6% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 6% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 6% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 6% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 6% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 6% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 6% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 33% Defense(Smashing)
• 33% Defense(Lethal)
• 3% Defense(Fire)
• 3% Defense(Cold)
• 9.25% Defense(Energy)
• 9.25% Defense(Negative)
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
• 23.6% Defense(Melee)
• 6.13% Defense(Ranged)
• 3% Defense(AoE)
• 5.85% Max End
• 57.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 27% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 4% Enhancement(Heal)
• 140.6 HP (9.38%) HitPoints
• MezResist(Held) 5.5%
• MezResist(Immobilize) 19.3%
• MezResist(Stun) 4.4%
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
• 2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery
• 10% (0.62 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 2.84% Resistance(Fire)
• 2.84% Resistance(Cold)
• 1.58% Resistance(Toxic)
• 1.58% Resistance(Psionic)

Edited to trim the MIDS export down as I'd exported full set breakdowns.

Some interesting feedback here guys, thanks.

As far as boosting defence goes, do you have to reactivate toggle powers once power boost is active, or will the boosts increase automatically?

E.g. if I have weave running and activate power boost, with the +def from weave increase, even though it was "on" before power boost was activated?

From looking over the info on Power Boost in the energy manipulation set it appears that it doesn't buff secondary damage, recharge rate debuffs, knockback, stun duration or damage debuffs, so the only impact it has on Dual Pistols is to boost the hold effect of suppressive fire (when using a special ammo type).

Am I reading this right?

Is it an eminently skippable power on a DP/EM blaster?

Thanks again for the suggestions guys. It now appears I have a general system problem, rather than it being CoH specific.

I'm seeing some system instability and occasional blue screens.

I've installed the windowns SDK and analysed the minidump from the last blue screen, but interpreting it is proving beyond me.

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 X86
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


Loading Dump File [c:\windows\minidump\Mini081411-01.dmp]
Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available

WARNING: Inaccessible path: 'c:\windows\i386'
Symbol search path is: srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Executable search path is: c:\windows\i386
Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista Kernel Version 6002 (Service Pack 2) MP (4 procs) Free x86 compatible
Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Personal
Built by: 6002.18484.x86fre.vistasp2_gdr.110617-0336
Machine Name:
Kernel base = 0x8661b000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0x86732c70
Debug session time: Sun Aug 14 14:59:06.816 2011 (UTC + 1:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:18.534
Loading Kernel Symbols
.................................................. .
Loading User Symbols
************************************************** *****************************
* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
************************************************** *****************************

Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck A, {4264, 2, 0, 866d42d3}

Probably caused by : ntkrpamp.exe ( nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+75 )

Followup: MachineOwner
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1: kd> !analyze -v
************************************************** *****************************
* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
************************************************** *****************************

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
caused by drivers using improper addresses.
If a kernel debugger is available get the stack backtrace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00004264, memory referenced
Arg2: 00000002, IRQL
Arg3: 00000000, bitfield :
bit 0 : value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
bit 3 : value 0 = not an execute operation, 1 = execute operation (only on chips which support this level of status)
Arg4: 866d42d3, address which referenced memory

Debugging Details:
------------------


READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 86752868
Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 86732420
00004264

CURRENT_IRQL: 2

FAULTING_IP:
nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+75
866d42d3 394204 cmp dword ptr [edx+4],eax

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0xA

PROCESS_NAME: System

TRAP_FRAME: 8d3d353c -- (.trap 0xffffffff8d3d353c)
ErrCode = 00000000
eax=8af4a1b8 ebx=8b05cd50 ecx=8b05cd01 edx=00004260 esi=88824a60 edi=00004260
eip=866d42d3 esp=8d3d35b0 ebp=8d3d35bc iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00210246
nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+0x75:
866d42d3 394204 cmp dword ptr [edx+4],eax ds:0023:00004264=????????
Resetting default scope

LOCK_ADDRESS: 8674f600 -- (!locks 8674f600)

Resource @ nt!PiEngineLock (0x8674f600) Available

WARNING: SystemResourcesList->Flink chain invalid. Resource may be corrupted, or already deleted.


WARNING: SystemResourcesList->Blink chain invalid. Resource may be corrupted, or already deleted.

1 total locks

PNP_TRIAGE:
Lock address : 0x8674f600
Thread Count : 0
Thread address: 0x00000000
Thread wait : 0x0

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 866d42d3 to 86668fd9

STACK_TEXT:
8d3d353c 866d42d3 badb0d00 00004260 00000001 nt!KiTrap0E+0x2e1
8d3d35bc 86632023 88824a60 8b05cd60 00000004 nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+0x75
8d3d35e0 8662b1ab 8af4a1b8 8b05cd60 00000004 nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableAvl+0x28
8d3d35fc 8662b389 00000000 8b0532e0 00000000 nt!VfAvlInsertReservedTreeNode+0x29
8d3d3614 867a58f0 8b05cd60 0000f000 00000000 nt!VfTargetDriversAdd+0xb6
8d3d3638 867a6de4 00000000 00000000 8888a828 nt!VfLoadDriver+0x1ef
8d3d3680 867a6aea 8d0c8f00 8d3d3888 8d3d36f0 nt!MiDriverLoadSucceeded+0x2d
8d3d3700 867865e5 8d3d3888 00000000 00000000 nt!MmLoadSystemImage+0x70c
8d3d38f4 8677ecea 00000000 8d3d3900 8d3d3924 nt!IopLoadDriver+0x385
8d3d3938 867ee46f 8ec8cc80 00000001 8ec8cc6c nt!PipCallDriverAddDeviceQueryRoutine+0x309
8d3d3974 867ee89c 8d3d3a98 8d3d39c8 8ec95000 nt!RtlpCallQueryRegistryRoutine+0x25b
8d3d3a0c 8677d4f2 40000000 8000009c 8d3d3a40 nt!RtlQueryRegistryValues+0x418
8d3d3af0 8677ca25 00000000 8d3d3d38 8674d550 nt!PipCallDriverAddDevice+0x2ff
8d3d3cec 86627714 8888e308 8b052f28 8d3d3d38 nt!PipProcessDevNodeTree+0x15c
8d3d3d44 866c0e22 00000000 00000000 8888a828 nt!PnpDeviceActionWorker+0x229
8d3d3d7c 867f0fe2 00000000 06661b87 00000000 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0xfd
8d3d3dc0 86659efe 866c0d25 00000001 00000000 nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16


STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:
nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+75
866d42d3 394204 cmp dword ptr [edx+4],eax

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1

SYMBOL_NAME: nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+75

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: nt

IMAGE_NAME: ntkrpamp.exe

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 4dfb5603

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xA_nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+75

BUCKET_ID: 0xA_nt!RtlInsertElementGenericTableFullAvl+75

Followup: MachineOwner
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Anyone who can shed any insight will be showered in kudos.

Cheers,

Swartzchild

Thanks for your suggestions Mandu.

I'm using a GTX 8800 with driver version 275.33.

I'll check out the card following your advice and see what I can discover.

Right, now I'm utterly baffled. I've reinstalled the game client and started off with much lower graphics settings than I was running previously, and everything's (sort of) fine. In that I've had just one freeze in 4 or 5 hours of play, rather than a guaranteed freeze within 15 seconds of entering the game.

What baffles me is I've changed nothing at all on my system, hardware configuration, or even regular program updates. I've played two months with all Ultra mode settings maxed out, without a problem, and now I'm playing with settings at "performance". It's bizarre.

I'm fairly certain it's not a CPU temperature issue as I'm familiar with those and resolved them previously. Possibly graphic's card temp? I have no idea where to start testing if that's the issue, so any advice would be welcome.

Hi folks,

I've already submitted a support request on this one, but I thought I'd see what the resident player base gurus had to say, just in case.

I'm getting complete system freezes a few seconds after I log into game. What's frustrating me is I've changed absolutely nothing on my system since yesterday, when everything was running fine. I've even checked through my stability monitor logs to see if anything's been updated, but nothing has.

Sadly I can't get CoH Helper to work properly, so can't provide the info from that. It won't detect my CoH registry settings. I'm running it on the same login as my game, and I run without UAC on so nothing has the "run as administrator" boxes ticked. If anyone has any other suggestions as to why it's not detecting properly, please let me know.

My HijackThis log is:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 12:20:32, on 06/08/2011
Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v9.00 (9.00.8112.16421)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageMonitor.exe
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TimounterMonitor.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe
C:\Windows\System32\CTHELPER.EXE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Search Protection\SearchProtection.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\GamePanel Software\LGDevAgt.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\GamePanel Software\LCD Manager\LCDMon.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\GamePanel Software\G-series Software\LGDCore.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\dpupdchk.exe
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Display\nvtray.exe
C:\Program Files\DivX\DivX Update\DivXUpdate.exe
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\real\realplayer\Update\realsched.exe
C:\Windows\System32\Ctxfihlp.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe
C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe
C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe
C:\Windows\ehome\ehtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnscfg.exe
C:\Windows\ehome\ehmsas.exe
C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CTXFISPI.EXE
C:\Users\George Fraiser\Desktop\CohHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HiJackThis\HiJackThis.exe
C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://us.rd.yahoo.com/customize/ie/...ch/search.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://us.rd.yahoo.com/customize/ie/.../www.yahoo.com
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.co.uk/
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://www.yahoo.com
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://us.rd.yahoo.com/customize/ie/.../www.yahoo.com
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://us.rd.yahoo.com/customize/ie/...ch/search.html
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://us.rd.yahoo.com/customize/ie/.../www.yahoo.com
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.yahoo.com
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) = http://us.rd.yahoo.com/customize/ie/.../www.yahoo.com
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
R3 - URLSearchHook: YTNavAssist.YTNavAssistPlugin Class - {81017EA9-9AA8-4A6A-9734-7AF40E7D593F} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\YTNavAssist.d ll
O1 - Hosts: ::1 localhost
O2 - BHO: &Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4efb-9B51-7695ECA05670} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHelperStub - {18DF081C-E8AD-4283-A596-FA578C2EBDC3} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelperShim.dll
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O16 - DPF: {F6ACF75C-C32C-447B-9BEF-46B766368D29} (Creative Software AutoUpdate Support Package) - http://ccfiles.creative.com/Web/soft...5118/CTPID.cab
O18 - Protocol: wlpg - {E43EF6CD-A37A-4A9B-9E6F-83F89B8E6324} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\AlbumDownloadProtocolHandler.dll
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O23 - Service: Creative Audio Service (CTAudSvcService) - Creative Technology Ltd - C:\Program Files\Creative\Shared Files\CTAudSvc.exe
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O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (nvsvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\Windows\system32\nvvsvc.exe
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O23 - Service: SBSD Security Center Service (SBSDWSCService) - Safer Networking Ltd. - C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SDWinSec.exe
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Any help or suggestions anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Actions I've taken so far are:

Verifying the CoH install using the launcher
Clean reinstall of video and sound drivers
Memory test
Checked DXDiag for any errors

Thanks again,

Swartzchild

I'm not certain if it's a bug or a feature, but I recently updated a character costume from the old metallic torso/legs/boots to the new ultra mode super shiny metallic look.

The new metal effect is great, my problem is the metallic skull head hasn't been updated to the new texture, so you get a very obvious mismatch with the metallic torso. Previously they went together seamlessly, so this is a bit of a shame.

Any plans to update the metallic skull to use the new texture?

More options to reduce/remove effects from powers.

This is incredibly cheap to implement in terms of resources, as it requires no new animations, and returns control of the look of their toon to the player. It always strikes me as a shame that the character designer gives you such amazing freedom to get a character the way you want, and then your power set and ally buffs take it all away by burying the costume under a dozen different flashing lights.

If there's a PvP balance issue then it should be possible to disable low/no effects sets in PvP zones. I don't pvp so I don't know how important identifying specific powers is, but I'm assuming it might be.

Seeing as nearly everyone has access to customisable cosmetic aura options, I'm kind of surprised toggle powers even need animations. Once you have half a dozen toggles running the whole lot blends into a undifferentiated glowing lump anyway. I'd much rather be able to set the entire set to "no effects" and then put in a single aura that works with the costume at the tailor.

Some powers just look horrible with certain costumes - fire shield/plasma shield for example look horrific on my scrapper because he's a huge body type in armour and big trousers - so parts of his costume sticks out through the shield effects and it just looks a mess.

An option for the damage auras that don't have geometric perfect circles pulsing out from your character would be nice. I don't need to see when my aura pulses, or the exact extent of its range. I'd rather something a bit more chaotic. Admittedly the electric armour damage aura graphics I think are great - except for the big perfect circle round the edge.


Teleport, please yes give some alternate animations for this. Even no animation and a gradual fading away would be a nice alternative to chest thumping.

Hasten.