T_Immortalus

1) We probably don't see when subtraction is taking place on Shadowhunter and leavign only part of the damage to go through and the most common state is "all absorbed" or "none absorbed", and we are not him thus can't look at the logs for him.

2) My point was that the game has never had to do a damage subtraction before. It was all done with health where all damage went through and health was added by a heal after.
This is about damage being stopped before it hits player health, removing an extra pool, and then only part of that damage proceeding on to then be affected by resistance.

I wonder if they really can make that work perfectly every time such that a single damage packet can be subtracted from before it has fully finished executing?

That's a rather tall order considering how often things have broken that we took for granted as "too well made to break" or "no patch notes even remotely associated with a specific thing so couldn't have broken that specific thing"(and yet the specific thing was broken by that patch).

So, any new issue 23 broadsword unlockables?

I heard there was a sword from Pendragon, but are there any available from badges for those without IO access and non-VIP? I would like to see pictures if possible as well.

Where?
That page says "click on the far right", but there is nothing to click. It's a blank page.

I would love to know HOW Vanessa DeVore died. I get the impression that she had become the Avatar, but nobody will give me a straight answer when I ask if they know and wiki doesn't know.

I would not be surprised if that sort of situation ends up bugged to where it will put all 175 damage through while depleting the absorption simply because the game has never had to split one chunk of damage into 2, as far as I know.

Odd, Lady Jane seems to handle stairs better than ever for me. She used to get hung up on any old rock in the floor of the cave.

I have also seen the way NPCs deal with the Praetorian stairs get slightly better, in that they tend to get unstuck if I hop up and down faster than they used to. Also, enemy ambushes that are the "omniscient" type have no trouble with stairs at all. I wish they would give that code to all ally escorts.

boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=4200886

I still have no idea what causes that error either.
The two seem a bit related though, considering that this error seems to reset my character's movement status(knocked down or riding the rocket board without the board) and cause trouble tracking my movements while the linked thread's error is all about my tracking apparently being off while manually moving such that the mouse cursor appear to be pointign from a different position than my character.

I would like both issues to be solved, but the linked one is far less of a problem. I'm just concerned that the other error could be a symptom of a bigger problem or lead to a bigger problem.
Both issues still occur at random times under the proper circumstances for each.

Well, if the +def was changed to absorb then it would still not be breaking the cottage rule because both are damage mitigation and, I would argue, absorb fits the true intention of "force field" more than +def does.

/facepalm

1) I am on a free account, so no free access to Night Ward contacts.

2) I did not purchase the Night Ward mission pack.

3) I can not access the primary storyline contacts of Night Ward.

Therefore, why am I able to do missions for Trilogy and Fireball while Mistress Maria and Montague Castanella say that I need to be VIP or purchase the pack?




Am I getting something for free as intended or is this a bug and they should be locked behind a payment?

You can't set ZoneAlarm to "always allow" City of Heroes and the NCSoft launcher?
Most firewalls/AV programs have options to do that, as far as I know.

Maybe they finally worked out direct "-damage" rather than a debuff before damage is dealt?

"All in favor?"
"AYE!"

I am in favor of it as well. It would be extremely awesome if it had a different "hit" animation as well, one where it was obvious the power hit but did not physically hit the character.
Here is an example at 0:55 in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfGwfhU7z5M

The idea is to have an obvious "pinging off the shield" hit without "making them flinch" like hits currently work in the game.

Which is why there is a no return law on opened packages for services in at least some US states.(I think)
There definitely is a policy against it for most retailers.

Also, the original discussion is about the goggled hero with shoulder pads in the center of Steel Canyon that is identical to the Galaxy City "Tank" statue of M1 and the "peeping tom" statue at the badge location in Peregrine Island.

Talos is actually a completely different statue of a horned hero.(iirc, ymmv, legalese )

Yes, I was just explaining the meaning of the term.
It's something I have known since my early years, I think, with my NES.

That would likely take rewriting the way people get around in the world to makes sense within a story.
The immersion in the world, the way things make sense, is most important.

So it may not make much sense to us given all the other options, but the TUNNEL system is actually supposed to be an evacuation route from Praetoria, according to the story, before Emperor Cole nukes it. It just happens to also facilitate travel to the many zones it is evacuating people to and from.



Edit:
There is always the other explanation that this game likes to use: "These are not the droids you are looking for." /handwave

What I heard was that they were put into the store system to "update" them form the old way they were awarded way back when to the new way of doing things.
They are still only available to those who purchased those special bundles years ago.

Ahh, I went to Trilogy and Fireball. I didn't know their level range.


But, my main question is why don't I have to pay for those contacts?
I'm not VIP.

Are they free contacts/missions for everyone? Is that the same for the First Ward secondary contacts as well?

Yes, but do you think people stop trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of that hardware?
Also, consoles don't change that fast, neither do user computers unless there is a problem.

Developers have to squeeze more performance out of the hardware that is in consumer hands, not the stuff in prototypes and trade shows, in order to get sales.


So yes, hardware does advance, but they still have to do as much with as little they can to make sure they impress people and can get sales from people who don't "buy the newest car every year" essentially.





Anyway, do you have any ideas for solving my issue permanently?
Spending money on new internet or hardware is not an option at the moment nor is it a permanent solution.

Probably, this game goes way overboard on the particle count and everything is tied to that setting. So lowering it to be able to see actually makes it harder to see what you are trying to because you only need that when things are way too busy.

I wish they would scale back the particle effects a lot, either by reducing the amount of powers or just reducing the effects overload of every power. It just would be nice to be able to see while things still look cool.