T_Immortalus

Welcome to my world.

I've been saying ever since issue 18 that this game is getting steadily worse netgraph results with each patch, even to the point of lag(always means high ping to me) when things should be running perfectly.

The common denominator?
City of Heroes' messy shoddy code(mostly due to Cryptic's original coding and it not all being replaced with a coherent whole new engine)

It's as if CoH destroys its own network communication by trying to reconcile the disorderly network traffic when absolutely anythign doesn't go perfectly with the ping.


Does nobody else remember the constant crashes on BAFs when they first came out?

That same crash, when the power trays empty, team window goes screwy, your screen may spin and you sometimes see your character moved from the BAF to the park area of Imperial City(it's that huge a map sadly, which makes it very inefficient) and then you crash shortly after that, is still happening to this day, though more rare due to being triggered by packet loss(hello CoH's self-destructing network communication) and lag rather than happening with absolutely perfect ping like originally.





I know we should count ourselves lucky that CoH doesn't get into the "infinite rubber-banding loops" that Champions Online has commonly(which require forcing the game to close if they don't crash it themselves), but what we have is still not good at all.
It makes sense, though, that these 2 games would have such poor network communication evident since they were made by the same shoddy company with the goal of "pushing a game out as fast as possible".

For a game that was made during the days of dial-up being common, and intended to run on such a low-bandwidth connection, this game has the worst amount of network issues obviously due to trying to push too much information through the internet and servers on top of bad network code.
This game should run much much better, especially since practically all of us have much more bandwidth and reliability than dial-up.

Not to mention, our computers can easily handle CoH.




By the way, I'm actually not experiencing the issue much, but I team very little these days, partly due to all the incarnates with level shifts and the fact that still causes a crash if they're leading the team(at least).

That is not how it is bugged.

Rain of Fire actually does 3 times the base damage when it Scourges because the damage number for each tick is 2x for Scourge on top of the normal 1x.

Look at the detailed info in game.
Look at Ice Storm also. Ice Storm does 0.5x smashing damage plus 0.5x cold damage plus 1x Scourge cold damage for a total of 2x damage.
Rain of Fire does 1x fire damage plus 2x Scourge fire damage.

It is clearly set to the wrong number.

It's all those lost packets on my already not so fast internet.

Plus, I think I'm special. LOL


Although, it is a good thing that I am in the situation I am in. It brings out these problems that would otherwise go unnoticed until they become even larger and problematic for everyone someday.
You don't test anything under "ideal conditions" after all; you test near the point of failure to ensure that "ideal conditions" will never get close to seeing problems.

Edit:
I wish they would hire me to test for them.
I like finding and figuring out these issues even if they hamper play.

Don't spend money if you don't need to.

Your graphics card can obviously handle the settings it was at since it wasn't overheating.
You just have a driver updating issue, and like that old driver can't do things a newer one can.

Like I said, contact your computer's support line and get them to help you. That is what they are there for.

LOL
I don't think you can ever get in trouble for saying or typing Batman or that phrase unless you are trying to call it "my own creation" and/or making money off it.

If that were so, we would all be in serious trouble for practically everything we say.

I've seen them go out of their way to crush much more "trivial" bugs than this one simply because they make one specific build more powerful than intended.

This is 150% of the damage this power is supposed to do.
That's a pretty big boost, and other powers have been changed for much less reason.


If you think 150% base damage is "trivial" then you obviously say "meh, Fire Blast is overrated", ignoring how common it is, and are the insane one.




And yes, they're human and the game has a LOT of powers and currently the corruptor detailed info for attack powers is severely broken(doesn't show anything past the 2.5% chance to scourge line, so it looks like most powers have no secondary effects) and has been since at least issue 21.

They do not notice something unless they have specifically looked directly at it or it is reported by the players and....
1) They can't see everything, especially since they are busy.
2) They can't see every post so it was likely discussed but they ignored it(or misinterpreted double scourge damage as double total damage which is WAI) or just never saw it discussed.
3) Nobody reported it, which is likely because who would report a bug that helps them with no bad effects?
(I have seen players exploit every little advantage they can. Just look at IOs for examples of that.)


Believe me, this will be changed as soon as they actually see how broken it is compared to powers like Ice Storm that actually work as intended.

It seems completely random, like there is some variable that isn't staying set one way or the other.

Time to contact your computer manufacturer's(or the place you bought it through) support and get them working on helping you update the driver.

It seems you have a serious issue with that which we are not equipped to handle.

1) Yes, it has been.

2) It's a very easy fix, which means it is either intentional or they just never noticed it or had it brought to their attention by players(who wouldn't want their favorite overpowered power to be nerfed).

I'm pretty sure that this time the fix is easy and it will be fixed a.s.a.p. now that they know about it(if they got the message).
If not, it must be "working as intended" which would mean that other powers/sets would need to be buffed to be on par with Fire Blast. there is a reason "Fire Blast is the best" is the most common sentiment whenever anyone asks about which corruptor primary to pick.

I just want sets to be more balanced.
I have always found the corruptors underperform compared to other archetypes, but then I never played Fire Blast.

If rain of Fire is actually "working as intended", such that Fire Blast was intentionally made as good as it is, then maybe they will buff other corruptor sets in simple ways to be on par with Fire Blast and thus much more fun.

If this is a bug they want to squash then fixing it will at least stop the "Fire is king" flavor of the month prevalence and actually make more variety more common.
Other power sets will have a better chance of getting more attention from players, getting more guides and having more variety in builds and strategies.

I was just asking "can you slot it with accuracy? will it do anything beneficial?" not what it would do.

So, I guess if I use a rain power I'll put at least one SO of accuracy in it, probably 2(or 2-3 nucleolus).

Yeeeeaaahh, I didn't get it at all before you just explained it.
I have used the "holy blank, Batman!" a lot, and that paraphrase of it was still too far out there.

So....should you enhance the power for accuracy or not?

I thought it was practically guaranteed to hit enemies so long as they were within the AoE.

When has 48C been high, or 66C been too high?
(Edit: for under load conditions)

You do know that computer parts operate well above ambient temperature correct?
I happen to know that those temperatures are perfectly functional and even cooler than my currently functional computer.


His/her computer is not overheating, unless it is something other than the motherboard, CPU or GPU.



Edit:
Those temperatures are perfectly normal for when the game is running well.

That doesn't seem right to me.
Can anyone more technically inclined explain this?

10240MB seems like an odd number for RAM. I didn't think RAM would be setup in a multiple of 5 sticks of 2GB(and 10 sticks of 1GB is even more strange).
Normally you have 4-6 slots for RAM on a motherboard, filling them with identical sticks of all 1GB or 2GB to end up with multiples of 2 like 4GB, 6GB, 8GB and 12GB.

That just looks odd to me.

Accuracy doesn't even matter for Rain of Fire. It has 2.00x chance to hit, which is 150% chance(I believe since 1.00x is 75% chance).