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Fail to drop Marauder in the allotted timeframe. If you have people who don't care/don't know how to look up the Pac grenades under Temp Powers, you'll hit the Enraged wall and have to go kill a crate, hope it falls to someone paying attention, then use it.

Ran into that last night, in fact. It was the closest I've been to failing in weeks. We still beat it, but that was wholly a social issue I think, not a skills issue.

I haven't failed a Lambda on a PUG crew since the first week, when everyone was learning the ropes.

I can go over the trial details online if you want, but I'm sure there's a guide somewhere. I think the sticking point is when you don't drop all the ambush doors, and the team ploughs through with over half of them up while not being optimized. For a non-Master run, I'd take the few minutes to kill all the ambush doors (that means working that cylinder in the NE corner to get more acid grenades 'til all the doors are gone). Once the ambushes are gone, Marauder's a piece of cake for the average team.

Sorry to hear that your wins on this are so bad. I usually run around 9pm-1am EST, and those teams have been 100% successful.

I'm in with Gun Father (DP/Fire Blaster).

...and you said?

(Assuming a GRATS! is in order here. )

No sweat. I'll bring Blackest Light for this one, methinks.

The least you could do is send me your Steam ID.

Full sails and gentle wind, my friend. Your voice has been, and will be, missed, but never forgotten. C'mon back to show us how tanned you are after your COH vacation.

*cracks knuckles*

It's pretty good. It needs a bit of work, but it's got an excellent basis for the auras, costume pieces, etc. See some previous opinions for some of the disparities between M/F costume items, baked in color sets, etc.

The decor aura alone makes the pack worth it. Damn pretty, that.

I almost turned down the free pack I won last week cuz I wanted to pay the $$ for it to support 'em.

...almost. But I woulda paid for this, easily.

First, welcome back. I sorta agree with Laser that the Tech Issues forum is more appropriate, but you're more likely to get applicable responses here. Answering in sequence, and adding own comments at the bottom.

1. I really don't have rubberbanding issues unless there's degraded connectivity between me and the server in general; OR, if the server itself is having specific access issues. That sort of instability is abrupt and short-term, as all users would encounter problems on a certain zone, for instance, and gets addressed immediately.

2. Rubberbanding is primarily a symptom of packet quality issues. If you believe this might be an issue, try running the game in safe mode and see if it improves your rubberbanding.

3. The US servers were all relocated to Texas some time ago. Consequently, the whole east/west coast plan for improving connectivity is out the window now as you're all going to the same hosted location. Fun Fact: Since we merged the US/EU server lists, I've noticed about 50ms ping improvement of Union/Defiant over Freedom (I'm based in DC). I'm planning on migrating some of my toons to Union for this reason.

4. No free server transfers unless they specifically announce a "free transfer" period. Transfers were just on sale for 50% off until a few days ago, and they're a "buy and use immediately" format, so no "buying and parking until later" like one of the rednames erroneously suggested last week.

Suggestions for you:

a. Try safe mode and see if your rubberbanding improves. If so, it could well be your own system that's hampering you because of severe overhead for graphics, sound, etc. I doubt it, but hey, anything's possible.

b. Like Laser suggested, you can try assigning your DNS to a different server (Google offers access to one for free, as do a number of other sources) to see if your routing to the game environment improves.

c. Lastly, I'd just open a trouble ticket via /petition and ask for technical assistance. They'll email you a diagnostic tool that will log basic info on your machine and network connection for them to use in their analysis. It may take a few days, but their process on this is fairly thorough, and will help them narrow down a common issue if other users from certain ISPs or trunk paths are having the same issue.

Tch. This has been on my bucket list for years now. The guy who got me into COH back in 2004 told me this is one of those keeper shows... fine, guess I'll have to get the 1st season or something.

I suspect this can be un-stickied.

That's totally shopped, bro, Worf wouldn't have been allowed a hat anyway because he wasn't in Command.

You can also try RedTomax's City of Data archive. The only "previous" location I'm aware of for Portal Corp. was their location in the northwest corner in the Hive. See the explore badge "Time Bandit" for more info.

...always wanted them to expand the functionality of that area. Maybe have Resistance elements establishing a fortified colony there, using the previous Portal tech, to escape Praetoria and Emperor Cole.

Well, not if he does it in the RWZ or Pocket D, or maybe Praetoria too. RWZ's got the breathing room, D's a bit easier for lowbies to attend. Praetoria's got ultra mode, but DOES require Going Rogue.

Hm. Praetoria WOULD be a nice, open area...