VoxPanda

Maybe another torchlight tribute, for all of our missing comrades... something

Logged in with my lvl 19 Warshade this morning, and first thing I noticed was
my trays were "rearranged".
Went to click on the Jingle-Jet and got the "out of range" message.
Long story short, it appears that the icons on my Holiday Powers have swapped around.
Jingle-Jet is now the Golden Rings hold power.
The Renewal of Light is now the Snowball power (which only hits me, I might add).
The 'true' jingle-jet power seems to have gone away, it should have had at least 20 days or so left.
Thought this may have been a pre-cursor to the return of the big Kehld bug, but all my other powers seem to be ok.
Sent an ingame report... but was wondering if anybody else is seeing oddness with the Holiday powers.
I'm pretty sure there was no patch between last night and this morning, so that makes this even odder.

EDIT:
Checked on my Peacebringer, she seems ok. Also checked on a Brute, he seems ok as well.

another EDIT:
Logging out and back in again with the WS seems to have fixed the "problem"...
Still very odd!

cheers!

I just crashed out, and on restart loaded a second patch: now I've
got the "no response" as well.
Been on for about 4 hours prior to the second patch.
Bah.

Miuramir: I'm running an HP L224wg (22in lcd) @1680x1050 (full screen).

Bright Shadow: I'll have to go back and revisit those settings. I know I pushed and pulled on a lot of sliders trying to break 30...

I do hope there is something in the games engine that can be 'optimized' with a patch some how, some time.
CoX is the only game I really play, and I've stuck with it through good and bad... and as far as I'm concerned, its still the best thing going.... I just wanna get back up to 60FPS!

and speaking of sad panda's...

I went from a gtx275 to a gtx480: with no real change in FPS.

I use Mercy as my "testing ground", at the edge of the 'base' in front of
the VG portal looking over the street.
I average 16 FPS.
The FPS will rise and fall as I spin my POV through a 360, maxing at close to 60 as I look towards Kalinda (mostly open sky).

Flying to the Clock tower, I get the same up and down FPS, usually settling in at about the mid 20's.

The main offender for me seems to be Shadow Maps.
I also run with AO and DoF off (DoF is a visual preferance, I hate the 'soft focus').

I've poured over the boards, and tried all sorts of settings (in game and in the nVidia Control Panel).
The only thing that gets me to a consistent 60 FPS is running with Shadows Stenciled.
After much tweaking, I've gotten it to settle in at around 30FPS, moving across the majority of the Zones, redside.
Blueside runs a few frames higher in most zones.

Some COHHelper bits:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)

Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 9216MB

Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 4063 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9775
Driver Date: 4/28/2010 5:11:09 PM

Just throwing it out there.
I guess I expected to get the big 'oh wow' with the rig and the 480.
But I've pretty much resolved to live with my "near 30" performance... mostly.

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Very curious now...
I just upgraded from a gtx275 to a gtx480 on a shiny new rig.

I went from the 275 to the 480 because no matter what I tweaked, I could not break the 30 FPS barrier.
I've tried in game and out of game settings, driver updates... the works.

The very bad news.... even with the 480, I cant get above 30 FPS, and
the culprit is Shadow Maps.
If I turn them on, FPS tanks. Setting them to off/Stencil Shadows... and I get back to 60.

So, what trick am I missing?

It is indeed back.
There is also a nice little "MoTD" type message when you load in with the same wording as Ocho's "We are working on the DB..." message.

But all is well now.

See y'all later!

Thanks for the official notice, Ocho.

Aha Whisper! You've summed it up nicely.
Do the Forum timestamps change?
Is it my location?
Logged in vs. anon?
Moon cycle?

Just curious, and mebeh a lil confused...

Or am I just (nuts/drunk/hungover/too sober)???
Coulda sworn at lunchtime CST the tic at the bottom was
GMT -8... now it says :
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:56 PM.

Is it me, or has anybody else noticed this...???

I'll have to trust Ronin... it fo sho aint Triumph.
I now officially have no toons on the Training room.

Spin the wheel again, please!

Not that I mind, per se - but my test setup had a blend of old and new beta toons (TR only,red and blue), plus selected toons (red and blue) copied over from the the live servers.
With the copy from Freedom, Im "locked" into the redside... all my Heroes live on Triumph. (Dont ask, just the easiest way for me to keep track of whats where).

I did find this:
*NA Training Room - 3pm - 7pm PST, Wednesday, April 28th
If you don't currently have a copy of your character on The Training Room, make sure to transfer him/her there so that you can pay the Devs a visit! Go here to transfer your character now.

Which gives me hope that the "True" TR will be restored before Wednesday.

Here's hoping...

Blessed be, your right!
At least I'ts not just me!

Thanks K!

Seeing anything... odd?

I was on at about 2 hours ago, and was "forcefully disconnected".

I just got back on to find my toons in disarray... ie... deleted toons restored,
name changed toons reverted, new and newly copied toons gone.

Did I miss a warning post?
Anybody else seeing this...
Anybody know whats goin on?

Anybody?

and I could agree with you if it was limited to imbalanced levels.
However...
How many times have we seen even level and even +1 foes flee... and not just minions. It goes through all the ranks up to Bosses, and beyond!

While running a CoTs mish in Nerva, solo on a lvl 38 SOA (the Stop all Rituals mission, where Baphomet shows up... I forget the real name ) the EB lit out
for the coast when he got down to under 1/3 of his health... an Elite Boss for crying out loud! Which again, would not be so bad... if he had not got stuck on a rock... then one shot me when I got within melee range.

So its not really a chuck it all rant... just a... re-look at it.

Tonight I logged into Triumph blue side for the first time in a while.
Chose my tank (tech - WP/NRG, lvl 37) and selected a misson....
It was "Meet Joe Baker" from Neal Kendrick in Brickstown.
Entered mission (Abandonded_Warehouse_30_Layout_07_01 : a small map).

First off... foes were 33... ok, so its an old mish, I out-leveled it. Should be a snap to clean up, right?
Wrong.
Every foe I hit ran. Not only did he run, the Freaks with him ran.
They scattered to the ends of the map.
Then they got stuck.

What should have been a 5 minute milk run turned into a 25 minute "Find the Missing Freak" hunt.
I finally found the last flying Juicer Freak stuck up in the overhead rafters behind a corner cross-joint.

I know this is not a rare occurrence... it hits at all levels of play on all sizes of teams... this just happened to be an glaring example of code run wild.

So, please, to the Powers-that-be, rethink the AI code for Fleeing foes, and put an end to ridiculously fleeing foes.

VR-

Thanks for the reply, TJ.

Just for the record, the account is not new, and has never lapsed.

I was able to login just a lil bit ago.

Must been transient DB work, or sunspots... or maybe just to dang early
for the DB host to be bothered!

Happy Hunting!

Downloaded the new patch, tried to log on.
I received the "account name or password is incorrect " pop up,
twice.

Switched to live and was able to get in.
Tried Test one more time and got "problem in the database" pop up.

Logged into Forums () no problems.

This hitting anybody else?
Or did I miss another announcement?

ah....
Thanks Kelhdarn!

Guess I'll just vent my frustration some other way...
Maybe a beer and a sammich!

Cheers!

Just got home from work, frustrated.
Logged into the Training Room and started shooting up Founders...
and got "forcibly disconnected" .

Did I miss a post, or announcement?

anybody?

Its been said many places, but we'll say it again.

Check the bottom of the Status page across from the RSS logo...
if the datestamp shows 2009-06-24 xx:xx:xx UTC or any other date then todays... then the server are not up and the status is stale.