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we need more information about your system before we can answer this: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219502

... your drivers are way out of date.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/noteboo...7.16_whql.html

I suspect that there aren't many guides for corruptor archery to begin with. The Archery Set is a little (LOT) lite (NONEXISTANT) on powers with Damage-Over-Time components; lacks secondary debuff effects; and is pretty much all smashing / lethal damage... which is the most resisted damage type on NPC critters. So, as a corruptor set, it really doesn't mesh with the corruptor's inherent on paper.

That being said, I did an archery / fire blaster, and everybody told me that was a dumb idea... and actually, they were right.

Now, since I don't know what your play style is, giving you advice on how to build is going to be a little difficult. Since Archery doesn't mesh well with what Corruptors do to begin with, at high levels of play you'll pretty much be reliant on Tar Patch to drop enemies resistances so you can lay damage down. The good news there is that the corruptors recharge on Tar Patch is 1:30 with an effect of 45.5 seconds... so you can pretty much perma Tar Patch on just SO's.

Intel Integrated graphics?

already a thread on this, but I'm too lazy to track it down.

While I'll admit I'm not exactly an expert on "Captain America" I do know that many of his first comic appearances placed him fighting overseas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America :: http://marvel.com/universe/Captain_A...teve_Rogers%29

So really, for a movie to be made about Captain America that stays true to his comic roots, I would actually have thought that overseas locations would have been scouted long before any US sites were scouted.

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That aside: I will point to another recent movie, Zombieland. Zombieland was filmed in the state of Georgia, and according to the producers, the actual production costs were pretty close to the production costs if they had filmed in an non-US location.

So, if cost is a factor, and LA / Hollywood is just too expensive, there still are places to film in the US that offer expansive mountain ranges, scenic ocean fronts, and metropolitan areas... that aren't LA, Chicago, or New York.

I think... I think a lot of the posters in this thread have a perception problem... and I think you highlight it Tokyo.

Many CoV players treat CoV as a stand-alone game, as parallel entity that should be equal to CoH in every aspect, ranging from amount of content, the access of that content, and the execution of that content. My opinion is that this perception was driven by the early years of CoV, which was introduced and sold as a completely standalone game, even though it wasn't. It shared the same subscription with CoH, and due to the nature of the engine, all of the physically stored game content.

The Paragon Studio Developers have admitted that CoV was a mistake, and have termed the release an "Expandalone". From what we've seen the developers have gone out of their way to emphasize that Going Rogue is an Expansion.

Which brings up a question. What would have been the result if Jack Emmert and the other Cryptic Executives had promoted, and then sold CoV as an expansion. What would have happened if they had just said straight up:

• You need City of Heroes to play it
• If you want to, you can play as a Villain.
• It's not the main game. It's an extra experience.

What if their marketing... had matched what was the reality? I suspect that a lot of this "Devs hate Villains" talk wouldn't be around. However, the marketing, the perception, the "what players were told" never has matched what City of Villains is. It's an expansion to CoH. It's an extra experience, and is not the main game or the main focus.

I think that might among the reasons why NCSoft's marketing staff is reticent now. Collectively, Cryptic blew it on CoV. Yes, Cryptic still delivered the Moon when they had promised Mars, and that's still quite an achievement. I don't think NCSoft wants to create expectations of the game that will continue to haunt the developers down the line.

Another good case in point is Architect Entertainment. Because it is possible to go from 1 to 50 in the AE system, it is technically an "alternate leveling path" and was noted as such. A substantial amount of the player base got it into their heads that "alternate leveling path" meant "equal to and/or superior to" and promptly started figuring out the best ways to maximize EXP gain with the least amount of work put into the game... then flooding the forums with whiny posts when the devs stepped in to force AE back into it's intended function.

All it took was one little line from marketing that wasn't explicitly clear about what AE was for, and... things went wrong.

Okay, I realize that there is a fair point that a large amount of this behavior falls on that portion of the player base itself being intentionally obtuse or ignorant, sort of like the reaction you'd get from an environmentalist being told that Al Gore knows as much about the environment as Jeremy Clarkson knows about fashion (for reference, if you didn't get this, Jeremy Clarkson is routinely voted by GQ to be one of the worst dressed men in Britain.) There's a bit of willful suspension of reality in acceptance of what one wants to see.

The point is that CoV never has been an equal to CoH... and likely... never will be. Assuming that the Going Rogue staff is tasked to work on a "new" game engine for a new client, the oft-rumored CoH2, we'll likely see a more even split between villainous and heroic content as such a "new" game would likely be built from the ground up with the Going Rogue factions in mind, rather than adding those factions in an expansion.

The best way to tell if your video card is bad is to try a different one.

If the problem goes away, then you know the card is bad. If the problem remains, there's another issue at hand.

Could I have you try the OpenGL 3.3. preview driver: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_driver.html

*takes the cracker*

I would have thought you'd be riding that there stone, what with a donut involved and all.

Tex: I got Vendra in the original thread. I don't know if that's been read yet or not.

Vendra: read this post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...34&postcount=4