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thank mew

...... *looks at Scooby holding a now soggy ball of yarn* ... if I say... no... will you believe me?

*pulls out the standard issue Assault Cannon and FIRES it on Scooby!*

Tushie!

yay!

*hops into a tux, pulls out an over-sized ray-gun, and strikes a pose*

The Chief of the Sackthingy Apprehending Council (S.A.C.) is ready!

oh! oh! Can I be in charge of the Sackthingy Interrogation Unit!?!?

nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

purples are unique until themselves, and most sets of purples share the same ultimate effect boosts.

So yes, you can slot both the Hecatomb and the PBAoE purple set.

... ya know. those ropes make your tushie look fat.

*RUN AWAY!!!!!!*

ya know. trashing a mad-sack's lab really would make you something of a good guy.

you are correct in observing that CoH simply cycles the day / night patterns back and forth in a loop rather than a constant loop.

Yes and no.

The big problem is that on the Hero Side, only Scrappers, Tanks, Kheldian Dwarfs, Force Fields, and Sonic's get native protections to mez effects, and only Scrappers, Tanks, and Kheldian Dwarfs get mez resistances.

As a blaster then, you have no native protection to mez effects, and thus bear the full brunt of any and all mez effects launched in your direction. Also, no matter what you do with IO's, you'll never be able to build up a significant amount of mez resistance... So, if you are fighting something that's mezzing you, chances are you'll actually defeat it with your three primary attacks before the normal mezzing effect would wear off.

So no, slotting for mez resistance won't do a whole lot for a blaster.

However, if you are the kind of player who must absolutely maximize every bit of DPA possible, then mez resistance might bring you out of your mezzed state a few seconds quicker.

He doesn't. I think he's trying to (badly) yank on another player's chain.

okay. that means you have ultra mode options enabled, or at least should mean that.

UM options require the OpenGL 3.0 shading path.

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Okay, I just verified on the Live server. Enabling Enviroment Reflections or Shadow Quality Low force Shader Quality to High.

Interestingly, I also do see a bug where Water effects are not being enabled.

I thought the Kitten Kollective and the Feline Foundation had outlawed Dumpster diving after the Puppeh Poisoning Plot?

I got bad news on that bit.

NCSoft pretty much intends to keep running this processing engine for a few years. Short of a CoH2, there won't be any new processing engines for a while. However... Paragon Studios now has the development staff to actually WRITE a new engine, which they didn't have back when work on Going Rogue was started.

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Okay: undocumented changes: We've been tracking some issues where players with Ultra Mode options turned off were having those options enabled.

Check your UM settings and make sure they haven't changed.

If you aren't sure, but you can log into the game, set your Graphics Options to lowest, Apply, then exit the game completely, then load the game back up.

Then set your graphics options.

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Many players may also tell you skip Energy / Storm... mostly as this combination is generally referred to as SHEER AND UTTER CHAOS.

If you like to solo though... hehehe... this is one wild combination. There are few things as sweet as running towards a mob trigginger Freezing Rain, Thunder Clap, and lightning storm as you get in the middle... then NOVA!!!!

Enemies that were NOT slaughtered will likely be stunned, and any that try to approach you will be knocked away by the Lightning Storm, giving you time to recover.

Okay. I'm going to deal with this first since it reads like a deliberate trolling.

First thing: Very, very, very, very few MMO's attempt to implement any kind of complex Artificial Intelligence routines in their games for two very good reasons:

• Computational Performance
• Network Lag

What you might have missed the developers talking about, on a repeated basis, is their desire to keep developing City of Heroes without increasing the performance envelope. If you wanted to, you could technically still run City of Heroes atop a 1ghz Athlon T-bird processor with a Radeon 8500 or an Intel Integrated graphics chip with something a lot more substantial in the CPU department.

Implementing any kind of substanstive A.I. system into City of Heroes would dramatically increase the processing requirements. Now, I know that you haven't been hanging around the technical support forum as Ultra Mode went live, so let me fill you in on what happened. Users with Intel Integrated Graphics, aging Radeons, and Aging Nvidia's, on weak processors, went livid as the game stopped working like they expected the game to work. I can't put any clearer than this: A player base does not respond well when performance of the game changes for the worse.

The use a comprehensive A.I. was one of the big selling features of the NCSoft Published bomb, Tabula Rasa. When the game launched, it's reccomended processor was the Pentium4 3.5 ghz edition, and while the game would support some GeforceFX cards and some Radeon 9600 series cards, users quickly found that you really wanted the reccomended Geforce 7800 or Radeon x1800 instead.

Unless Paragon Studios and NCSoft are willing to blow the existing installed base of City of Heroes aware, you won't see any signficant changes to any existing A.I. systems.

Yes, it has been rumored that the upcoming Going Rogue release features enemies that don't "auto-aggro"... as witnessed during the HeroCon demonstration, but even then that's hardly an A.I. change as much as it is a disabling of perception checks.


Second thing, and this is the one that makes me use the troll word, is that you insuinate that City of Heroes is not under active developement.

I'm sorry, but if you actually think that... If that's what you actually believe?

We can't help you. You are, to put it bluntly, not in the same reality as the game development.

Now, if you are willing to accept that the game is under active development, and that the developers are serious about what they are doing, and that they are working on more stuff than they can tell us about, then a productive dialog can be had.


Short version: Mastermind's are difficult to control.

Long Version: The developers intentionally designed Mastermind's as a class that requires additional oversight and control compared to other archtypes. The class is deliberatly designed to not play like any other class, and is designed for players who enjoy micro-managing their pets actions.

If you don't enjoy micro-managing and paying attention to your pet's every actions... Mastermind's may not be the archtype for you. That's okay. That's fine. The developers do not need to change a whole class to suit somebody who would rather play "something else"

That being said, going back to your original post:

If you are ordering your bot to stay in one place and attack and it's not... ... you don't come whining to the forums.

In the chat box, inside the game... type in the command: /bug

Then type in: MasterMind Pets are not obeying orders

Hit enter, and in the little box that pops up, type in a quick description of the problem.

This will get the issue looked at much quicker and more likely generate a solution than running a thread on the forum.

cons on a blaster: draws aggro, chows through endurance, turns off at the sign of any mez effect.

pros on a blaster: has a +fear component and a slow component.

Hot Feet is a useful tool when put into melee situations to get your blaster back to ranged combat. It's +fear will send most minions and lewy's heading in the opposite direction, and it's +slow component will make sure enemies aren't running away at top speed. When coupled with power sets that contain TAOE's like Rain of Fire, you can shred through enemies fairly quickly.

This soft control is mitigated by the ability of the power to draw aggro. If you land in a group and everybody turns to look at your blaster, you'll probably go splat. Additionaly, the power chomps through 1.04 endurance per second... base. That's more than Focused Accuracy. If you are running on an SO build, you could find yourself out of endurance in a hurry when enabling the power.

As much as I'd like a Furry booster pack, David N. did make a good point in the feedback thread on this subject:

I have to admit, I am quite happy with the way the mutant booster pack went.

actually i'm in charge of that port. Unfortantly there wasn't enough space to fit in the 2bit pallete swapping hair animation, so we are going to have to require the use of the Commodore 128.

City of Heroes works on:
Windows Xp 64
Vista 64 / Win7 64
OSX
Linux 64bit: ATI cards ONLY