sturm375

Originally Posted by sturm375

I am seeing a similar problem with CoH lately. No crashes, but very noticeable lag/slowdown. I loose animation, powers appear recharged but aren't. Jump from position to position. This happens no matter what the server load is like, and stops if I quit to desktop and re-launch the game. Is there some way to track a memory leak?


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Originally Posted by Calash

Bruising sounds interesting. I did not notice it when playing last night, but I was running flashbacks to the new low level missions. Does it have much of an impact?

I like the health increase too. Need to check out my WP tank and see how it impacts his max health now.

On a side note: I missed this game SO much

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

Light form had a new effect. It's now an aura instead of a form change.

Originally Posted by Ghost_Machine_NA

Two words.

Radiation Armor.

Originally Posted by dave_p

Out of curiosity, how's your tank do against Incarnate content? If not in beta, then say the clocks in Tin Mage, or if you tackle all 4 AVs at once at the end (Neuron, Bobcat, 2 Warwalkers)? My softcapped Fire tank gets chewed up pretty badly esp at that last fight (and yeah, I finally "get" to use my T9), but my Stony snoozes through like always.

Originally Posted by StratoNexus

Originally Posted by StratoNexus

10,000% resistance to KB does give you immunity to all resistible KB. You could totally remove the KB protection in status protection armors and still not be KBd, except by unresistible KB.

KB resistance is a straight up resist. If you had 100% resistance, the KB mag would be reduced by 100%, in other words, it would be zero, no matter how high it started at. The fact that the armors have such high resistance is overkill, anything above 100% is really a waste.

KB protection is useful vs. unresistible KB, although most of that contains a mag over the protection the armors give, so they still get pushed a little bit, but the protection lowers the mag some at least.

Originally Posted by AnElfCalledMack

I though mez resistance used the recharge formula? MezTime = BaseDuration / (1 + MezResistance), with the resistance expressed as a percentage. Also, the powers with KB resist usually give 10,000% resistance. For some reason, just 1000% resistane to repel, though...

I'm not sure how that interacts with KB, with its resistance applying to magnitude, but if the formula is similar, then it should reduce your magnitude by a factor of 101. If you can get your KB power up to Mag 203, you should knock down that Big Dog. Unfortunately, I think players can't realistically get KB much above Mag 50, so it's still not really worth trying.

Originally Posted by MrLiberty

Fire/SS/Pyre is best for it.

Originally Posted by Fiery_Redeemer

Here’s a sad little anecdote. No facts, just a story and an opinion.

I’ve done EverQuest before CoH. I did a few other MMOs as well, but basically, EQ was my longest. I never liked raiding. I did it as a means to an end = to get gear to solo or group with friends easier. I like easy. So shoot me. Thing is, more and more, the other MMOs focused a lot (not everything, but a lot) on raiding.

When I complained on the boards on the heavy use of resources to raid, all I got (ignoring the posts that directly insulted me) was “This is a raiding MMO. It’s always been the focus. Gear / Challenge / Key / etc… locked content. Deal.” So I dealt. I left some MMOs. I stayed with EQ (that really wasn’t that different), really because my IRL friends played it. It wasn’t that different than the rest.

For EQ, and other MMOs, it was other people’s turn.

Then I heard of CoH. Very easy. Very casual friendly. Negligible end game. From the START. Hundreds of solo arcs. 1 or 2 handfuls of end game TF. Awesome.

Finally it was my turn.

An MMO designed for people like me. An Easy Button, and I have no shame saying I enjoy it that way. RL friends can play with me, np. But, if they aren’t around, I can still enjoy solo content, and NEW content was essentially solo focused. You can team, it was more fun to team, but you didn’t have to.

Then came complaints of wanting “challenge” and “end game” content. I tried to be gracious, and did quite a few posts, if people bother searching, to give others their due, but, really, it was somewhat disingenuous. Now, there’s all this focus on tougher, challenge, end game, and, if I go “But, CoH was always casual, easy, and solo / small group focused.”, “always” no longer counts. Now “it’s about time” that there’s end game.

I guess I don’t get a turn after all, sigh.

I will admit I’m bitter about the years of other MMOs where “It’s always been this way” was a repeated way to shut people like me up. “Go quit. Go play a single player RPG.” came fast and furious at me. I’m not mad, but I am sad that I feel, well, that my little oasis of easy casual MMO… got invaded. Sorry for the harsh words, but that’s how I feel.

Also, people often will reply = well, just don’t do the new content. I probably won’t, actually, but if you think about it, the focus on end game means less focus on solo / small group. The following is an EXAMPLE. For the love of God, please don’t correct the numbers, it’s an illustrative point. I’m no programmer, but my wife is in business so I have a tiny touch of knowledge.

Made up numbers follows.

CoH has only enough money for 4 arc makers. They each can make 1 arc per issue. (I’m making this up, obviously). Until recently, all 4 did 1 easy story arc per issue. I therefore got 4 new arcs to play every 4-6 months.

Now we focus on end-game. I do believe it’s unlikely, for most companies, that if the game is receding, or at least treading water, they’d hire a new hire to change the direction of the company (but I will give the example anyways, later). So now, 2 of the people do easy arcs, and 2 of the people do end-game. I now only get 2 arcs I want to play per issue. Sure, I haven’t LOST any of the old stuff, but the thing is, what I’m looking forward to… is lesser. Less goodies for me per issue, by 2 out of 4 to be precise in that made up example.

This causes more people like me to leave, and more people that like end game to arrive and subscribe. The CoH population shifts. This causes more need for more end game. Ergo, we’ll soon be at 1 easy and 3 end game arcs per issue. I’m not going to pretend it’ll ever get to 0 for the easy / casuals. Even EverQuest threw the odd bone at casual people.

But this now changes the face of the game. I was laughed… LAUGHED out of the EQ forums when I suggested Time Vs Reward instead of Risk Vs Reward (that latter which I hate). CoH has Time Vs Reward, and I do believe one of the Devs made it a catchphrase (I want to say Positron but I’m not sure).

And now, RvR is starting it’s way in, and TvR is starting on it’s way out. Never completely, but the flavour has changed. And though, bluntly, TvR / easy / whatever you want to call it was here first, it’s starting to become about challenge. So, challenge seekers have most if not all of the other MMOs, but us casuals couldn’t be allowed to keep CoH? I can’t change “your” MMOs but you can change “mine”. Sigh. And based how I was treated as a last class citizen for “daring” to like easy on the EQ boards, well, it sucks that again, I see “challenge” rearing its ugly head.

Sure, the old content won’t go poof. No I won’t quit. But why here? Why CoH? Why did end game emphasis have to come here? Sure there was end game before, but like PvP, Bases, etc… it was very evidently tacked on as a “We have those things, check. Now lets forget about them.”

Precedent / vision / flavour / almost everything in CoH had the easy button. Which is good cuz I’m not a good player. You should have seen me stress out when I had to Tank in the Reichman arc (I do team and TF once in a while, so I can keep an eye on the horizon and not obsolete myself out of the game). My chest actually pounded when someone actually suggest a “Master of…” (yeah, cuz I want to be responsible for ruining everyone’s evening for dying and ruining their shot at a badge…sure I do… argh… sweats starting).

So, hopefully, this doesn’t come across as an attack. If it does, I apologize. But I am saddened that CoH couldn’t stay as the little fish, swimming slowly, in the little pond, and that, instead, there’s more (not all, but more) resources diverted to end game, instead of keeping it at 95% (ish) to the easy/casual, as it always has been… till now.

Wish the “that was then, this is now” crew of these boards had been with me on the EQ boards. Would’ve been nice to have support. Anyhow, off to bed. Night all. Thanks for listening.

Addendum = Argh. I almost forgot I said I’d give an example about a new hire. So yeah, there’s 4 people each making a casual arc. Say there’s money to hire a new person, and that’s the person that’s doing all the new end game (say). Well, again, that introduces a flux in the game. The game has always been about easy / solo. Look at the number of flashbacks vs the number of TF. This now creates an expectation and a need for even more content, rather than “we don’t do that here”.

So, you have this new money for a new hire. Well, instead of 4 casual / 1 end game (assuming the end game is the new guy), make it 5 casual arcs per issue, players get even more content in the flavour of the game and this stays a casual game. As it’s always been. Sure there’s Hamidon, STF, LRSF (as of CoV), but that’s no where near the amount of exposure as end game has been given now. Getting 5 people on casual arcs… lets CoH keep it’s identity as opposed to being yet another goal = "high end group" intensive MMO. I’ve been seeking an MMO when people “can” group, but not “must” group for a while. And I’ve gotten it, with Issues i.e. new content with CoH, but now, it’s less so.

Since there’s only so much resource to go around, X more hours going to end game is exactly X less hours that goes to casual. Anyways, there’s the example. (and I use terms like casual and end game rather loosely, being ESL, but I hope you can find the meaning in all the above verbiage) Pillow time for real now…

Originally Posted by Napalm1

they use to give you an idea when they would do patches and updates. now they dont even bother to tell you what they did after its done. I cant imagine they would think its a good idea to drop the servers mid day on a saturday, but nothing developers do ever suprises me. Hopefully they will fix something this time without breaking 5 other things like the past year or so worth of patches.. makes me think theres alot of budget cutbacks at the ole developers place. :P cause the workmanship is dropping month by month... really really cant figure out why the servers are down at 2pm on a saturday lol guess ill have to blow the dust off my WoW account til CoH wants to be useable again. shame.

Originally Posted by BiohazardZero

To all my fellow Stone tanks and brutes out there, I beg the question: Should granite be able to jump? Conceptually, it seems silly to prevent them from doing so unless Rooted is on. Understandably, they would have a penalty to jump speed and height, but without the ability to jump, minor bumps in terrain become a real problem sometimes. Stone tanks should not be required to pick up Teleport to be able to function. When fully IO'd my stone build averages at 28 mph with just Granite on, but without the ability to jump, I'm still severely limited in my ability to navigate rough terrain.

So what are your thoughts on letting Granite jump? Of course, Rooted will still root you to the ground, but without it, even being able to jump a few feet off the ground would help tremendously. When compared to other Tanker primaries, Invul can become equally tanky but with exponentially higher mobility. The recharge, damage, and movement penalties should be plenty.