Official Thread for Grandville: New Villain Zone
By
Anijo,
Posted on: 2006-05-01 24:12 in Developers' Corner
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After entering Grandville, I'm completely unable to enter any door except that which leads to Recluse's Victory. Any other mission or zoning causes me to crash, and hard. The helicopters, the ferry, newspaper missions, anything and without fail.
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I'm just the opposite really. I cant get into Recluse's Victory, but I can do basically all the door missions, but inside the Patron room, I cannot move due to numerous graphical glitches...unfortunately that's where the hospital is too, so any toon that dies and rezes there is tough to get back out. I've found that you can exit the hospital into the Patron room, and then try to turn to face the wall that you came out of. Doing so allows me to hug the wall and make it to the exit door into Grandville proper. However, if I face the center of the room, the screen freezes. It works for me. I'm not sure if it'll work for everyone.
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The monitors of Recluse and his speech are my favorite part
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Mine too. It dawned on me last night: Anyone else remember the old commercial, I think it first aired during a superbowl, of a room of drone like people watching a Big Brother type guy on a large screen. This woman runs in, a jogger, with a big hammer and she smashes the screen. It made me think of that. Don't ask me what the product was, could have been sneakers or a computer (Apple?), I can't remember everything. 
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It was Apple. I believe you can find it online somewhere.
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i teleported up near the top of the tower and there's some guy speaking in italian or something like that, lol weird (its not recluse's deep voice either)
may i just say that this zone kicks all variety of [censored].
Im haveing the same issue...
When I try to zone, either by mission, Base Portal, Ferry, or Copter (when the load screen comes up), it goes into a sound loop and then gives you the error report window.
Somebody needs to look at my crashdumps if at all possible, and soon.
I had no trouble going to RV. No trouble getting a newspaper mish. No trouble getting into the newspaper mish. Unfortunately, I died in the newspaper mish. So I hit the hospital button.
And apparently being inside the hospital in Grandville means CTD on zone load here.
all i got from Grandville was blury Tv moniters that i couldnt make out what he was saying
A ton of lag
And fog a lot of fog
I couldnt see very far (doesnt help with lag ) and what i could see was fuzzy
Nothing was as clean and sharp as the other zones where that i crossed to get to Grandville
I walked from Mercy to Cap then took feery to Grandville
all other zones where fin
GV looked really cool though
lil scary when i Super Jumped and landed next to some lvl 50s
thank god for my Phaze shift i still had from warburg
Or i might have had to go through the Hospital issue everyones been talking about
on a last note to this i finaly found the door to RV , but when i tried to enter it crashed my puter ( BAD !!!! had to reinstall windows after that ) still dont know what happened
I am very impressed by the zone. I am unable to do anything else though. Everytime I die in a mission in the zone and go to the hospital, I crash about 1/3 of the way thru loading Grandville. A couple seconds before it happens I get a sound loop crash. And I never get the box to pop up for me to type what was going on when I crashed...must be because I'm between zones?
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There's a bug in the hospital. If you die and are sent there, while you are in the hall outside your mission marker points back towards the door to the hospital instead of to the mission.
The zone is impressive, definetly a nice addition. I haven't had any problems travelling around the zone so far, no abnormal difficulties with my framerate.
I accepted Ghost Widow as my patron, and have accepted tasks from the Rikiti ambassador in the zone, met with my broker, street hunted, all with no problem.
However, I'm having the same problem as several other posters of crashing when I enter a mission in that zone. I have all my graphics settings at the lowest possible in the basic options menu, and have tried it with (first) the music at 0% (which has helped loading problems and screen switches in the past), and then with the sound effects turned to 0%. I have tried entering both GW's first mission door, as well as the Rikiti ambassador's mission door, both times with the game client eventually crashing during the loading screen (with the montage of Recluse and his men/woman; the loading bar itself never begins to fill).
Just an observation. The TV really needs to require a different badge. Nobody is going to have the King Midas badge. In CoH, my Blaster got his 2nd influence badge naturally sometime around level 40, and he'd been earning full influence rewards his whole career. Bling is hard enough to get for Doc Buzzsaw; this is flat out penalizing people for being members of a SG.
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this is flat out penalizing people for being members of a SG.
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I thought it was supposed to be a vertical city? So far nothing especially vertical about it as compared to any other zone (not counting the sub-city).
Basically after 6+ months of waiting and the last couple weeks of hype I was expecting more.
Well those platforms along the webbing with the mobs on them then again I flew right down the middle and never had a problem, was never even attacked...
Still kinda annoyed by unlockable contacts since they often seem to have badges that are borderline impossible to get before outleveling them...especially badges regarding Influence. If this were implemented before Prestige then I could see it but considering this games desire to get people to group and so on I don't know if making this contact utilize such an SG/VG-unfriendly badge was meant to appease the "I don't need no team, me tough" soloers or they just weren't thinking.
The bug with mission/contact beacons from within the tower is a bit annoying. Every time I start a new mission for Ghost Widow the beacon tells me to go down the elevator, back up the elevator, down the elevator again, then out of he tower and too the mission. I hope that helps any QA devs reading this.
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Just an observation. The TV really needs to require a different badge. Nobody is going to have the King Midas badge. In CoH, my Blaster got his 2nd influence badge naturally sometime around level 40, and he'd been earning full influence rewards his whole career. Bling is hard enough to get for Doc Buzzsaw; this is flat out penalizing people for being members of a SG.
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Agreed. I'd recommend any of the following as other options, all chosen for the evil TV theme, rather than anything specific to the contact:
Exploration: Media Junky, Snake Charmer, All Consuming, Washed Up, Weapon of Mass Destruction, Next Big Thing, Sparky
History: Technofreak
Accomplishments: Agent of Discord, Paragon of Vice, Plague Carrier, Soul Taker
Achievements: Irradiated, Electrician, Most Wanted, Slacker, Sleepy. I believe there's also one for destroying news vendors on Mayhem Missions. (Print is dead - and you killed it!)
Accolade: I believe there's one for the media in I7.
All of these, IMO, are more appropriate than Midas Touch, especially if the rumors are true that you act more as the TV's hypnotized subject than its star.
Sleepy or Slacker are, IMO, the best choices.
Zone looks great but horrible lag.
Mob spawns really lack variety. Everywhere I go, all over the city, on the beach, in the power plant, Bane Spiders everywhere. Not just some Bane Spiders, but ALL Bane Spiders. Argh, talk about overusing a new mob. 
How about more Council, CoT (Possessed Scientists would be perfect!), Longbow, Coralax Hybrids, and other types of Arachnos?
No badge at the very very top of the main tower. Nothing exciting up there to reward exploration. Lame. Striga volcano is better. 
I haven't been able to zone into a single mission from GV without CTD.
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Not sure where to put this, but currently I cannot complete the Assault Malta base mission in Black Scorpion's arc. I think its the 6th mission in. The "Find Location of Quatrexion" objective cannot be met, because it either isn't spawning or isn't triggering correctly.
By the way, Malta never spawn below level 41, meaning this arc is inherantly mean if done at level 40.
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For you and for Cryptic...
I just took down Quatrexion with the help of 4 MMs.
(FYI - he may only be S/L if my log is correct).
Anyway, again, I was helping, so wasnt my mission, but the owner I would assume had to have completed the mission you mention above to actually get to him.
At least that makes sense to me.
So if it is bugged, it may not be global/pervasive.
HTH a little.
Repeat Offenders
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Mob spawns really lack variety. Everywhere I go, all over the city, on the beach, in the power plant, Bane Spiders everywhere. Not just some Bane Spiders, but ALL Bane Spiders. Argh, talk about overusing a new mob. How about more Council, CoT (Possessed Scientists would be perfect!), Longbow, Coralax Hybrids, and other types of Arachnos?
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While I won't argue on a shake-up with other types of Spiders especially (esp. the badge-yielding but under-represented Mu Guardians and Toxic Tarantulas), the rest of this... well, it really isn't much of an addition to variety. We're already ODing on Council and Circle in missions, and Longbow throughout our careers. I'd much rather see more Malta, Carnies, and Nemesis.
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It appears I'm trapped in Grandville. I can't enter missions in Grandville nor can I leave on the ferry 
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I have been playing CoH and CoV since beta days and must say Grandville is both the coolest and most confusing place I have ever been in to get around.
Granted I was in a heavy lag mode, but having mobs all over that will take you down and having clickable people tell you that they can't help you was all of no help to me.
I reckon I will have to log back on and see what I can do in terms of moving around. I did run into the Rikti Ambassador that offers missions, but since I had a hard time getting anywhere in grandville with the lag I held off. I wanted to spend a bit more time just looking around.
I did find the plaques that describe the patron powers - that was cool. I also found an elevator up that promptly got my backside wacked from the attacks I was taking...hmmm dont go up there yet.
Overall I like the look.
Overall getting around is a bit confusing.
Hopefully less lag on my next try.
Mark me down in the "trapped in Grandville" club. I crash every mission I try to enter. Also RV and the ferry.
I deleted my toon from test and will move him again to see if that will work.
Wow, at first I was a bit disapointed in the "verticalness" of this zone. Then I realized just how deep underground the layers of tunnels went. WOW!
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There's a door that leads to a black screen/nothingness/no GUI in the hall of patron statues, on the far upper right side. I have to ctrl-alt-delete end program to get out of it every time I click on it.
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There's a door that leads to a black screen/nothingness/no GUI in the hall of patron statues, on the far upper right side. I have to ctrl-alt-delete end program to get out of it every time I click on it.
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I actually have a character stuck after entering that door. Everytime I try to load him I get the "enter what happened" error screen and have to alt-ctrl-delete. I ended up recopying my brute because of it.
Grandeville reminds me of one big Arachnos base, which is fitting I suppose however unless you have a way to fix the horrible lag in the Arachnos base and apply it to Grandville I suspect it will be a zone that people will only go to if they have to. I am not running a low-end system; SLI with dual 7800 GTXs, and still experience lag to the point I usually solo any Arachnos base missions... and sadly in some parts of Grandville at peak times have experienced massive lag. Lag has been a problem with with CoV since I started playing this game and seems to be something that just never gets fixed. At this point I am sure I am not the only one who would take less in the way of graphics to get better performance. I am also aware test has not been optimized but how much optimization is going to help? Hope it is a lot but doubt it if the current game is an example of "optimization." Only can guess at how difficult it is to play with a lower end system or a laptop.
The second issue I have is this: Once getting to Grandville I opened the paper to do some mish from the paper and was faced with one Council mission and two CoT mish. Come on guys! If you have hit 40 you have already done more Council missions and CoT missions that you ever care to do again. I noticed someone else posted about the CoT missions. It is a pretty common complaint... so common I am surprised you have not gotten the message. Please do away with the CoT missions... Please! Most avoid them if they can anyway and besides what place do weird druids have in the overall scheme of a Super Hero vs Super Villian storyline anyway? They seem to belong to some other game... a game many of us would not bother to buy. Do everyone a favor and either cut back on the CoT missions or get rid of them completely. You will improve the game drastically by that one simple thing. Trolls, Skyraiders, Carnies, Mooks... anything other than CoT please. There are some really cool missions in the early stages of the game but by the last 10 levels it is like the missions get stuck in a horrible CoT/Council rut. Just seems to be a shame to contiue that same rut for the next 10 levels.
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For you and for Cryptic...
I just took down Quatrexion with the help of 4 MMs.
(FYI - he may only be S/L if my log is correct).
Anyway, again, I was helping, so wasnt my mission, but the owner I would assume had to have completed the mission you mention above to actually get to him.
At least that makes sense to me.
So if it is bugged, it may not be global/pervasive.
HTH a little.
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After restarting the mission 3 or 4 times, the boss I needed to beat to meet the objective finally spawned in the mission. Not sure if it was a fix, or if this is an intermittent bug.
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Oh, man. I love the sense of humor at Cryptic.
Dr. Forrester
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Awesome contact....unfortunately, his missions all suck to the point of being laughable. Their drama is ridiculous, and any attempt at suspense is completely lost due to the ridiculous characters.
Luckily all you have to do is just watch them for 90 minutes without losing it.
-Kendal