Official Thread for Grandville: New Villain Zone
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Anijo,
Posted on: 2006-05-01 24:12 in Developers' Corner
I'm still getting a crash to desktop everytime I try to enter a mission with my Lvl 40 Mastermind in grandville. I would love to try the 40 level content but I cant.
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Nice zone from what I've seen...I do like Recluse talking to the citizens in the beginning...nice touch.
However Spider City is very laggy/choppy for me. 
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Nice zone from what I've seen...I do like Recluse talking to the citizens in the beginning...nice touch.
However Spider City is very laggy/choppy for me.
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Those Recluse Screens talking to the citizens has to be the coolest thing I've ever seen in this game.
I investigated the TV contact as well, and I must say, if this actually requires 20 MILLION Infamy to unlock, that is outright absurd. There are plenty of other badges, or even combinations of badges that could be chosen for this contact, why choose one that requires you to completely ignore your villain group for an extremely extended duration? I didn't even earn the Bling badge until I was level 32, so I missed out on Doc Buzzsaw as well... if I must earn 20 times as much as that to unlock this contact......
Please. Change it to something more reasonable. Don't have contacts unlocked by Inf badges.
The immense zone is awesome to behold. Very impressive.
Now on the testing side, I had 2 missions tonight where I had to prevent someone from escaping. Both times I had them held in Midnight Grasp and the mission booted me and failed. I bugged it, but thought it was worth mentioning.
Also, there is a hole in the ledge up on the tallest tower, toward the top yet not quite at the top. You'll fall into the metal ledge and see out the bottom. Also bugged.
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Those Recluse Screens talking to the citizens has to be the coolest thing I've ever seen in this game.
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Here's Lord Recluse's speech:
...I must therefore rely on all of you to spread the word of Lord Recluse's vision. A vision of a glorious future in which man is not encumbered by the desire for Truth, Peace, or Justice. A future where you no longer must obey others...where you must no longer bow down to those who deem themselves your superiors...a world in which you can finally say, "no more!" No longer will you have to listen to those who tell you that you must "earn" what you wish...that you must "work hard" to achieve your goals. You will have the strength to take what you desire. <large swell of cheers and chanting from the crowd for about 10 seconds> Through my way...through your villainy, you can have what you want now...you can leave the weak lying in your wake, as you grasp with both hands the glorious future of havoc...the heroes ARE DOOMED. <large cheer for a few seconds> Join me now or you will suffer the same fate that awaits all who defy me. I, Lord Recluse, shall cover this world in DARKNESS. <Large cheers and chanting for about 30 seconds>
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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.
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Deleted and recopied my lvl 40 again. No luck, crash every time. 
Well, at least I can play my new brute and MM...
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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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I agree. Please give us a different badge to unlock the television.
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Ugh, another bug..
I died in a mission in Grandville and crashed to desktop when I exited to go to the hospital. Now, I crash to desktop on the Grandville loading screen any time I try to log back in as that character. I am able to log into other characters normally.
I was THIS close to beating that cheating elite boss too 
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Have that same issue going on currently. Stupid Hospital - I paid my HMO insurance@!!!@@@!!!
I can't even load my Dominator into RV. I got her in once, then crashed out due to lag. Every time I try to log her in, I crash.
Doh!
My issue is I can get into Grandville with no problem, but whenever I try to do anything that involves a loading screen (Zone out, Mission, Copter). It will go into a sound loop after about 10 seconds, lock up, and give me the error report window.
When I relog, im in the zone I was going to and I can reenter Grandville with no problems.
Now before the 5/3 patch, I couldnt get out of Grandville at all. I wouldnt zone into the new zone even after the crash.
But currently I cannot do any missions in grandville as they involve zoning.
Still craching every time I try to enter a mission in Grandville. Anyone else?
Almost forgot one...
The description of Lord Recluse refers to him as the "Archvillain of Anarchy". Lord Recluse, by the novel, finds technocracy and fascism to be inspiring philosophical ideals. He's as much an anarchist as he is a pacifist.
Dunno if anybody else has commented on this yet. I'm not really thrilled that most of Grandville's music seems to recycled from other zones. I hope the recycled music is just being used as a placeholder until the final music tracks are put in?
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Dunno if anybody else has commented on this yet. I'm not really thrilled that most of Grandville's music seems to recycled from other zones. I hope the recycled music is just being used as a placeholder until the final music tracks are put in?
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Yeah, I noticed that as well and was disappointed by that. Here's hoping they change it.
EVERY time I die in Grandville my game crashes before I can wake up in the hospital.
THEN, if I try to log in with that villain the game crashes.
I can log into every other character on Test server except the few I have now in their own hospital Hell.
Moral of this story? Don't ever die in Grandville. 
Fun.
Ok, got my level 40 brute logged on in daylight so I could see something and was not lagging too bad.
I had a hard time trying to figure out where to go and where not to go.
I found the plates that describe the patrons but did not find the patrons themselves.
I did find the Rikti Ambassador, and at least he was willing to offer me missions. I dont know how anyone is suppose to find him except by luck or word of mouth.
I also found a spider who would talk to you but he said he did not trust me. Wanted me to take out a Toxic Spider to increase his trust. I went over, killed one (purple boss and fell down 3 levels in the process) but it didnt change what he said. Supposedly his trust level never changed. Dont know if this is a glitch or what. I will have to try it again later today.
I did manage to zone out of grandville but almost disc. in the process.
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Ok, got my level 40 brute logged on in daylight so I could see something and was not lagging too bad.
I had a hard time trying to figure out where to go and where not to go.
I found the plates that describe the patrons but did not find the patrons themselves.
I did find the Rikti Ambassador, and at least he was willing to offer me missions. I dont know how anyone is suppose to find him except by luck or word of mouth.
I also found a spider who would talk to you but he said he did not trust me. Wanted me to take out a Toxic Spider to increase his trust. I went over, killed one (purple boss and fell down 3 levels in the process) but it didnt change what he said. Supposedly his trust level never changed. Dont know if this is a glitch or what. I will have to try it again later today.
I did manage to zone out of grandville but almost disc. in the process.
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There's now a progress bar for Toxic Tarantulas, complete the bar then go speak to the tarantula again.
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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.
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Ok, I'm getting really tired of saying this, but if you plan on using the word "lag" in a post, know what it means. I have a helpful guide in my signature to let people know.
LAG IS NOT LOW FRAMERATE! LAG IS PACKET LOSS DUE TO POOR INTERNET CONNECTION PERFORMANCE! ARGHHHGGGHGHGHG!
Phew, glad I got that out of my system.
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Ok, I'm getting really tired of saying this, but if you plan on using the word "lag" in a post, know what it means. I have a helpful guide in my signature to let people know.
LAG IS NOT LOW FRAMERATE! LAG IS PACKET LOSS DUE TO POOR INTERNET CONNECTION PERFORMANCE! ARGHHHGGGHGHGHG!
Phew, glad I got that out of my system.
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And y'know the thing that's either really great or really annoying depending on your point of view, is that if enough people use the wrong definition for long enough, they will eventually become right.
I was doing a newspaper mission in Grandville to do a bank job against the LSSL bank, completed the mission but the Brokers's meter for my broker didn't advance. Did another mission, and it advanced then. Are bank jobs not advancing the Broker's meter?
maybe they can use the cool tecnho music from bloody bay that i haven't heard anywhere else in CoV if they dont have a custom song for grandville
that song kicks butt
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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.
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Ok, I'm getting really tired of saying this, but if you plan on using the word "lag" in a post, know what it means. I have a helpful guide in my signature to let people know.
LAG IS NOT LOW FRAMERATE! LAG IS PACKET LOSS DUE TO POOR INTERNET CONNECTION PERFORMANCE! ARGHHHGGGHGHGHG!
Phew, glad I got that out of my system.
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Well I don't care what you call it, it sucks when characters rubberband accross the screen and as you move in a particular direction you keep moving in the same area over and over. Arachnos bases are notoriously bad for playing and I know I am not the only one who avoids them... and now we have one big Arachnos base in the form of Grandville. What causes the low framerate and skips? Is it my internet connection? Nope. Is it my system? Guess a high end system is not enough to play this game however I can play any other game at the highest settings. Why does CoV perform so badly? Not sure... bad design would be my guess. No matter what it is, or what you call it, it needs to be fixed. Bump maps should come second to performance... but it looks like they haven't even added the bump maps as of yet... so who knows how bad it will be by then.
Don't be so harsh on CoV, it runs GREAT compared to other crap I played... I played SWG for like 3 years in omega lag hell before the devs ever got around to figuring out and alerting the players to the fact that ever catalyst release from the last two years wasn't supported and the only way to play in a remotely lag free way was to scourge the depths of the internet for two year old Catalyst drivers.
My point being that I see a lot of crap given to the devs, but given what I've seen in this world you need to be thankful.
Ugh, another bug..
I died in a mission in Grandville and crashed to desktop when I exited to go to the hospital. Now, I crash to desktop on the Grandville loading screen any time I try to log back in as that character. I am able to log into other characters normally.
I was THIS close to beating that cheating elite boss too