Official Thread for Grandville: New Villain Zone
By
Anijo,
Posted on: 2006-05-01 24:12 in Developers' Corner
I too have been having trouble with the game crashing when trying to zone to the Hospital in Grandville. Also, when trying to log onto any toons that I left in Grandville, the game will crash. If I take a toon left in any other zone into Grandville, everything is hunky dorey.
Oh, also anything that brings up a Zoning Please Wait screen will cause the game to crash when started in Grandville.
Ie,
Zoning to the hospital.
Zoning to the SG medical bays.
Updating graphic settings, both up AND down.
-Skull
This is totally unacceptable, Grandville MUST be nerfed! 
I was also having crash problems. I crashed every time I entered a mission. I also crashed trying to take the ferry. I tried different toons. I even created a level one toon and ran it to Grandville to see if that helped. Nothing did.
Then I got the latest NVidia drivers for my card. NO MORE CRASHES!!!!. So. all of you having crash problems. Try updating drivers. Might help.
I HUNGER FOR SCREENSHOTS!!!! OF ALL SHAPES AND KINDS!!! MY WRATH SHALL BE BOUNDLESS IF NOT APPEASED!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn't think where else to post this...considered "bugs", but this seemed the most appropriate spot, since it involves GETTING to Grandville: Various zones with elevators or doors that use intermediary space are currently "stucking" people, but not in a way that /stuck can fix. The reason: you apprear in the space you normally can't access: inside the elevator or behind the door. I assume this would happen in any similar portion Grandville. I hope this is being looked at...cause I've had a problem with it just about in every zone other than Mercy.
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I HUNGER FOR SCREENSHOTS!!!! OF ALL SHAPES AND KINDS!!! MY WRATH SHALL BE BOUNDLESS IF NOT APPEASED!!!!!!!!!!
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That one screen shot that was posted earlier was great (and I didn't wanna be the one to say this but no-one elnce has so) but why did you have to ruin it by sticking your character's butt in there.
Sorry but you can zoom the camera in so we don't have to see your character or at least turn the camera angle around so we can see you from the front. It just looks really bad to see someone's back in the middle of what could be a really great picture.
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I HUNGER FOR SCREENSHOTS!!!! OF ALL SHAPES AND KINDS!!! MY WRATH SHALL BE BOUNDLESS IF NOT APPEASED!!!!!!!!!!
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That one screen shot that was posted earlier was great (and I didn't wanna be the one to say this but no-one elnce has so) but why did you have to ruin it by sticking your character's butt in there.
Sorry but you can zoom the camera in so we don't have to see your character or at least turn the camera angle around so we can see you from the front. It just looks really bad to see someone's back in the middle of what could be a really great picture.
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Agreed, I shall get my army of kronos titans and um well I diddnt realy plan it out this far but you get te idea, ill just do stuff 
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Just adding to the Grandville zoning problems. I can jump around GV fine, but if I need to zone I crash everytime.
Did some stuff in Grandville this morning before work. Comments, in no particular order:
<ul type="square">[*]Yesterday's patch fixed whatever was causing my Brute to crash whenever I tried to go into a mission in Grandville. I hear others are still having zoning problems, but mine is working now.[*]It's a real pain to go into that conference room where Ghost Widow is, and you have to do it a ton of times before she gives you a phone number. Couldn't the signature villains be more accessible, considering how often we have to go talk to them?[*]I hate the Recluse voice. Any way we could get an option to turn it off? I'd turn down my background music volume, but I actually like the music (in other zones too), just not the voice.[*]{Your deity here} help anyone that tries to get around in this zone with Super Speed alone. I had to do a lot of backtracking and double-jumps with Super Jump, I shudder to think what it would be like with SS. Is there some Dev-rule that says L40+ zones have to suck for super speeders? First the CoH Shadow Shard, now this.[*]I don't see a thread for comments on story arcs, so I'll say this here. The first Ghost Widow mission absolutely blows. It's a defeat all Longbow, which is bad enough on its own, but there's also this gigantic room at the end with multiple levels and no way for a vertically challenged toon to get to them all. Even with Super Jump I had to jump to a pipe, then another pipe, then up to the highest level. And on top of all this there are ambushes which follow you into the room and then fall down and get stuck, so you have to search them out. Horrible design.[/list]
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I HUNGER FOR SCREENSHOTS!!!! OF ALL SHAPES AND KINDS!!! MY WRATH SHALL BE BOUNDLESS IF NOT APPEASED!!!!!!!!!!
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That one screen shot that was posted earlier was great (and I didn't wanna be the one to say this but no-one elnce has so) but why did you have to ruin it by sticking your character's butt in there.
Sorry but you can zoom the camera in so we don't have to see your character or at least turn the camera angle around so we can see you from the front. It just looks really bad to see someone's back in the middle of what could be a really great picture.
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I hate the Recluse voice. Any way we could get an option to turn it off? I'd turn down my background music volume, but I actually like the music (in other zones too), just not the voice.
[/ QUOTE ] You'd have to turn off your sound FX volume but that would allso mean that you wouldn't hear blinkies in missions.
I have this problem with robot Masterminds. I hate hearing the clanking sound but I put up with it just so I can hear blinkies.
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I hate the Recluse voice. Any way we could get an option to turn it off? I'd turn down my background music volume, but I actually like the music (in other zones too), just not the voice.
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Read this thread: How to silence specific game sounds.
I'll post the relevant info for you in that thread.
good lord - a whole zone of those arachnos lag maps.
It's pretty, but dealing with the lag/disconnects is just not worth it. So much for lvl 40+ Will stick to making new characters.
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When Soldiers of Arachnos got their names added to the Destiny List, Longbow managed to get a copy of the list and began rounding villains up. But one name on the list shocked them...
Well, the good news: I was able to enter my newspaper mission without crashing this time! The zone crashing appears to be cleared up, at least on my end.
The bad news: The memory leaks are so bad the game is unplayable. Severe stuttering inside my mission, and the game fell to a slideshow outdoots. I kept unavoidably straying near gun turrents on account of the game lag, and everytime I took fire, the game had to stop for about 15 seconds to try and wrench some memory free to render the attack. I blundered into another one while on autofly, and sat there for over a minute until the game finally rendered my suddenly dead body on the ground.
I would really like to help make further tests, but the memory leaks make it impossible. The game is at full-on unplayable status at the moment.
Side-note, the game also refused to shut down properly. After quitting to desktop, I had to force it to close to make the program completely go away. Was playing in windowed mode, if that might be the culprit.
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I am crashing when I enter the hospital, or even try to log onto a character who tried to get into the hospital after he died from a team wipe. I can no longer use this character. I can confirm this crash is still there.
Vid, send a petition to Support from another toon on the account, and they'll respawn your character in Mercy Island.
This is a known issue, IIRC and the devs ARE working on it. In the meantime, after you get your character back, join a test-server SG with med facilities in their base and only release to the SG Base while in Grandville.
"Oh, I'm sorry, was my immersive collaborative fictional improv stepping on your gold-farming? Did my six paragraphs of evocative prose lag your dual-box setup? In the words of one of my favorite teen-years cultural icons.... WELL, EXCUUUUUUUSEEE MEEEE!!!" -- Cuppa_Soul
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Vid, send a petition to Support from another toon on the account, and they'll respawn your character in Mercy Island.
This is a known issue, IIRC and the devs ARE working on it. In the meantime, after you get your character back, join a test-server SG with med facilities in their base and only release to the SG Base while in Grandville.
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I was thinking of doing that last night! Glad to see it will work.
And I built my own base with reclamators and stuff. It looks pretty cool IMO 
I'll just have to use that I guess.
I've finally managed to test a bit in pve since i can get into missions now. I've noticed something about the zone itself.
Teleporting in Grandville is a major pain in [censored]. i get red circles and no circles all over the place. It's really annoying and not fair to users of TP.
edit: this appears to be a general Teleport bug not related to Grandville. i'm getting this in every zone. the target reticle disappears if you target something too far away, even though it may be in range.
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yeah i was getting that in recluse's victory too
real annoying
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The City Rouge Isle Map needs to be updated... it does not indicate a route (or line) to get to GV, Black Line or Ferry...
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It's Rogue.... Rouge is cosmetics to blush the cheeks, or French for the color red. 
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I just wish I could go into any missions without crashing, and then being unnable to log that version of the character again.
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I wish that Cryptic would test on a typical user's system, one like mine *points to sig file below* rather than their uber systems for their quality testing. Seriously. Most users do not have the super systems. If this goes live like this, my husband and I may not be able to play any toons past level 40. And if that happens, that would probably be enough to make us just stop playing the game at all, even as much as we love the game. 
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If they were to add new patrons, I'm sure they will give everyone a chance to change. They never said the PPPs will always be permanent. Most likely new PPPs would mean new patrons, who probably aren't loyal to Arachnos. They probably wouldn't care if you betrayed Arachnos to join them.
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Actually, yes, they did say that Patrons would be permanent, you cannot respec out of them. And they also said that they would laver be adding another patron that's non-arachnos in origin.
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I just wish I could go into any missions without crashing, and then being unnable to log that version of the character again.
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I wish that Cryptic would test on a typical user's system, one like mine *points to sig file below* rather than their uber systems for their quality testing. Seriously. Most users do not have the super systems. If this goes live like this, my husband and I may not be able to play any toons past level 40. And if that happens, that would probably be enough to make us just stop playing the game at all, even as much as we love the game.
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From the patch notes:
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3. Issue 7 is not fully optimized yet. Players with low end systems may have serious performance issues.
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I'm sure that once they finish optimizing it, us people with low-mid end systems will have a much better time in Grandville.
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If they were to add new patrons, I'm sure they will give everyone a chance to change. They never said the PPPs will always be permanent. Most likely new PPPs would mean new patrons, who probably aren't loyal to Arachnos. They probably wouldn't care if you betrayed Arachnos to join them.
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Actually, yes, they did say that Patrons would be permanent, you cannot respec out of them. And they also said that they would laver be adding another patron that's non-arachnos in origin.
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I don't remember seeing them say that they'd be adding a non-Arachnos patron, and I can't seem to find it via search. Do you have a link for that?
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Ugh. My workaround is borked. I can load the zone okay, but trying to go to the base crashes the game.
So I fall from midair, dead, because I'd fallen to lvl 45 mobs on the way to my contact from a mish. I try to release to base, and I crash
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Not only does this crash the game for me and make the affected villain useless on test (mandatory deletion) - it ALSO causes the game to have to re-verify all files every time you start up Test after this happens.
How totally friggin frustrating!