Infamous Zombie Invasions...
By
3dent,
Posted on: 2008-10-20 15:45 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I'm sad and disappointed too. Three hours yesterday just waiting for zombies that never came. This is not an event, is a sheer coincidence.
Just had an invasion one hour before the shutdown of the servers. Autsch, they sure are nasty when theyre are no healers present. But they look awesome especially the reanimated corpses.
Good job there.
The best thing was a martial arts hero with an Afro. She made me feel all old fashioned and into the zombie mood as well. Like watching an old movie zombie 
Strange... I wasn't seeking invasions, but got all the badges without even noticing on the day 1, because I was just near Peregrine when it was a)invaded b)so full it had 2 instances. All in all I participated in 2 invasions (soloed the very 1st one 
) and watched another one, - was a bit late, no group... Luck of the draw...
I dunno, you wait hours for a rush of bloodthirsty flesh-munching zombies, and then a whole lot come at once.
Or is that traiiiiiiinns?
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
It happened the same to me yesterday; I was online from 17:00 CET to 19:00 CET, and my stone tanker was able to earn all zombies badges. I logged in again at 21:15 CET and ToTed a bit, then I teamed for some mayhem missions... nothing special as you can see... when I was about to log, at 01:00 CET, zombies attacked everywhere! Luckily they stayed long enough to make 2 toons change and earn them 2 times and a half!
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I've been a bit lucky and managed to get an invasion almost immediately with Flitz and was even able to switch to Lead Hose and get the badges on her too. Had to try a couple of times on Red Rag, but got into a nice little team in GV last night and picked up the fourth badge just as the invasion ended. There was one this morning just before DT and I managed to get a couple of badges with a 3-man team of tanker, scrapper and controller but we didn't spawn any soulless or nightmares.
UNION @Flitz 50, Lead Hose 50, Red Rag 50
DEFIANT Rose Bloodthorn 34
VIGILANCE Captain Caledonia 20 - Yeah, I made toons on the French server coz we only had 4 back then (might have to transfer/recreate them on one of the US servers)
..and many more!
Are the zombies attacks uncannily accurate? The seem to hit my SR brute alot more often than I would have expected.
Took part in one last night in Talos and it was the worst Lag fest I've been in. Worse than the Rikti Ship during a big raid, worse than lag hill in the ITF. So bad in fact people were leaving the zone! 
I took part in one in Talos the night before and it was okay and quite playable. Hope it was just a minor glitch or it'll ruin the whole thing.
I've had bad lag as well, and it appeared to be at or near the server end, not local to me.
Two points:
1) I don't think the zone mobs scarper like they do in rikti raids, so there are a lot more entities in the zone.
2) The cap on the number of players in the zone was calculated based on the original lanch game. Since then player costumes have become far more complex, increasing the amount of data per player displayed that has to pass through the infrastructure significantly. The zone cap may need to be lowered.
I really should do something about this signature.
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1) I don't think the zone mobs scarper like they do in rikti raids, so there are a lot more entities in the zone.
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Well, I went to an invasion in Perez Park and Hell's Highway was completely empty of Hellions as far as I could see.
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I dunno, you wait hours for a rush of bloodthirsty flesh-munching zombies, and then a whole lot come at once.
Or is that traiiiiiiinns?
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Its 10 minutes laters and this is still making me smile
Kneeling girls! Statues driving cars! What's going on? Ten years ago a man was arrested in the area for driving statues around in a car. Was it him?
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I did one in PI last night and the lag was pretty heavy, at least I have all the badges for it now
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Are the zombies attacks uncannily accurate? The seem to hit my SR brute alot more often than I would have expected.
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Nope. You were either unlucky or underestimating just how many attacks were coming your way. You end up with a lot of zombies. Normally Carnal Sin stands around laughing off....everything really, barring one on one brawls with Elite Bosses. At one point those zombies managed to make me concerned for my life, first time she's bothered to pop inspirations in months.
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Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
They are like a flood of rotting flesh.
Last night In PI 2 was awe inspiring, so many peeps, and we got everything in short order. All badges in a hefty scoop of brains and violence
It was beautiful. Now Glide is less beautiful because of the pumpkin head, but at least it feels well earned
I don't wanna save my soul now,
I just wanna lose control,
And even if it takes a lifetime, to learn:
I'll learn!
The Key to surviving zombies seems to be to keep moving if you stand still they start to pop out the ground and aggro on you (not fun if your squishy) but keep dashing about only stopping to unleash a attack seems to work well.
I was ToT'ing last night and thinking about logging when they sky turned red. Happily already in a team of 8 we headed for Portal Corps to make some undead a little more lifeless and have to say it was awesome fun! More manic than rikti raids - zombies just kept on coming thick and fast. Blazing Aura soon meant I had all 4 badges (about 10 mins it took) and the lag wasnt as bad as I expected either!
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The Key to surviving zombies seems to be to keep moving if you stand still they start to pop out the ground and aggro on you (not fun if your squishy) but keep dashing about only stopping to unleash a attack seems to work well.
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I preferred setting them all on fire myself. That'll learn them.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
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Took part in one last night in Talos and it was the worst Lag fest I've been in. Worse than the Rikti Ship during a big raid, worse than lag hill in the ITF. So bad in fact people were leaving the zone!
I took part in one in Talos the night before and it was okay and quite playable. Hope it was just a minor glitch or it'll ruin the whole thing.
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When hit by such a lag bomb, go to your video settings and turn all world and char detail to minimum, as well as the particle count; and make sure both suppress options are on. The game will look pants, but the worst of your lag should vanish.
And no, it's NOT an ideal solution, but it does at least help.
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
It also depends on the group you have around you. Going back to that PI bash the amount of folks involved was immense. Glide is a Warshade and he had no trouble staying alive through the whole thing despite being stood still for most of the time. He hit Damage cap many times thanks to some nifty Fulcrums being shifted about, and the healing potential (gotta love that stygian circle) was always there thanks to the amount of violence being enacted on the less than helpless zombiefolk.
In a smaller group I can imagine it becoming overwhelming very quickly, but fun all the same
I don't wanna save my soul now,
I just wanna lose control,
And even if it takes a lifetime, to learn:
I'll learn!
So has anyone seen an invasion today since the servers came back? I've been waiting around for close to two hours now, and haven't seen anything - not even messages about the invasions ending.
I've been on and off since about 10 and cant say I've seen so far on villains
Ive yet to see an invasion.
Halloween has failed this year.
Really it has, for me at least.
How can you say its failed there's still plenty of time to come face to face with the undead.
I dont have the time to sit and wait for up to 3 hours ingame to see an invasion, there is a reason im playing coh and not some other mmorpg next to the fact that I love coh.
Coh is pretty casual, i cant play all day.
Hmm seems that it is roughly every three hours now.
Major Zombie Invasions at 9:30pm, 12:30pm and now 3:30am on Union.
Guessing whatever had been borked has been fixed.
I can now see why the invasions are every three hours compared to the Rikti invasions two hours, it's taking nearly an hour for all the zones to be attacked, they seem to come in clumps instead of all at once.
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A real showstopper!