Obscure things you may not know about playing the game
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Posted on: 2010-01-06 20:52 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Except you get 2% more regen with the Regenerative Tissue unique, and Numina's Heal and unique, while using only 3 slots.|
Originally Posted by ShadowsBetween
Three heal IO would put you at the ED cap. If I remember correctly, the "two items slotted" bonus from Numina is a bonus to regen, and the unique proc IO is also a bonus to regen and endurance recovery. So by adding four slots, you get the ED cap on regen from the power, plus the set bonus, plus the proc bonus.
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| I believe there's also a similar trick related to Stamina, but I don't know the precise slotting or IOs needed. |
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You'll zone into Talos no matter what border of PI you cross. Helpful if you need to go back to Talos from Portal Corp - just head due east.|
Originally Posted by MaHaBone23
If you follow the power lines out of PI, to the south, you'll zone into Talos, but on the wrong side of the geometry. You can explore around under the world, and attack enemies. A simple /stuck command gets you back on the right side.
Ninja Run is very... elastic on the Z-Axis. Jump against anything with the slightest incline, and you can rise until something blocks you. War walls, the zigg, etc. |
As for the latter, it's another fun little physics glitch that works with any +jump power and any steeply inclined surface.
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Did you know that in certain parts of the Abandoned Sewer you can run into disembodied Hydra Tentacle heads. Pretty disturbing when you bump into them but heck, it's a nice little thing to freak a person while running around.
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More accurately, the Family in Sharkhead was leaning on the proprietor of the Monkey Fight Club, and rather than knuckle under to them, he took DJ Zero's offer and moved the club to Pocket D. Rather than just accept the situation, the Family got a new set of monkeys and re-opened the old location under their direct control. Listen to the dialog in each place and you'll hear them talk about it.
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Originally Posted by Dollymistress
The Monkey Fight club in Pocket D is a revamp of the original club in Sharkhead, which still exists.
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"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
* The invention tables on the Vanguard map work in AE.
Some enemies spawn only at night, or spawn a lot more frequently at night, which occurs for 20 minutes every 40 minutes in-game:
Equinox (very easy to find in the eastern part of Striga Isle)
Banished Pantheon masks (easy to find at night in Potter's Field in Sharkhead Isle)
Ghosts and Ghost Pirates (Croatoa and Port Oakes respectively)
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Useful for getting both Defeat badges for the Atlas Medallion. Slaughter Warwolves during the day and Vampyrs during the night. You get both badges at a reasonable pace and the change-up is nice for not making it too boring.|
Originally Posted by DeProgrammer
Some enemies spawn only at night, or spawn a lot more frequently at night, which occurs for 20 minutes every 40 minutes in-game:
Equinox (very easy to find in the eastern part of Striga Isle) |
Though, these days I've noticed it's a lot easier to get the badges just playing missions instead of farming.
De minimis non curat Lex Luthor.
Superjump and the Good versus Evil jump pack allows you to fly at about twice the flight cap. For only thirty seconds, but...
Proud member of the Steel 70! | Global @Radmofet ; usually on Pinnacle, sometimes on Virtue.
Here's one that's come in handy for various purposes.
Almost everyone knows that you can use the /screenshotui command to turn the GUI on and off in your screenshots. However, what a lot of people don't know is that you can take lossless screenshot images using the /screenshot_tga command. I have the following base keybinds in a file that I load on every character:
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What that does is map the following keys:SYSRQ "screenshotui 0$$screenshot" SHIFT+SYSRQ "screenshotui 1$$screenshot" P "screenshotui 0$$screenshot_tga" SHIFT+P "screenshotui 1$$screenshot_tga"
- Print screen: jpg (lossy) screenshot, without the GUI.
- Shift + Print screen: jpg (lossy) screenshot, with the GUI.
- P: tga (lossless) screenshot, without the GUI.
- Shift + P: tga (lossless) screenshot, with the GUI.
Of course, lossless tga images take up more space on your hard drive. At my 1900x1200 resolution, each one takes up 6.59 MB, compared to an average of around 450 KB for a jpg. Still, if you want a picture of exactly what's on your screen, it's the way to go. (And if you're like me, you usually recompress them into a much smaller png file, also lossless, anyway.)
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
Here's a quick tip: If you take the train to one end of Steel Canyon or Skyway City and your mission (or whatever it is you're going to see or do) is on the other end, just go around the wall and take the train you just came out of to the other end. Since you're going somewhere else without moving between zones, there is no loading screen and the trip will be relatively instantaneous.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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and it's better in Cap Au Diable, since you don't have to wait for tram to come and the door to open
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Originally Posted by TonyV
Here's a quick tip: If you take the train to one end of Steel Canyon or Skyway City and your mission (or whatever it is you're going to see or do) is on the other end, just go around the wall and take the train you just came out of to the other end. Since you're going somewhere else without moving between zones, there is no loading screen and the trip will be relatively instantaneous.
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MMs also have an advantage because not only can you put insps on your henchmen, you can also give them to any type of pet that an MM casts, so pets like Dark Servant, Shivans and HVAS can be insped up.|
Originally Posted by Eislor
You can also do it via a slash command.
inspexec_pet_name Activates an inspiration on a pet by name. Inspiration Name then Pet Name. Example. /inspexecpetname resurgence marion That drops a Resurgence (large green) on your pet named Marion. Useful for binds, not so much in combat. Maybe if you type 100 wpm . . . |
This means that you can pass a big luck insp and a big orange insp on a shivan and watch him tank an AV while you take a nap. Of course your pets will also defend the pet in BG mode...
You can also feed an EoE to your big henchman for a hami raid if you need them to grab aggro. They might need an ID from a kin to prevent knockback or else they get pushed all the way out of the goo if they are going to absorb the alpha from hami.
Add to list that Red side there are abandoned labs in Cap and St. Martial that you can use for crafting. They are on the map but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else in them.
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You can't please everyone, so lets concentrate on me.
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There's a normal university in Cap. The other Abandoned Lab is in Port Oakes. And yeah, they're both fairly handy.
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Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
Add to list that Red side there are abandoned labs in Cap and St. Martial that you can use for crafting. They are on the map but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else in them.
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I believe there's also a similar trick related to Stamina, but I don't know the precise slotting or IOs needed.
Perfoprmance shifter proc + perf shift EndMod + 2 EndMod IOs