If you can't figure out what key makes it appear, I'm going to say it's a sequence of keystrokes that does it. Try the Konami Code with WASD? 
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Originally Posted by Leandro
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Argentines love to talk. They communicate directly, openly and often loudly. In Argentina there is no taboo in the use of foul language. A respectable old woman will swear like a sailor and no one bats and eye. Fools are not suffered lightly and anyone behaving in a pretentious or obnoxious manner will be sharply reprimanded, sometimes with just a simple gesture of the hands. Political correctness does not exist in Argentina because it would only impede getting your point across. If you are a little overweight your nickname might be el Gordo, or if you have a dark complexion they might call you Negro or if you happen to be of Polish descent, el Polaco. No offense is intended, none is taken and there is no false morality to confuse the issues. It is evident when Argentines communicate with one another that their freedom of speech is real. Although Argentines are extremely patriotic and will not hesitate to tell you that their country has the tallest mountains, the tastiest beef, the most beautiful women, the finest wine and the best soccer players in the world, they will also be quick to point out that their country is run by corrupt politicians and is full of bullshitters and crooks. The truth is which country isnt?, but Argentines in particular always seem to be just as aware of their own shortcomings as well as they are of others. This keen sense of discernment is illustrated by the vast quantity of words used to accurately describe an idiot, a braggart, a liar, a scam or the quality of anything from personal character to household appliances. The Argentines use these words with such frequency and passion that the unsuspecting foreigner will eventually have to ask what is a boludo and why cant I find it in my Spanish dictionary? |
...apart from that pesky "Spanish" part...
...and the possibility that your Generalissmo might start another war with
the Brits again someday...
That said, living in Arizona, Spanish is already very prevalent (just walk
into any Burger King in the state), and heck, the good-ole-USA will war
with any and all comers at a moment's notice anyway, so I guess those
two items are really only minor issues, now that I think about it a bit.
As for the original question, I have no idea. I've never seen it, but it most
reminds me of "playback controls" of some sort of graphics debugging tool.
I'll be curious to see what it turns out to be...
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I'll add my opinion to the "unintentionally found dev tool" team...
...and have no idea who you should PM about it, or if the higher-ups would get mad if you did
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I've had that appear 2 or 3 times myself. No clue what it is, have never seen the 'off' button. I've just shut game down and reloaded.
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They are clickable buttons, but don't seem to do anything. Clicking "off" or "hide empty" makes the interface disappear, and that's it.|
Originally Posted by _Akry_
Out of curiosity, are any of those buttons/boxes clickable? Or are they static and dont' change/aren't clickable?
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Originally Posted by _Akry_
Maybe we'll get some more ideas on what it actually doesor is possibly doing (if anyting) if you give us a little more information on what AT/set you're playing, when it happens (you said when you're fighting, but are you Hovering or anyting like that?), or if anything else is going around your computer (are you performing voodoo love ritual summoning at the time?).
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F1, F2, F3, F4, F5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Q, W, E, R, T
Tab
A, S, D, F
Space
Arrow Up, Down
Numpad 0, 5, 8
Very rarely I'll use other keys, but those are my "core" gameplay keys. Maybe it's a combination with some other key that I'm accidentally hitting.
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I'm suspecting if you had some sort of "debugging" flag or build, those buttons would do more. You checked the COH executable - did you see any new or interesting log/data/debug files anywhere that aren't on the others? That value change as you do anything?
I'm really curious about what this does now.
Not something I've seen before, but if they ever came up with a toolbar method for demorecording, I'd be on it like white on rice.
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Just throwing in that I've gotten this to appear once. It was while Ninja Running through Nova Praetoria in the middle of a jump (executed with the numpad 0 key, just to be thorough).
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Okay, with all the responses here, it's starting to sound like it's an actual, bonafide dev tool that's leaking out. I've never seen it myself, but whatever it is it looks like it has "For the devs" written all over it.
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Still, how are we supposed to know that? Most people who come on the internet with questions don't know the first thing about anything but are very sure they're right anyway, especially when they aren't.|
Originally Posted by Leandro
I didn't get annoyed until the strings dump from Process Explorer was put in question. If I were faced with that, I would not think "that person's computer has some malware that is specifically targeting COH's executable". That's a stretch. I would look for those strings in my copy of the program (we all have COH) and see that they in fact are there.
The very first thing I did when I first saw this window was to md5sum my COH executable and compare it with the executable in 2 other computers to ensure it hadn't been tampered with. If I thought my computer was infected by anything, I wouldn't even waste time running a full antivirus scan: I'd boot up Ubuntu, use it to back up my personal folders, and reinstall Windows from scratch. I don't trust "cleaning" a computer that's been compromised, I go for the nuclear option to ensure safety. |
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I am extremely direct in my way of communication. If that makes me a jerk, then apparently I know a lot about it. Let me quote you a book: In other words: cultural thing. You'll consider every last argentine a jerk. We don't tiptoe around with words. I am actually a lot more careful with words in this forum than I ever am in real life, and I still manage to offend people from time to time. |
You're not direct, you're just overly agressive when it wasn't called for and yes you act like a total jerk in this situation.
I'm Dutch, we're direct too. Cultural thing.
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If I had to guess, this is an animation debug tool used to record and adjust, step by step, the animations, animation speed, and movement of an entity.
Developers don't name libraries randomly, and it's clear to me, from the path used, that this is a debug tool of some kind. The actual buttons shown seem to be related to the animations, what with Vel likely being shorthand for Velocity.
Since this thread was resurrected, I'll just note that I encountered this bar for the first time this weekend during a raid. Was a bit too busy to tinker with it much before it disappeared.
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My friend @Shotty Mario also got it while he was running an Incarnate Trial. No idea what it was; he tried to fiddle with it but it didn't do much. I too thought it was a Demorecord tool.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
No, this is definitely part of COH. Process Explorer finds the text from the above thingy in the cityofheroes.exe process memory:
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Someone asked about that a couple years ago, if I recall correctly. I definitely recall the look of that. Something Dev-related that accidentally shows up every now again.
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Originally Posted by sleestack
I wasn't "doubting" you, just pointing out a possibility. You know, trying to help, like YOU asked us to. Given your ******* response, I hope you never find out what this is, and it steals all of your personal info to boot.
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Ditto! I have somehow managed to get that same thing at the bottom of my screen a couple times and have no idea what combination of keys strokes I accidental hit to make it appear. It always goes away eventually so I just chalk it up to me being in a hurry and being a typo queen,
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I wonder if it is what is referred to in this new patch:
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Originally Posted by Avatea
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yea i had that same display pop on my screen once i was on a Lambda sector trial..
Question how do i fix my image picture. xD
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I've had it occur too, generally in high enemy areas. May mean the server is fragmenting packets and when our client interprets them, it's calling that window to be opened.|
Originally Posted by Leandro
Again, this is part of the COH executable (look inside the .exe). Fuzzy Kittens above replied that they've also seen it.
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Can't say for sure, but that's my speculation.
In addition to the above speculation, Vel appears to be Velocity. Perhaps a tool to create clones for testing?
I've seen it once last week as well, didn't know what it was, I thought of a dev hidden demorecord tool.
Patch Notes on Test says that they fixed this so it stops randomly showing up on player's screens.
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It could be that this team is working on a similar tool to help them make cutscenes and videos more rapidly-- the back and forward views could be used to track (and with other toolbars modify) what appeared to happen.) and this UI somehow slipped out "into the wild."
Generally speaking, internal tools don't get nearly the same visual treatment as user-side tools, which would explain the different appearance....