Coffee talk highlights March 14 2012

There was also a hilarious damage Proc-bug that allowed you to one shot Hami.

If I remember rightly it has the decimal point in the wrong place and ended up dealing a frankly ridiculous amount of damage like to the point that the damage log actually went haywire with the amount of damage you dealt.

There was also the Ion Judgement damage bug where it accepted outside damage sources so while it should normally hit for, at most, 500 points of damage per hit it would actually hit for 2,000+ points of damage if you had a damage at cap and it would leap back onto the same target, thus dealing around 4,000 to 6,000 damage per target.



It was fully, theoretically possible for a villain team, all with Ion Judgement, with fully buffed damage, to take out the Freedom Phalanx in the Lord Recluse Strikeforce in one coordinated Ion Judgement salvo.

you make it sound more like the average forumite

This makes me sad, it was something I have been looking forward to.

Perhaps they could just give them to us when we ding 50, so that at 50 we get 6 slots instead of three. As it is actually hitting 50 can be a bit anticlimactic.

LOL, what? Everything in the store goes on sale, except maybe not this, except look for it in the future at a lower price maybe.


Wait, phasing what out entirely? Shards?

I think it was Touch of Lady Grey: Chance to one-shot enemy and self

And by "haywire," what Dr. Mechano really means is that the numbers were so large the C++ standard output library expressed them in scientific notation. (I personally think it was actually sprintf(), but meh)

Yes.

That was my favorite bug from this game.

thanks for the write up!

Would the "it's over 9000!" meme/joke be appropriate here?

I feel no need to dream modest dreams on this issue. The next time I finish the World Wide Red arc, I want my souvenir to be the Kronos mech...

Later on,
Gate

*shakes and twitches involuntarily. "They were gonna, gonna give me 3 more slots! And They can't!!!" *falls over and twitches some more.

Ya, i ran into that beta bug a way back. Some toons got 3, some got 0, some got 6 when training up a Lv50.

The breaking point was when it was discovered that some toons over lvl 25 (when the extra slot started) could not level up at all w/o doing a respec. Respecing to get those slots also made purples disappear irrc. There were several really bad bugs that went with it.


I want to defend Synapse here because he said on the boards and in chat that he really wanted to give us those extra slots, and he would continue to look for a way to do it. I wouldn't surprised at all if he was still looking when he could.

This is one of those things I really hope they find a way to do. I don't care if they tie it to the incarnate system, force a respec, or whatever, I would really love to have a few more slots on all of my toons.

I hoping that they will find a way someday. Didn't know of the other bugs, only happen to notice the Lv50 one. Till then let us have fun and enjoy the game.

CoH has the Best Devs/CRs around. They talk to players, they listen, even play with us via events. I will be with this game as long as i live.

That's what they said they were *not* going to do.

Because, if they do, they use artist time creating unique costumes that players will not have access to, because the 'signature' NPCs get 'signature' costumes.

Then the playerbase will be crying over not having the new shineys.

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WRT final Praetorian iTrial: It will be a combined Cole and Hamidon battle. You have to travel to forty dimensions defeating and collecting their version of Cole in order to power the Cole-gun which you use to shoot at Hamidon. It shoots Coles. That explode on contact. That is all.

They could be redone with items the players have and look better than they do now.

I am one of those people who hates it when NPCs get all the cool costume items, but even I understand the FF having a signature item each. I LOVE BAB's gloves, but I would never expect to have an exact version as a player.

It is when everyday mobs (like the CoT) get cool items like those gauntlets, big hats, long skirts, and back items, that I get annoyed.

Vows like that are a good way to get eaten by an alligator the next day.

From what I remember about it, it was a bug that allowed essentially an infinite number of enhancements to be slotted in a power, as long as you had the inf to buy them. Even with ED, each enhancement still offered a small boost of 0.1%, give or take, so if you took the time to buy and slot 100,000 damage SOs, you'd see roughly a damage increase of 10,000% in that power. It was interesting enough that the devs themselves got involved, IIRC, going so far as to bankroll that particular player just to see what could be done before they fixed the bug. The end result was soloing Hamidon in two or three shots. If I'm remembering anything incorrectly, someone with a better memory please correct me.


Kim Kardashian is not a male... that I am aware of.

I know that and you right, no doubt.
But still, the Freedom Phalanx, Vindicator... They all lame.
They need new costumes and powersets reasignation.
Some of the Praetorian AVs got a new look without unique pieces, and they do look better than before.
They should make a contest for this.