Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.954


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Happy holidays from the Titan Network!

Mids’ Hero/Villain Designer 1.954 - March 2012

New features:

  • Archetype Enhancements!
  • Dark Control, Dark Assault, Darkness Affinity!
  • Stalker changes!
  • Gravity Control buffed?!

Fixes & changes:
  • More random bug fixes!

Known issues:
  • Windows Vista and Windows 7 have issues with the updater due to UAC interfering with writing to the Program Files folder. Many of these problems can be resolved by (a) installing as Administrator, (b) running Mids as Administrator, or (c) installing Mids to a location other than the Program Files folder.
  • Diminishing Returns for PvP mode have not yet been added; all buffs currently show their full, unmodified values.
  • The Power Graphs for the current build do not display effects for pseudo-pet powers like Ice Storm. This does not affect the Powerset Comparison, which is now fully aware of pseudo-pets.
  • Power Boost affects some powers that should ignore its buffs, such as Ice Shields.
  • Temporary and Accolade powers are not being affected by buffs such as recharge rate.
  • Some powers are still enhanced by HOs that shouldn’t be (like Active Defense’s Res(Def))
  • Archetype Enhancement procs do not give the correct chance in some powers – this is due to the Devs not providing the formula for their calculation. We have 99% confidence in single target powers, 99% confidence in 16 target targeted aoe powers, but cone powers are inaccurate. Hopefully Synapse or Black Scorpion or somebody can slip us the formula.


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Originally Posted by oreso View Post
Awesome work again! Looking forward to it!

... But I'm just getting an error while trying to install.

Error opening file for writing.

What do!?
Do you have Mids open?


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Installs and opens fine for me.

Thanks, Diellan!




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Brute's Fury Lists one of the enhancements as Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge - this was changed prior to release and is now Damage/Endurance Recharge. (This might be true of most of the sets actually - let me check)

EDIT - The other 11 sets are fine - other than that nasty glitch with the Controller/Dominator sets enhancement values bleeding into the set enhancement list.


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Thanks for the great work


 

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There seems to be a bug with StJ finishers, as their damage includes all 4 combo states. So instead of Spinning Strike dealing 100 damage, it would deal 100+105+113+125.


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Thanks for the hard work!


 

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Originally Posted by Auroxis View Post
There seems to be a bug with StJ finishers, as their damage includes all 4 combo states. So instead of Spinning Strike dealing 100 damage, it would deal 100+105+113+125.
Good catch. Spring Attack also has a similar problem, it has been pointed out to me.


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Thanks Diellan_! DL'ing it now.


 

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Has anyone else noticed that since the update Mids' is taking a ridiculously long time to open? It was bad before, taking 30-40 seconds on a new, high-powered computer. Now it takes close to 5 minutes.


 

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Thanks for the update!

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Originally Posted by firespray View Post
Has anyone else noticed that since the update Mids' is taking a ridiculously long time to open? It was bad before, taking 30-40 seconds on a new, high-powered computer. Now it takes close to 5 minutes.
Mids' has never taken more than 10 seconds to open on my old clunker.

On a couple of builds, Mids' shows my damage resistance as being in the negatives with the update. I know my builds are bad but not that bad.


 

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Resistances being in the negatives seems to be from -res procs. I know glad fury was doing it, havent checked achilles since im on my mac right now.


 

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Originally Posted by firespray View Post
Has anyone else noticed that since the update Mids' is taking a ridiculously long time to open? It was bad before, taking 30-40 seconds on a new, high-powered computer. Now it takes close to 5 minutes.
Hmm... I think there's an issue with the update checker. I'll look into it.


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In regards to ATO procs in AoE powers.... How confident are you on those? I know you said 'inaccurate' but how inaccurate are we talking here? I realize there may not be a good answer at this point but was just curious on this.

Thanks for all your hard work.


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Originally Posted by Diellan_ View Post
Hmm... I think there's an issue with the update checker. I'll look into it.
If it helps, the loading box shows 'loading enhancement database' and 'loading graphics' as being the two parts that are taking a significant amount of time. Everything else before that scrolls by too fast to see.


 

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After having spent the last several hours of double XP trying new builds in Mids instead... (Thanks guys!)

Arctic Air (Dominator/Ice Control) applies the -50% Recharge debuff to yourself if it is toggled on. (It took me and two other people quite some time to figure out where 50% of my recharge was going...)

Might of the Tanker proc applies something like -13.77% (I forget the exact number) Resistance if toggled on.

Otherwise, it's working great! I look forward to spending even more time alt-tabbed out of the game testing new builds. >.>


 

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thank you !


English isn't my birth language, so don't blame me if I do some mistakes. thank you !

 

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Originally Posted by firespray View Post
If it helps, the loading box shows 'loading enhancement database' and 'loading graphics' as being the two parts that are taking a significant amount of time. Everything else before that scrolls by too fast to see.
Odd. The enhancement database is actually smaller now, because I moved a lot of the enhancement data over to the Powers section... Oh, I know what's happening. It's because the references are by string instead of by static index. I'll fix that. Oddly enough, that happens really fast on my PC, but the update check takes a while.

My bathroom is being remodeled starting today, and I've just been told it might take two whole weeks, so I probably won't be able to do much development until that finishes. Once that's done, I'll be able to change the references.


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Originally Posted by ricohdah View Post
Thanks for the update!
Mids' has never taken more than 10 seconds to open on my old clunker.
Yeah my pc is ancient('07ish) but Mid's has always loaded fine for me. It still does, but I do see the "loading enhancements" part causing it to be a "little less than instant" opening now. Wouldn't really consider it an issue. I hope that brute piece gets fixed soon though, trying to juggle pieces around to keep sets and power stats proper because of an incorrect piece is something I've always hated the rare times I've had to deal with it in Mid's.

Hmm, now to figure out when to play DXP and when to fix alllll my builds for ATOs...



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I'm also noticing the issue with the new Mids update displaying incorrect resistance totals on several builds.


 

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Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian View Post
Yeah my pc is ancient('07ish) but Mid's has always loaded fine for me. It still does, but I do see the "loading enhancements" part causing it to be a "little less than instant" opening now. Wouldn't really consider it an issue. I hope that brute piece gets fixed soon though, trying to juggle pieces around to keep sets and power stats proper because of an incorrect piece is something I've always hated the rare times I've had to deal with it in Mid's.

Hmm, now to figure out when to play DXP and when to fix alllll my builds for ATOs...
The problem stems from the fact that Mids has custom enhancement data, in the sense that it doesn't do enhancements the way that the game does enhancements (where enhancements are simply powers). It faked the game data pretty well, but the problem arises with the introduction of PPM and Attuned Enhancements. So I changed the Mids DB to use actual enhancement power data (which is why that file is so big) and associated all the enhancements with the appropriate power, based upon the name of the enhancement. That last part is the reason it takes so long on your machine, since it requires a lengthy lookup process that isn't even necessary, since all powers have unique ids associated with them in the Mids db, which I could've used instead.

I was slowly planning on moving all the enhancement data to the new system (right now it's only used for Procs and to determine if an enhancement is Attuned), but it looks like I'll need to move faster.


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Originally Posted by Diellan_ View Post
Odd. The enhancement database is actually smaller now, because I moved a lot of the enhancement data over to the Powers section... Oh, I know what's happening. It's because the references are by string instead of by static index. I'll fix that. Oddly enough, that happens really fast on my PC, but the update check takes a while.

My bathroom is being remodeled starting today, and I've just been told it might take two whole weeks, so I probably won't be able to do much development until that finishes. Once that's done, I'll be able to change the references.
That's great, thanks man.


 

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Not sure if it'll help you with bugsmashing the Res issue but Defensive Sweep's attributes in Mid's Info panel says "Res: -20% (Self)" lol.



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