Hamidon raids used to be the only place I had to endure frame rates of 4fps while trying to fight...until now.
Now I have to add Issue 23's Magisterium Trial to that list.
Okay, so my PC is not exactly state of the art, but neither is it a digital fossil. It's more a sort of evolving Franken-PC cobbled together from miscellaneous parts over the years, and for the most part it serves me well enough (it even worked capably enough to beta test Star Wars The Old Republic, and at a decent frame rate too).
However, large assemblies of players (not players just standing around, I should add, but rather players in combat) in CoH appear to be becoming a problem for my "hybrid" PC lately. So it is perhaps ironic that as things stand, the "Hybrid" Incarnate slot is the one which will remain beyond my reach.
The reason is the ever increasing amount of visual effects introduced to the game by the Incarnate system, along with the fact these powers are most often seen in full flow in Leagues of 20+ players, numbers only previously encountered in action during Hamidon raids.
I could endure the existing Incarnate Trials to a point, because there tends to be team scattering and multiple objectives, but even so I breathed a sigh of relief when new Dark Astoria arrived with its promise of solo grinding Incarnate xp.
(Incidentally, and popping off at a tangent for a moment, prior to new DA I did find it highly ironic that the path of the Incarnate as related by Mender Ramiel was always pitched as a personal one, and yet the only way of gaining Incarnate xp was via multi-team Trials...)
When Issue 23 arrived I gritted my teeth and joined a Magisterium run, only to find immediately that it was Hamidon revisited, as far as my frame rate was concerned. I quickly turned down as many settings as I could find, but alas it was all in vain - seems as if it wasn't so much about the number of particles, but rather the NUMBER of number of particles. I fought Black Swan at melee range, saw her health bar drop to zero...and I still don't know what she actually looked like, because she was completely obscured by FLASH! BANG! BUBBLE! PET! BOOM!
And as for the final battle, well...one more player's FX and I swear my frame rate would actually have been counting in REVERSE!
So basically (as there's no way I can afford a new PC) unless either the devs can add a "Supress all Incarnate FX" option, or they introduce a way to grind Hybrid xp solo, that slot will remain locked for me.
Hamidon raids used to be the only place I had to endure frame rates of 4fps while trying to fight...until now.
Now I have to add Issue 23's Magisterium Trial to that list.
Okay, so my PC is not exactly state of the art, but neither is it a digital fossil. It's more a sort of evolving Franken-PC cobbled together from miscellaneous parts over the years, and for the most part it serves me well enough (it even worked capably enough to beta test Star Wars The Old Republic, and at a decent frame rate too).
However, large assemblies of players (not players just standing around, I should add, but rather players in combat) in CoH appear to be becoming a problem for my "hybrid" PC lately. So it is perhaps ironic that as things stand, the "Hybrid" Incarnate slot is the one which will remain beyond my reach.
The reason is the ever increasing amount of visual effects introduced to the game by the Incarnate system, along with the fact these powers are most often seen in full flow in Leagues of 20+ players, numbers only previously encountered in action during Hamidon raids.
I could endure the existing Incarnate Trials to a point, because there tends to be team scattering and multiple objectives, but even so I breathed a sigh of relief when new Dark Astoria arrived with its promise of solo grinding Incarnate xp.
(Incidentally, and popping off at a tangent for a moment, prior to new DA I did find it highly ironic that the path of the Incarnate as related by Mender Ramiel was always pitched as a personal one, and yet the only way of gaining Incarnate xp was via multi-team Trials...)
When Issue 23 arrived I gritted my teeth and joined a Magisterium run, only to find immediately that it was Hamidon revisited, as far as my frame rate was concerned. I quickly turned down as many settings as I could find, but alas it was all in vain - seems as if it wasn't so much about the number of particles, but rather the NUMBER of number of particles. I fought Black Swan at melee range, saw her health bar drop to zero...and I still don't know what she actually looked like, because she was completely obscured by FLASH! BANG! BUBBLE! PET! BOOM!
And as for the final battle, well...one more player's FX and I swear my frame rate would actually have been counting in REVERSE!
So basically (as there's no way I can afford a new PC) unless either the devs can add a "Supress all Incarnate FX" option, or they introduce a way to grind Hybrid xp solo, that slot will remain locked for me.