Codewalker

You should see how much memory it chews up when left running, too.

I've had a couple friends complain about the game being really slow / laggy, and when I checked, the NCSoft Launcher was running and eating up over a gig of ram. For one of them, who still had an old machine with 2Gb in it, this was completely killing their ability to run the game.

I always recommend that everyone use the "Exit Launcher after starting game" option because of this.

Did Sentinel show itself as being up to date with the game version? Sometimes after a patch it takes a little while before Sentinel gets updated, but it's usually within a day or so. It'll say that it needs an update but not be able to find one.

Even if that link is missing, there IS a way to navigate to the main page, but it's not very obvious.

Click "Learn More" at the bottom of the splash page, and then the "Community" tab at the top of the Freedom site.

A popular fantasy MMO has motorcycles that can be engineered by players and used to ride around on. When you strafe, it just quick-pivots and drives in that direction. IIRC Walk already does something similar when you walk backwards.

Their motorcycles can also jump, some kind of spring loaded contraption. It looks fairly silly, and that's with a much shorter jump height than we have. I would vote for a -100% jump height debuff, similar to when you get hit by a web grenade and break out of the immobilize, but still can't jump.

Still, driving a motorcycle around in a sewer, or in City Hall or an office building does sound a bit ridiculous.

There's a Lioness in Beast Mastery, and we have a Coyote transform travel now, so it's inevitable that we'll see a cat transform power at some point. Tiger or Cheetah maybe? It'll be a fun day in Virtue Pocket D...

Note to devs: I'm normally not interested in vanity pets in the market, but I would gladly spend 500 points on a Bear cub pet if it helped justify Beast Mastery getting a bear model for its T8.

The root of it is that the animation system is extremely complicated. It tends to be a bit fragile, not because of the system itself, but because of all the years of accumulated work that has been built up on top of it, and each other. Thanks to posts from BAB and few others we've managed to build a fair idea of how it works mechanically, but there may only be one or two people within Paragon who truly have a complete understanding of it.

It's a very complex system with interactions from the powers system, the game engine itself, and a rapidly expanding set of rules. All of that is combined so that it can decide which animation out of over 8,000 to play at any given moment. Really it's more like 24,000 since each body type has different animations, but those share identifiers so that game don't have to consider them when deciding which to use.

So anything that affects something as fundamental as movement is going to need a LOT of work to make sure it doesn't conflict with those 8,000 animations. For something like ninja run and beast run they can cheat a little; since the normal standing animations for powers will work fine. It still takes very carefully setting up of the priorities so that the run animation works at all though.

On a rocket board, however, it's much more problematic. If the wrong animation plays, your board disappears. For a weapon, that's not a huge problem. Though redraw can be annoying, it's not nearly as immersion-breaking as your rocket board going away but you continue to float there until it reappears.

Suppressing toggles might not even be as viable as it sounds. While it's possible to suppress effects of a power, the power itself is still active and asserting its animation state. For most toggles that's only an issue when zoning, but even then it could get the system into the wrong state after a zone transition and might not be able to get back to the right one. It would take a lot of careful work to check each toggle for possible side-effects.

There really should be a corollary to the Standard Code Rant for anything that touches the animation system. It's not a bad system, it's just a very large and complex one, that as a result of the explosion of content in the game has grown some very subtle and difficult to understand interactions.

Here's some artist's conceptions of several different alternative outfits. Some of them are Zombie Man's designs with the seam contrast I think we would see if the colors were applied to the real costume, some I've seen suggested in the thread, and some I just made up to try it out (the reconstructed zipper).


I'm curious to see which ones people like the best.

Keep in mind though, that she's already been featured in promotional art, so it's unlikely the costume will change at this point. This is just for fun.

Thermal gets an AV-killer as well. It's otherwise outclassed in buff territory by Cold, but it just about as effective against AVs.

Basically, it's slightly modified D&D rules.

On a 20-sided die, if you roll a 20, you get a "critical success", and score a lucky hit no matter how much the odds were stacked against you.

If you roll a 1, you get a "critical miss" or "critical failure", and swing your sword wildly, completely missing the stone giant who's right in front of you. Consider yourself lucky that you didn't stab your own foot.

A 1 out of 20 chance corresponds exactly to 5%.

While CoH uses floating point numbers and is effectively an almost-infinite-sided die, ALL hit rolls are capped a minimum of 5%, and a maximum of 95% chance to hit. This goes for rolls done by players and NPCs alike. The defense soft cap is when you get so much defense, that base NPC rolls are always 5% or lower. To-hit debuffs can get you there as well, but are less reliable due to combat modifiers and debuff resistance.

(I'm sure someone will step in and explain how it's actually capped TWICE, once before Accuracy is applied, and once after. But this post is long enough as it is. )

You walk up to Arbiter Rein, who is standing just outside the main building in Grandville (right by the doors), and talk to him. He'll have you run a brief intro mission to read some plaques and then ask which Patron you want to be introduced to.

Which one you pick only affects the missions you run and the badge that you get. Once you complete the arc, you get a respec token and unlock access to all 4 patron pools.

Note that the patrons all have 4 arcs (2 lower level, 2 higher level). You only have to complete the first to get patron pool access. You have to do all 4 to unlock the ability to start the Lord Recluse Strike Force...