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Ellie barely paid Ed any attention as she loped across the street towards the fool who'd shot her. Snarling, she ran right past him and then the Stunner Chief as she made a beeline straight for the Gunner. Roaring again, she grabbed the man's SMG in her huge maw, and with a single bite, chomped straight through it, almost taking his hands off in the process.

Dropping the remains of the gun to the ground, she darted her head forward again and grabbed his arm in her mouth, holding him tight as a snarl rumbled from her throat. The look in her cats eyes was unreadable and her behaviour seemed far more animalistic than human at the moment.

Some of the bullets missed Ed and slammed into Ellie's side, making her stagger and roar with pain as the bullets tore into her unarmoured flesh. Turning on the source of the gunfire, she leaped across the street towards Ed, and the gunman beyond him, snarling with rage.

(( Sorry Rock, Ellie's WAY out of Freakshow's league.. ))

The targetting monocle on Ellie's sophisticated armour warned her as the Chief Smasher threw his hammer fists at her. Without the need for concious thought, the combat computer embedded in the alien circuitry of her suit analyzed the attack and fed the estimated threat level and targetting information to Ellie. Her shields sprang up around her instantly, and three balls of coruscating energy appeared behind her. Instantly, the photon seekers detected their target and darted in to the attack.

Before the Chief Smasher even realised what was happening, the balls of energy struck his hammer fist and detonated in a burst of Kheldian light, shredding his prosthesis and blasting him off his feet. Ellie spun on her heels, her energy claws sliding out from her fingertips and her body taking a combat stance; her expression one that frequently had Rikti running for their lives.

Seeing the freak hit the ground several meters away, she wagged a forefinger from side to side. "Naughty naughty. Didn't your mummy tell you? Hitting girls is a Very Bad Thing, especially when they're not looking!"

Swearing profusely, the Chief Smasher clutched at the shredded remains of his arm, Excelsior dripping from the ruptured supply system.

Her claws sliding back in to her fingertips, she stalked over to the Freak, and stood over him, hands on hips and an odd expression on her face. "You know, Mr Freaky; I really don't like being called things like that. I think it would be nice if you apologised. Now. Before I show you why they call me Tiger White."

The Freaks' only reply was more obscenities, even worse than the ones before, and Ellie shook her head in dissapointment. "Well, don't say I didn't warn you." She said, before her body began to glow brightly.

Her costume seemed to become transparent for a few seconds, allowing a web of millions of multicoloured lines of pure energy to appear over her body, before it was completely obscured by the light. Her body seems to shrink, then elongate along the ground and became considerably more massive. A second later, the later faded to reveal a massive white tiger, 8 foot tall at the shoulders, and with foot long fangs; an almost exact match for the sabre toothed tigers often seen in natural history museums. The creature roared at the freak and it's huge head darted towards the freaks face, mouth agape.

The freak screamed in terror as the monster's huge maw bore down on his, when suddenly it stopped; it's teeth a mere inch from his face. Slowly, the sabretooth closed its mouth, then gave the Freak what could only be described as a grin, before it turned and trotted away, it's tail flicking in the air.

Half sat up, the Freak felt a warm wetness in his pants, and looked down to see a wet stain on his trousers. Then his eyes rolled up and he fell backwards in a dead faint.

Back at the fight, Ellie was having fun. She had another one of the Freaks by hs ankle and was swinging him around like a flail, the huge hook he had for an arm swinging around and slicing through the implants his buddies wore.

"Come on!" She called gleefully. "I thought you guys lived for fun? Well, I'm having LOADS here, how about you?"

Laughing out loud, she tossed her "flail" straight up and allowed herself to drop to the ground some 20 feet below, not far from where the Warshade had crashed into the building. Glancing through the hole, she called out. "You OK in there?"

As she waiting for a reply, the Freak she'd flung in to the air came plummeting back down, screaming. A split second before he hit the concrete, Ellie almost lazily kicked out a foot and slammed it into the Freaks armoured chest, crumpling the metal and knocking him sideways to crash in a heap inside a disused bus shelter, half crushing it with the force of the impact. With a groan, he rolled on to his front and passed out.

Ellie glanced at the now ruined bus shelter, and blushed with embarrasment. "Oops!"

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Does that mean we have to buy new whiteboard markers ?

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Personally, I just gouge what I want into the whiteboard with a knife.

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Now you know why we need a new one!

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I've just read both posts 10 times to make sure, and I'm pretty sure what GR said. If you don't get it, check this:

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We've picked out the forums we'll be using, and they are *not* UBB.

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You read the posts 10 times, yet totally failed to comprehend what GR was telling you.

Forum software, and forum hosters are two totally different things. One is the actual software that the user sees and post on. The other is the backend server that the forum software is installed on. Think of it like a whiteboard, and the wall the whiteboard is nailed to.

NCSoft have their OWN server clusters. All they will be doing is changing the forum SOFTWARE, or explained in a way even a five year old could understand.

The nice people at NCSoft have to buy a new whiteboard as the old one is all cracked and broken. Luckily the wall it was nailed too is fine, so they can just take the old one down and nail a new one up.

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We've picked out the forums we'll be using, and they are *not* UBB.

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That's the best news I've seen in week - but one question - will the US forums have to get off UBB and into chosen forum hosters as well?

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*sigh*

I'll explain it again.

They will NOT be using any forum hosting companies. Why pay another company when they have their own servers? All they're doing is replacing the current UBB software with new software. The hoster will remain the same, themselves.

And yes, they'll replace the US boards at the same time. How do I know that? Because our forums are hosted at the same server cluster as the US forums.

"Clumsy!" Ellie said, and hopped off the rooftop in a blur. She accelerated straight down in a powerdive and managed to grab the ankle of the falling Freakshow seconds before he slammed into the Warshade.

"Lemme go you damned freak!" The struggling anarchist yelled, and kicked at Ellie.

"Oh, you're a FINE one to call someone a freak, boyo!" She answered, and started to spin, swinging the Freakshow by his ankle. Faster and faster she span, and the Freakshow started to scream. Seconds later, she let go and the Freak went flying across the cityscape, vanishing seconds later into the distance.

Ellie stopped spinning glanced up at Sam and gave her a thumbs up and a cheeky wink, then turned to face some of the other flyers, a grin on her face. "So boys... Anyone else want to play on the carousel?"

An echoing giggle sounded behind Sam, and slender, silvery clad figure of Tiger White faded in to view. "In that skirt, Sam. You'd be more effective just walking up to those Freakshow goons."

She grinned and glanced down at the fight. "I was going to zap a couple of them when that Warshade turned up, so I decided just to watch instead. Not usually the best of ideas for a Peacebringer and a Warshade to suddenly pop into battle next to each other without being introduced first, y'know?"

Running a hand through her short white hair, she scratched briefly behind one of her cat ears then fired a pencil thin beam of light from a fingertip, scoring the ground in front of a fleeing Freakshow and sending him running back in to the fight. "Nuh uh, Mr Freakydeeky. You get back there so the nice pair of heroes can give you a proper talking to!"

Vista works fine with CoH, however it's likely that you're experiencing a driver issue.

Are you using an nVidia card by any chance? There's a known issue with nVidia cards and the latest drivers with it causing random blue screens in games, not just CoH. You can resolve it by uninstalling your drivers, rebooting in to safe mode, deleting ALL files in your HD with the name 8nv4*.*, rebooting back to normal mode, and reinstalling the latest drivers.

There are also issues with SLi mode or dual displays causing crashes, and these should be disabled when playing CoH if you experience them. Also, Windowsblinds is known to sometimes cause problems if you are using that.

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We've picked out the forums we'll be using, and they are *not* UBB.

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Oooh! Please please pretty PLEASE, tell us what software you'll be using?!?

I'll be your fwiend!

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Does anyone know how to link powers together in macros.

for example, im trying to do this:

say Kaioken!$$powexec_toggle_on Fire Shield$$powexec_toggle_on Blazing Aura$$powexec_toggle_on Plasma Shield

i have tried this but i have to click it three times for it to use all three powers at once. Can anyone tell me how to activate them all with one click.

Thanks

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You can't.

You can't activate more than one power with a single button press, whether it's toggles or click powers.

All you can do is pretty much what you've done there, and hit the same button a few times, or if you've got a G15 keyboards, you may be able to set up a macro to do it using delays, but that's a faff on.

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And just as an aside, this isn't any kind of bug; it's a design choice to prevent botting.

When you launch the updater, click the little "Safe Mode" checkbox. There's probably an incompatible video setting being read and causing issues. Also, make sure you have updated your videocard drivers.

EDIT: Also, CoH has known issues with SLi/Crossfire setups. Also dual displays and Windowsblinds. If you have/use a configuration like this, disable it.

Responding inline cause it's easier.

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So we've heard it from the mods. Yes, a new forum to replace this well...lets say a lot of garbage. What I want to see in the new 'n' improved forum...

Allowing forum members to embed images and videos, not just mods.
No. This will never happen anyway, but still. No.

Raising the avatar size a lil bit. (about a extra 25 x 25 pixies would be fine)
I think the current size is plenty big enough. In fact, I'd like them to enforce the KB limits.

Banning the use of member name 'Golden Girl'.
No. A stupid and frankly, insulting suggestion. Do you have something personal against her or something? She's a paying customer and has every right to post, just like you.

Banning the use of 'animated' and 'hair' in one sentence.
No

More graemlins.
The proper name is emotes, and yes; within reason.

More forum types, enough to compete with the US forums.
We have plenty. I prefer our layout actually.

OK that was really only the first part of the post...the second part is a request.

The request is: Wherever you host the new forums, please don't use UBBthreads. There are loads of free forum hosters on the market that forums are actually decent...

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For the last, I'll respond here. Whilst free BB software is all well and good, it's ALL covered by licenses prohibiting use for commercial purposes. They will HAVE to use a commercial BB program. But yeah, I hope it's not UBB.

Might be worth getting hold of Driver Cleaner. The latest version costs money, but the old version 1.5 is still available with a quick google and should work just as well. A friend of mine was having issues with ALL his games, and since running that, he's now fine. Best to run it in safe mode though, after uninstalling first.

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Thx. A restart of the PC fixed it. Using vista 64 and I'm one of the many that has the problem with the Nvidia drivers crashing on occasion. Starting to think that one of my cards needs an RMA.

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Do a full uninstall of your drivers first, and then go in to safe mode and DELETE all *nv4*.* files from your PC. Then reboot to normal mode clean install your latest WHQL drivers. That should fix your crashing problem.

Yeah, it's known on the US forums. Castle has investigated but can't repeat it atm, so is still investigating.

US thread.

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(When out of sync, the player will be able to move around, but cannot see other players

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Right...
This just verifies that they were never been able to replicate the problem as we can always see other players while out of sync.

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Actually, it can vary. When this problem first started happening, I had a total desync and was in Atlas Park all alone. No other players, no NPCs, no cars, nada. I didn't even have any chat channels.

Hey guys, from the patch notes for a new patch up on the US test servers. Hopefully, we'll get this one today.

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User Commands

* Added /sync command which attempts to get the client and server back in sync when the client allows movement but it isn't reflected on the server. (When out of sync, the player will be able to move around, but cannot see other players or NPCs, and other players cannot see them).



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I am sure that after they implement that command, you will find out how awkward will be to use it and you will also demand to fix the actual bug...

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The command is being implemented to assist people and is NOT the solution to the issue, merely a temporary workaround. GR has already posted that they hope it won't be needed for more than a month or so.

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I'm ok with that, but surely the keyboard should be English; nothing against it just Spanish alphabet includes the letter "ñ", which does not exist on English language, nor English keyboards, so even needing a 2nd pc, as a Spanish player, I won't enter.

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You know, computers aren't actually locked to the keyboard they're sold with. You can go out and buy any new keyboard you like and plug it in; or you can plug your own keyboard in! It'll work fine. Same applies for the OS. If you don't want the English version of XP, for example, reinstall with your Spanish version! Hardware is country neutral.

Sounds like there are some synching issues going on...

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Oh, and costumes in and out of themselves don't serve a purpose. No more customisation options plx.

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Are you really suggesting less costume options?? Of course costumes serve a purpose - they enable you to not look like everybody else playing the game. The more costume options, the better!

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Exactly! And changing body type IS more options! So you're in support of the idea! Great!

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As for immersion please dear god remove the chest slider.

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Or at the very least, restrict the max size so that they at least look a LITTLE bit real!

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and theres far more important matters than becoming City of Trannies.

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You see those hundreds of scantily clad amazons running around Paragon? 99% of them are played by guys. By that standard and yours, you're ALREADY play City of Trannies.

Besides, whilst what you say MIGHT happen, it's very likely to be rare, and people mucking about. Why limit choices though?