FloatingFatMan

I can't see as how this would hurt, tbh. As long as it's something that's relatively easy for them to do (and it might not be... They'd have to make some GUI changes as well as database structure alterations - not always a minor task), it'd make a QoL feature you could use or not.

Personally, I don't think that at all. What I *do* think makes people think the game is heading that way is the perception that there are more fantasy styled weapon MODELS, as well as costume pieces, and that this is what makes them think the game is heading that way.

Of course, it's all quite silly and totally wrong... Comic books are FULL of fantasy styled costumes and weaponry...

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It's really quite astonishing isn't it? Shame about the narf to forms switching in combat, but I can live with that for the sheer "What the f...!?" we now have!

[/ QUOTE ]I didn't notice any change to toggling forms during play but I'm still using rather simple strategies.
It was funny (and somewhat embarrasing) when the Tank I was teamed with would get to a mob only to have them blasted to bits around him before he could get more than a couple of hits in.
I'm left asking, "Did I do that? "
Then I get, "I'll just stand in the corner while you clear the mission. " from the tank.

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It's to do with being unable to detoggle when powers are queued, so can't drop out of forms until your power queue is cleared. Stops you double miring or double footstomp, and tends to slow down fast shifting in combat, but it's not TOO bad.

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Last night I finally got around to seeing how i13 has changed things for my PB. I have to say I'm impressed, her damage ouput has improved dramatically and the ability to shift to Dwarf when mezzed really has made her into something of a blitzer.

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It's really quite astonishing isn't it? Shame about the narf to forms switching in combat, but I can live with that for the sheer "What the f...!?" we now have!

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The game lacks QoL features. Traveling longer then actualy doing a mission is basicly retarted, crosszone teleporting is kinda impossible. The ammount of 'repetative' missions is beyond 'infinitive', Tabula did beat CoH on that point.

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Aside from the crosszone teleporting, WoW is FAR worse a culprit for these, yet manages about 12 million subscribers.

I'm pretty sure the QoL features have nothing to do with it; it's the genre. Superheroes or scifi combat just aren't as popular as swords and sorcery, and that's unlikely to change.

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And on a side note - past 02:00 in the morning Euro time, and I just got a ITF PUG invite - on Defiant

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Clearly you're lying, as you posted at 01:41am...

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The release lag and mapservers aside, I'm loving i13 so far; mainly because my PB has become REALLY scary in a fight!

Zombie raid on Friday night, my health barely moved and I was going through zombies like a hot knife through butter, thanks to almost all my resistances being capped out, and a nice damage boost in there as well. Loving the Cosmic Balance in forms.

Last night, did an ITF for the first time ever. Even with the problems of Lag Hill, I had a silly amount of fun and with the final fight at the end, the Nictus were barely scratching me!

Yeah, I like i13. It's made my PB what she should have been from the start!

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how do you change it form cohupdater.exe to cohupdater.eu.exe? do you change the text, because i cannot do this - it says: (("CohUpdater.exe")specified in the target box is not valid. make sure the path and file name are correct) what does this mean

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You're not clear, are you trying to change it TO Cohupdater.EU.exe, and it says this isn't valid? If so, see the thread near the top of this section telling you how to get the EU updater.

A common problem, which 2 minutes of looking in the Technical Issues and Bugs section would find the answer for you.

The installer has a bad habit of creating a shortcut for the US version of the game. Check the shortcut properties, and you'll find it's probably pointing to Cityofheroes.exe. Change this to point to Cityofheroes.EU.exe.

If it refuses to do so, that means the file is missing. There's a thread in the Technical section that will tell you how to get the EU client, stickied near the top.

Ellie & Cara can both be about, alternatively of course!

This is listed in the Known Issues thread.

As has been said in one of the dev posts somewhere, the pact server isn't real time and CAN sometimes lag by a few minutes. I've seen this happen several times with my pact buddy and eventually the XP -does- turn up.

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Fixed issue when an attack power was in animation, you were unable to turn off a toggle. The fix now allows for all toggles to be turned off except costume changing powers.

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The 'except costume changing powers' seems to refer to Kheldians.

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You're not wrong.. Not being able to shift forms in combat is REALLY annoying, and potentially fatal.

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It's a shame CoH doesn't do what LoTRO (and WAR too I think) does - when you run the program it switches to windows basic display automatically, and switches back when you exit.


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It does... At least, on my PC it does. It didn't used to, but starting doing it with the most recent drivers.

Best of luck for the future, hairy. Keep your stuff, you'll be wanting it.

I had a feeling this would be the case. Gone are the days of Shivan or Missile farming, at least solo anyway.

Did you check out the turrets?

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And im not saying its claws being rubbish just since I13, they have always been weak, hence i cant believe they suffer another blow. To say its a reduction in damage but an increase in the attack so same damage is pants. In my view Claws needs its damage increased overall to make it more competive in PvP and Dueling. I feel its a great shame being they are fun character to play but let down badley by its damage potential.

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You've been told this already, but I'll repeat. ONE power has had it's damage reduced by a minimal amount BUT, it's animation time has ALSO been reduced, effectively making it cycle faster. Couple that with the small increase in damage on another power, and you have a net GAIN in DPS overall.

It's not pants to say that, it's ACCURATE to say that. Overall, your DPS has increased; how is that bad?

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Youre all avoiding the main question, If Claws is so good as most of you are saying then how come we never see them in PvP or Arena battles ?

Come on hit me with it convince me

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Just because Claws isn't so good for PvP in i13, doesn't mean it's CHANGED. As has clearly been shown, it's actually received an overall BUFF, even if it is a small one. Therefore, the reason you don't see many Claws scrappers in PvP now is because they sucked BEFORE i13, not after.

Therefore, your entire argument is null and void.

Now, if you want to argue about Claws being rubbish OVERALL, that's a different matter and nothing to do with i13.

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That'll teach me to post things in a hurry without full and detailed explanations...


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Oh I understood what you meant, mate. I was just pointing out that the same reasoning applies to the PvP changes and it really doesn't make sense to add THEM into the game without the rest of the changes, either.

So, seeing as they DID with PvP, you shouldn't be surprised that they do it with something ELSE too!

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The game told me the time has come to create a wand to cure the lost, great. Only problem is that after doing all the missions, I don't have all the pieces required and these are not items that can be bought. I'm missing a circle of thorns incantation...handy thing to have apparently. Bug report raised.


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It doesn't help much I know, but this one isn't a new i13 bug. It's been around since the Midnighter's were introduced to the game. You'll need to raise a /petition to get a GM to sort it for you.

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I just can't see much reason to implement it right NOW.

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What, a bit like the PvP changes are mostly for Arena or Base (now disabled) PvP, and zonal changes coming later? Yeah, don't see why they implemented THOSE now either.

Tell NOD32 to ignore it, it's being dumb.

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Ultimately, the whole point to a game like this is to advance your alt as far as the game will let you.


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Which just shows that, ultimately, you've COMPLETELY missed the entire point of a game like this, which is to have FUN.

Right on schedule too.