Hyperstrike

Howabout this for a capper?





Thanks for playing.

That's okay, I've played with you in CoH. Nothing's changed.

*BA-DUM-BUM!*

BULL SCHNITZEL!

Spider Friends?

Superfriends?

Space Ghost (the original).

You know, saturday morning CARTOONS?

Toon.

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Toon.

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Toon.

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T{NO CARRIER}

The thing that's fingernails on a chalkboard to me are people who try to enunciate acronyms.

Like the first time someone pronounced ISA (Industry Standard Architecture, an old motherboard connection before PCI, AGP, and PCI-E) as "eye-sah", I gave them a look like "Who the hell lobotomized YOU this morning?"

"Wow mom! I was lazy and saved A WHOLE SYLLABLE!"

Where, EXACTLY in this game do you see photorealistic representations of humans?

Hmm?

They're all rendered with a certain "comic book" style. Comic book, comic strip, animated comic = cartoon.

Sorry. If you want a language that doesn't have these problems, try formal Latin. No growth. No change. No nothing. It's a dead language.

English is still a living language however. While I dislike illiterate uses ("ur" and other "lolcatzisms" and the like) as much as the next person "toon" isn't an illiterate use. It's a very natural, organic contraction of a basic (and topical) concept.



There's always an excuse.
Maybe not a GOOD excuse. But an excuse nonetheless.

Me: TOON!
Ashley: ARRRGH!
Me: TOON!
Ashley: ARRRGH!
Me: TOON!
Ashley: ARRRGH!
Me: TOON!
Ashley: ARRRGH!
Me: TOON!
Ashley: You know, the fastest way to a man's heart? It's THROUGH THE RIBCAGE!
Me: ARRRGH!

Yes and no. On a "toon" you run around, perform (and receive) acts of ludicrous ultraviolence and, at the end, every gets up and goes on their merry way.

So, for some people, seeing their online avatars as "toons" is no great intuitive leap.

*MEEP MEEP!* /em superspeedawayintothedesert

As to why it isn't prevalent in tabletop playing? Tabletop playing has no similar "visual" component. Yes, you might have a grid or hex map with figurines on it. It's just not the same.

Personally, I'm not heavily invested into the RP aspect of the game (it can, admittedly, be a bit creepy at times). As such, most of my RP is a lot more "meta". Where the avatars have a nice back story, but in-play, are merely extensions (or facets) of my personality (or id, depending on whom you're speaking to about me).

My main, Hyperstrike, is about as meta as it gets. Bordering on "She-Hulk" territory. A couple of my characters are full-on whackjobs (in my typical tongue-firmly-fused-in-cheek manner), which would be difficult to play properly and VERY confusing and off-putting for those playing with me.

As such, I let most of the dramatic pyrotechnics stay where they're best. In my head. And I play in a more down-to-earth manner.

As to how "old school" one is? Use of "toon" won't give you that. It'll simply give you an idea of how predisposed to use the term "toon" they are.

A tauntless tanker isn't someone thinking "outside the box".

It's someone who dislikes, doesn't understand or just disbelieves in the idea of a tanker as a combat controller. And since tanker damage is less than scrapper damage, they to to augment their attack chains with power choices to turn what could be a first-rate tank into a third-rate scrapper.

Then, when this blows up in their face, their teammates, who're expecting a modicum of aggro control, are the ones who pay the price.

You can stare at numbers all day. It won't convince you until you actually play a well-kitted Invuln.

DP isn't, by any means, the only advantage.
To gain anything close to the resistance levels Invuln enjoys normally, you essentially need to perma SoW.
Invuln also doesn't place it's "faith" in a heavily resisted debuff and ridiculous levels of suppressible regen.

Go dive into a mob of Cimerorans and then try to ask that again with a straight face.

The numbers look small. They always do. The fact is that 20-30% delta can mean the difference between survival or death in spike damage.

Which isn't all that important. Plus the "psi hole" is actually tinier than it appears. Remember that, while one doesn't normally rely on it for Invuln, they also benefit from positional defenses. A defense-heavy Invuln can have AoE and Ranged defense in the high 20% range. What's WP's psi defense? 30-35%.

Admittedly, you do have an edge in psi resistance. But you're talking one of the more exotic damage types in the game until you hit Incarnates.

Which is suppressible

Which is essentially meaningless at higher levels.

Which is required to enjoy the same levels of resistance Invuln has by default.


It's because you're not looking hard enough.

I did no such thing.

Look at my illustration again. There are 2 indicators, but only a single column, denoting a single population set.

People who PvP also do PvE and just because 100% of the people in this game PvE (on some level) does not mean that the PvP population is invalid due to its size. [/quote]

I didn't say it was invalid due to it's size. Merely that people need to be realistic about PVP's future and it's place in developer priority. The devs are currently going after changes that are more or less accessible to everyone or further.

I'm well aware the two populations overlap. You're barking up the wrong tree here and misreading a graph.

W So does the AE crowd. So does the base design crowd. Need I go on?

Denoting a differentiation between "just broken" and "nonfunctional".

You're welcome to believe what you will. Honestly, my not-so-humble opinion of the situation is that they've sunk enough time and money into the system and are going to be wary about throwing anything else that way. Just about every major change to PVP has lead to yet another exodus of players..

I watched it all the way through.
The issue starts around 3:51.

It's like all the light sources in the game crash for him. The last one to go is the sky and it's endlessly trying to reboot itself (the "strobe" effect he mentions).

I'm wondering if he has either a bad driver install or a bad card.

Nothing's showing on netgraph.

Going to see if I can dupe it on my laptop.

*Update*

Okay. Unable to duplicate it.

A couple suggestions:

1. If this is a desktop machine, pop it open, clean out the insides and make sure all your power cords are firmly seated. If necessary, unplug it and firmly plug it back on to be sure.
2. Uninstall the graphics drivers in safe mode. Run a driver sweeper. Then reinstall.
3. Try having the NCLauncher run a check on your game files just in case.
4. Try yanking or just turning off MemTurbo. It's possible the program is being overly-aggressive and causing corruption of data in-memory.

To hell with finding an AGP board.

Find something with PCI-E.
If you can cover shipping, I have a GTX 260 I'll send you.

I'd sent it out to someone else previously, but she couldn't use it because it didn't fit her case. Right now it's just sitting on a shelf taking up space.

Whine - To complain or protest in a childish fashion.

Because you have dichotomy develop between those with real money to burn and those without.

There's a difference between "play for free with limits" and "This person paid MORE than you, so THEY "win", not you."

I could (but wont') simply chuck thousands at this game.

Maybe as a single-person I wouldn't affect the internal game market much. But if everyone does it, the auction house effectively dries up. Making it nearly for people trying to progress without spending real money to acquire anything other than common IOs. As recipe drops are utterly random.

Next time I'll try to keep it to something you can manage. Preferably words of a syllable or less.

No. No they don't.
Notice a distinct lack of additions for AE? Something that sees more traffic than PVP?
I'd say they're pretty much resigned to the fact that PVP in this game is essentially a dead end. Good, bad or otherwise. That's reality.

As I said earlier. It's "don't hold your breath" and whenever they have absolutely nothing else on their plate.

Please stop attempting to mangle my words into something I didn't say.

I never said nobody PVPs. And I didn't say the devs will NEVER work on it.
Merely that I highly doubt that they're going to turn PVP around and actually realize an increase in PVP players because of it.

I don't begrudge you your desires. I'm merely saying that you're unlikely to have them satiated anytime soon.

Yay! A checkbox!

That's essentially why PVP was spit-and-bailing-wired onto this game. The then-prevailing "wisdom" was "a "major" MMO "has to" have PVP"." Look where it's gotten CoH's PVP.

I remind you. This game isn't CoD. This game isn't DCUO.

And going head-to-head against another player is only fun if you both have a chance of actually winning, regardless of what AT/power combinations you select. That just isn't the case with CoH. And the attempt to try and break the game to the point that it IS has left PVP all but unrecognizable to PVE players.

And that's only one of CoH's myriad PVP "issues".


Again, I don't begrudge you your enjoyment. But a more realistic outlook of PVP's future will probably leave you less rage-filled when said reality comes crashing in on you eventually.

If it helps, just regard me as a humbug and a crank. Time will tell.

Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toe.







See above. Slotting a taunt in each extends the taunt duration on every target in radius by about 6 seconds. It's actually a way of holding aggro as opposed to ripping it away from others.

Enough that your initial recommendation to remove all Acc enhancements would leave them unable to hit +level enemies.

Call it a difference in philosophy. I don't like to rely on inspies. Because you have no control over what drops and when or if it's useful to the situation.

Then there's the assumption this toon is teaming and thus can rely on yet another form of undependable buff.

Something I'd like to see.

Some OTHER mechanism for showing people they have things like Acids and Pacification Grenades on the Lambda than dumping them under "temp".

Or the powers tab/window needs a COMPLETE fricking overhaul.

Here's a mock-up of my current window and the sort of screen height that's needed to display it fully. Go to the full-sized versions and count the number of color transitions. It took 14 copies of a max-sized power window. And I am, by no means, a temp powers freak. There are people out there who probably sport DOUBLE the number of temps I do.

As it is, I have to scroll down 5-6 complete window heights simply to see if I have the temps.
Is it any wonder why trying to do Lambda on a S/L-heavy team can be a frustrating experience?
You have someone yelling at everyone else "Check your trays! Check your trays!" while people are scrolling through their power list madly and trying not to die.




And this is just going to get worse.