Hyperstrike

Note: If you already have the Gladiator's Armor Unique (TP Resist/3% Defense), strip the common defense IO off Tough Hide and use the third slot to put another slot on Temp Invuln and place it there.

Yes. Actually there is.

These video cards require a certain amount of computational power from the parent machine. And they don't really react well to being starved of data.

Moreover, I'm betting most of your "every other game" are all DirectX-based games. These load a card and system down differently than an OpenGL game does.

OpenGL generally requires higher system resources than DirectX does. There are myraid reasons for using it too. First is that OGL is multiplatform. Moreover, it's development isn't controlled by a single company. So if Microsoft deprecates DirectX *INSERT VERSION*, the game doesn't need to be rewritten from scratch or "go away" or suffer in some lousy "compatibility mode".

It ran fine on the old card because the old card wasn't requesting data from the parent system with the frequency and volume that your current one does. Your parent system can't handle the load.

'Nuff Said.

Lots and LOTS of "MPH".

There's a difference between "melee damage", which is what the tanks ARE inflicting. Only in a couple cases, are there ranged attacks involved and "scrapper-level melee damage".

You're simply missing the difference.

Of course you'll get mechanical failure sooner on a HD. An SSD isn't a mechanical storage device!

That doesn't mean you won't have failures sooner.

Part of it depends on drive I/O. Part of it depends on drive reliability. Some of the drives out there are horrendously fast, but a couple of the brands are rather notorious for high drive failure rates.

SSD's have a window in which to get a "leg up" on hard drive prices, due to that Thailand flood. Prices on some of the most desirable mechanical drives have gone ape-*** crazy expensive and even cheapo drives have nearly doubled in price.

But this window is starting to close.

Johnny, what you want is to play a Brute.

So just stop beating that poor, abused equine skeleton and go play a brute.

Possibly. Sometimes the client can time out waiting for data from the hard drive. In swap-heavy situations (especially on older machines with single drives), it's possible to swamp a hard drive, even with large caches.

Essentially the newer incarnate trials are "If you don't have the "right" types of characters and the "proper" Incarnate power choices you fail. And everything's "unresistable".

It's a friggin' joke.

1. Create a freebie account for yourself.
2. Trade from your primary account to the freebie character.
3. Switch to the character on the main account you want to give the salvage to.
4. Trade from the freebie back to the primary account.

Essentially, what's going on is that your system itself, using OpenGL, can't keep the video card "fed" with data. It simply doesn't have the processing and memory resources.

What part of "They're NOT going to "solve" the issues with PVP" wasn't understood?

Oh crap. We're doomed.

THE END IS NIGH!

Great. Now I go to bed with a stiffy...

Heh. Had a guy from Help (yeah I stick my head in there now and again, I'm a masochist) try to tell me "you can never have too much inf".

Then I told him (within a few billion) how much I had spread across all my toons.

It got REALLY quiet from him after that...I could almost feel his eyeballs popping out and hitting the screen.

And Rikti dolls, Mitos, all-boss and ambush farms would have been left unnerfed in AE too.

The thing is, you're ALWAYS going to have some segment of the population looking for "the line" and trying to put a toe over it to see if it's possible and profitable.

Anyone, devs included, who doesn't understand this is living in a dream and needs to come back to the real world.

I'm not treating anyone here like a child.

Trust me. If I thought some of these individuals were children I'd actually be nicer. That they're putative adults leaves them no excuse.

Would you care to stop attempting to dissect my perceived failings in your book and get back on topic? I think you guys have hijacked the thread to whine at me long enough.

Ooh. Pricey but oh-so-nicey!

When people talk about 17 second startups, they're usually talking about the time from whenever the BIOS hands off to the OS to the time you sign on to the operating system. Betting the 1:16 is 1 minute of BIOS and 16 seconds of OS startup.

You won't really see framerate increases with SSDs. You'll notice fewer chokepoints because swaps for textures happen faster. And zone loads should be noticeably faster.

If I could grow an extra arm, I'd make it three thumbs up *Goes and co-opts a random thumb*.

Can I get a "DAMN SKIPPY!"

As I just pointed out. It's not like he couldn't dual-boot Windows an run the Windows client.

The problem is him/her. Not their machine.

Yep. Because this prevents you from dual-booting to Windows and running multiple instances.

Shenanigans. See above method.

The problem isn't a technical one for you. It's a PEBCAK one.

If the supply were low enough? Yeah. Yeah I would.

Maybe. Remember, my customer base aren't the diligent "I'll earn it myself" types. They're the lazy "WANT IT NAO!" types.

I'd be hammering SSA's like there was no tomorrow.

No. Actually it isn't. It's one of those side effects of text being really poor at verbal shading and conveying subtlety. And because I state things bluntly, you're assuming that I'm assuming you're an idiot. It's not, it's my desire not to waste time with "Well I really meant..."

Sad experience leads me to have to disagree with you.

No, that's what *I* was saying. Developer time and money to fund it are finite resources. Paragon and NCSoft have to make choices about what's likely to bring in the most bang for their developer buck.

At that point, PVP is going to lose based on simple financial principle.

You can argue "But PVP COULD {INSERT HERE}".

Financial trends will still keep them away from this sort of speculation.

And you're being told flat out that PVP is NOT a priority because nobody in their right mind at Paragon actually believes that PVP appeals to more than a miniscule percentage of the community (paying or otherwise). And it's been shown pretty conclusively that no amount of alterations are going to significantly increase PVP participation to the point where investing more time and money will be profitable. It's a money pit.

The system's never going to be terribly balanced. There's too many variables in there to ever balance it properly. As such, you'll continue to see reliance on "the right build" with everything else losing out.

At which point, they may as well build a separate "CoH FPS" where everyone starts off as a clone character with zero differentiation between players.

While you look at "some" and see "thousands", everyone else is looking at "some" and thinking, maybe another 10-100 players.


You're not listening. The PVP system is NEVER going to be "robust". Why? Because of the twin-yet-opposing need for BALANCE. They have to normalize everything so that everyone has a competitive advantage. At which point it's essentially a separate game with only cosmetic similarities to CoH. The problem is, by "normalizing" values, they also introduce yet more inequities due to how various powers work. It's like trying to build a house of cards in a hurricane.


Again with another currency. The only problem is, the devs are inevitably going to limit the currency down far worse than any random drop rate. Making spec-buying punitively expensive.


Honestly, I think it's both. I'm telling you something you don't want to hear. And I'm not couching it in suitably soft, soothing terminology.

Therefore you're not going to react well because you don't like it.

You're missing one small piece here. An important one.

The emotionality of your response is a matter of supreme indifference to me. Like a drill sergeant, whether you like what I'm saying is irrelevant so long as you listen.

Occasionally, when the situation calls for it. The thing is, they're able to gauge a response based on direct observation of my visage and tone of voice in a way you're completely incapable of here.

Again, verbal-visual contact there allows me to convey my message in a way that's impossible to do here.

Do you want the NICE answer or the HONEST one?

This is an internet bulletin board system.
I also have years of dealing with people who simply will not assimilate an idea because of "do not like" within systems like this. And several individuals here have all the hallmarks of that form of reaction.
As such, I feel precisely zero reason to frustrate myself (and feed sub-bridge dwellers) by trying to mush-mouth a "PC" reply to people who won't respond to it in an honest manner anyhow.

Serious this time. Do you want the NICE answer or the HONEST one?
Most of the time people who ask for the HONEST one are still secretly hoping it'll be the NICE one.

Additionally, keep this in mind. Calling people out on the boards is a violation of TOS. Therefore, I try to keep to a neutral "them". It keeps Moderator {Insert Number Here} from needing to e-mail me to tell me he deleted or edited a post into incomprehensibility because I violated TOS.

No. Actually look back. I'm responding to several people throughout the thread. You just happen to be the most vocal bully-boy of the moment.

You also seem to be ignoring (or ignorant of) the fact that this topic has surfaced multiple times in various forms over the last few years. What you see as a brand new discussion is simply an extension of several years worth of verbal wrangling.

Yeah Johnny. They are.

Aggro is a soft control. As opposed to holds, immobs, and sleeps which are hard controls.

I know you don't like to hear it. But it's the truth.

*Continues taking deep, regular breaths.*