Hyperstrike

Free pizza and looking like a genius to mom & dad. After all the **** you put them through when you were a kid.

DOUBLE BONUS!

That's if the marines let them get close. NOT going to happen. Mows them down and has some casualties. Mostly guys stubbing their toes.

Uhm. Why? They have ARTILLERY? Just shell them to death. Why waste time, manpower and lives trying to dig them out?

No. Because any probes sent out by the marines (think tanks and armored vehicles, as well as air support) are just going to cut a bloody swath of death into whatever they encounter with minimal losses. Maybe some chipped paint.


Sure. Where the marine wins is in killing his opponent before his opponent can get within killing distance of him.

Sorry, but human walls are bullet and grenade degradable. Helicopters can fly out of range of ANY of their weapons. And their artillery pieces can deliver munitions with foot-level accuracy on locations the crews can't even see.

Essentially what'd have to happen is the marines would have to be literally dropped into the middle of the massed legions of Rome with no warning for this to be even a close fight.

The problem is, the Marines have LEARNED all those tactics. Plus everything that came after in the next 2000 years.

Only a damn fool would even DREAM it'd be anything other than a one-sided slaughter with the Marines doing said slaughtering.

Using claws/electric with CEBR you have no need of a heal and get the resist toggle as well. Most of the time your defenses are so high you're rarely hit. And when you're hit, your resist is so high you barely take any damage. Healing up after the fact comes out a poor third option. Especially if you have to interrupt your attack chain to heal.

HOWEVER, with Electric Armor you get two nice clickables that follow you into the map:

Energize: Endurance Discount AND +Regen (not Heal, so the effect is ongoing).

Power Surge: MASSIVE +Resist (a Godmode whose crash usually comes AFTER you've left the map. And if it doesn't, blasts an EMP hold, making it a relatively safe crash).

Add to that Hasten and it's all gold baby.

What, if anything, would stop you from using drive-cloning software to transplant your system from a spinning-disk drive to the SSD?

This would be a simpler, more elegant solution than uninstalling and reinstalling.

Moreover, your ENTIRE system would benefit from a speed-up then. Not just CoH.

Lady *BLEEP*ing Jane.

The thing is, a standard MEU has more than enough ordnance to annhihilate the entirety of the Roman legions several times over.

2200 Marines
4 M1A1 main battle tank
7 to 16 Light Armored Vehicle
15 Amphibious Assault Vehicle
6 155mm howitzer: M198 or M777
8 M252 81mm mortar
8 BGM-71 Tube Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Guided (TOW) missile weapon system
8 FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile
4 to 6 AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters
3 UH-1N Twin Huey utility helicopter
12 CH-46E Sea Knight medium lift assault helicopter
4 CH-53E Super Stallion heavy lift assault helicopter
6 AV-8B Harrier jet
2 KC-130 Hercules re-fueler/transport aircraft
Note: usually maintained in the continental United States
2 Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit
1 LMT 3000 water purification unit
4 Tractor, Rubber Tire, Articulated Steering
2 TX51-19M Rough Terrain Forklift
3 D7 bulldozer
1 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement dump truck
4 Mk48 Vehicle System
7 500 gallon water containers
63 Humvee
30 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement trucks

If you can tell me that a force armed like this could NOT easily wipe out a sixth of a million men (armed with spears, short swords, and big shields), you'll at least get a laugh out of me.

You're thinking maximum effective range on a point-sized target. Yeah. That's roughly 550m with an M16.

Maximum effective range on an area (think vehicle sized) target is about 800m.

These both have everything to do with the shooter's ability to sight and hit a target and nothing to do with the actual lethality of the round.

Absolute maximum range (where the bullet is still traveling fast enough to kill a target ) is much greater.

So the Marines don't even particularly need to be aiming at anything. They simply set up a field of fire and pretty much anything walking into it is dead. Plain and simple.

The problem is, the Romans are going to be dead WELL before they get a ballista towed into that range.


Actually, probably not. Hell, the hummer could probably just drive INTO the ranks and run people over without much fuss.

What does a hummer call a shield wall formation? Speed bump.

Remember the plates in a vest are designed to spread out the force of bullets. Stuff moving at high velocity and with a very small impact area.

Honestly I'm not certain what'd happen if you whacked it with the edge of a sword. You'd probably, eventually, snap the plate. And you'd still have a load of blunt force trauma translating through the armor since it's not really designed to disperse that sort of force around and away from the body.

Honestly. If you limit it to hand-to-hand, yeah. The Romans would likely win eventually.

If you're talking "give the Marines their rifles"?

THEN things get more dicey. Now the Roman shields might or might not be adequate protection against 5.56 and 7.62 mm rounds.

Now, grenades (thrown or launched)? The a phalanx attack formation isn't going to do the Romans ANY good there.

Helicopters? Have you SEEN the kind of damage a group of SuperCobras can do? Hellfires? Sidewinders? A FRIGGIN' 20mm GATLING GUN!

Now I refer to Marines as "cannon fodder". But in this situation, they'd win. Plain and simple. Only a ridiculous tactical blunder would make it otherwise.

Yup. It's all way over your head.

Wrong server bub.

As has been said. Costume changes once you open up another costume slot.

These should also help you if you want to script them down to a button or something.



http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Costume_change

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Cce_%28Slash_Command%29

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Macro_%28Slash_Command%29

exactly.

Servers were down when I got home at 5PM (Central). So I made a run up to the comics shop. Only two books this week.

Got back about 5:30.

While the Live servers were down I logged into the Beta server to see if I could catch a costume code. Didn't, oh well. New character Hyperbetastrike now exists if I want to play him (at least until the next beta purge). Tooled around on him and got him up to 6.

Virtue came back up first and was the only public server available for about 20 minutes. After training up on Beta, I logged in there to see how the server was. Seemed okay when I got on. Cleared some marketing slots and logged.

Read a book for a bit.

Came back and tested Protector (my home server) and it was running. Logged in on one of my scrappers that I don't play much (Mighty Pi, 105 hours of play in 38 months vs Hyperstrike with over 1500). Was able to get in on the regular weekly MOSTF run that Impyre does every Thursday the servers are available. We started a bit late, but because we were rocking mostly tanks/brutes/scrappers we opted for a zerg style of play and rocked the MO in just under an hour (with a short 10 minute break while Imp headed to Atlas Park to beat on some Warworks).

I then played Pi through part of a ship raid, and then a Lambda. Did a bit of marketing on him and then logged in to Hyperstrike for a couple minutes to clean out his sold stuff and check his time-in-game (which is how I know he has 1538 played hours on him).

Had some problems with my buffs and combat numbers during the STF and Lambda and a bit of Lambda lag. But nothing retoggling on occasion didn't fix.

So yeah. I got diverted for a while. But I eventually wound up being able to "go back home".

Your inclination would be incorrect.

Oh agreed! I think, at the very least, they need a review of their implementation policies and procedures. "Just toss in this new hardware and HEY PRESTO! DEAD SERVERS!" is a really craptastic way to try out upgrades.

It doesn't preclude me from being sympathetic. I've been in hardware transition situations where there WAS massive testing, yet when it was brought to the live setup, stuff blew up in my face (there IS a reason my company's naming scheme is "Horror and Monster movies").

I also work in IT and simply because hardware upgrades fail doesn't mean that you failed in your job. It simply means there were other issues at play that you may or may not have been able to do something about.

Agreed.

What I'm saying is that "Wanting to play in a specific manner" is not a problem. "Demanding to play in a specific manner" in the face of unforeseen events making it impossible and demanding compensation when told that it's currently non-viable, but given options is just poor form. I could use stronger words than "poor form". But you're making an attempt to be civil.

Okay let me be a bit more specific.

I'm using "you" in a non-specific manner (at least in my reply to you Sam).

I'm saying that, if the game still gives these players options. The fact that THEY *CHOOSE* not to exercise these options returns the onus of the issue to them.

I'm not denigrating them for wanting to play in a singular style. But raging about it, demanding compensation, etc, when other options are still open to them is just poor form.

As to me being a belligerent jerk. How's that any different from every other day of the last 38 months?

No. While the initial problem is, yes, the hardware is causing problems. The initial argument was simply "I can't get in and play. We're owed something."

Then, when the servers started coming back up and having problems, those ragging on the issue shifted gears into "I can't play *THIS* specific character! We're owed something."

Maybe I just need to grow a thicker skin, but my tolerance for this kind of childishness is quite low.

No. There's nothing wrong with it. But nerdraging on the devs because of technical difficulties precluding you from playing said characters is something entirely different from "I want to play this character at this time".

The former is happening, not the latter.

This is the crux of the issue at hand.

I dunno. Dumping it in molten steel works pretty dang quick too.

What "abandon"?

You have an alt on another server in case you wanna go back there again.

Protector was up and running mostly fine. There are some anomalies on teams in with combat numbers. But, for the most part, everything was copacetic.

Ran an MOSTF in under an hour. Only the team lead had lag issues.
Then jumped in on a ship raid. Was fine there.
Then bounced into an 8 man Lambda. A little laggy. But nothing severe.

No. You'd think they'd fix the other ones first and pay the most attention to bringing the most populace one last, making sure there were no show-stoppers on the other servers.

"Living in the moment".

That's a novel expression for "Attention span of an *OOH! SHINY!*"

Unfortunately more and more people are afflicted with this problem every day on the Inter....*SHINY!!!*

The stupid! It hurts!

Yet going by two consecutive weeks in which major hardware upgrades have happened is going to give you indications of future results?

Okaaay.