Hyperstrike

SS/Shield Brute: AAO+Rage+Full Fury Bar=*ENEMIESGOSPLAT!*

C'mon. A little artistic freedom for architects who have figured out how to convert buildings into TARDISes!

You don't need 100 anymore for the Pirate badge. Just 10.

Well I was trying to be civil.

No. I'm NOT new here.
No. I'm NOT an optimist.
No. I'm NOT feeling well right now.

I have a project toon redside (Widow) in the process of doing it right now.

I've completed out Mercy Island so far. I need to unlock Veluna Lunata and do her arcs to complete Port Oakes. Already have 35 merits and about a quarter million inf just from selling drops.

Have also put about 30K prestige into a friend's SG.

Great way to rack up temp powers and badges.

If you want the system to show you the filetype extensions, open up a Windows Explorer window and ALT+T then hit O for Folder Options.

Go to the View tab of the window that pops up. In the list you're shown, UNcheck "Hide extensions for known file types".

Also from this screen, if you have a file/folder layout that you LIKE (like detail view and you want EVERYTHING to be detail view by default, you can set it here too.


%windir%\system32\restore\Filelist.xml


Just like XP, you can right-click on Computer (My Computer in XP) on either the desktop or the Start Menu and select Manage from the menu that pops up. The disk manager is in there.

As stoked as I am about this, my inner realist is going "Sweet Merciful Bob! WHAT ARE THEY THINKING!?!?!?" I can see this backfiring. Badly.

Now, I hope it doesn't. I hope it all goes off without a hitch. But still.

1. Not a legend. Have seen imbeciles do this even within the last 5 years.
2. Not a legend. Have actually had customers call up with this. It took actual effort to not scream at them at the top of my lungs. On top of this, they'd had a fire setting off a WATER sprinkler system and wanted our help in getting them back up and running NOW. No joke. No BS.
3. Not a legend. Have actually had someone, non-jokingly, ask about an "any key". Granted this was more than 10 years ago, but still.
4. Never run into this. Possible it's an urban legend.
5. Never run into this. Have met people who were stupid/technologically illiterate enough that they could probably be sent on a snipe hunt for something like this.

Exactly. While in certain types of loads you MAY realize performance increases, likely CoH isn't one of those things that will see performance boosts from massive parallelism.

While I agree with the general sentiment, it's when we get down to brass tacks and specific cases that I'll likely disagree with you.

I noticed you didn't touch processor affinity. Why? Oh yeah, because fiddling with that usually will destabilize the system.

Do you want a NICE response to this?
Or do you want a FUNNY response to this?
Or are you going to lie and say that you want an HONEST response to this?

Nice: I'm sure you're probably right. You might even know better.
Funny: ... ... Oh the irony!
Honest: Likely, with regards to Window 7's multithreading subsystem, you ARE the equivalent of some knuckle-dragging mouth-breather. Simply understanding multithreading and parallelism as concepts (even in-depth) doesn't automatically mean you know better than the people who implemented the subsystem or the other systems resting on top of it and are therefore "okay" to futz with it.

I don't mean to be rude. Just trying to be unambiguous about it.

If you want complete control over your system, use BSD or Linux.

You're using a consumer-grade OS. It's not going to be anywhere near as configurable. Sorry.

Basically the defense crash is on a timer.
If you activate Rage again BEFORE or during the crash, it resets the timer and wipes out the previous value. As such, the defense crash is negated.

No you don't.
You still have the damage crash, but you have avoided the defense crash.

I just soiled myself....

Evening guys and gals! This announcement is to let you know that MidLevel Crisis supergroup and the Marketing group on Freedom is sponsoring a Fire/Rads superteam every Monday night.

If you've never played a Fire/Rad before, come see why burning and microwaving enemies is so much fun!

If you want to get in touch with me prior to this you can reach me at @Hyperstrike1 or on that night as Flamin' Trolla.

Additionally, you can catch people in the The Market channel. Simply ask about Fire/Rads and we'll be there.

If we fill a team and still have more we'll split evenly on how ever many show up and run multiple teams. We'll try to make sure nobody's left out.

Now this isn't a PL group (though, as fast as we cut through stuff it may feel like it).

Additionally, several of the core members are level locked in the mid-30's range (myself included). So our focus will be on helping players get comfortable with their toons and get them to the point that, when they bypass us, they'll be fully functional and self-sufficient.

We will usually start showing up at quarter-to-the-hour and try to start the event on-time, save in unusual circumstances where we'll set a deadline of quarter-past-the-hour.

*****
But I don't wanna do it on Freedom!

That's fine! There are other groups looking to do this same thing on other servers.

Here's a link to the group which is going to be running on Liberty.




What about if Monday night or 9 PM isn't good for me?

Well, we're now running another day on Friday evenings starting at 7 PM Eastern. Details can be found here!

Note to mods: Please do NOT lock this thread. It's MEANT to be kept open for informational purposes and further inquiries. I have this thread subscribed for just this reason. So that when people post here, I know about it. If you have people creating new threads about the event I'm running all the time, I can't track all of them and may miss people who're otherwise interested.

Evening guys and gals! This announcement is to let you know that MidLevel Crisis supergroup and the Marketing group on Freedom is sponsoring a Fire/Rads superteam every Monday night.

If you've never played a Fire/Rad before, come see why burning and microwaving enemies is so much fun!

If you want to get in touch with me prior to this you can reach me at @Hyperstrike1 or on that night as Flamin' Trolla.

Additionally, you can catch people in the The Market channel. Simply ask about Fire/Rads and we'll be there.

If we fill a team and still have more we'll split evenly on how ever many show up and run multiple teams. We'll try to make sure nobody's left out.

Now this isn't a PL group (though, as fast as we cut through stuff it may feel like it).

Additionally, several of the core members are level locked in the mid-30's range (myself included). So our focus will be on helping players get comfortable with their toons and get them to the point that, when they bypass us, they'll be fully functional and self-sufficient.

We will usually start showing up at quarter-to-the-hour and try to start the event on-time, save in unusual circumstances where we'll set a deadline of quarter-past-the-hour.

*****
But I don't wanna do it on Freedom!

That's fine! There are other groups looking to do this same thing on other servers.

Here's a link to the group which is going to be running on Liberty.




What about if Monday night or 9 PM isn't good for me?

Well, we're now running another day on Friday evenings starting at 7 PM Eastern. Details can be found here!

You're getting screenshots? Where can I see them?

Okay here's the link to the main gallery. Newest stuff is always last page. Just click on the images for the full sized versions. Warning! 1920x1080!

Currently I have two SS brutes.

My first is an SS/Inv. He's coming along nicely, but he's kind of at that intermediate stage (mid-30's) and is going to require a bit of IO'ing before he's nice and durable.

My second is an SS/Shield. Although I don't really care for clicky-mez protection, it's actually working out QUITE nicely and the combination of Fury + SS-Rage + Shield-Against All Odds makes for a damage monster. Once he works up to Shield Charge, he's going to be an AOE monster.

What's really cool is that Power Slide's animation actually trumps the Ninja Run animation. So you activate them both and you get a really nice, speedy slide animation. It rocks.

I think they're trying to get them done while the difficulty settings are hard-locked at +0/x0.

IIRC, i17 will restore difficulty settings with a minimum of +0/x0.

God no! Please not Ascendant-O's again!

Anything but that.

I tried eating them once...

Once...

Honestly, the in-game advertising engine is fairly non-intrusive. We have the option to turn it off, but I haven't seen anything come through on one of the billboards that was inappropriate or bad or immersion-breaking in any way.

There have been some very tongue-in-cheek marketing campaigns in-game (the "Sidkick" phones, etc) prior to now. Not saying everything HAS to be superhero-derivative.


But...

But...

*Sigh*

*Shuts down MailboxBlaster: KABOOM Edition*

Yeah, but you're marketing. You've got your Certificate of Soul-Ectomy right?

And you've got your low, deep chair that you can sit way way back into, put your elbows up onto the armrests, place your hands together and do a credible "evil plotting" emote right while wearing a smile that'd put global warming advocates out of business? Right?

Yeah. And maybe a concerted effort to show up at some of the other gaming industry cons.

Gencon
Origins
DragonCon

So far we have good representation at West-coast cons.
We've now had a stab at an East-coast con.
Now to try one of the big Midwest cons. Ideally, GenCon, though Origins, with their new day-pass system might actually expose you to more people.

Yes. I know these cons are expensive to go to. I've been working them for most of the last decade. The fact of the matter is, these cons are possibly better targeted to your desired market than Comicons are. Because these cons are put on BY gamers FOR GAMERS.

Such players tend to be more flexible and, ESPECIALLY at these cons, tend to have LOTS more disposable income than you'll see at Comic conventions. What's more, we're seeing gaming-as-a-family emerge. We have second, third, and in a couple cases, fourth-generation gamers showing up at these cons with their their parents, grandparents, kids, and grandkids. Where gaming isn't a group of 6-8 badly socialized teenagers, but an entire family.

I understand your EULA and game subscription model make selling to these people a bit more difficult and expensive. Still, honestly, how many parents playing here don't let their kids build an alt or two on their accounts?

<Dalek> Speak! SPEEEEEEEAK!

True. My company's a bit luckier with this. Conventions are part of the business plan from the get-go because we're a publisher and have stuff to sell.

Still. You have several notable (at least within the community, Hero1, BaBs, WarWitch, Posi, etc) names. And you could round-robin them Or, if one of them whose turn is up is eyebrows-deep on a project, rotate off to a backup. You don't need LOTS of chiefs at the con. One or two. Have them give a "What's up with CoH" panel with a pre-planned agenda for what can and cannot be talked about. Demo the game at the booth. Glad-hand a bit. What-have-you.

Oh yes. And SHOOT anyone showing up in booth-dress more formal than a Polo tee and khakis. Publicly. Messily.

Remember. There's no such thing as "bad" publicity!

Suuuure! Riiiight!

You funny!

I notice YOU in a nice little canvas jacket with back-tie sleeves too! How'd you get out of your rubber room today?



Okay. Way late here. I need to hit the rack.

Will come back to this thread again later.

Damn straight.

Dude. I'm from Chicago. BEER AND BRATS!

Oh, and some Coca Cola. I'm a teetotaller in a family of alcoholics...ain't genetics funny?

You can click on the image below for a full-sized version.

Note: The Power Slide isn't actually a vet sprint. It was only unlockable with the CoH Collector's Edition DVD/Hero Kit.

Was it accomplished with mirrors or pills?