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Okay, I spam cut scenes every now and again. Not an all-the-time thing.
I look at it thus.
Most cut scenes are roughly a minute.
I can't avoid them.
So I'm essentially just stuck.
If this happens while I'm in combat I'm doubly ticked off.
I'm (ostensibly) an adult (LIES! ALL LIES!).
If I want to make snarky comments during the scene, that's wasting my time and possibly getting me killed, to amuse myself I will.
If someone running the TF doesn't want that sort of stuff, they need to ask BEFOREHAND that it not happen. I'm usually willing to accommodate them.
If they want to female dog me out AFTER THE FACT, they get the same double-barreled digitus impudicus I give to the professionally offended thought police who cry and try to tell me what I can and cannot say when I tell a risque joke. -
Quote:Better.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
Allow me to revise my statement:
You can't layer resistance on a defensive set in any where near the proportions of the reverse.
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Quote:Hyperbole = ExaggerationOriginally Posted by dave_p
A quibble, but saying and IO'ed out DA tank is a 100 times more survivable than Granite would be hyberbole.
The definition of hyperbole contains no benchmarks for magnitude.Quote:Saying a fully IO'ed out DA tanks is perhaps more survivable than an equally fully IO'ed out Stone, Invul, Elec, Shields, etc tank... is, while debatable, hardly a great exaggeration.
Note: My calling his statement hyperbolic does NOT mean I think he's incorrect, wrong, lying, etc. It merely means I'm not prepared to delve into an argument to see who is "right". -
Quote:Demonstrably untrue.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
You can't layer resistance on a defensive set.
Various damage sets provide all sorts of typed resistance as set bonuses.
Granted, the bonuses are small, so this is somewhat nit-picky. Still, incorrect notions such as this shouldn't be allowed to propagate. -
Quote:*Looks out from his place among the choir*Originally Posted by Psara
Then I would merely point out that nothing in the game is designed to be unbeatable by players without IO sets.
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Quote:Technically Dark Armor DOES suck. "Siphon Life"? All the dead bodies around you prove it!Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
Call it a rebuttal to the comment "Dark Armor Sucks." Because that's all it is.
Honestly though. The minute someone starts with the *[INSERT POWER OR POWER COMBO HERE] Sucks!*, I just have a natural tendency to stop listening to them. This kind of weak non-argument is usually a great indicator that what few brains they have are most likely dribbling out through their ears at that moment.
As I've said. Just about any set can be made to perform excellently when built properly. Dark Armor is no exception. As to "more than any other set", I'm not going to start into hyperbole.Quote:Call it what you like. You can't deny that Dark Armor has the capability to excel, perhaps more than any other set. -
Quote:No. I understood exactly what he was saying. I merely disagree.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
I think you missed what he was saying.
And there are other forms of mitigation or avoidance of low-end situations.Quote:Try the same on a defense capped stone, invulnerability, fire, willpower, or shield tank. Tell me how they do when their endurance bottoms out.
Edit: Whoops, stone does have end drain resist in rooted.
On my namesake, I'm defense capped Inv/SS. I have to be actively careless to bottom out my endurance.
As I've said above, the video doesn't really provide a good demonstration of DA solely on it's own merits. -
Quote:No I'm not telling you you have to play up a DA tank. My point is, the video better points out the strengths of the defense cap, augmented by DA powers than the strengths of DA's abilities.Originally Posted by Psara
You're telling me I have to play up a DA tank just to prove that you don't need IO sets to be effective? Ugh! Seriously dark regen alone can carry DA.
If you read anything else into this statement, the ideas are wholly yours. -
Quote:No. This video highlights the strengths of a well planned build. Something which is NOT unique to DA in any way, shape or form.Originally Posted by Talen_Lee
This video highlights strengths unique to dark armour
Try the same on a common IO, Hami-O, or cheaply non-set frankenslotted build and then tell me about the strengths of DA.
Note: I'm NOT saying DA is bad. It isn't. I'm simply disagreeing that showing off a defense-capped build is really showing off the strengths of DA. -
Better base editing tools. Consistent layout for doorways, the ability to lay out a base on a block-by-block basis rather than preset (and usually space-wasting) rooms. Built-in ability to set multiple levels in a room (and/or better yet the base as a whole).
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Quote:As noted, in back with Gorgeous Glenda.Originally Posted by MindArc
I got the Science perk thing and I can not seem to find these guys, Im on villians side in cap tailor and cant find them. Any help please?
ps Its suppose to be where u can change ur body type aswell as gender
Also, if you have the Good vs Evil pack, the Tiki Club in Pocket D has Trina the Body Sculptress. -
Quote:Yeah. There are a couple missions like this.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
I often auto-complete missions that I've accidentally significantly outleveled. Sometimes I just breeze through them since I can squish anythign in the mish, but other times I just don't feel like it. I also skip missions which I know from experience just suck.
Not quite true, actually. The mission has patrols in it which you're not supposed to attack. IIRC, there's one patrol, and killing it calls an ambush (and killing the ambush calls a second ambush); if you kill both of the ambushes, you fail. There's also a boss you're not supposed to kill, but that's easy since he's just in the middle of the final room.
If you don't touch the patrol, you're absolutely fine. The patrol will attack if they see you, but the point is that you're meant to stealth through the mission. And since I don't ever recall encountering Drones in the mission, that's not a problem either.
I stealth in, complete, then bust heads on the way out.
Very hard to fail a successfully completed mission.
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Quote:Short answer: No.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
Okay, I have short attention span theatre. After a trip to the sewers I am at level 8. I want to level a dark/dark tank fast. Very fast. Usually when I want a 50 on blueside I just solo a few AE runs I like. Is the only fast leveling for a tank to get on a AE team?
Long answer: No. This is what the difficulty settings are for. Play with them a bit. Crank them up from +0x1. Early on, you'll level almost every mission.
It'll be tough fights and you'll die some. But you'll make XP hand over fist. Later on, you'll level every 2-3 missions. If you survive one of these missions without dying even once or even coming close, your difficulty is too low and could be bumped another notch.
Try to keep the missions +1 to you, save in certain instances (like the the Frostfire and Atta missions, where you'll level several times in one map), bump it to +2 and bring purples. This way, by the end of the mission you're not fighting gray-cons for no XP. -
Quote:Not QUITE right. Pretty close though.Originally Posted by Pyber
And as a side note, you can only stack a specific bonus five times, no matter the source set of that bonus. So you can only have five 5% Recharge Time bonuses for instance, even if that bonus is coming from Efficacy Adapters, Crushing Impacts and Doctored Wounds in the same toon.
There are several sets that provide a 7.5% recharge bonus.
HOWEVER, these can be stacked with the Luck Of The Gambler 7.5% recharge global IO.
Because it's not the actual AMOUNT of the bonus that matters. It's the name used for the bonus. The set bonus 7.5's are different from those provided by the LOTG global IO. -
Quote:Yeah. The prestige power slide actually trumps NR for the movement animation. So you get a nice speedy slide.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
the only things that stack with ninja run are fly or teleport powers, and sprints, all other running/leaping powers are mutually exclusive with ninja run
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Quote:Well I'm sure there was some physics and some geometry involved. Maybe even a little natural science.Originally Posted by Wassy
I would be more impressed if it was made WITH SCIENCE!!... but I guess a few congratulations are in order. *golf clap*
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Quote:Green Mitos in a controller-less blue-side Hami raid.Originally Posted by PhroX
Another scrapper. There is nothing that cannot be solved by the application of more scrappers
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Quote:I'm sure they did economic modeling of Merits and Tickets too.Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
Captain: it's not just a technical problem. According to Posi's post, they have "economic forecasts" that a marged market might cause more problems than it solves. They won't say what those problems might be, though.
Look at the state both markets are in right now.
As such, I'm inclined respond with "your forecasts are, at best, complete crap, so **** your economic modeling and find someone who knows how to do it right". -
I've been preoccupied. So I hadn't actually even seen this thread.
I got caught logging in for a quickie on one of my alts and happened to see Rasta BS'ing about first bloom cleared.
Popped over on a Fire^3 Blaster and found out we hadn't started yet.
Anyhow, took us a bit to get the 4-ish teams. But we did.
Monsters: Took a while and I filled up on EoEs. Finally we got Jello.
First bloom: Went VERY nicely. Our team recall was a smidge late and a couple of us got croaked.
Second bloom: Was a bit tougher. We were having problems keeping holds on the greens so we could get them killed. Recall came in nicely.
Third bloom: We got splashed with Hami aggro on this one (or maybe that was second). OW. Still, it went more smoothly than the second bloom. Recall actually came early. Was okay though. I'd been sitting above Hami raining fire down on him and just went orbital when the bloom spawned back in.
Final bloom: Went off fairly nicely. Still having a bit of trouble keeping the greens held but c'est la vie.
I went for merits meself.
All in all, for the amount of people we had it went off nicely. Could probably use a few more controllers next time (may grab my Grav/Kin). -
Okay, taking into account your budget, I agree with Human's suggestion of Vidcard and power supply.
After that, honestly I think you'd benefit (in-game) more from more memory, rather than a new CPU.
Your CPU isn't BLAZINGLY fast, but it's well beyond median spec for the game and should handle the offload of physics processing just fine.
As he warned, pop the case first and see how many modules are inside. Likely it's 2 1GB sticks (common tactic for reducing costs is to use cheaper modules and just more of them). This means you'll need to buy two sticks. If, by some chance, you lucked out and got a single stick at 2GB, then just buy a single 2GB stick.
I'd still give Acer a call and see what's the fastest chip you can put into the machine. Then save up for a couple months for the chip.
As you've noted though. Your other option is to simply sit on the funds for a bit, save up a bit more, and snag a new system. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Flarecrow
So much emphasis on when I took powers, even when i said that I didn't do it in a specific order in Mid's, only the game itself. Read, folks!
As for the advice, I'll look into it when i get more time.
Actually, unless this person is spending ALL their time at 50, it kinda DOES matter. Remember, exemping down will strip the person of powers and set bonuses.
Additionally, taking both Punch and and Jab, then Boxing and just not slotting Boxing?
And honestly? The recharge bonus in DP isn't really worth it. You'd be better off three-slotting recharge IOs and using the other two slots elsewhere.
If you strip off one of your attacks to slot punch, you could take Hasten or move things down and take Conserve Energy.
I also question the need for Unstoppable at all (let alone three-slotting it for recharge) on a build going for defense cap. -
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Quote:That's not a slap in the face.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
It seems once again, extremely important information concerning what the Paragon Studios devteam is up to has been posted on Twitter, and nowhere else.
This is a slap to the face to all the loyal fans who *deserve* to have this sort of infomation posted on the forums, or even better, sent to their CoH ingame mail.
This is:
But, yes, it IS annoying and disconcerting. -
Quote:If you transfer to a server where your toon's name is already taken, you become "Toon's Name_1" IIRC.Originally Posted by Murdok
Hi all.
I've been out for 1.5 years so I needed a clarification about something...
If one was to purchase a server transfer and use it to move a toon to a different server, what happens if that particular toon's name is already in use at the new server destination? Does the game provide a chance to change our players name (free of charge) or are we stuck with some "generic hero 3898232340998501985093" crap?
Thanks.
-Dok
I forget if you're given a rename or not. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Human_Being
All other things being equal, I'd actually avoid the Antec for two reasons.
I've used Antec PSU's in the past. Have NOT been impressed by them (had several failures). I know the Earthwatt line has fair reviews, but my experience with several lines of Antec PSU (including Earthwatts) hasn't been good.
Second is the use of the 80mm fan (loud, compared to the others with the 120mm fans).
Again, this is all personal preference. YMMV.