Hyperstrike

If the money isn't there for it, take a look here:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudi...itions/express

Just say to yourself "EVERY nuke in Warburg."

Think about the island being shrouded in a cloud of hydrazine fumes for the better part of an hour or more. Then, when they clear, the charred hamburger of an island remnant has been found to have raised a few inches from it's previous height above sea level...

What I'm talking about isn't a redesign.
It's basically code-level bughunting and code cleanup.

Fuzzing is essentially running the code and inputting random or deliberately wrong responses to see how the game acts, and to find places that it blows up the game so they can put controls on those inputs.

What I don't want to see is a "painted into a corner" variant of what happened to M2. Where they get to the point where further development merely breaks the game, with no possibility of a roll-back, because they're not properly maintaining the code.



It's even MORE fun when they don't document any of it. Or do it half-***.

After this installment of SSA1, he's lucky if he still has bowel and bladder control...

Okay, I'm NOT going to say that the end of SSA1 makes all the crap in the previous installments more bearable.
It doesn't.

That being said, the visuals in this issue were gobsmacking. This is where the money's been going people.

Now if the storytelling (and especially the marketing wonks) can catch up, it's all good.

Or "not" marketed depending on the the various issues, as you noted above.

Marketing for CoH has always been a little schizo. But this highlighted it will strobing, neon-pink, billion-candle lamps while a fleet of town criers took to the streets in PA-mobiles screaming "WE...ARE...SCHIZO!" before kicking a hospital full of shrinks into the pit of despair.

Hyperbolic?

Yeah.

But it paints the right mental picture about how bizzare CoH's marketing has been, especially lately.

I just checked my NCSoft account.
My payment went through at the beginning of the month.
You poor *AHEM* are stuck with me for another 14 months at least...

What REALLY needs to happen is at least a temporary suspension (or at least a marked slowdown) of new development while the game code gets a good "thrice-over" and has someone thoroughly fuzz the results.

That isn't going to happen though. It can't. Paragon's built their workflow pipeline for ship-and-patch. And it's going to keep going that way until the game crashes down around their ears.

Not necessarily.

You have your operating system, drivers, the game, etc, etc.
Millions of lines of code.
All of it written at various points in time to conform to system specs that quite possibly no longer exist (if they ever existed for more than a few months at all).
Plus patches upon patches upon patches for all of the above.
Never mind the 32-to-64-bit transition. Some people will tell you something like that is trivial. Sure. NOW.
Not to mention that while basic x86 emulation still exists, that processors and GPUs are a whole 'nother animal than they were back in 2004.

The fact that it works as well as it does says surprisingly good things for an 8 year old game made for a deprecated OS.

And on a strict performance angle.
Please don't try and pretend you were running at 1920x1080 in Ultra Mode at 30-60 FPS back in 2004. Or even 1600x900.

Drop to 1024x768 and toss your quality slider back to Recommended, and check your framerates. Then tell me how "bad" this "old" game performs.

Not trying to be a "dev apologist" here. But claims about how such and such SHOULD perform, because it's an "old" product on "new" hardware is ignoring (or ignorant of) the fact that code only plays "nice" with other code because someone puts an absolute ASSLOAD of work into it. That sorta thing irritates the crap outta me, so I'm sorry if you're the one getting the ****kicker to the nethers here, but YOU put the nethers there to be ****kicked.

An entire team might still be "drivers" and stuff and a really bad confluence.

When an entire 16-24 man league *crashes*, it strains credulity that it could "just" be 16-24 people, all with a bad driver/system confluence that just HAPPENED to all conk simultaneously.

Blowing up EVERYONE in Talos Island when summoning Adamastor.

Yeahno.

The game has been extra-special flaky since i22 with a couple things creeping in even after that last big patch.

HOPEFULLY the next patch or two will stabilize some of this bad behavior.

Because I don't always remember that.

Me poor brain is topfull of useless trivia! One more piece and it's going to explode out me ears!

Pretty much. Either buy them and convert or have an Inspy storage there.

Nice looking base by the way

Here's my video walk-through on how to stack out from a wall with a cubicle.
You just align the surface of the cubicle with where you want the back of the beacon to go.

You can raise cubicles using the using the Accent Lamps.

Here's the link to a quick walk-through on the cubicle trick, and then showing how to stack the cubicle with a lamp.

Right now (11:40 AM Central) it's still processing (I just uploaded it). But give it about 10-15 minutes for YouTube to gnaw on it and it should be working.

The Robo Surgery plans. The robo Surgeon/Spirit Signal boosts the reclaimator/healing circle healing by 10%.

s'trewth!

No. Wrong.

If it is so obtuse of an idea that you can't even express it properly and in a meaningful matter to another person how in the hell do you expect a Dev to pick something up and run with it?

You can put all the lipstick you want on this pig. It's still going to be a pig.

Then let them go play a console shooter.

And you're missing the basic point. There IS NO SANCTUARY.

Rularuu is essentially a stand-in for Ymir. He's not any one place. He essentially IS the Shard.

Sure it will end. Either you'll figure out where your ideas run headlong into Shard canon and completely break, or we'll get disgusted with explaining it to you over and over again and stop repeating ourselves.

We're not saying "no" to just say no.

We're saying "no" because your idea has some technical and canonical holes in it big enough to steer a colonial fleet through.

No. The shard IS is prison. As in they entire frickin' thing IS Rularuu. There's no "cell" someplace with Rularuu locked behind a door. He's behind the walls, under the floors and above the ceiling.

And penalizes those who use TP as their travel power. NO.

Uhm. NO. Mindless button mashing isn't fun. And you're not qualified to state what "the majority's" tastes are by failure of the "are you, yourself a majority?" acid test.

That doesn't mean we should welcome it or worse, beg for it.

I see the thought process. That doesn't mean it's "logic". It simply means you've constructed an idea chain. It doesn't mean it's a "good" idea chain. And it doesn't mean it's going to result in something people are going to want to run.

Okay, standard code rant.



Essentially you're suggesting the devs put a bunch of work into completely duplicating just about every animation in the game to a brand new player rig. They've already come out and flat SAID it's not happening anytime soon.

Good luck with that.

Still won't get you around really REALLY nasty debuffs (like BP Sorrows in DA) and lucky hit streaks.

Defense is really nice but sometimes it can be REALLY binary. Either you're fine or you're dead. Ask SOAs and Shield tanks taking off-type damage.

I've been running around with Incarnate cap on all six types on an Invuln tank and had L51 Rikti mobs hack me down in a minute.

And running around +2x8 in DA, if a Pantheon mob has any Sorrow-types in it, I have to beat them down immediately while popping barrier to keep my defense propped or I'm dead. I'd be cruising along at 60% defense, then it's 32, then it's six, then negative. Then I'm dead...

This was happening regularly last night (3/24). I could (and basically DID) go AFK with the an EB Manifestation of Mot for roughly 20 minutes with my health bar only dropping about 5%.

But those Sorrow BPs were just wrecking the crap outta me.

Warburg Nuke to the hard drive in

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