Hyperstrike
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So, essentially, you want an alternate katana set that's just a series of iai draw-cuts?
Maybe as an alternate animation for basic katana. But I'm having a really hard time trying to figure a justification for a completely new set. -
Quote:OkayOriginally Posted by Demon Forge
I don't think that I was clear enough in my original post. My budget is $1500 I've got W7 already, so don't need to buy it.
Honestly, a 560 is almost overkill in this game.Quote:My main concern is would it be a better to get the 580, or the 570 and SSD. I realize that this is going to be based mostly on my personal preference of a few FPS in most games, or less waiting times for the games to start, just trying to get other peoples' opinions on the matter.
Unless you're doing high-res multi-monitor gaming, your realistic performance delta between a 580 and a 570 is negligible.
If you're expecting the 580 to stay acceptable for 5 years...well, I'll just say that for CoH, probably. For triple-A FPS games? Probably not. You'll be able to play, but not with maxed settings. On the other hand, the 10% performance difference between the 580 and the 570 won't mean anything at that point either.Quote:Over the reference gtx 570, the gtx 580 has~10% performance increase(according to the benchmarks I've read). While this isn't a big increase for 150 bucks, the highest iteration of video cards can usually perform quite well for 4-5 years, which is what I'm trying to accomplish.
For map/zone loads? HELL YES there is. Pretty much any system I build in the future will have the OS/game drive(s) as SSD. Bulk storage is going to stay regular mechanical drives until the price-per-gig takes a BIG nosedive for SSDs.Quote:I'm kind of on the fence about the whole SSD issue. I know it will greatly improve boot times and the time from clicking the CoH shortcut to my ingame time, but other than that, is there any noticable improvement over a good sata 3 hard drive for in game loading?
SRT will give you a decent performance gain over time. But with a sizeable SSD, you're just better off using it as your main drive.Quote:How would using the motherboards SRT capability compare to using an SSD for a straight boot/gaming drive?
Actually no. SRT is an intelligent caching system. It doesn't thrash the disk system like that. Basically SRT simply monitors frequently loaded files/programs and caches a copy of them to the SSD and searches there first.Quote:This feature seems like it would be very good for gamers who don't have the big budget required for the big SSD's, but I've not found any hard data about how much of a speed increase it actually is, and would probably shorten the lifetime of the SSD with a lot more writing than would normally be done with a boot drive.
Simple read/writes like that aren't that bad. It's overwrite functions that tend to age SSDs. Even so, most large drives nowadays are good for at least 5 years.
Understood. Honestly, while it SEEMS like an extravagance, I honestly look at it as saved time over the life of the system. Little bits and pieces here and there, sure. Insignificant by themselves. But aggregated, it's a pretty nice chunk of time.Quote:Would it possibly be more feasible to wait until the HDD prices stabilize again, and then upgrade to a ~120g SSD ? Paying almost 200 bucks for a 120g drive just irks me for some reason.
Justify it as a computer upgrade meant to last a very VERY long time. If you're actually serious about keeping the system with minimal upgrades for 5 years figure it this way.Quote:No matter what I choose in the end, it's going to be a huge upgrade. I'm gaming on a dual core amd with a 9800gt, and the new system is going to be a beast. I'm really considering going over my budget by ~150 bucks, and getting the 120g SSD and a 580, just don't know how much my wife would like it :-)
$150/5 years = $30 a year = ~$2.50 a month = $0.08 a day.
Promise to lay off one cup of Starschmucks coffee a month and you've got the cash.
Or deny yourself one DVD/Blu-Ray disk this year.
Or catch a matinee instead of going to a movie in prime-time.
It always seems like a huge sum up-front. But look at the costs of upgrading to something else again in 2-3 years.
Also, before you pick up the EVGA card (whatever it is) check it to make sure it's eligible for the Step-Up program.
We're only a couple months out on nVidia's next-gen release. You stand a good chance of having that fall within your Step-Up period. Think about being able to upgrade almost immediately to the new top-shelf card for pocket change. -
Agreed. I'd go larger with the SSD if you can afford the extra $70.
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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"Name your price!"
"I will pay this much for that..."
Excuse the cognitive dissonance man...
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Quote:Yep. The telepads are visually identical to the old ones.Originally Posted by Redlynne
Do the new telepads simply recycle the appearance of the old ones? By that I mean, is there no way to tell, by visual inspection, at a distance, whether a telepad is the old 2 beacon variety, or the newer 6 beacon flavor? I *assume* there's no change(s) in appearance between the two, but I'd like confirmation, all the same.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Redbone
Any numbers on these yet? Cost, Control, Power and such?
Salvage is currently identical to the regular telepads.
Energy and Control consumption is currently identical to regular telepads.
Prestige cost is higher though: 22,500
Still, considering you can now get away with 3-4 telepads MAX vs 11-12 on Live?
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Quote:Uh. Forb. 1:11 AM Central (the time you're posting) is early Saturday MORNING.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So here we are. It's Saturday night on Pinnacle
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Quote:Sentiment: EchoedOriginally Posted by 8_Ball
Oh for the love of....WHY DOES THIS MAN CONTINUE TO GET WORK!
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Quote:*Hands over a handkerchief*Originally Posted by Fugacity
Good job devs on fixing a long standing and much abused exploit!
*plays tiny violin for all the exploiters*
Wipe that stuff off your nose. It's gross. -
Quote:See you at TT!Originally Posted by LSK
Oh ya one more thing help make my toon complete and join my couse. I know lot of you have seen Sir Hell and I think I should be able to get a shoulder kitty for hi. WHos with me http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=281589
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Quote:But oh well.Originally Posted by LSK
Now we passed it u just missed it.
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Quote:Seems like cheating to me.Originally Posted by LSK
Now we are tied for it and
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Quote:I dunno man.Originally Posted by LSK
Hey a few more and we will beat out the talk about the tauntless tank
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All-RIGHTY then!
Got the CCT up and running. Got lazy and only moved about 8 billion inf over for prestige conversion.
Yeah. This is going to simplify my base design.
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Quote:And running missions longer without needing to dump or losing drops.Originally Posted by Hopeling
Don't get me wrong, I bought those trays and they're very useful. But I bought them because I purchased >10k points right after Freedom launched, to get Celestial. Only much later did I do the basic math and realize, HOLY COW, I just paid $40 for more convenience in respeccing.
And turning a couple of my toons into veritable common-IO Wal-Marts on the auction house. My GOD the inf rolls in!
WORTH!!!
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Itinerant - Wanderer, traveller, stroller.
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Spock: Captain, it appears the object's hull is comprised of deleted threads.
Scotty: Captain! Our phasers kenna penetrate tha! -
Well, apparently the CC tool doesn't work. So they evidently don't want this tested by anyone.
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Pretty much what they said, except for this:
Quote:I would never play a SS character with rage functioning as it does today, but if they nerfed it and nixed the crash I'd have to consider it. 
Honestly, I like SS how it is. If you want more AoE, look to your Epic or get Spring Attack. SA+FS is a great opening enemy-group-grinder. Toss a Judgement in atop that and it's just gravy. -
Just remember, because of the hybrid model, "leaving" is now the equivalent of "comic book death"
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Wow. This thread IS a tank.
Sucking up aggro like a sponge and just not going down. -
Well the devs did say, a while back, that this was a known issue.
Simply because they didn't (or weren't able to) fix it back then, they pretty much said flat-out that one shouldn't become TOO abusive of this because it'd probably get fixed "eventually".
Well "eventually" is now(ish).
As such, I've deslotted and sold all my enzymes. -
Quote:So...is that BEFORE or AFTER the heat-death of the universe?Originally Posted by Snow Globe
At this point I'm expecting base salvage storage to be increased sometime after Hell freezes over.
