Kitsune Knight

Keeping your system fully patched is the best AV <,<


Using a tool like Secunia PSI that can scan your system and point out (with fairly good accuracy) what software is out of date is a wonderful way to shore up your system's security. AV software is generally pretty aweful... it can only do crap once your system is already being penetrated... better to simply not be penetrated in the first place than depend entirely on the gamble that AV software will know about all threats.

I win:

Because the claim they are the "holy grail of characters" is an obvious joke. They're all around fairly good, but they're no 'holy grail'.

And, of course, the usual: This game isn't that hard.

There's lots of events that occur in the game where our character wasn't present for. One solution that's been used is Ouroboros (namely the TF-contacts there), to throw us in via time travel... but that's sort of cheating, because then our character is there.

But, there's another solution now! The temporary power tray tech (not sure the actual name), which is used by the Panther transformation power. Our character, for the duration of the mission, can have the costume replaced with another, and given a variety of appropriate powers.


I'd love to be able to "experience" when Blue Steel leads a group of PPD to the Dark Astoria gate, trying desperately to push back the never ending tide of monsters pouring out of the gate. I want to be just one of the members of the PPD fighting desperately against those monsters, with their powers, not as an Incarnate.

I wouldn't want it to be used too often (otherwise it'd make our own powers feel kind of pointless), but there's certainly many times where it'd enhance the story, or allow other stories to be told in greater detail.

Thoughts?

I'm not sure about exactly when you posted, but this morning is when they bring the servers down for the weekly maintenance, so you wouldn't be able to connect anyways during that time. If, once the servers are back up, you still can't connect, then you can investigating other causes.

As for playability on dialup... it's actually reasonably playable, although requiring some modifications. Primarily, disabling combat attributes completely. I can't check right now the exact method, but, I believe right on your active powers (the series of icons under the health/endurance/xp window) and one of the options will stop sending you the numbers.

People I've teamed with on dialup that were having problems said that, after I suggested disabling that, their gameplay became quite playable. There might be other tweaks you can make, but, from what I've heard that's tended to be the major changes necessary (Rikti Raids and Incarnate Trials might still overwhelm your connection, but regular teaming shouldn't).

You're making the mistake of comparing powers in a vacuum. Don't do that. Sets are balanced as a whole, not on a power-by-power basis.

One of my first Heroes (and my oldest remaining) was an Illusion/Storm Controller. The endurance is fairly heavy, but it's definitely managable (and I did this with only SOs! no IOs back then). Hilariously enough, it violated your rule of needing 1/2 SOs worth of endurance reducation (I slotted 2 acc, and then either went 3 damage 1 recharge, or 2/2 split), and Ill/Storm is hardly an... endurance fiendly powerset combo. Oh, and I ran SI pretty much 24/7

This isn't just an issue with the MA, but with the doppleganger tech itself it seems.

I ran into a similar issue, I ran the hero TF with the dopplegangers at the end (Posi part 1?), and used Possess on them (which turns enemies black when it beats their mez protection). When it would end, they'd turn into Longbow Wardens as well! Seems that the 'base' model for them (or just the default fallback model) is the Warden, which is revealed under those conditions.

Mids' is trying to overwrite the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Titan Network\Mids Hero Designer\Data\patchnotes.rtf with this file C:\Program Files (x86)\Titan Network\Mids Hero Designer\Data\patch.rtf

Delete the 'patchnotes.rtf' in the folder, and rename 'patch.rtf' to 'patchnotes.rtf'. Mids' doesn't bother to check the permissions (it shouldn't have Administrator permissions anyways... it could always set the files to be modifiable by everyone in the Users group, sidestepping the whole issue) before moving the files around, which generates that error.

Chrome (latest): Works.

Definitely not browser dependent.

I decided to grab the list of groups from Wikipedia and categorize them. Groups that were too small (Demon Hunters... is just a single named NPC) weren't counted, nor were meta-groups ("Praetorians"), and similar. This is counting Night Ward's content, which adds a few groups, bringing it closer to Tech (but not enough). Many groups fall into multiple categories.

Tech: 31
Magic: 29
Natural: 25
Science: 14
Mutant: 13

Tech:
2nd Imperial Defense Force Regiment
5th Column
Anti-Matter's Clockwork
Arachnos
Axis America
Council
Council Empire
Crey
D.U.S.T.
Destroyers
Dregs
Freakshow
Gold Brickers
Devouring Earth / Hamidon
Hydra
Imperial Defense Force
Knives of Artemis
Longbow
Malta Operatives
Nemesis + Automations
Neuron's Clockwork
PPD
Praetorian Clockwork
Praetorian Police Department
The Resistance
Rikti
Sky Raiders
Knives of Vengeance
Vahzilok
Vanguard
Wyvern

Science:
5th Column
Arachnoids
Arachnos
Contaminated
Council
Crey
Failed Experiments
Forlorn
Ghouls
Infected
Krylov's Creations
The Lost
Trolls
Vahzilok

Natural:
5th Column
Angry Citizens
Arachnos
Cage Consortium Guards
Cimeroran Traitors
Cimerorans
Council
Crazed
Dockworkers
Escaped Prisoner
The Family
Luddites
Minions of Igneous (no lore says they're actually magic, AFAIK)
Mooks
Shivans / Neo-Shivans (they're aliens)
Nictus
PPD
Prisoners
Rikti
RIP
Scrapyarders
Security Guards
Snakes
Warriors

Magic:
Apparitions / The Possessed
Arachnos
Banished Pantheon
The Cabal
Cap au Diable Demons / Bat'Zul
Carnival of Light / Vengeance / War
Carnival of Shadows
Circle of Thorns
Coralax
Drudges (or natural)
Fir Bolg
Ghosts (benefit of the doubt)
Devouring Earth / Hamidon
Hellions (only bosses)
Legacy Chain
Midnight Masters
Midnight Squad
Red Caps
Rulu-Shin (questionable)
Shepherds
Skulls
Slag Golems
Talons of Vengeance
Knives of Vengeance
Tsoo
Tuatha de Dannan
Vanguard
Wailers
Warriors

Mutant:
Arachnos
The Awakened
Clockwork (CWK is likely mutant)
Devouring Earth / Hamidon
The Family
The Infested
Longbow
Mooks
Outcasts
PPD
Seers
Snakes
Syndicate

All of them work fine for me in the latest Opera. Might not be browser dependent, but an intermittent issue with the site?

Comic Sans Man would support this suggestion-

If he hadn't been... Fixedsysed!


(hopefully their font selection in-game won't be as useless as the possible fonts this board allows...)

In Paragon's offices, guarded in an enchanted impervium safe

The devs will occasionally comment on things they're working on if asked (much more likely if asked in person), but more often than not nothing is said until the big reveal (power customization being a prime example). They don't really like saying too much, though, because "we're toying with the idea of X" is assumed to mean "X coming in next patch!!!!!!!!" by way too many people.

I'd say "jaded" more than hypocrite.

You expected a 3 second video?

How about tattoos that only glow in combat? You know what I'm talking about.


(And definitely what Forbin said... that game that's basically GTA online has a system where you can place various art/symbols on top of items of clothing to dress yourself... sadly, when you see someone for the first time, they just appear as a Generic ********* until their clothes load)

0:40 seconds. Okay, who else literally laughed out loud?