Schismatrix

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Huh?

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My guess is that Calash thinks you and NuclearToast are actually the same person. Seems reasonable to me, but then i haven't taken any medication.

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you forgot e.d. doom!!

where we lost a ton of our player base in one siingle shot ..

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Steelclaw's thread is for forward-looking doomsayers. Look to the future for your coming doom!
i'd suggest starting your own thread if you want to whinge about how dooooooms that are now years past will end up destroying the game.

Cogs and DATs syncing together! Class hysteria!
Apocalypse cow!

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One of the veteran buff pets (at least when introduced. It may have been changed.) also grants a buff to base defense.

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Roiboos, chai spice, coffee, or iced tea generally. Occasionally soda water with fruit juice added. All of the previous drinks sweetened or caffeinated to whatever level i currently desire.
i very occasionally buy energy drinks. Usually whatever brand i see that i've never tried before. 90% of the time or more they're vile nearly beyond description. Which hasn't stopped me from drinking them anyway.

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Man I want to put a refrigerator box in front of the studio with a basket under it now.

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Propped up with a stick that has a string tied to it?

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Disingenuous blathering involving misleading rhetoric and crude use of semantic hairsplitting in an attempt to upset others and gain desperately desired attention.

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There's a much shorter term to describe the cumulative effect of your posts in this thread, but apparently it's against forum rules. Good day, sir.

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1. Copy pigg files from Live directory to Test directory.

2. Delete checksum.coh

3. Run updater.


That did it for me.

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Tried that, and after 40 minutes of fixing files anyway the client crashed again when i tried to start it. i'm done trying for now since it takes well over 20 minutes for each attempt. Maybe tomorrow there will be a quicker method or a fix.

Have fun testing, let me know how it goes.

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Occam's Razor is on the side of customization.

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How is power customization on the side of Occam's Razor?

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Because Power Customization is pretty emo, and just *loves* listening to cure.

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And how many emo fans actually listen to that band? Old goth bands are nowhere near the top of their playlists for most of the emo types i know of currently.

Goths (though perhaps not the "black metal is real goth" crowd) would be more likely to listen to "cure" than any emo.

This is the more general thread response portion:
Anyway, i find changing animation speeds/times, or even just changing power animations, to be terribly unlikely as a customization feature since it figures so heavily into power design and balance. i do expect there might be color and other effects customization, but i'll wait until i hear more about what will be in Going Rogue before i actually expect it.

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I used the current Live build (after Predownload) to rebuild my test client. And I got on.

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i'll be doing the same if the updater's fix fails. For now i'd just copied over the missing files in the main folder.

All the .dll files were missing from the test folder after downloading the new patch. i copied them all over from the live version and it crashed midway through launching the test client. It's now fixing a bunch of .pigg files. If everyone else's experiences are anything to go by i fully expect it to crash again as soon as it's done.

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Clopen Beta.

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i bet they won't do that for i16 even if it isn't another expanshalone.

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Same. I noticed this too, but I didn't realised it could be an exploit.
Are we not supposed to use it now, or it's "free game if it's there"?

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Honestly, it takes a bit of effort to achieve stretching it to anything like 20', and under normal combat conditions it isn't usually easy to look for while fighting. That combined with varying latency makes it hard to be sure that what you saw is what actually happened. i think the recently increased range of melee attacks makes it much easier to notice, and also to stretch it a bit farther. It's not something that's easy to do for every spawn and takes a bit of luck to achieve, so i don't think it's really much of an exploit or game-breaking and personally i'm not going to worry too much about whether i'm hitting too many enemies with an attack.

There are many "cheats" used by players and mobs that take advantage of the game engine, and this hardly seems a major one to me. The ability of an entire spawn to instantaneously turn and return fire when first attacked is more immersion-breaking to me. Or how Freaks, the tanks especially, are fairly easy to embed head-first into walls and other objects, leaving them flailing helplessly while you beat them unconscious.

TV killed the Radio star.

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I can only think of 1 reason why you'd want to.

Stop it.

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Eh?

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I've seen this on a small scale but assumed it was just triggering at an instant where they were all in the arc.

I'll have to see if I can use this more

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Same here. i have noticed a couple occasions where movement as you triggered a cone seemed to effectively increase its range and arc, but i always thought it was just an artifact of latency while player and mobs are moving. Now i'll have to actively tinker with it and see if i can reproduce this.

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Looks like you already have a lot of good info.

So I'm just posting to say - Welcome to the City!

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Just remember the most important thing to do when playing this game: have fun.

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I've heard DM Stalker can produce a lot of ST damage.

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Absolutely. AoE severely lacking, but very high ST.
In many ways my DM/Nin and Elec/Nin play very differently. The former solos very well, but the latter is deadly on teams.

why

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You do mean Contankers right?
Because like.. Contankers can do everything.
They are true Tank Mages.
Perfection at every corner.

Ya they can even herd... gather. group up. pull. pull out of LOS...

They dont even need a team, they can be awesome all by themselves. OR they can team up and make you wish you were on your controller.

8 controller teams can MASH THROUGH EVERYTHING. There is no TF in this game an 8 troller team cant smash through. There is no TRIAL in this game a bunch of trollers cant handle.

If you did not know this to be fact, allow me to laugh at you now.

haha
haha
haha

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Hay any one spot an ego here???

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not me, i play 3 purped out firkins at once, im not egotic, i m shizoid^^

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More like Ergotic. Still, it's easier to be rich and successful when you have the right substances to enable your rich fantasy lives.

See? (Not so) Simple.

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We all know that every negative comment represents a billion people. So if it is 10 posters that means 10 billion people are pissed.

On the flip side, really all the discussions are occuring between about 10 debbie downers and 10 dev apologists. Neither side can claim superiority outside of their own minds.

It isn't ED2.0 coming it is diminished returns. Just look to the pve idea test bed known as pvp. Diminished returns tackles all the problems the devs have been rumbling about.

Oh wait you mentioned DR lol. Ya, you aren't alone in thinking that along with all the good of GR will come a lot of "necessary reductions".

Pve'ers are going to scream bloody murder when DR hits them, just like pvp'ers did. It won't hit pve quite as hard though as the environment is less min-max by nature, but people will be PO'd for sure.

There is plenty to be positive about though DR makes pvp a LOT better.... <crickets>

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Which would all seem so relevant if everything you're moaning about in this post was new to i15. Or new at all. Hate to break it to you, but you're a couple issues off if you're trying to attribute any of your "points" to issue 15...

Isn't issue 15 adding the option to remove heal decay from arena matches or something? Effectively allowing you to repeal one of "new PVP's" least liked features? (Haven't checked this out myself, but a friend in game was talking about how this option was going to renew his interest in PVP...)

i15 is not especially exciting to me, but i hardly consider it to be making the game worse.

tl;dr version: /jpowerranger

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/moderator08

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(The difference a letter makes.)

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Yeah TT! One of my tanky's will be there.

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Same.

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Single hardest shot is an Ice/Kin Corruptor, if that's the only criteria.

Damage-capped Blizzard with Scourge ftw.

But typically "DPS" means something more long term than "damage per click".

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damage per second. i dunno how fast one clicks in 1 sec though.

prolly depends on your fingers...
And your mouse

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Oh! Well, if you're only counting 1 second, then it's 0.

The fastest activation for a damaging power is 0.83 seconds, which once you account for server ticks becomes 1.056 seconds.

Are we done with the semantics yet?

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ok, ok, you are right.

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DPS generally refers to sustained damage output. i'm sure you either knew that and were being "clever" or my saying it is a waste of time anyway.

A TF without a few casualties means you're not trying hard enough.