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[MWRuger]

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[Mistress Urd]

Yeah, the only reason I'd go to 4k is if I needed it for my professional video editing work... Right now, 4k is really only good for archival purposes (as well as editing in a much-sharper 1080p)... Television stations don't even broadcast in 1080p, so I don't see what the whole craze on 4k is about unless you're like me and have a legitimate reason for wanting to shoot something in 4k. Even then, I don't need to view it in 4k--I just want 4k sharpness to edit a 1080p product.

I think 4k is just a marketing gimmick.

[Fanta]

I think 4k is just a marketing gimmick.

Yeah, I just added it as far as the need for memory. I like 1440 :D

[Super Firebug]

All this talk of cards and technical specs. A few years ago, I was going to buy a laptop. I wanted to get the lowest-priced one that would still run CoX well, but I had trouble comparing CoX's listed minimum graphics-card requirements with what the computers had in the stores. Neither major manufacturer numbered their cards in a way that made any sort of order evident, that I could tell, especially with differences between discrete graphics cards, built-in graphics chips, and laptop versions. I'm NOT looking forward to trying to decode all of that again. Is there a website that explains this? Or maybe has a list of card models sorted by capability or something? (For Red Dwarf fans, I need it explained in a way that LISTER can understand.)

[Serpine]

You had hundreds of strategies, such it was more what you brought to a team, overall, rather than just how much damage you did.

I liked how all defenders teams would play. The enemies would be reduced to just flailing around uselessly while the essentially invulnerable squad would methodically scour the map clean.

Regarding computer / video card specs debate it really brings me back to when I was sorting out the specifications of the machine I'm using now. It was put together for me by a friend (and fellow CoH player) with the specific stated goal of making ultra mode be all it could be, as my machine of the time couldn't handle the pressure. After a significant investment in time and cash, the machine was assembled, tested and delivered. I didn't have a chance for a few days to get it set up and my programs transferred over, so it was rather the shock when that turned out to be when the game closing was announced. As the main point of the machine was actually to play CoH better... It ended up sitting in a closet for several months collecting dust and mocking me.

[Fanta]

All this talk of cards and technical specs. A few years ago, I was going to buy a laptop. I wanted to get the lowest-priced one that would still run CoX well, but I had trouble comparing CoX's listed minimum graphics-card requirements with what the computers had in the stores. Neither major manufacturer numbered their cards in a way that made any sort of order evident, that I could tell, especially with differences between discrete graphics cards, built-in graphics chips, and laptop versions. I'm NOT looking forward to trying to decode all of that again. Is there a website that explains this? Or maybe has a list of card models sorted by capability or something? (For Red Dwarf fans, I need it explained in a way that LISTER can understand.)

http://www.notebookcheck.net/

[downix]

You are incorrect sir. The real question would be "DO YOU EXPECT US ALL TO HAVE A 3 WAY BRIDGED SLI TITAN CARDS?!?!" :D

Of course not.

I expect 4!

[Dr. Bad Guy]

All this talk of cards and technical specs. A few years ago, I was going to buy a laptop. I wanted to get the lowest-priced one that would still run CoX well, but I had trouble comparing CoX's listed minimum graphics-card requirements with what the computers had in the stores. Neither major manufacturer numbered their cards in a way that made any sort of order evident, that I could tell, especially with differences between discrete graphics cards, built-in graphics chips, and laptop versions. I'm NOT looking forward to trying to decode all of that again. Is there a website that explains this? Or maybe has a list of card models sorted by capability or something? (For Red Dwarf fans, I need it explained in a way that LISTER can understand.)

Just post here. Someone (minus the unicorns and normal id10ts) will help you.

[Dr. Bad Guy]

Of course not.

I expect 4!

MMMM  4 Titans. *wipes drool off*

[MWRuger]

MMMM  4 Titans. *wipes drool off*

Man, I can't imagine what a game needs four of those bad boys would look like!

[Nyx Nought Nothing]

I really don't see how something that did damage and healing total comparisons (something you could just as well determine in CoH if you dumped the combat log and ran it through some filters) could be nearly as destructive to play as things like DBM, Decurse, or Healbot. Yeah I guess some people used it as a tool to judge / exclude people, but if you are underperforming enough in a team / raid to provoke others to do that, you probably want to figure out what you are doing wrong or find a crowd less focused on optimization.

In CoH if i saw massive healing numbers being put out i'd be slightly concerned that i'd joined a bad team. By the 20s i generally considered heals to mostly be a sometimes thing except for when the RNG got malicious or someone made a judgment error. Someone who focused heavily on healing would usually end up without much to do for most missions.

Related anecdote: i once joined a Numina TF that a friend put together using our usual method of advertising in global channels and broadcast taking anyone who wanted to join, regardless of AT or build. One of the random members was an Empathy Defender with the full Medicine pool, no Leadership*, and one attack. A friend who was on the team did remark on it in a private channel and we both concluded that they might end up feeling a little bored and frustrated once we got rolling. The Empath did the usual gather for buffs call at the start and then the team started tearing into the Freakshow like they were tissue paper without stopping, just rolling from spawn to spawn with teammates leapfrogging each other to hit new spawns when others were engaged with the current spawn. By midway through the second mission the Empath had expressed annoyance that they didn't have much to do and they left the team at the end of the second mission. It was a little sad since the rest of the team hadn't criticized their build or anything and we would've been prefectly happy for the additional buffs, but i guess they weren't used to teams where their chosen specialization was somewhat superfluous. Personally i love getting Fortitude and Clear Mind on my squishies.


*IMO if you're not going to be attacking you should have plenty of end for a few buff toggles since even my combat focused Defenders** ran most or all of the Leadership toggles. YMMV of course.

**Admittedly "combat focused Defenders" was a pretty accurate description of all of my Defenders.

Edit: 151 pages, w00t!

[Nitekilla]

I duoed with an emp defender for a long time with my spines invuln scrapper and I have to say that fortitude was insanly awesome !

[Mistress Urd]

MMMM  4 Titans. *wipes drool off*

Oh noes, its Attack on Titans!

[ivanhedgehog]

In CoH if i saw massive healing numbers being put out i'd be slightly concerned that i'd joined a bad team. By the 20s i generally considered heals to mostly be a sometimes thing except for when the RNG got malicious or someone made a judgment error. Someone who focused heavily on healing would usually end up without much to do for most missions.

Related anecdote: i once joined a Numina TF that a friend put together using our usual method of advertising in global channels and broadcast taking anyone who wanted to join, regardless of AT or build. One of the random members was an Empathy Defender with the full Medicine pool, no Leadership*, and one attack. A friend who was on the team did remark on it in a private channel and we both concluded that they might end up feeling a little bored and frustrated once we got rolling. The Empath did the usual gather for buffs call at the start and then the team started tearing into the Freakshow like they were tissue paper without stopping, just rolling from spawn to spawn with teammates leapfrogging each other to hit new spawns when others were engaged with the current spawn. By midway through the second mission the Empath had expressed annoyance that they didn't have much to do and they left the team at the end of the second mission. It was a little sad since the rest of the team hadn't criticized their build or anything and we would've been prefectly happy for the additional buffs, but i guess they weren't used to teams where their chosen specialization was somewhat superfluous. Personally i love getting Fortitude and Clear Mind on my squishies.


*IMO if you're not going to be attacking you should have plenty of end for a few buff toggles since even my combat focused Defenders ran most or all of the Leadership toggles. YMMV of course.

Edit: 151 pages, w00t!

last fight of the STF. Lord Recluse..having an emp on that one was useful sometimes. He hit like a ton of bricks until you got a couple of towers down

[Serpine]

By midway through the second mission the Empath had expressed annoyance that they didn't have much to do and they left the team at the end of the second mission.

This is one of the reasons I stuck with more aggressive defender options like Dark. In a good team throwing out the occasional area heal or rez was all the healing needed so you could concentrate instead on throwing down debuffs and extra smackdown.

[chuckv3]

All this talk of cards and technical specs. A few years ago, I was going to buy a laptop. I wanted to get the lowest-priced one that would still run CoX well, but I had trouble comparing CoX's listed minimum graphics-card requirements with what the computers had in the stores. Neither major manufacturer numbered their cards in a way that made any sort of order evident, that I could tell, especially with differences between discrete graphics cards, built-in graphics chips, and laptop versions. I'm NOT looking forward to trying to decode all of that again. Is there a website that explains this? Or maybe has a list of card models sorted by capability or something? (For Red Dwarf fans, I need it explained in a way that LISTER can understand.)

You really can't even buy a new card that's as slow as the "recommended" cards they listed 2 years ago. And graphics cards are not something you need to buy used, because the technology improves so fast. Models that were bleeding edge 2 years ago goes for less than $100 now (brand new).

I was running a GeForce 8800 when the game shut down. That has a 3d benchmark score of 210. When I built a new desktop about 1 month ago, I bought a "for parts only, boots to BIOS, no HDD" machine on ebay (dual core 2.4GHz) for $45, and installed a $85 video card and 4GB more ram ($50 for a total of 6GB). Luckily I had a valid Win7 license and a HDD I could re-use, so the whole venture cost me $180 plus all the time to put it together and install Windows.

FWIW, the card I got was a GeForce 640, benchmark score of 1200, and it's way more than enough. Just make sure the PC you get will boot to the bios and has a PCI Express 1.0 or 2.0 expansion slot, then buy a graphics card that is PCI Express 2.0 (they're almost always backward compatible with the PCI Express 1.0 slots).

Please PM me if you want more direct help.

[dwturducken]

OK, I've mostly been just skimming for the past couple of weeks, so please forgive me if this has already been brought up, but something occurred to me:

The going theory seems to be: get the game, open the game as it exists (whatever state that may be), and work on CoH2 with the proceeds from CoH: Maintenance Mode, REJOICE! That's fine.I'm on board.

Here's my concern: Many people (OK, Posi and a couple of folks at Paragon, and at least one RedName over at current Cryptic) have said that a villains' side isn't/wasn't profitable. Granted, I spent most of my time on blue side. It wasn't by much, though, and my first 50 was a corruptor from before Going Rouge. (Yeah, I spelled it that way on purpose!) I enjoyed red side as much as blue side, even though I was working one moving some characters from one side to the other. Or, maybe because of that, towards The End.

Point being, those of us who love red side need to really step up and show it, once the game is back up, so that the new dev team has financial incentive, as well as emotional, to include red side in CoH2. Realistically, I see 2 rolling out in a similar fashion to 1, although red side is more likely to be an Issue than it is a stand alone expansion, like before. If too large a majority of us are out there helping little old ladies cross the street and not raising a ruckus and causing, well, mayhem, then, from a business perspective, they may have to prioritize resources elsewhere.

And we, can't have, that, now, can we?

</shatnercomma>

Also, I now hate this person just a little bit...

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.slaw.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2Fthe_battle-400x376.png

[LaughingAlex]

In CoH if i saw massive healing numbers being put out i'd be slightly concerned that i'd joined a bad team. By the 20s i generally considered heals to mostly be a sometimes thing except for when the RNG got malicious or someone made a judgment error. Someone who focused heavily on healing would usually end up without much to do for most missions.

Related anecdote: i once joined a Numina TF that a friend put together using our usual method of advertising in global channels and broadcast taking anyone who wanted to join, regardless of AT or build. One of the random members was an Empathy Defender with the full Medicine pool, no Leadership*, and one attack. A friend who was on the team did remark on it in a private channel and we both concluded that they might end up feeling a little bored and frustrated once we got rolling. The Empath did the usual gather for buffs call at the start and then the team started tearing into the Freakshow like they were tissue paper without stopping, just rolling from spawn to spawn with teammates leapfrogging each other to hit new spawns when others were engaged with the current spawn. By midway through the second mission the Empath had expressed annoyance that they didn't have much to do and they left the team at the end of the second mission. It was a little sad since the rest of the team hadn't criticized their build or anything and we would've been prefectly happy for the additional buffs, but i guess they weren't used to teams where their chosen specialization was somewhat superfluous. Personally i love getting Fortitude and Clear Mind on my squishies.


*IMO if you're not going to be attacking you should have plenty of end for a few buff toggles since even my combat focused Defenders ran most or all of the Leadership toggles. YMMV of course.

Edit: 151 pages, w00t!

I ran into types who played healers purely so people had to take them.  In CoX I ran into such players that pretty much thought they were the whole reason a team was alive.  But then I ran into a few in CO who were very open about it.  The way they spoke, they very clearly wanted everyone to be nerfed purely so their pure healers had to be taken everywhere anyone went.  They wanted people to REQUIRE them on teams, they were upset, demanded nerfs to things like dodging and whatnot.  I was left a bit disturbed at a revelation I came to, in that, some people role pure healers only so they can get an easy ride to the maximum level.  I was actually seriously annoyed at the fire and ice rampage indirectly because I felt it was made purely to cater to those kinds of players.  The people I met couldn't be more self-centered.  And they certainly would have hated CoX and support in CoX to i'm sure.  They even spoke bitterly about CoX to I feel when I tried to explain that the holy trinity isn't the only way support was effective, they were all "Ugh sounds like nothing but hybrids to me in that game".  Their whole logic was they should be required to be taken in teams based purely on their role.  It left an ugly taste in my mouth and to this day since that conversation it's kind of remained.

It was, well, clear these guys were jerks who roled a healer role purely to ensure they couldn't be kicked for their bad attitude.

[Des_Tructive]

Point being, those of us who love red side need to really step up and show it, once the game is back up, so that the new dev team has financial incentive, as well as emotional, to include red side in CoH2. Realistically, I see 2 rolling out in a similar fashion to 1, although red side is more likely to be an Issue than it is a stand alone expansion, like before. If too large a majority of us are out there helping little old ladies cross the street and not raising a ruckus and causing, well, mayhem, then, from a business perspective, they may have to prioritize resources elsewhere.

And we, can't have, that, now, can we?

Whatchoo lookin at me for? I spent more time redside than blueside. I still had to go Rogue so I could actually enjoy some TFs and Trials, though.

[Fanta]

This is one of the reasons I stuck with more aggressive defender options like Dark. In a good team throwing out the occasional area heal or rez was all the healing needed so you could concentrate instead on throwing down debuffs and extra smackdown.

I also loved my fire/cold corr because I could buff every few minutes, and then go to town with RoF\Sleet\Fireball. Then announce "Gather for Heatloss". With perma hasten it made for great speed teams! ITF anyone?