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[DC Universe Online] Going free-to-play in October
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Also mine wont exactly be -far- superior... mostly quotes of useful information posted here by people that I've bookmarked, and links to things with a tonne of information.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
No prob. Just a thought. I'm about to roll on D&G right now.
EDIT: Or not, as the servers are down.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
EDIT: Ooo, they're back up.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
... On an SDTV :?
You see, I bought this lovely big widescreen TV years ago (before my XBox360 and PS3 days) and it still works marvelously.
I complained when Dead Rising had such miniscule letters, but nevertheless all other games that appered always too, into consideration that people still have SDTVs. I enjoyed Final Fantasy XI a lot, which worked very well on my 360.
But this game, well, it's horrific regarding it's font size on an SDTV :evil:
The chat window and the texts that appear in the middle of the screen are miniscule, it's more morse code than actual characters. The screens that appear when you access the keypad are equally unreadable. The quest reminders on the bottom right are slightly better, but even then, when accessing the menus and looking at item's stats are still really small letters.
Now I know, you might say, buy an HDTV but a TV is a big investment, and my old one still does a good job for watching TV and DVDs, and almost every game I have. And my TV is a little distance away from my comfy sofa where I play my games, I do not have set it up as if you are playing on a desk with the monitor closer to your face.
So I'd like to know, on the HDTV, are the characters still as small (though very sharp)? Because I don't want to plonk down a lot of cash only to have a new TV that has very sharp but still very small letters which a hard to read from my comfy chair...
I only suffer the occasional disconnect or freeze (say once or twice an evening), so for me it's "pretty stable" for such a young MMO.
So besides the small letters on an SDTV, and the unskippable cutscenes (on the PS3), I am enjoying it very much! I do suffer from alt-itis, having to try out a lot of combinations, and constantly having new ideas to create new characters. But now that I've gotten the 3 lvl. 10 trophies, it's time to focus on one character.
I do find playing a Nature character far more easier than the other characters, easy healing is so useful!
Speed is very useful to move around quickly, but a bit of a hell when indoors. Acrobatics remounds me of jumping from building to building in my Crackdown days, that just feels epic!
I've made one really colourful character, giving her reptile red skin with yellow makeup and dark red hair, bright light blue emitting eyes, and gear which is dark blue, green and purple. Give her clothes to show a little bit of that red/orange/yellow skin and suddenly you have something hugely different from those three-tone-superhero suits
Ah, so you pick up a group, and then join an alert queue.
I've been joining the queue straight up and running with whatever the game decides to group me... which works for Area 51, and it kinda works for Gorillia Island (now), but once you get to the HIVE Moon Base, it starts to fall apart unless people are willing to play thier roles... Or in my succesful run of it, two Tanks (Fire and Ice) that has thier power source's self-heal supercharge ability and know what they're doing, along with a Healer in the proper role to keep them alive when thier energy/ supercharge runs out. 4th guy was another tank that stayed in damage role, didn't give us a controller...
I just perused the area showing what Video Cards are supported for the game, and I couldn't help but notice that the GeForce GTS 240 isn't supported, none of the GTS line in fact.
Think I found why I might be crashing...
Yesterday I played the HIVE base, and I need to play it again because what I didn't realize is that I was pulled into the last boss fight against the queen, because the people were pants on head stupid and not following their roles and people just kept leaving. for a 4 person Alert the finish screen showed it took 97 minutes and 15 players to beat it.
No one realized they need to destroy the pheromone blasters to stop additional NPCs from helping the queen, and that they all played the damage role, including one healer. I mean, it's like come on, know what I am saying?
Just because maybe someone can tell me if that isn't the problem or not.
I hate the Green Lantern stuff so bad. All the Sinestro enemies have so many knockbacks, holds, stuns etc etc it's impossible to do anything for most of the fight. I don't mind CC, but when it's done too much it sucks the fun out of everything!
And to top it off, the in-doors portion has completely broken itself repeatedly. Those stupid Green Lantern adds won't even enter the fucking room half the time, and the times they do they make no difference and the enemies go right for me ALL THE TIME.
Finally; one attempt went well. Got all the enemy adds down and had Manhunter down to 50%.
Then he went to the upper level, healed to full instantly and when I got up there to re-engage the whole place reset.
Screw this!
My hero is on Darkness Falls right now (named Ceno, appropriately). A flying, fire-based, staff wielder. Supes is my mentor. Nice to know I have a lifetime to dink around with different characters.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
Also I'd LOVE to be able to play two hours straight.
Yeah, but I want to get my feet wet in PVE. Figured this way I can at least bump into one or two of you. And I'll probably roll a villain soon and join the League.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
BEAST! and I are playing Villains on No Man's Land if anyone wants to join us there. I made an ice villain named Snowpocalypse.
More people need to come play with us on the PS3!
This is quite accurate. There's people whining on the forums about how this guy doesn't know anything, but his numbers work even on the lowest-level mobs that have no resistances. There is now a post in that topic from a mod that says they're gonna fix it as soon as possible, but naturally this will probably mean nerfing people instead of, you know, actually making stuff work the way the in-game descriptions say. Of course, the mod didn't specify exactly how it would be "fixed", and it would be rather hilarious to follow the topic afterwards if they decide to bump up everybody else.
EDIT:
Random, undocumented patch changes: The menu bar icons for Character Traits, On Duty, and Social/Chat were changed in today's patch.
PKMN White FC: 0046 2138 1298
If you think you'll be playing it a year from now, it's probably worth it. $200 / $15 = 13.33 months.
Fire/Brawler/Luthor called "Wiseguy"
Still on the trial though.
And cause I dont want to get ganked 24/7 i got heroes on New Frontier.
Rifle/Gadget/Batman called "Sergeant Striker"
Nature/Hand Blast/Wonder Woman called "Sylph"
XBL: Mega Spooky // 3DS: 3797-6276-7138
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Just asking again because I found out my PC can't run this so I'm hoping I can save some cash and buy it on the PStriple. I've heard the controls are pretty good, do people have a usb keyboard they use to chat though? I would actually prefer using a controller to play and a keyboard to type I think.
there are a few of us but we are spread out everywhere right now it seems...the list of us can be found here if you want to add yourself or join any of us:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhuL-NzYIxMxdHNRVmluRXlzX3loTzN3SzVyWXEzMXc&authkey=CK_I0vcM&hl=en#gid=0
I don't know of anyone personally that uses a keyboard but i'm sure people do
I bought the PS3 Bluetooth Keypad thing and it's kind of a piece of shit, the buttons are TINY TINY TINY, like the space of the buttons is smaller than the space given a key on the iPhones touch keyboard, and the keys are like a milimeter off the surface of the keypad, I always feel like I haven't pressed in the key and end up pressing it again and end up with two of the same letter in a row. And the keys are ROUND which feels totally unnatural. For 50$ it was a huge waste, especially compared to the 20$ 360 Messenger Pad.
(I'm aware that the PS3 Keypad is a full functioning, battery driven, standard bluetooth keypad, whereas the 360 Messenger Pad only works on the 360 and leeches your controller battery, but I would use the messenger pad ANY day over the PS3 Keypad...I bought both at the same time earlier this week.)
Since the patch on Thursday (?) I've come to the conclusion I can no longer do Legends PVP, my PS3 hard freezes about 30 seconds into every Arkham Asylum legends match, it was fine earlier in the week but after the patch before the one today, nothing but freezes =/
PKMN White FC: 0046 2138 1298
It's ridiculous how much of a difference a big, recognizable brand makes in the enjoyment of a game like this. City of Heroes and Champions Online didn't really appeal to me, but slap Dr. Fate and Gorilla Grodd in something, I'm sqeeing like a schoolgirl.
I'll roll up a villain tomorrow so's I can join the league. I've not quite brave enough to venture into a PVP server yet.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
Rolled a villain on Darkness Falls, Ice/Handblast/Joker named Varix.
Everyone here in the Middle East can't play all of a sudden after that patch...
HIVE Moon Base blue clue Collection :
In order from top to bottom:
Superman:
It's right on top of the southwestern, er, whatever those support structures are, around the platform.
Lex Luthor:
To the east and a bit south of the first clue, this one is on the northeastern side of the ramp. After you get this clue, be sure to look behind the ramp, as you might find a loot box nestled in a space underneath it.
Booster Gold:
Located on top of a building, next to its antenna.
Amanda Waller:
Just hanging out by some rocks.
The last two at the bottom are, in order of left to right, Lois Lane and Amanda Waller (again). Lois Lane's clue is at ground level, at the base of a tower. The Amanda token is tricky to spot, because it is on the _inside_ of the southern leg of that big structure on the southeastern part of the map.
Oolong Island blue clue collection:
I ballparked this one more than usual, but hopefully it's clear enough. Roughly from south to north.
1
Lois Lane: On the top level of a docked yacht
2
Wonder Woman: Just past the bridge heading north out of the initial area, to the left as you head north off the bridge
3
Will Magnus: On a hill next to a rocky outcropping, with a tree next to it. The clue is on the west or northwest side of the rock, I think.
4
Joker: On top of some pipes enter into / emerge from the cliffs.
5
Batman: On top of the building
6
Circe: On top of the structure over here
7
TO Morrow: On top of the building, close to the southern edge
8
Lex Luthor: Bartender, I'll take a blue clue, on the rocks, floating not stirred.
9
Lois and Superman: On the roof, by the pipes that come out of the roof.
10
Chang Tzu: Deep inside (literally with the first part), around the area you fight all those little monitor bots or whatever they were called. It's against a south or southwestern wall, I think up on an uprised spot.
In the neighborhood
Who you gonna call?...
(Spoilered for size.)
Trigon never knew what hit him.
There are some hilarious costumes that you can make in this game. It's a pity the customization options require such extreme asspulls to make something original, though.
XBL: Mega Spooky // 3DS: 3797-6276-7138
Somehow this makes me feel worse
What on earth could the problem be? It's not only MMOs I'll admit too, Just Cause 2 did worse than just crash and actually caused me to BSOD. Fallout: New Vegas tends to crash on me as well. On the other hand Metro 2033 never crashed, neither with Modern Warfare 2 or Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
LOTRO crashed, this game crashed, WoW didn't... Aion didn't when I was in the beta. Champions Online didn't, Dragon Age/ Mass Effect 2 doesn't.
I'm just so confused
Not like my RAM/CPU is lacking either, I'm packing a Intel Core2 Quad Processor @ 2.66GHz and have 6 Gigs of memory in this thing.
Would that actually be the cause of it
edit- buy more ram
And it happened again... at this rate I honestly am not sure if I'll keep playing after the free month. Love the game, it's really fun... but it takes all of 20-30 minutes for me to crash after first logging in now =(.