Funny, the four and a half hours it took my updater certainly felt like a full 3 gigs on a slow-ass server. Not sure what the hell happened with that, but I'm glad I'll at least be ready to play when I get out of work tomorrow.
So I'll get an hour of playtime before work, and possibly 3 after, depending on how long I'll have to keep the bar open. Fucking restricted play times, urrrrgh.
So I'll get an hour of playtime before work, and possibly 3 after, depending on how long I'll have to keep the bar open. Fucking restricted play times, urrrrgh.
Got Friday off though, whoooo.
At least you get play time! Not that I'd have a whole lot nowadays.
Also, 'keep the bar open'??? You are now the coolest person on the boards!
In regards to their decision to allow multiple copies of the same name this popped up.
We decided to allow multiple names because we really felt that players wanted to have full control over their heroes. In the past, switching shards might have helped, but that solution wasn't going to work for Champions Online. We decided that it would only have one shard.
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so is it too late to get into the beta for this? like if i sign up now would i inevitably lose out to someone who's been on the list for like 2 years?
The game is massively instanced. You know how in CoX if there are a lot of people in the zone it'll open up "Atlas Park 2" or whatever? Well Champions does that after about 30 people.
The game is massively instanced. You know how in CoX if there are a lot of people in the zone it'll open up "Atlas Park 2" or whatever? Well Champions does that after about 30 people.
Curious.
On the one hand, I could be snarky and point at the "massively". On the other hand, this is a game about superheroes and you rarely see a ton of heroes all over the place unless it's some major comic event. If each zone if about the size of the Paragon's, then you'd feel more like a normal superhero as opposed to what we have now where heroes probably outnumber crooks.
I guess I'll see how it works out.
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I guess I'll not be getting an invite before it goes public. Oh well, maybe for the better, as it should be nearer completion thus more enjoyable by then.
I saw when Scooter was taking names and I was all 'eh, nothing's going to come of this I think.' Then he posts saying he sent in a name of people and I was all 'whaaaaa?' so I put my name in, but I think it was too late haha.
Oh well. I never get into beta anymore, I used to all the time a few years back, in fact, I even got credited in an instruction manual for an old Mac MMO called Clan Lords back in the UO days. But lately I just haven't been getting in, until the beta goes open at least.
yeah, the server stability in general seems pretty spotty. I've managed to get a few minutes into designing a hero before crashing out, though to be fair the first several times were the game causing my SLI cards to turn into a foreman grill.
[Edit] - progress! Now it's "Connection to the login server timed out".
I've been playing since the servers went up. Got two characters out of the tutorial. Which is a bit long but fun. Let me know if someone starts a supergroup up.
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Forgot to mention that I am enjoying the hell out of the game.
Well this is some bullshit. I alt tab out of the game and go back in just to have the game freeze up on me. Now I am getting those login server timeouts. Alt tabbing was fine for me earlier too.
I recreated one of my CoH characters, reconfigured all my keybindings and gameplay settings, then spent most of the time trying to get the game to perform better than 10 FPS. Lowering all the settings to the bare minimum still only yielded another 5 FPS on average... and that's with no AA, since the feature not only isn't implemented, but forcing it through the nVidia Control Panel does nothing either.
Logged off after going through I think half of the Tutorial... and now I can't reconnect.
I'm 32, single, and work in IT, yes I do the whole Lonely Hearts thing.
Also:
Screeeeeeeeeeeeew you guys and your betas. I honestly wouldn't mind if it was just a character creator at this point, I'm jonesing for a better CoX. One with 3d costume parts, more than two bad guys, and relatively free (at the moment) of ERPers.
I'm not familiar with the term "ERPer" but I can guess the RPer part. And I'm not quite sure why you would wan an online roleplaying game to be free of roleplayers.
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Got Friday off though, whoooo.
At least you get play time! Not that I'd have a whole lot nowadays.
Also, 'keep the bar open'??? You are now the coolest person on the boards!
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I've gotten lonely... so... lonely.... :winky:
I'm at 75% on the patching after roughly two hours. I'm not seeing the blazing fast download speed some of you are reporting.
I think the download really slowed down around 4:30 when people started getting home from work and school.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/979/979834p1.html
In regards to their decision to allow multiple copies of the same name this popped up.
On the one hand, I could be snarky and point at the "massively". On the other hand, this is a game about superheroes and you rarely see a ton of heroes all over the place unless it's some major comic event. If each zone if about the size of the Paragon's, then you'd feel more like a normal superhero as opposed to what we have now where heroes probably outnumber crooks.
I guess I'll see how it works out.
i think most of us got in on account of Scooter saying we're a guild/supergroup
oh
hook me up, what should I do?
think it involves getting a time travel device
travelling back to around march 31st, page 55
when people were giving scooter email addresses to submit as part of the guild ;p
Use my gmail account. (Same username as the forum, just with no space)
Now to decide whether to stay up until 2:30am to start playing, or go to bed early and get up at 2:30am.
...god dammit
scooter, retroactively add me to the email list!
I guess I'll not be getting an invite before it goes public. Oh well, maybe for the better, as it should be nearer completion thus more enjoyable by then.
Oh well. I never get into beta anymore, I used to all the time a few years back, in fact, I even got credited in an instruction manual for an old Mac MMO called Clan Lords back in the UO days. But lately I just haven't been getting in, until the beta goes open at least.
Clearly hell is dropping in temperature. This is going to be awesome.
Edit: DAMN YOU THIRTY MINUTE DELAYS
I AM GOING TO SULK
We can start a Lonely Hearts club.
[Edit] - progress! Now it's "Connection to the login server timed out".
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Forgot to mention that I am enjoying the hell out of the game.
Got disconnected after the tutorial though.
ablooabloo!
seriously though, I'm jealous.
Logged off after going through I think half of the Tutorial... and now I can't reconnect.
Here's hoping they get it fixed soon.
I would like to know this as well. Also, it's hard to get past the vault part when nobody is doing it with me
I had bad performance in the outside tutorial, but it ran a lot better in the instanced mish.
I'm 32, single, and work in IT, yes I do the whole Lonely Hearts thing.
Also:
Screeeeeeeeeeeeew you guys and your betas. I honestly wouldn't mind if it was just a character creator at this point, I'm jonesing for a better CoX. One with 3d costume parts, more than two bad guys, and relatively free (at the moment) of ERPers.