Hyperstrike

Yes. The exorbitant time investment pre-Merits was nuts. Most would play it once (or several times in shifts to complete) and get the badge. Now, with Mission TP, Team Teleport, Mission Teleport, and a plethora (El Guapo: Do joo know what a plethora eez?)... ...of travel powers, the pain point of the TF (the time investment) is down to a far more reasonable duration. I've done one BEFORE these changes. It took about 14 hours. Now you can, if you're lazy, do it in under 3.

They remain weak, period. Remember, Catalysts don't boost the enhancement value at all. Nor do they allow enhancement values to continue to grow beyond the set's level cap. A level 30 Volley Fire gives you the same base enhancement values as a catalyzed Volley Fire on a Level 50. Boosters will enhance the values, but, as always, the improvement is negligible and the expense is out of whack with the improvement.

No. Because regen numbers are such that, unless it is killed by a fast pulse damage, will be effectively immortal.

I generally twink myself our with a few million. Then dump all commons and salvage up to 35. After that common IOs and continue dumping salvage. I hit Incarnates with about 90 million in Inf. And, because I was pushing through all content, I was pulling in phat Merit action. As such, the toon is ready for a "final" build.

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Wish I'd known to pay closer attention to the tutorials. I kinda breezed them. This is how Hyperstrike made it into the high teens TOTALLY unenhanced (pain, LOTS OF PAIN!) and I didn't understand ED right at first and my first Terra Volta trial was MORE PAIN! LOTS OF MORE PAIN!

It's also a way to get "problem children" devices. Agreed. I'm just spoiled.

It's not that they did so DESPITE the safety ratings. It was just that they had several standards in play and picked the wrong standard to chase. Leaving the rear chassis assembly unreinforced. Here's one of the crash tests of the Pinto demonstrating the problem.

By preference I don't see the point of buying a used computer unless you are REALLY good at pulling good deals out of thin air. And buying it as an additional machine...

Actually the tank ruptures were seldom "explosions" like this. The area, due to misunderstanding of NHTSA safety standards wasn't reinforced properly, and essentially became a crush zone. So fuel leaks in a crash could lead to fires.

Sorry, no. If you have a work-based (Graphic arts, sound production, multimedia) purpose for running Mac, or have been a pre-existing Mac customer, maybe. Otherwise, I don't recommend one trapping oneself in the platform. Simply because I'm playing a game doesn't mean I want to cripple myself on a toy.

Well said Snark! 😁

If you're running at anything over 1024x768, crank your FSAA down to 2x-to-4X. You quite literally won't be able to tell the difference without spot inspections or software. Glad you're enjoying the "new hotness" though.

No. But modern Windows, when you do a default reboot doesn't actually shut all the way down and restart from scratch. It's basically using the same systems for Hibernation that it does for fast reboot. It saves the system state to a dump file, and uses that to quickly reboot the machine. The major problem with that is that over time, minor bit-level errors creep in and corrupt that saved state. This is happening on the CLIENT END (your local machine). For workstations you have easy physical access to, and can managed a hard reboot on, it's not a problem. Because you CAN manage the hard reboot. But using fast boot on a server is about as dumb as cleaning out your ears with a hole saw. Possibly DUMBER.

No, it's not double-boxing. The mere running of multiple monitors degrades game performance to a certain degree. Whether you're running one game across 2+ monitors, whether you're running multiple games across multiple monitors. Or whether you've got a game on one monitor and multiple other things running on another. There are varying levels of performance hit. Again, at 2 monitors, the performance hit is minor (but not nonexsitent). Now, COULD I see better performance by turning off 2 of my monitors and just running on the remaining one? Sure. But: I'd actually gain more performance back because I'd be running in 2160x3840 ('m running in Portrait Mode) instead of 6480x3840. Which'd be a MASSIVE load off my GPU. I'd wind up having to PHYSICALLY reconfigure my monitor setup, because trying to do single-monitor portrait mode would SUCK, due to the limited horizontal space. And finally, I've already modified my system UI software so I can work around the massive problems Windows (and Windows 11 in particular) throws at multi-monitor use that isn't ultra-ultra-mega widescreen. Because of how CoH renders widescreen, I'd lose 90% of my vertical clearance and wind up with a 12K pixel wide ribbon in which my character disappears into. Even so, I'd recommend playing with your FOV (crank it to max) to help increase what your camera will render in-game. Default? And zoomed out? I can barely cover the floor of the mothership. FOV maxed out? I can get a good 45 degree camera shot of the entire lower level, plus views of entities at the edge of the lower mezzanine.

Uh. Do you mean integrated GPU chips? Because a dedicated GPU is something like an RTX 4060 or an AMD Radeon. As to you having "no issues" with multiscreen. Are you running multi-screen in a Windows OS? If so, then you do. There is a tiny-but-not-zero framerate dropoff in multi-monitor mode. With two, the dropoff is barely noticeable. At 3 or more, and the difference becomes more pronounced.

I'm not saying Ryzen 5 isn't perfectly acceptable. Simply that the configurator from Dell auto-downgrades the SSD and memory volume.

Man there's a load of comedy films I will just get in trouble for posting about.

No. That's basically a Windows issue. Does multi-monitor work? Yes-ISH. Are all problems that crop up fixable without third party software? DEFINITELY NOT. There's a difference between "Max" settings and MAX SETTINGS. VERY few things can run CoH at high resolution with things like 16x-32x FSAA turned on. That's just because most cards outside the NVIDIA **90 cards (which are absolute overkill) do not 1have a frame buffer big enough. But, for most things, running at default "Ultra" settings is more than doable. As to laptops, avoid Intel graphics. But I always ALWAYS recommend a dedicated laptop cooler stand. Brand is irrelevant-ish. They'll usually keep your laptop cooler (and quieter) than the on-board fans and heatpipe systems. Avoid "2-in-1" or "foldable" pseudo-tablets. Actually one of the better "bang for the buck" right now is a Dell https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-16-laptop/spd/inspiron-16-5635-laptop/usichbts5635fyxf 8 core 2.0-4.5Ghz Ryzen 7 16GB RAM 1TB SSD While yes it's integrated (on CPU), it's 8 cores Radeon Graphics. I bought one of these for my brother, and it runs CoH JUST FINE! Basically this thing is essentially "mobile workstation" class. So long as you're not trying to rock 4K with all settings maxed, it's fine. $700 Don't bother looking at the Ryzen 5 version. They auto-downgrade the memory and SSD in the configurator. The price is identical, so just be happy with the extra grunt. If you want to add on mouse, headset, etc, etc, there's only 4 USB slots (3 A-type and 1 C-type). If you're using more, I recommend getting a USB-C to USB-A hub. https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Aluminum-Adapter-MacBook-Chromebook/dp/B07DFYQXY7 For Desktop, here's a newer edition of the 1080p ready system. Now, this is about $200 more than my previous system. For a couple reasons: 1: Larger SSD (2GB) 2: MUCH beefier GPU (RTX 4060 vs RTX 3050) 3: 32GB vs 16GB In short, the system's overkill. If you need to shave the price down, drop back to a 1TB SSD and an RTX 3060. And pare the memory back to 16GB. This should cause the price to drop back into the $800-900 range. One last thing. This time I sourced SPECIFICALLY for New In Stock Shipped from the US (locally sourced) This will likely cause a small rise in the price, but waiting a month or three for a component to arrive SUCKS! Time is money and how much is your personal time worth to you?

Again, the main problem isn't thermal throttling. The problem is network latency induced by a bad saved state.

Underpowered GPU: Laptop Internal CPU: Uh. COMPUTER? I don't know of any system out there sporting an "external CPU". Anyhow, it's not really a "power" issue. It looks like it's using Hibernation/Saved State/Fast Reboot. These can introduce problems on laptop systems. If they can get into the BIOS, there SHOULD be a setting for "Fast Reboot" that can be turned off. Not that a proper system reboot on a machine with an SSD should be "slow". Reboots will take longer. But you get a clean system load and hardware test every time. Good catch Flint. This is one of those stupid things I always forget about myself.

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Just gonna say that I disagree with you here. Personal preference is personal preference. Whether the person is IMNSHO'ing over a beer or they've gone to film school and never actually sold anything but has a commensurate large vocabulary to sound important with...

Sorry, but there's no difference between "My buddy says" and "PROFESSIONA:L critic reviews". In all things, it's nothing more than expression of personal preference. And anyone trying to tell me it's different just because someone makes money and another doesn't is rockin' the ganj...