CoV Beta
So watching VH1 this morning, actually still early enough in the day that they are playing videos ( Depeche Mode's "Precious" right now, keep thinking about picking up their new CD ) and getting the CoV Beta and Issue 6 downloaded. Took far less time then expected, about 45 minutes for each, on my younger sister's cable modem connection.
Playing around in the CoV Beta right now. Just have to say... Wow. The change in the physics model for the way people move and respond to being hit, the added particle effects for animations ( playing a Fire/Fire Dominator right now, several of my fire attacks send sparks flying into the landscape where they burn for a little bit ), just make it truly amazing to look at. Going to make CoH feel new again too if these make it back into CoH with Issue 6.
Hit 4th as a Fire/Fire Dominator so far, actually almost 5th. The intro missions are pretty cool and while I can imagine I would get bored of doing them over and over, they are a nice change from the CoH intro ones. The starting zone, Mercy Island is really a wasteland of ruined buildings and debris in the streets. Very cool.
posted by Hythian at 10:55:00 am
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*Mutters about CoV beta not loading properly*
I hope that the switch over live i6 load works on Saturday.
Mon Oct 24, 01:32:00 pm GMT-7
I wasn't able to get it to work on dial-up either. Was why I finally hauled my computer across town. It would make progress, and then error out and make me start over from scratch.
Also had to update my ATI video drivers to the newest build because I was getting this weird bug where the button of the screen would freeze when I logged in so I'd be seeing two inches of whatever had been on screen when I started, which usually was my characters arse and legs so I'd have this shot of Breakout and arse and legs the entire time.
Mon Oct 24, 02:38:00 pm GMT-7
Ahhh.....
Good to know on the latest driver info.
Mon Oct 24, 02:45:00 pm GMT-7
Made it up to 8th level so far. Probably a little bit over 6 hours of play. Loving the Fire/Fire Dominator build I came up with. The little "Dominate" button is a fun little 'Oh, you think you are winning, lets get a second opinion' device.
Near as I can tell, it refills your endurance bar, doubles damage, double the duration of control effects, and might have an Acc or Recharge bonus too. Not certain.
But very nice and I tend to hold on to it when it fills up to wait for a situation where I actually need it instead of just using and spamming it off.
Mon Oct 24, 07:29:00 pm GMT-7
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