We got a late start last night, due to getting Kitten down and Margie playing with keybinds. When we did get going with Honeygun and Kazima, we cleared out a couple of door mishes in KR pretty easily, then headed off toward Perez Park for Hellion Hunting and Fortune Teller Rescue.
Not the most successful journey in the world.
The first part was pretty straightforward. The second part had us going into the park, over the wall, over by the boat house. That particular journey gave us a couple of badges, which was fun. And HG dinged to 14, also fun (I ended up taking Haste, planning on Superspeed next level for travel.)
The group of Lost we decided to take, over in the red zone, was not. All of a sudden, HG was in red and having to run as fast as her stealthy legs could carry her (and good to be stealthed, since there was another group around every corner along the wall). Recovered enough to charge back in as I saw Kazima going orange and red, and polished off the ones she hadn’t managed to down.
Whew. Our first warning.
Wandered along the edge of the forest, trying to find a way in. All red zone, all the time, complete with repeated pairs of Big Clockworks. Eek. Took out one pair, with difficulty (and discovered that Buck Shot works wonders on Gears that spawn from them). Decided to work our way around the other direction, found another Big-ass Prince pair, engaged … and ended with HG running for her life, and K eating turf.
Hrm.
K got back from the hospital after a while, and we bypassed the pair and headed (finally) into the forest. We bypassed one group of Lost, sweated through another Clockworks encounter, and entered the mish.
CoT. With yellow Archers, yellow Spectral Nasties, and orange Mages.
We managed a couple of successful pulls in the first cavern, but on the third, HG got disoriented about her retreat path, got trapped, didn’t have support from K (who was busy fighting her own battles), and went down.
K came over to stand over the body while I rezzed, hoping it wouldn’t attract the attention of the Spectral Nasty around the corner. After all, it hadn’t attacked me while I was being carved up, and it wasn’t reacting to Kazima standing there all glowy.
But rezzing heroes are, evidently, good eats. It charged in as I staggered up. Kazima fought it, while I lurched away — and got spotted by another Spectral Nasty attracted to the sound of battle. Whomp, and back down again, shortly followed by Kazima.
We decided to bag that mission for the time being, and go hunt trolls in Skyway. Which we did, with modest effectiveness, nearly ending up the evening out of debt …
Not our finest hour.
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***Dave Does the Game
Weird…
Ciunas had the same mission last night (dinging 13th just as the last Thorn Wielder went down), without the specteral nasties. Stealthed in and out of Perez with no problem; Dodging Lost, Clanks, and Hydra with ease as well as picking up the Avatar badge on the way.
One death due to Madness mage and a bolt to seeking from an archer.
With Puck, I had a new for me mission. Rescue Lou the car guy from the Clanks. Not been on that mission before, so it was great fun. Took longer then it should have since I had to spend 30 minutes looking for an ocillator in the rafters, and 1 gear that decided to run off and hide behind a box.
We should have been so lucky on the CoT mish. Not sure why the distinction (leader level going in, I assume).
We picked up the Around the Bendis badge (HG’s new display) and the Spirit of Justice one (K’s).
On an unrelated note, I’ve been unable to connect since this morning’s maintenance. The Updater just says “Connecting…” and all values sit at 0; no data is transferred. And of course, the files can’t be verified without a connection.
I posted a message on the Technical Issues forum, and at least one other person is having this issue, although the servers are definitely up and running.
Has this happened to any of you? If so, how was it resolved? I don’t want to have to reinstall, because I’ve been having problems since the mb/CPU upgrade; the CoH installation crashes repeatedly, and I’m afraid I may never get it installed if I try that again.
Haven’t had that problem, no. Heard of others who have, but no specific suggestions.
I’d really try to avoid reinstalling stuff. No reason I can think of to do it, aside from lazy tech support.
A note about the problem here.
Heh. That’s my post!
Anyway, got home from work, and it’s connecting just fine.
Oh, no! I was in a mission when my computer rebooted, and now the CoH Updater can’t connect again! AAAARGH!
I have to wonder if it’s the DNS problems they mentioned. I haven’t heard a lot else about them, but the one site that someone pointed at indicated it was a pretty significant problem. I have also seen some interesting results over the past week or so with other sites being hit-or-miss available.
Well, after a couple of hours on the phone with Charter’s tech support, my internet access was completely hosed. He told me how to restore Windows to the previous day’s version, and I was able to play CoH.
Now, however, I’ve reinstalled Norton Internet Security, hich he had me uninstall, and I’ve lost access to the CoH server again. So, maybe that’s involved, although uninstalling it before did not let me log in to CoH.
>sigh
Or not. Uninstalled it, and still can’t connect.
I called tech support to ask about the DNS. We ran tracerts, and I, like many people on the forum, had it tank out in LA. Charter’s people were able to get several more hops. They gave me an ATT DNS to use, and that’s when I lost all internet access. Changing it to a Charter DNS didn’t work, nor did acquiring it automatically. Then he had me uninstall the NIS. Then he had me remove the Winsock programs, which we couldn’t reinstall. That’s when we went to the restore point.
CoH still didn’t connect then, although it did a minute later. So it may just be an intermittent problem with the server that some of us have to go through. I don’t understand why another route can’t be found, though.
Sound like more than just a server problem, but I’m glad you are (for the moment) signed in.
Well, there are over 100 replies to my post, so I’m not alone.
Got home late tonight to find that my computer had rebooted again (gotta figure that out) and that I couldn’t connect. Reset the DNS addresses tp 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 and got right in! I hope that will continue to work.