KA-POW!!! DC Universe Online - Page 11

Finally downloaded the game. Final size is 17GB. I think it took 6-7 hours for me. The opening cutscene looks cool but Sony should have made the opening cutscene optional download since it's several minutes long at high details.

Question, first thing it asked to create a new character is PvsE or PvsP. Which one works better?

Since Free to Play allows only one character, is there a way I can copy the character to be backup locally especially I'm just trying out different character designs. I wonder if the character creation allows the player to create a character that is very close to Marvel heroes look alike and powers.

I found out that if you don't get off the ship in one shot, like my crash, you start it over. No loss of XP and found items, though, so the setback wasn't painful.

What IS painful is when my character falls through the floor into another level, where the animation just smears around for a bit until some reset happens and I get dragged back to the area I had been in. Except that one time a door that opened after a fight was over never opened, and I had to quit and try again, from the start. At least I'm off the ship now, but I'm not sure what will go wrong elsewhere.

This all seems engine-related, but I hadn't seen issues like this in any other Unreal game I've played. Anyone else seeing this stuff?...

Still that buggy?

Yes. DC Universe Online is still known for having many bugs. Get ready for a lot worse! The bugs aren't as bad as in the beta, but you will encounter some wild things every once in a while. Regardless, the game is still a lot of fun.

I played through escaping the ship, but I've never really tried an MMO so I have NO idea what's going on in this game. My character has flight, and I in fact spent my first five minutes of this game accidentally flying all the way up the ceiling and utterly failing to figure out how to get back down. Been a while since I felt like I really need to consult an instruction manual.

I saw this in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Solution: Pull my finger.

Anybody want to start up a group? I keep seeing it mentioned while playing the game but haven't taken the time out to figure it all out.

Ha, yeah, the Willy Wonka comparison came to mind. Well that and a bunch of swear words.

Yeah, later on in the ship they do explain that clicking in L3 activates/deactivates "movement" mode, but that didn't really help me in the very first room as I was pressing all the buttons to see what they do!

When I loaded DCUO just now, it sat at a random wallpaper with the hard drive quite active and minimal network activity. After waiting for 3+ min, it gets error being disconnected from the server. If I press X to continue after the error, it goes into the loop. Is this how DCUO behaves when the server is down? Quite a stupid error recovery when the network or server is down.

Reading from the most recent replies, I can see why Sony gives limited free to play option with DCOU because even the game has been out as retail for a while, it's still only beta quality. At least my expectation is now way down with DCUO. With free to play option, more players will join online to be the free beta testers. Not a bad thing to help improve the quality of the product.

Yeah, I ran into the same "Picture of Powergirl Loading Screen of Death" problem myself last night. I did get on slightly earlier in the day though, only to be utterly confounded when picking a name: every single one I came up with was deemed "invalid," which I assume means already taken by someone else. I guess I wasn't the first one to think of a giant luchador with fire powers and dual pistols named "Dr. Powerbomb/Doctor Powerbomb/Powerbomb MD/Dr. Suplex/Dr. Hurricanrana.

I hate to say it but the game is kind of boring. I played the beta and after a while I tired of it. Saved me money at any rate.

If I had the guide book, I'd probably find out how to set a marker for the selected quest. I was supposed to find the sewers in Gotham, so I wandered around but never saw anything that indicated where they are. I Googled for help and found out that a LOT of people think actually answering a question is boring. Then I noticed that the first quest had a second part, and I need to get back to Metropolis and now I'm back at the Watchtower trying to find the right teleporter for that job. Maybe THAT one will be easier to find, unless a Level 5 quest requires that you be Level 5 to find it?

ARE there maps online?...

They *really* need a faster way for users to determine of the game can be played. I'd wait several minutes and get a lame "Disconnected Broken protocol You must be signed into your PSN account and connected to the online network to play", and all that was already in-place and ready to go.

If it isn't up, something should say that within a few seconds so I can move on to games that work. However, nothing else on the PS3 strikes my interest right now...

Today was a better day. Got in with no failures. Learned that the *active* quest often does provide a directional guide, but not when it's "Find the university".

Moved up 5 levels to 9, despite numerous beatdowns when goons ganged up on me despite my efforts to pull them one at a time. When I think of how I'd like to spend the $5 to get Premium access, gear that I can use now that's also better than what's available 20 levels up would be OK. If I find a way to do that I may play a lot longer...

I've decided that Bane is F-ing impossible. No matter how well I do, by the time I get him to his last phase, he's capable of one-shotting me from full health. Bleah.

I was like Level 11 doing Bane. I'm a Healer with strange plant powers and managed to get through the fight without getting knocked out. The guys before that, not so much, requiring at least three tries until throwing everything at them at once worked. Lessons that helped with Bane.

Maybe do the Booster Gold tours, then anything less strenuous until you collect enough trinkets to do better. Although the Level 12 tours put me in some BAD neighborhoods. I kinda wish they had a way to share character specs with a picture, although I've slapped on a gas mask and spiked helmet because they boosted my specs but look lame compared to my original hooded cyborg...

Almost a 5-digit number of people in the queue to login at 8:45PM. Nearly 9, and still waiting...

I'm trying to take Bane at Level 10, as mentalist/dual pistols. It's annoying because I keep failing, which damages my equipment, so after a few deaths I have to go all the way back to a vendor to get repairs and then all the way back to the lighthouse. Guess I'll try putting on a few levels first.

On the second tab on the pause menu, the one that looks like a little mask, you can individually lock each part to look like any piece of equipment you've ever tried on. There's also a "lock all" button, so you can get all the stat benefits of new equipment without ever altering your look.

Oooooooooooh, thanks! I saw that, but didn't think it'd be a permanent fix to changing equipment.

I got kicked out a little while ago, and I hope THIS time it doesn't roll back the clock like 10 minutes so I have to do stuff again. Earlier today (like 3AM) they did a quick countdown before shutting everything down, but this time it was wham and gone so maybe things will be different and BETTER...

The best way to defeat Bane is to fight him with at least another person. I got close by myself a couple of times but beat him pretty easy with the help of another player.

I didn't even know you could do that mission together with other people. How do you do that?

do a
/shout can anyone help with bane mission

then if a guy named Doug says sure do a

/invite Doug

then you will be grouped and zone in to the same instance, i would offer my help[ but i cant seem to get on in prime time and its not worth the effort until they fix it. Last night i got on for 5 min and froze after a 30 minute wait, not gunna do it again.

Also use health barrels whenever you can they are a big help in soloing and leveling up, the other choice is do a few more (different)missions get a few more levels and he will be much easier.

Close VISUAL copies of Hulk and Ghost Rider are apparently easy. Saw them yesterday...

Yeah, I saw a pretty impressively accurate Magneto yesterday.

By the way, I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to regularly commit to this game, but if anyone's looking for a partner when they're logged on, my character's named "Bulletmind." Because every other name was taken.

I assume you are talking about the Spootackular mission that started on Halloween and ends today? Ya that one took me a while to figure out. What you have to click on is the 'Events' tab in the journal, and it brings up that mission. You have to do it 4 oter players, so click to join group. The 1st time I did it, Scarecrow was glitched. The second time i did it, we took about 30 minutes to finish, he is really hard. We were all low level (5-7) but managed at the end with team work (the 1st several times we died rather quickly).

Apparently there is a Scarecrow mission that is part of the main storyline when Batman is the mentor. That one should not be missable. I have found most people not helpful when texting messages. Too bad really.

I'll try and add you mongo.

So here's something to try for anyone frustrated by long queues (so, anyone playing this game). It seems queue times are based on the population of the map location you're loading from. So if you last logged out at say a safehouse, where tons of people are starting up their game, you'll have a long wait time. But if you ended your previous game at a relatively remote location, the queue will be dramatically shorter.

I was skeptical, but tried ending my previous session on top of a very tall building in a random area of Metropolis. The next time I logged on, around 8PM, which I assume is a pretty high-traffic time (and even got a notification telling me so before I logged in), my game started up almost immediately, with no "You are XXXX in the queue" notification. Maybe I just got lucky, but it's worth a shot.