Wildcat4Ever

This is a good thread! It didn't provide a direct answer to my problem, but it gave me the clues I needed to do the detective work and eventually figure out the answer!

Specifically, what I wanted was the ability to target each of my henchmen individually, much like a Defender can use the "Select Teammate" keybinds in the /options menu. My answer was "pet_select x", where x is an integer from 0 to 5, and I applied them thusly:

/bind a "pet_select 0"

Keys s, d, f, g and h are bound to pets numbered 1-5 using this bind. And so as to not cause any confusion, no, I don't use the default navigation keys -- I moved those to the numpad.

W4E

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Gabriel's Hammer, the inventable sledgehammer power, is named for Peter Gabriel, the musician who recorded the song _Sledgehammer_.

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And to show how dense I can be... here I am, probably the biggest Peter Gabriel mark you'll find in the whole game, and I only just grokked *this* connection a couple of hours ago! This is what drove me to eventually find this thread and dig it up again! o.o;

After all this, I have my own original contribution!

The police scanner missions are great for these pop culture references! One I haven't seen mentioned yet is that in which your hero is to retrieve the Hand of Omega from the Circle of Thorns. The Hand of Omega is one of the most powerul artefacts in the Doctor Who universe.

And speaking of scanner missions, you'll notice that every pair of Detectives who serve as the contacts for these missions are tributes to various television and movie characters. I'll leave it to someone more enterprising than I to make *this* list.

I know there are others that I'm not remembering right now. I'll share them as I remember them!

Wildcat

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All in reference to the movie UHF.

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Weird Al Yankovic's UHF. >

Wildcat

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I don't know if anybody has mentioned this one, but Doc Delilah in the new Faultline is obviously a joke on Marvel's Doc Samson.

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To show how slow I can be, when I first encountered Delilah, I put the pieces together in the wrong order -- I took the clues given (an archaeologist) and visual (her hat, her glasses, and her Amazonian phsique) and my first thought was that she was a tribute to Gina and Brittany Diggers from the Gold Digger comic. A few seconds later, it clicked. Delilah's one of my favourite contacts/NPCs in the game, and the Faultline arc is definintely my favourite!

Wildcat

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Back when they were the 5th, this made a little more sense, but the real Nazis were involved in occult research, looking for a weapon to use against the Allies. Seems the COH version found that weapon in the Vampiri and Warwolves.

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If I recall, there were only a few Germans -- Hitler to some extent, but mostly Himmler -- seeking supernatural/mythological weapons, specifially, the "Spear of Destiny"... the rest of the German army were pretty much committed to conventional weaponry, while racing to built an atom bomb...

Wildcat

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the red river is a river that divides oklahoma and texas. In fact, whenever Oklahoma plays Texas in a sporting event, it's called "The Red River Shootout". It's a very popular river to those in this region.

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No it's not! The Red River is the border between Minnesota and North Dakota!

Wildcat

I just discovered this thread, and I have stuff to share. And things!

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At my workplace, all the servers are named after various gods of mythology. I conside one of my finer moments convincing networking that 'Enki' was a good name for our new server.

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Ours were Harpo, Groucho, Chico, and Karl.

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In college, our five Unix machines were named Doc, Kitty, Wyatt, Maverick and Matt.

Wildcat

My pick was costumes as well -- it was the first thing that piqued my interest when watching over my friends' shoulders as they played the earliest versions of the game! The second was having a 3D virtual world to explore and dink around in, but I guess that's kind of a given, huh?

I agree that the storyline(s) is strong, and I'm somewhat partial to the Family (Yeah, see? Yeah, yeah, see? ) Badges are alright, and PVP has grown on me a little. The bases are a nice concept, and I think they have a lot of potential, as well as much room for improvement. Given time, I think their popularity on a poll like this would also improve...

W4E