I remember when my brother first bought this game and sat down and played it right in front of me. I got so mad 'cause he wouldn't let me play for days. Finally he let me sit down to play, and I got hooked instantly. My first toon of course was a gimped claws/super reflex scrapper. Way back in the days before badges. I remember playing for a little while, running into +1 mobs and getting dropped instantly. Of course back then, SR sucked, Claws were gimped, and I didn't have a clue how to build my scrapper. Only reason I stuck with him was 'cause I'm to stubborn to quit once I start something.
I remember when I3 was on test, and I saw my first Peace Bringer and instantly thought "Must have..." (I was only level 16ish at the time) And seeing all the cool powers he had. Then joining his team and going to fight Lusca for the first time only to discover that the squid wasn't spawning.
*Sighs* now you can't go into IP with out at least 2 or 3 Lusca's up at a time.
I remember When I first went into Brickstown when I was level 18ish SKed to a level 35ish tank and discovering quickly that Fly was no longer the safest travel power.
I remember going into DA for the first time and instantly falling in love with the overall look of the zone.
I remember the days before constant nerfs caused being an SR scrapper to be an extremely hard thing to acomplish.(Think ED. I've never been able to play the same way again...)
I remember running the Synapse TF and running into Babage for the first time(yeah, I think he was bigger back then...
) And after having half the team drop after only the first mission, having to run for our lives from the giant junk pile. 4 people was not enough for him, we couldn't even scratch him...
I remember hearing over and over how great Regen was and always wanting to try it but then thinking I was better of not going near it 'cause it kept getting the axe.
I remember the first hearding team I was ever on in Perez Park, this was shortly after I had finally gotten my Peace Bringer, and seeing first hand just how massive the damage was from a combo of blasters and PBs/WSs shooting the heck out of a group of 30 or so Skulls and Hellions. That was the first time I truly knew what a tank could do in terms of holding agro and not dieing.
I remember when stone tanks looked like poo, and ice tanks were a rarity.(now you see them all the time cause of thier PvP uberness and the Def scaling fix)
I remember Paragon Dance Party and how it was a more exclusive place to hold costume contests and the like, or just sit around and chat with people, 'cause only a hand full of people ever knew where it was at any givin time.
I remember going to the main CoH site and reading the Paragon times and trying to pick out as much information as I could to find out what the Devs were planing with the updates. I remember when they demolished big sections of Steel Canyon and Founders Falls for the implementation of the skills system in the college campus' which ended up just being a zone remodeling since the Devs felt the Skills system wasn't fun enough to put in, and thus was shelved in favor of the invention system later on.
I remember when (I think it was Lord Recluse and Cuppa) were pulling together massive SGs to test the SG vs SG battles in the arena. Never did find out who won, couldn't get into either SG at the time...
(I was too busy stareing in awe at the Mass hoard of heroes in galaxy city, and the lagtastic result
) Oh and I think it was Lord Recluse(or who ever it was) had every single blaster power in his info. Saying simply "it was a dev tool" to anyone who asked about it.
Now get offa my lawn ya wipper snappers!
