Primantiss

Well that's a nice punch in the gut.

I agree with most all of that article..

Very nice work!

I don't understand why we don't see a "Sidekicking" system very often in other MMOs..

There are a few that have limited versions of it..

GW2 auto-down scales you depending on what zone your in. But you still retain most of your powers and traits/talents, so you're a bit more powerful than a "level appropriate player"

FFXI implemented an Exemplar system sometime after I quit playing. I believe it scaled everyone's level down to match a specified player's level. Also scaled down gear stats too. The exemped players also got full experience. I remember jokingly saying to my brother "Wow, if you wanted to you could level in the Dunes from 10-75!"

EQ2 has it in some fashion, no idea how it works.

And of course Cryptic games have it, well at least CO does.. Does STO?

It just seems like such a great system for so many companies to just kick it to the side like they do. Perhaps they don't want to bother with the balancing headache of stat/item/trait scaling? Or maybe they don't think it will be utilized much because everyone just rushes to end-game anyways.. Who knows, but I miss it in every game I play that doesn't have it..

Haha very nice job.

The voices were close enough that I would recognize them without anyone telling me who they were, so that's good enough in my book.

That I will likely never find support classes as robust and dynamic as they were in CoH..

Forever to be shoehorned back into the "heal bot/super squishy" role..

As I reach out and try to fill the CoH-shaped hole in my heart, I am constantly reminded of just why I loved CoH so much, and played it all these years...

Here's just a few reasons why I was/am a dedicated CoH fan. In no particular order.


Teams

CoH is one of the few MMOs that I felt really got teaming right. Teams are not only easy to get into, but you can join one right out of the gate. They can be fun, hectic, rewarding and non-essential (meaning you don't *have* to team). More and more MMOs these days seem to save teaming for loot-farming or end-game reasons only. Nothing wrong with that, but it's more fun to me to be able to team to level up.

A fair take on the "no holy trinity approach". Many games are trying this, some more successful than others. I once again feel that CoH pretty much hit the nail on the head. Sure, you could take along a dedicated tank and healer/buffer. But they were seldom required for the vast majority of content.

Lastly, since teams were so easy to get into, they were also easy to get out of. I never felt "locked" into a team after I joined. Knowing that if something came up mid-way through the team I could easily back out. This is substantial to those of us prone to having unexpected interruptions.

---------


Interesting powers/abilities

This is another personal biggy. I loved the powers in this game. Nearly every one of them felt substantial. They *did* something.. you *felt* them, they were flavorful and you were excited to get them. Buffs and Debuffs were especially strong, potent, and fun. A far cry from the barely-there versions of other MMOs

For what its worth, I also feel similar about WoW. It had a lot of neat interesting abilities that really made classes feel unique.. I say had because Blizzard seems to be hell-bent on standardizing every class. They took away Paladins freaking auras for crying out loud.. a core mechanic for that class since its inception... no, since Warcraft 3! But that's neither here nor there..

----------


Dynamic Support

I love Defenders and Corruptors in this game. They were done splendidly well in my opinion. Not only were they great at support and team play, but could also pull their own weight around as well. Sure Defenders might have taken a bit to get off the ground, but once they did they became quite potent. Compared to the "Support" of other games they are much more active and fun to play. They have truly spoiled me when trying to make support in other MMOs. Where you are plagued by being squishy as hell, and only relegated to a very specific role. Usually spamming heals and using barely-there buffs once every 30 minutes.

------------


Costume Editor

'Nuff said.

----------------


Invention System

The IO system let you warp and distort the preset restrictions on your AT, or you could use them to further boost their primary role. I love IOs, best damn system I have ever seen in an MMO.


Well those are the couple of things that tend to pop in my mind while journeying into other MMOs. How about you folks?

So.. I notice the crafting system is gone? A shame, I actually liked that..

Replaced by these "mods".. I guess I need to combine these mods with gear that has slots or somesuch? When does this gear start dropping?

Channel CoX, cool, thank you =3

I'll join it if the server stops lagging every 5 seconds, guessing the servers cant handle the flux of CoH players ;P

My absolute favorite thing about Coh was the pugs. Easy to get into, easy to manage, no guilt trip if you had to leave.

Aside from the Burst Alerts, which I've tried a few of, and they were quite fun for a bit, is there anything like the CoH teaming system in CO?

Last time I extensively played it was during launch, and I don't think I teamed more than once or twice, and when I did we sat around trying to line quests up more than we actually did anything..

No one even teamed for the instances that were around.. I had to slowly solo those for the quests (Thank god for the overpowered TK Shield back then LOL)

Yup, gotta love them spatula hands! lol

I remember when they had those origin logos on the character select screen, was pretty bummed when they removed them.. Which was around CoV's launch iirc?

Interesting how the origins all refered to human back then though. "Superior Human" must have evolved into Natural. I suppose so we could use it for Aliens and whatnot.