Ah! The good old days.. *sniff*
By
4_Thirty_5,
Posted on: 2006-10-03 21:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Poison and his meds and his nurse.
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But I remember being the number 2 poster after Bugbite. Man, I had too much time back then.
Jazz used to be called Jazzbot because of his immediate and always same "welcome to the forums" posts.
Beta-wise, I remember staying up REALLY late, since the beta testing times were 2-5am for me. Even worse that it was during my graduation...
Yankee Daring sadly never made it into the live game.
The Cow SG was called the Mad Cow Posse. I remember them coming online and broadcasting "MOO!", as a response to Phantom's "BOO!".
In only a month it'll be 5 years full of CoH memories for me. *sniff*
Poison � Sabbath
integration being a click, resilience being a toggle, superspeed giving capped defense but a massive -acc, fold space for grav trollers, and arctic air acting like steamy mist.
I wouldn't mind getting that version of superspeed back.
I remember...
...when it was June '04 and I decided to make a MA/SR scrapper, based off of a RPG character I had made a decade before. Even at 50, she's still my number one character, and I often bring her out of 'retirement'.
...when my first social interaction was when I heard the term 'No KSing', while attempting to apprehend a Skull in KR after a defender initiated the combat. He 'bubbled' it and I no longer could do anything to it! I thought it had meant 'No kissing' or some variation. After remembering hearing a broadcast conversation on 'kill-stealing', I figured out what it meant and promptly left. What a n00b I was!
...back before Suppression , when I could pinball myself off of one baddie to the next baddie to the next baddie and so on, keeping them out of melee range of my blaster SG friends, by using the knockback in Crane Kick (because we had no control via controllers/tankers- and don't ask me why... 
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...getting Elude for the first time, and Superspeeding from the Talos tram, past the magic store and natural store, turning left into the grassy area, over the rock and fence and into the parking lot on the cliff overlooking the ferry area, jumping out over the cliffside, clicking Elude and getting ecstatic at seeing the backflip animation complete a few seconds before landing, and then continuing on towards the ferry! Complete utter joy! 
...reading about the tanker nerfs coming with I5 as it hit test, and maddingly trying to get my tanker to 50 before they hit live. 2 weeks to spare!
...when the mini-manual came with the game and it could fit snugly into my pants pockets! Sneaked many a peek at it during work hours, even though it was outdated the moment I bought the game. LOL
...remembered when I thought Fold Space would be a cool power to get whenever my controller would get to that level. A Sing is much better, looking back!
...when kiosks didn't do anything, and I kept asking people what they were for...
...how ecstatic I was getting my scrapper to 50 just before XMas '04. What a wonderful present to myself! 
...being able to have 4 stonies out at once and actually solo a mish.
...dying repeatedly during the Rikti invasion...WE NEED ANOTHER ONE!!!!
...the whole find COT in KR on the roofs. Bleh I don't miss that.
...the open pit construction zones during the arena builds.
...running around the warehouses in Faultline camping Clock spawns for hours.
...killing 5th column enmasse in Brickstown.
...getting 1-shotted in FF for the first time by the damn snipers.
...watching two of my tanker buds herd the entire PP street of skullz and hellions.
...not sleeping during the 3 day headstart.
...seeing my first lvl 50.
...spending 2 hours creating my first toons costume.
...spending another 2-3 hours on each successful toon's costume.
...capes, cape mission(s).
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...spending 2 hours creating my first toons costume.
...spending another 2-3 hours on each successful toon's costume.
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I still do that with my Alts... even to this day.
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I remember getting trapped in one of the fountains in Atlas Park because I didn't know how to jump ...
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Same thing happened to me in Outbreak. I was playing Star Wars Galaxies before getting into CoH Beta and the closest thing they had to 'jump' was an emote.
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I remember getting trapped in one of the fountains in Atlas Park because I didn't know how to jump ...
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Same thing happened to me in Outbreak. I was playing Star Wars Galaxies before getting into CoH Beta and the closest thing they had to 'jump' was an emote.
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OMG that was soooo me too. LMAO
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Okay...my turn!
I remember turning on the Targeting Drone and going "Hey, what's that sound?"
I remember running around as a Rikti during the invasion. Except I wasn't running around (can we say chain held?) I think we had ka-zillion hit points. We also spoke fUnNyee lIKe ThIs. You heroes couldnt stop laughing at us. 
I remember when I was checking on the Hamidon to see if it spawned correctly. We had to keep an eye for spawning errors at the time. Sadly, I forgot to hide. It couldn't kill me, so my screen was COVERED with de-buff icons....probably about 30 full rows of them. It wouldn't let me go. I had to log. 
I remember a blaster who didn't realize I was talking to him in tells about a problem he reported. I followed him (while visible) down the streets of Steel Canyon trying to get his attention. Finally he pivoted and said "Why is this police bot following me? (Sorry...I didn't mean to spook ya)
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I so hate you right now. 
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You know, I actually do feel like an old man by now. I've seen and done so many things that the new players haven't even heard of, let alone done. Hydra in Perez Park is a good example, yes. A time before respec, costume alterations, capes, back when Elude was a toggle and Blaster nukes left you end drained AND disoriented
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Burning Tanks on fire off the shoulder of Brickstown. I watched Smoke Grenades glitter in the dark near the Crey's Folly gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Nice use of one of the great quotes from Blade Runner.
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It COULD be Blade Runner - or it could be www.thenoobcomic.com
>.> read the 2nd, 3rd or 4th strip (I forget which; they're all awesome though) <,<
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Eh, nice comic but have not seen it before. Quote source (for me) was Bladerunner.
I remember when the AI for mobs either crashed or went to sleep. The SG I was with could have just breezed through the missions, but boredom won the day so we sent in a bug report (like a lot of others, I reckon).
'Oops, I ran around a corner and there's a embalmed there!'
*seconds later*
'Ummm, I've been hitting it, but it's just sitting there....'
I remember how I thought when I1 came out that they'll be new costume items to go with the costume slots that was introduced.... Sure would have been nice if there was something new at the time to actually have some use from the new slots....
I remember how people thought it was weird that mobs referred to passing/attacking heroes as 'Capes' when nobody, not even signature heroes, had them. It was almost like a taunt or a plain insult to hurt the heroes mentally since capes weren't offered until I2.
I remember having to log off and try again when it came to the 'Defeat x Contaminated' missions in Outbreak because the generation for new mobs was set so low, and they needed a lot of space between the generation points and the players in order to appear.
It was a ghost town most of the time because of that. One thing for sure, it forced a lot of people to team up when they didn't know how to do that (at least all the ones that were trying it out with their first character; more than a few couldn't get past tutorial because of this)....
Good thing badges didn't come along until later or good luck with trying to get the badge when it wasn't hard for other people to inadvertantly clean the map.
i remember accedently rotating my camera 4 degrees off axis and i couldnt figure out how to get it strait again and even reported it as a bug in beta.
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Yeah, then it was "Where are the lost in Kings Row?" Now I don't know what it is people ask for in KR.
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Nothing's changed. When I was a noob 'round about the time of I5 I was asking about CoT and Lost in KR. I've seen others since.
VidiotMaps FTW!
"Together we entered a city of strangers, we made it a city of friends, and we leave it a City of Heroes." - Sweet_Sarah
I remember when -resistance powers were based off the mob level not the caster level.
So a level 40 Rad could go in Perez Park and throw EF on a Hellion, then hit him for 4000 damage.
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You know, I actually do feel like an old man by now. I've seen and done so many things that the new players haven't even heard of, let alone done. Hydra in Perez Park is a good example, yes. A time before respec, costume alterations, capes, back when Elude was a toggle and Blaster nukes left you end drained AND disoriented
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Burning Tanks on fire off the shoulder of Brickstown. I watched Smoke Grenades glitter in the dark near the Crey's Folly gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Nice use of one of the great quotes from Blade Runner.
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It COULD be Blade Runner - or it could be www.thenoobcomic.com
>.> read the 2nd, 3rd or 4th strip (I forget which; they're all awesome though) <,<
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Eh, nice comic but have not seen it before. Quote source (for me) was Bladerunner.
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I'm attempting to plug an awesome web comic. You're SPOSED to go along with it! >.>
(JK <,<
Only reason I guessed that was the funniness and surprising similarity <'x'> but then Blade Runner is 'teh win' been ages since I"ve seen it though. >.>
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I remember...
... originally being very cynical towards CoH, I played simply because my brother bought the game and highly recommended it. I proceeded to make a character just to run around Atlas Park annoying people. So I went up and started hitting on a character in l33+ speak until my brother saw me and said "That's a dude."
... I remember the first two weeks or so of CoH being a haven of Punisher clones because the Punisher movie came out around that time.
... I remember remaking my original character (Plot Device) but forgetting to delete him first. So I had to pick a new name for my character at the last minute. The only name that came to mind was Friggin' Taser...
... I remember how fun and chaos of sewer teams in the early levels. What we have now in Atlas isn't the same as it was back then with 100+ people in the sewer at the same time.
... I remember the huge rush of heroes hanging out at Icon with issue 1. I also remember the bug where you couldn't leave a mission if a zone had multiple instances, causing much debt.
... I remember the "nerfs" to fire imps and phantom army in issue 2 being the death of all controllers EVER according to the forums. That totally happened.
Current Badge Hunter: Plot Device (Rad/Thermal/Dark) - 1,268 Xbox Live: Friggin Taser
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I remember when this post in the Justice Forums didn't have any replies and was fresh out of whatever left field it sprung from:
Just look at it now
I remember being really low on my blaster and watching this one guy (I forget his name) role play that he was "evil" and was bring his minions to slaughter the heroes. In effect he herded a boatload of baddies, had a few high emps on standby to buff the "lil kids" and then just let the kids slaughter all the baddies for the sheer fun of it. Those evil encounters were some of the funniest things I have ever seen.
Thanks, NC Soft, for closing my favorite game ever without warning and with plenty of life still left in it, and thus relieving me of the burden of EVER wanting to buy, try or even hear about another game from your company. Will my decision make a dent, or persuade them in anyway, shape or form? Nope, obviously not. Don't care. NC Soft is dead to me. ~ PsyFox
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...I remember when I was checking on the Hamidon to see if it spawned correctly. We had to keep an eye for spawning errors at the time. Sadly, I forgot to hide. It couldn't kill me, so my screen was COVERED with de-buff icons....probably about 30 full rows of them. It wouldn't let me go. I had to log.
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Even the Devs are helpless before the power of the Hamidon!
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I remember when this post in the Justice Forums didn't have any replies and was fresh out of whatever left field it sprung from:
Just look at it now
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ah yes the infamous 1 post wonder UniqueDragon. lol.
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Hmm when I started:
I didn't know how to respond to tells...I had a friend that kept sending me tells and I had no idea what to do...until he came on an instant messenger and explained.
I didn't know what a Respec was...only that I was in Independence Port next to Jane Hallaway and then we were fighting a LOT of Sky Raiders...
...also had NO idea how long Task Forces were, especially when I started the Positron one.
Stores weren't on the maps so I had a friend give me directions to the Science store
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Infinity Villains
Champion, Pinnacle, Virtue Heroes
Am I the only one who still gets annoyed at the long ago changes to the jumping code?
At release, any jump would essentially provide upwards thrust until you let go of the space bar or the jump timer ran out. This meant that if you jumped against a ceiling it would kind of hang there for a time before you descended. They changed it so you "bounce" when you hit an upward obstacle.
Although jumping into the ceiling was a little weird, the old code basically prevented you from getting hung up on obstacles. If you hit a fence when you tried to jump you wouldn't just bounce back to the ground. Your upward movement would end but not your thrust - you could strafe and continue the jump. Now when I am tired I invariably try to jump over some obstacle and get annoyingly hung up on it.
I find it amazing that the change still bugs me so many months later.
Moonlighter
50s include MA/SD, MA/SR, DP/Elec, Claw/Inv, Kat/Dark, Kat/Fire, Spine/Regen, Dark/SD
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I remember...
...The Name Reservation debale, and the many accusations of those mythical "Name Thieves", and people offering to pay cash to get names they wanted.
...The first time I went into a mission, and the enemy mentioned my character by *name*. That was the moment I officially fell in love with the game.
...when Storm Kick rooted you in place for what felt like five minutes, which was annoying as f-k when you missed the attack.
...The first time I kicked an enemy off a rooftop. That still hasn't gotten old.
...The game being referred to as "City of Blasters".
...When I first had the oppertunity to take Practiced Brawler, and passed it up thinking it couldn't be very good. Then finally taking it when I was almost into my 30's. I still kick myself for that.
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I remember...
... originally being very cynical towards CoH, I played simply because my brother bought the game and highly recommended it. I proceeded to make a character just to run around Atlas Park annoying people. So I went up and started hitting on a character in l33+ speak until my brother saw me and said "That's a dude."
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Taser, Taser, Taser. Even if it were not a dude, 1337 speak?
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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...The first time I went into a mission, and the enemy mentioned my character by *name*. That was the moment I officially fell in love with the game.
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Someone sent me a tell and was surprised that I was really there. They were going off a pedestrian's glowing praise of Swellguy.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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*When real Internet DJs held real Dance Parties in-game up top the Atlas Globe and other such locations.
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Hey, I still do that!
I remember stealing my husband's toon because I wanted to play with Fly, and crashing him head-first into the ground. Repeatedly. Much fun was had.
I remember herding with /force field trollers in Perez Park with my SG leader, and freaking out at the sheer number of Skulls trying to get through that field and kill me.
Good times, good times.