Ah! The good old days.. *sniff*
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Posted on: 2006-10-03 21:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I hardly got to play at all during the early days of CoH, I player off my friend's account, I remember some guy like mystery something like ? man or question mark man or w/e with a question mark symbol and pink suit. Powers where either like grav/kin, mind/kin, mind/emp, or something...Magic Controller, he was psychic themed, but supposed to be like X-Men and a mutant sorta, but magic... I remember not having any clue at all what I was doing and I remember transfusion and I remember this short, dark-colord, villain-like female character and thinking, hey she's like a villain! I remember having like 7 origins or something, and not having archetypes (zomg, em/rad/regen/kin ftw :P if only that was possible too, taking all of em, rad, regen and kin 
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From CoV beta I remember the statesman strike, and I remember thinking fire sheild from the thermal set was a self shield, and taking like half of my powers as power pools, and griefing people in siren's call with TP foe so much and not realizing how much of a jerk I was being...and swearing alot in siren's call and getting repeatedly reported and stuff for it...
Oh, I remember getting stuck at the sewer doors in the CoV tutorial lol
I remember this video
Im one of those people that has played since launch but rarely post on the boards....and I didnt have time to read all the pages, but from personal experience the things I remember/miss are:
- Smoke grenade debuffing basically 100% (ya it was cheap but Id be lying if I said I didnt enjoy it)
- Wolves running around Bricks
- No portal corp and maxing out at lvl 40
- Wolves plvl. Again it may have been controversial but I met alot of people this way.
- The 5th Column
- Remembering when the first "issue" expansion came into effect.
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I remember this video
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Thats cool, wish I had that fire sword on my blaster. I find it interesting to note that PVP was always intended fopr the game which poo-poos those who say it was forced onto a pve game. Of course if it was intended from the start how could they make the ATs so horribly unbalanced to begin with.........
Instead of starting another new one of these threads, I thought I'd take a look down Memory Lane. With Feature Update Issue 17 just around the corner and offering some changes such as Epic Archetypes at level 20, and Going Rogue coming Soon™, it was hard for me not to reminisce.
I remember the good old days when Devouring Earth Eminators had no expiry. You could fly around Terra Volta Island in Independence Port or around east edge of the Talos Island zone and see gardens of glowing, pulsing trees, mushrooms, crystals, and stones.
Well back in MY day.......it was last April. :S
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On that note, I remember an errant Forcefield Generator that scared the crap out of me back in 2004. I'm running around in Kings Row at something like level 8, which was the highest I'd ever gotten at that point, and I see the huge impressive silhouette of a Force Bubble, first I'd ever seen, and VERY obvious. It's coming from behind a wall, in one of those scrap yards with stilted silos in them. So I jump on the wall and there are clockwork in there. I start tabbing through them, and they're all 7, 7, 7, 7, 24, 7... ZOMG! 24?!? RUUUN! I had no idea what I'd seen, as I just got the hell out of there before I could get a good look. I was convinced it was some kind of super-Clockwork that was coming to destroy me |
Originally Posted by VileTerror
I remember the good old days when Devouring Earth Eminators had no expiry. You could fly around Terra Volta Island in Independence Port or around east edge of the Talos Island zone and see gardens of glowing, pulsing trees, mushrooms, crystals, and stones.
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A couple of days later, I came across a level 26 Tree of Life, again in Kings' Row. I actually saw it glow green through a wall, but didn't see the tree itself. It was between a large building and the wall that ran around its lot, kind of right next to the wall itself so it glowed through. That was back before "splats" were introduced to the game, so it was fairly obvious. I'm looking at this level 26 thing, but because it didn't "sneak up" on me, I wasn't actually spooked. For a while, I gently nudged up to it, little by little like a cat approaching a hair dryer, until I finally realised that it wasn't dangerous. Took a few swings at it with my Katana, but what do you expect a level 10-ish character to do to a level 24 Tree of Life?
I'd been in contact with my team, telling them about this strange thing the whole time, and they all eventually came over to look at it. Here we are, standing around the thing like civilians at a super hero fight scene and we're just looking at it for a while, until someone starts attacking. So we start fighting the thing, a full team of eight, I think, all around level 10, and we're not doing anything at all. We're missing constantly, and even when someone lands a hit, it hurts it for 1. And then it regenerates anyway, because it's a Tree of Life, after all.
A little while later, I spot a character that's not on my team sitting (yoga, at the time) on the wall, just observing us. I check his info and he's a level 24 Scrapper, I think Broadsword. I ask him in local to "Could you please help us defeat this thing, o mighty hero?" And he sort of laughs and says it's a bit high even for him. But he does come down and takes the thing out, by himself, in no more than a dozen swings, probably less. I mean, he's, like, twice our level and very impressive at the time. I have no idea who that guy was, but at the time, to me any team, he may as well have been Superman, because he was so much more powerful than us, and pretty nice too. We thanked him, we /me praised him and he laughed. Said we shouldn't really be fighting Devouring Earth at our level, which was the first time I ever heard about the things. And then he Super Jumped away, I think, leaving us all in utter awe.
At the time, I was convinced that what I was seeing was all there was to the game. Trolls, Outcasts, Lost and Clockworks. I had NO IDEA that there was so much more to see, so many new factions to battle. Man...
That reminds me, back in the day, my first character to hit 30 was fighting through the second Sky Raider arc at I think level 29. Right in the last mission, I suddenly see this strange soldier who is obviously not a Sky Raider, dressed in odd armour and retro military fatigues. He looks like he's an agent of a much bigger villain than Colonel Duray, so I check his info. It talks about things I don't remember, and mentions his Storm Rifle that's dangerous both at range and in melee, and I'm thinking... This is bad. And he's level 30, too. I beat him, of course, but his presence was a very ominous clue of what was to come.
Those sorts of encounters have long since lost their appeal, obviously, as I'm coming on six years now, but I still remember what it was like to be the new guy around these parts
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I liked that original animation for Thunder Kick (or whichever one it was)...multi-kick ftw! |
Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
i remember frontloaded missions, oranges at the door and a gray boss, i remember making jokes about quotas.
i remember the first time i made a joke about a "boy named tsoo" subsequent thousand times caused my sg mates to all put me on ignore. i remember when martial arts really stunk..you think you have it bad now? the one kick was basicly flurry, the whiffing was legendary, and crippling axe kick used to do minor damage, because a stupidly long animation and a slow effect seen once every eclipse was compensation. that and i remember ice tanking, and slotting for resistance on my first armor, and i wasnt the only one dangit... then we all noticed out that it was a def based armor and we were all running around really realy reisistant to cold..and that was about it. heck i remember tanking before armors stacked..and back when stone armor made you look like ambulatory poo. |
And yeah, I remember ice/dark and stone armors not stacking!
I remember not having a "T" on the maps to mark where the trams were.
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In the old day, we never had fancy IO's and a auction house, we had SO's and stores. :P
I remember the days when each tram station only went to one location each and most of the time it was better to walk through the tunnels.
I remember when we each only had one costume.
I remember when level 40 was the highest level you could reach.
I barely noticed ED.
I remember watching my brother tank Infernal and a room full of demons for 10 minutes plus post ED with an Invuln, before whiners complained and had Infernal and the demon-summoning altar nerfed.
I remember that herding is boring.
I remember that farming is boring.
I remember soloing every one of the 1-50 main storyline contacts' mission content up until hitting the archvillains....all on the same character.
I remember when PvP was new and shiny and still had an embarassingly loud player base given their embarassingly low populations.
I remember having a useful solo-person SG base before they cheapened costs.
I remember when there was no tailor and the only option to change your character's costume was to reroll.
I remember when the respec Trial was an actual challenge before incompetent whiners got it nerfed
I remember when spectrals phased, turned invisible and operated on a rabbit AI...until whiners complained and had them nerfed
I remember when Bone Daddy's had shadow maul until whiners complained and had them nerfed.
I remember dueling those Bone Daddies in the street with a Force Field/Dark and bouncing all over King's Row trying to take him out without letting him close
I remember when using Combat Jumping near a ceiling made you stick to the ceiling and let you manuever about along it like spiderman.
I remember finding out that Inspirations are the secret to getting past the stated balance.
I remember discovering that SOs are overpowered compared to the enemies we face.
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Ah yes, Samuel. King's Row was the place. I remember the first time I saw Rogue Robots, Devouring Earth, Sky Raiders, and Nemesis enemies: All happened in that zone where there were no stores. Heh, and when the rescued civilians would run in that endless loop trying to get in to the sewer door near the Tram.
Coming to King's Row now . . . it's strange. It still looks the same, mostly, but it feels so different. King's Row was a magical place when I first started playing. The kind of magic that nothing else has come close to capturing again.
I'm loving these stories! Where's my time machine!!!
One thing I remember about starting the game was spending almost half an hour choosing the origin, thinking it had anything to do with anything (CoV). Reading the description about each, the enhancements, mutations, scientific experiment, I actually thought you got to do all this stuff to your character here and there in the game. It's pretty misleading lol.
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heh, i didnt remember making that post.sheesh, THAT was 4 years ago. yeah, multi kick looked great, seeing it on x-play was one of the things that got me to play here, but it was fairly weak as it was but it is funny that since then martial arts was buffed again and now is a pretty good, if not exceptional, set.|
Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
I liked that original animation for Thunder Kick (or whichever one it was)...multi-kick ftw!
And yeah, I remember ice/dark and stone armors not stacking! I remember not having a "T" on the maps to mark where the trams were. |
one funny memory was seeing a deathcap running after someone in steel canyon. It was deep purple, and my friends and i decided that continued respiration was the greater part of valor, but i was curious as to why after beating up gang members, cultists and nazi's, how the heck ents fit in the battle. it was pretty cool.
I also remember fighting a circle ghost for the first time, they debuffed me to the point i couldn't hit them, and i thought for a second that they were immune to physical damage(like in morrowind, ghosts were immune to non magical weapons under silver class) and wondered how the heck i was to fight them.
here is one for recent players. you know how those craftable wings are relatively inexpensive? it wasnt that way at first, they used to be on a different drop list, so they were very rare and some ran in excess of 20 million inf.
I've been here since 2001.
You're all n00bs.
Including War Witch.
I remember when people actually ran Katies, Edens and Caps.
I remember when PvP didn't completely suck.
I remember when players didn't have their characters knee-jerk deleted.
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I call Elder God!
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Originally Posted by Amber_Darksun
If you get to play the cranky old man after a year and a half, what does that make those of us who have a year on you?
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Then you have rotten memory.
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Originally Posted by macskull
I remember when players didn't have their characters knee-jerk deleted.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Oh god...The Drek Map...My first toon ever was a fire/fire tanker. This was my first toon ever on any MMO. Never had read a forum or guide at that point. I wouldn't have understood what OP meant until you explained it to me. I just thought. "Fire Sword, oooh Shiney". I didn't know that at the time it would make me slave to the PL later on. It was fun at first feeling all big and bad helping your friends level up alts. But at the end there I was perfectly ok with ED and the nerfs to burn, etc. I think the GDN was actually the big killer at the time. Since IO's and set bonuses weren't even a gleam in daddy's eye at the time.
I left for a number of years and have just returned. But it wasn't because of the nerfs. Some RL friends lured me to the WoW side and it took me awhile to get burnt out on it :-)
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There were also the Parallel Illusions, with even more name-confusion possibilities.|
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Oh! I forgot Multiple Girl. How could I forget Multiple Girl. Does anyone know how many Multiple Girls there actually were?
I say a bunch of us get together and bring Multiple Girl back. (Multiple Girl was a group of identical characters that all had the same name. They switched capital "I" and lowercase "L" around on each one but it looked the same because of the font used.) |
I was Parallei LLLusion. I think I still am; I don't think I deleted that character, despite not having played for a very, very long time (MA/Regen; tempted to reroll).
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I remember the days of royally sucking and not realizing it
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My first Positron TF took something like 13 hours. In one sitting, because most of us had class the next day. On the upside, I met a few people on that run who are still my friends even though most of them haven't played the game for years. (But not the guy who decided to roleplay out his character having a nervous breakdown for 45 minutes in the middle of the TF, thus grinding us to a halt. Screw that guy.)
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Originally Posted by Amber_Darksun
If you get to play the cranky old man after a year and a half, what does that make those of us who have a year on you?
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like when a woman asks "Do I look fat in this dress" or Gawd forbid you bring
up their age.
(Of course I'm joking ladies *hides*)
I remember Adamastor conning green to my blaster, and being able to solo him for the badge.
I too stumbled upon Force Field Generators and Trees of Life in my lower levels, not knowing where they came from and not recognizing their faction!
I remember once seeing two or three higher level heroes in Steel Canyon in what looked like a protracted battle against several Sky Raiders. One of them was an energy blaster. I was too afraid to get too close though. I watched the epic battle from afar!
Man, this thread really brings me back. Of all the stupid things that fill up my brain, discovering CoH is etched forever in my memory. I was flipping through a GL comic I had bought down at the five and dime in early June of '04 when I came upon a double page spread of Statesman, Back Alley Brawler and Sister Psyche taking out some Fifth meks, with some guys in the background. I didn't really get what it was exactly, but from that moment I knew I needed to have it. And being the guy who never throws stuff away, I just found that very comic in the bookcase next to my desk. It's just too funny how somthing like one comic book can lead you into somthing like CoH and have you still at it after two and so years.