A walk through the Wayback Machine

ah, Issue 0 mission design.

"Save the burning orphanage!"
Defeat 12 Orphans


(not my joke, just repeating it)

One thing that gets my interest in these old info pieces isn't always what we lost out on, but rather what's apparently been planned from the beginning.

For example, Jack Emmert commented about bases in the old pre-alpha video, specifically having had plans to include them from the beginning, along with that there was an old faux-scroll screen of all the various powersets you would be able to pick from, among them, Plant Control and Dark Control.

Planned since before Alpha, but it took a year for us to get plant control in the beginning (and it took at least two more years before heroes could use it) and Dark Control took nearly seven years to implement.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Anyone remember Resolves? (Check the insp tray.) And whatever the second tier insp was called...I think Determination. I wish I had held on to one of those just for nostalgia's sake. I even used to have some Disciplines, but I'm pretty sure they're gone now too. You can also see the old zone doors on the map; I can't remember when those changed.

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Good times.



These are both from 2005.

Ha ha! I remember complaining on the forum about the police running and screaming but I had totally forgotten about having their purses snatched.

Digging through my ancient screenshots folder reminded me of another lost "feature." Once upon a time someone discovered you could make your tights to your skin color, or get pretty close. Before it was changed, it wasn't uncommon to see sights like these, from late 2004/early 2005.

I've been wishing for a "true white" option for a good portion of these 8 years, yes.

I was cajoled into bubbling a demon farm once. Reminded me a fair bit of Gauntlet. I thought my poor minimum-spec-in-04 video card was going to melt. I was also terrified, immediately after, that it might have put me over the range for an arc that was very thematically important for my character (this was long before Flashback, of course); it didn't, barely, but for a few hours I was bitterly certain I was going to be punished for my sin.

Father Xmas still has one Iron Will for nostalgia sake.

Remember when rikti portals didn't shut off until they'd summoned 100 or so ? I recall my energy blaster seeing a finished portal and thinking "Nova time" I killed most of them netting enough XP to more than cover the debt when the ones I missed killed me, and counting through the 90+ kill/reward message pairs.

That and not so far back when you needed 10K rikti monkeys for the badge, herding them 250 at a time with my stone tank, then trying to survive the toxic damage from the dead ones.

Also when rooted meant rooted, unyielding stance meant you couldn't move, and stone and dark armors didn't stack.

Another study in unlimited aggro:



A still frame really doesn't do the old Radiation Perez herds justice. I used to have a couple demorecords of them, but I can't seem to find them now. They might have been casualties of the Great Hard Disk meltdown of 2005. This gives a better impression of what they used to look like when they were being gathered:



I remember once three rads got together and made a herd so big it filled the street completely as it headed for the gate.

Can't you also get Iron Wills as a reward for PVP points in Siren's Call?