Not Goodbye

I still sometimes sit and watch the NPCs doing laps inside the Portal Corp building... through the walls. Oh, that unstable portal technology!

I often made use of the bug that populated radio/paper missions with the wrong enemy type. For a while, every character would make sure to have a radio/paper mission just in case.

When new type of enemies got added to the game, things got reorded/bumped around. Leading to some hilarous mob types. Missions filled with turrets as the enemy was great on a pug.

One primal character earned the badge for killing enough of the GR group syndicate at a really early time.

I also liked the costume bugs that sometimes released the shouldnt be released costume parts.

No biggie, but amusing to me at least. Have had it happen a couple times. If I try to talk to laventea in rwz while in tf mode(ae) she will remind me that I am in tf mode and to finish what I am doing. I drop the mish and try to talk to her again, she says something along the lines of "gee, this is awkward, I am an automatic contact and don't need to be introduced. The fact that you can see this makes me feel a little naked. Take care!"

My favorite bug will always be the gauntlet hit a bazillion mobs with a single target attack. Seismic smash ftw. Also, tp was especially efficient at convincing the mobs to stack.

Oh I just remembered a good one.

This was back before i7, and I was teaming with a two friends doing, I believe Basse Croupier's missions, where you have to punish some Family embezzlers. Anyhow, we're level 35/36 and not fighting on any special difficulty, being very casual when we hit the key spawn which contained two Consiglieres.

Imagine our surprise when within moments we were dealt horrible, crushing defeats. Really, shortly after engaging the group we were all in some state of slowed, held, being tossed up and down, and dead.

The Consiglieres had each spawned a level 42 Singularity. Resetting the mission didn't help; there was something about those bosses that reliably spawned overpowered Singies. So we held onto that mission for a while.

Thank you for all your work on hunting down those pesky bugs, TheNet.

It was a few years ago when this happened before the new level adjustments were put in place. We had a full team around 50 with a few lower level characters in it which probably made it harder than it should have been. I don't know if it was a bug or if they were meant to be in the random villain list but I think the team I was on had to have had the worst bank mission in the history of CoH.

We rushed the bank as usual not expecting what happened next. As the flunkies were running out we took care of them but when we saw the boss I think everyone had to be thinking the same thing.... WHAT IS GHOST WIDOW DOING IN A BANK MISSION!!!!

She was lower level than normal which was a plus but she still managed to hold us to a stalemate and after losing a couple people there was no way to keep the damage going so we had to give up. Never saw that happen again but wouldn't have minded another chance with a proper team.

Read through and here is one I haven't seen.

When Khelds were first introduced there was a bug when they used a respec. It basically allowed the Kheld to keep putting slots in the same power. The person who did this slotted up their Kheld and then paid a visit to Hami, and two shotted him. They supposedly could have done it in one shot but the game engines maximum damage cap was just a bit under Hami's hit points.

Oh, another bug that I loved taking advantage of... >.>

Warshades could summon their Essences from defeated enemies. They could then exemp down and the Essences would remain at the level before exemping.

I would load up both of my accounts, hit the sewers, exemp my 50 down by teaming with a level 1 then run past any enemies after popping a couple purple inspirations. The Essences would insta kill the enemies and PL my level 1 on the second account.

This was fixed around issue 21 but it had been around since, I think, issue 4-5.

Net: I just wanted to say thanks for being part of one of the most awesome communities. The first day I returned to the beta server I was told "Hey Dispari, I haven't seen you on the boards lately." It's a really unique experience for the developers of a game to have that sort of attention and interest in the player community. It really made me feel invested and a part of the game. Thank you and all the other devs I spoke to over the years.

Also:







This character is an Elec/Invuln Brute, and no, nobody was buffing me.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

You know,

I think I've let you all stew about my secret identity long enough.

This is my (The Net's) original account.

I just came here to say that Ninja Run/Wheelbarrow sync errors while waiting in the supergroup base to test Cathedral of Pain was the best thing ever. 10 people running and jumping around at Ninja Run speed, only... wheelbarrows.