I remember how running in the hallows was the reason I went with teleport as a travel power, so I could pull teammates to the missions therein.

charlieranger wrote:

I remember when clockwork were everywhere.... except when I need to to defeat 10 of them.

That was true of any mob you needed to defeat a bunch of. Try finding a Fir Bolg in the woods when you needed to defeat thirty of em!

Cinnder wrote:

Wow, well done making this 7-yr CoH vet feel stupid. I can't believe that never occurred to me! lol

hehe. ;)

I remember when i was in The Hive (next to Eden) and saw a global request for last spot on an ITF. Too many people were vying for the spot. Leader responded with "1st Person to get to Imperious gets the last spot". I wasnt in a Super Group, so no Base Teleport. :/ What to do!?!?!?!?!

Then i remembered the Wentworths Teleporter. I used it and chose Steel Canyon for the Wentworths location. And Wentworths was right next to the entrance leading for Cimerora. Wham, Bam, and i was the 1st one to Imperious and got the last Spot. YAY! ;D

Thought this was a Queensryche reference at first glimpse.

I remember when my buddy (Broadsword/Invulnerability) and I (Katana/Regeneration) would have the odds against us while duoing and out numbered. Blasting our dull pain at the right time, focusing divine avalanche/parry, moment of glory/unstoppable, expending inspirations, executing dual tech (Golden Dragon/Head Splitter) at the same time. We'd come out on top by a hair. Low level to high level, we'd find ourselves back to back stomping baddies. CoH used to make me sweat like no other. The encounter was usually followed by, "Man, I gotta go piss." or "Brb, getting water" lol.

I remember my first week in CoH, I was training in Atlas and someone randomly dropped a lvl 50 SO on me which I sold to the vendor for, I think 35k, and thought I was rich as hell!

blasted out of the sky and falling to my doom !

Remember my lowbie sprinting along the streets in Steel Canyon towards the giant statue in the middle when I saw a bunch of 20-something 5th Column running along the street, someone's ambush I think.

Anyway, they were in a perfect line and were about 20 of 'em. They didn't see me, cutting into the street diagonally 50 feet behind me, then running straight down the street.

But another lowbie who could fly was flying up the street and blithely ignored them, as every game told you you could do. Bad mistake. Out came 20 guns one after the other, pow pow pow pow pow pow guhhhhhhh falls 30 feet to the ground dead.

I knew at that point this was The Game.

Rigel wrote:

Those ambushes could be a pain!
I saw some level 50s come out of a sewer entrance not too far up the street from the trainer in Steel and not only did they not clean up their mess, they actually led the ambush to a huge group of people that were training. There were piles of dead lowbies all over the place!

Heehhehehehehheheheheheh... hehehehhhhehehheh.. heeeeeh. Oh wait.. That wasnt suppose to be funny?!? :o

I remember when they finally introduce flashback, allowing us to go back and get that badge fore defeating infected - immediately after I spent the past YEAR knocking of that 1 solitary infected that spawned in Recluse' Victory every 20/30 minute to get the badge.

People hovered across the Hollows.

I couldn't get the train to work because I was going in the out door.

Shops weren't on the map, and I didn't realise you could actually buy enhancements and didn't have to rely on drops (although you could only buy a restricted list of them)

You had cone range enhancements and the pink old break free insps that you had to use before getting mezzed.

Minotaur wrote:

People hovered across the Hollows.
I couldn't get the train to work because I was going in the out door.
Shops weren't on the map, and I didn't realise you could actually buy enhancements and didn't have to rely on drops (although you could only buy a restricted list of them)
You had cone range enhancements and the pink old break free insps that you had to use before getting mezzed.

I too was totally unaware of the existence of stores for a long time. That was the first reason I did TFs a lot, to get the SO at the end. The SO!

I also remember deleting my first toon ever before the respec was introduced. He was Storm/Electric and and endo hog. I had also 4-slotted Hover like a noob.

Cinnder wrote:

I think I may have told this "tar baby" story elsewhere, so pardon if this is a repeat...
CoX was my first MMO, so on one of my first noob days in Atlas Park I noticed a character with a symbol above his head. Wondering whether this meant that this was a character being run by someone from the game itself (a mod or a dev) I apologised for interrupting whatever he was doing and politely inquired as to the meaning of the symbol. (Note that this was probably the first time I had ever tried communicating with anyone in an online game.)
No response.
I asked again, and received the same lack of response.
Disappointed, I walked away.
The symbol that had been above his head?
"AFK"

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Rigel wrote:

I remember the first Trick or Treat event for Halloween I really really wanted to get the salvage to unlock my new costume slot. There was no one else in Galaxy so I ran around the block behind the train station with my bubbler in his hamster ball just banging on doors and not fighting the bad guys when I didn't get a drop. On my second or third loop I just happened to look back and it looked like hundreds of witches, werewolves and zombies chasing me! It was insane! Finally I led them all to the train did the /e drumdance while they all got popped by the bug zapper.

Bad Rigel! Always kill your spawns! (pet peeve of online gaming)

Cinnder wrote:

Rigel wrote:
I remember when I first realized the tailor in Independence Port was only one block from the Kings Row gate and I never again had to beg for a TP or do the Marathon of Death™ across Steel Canyon to make some minor (but somehow necessary) adjustment to my costume.

Wow, well done making this 7-yr CoH vet feel stupid. I can't believe that never occurred to me! lol

You and me both. lol

I don't even know where to start with the "I remember's".

That game.

It was a feeling of wonder the very first time I played well before ED, and it was a feeling of wonder in the new Dark Astoria and in the sewers of Praetoria. I was a Hollows-hovering, wrong-train-door-using, poverty-stricken noob slotting my brawl punch too.

I remember my second character, which was my first 50 (when it took a YEAR to get to 50). He was a DE themed character, and when I first got into Eden and looked out over all of those treetops, I was amazed. And I got down into the winding maze of those forests--which made Perez Park look like a picnic area--and just thought, "Daddy's home."

And so much time just flying around the Shadow Shard. Just being my character who was a Shard native turned Earth hero, returned to the Shard to protect his people.

Hollows--damn Magmite Lords!

First time I built a tank that could stand in the middle of an ass-whoopin circle of Giant DE Monsters.

Just literally too many good times and wonderful experiences from early on to the very last year.

Thanks for this thread. It made me smile from my heart.

I can say "yeah! Me too!" to about 90% of the things that have been said here. Such good memories.

By the way--and off topic--I was playing on The Secret World the other night and when people were talking about games, I said "I miss CoH" and the whole zone lit up with "OMG MEE TOOOO!!!!" and "GOD I hope CoT happens."

We got peeps over there.

Plexius wrote:

Rigel wrote:
I remember the first time I encountered a shadow cyst crystal.
It was in the last room on the right before the last elevator in a Frostfire run. In fact, it was in one of the side alcoves so no one could see it till it was too late.
We entered the room, all hell broke loose and then team wipe.
Most of us didn't know what the hell happened.

I totally forgot about those crystals. Now I think to myself, how could anyone forget? Many of us can probably recall the experience of seeing one for the first time and thinking, "That thing is pretty neat. What is it?" How quickly that naiveté was lost when you set it off!

The only time I really hated those crystals was when they turned up in the +3 Mary McComber ambush in a Katie Hannon, otherwise they were free XP.

Memorable moments:

First time I ever saw Hamidon. Wow...
The Redside mission arc where you're traipsing around underground and suddenly it opens up into a huge grotto.
The creepy hospital scenario
My first 50. A SS/Invul Brute named Total Violence
Getting ALL of the Debt and Damage Taken badges on my Blaster by level 40
When the Rikti Invasion first launched

So many more...

I remember spending untold hours struggling with the MA to get all of my precious, precious words to fit the ridiculously small amount of allowed characters in the various description/dialogue boxes. Needless to say, the work was better for it and I think it helps me as a writer to learn to cut down on excessive and redundant verbiage. And here I am today!

I also remember having to sadly abandon some stories I was working on as more and more broken bits started to creep into the MA.

Dutch0524 wrote:

The first winter event with ragdoll effect and a buddy of mine (that also had force bolt)...playing "hockey" with the low level mobs. Objective was to get one to the opposite side of the frozen lake in Perez Park before they ran out of hp.

Wait, the lake in Perez froze during winter?!?

I got that ride, too, once. Crazy-amazing. But the thing I loved most about the Taxibots was when they saved my butt from the deep end of The Hollows. I cried, 'For the love of Ghu, how do I get OUT of here??' Moments later, a Taxibot took me home to Atlas Park. Glorious.

Be Well!
Fireheart

Cinnder wrote:

Dutch0524 wrote:
Anyone else remember, prior to Pocket D, the hidden nightclub that you accessed via a skyscraper in Steel Canyon, next to the shop (natural?) in Talos Island, and I think the third entrance was in Independence Port on the side of the TV Reactor zone?

The first time I went to the Paragon Dance Party was probably in my first week of playing the game. Cinnder was a lowbie and was taken there sidekicked by what I thought was a kind stranger who had promised we were going to run a mission. Once we got there, he ...just kind of stood there next to Cinn making weird observations... It didn't take long for me to get creeped out and say I had to go do something else irl. :-o

I liked how the door to the Dance party in Talos had an old guy sitting in front of it after Pocket D opened. If you stood too close or had a mission at that door, the guy would start complaining, "The Dance Party's closed."

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Redlynne ... in Issue 2 ... December 2004.

I'm 5 foot nothing tall. How tall do those 5th Columnists look to you?

Minotaur wrote:

Shops weren't on the map, and I didn't realise you could actually buy enhancements and didn't have to rely on drops (although you could only buy a restricted list of them)

Lol - I remember sketching out the zones on graph paper and marking down all the stores/places of note that weren't on the maps.

How about this one: I remember when there was no way for characters with SS or SJ to get out of the center chasm in the Terra Volta hazard zone map - and that there were people actually dedicated to teleporting people out of there for a while. If they weren't on you had to blast an SOS over several of the zone or even server chat channels and hope someone would take pity on you - or send for an admin.

I remember, in the time before the Sewer Trial (the new one—I forget if it had a more specific name), sewer teams would actually Forrest Gump it through the labyrinthine Paragonian waste system. I remember actually running from the Atlas Park entrance all the way to the Boomtown Entrance once! That was awesome.

On a more general note, I remember how alive and real the world felt. The world was colourful and vibrant and incredibly creative, but it also took itself seriously (unlike Champions Online, which is always sort of snickering at itself, like "ISN'T THIS FUNNY?"). I think that's the biggest thing I'm hoping for out of City of Titans. Rich, fun, vibrant lore and world design that still takes itself seriously.

I remember my first toon made during the winter event and farming those ridiculously expensive candy canes and winter lord drops for easy money at wentworths so I was stacked well into the forties when I ran out of cash and my billionaire dad Cyberforce bailed me out:P

I remember when they first introduced shields. I deleted a 50th level sword and regeneration toon, who could never be what I wanted him to be and created him again now with a sword and shield. It was totally worth it.

I remember once putting Whirlwind on my energy/energy brute... It was like playing a plasma blender...

I remember having a connection so bad that every time I got a loading screen I would get disconnected. If I was going to a different zone, then I could just log back on and be in that zone but it was totally impossible to do missions. I got a toon all the way to 30th level just fighting mobs on the street. Never bothered to take a travel power because I never had anywhere to go far away.
After that I switched from DSL to Cable. Never been happier.

My sentiments entirely Fez ....*sigh*

This won't be an issue in CoT with the stated naming system, but I remember numerous times suddenly waking up in the middle of the night with a concept for a new hero and jumping to the computer to log on and see if the name was available!

I was sooo happy when they added the ability to check names from the first screen of the character creator!

I remember when we used to sing: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfmkgQRmmeE]sha la la la la la la la la la la ti da[/url]!

...

Sorry. I'll go stand in the corner now. :P

This game truly was special in every way. Still to this day, my dad and I will reminisce about the old CoX games when he picks me up from college to go home for the holidays. We try and remember all of his hundreds of heroes and villains he created, some with amazing names and powers, like Black Eagle and Crimson Crow, Cyberforce, Dr. Disaster, Dr. Caduceus, and those with, shall we say, dreadful concepts for example, The Penciler who wore all yellow except for his pink hat, and had a green number 2 emblazoned on his chest, firing "pencils" at enemies from his simple longbow. We remember how garbage my first hero was upon conceptualization. I mean, an all Ice controller who was a frozen zombie brought back from the dead by the Circle of Thorns? Wearing nothing but swim trunks? Ghastly. What made it even worse was that my brother's first hero, Victory Flare, was amazingly well designed, though it was hard to make him look bad when you use those cybersuit costume sets. I remember when the game went free to play and I was so excited to play and have an account of my own. I wanted to be able to pay for the game too, not just stick with free to play forever, no I wanted the whole shebang. i remember when the dreaded email came in only a year later. It's still sitting in my inbox on my old email account because I couldn't bring myself to trash it. City of Heroes was my childhood, it was what I looked forward to doing since before I was in 6th grade, and many years beyond. To me, each and every hero, no matter how ridiculous or serious, no matter how hard the Hollows were and how much endurance I lost wielding a mace or a sword or even turning on Invincibility for the first time, that game and those heroes were real, they were special and they'll never be truly forgotten.

I remember when, on a pug TF, the first time being on a team strong enough to split. We were rollin right along moving so fast as a group, and came to a split in the tunnels during a mission. While fighting a hoard at the split, without realizing, we had split into 2 groups, and didn't even realize it till a few hoards later. We had 2 tanks that went 2 different directions. And the split worked out just right, with troller/tank/damage down one tunnel and fender/tank/damage down the other. It was such an exciting moment for me. I tried to recreate this for prob the next 6 months. Until meeting and teaming with groups that did speed TF's...then I felt silly for being sssooo excited about the pug TF split, lol.

But then came an entirely new level of playing...making toon/build good enough to contribute to the speed TF's, which was also another great memory of CoH.

I remember my first science hero's first mission.
Zombie-hug and BOOOOM!!
That was my last science hero till Going Rogue...

Radiac wrote:

I remember doing an Ernesto Hess TF with a PUG and at one point, one guy says "AFK, I have to get to Safeway before they stop selling soup." which struck me as so odd that I started a thread on the forums entitled "Most unusual reasons for going AFK during a TF". It eventually got like a bazillion replies and a 5 star rating from users. I was very proud.

How long did the soup run take?