What Stuff Have You Forgotten Was in the Game

[gypsyav]

I just had the biggest brain fart ever. I was trying to remember the name for leveling pacts.

I went to Paragon Wiki and typed in "duo" - well, pancake, no, that doesn't work. We didn't make a landing page for that.

Ummm. Multiple.... no, that's multiple builds.

Ummmm. Well, let's go looking in Issue pages. I have no idea when it was introduced! OMG. HOW DO I NOT KNOW WHAT THIS IS CALLED? Issue 18. Issue 16. Issue 15. NOTHING.

Ummmm ummmm. Well, it interacted with Sidekicking, so maybe we linked to it in there. NOPE.

Turn to my husband, doing some "base building" (housing plot work) in Wildstar: "Do you remember what it was called in City of Heroes when  a duo shared XP?" Him: "...shared...XP?..." Me: "Yeah, you ask to be buddies and split the XP between you so you stayed in sync!" Him: "...ooohhhh! Ummmm...." Me: "WHY AM I BRAIN FARTING THIS WORD???"

Looked down at the bottom of Sidekicking, because I remembered we have helpful breadcrumb navigation boxes. Me: "OMG!!! LEVELING PACTS!!!" Him: "OH MAN HOW COULD YOU FORGET THAT, MS WIKI?" Me: 

Trying to be polite and not laugh too much. **near bursting** Oh what the heck,         

P.S. If anyone had asked me before I read this I probably wouldn't have remembered either.

[gypsyav]

If/when we are able to play again, definitely run the story arcs there.  They're some of my favorites!

Agreed. Though I don't think I got to do all of them before the shutdown.

[Taceus Jiwede]

Going to sound like a smart ass response.  But I can't remember what I forgot........Oh!  How each enemy has an option to read their info!  I LOVE this.  It really made me get into the lore and feel like it was a personal fight!

[Serpine]

How each enemy has an option to read their info!

That's a good one. Sometimes the info was a bit cut & pasted across a group, but some of it was brilliant (and a bit disturbing).

[Remidi]

Yesterday I was watching a video that panned through a bunch of zones, and I suddenly realized I couldn't remember some of their names.  I had to go look them up.  I'm so ashamed.  How could I forget the name of Kings Row???

[Minotaur]

Ah...Paragon Protectors. I kept being told that they were a pain to fight, but I never had any problems with them with my main character. What made them so bad?

They had the old broken version of MoG not the nerfed one the players had so capped def/res for a minute. If you had an aura taunting tank without an autohit taunt power, they would be unable to hit the PP to maintain aggro and squishies would die. If you had a lot of debuffs, you could get round this.

[gypsyav]

They had the old broken version of MoG not the nerfed one the players had so capped def/res for a minute. If you had an aura taunting tank without an autohit taunt power, they would be unable to hit the PP to maintain aggro and squishies would die. If you had a lot of debuffs, you could get round this.

This was one place my Electric/Electric blaster shined. Drain their END fast enough and they couldn't MoG on you.

[Relitner]

yeah, you just stay away from them when that happens. Lucky none of them had a Mez so you could usually get away. Since I soloed with blasters so much, I'd try and pull them away and then if they went MoG pop a purple and let it wear out then smack the crap out of them. rinse. repeat.

Relitner wasn't a ...smart blaster... 

Shoulda been an energy scrapper, really...

[solarblaze]

This thread just makes me want to find the post from the CoH forums that listed A LOT of stuffs that CoH had that made it stand apart from other games. So much was pointed out on that list. Anyone have a link to that list or can list the entire list again?

Can't think of anything I have forgotten. But on the flip-side, I'm still trying to forget the sound of death.
Right after tankers lost most of their taunting (and before it was given back as an archtype passive)....
Being a fire/fire blaster (or blapper), even standing next to tanks (while aoe'ing) and still... "SHINK"  oh no !!!  Rikti swordsman cuts me down, full hit points down to zero in one swing. Time and time again. I earned every bit of those Debt Badges.

But would be nice to see that long list and then people can see what they have forgotten.

[Steelhelm]

"Moment of Glory" or MOG... essentially sixty seconds of becoming an unkillable blender of death.

*shudders*

Huh..I never knew that MoG was a bad thing. I always found it just as an annoyance, but that is probably because I never spent too much time with my alts. If I did, I may have known this. Well, if/when the game comes back, I know another thing to watch out for with all the alts I've been planning since the shutdown!

[Blondeshell]

This thread just makes me want to find the post from the CoH forums that listed A LOT of stuffs that CoH had that made it stand apart from other games. So much was pointed out on that list. Anyone have a link to that list or can list the entire list again?
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But would be nice to see that long list and then people can see what they have forgotten.

Check my sig.

[Mageman]

Trying to forget the sound of the "Targeting Drone" from my Fire/Devices blaster (pre-ED when you could 6-slot it with +ToHit). Took a while and a lot of trolling the forums trying to figure a way to shut it off!

[Eoraptor]

Something that is not so much forgotten, as badly fading in my memory... the old pre-freedom tutoria and running around in the basement of city hall to meet with the contact who was specific to your origin for early missions.

[Felderburg]

How, when, do you load the maps?  From icon, or just open up the program runner (yes I knowz all aboutz com-put-oors).  If you don't want to give a detailed description, please point me to a link if that is easier.  I keep all my COH files on an external drive since I lost Sentinel.

In the Icon article that was replied to you, you'll find some info on the Pop Menus specifically. Better info is stickied at the top of the Icon forum section. That's a nice way to change maps.

[Peacemaker]

I not so much forgot but just realized Perez Park was a reference to George Perez, along with neighborhoods named after Neil Gaiman, and Bill Everett. I just finished reading the city of heroes novels and realized that the covers of the novels were done by none other than George Perez.

[Felderburg]

I not so much forgot but just realized Perez Park was a reference to George Perez, along with neighborhoods named after Neil Gaiman, and Bill Everett. I just finished reading the city of heroes novels and realized that the covers of the novels were done by none other than George Perez.

Dark Astoria has references to horror icons, too: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Ingame_References

[Angel Phoenix77]

I didn't know there was a Icon In Atlas, until I watched a few let's plays 

[Aggelakis]

I didn't know there was a Icon In Atlas, until I watched a few let's plays 

They added it the same time they turned all trainers into tailors. Which means they wasted a decent amount of map making time fitting the Icon building into Atlas Park, only to directly supplant that with turning all trainers into tailors.

They added a Facemaker to Mercy Island at the same time. Again, wastefully.

[Triplash]

They added it the same time they turned all trainers into tailors. Which means they wasted a decent amount of map making time fitting the Icon building into Atlas Park, only to directly supplant that with turning all trainers into tailors.

I remember one of the devs saying the Atlas revamp was the work of one person (maybe two; been a while now ) over the course of about a year. The Icon was finished well before they decided to make the trainer-tailor change. Still lost time, but at least it was "honestly lost" and not just poor planning like some folks thought.

[Angel Phoenix77]

I remember one of the devs saying the Atlas revamp was the work of one person (maybe two; been a while now ) over the course of about a year. The Icon was finished well before they decided to make the trainer-tailor change. Still lost time, but at least it was "honestly lost" and not just poor planning like some folks thought.

I never understood, why make the trainers into costume stores, I can understand things like small insp.