With all of the talk about the games possible return, it got me digging up old frap files I had stored away on my hard drive. It really made me think about all of the good times I had playing PvE as well as PvP.
I know PvP wasn't a huge part of the game. In fact it was generally frowned upon and for most people forgotten. But me, I loved it.
So for old times sake, I slapped together a couple of videos with some salvageable gameplay that I never used.
My Stalker Hyper Stealth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_PEe0WB1FU
My Tank Hyper Ai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQtHGkoCMo
Hopefully these wont be the last videos I post. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some new gameplay to record in the near future.
I have to say, if my pvp battles had lasted as long as yours did against "Killer Regen" (from the first video) I'd have probably enjoyed it more.
I had a couple/few friends in game that really enjoyed it. However, some of them got into it with some other friends and next thing ya know, there were three sets of friends, each group upset with the other two - so much so, that they wouldn't team up in iTrial action years later. Seems kind of silly now - well, it was silly back then, but many people mistake passion for immaturity, and others mistake kindness for weakness, blah, blah.
But, before issue 13, I really liked pvp when I was in the mood for it. Stalkers really bugged me, particularly when I couldn't see them unless I had clear mind from @sinala, my favorite emp of all time. (On an aside, anyone know her? She quit playing sometime after issue 13, never did see her in game again. )
Energizing Ion is right, I think. If the multiple builds had been done first, I think CoH could have recovered from the silly pvp "fix".
Yet, in this case, even hindsight isn't 20/20. We'll never know for sure.