As long as I live, I will never forget the night I was shooting distance from several PVPers who DIDN'T kill me, and the coolest one of all - the one that DID!
As long as I live, I will never forget the night I was shooting distance from several PVPers who DIDN'T kill me, and the coolest one of all - the one that DID!
One of my all time favs was a knockback of massive proportions...we've all knocked baddies off buildings ,cliffs, and all sorts of high and dangerous places. I was playing my first blaster, an energy/energy named Rail Gun in a FrostFire run in the Hollows. On one of those incredibly long hallways covered in ice, I smacked one of those bad guys with an energy punch and to my surprise he shot down the hallway clean out of sight! Even the target marker turned off because he had sailed clean out of range! My teammate who had been fighting next to me blasted out in caps, NOW THATS A KNOCKBACK! One of my absolute big time laugh out loud for several minutes scenarios! This was about two weeks after I started CoH in Nov 05. I have SO many great memories of fantastic feats in CoH!
I don't know who came up with the idea, but back before the devs nerfed Power Boost so that it didn't boost the knockback in a power, someone invented 'Hellion Golf'. Ideally, you would have a high-level En/En blaster with Power Push six-slotted for knockback, and you would go into Atlas Park and find a conveniently-positioned Hellion, hit Power Boost, then hit the Hellion with Power Push. Between the level disparity increasing knockback, the maximum Knockback enhancement in the power, and Power Boost cranking it to the cap, you could expect to toss the Hellion most of the way across the zone.
I remember one night, it had to have been around 4am. I was soloing and I happened to be in Kings Row behind a section of apartment buildings. It was dark and I came upon a level 32 baddie. I guess he was the remnants of an ambush that had occurred nearby. I was far enough away not to aggro him (I was a level 10). It just seemed so scary.
My gosh... there are so many.I also played Infinity (my home server!) I started late, under issue 15, and while I had watched friends play Ultima Online, EverQuest, WoW, it wasn't until City of Heroes that I wanted to play! Back in 2009, Infinity was excellent! But since I had created toons on various other servers (just to try them) it wasn't long (about 1 year) before i was playing on Virtue, then Justice and then Victory just about full-time, so most of my game play was on Justice and Victory, but I always came back to Infinity and kept my global handle toon (and first 50) there, teaming up occasionally with old and new friends. Good memories. :)
I remember back in summer of 2004. I was a complete newb at CoH, in fact I had never played an MMO before (with the exception of trying out Disney's Toontown for my niece). I remember logging on (Infinity Server) and there were so many heroes playing. It was impossible NOT to team with someone. I'd play for 5... 6... 7 hours at a time, every night (I worked the swing shift and would not get home until around 12:45am).
I remember one night, it had to have been around 4am. I was soloing and I happened to be in Kings Row behind a section of apartment buildings. It was dark and I came upon a level 32 baddie. I guess he was the remnants of an ambush that had occurred nearby. I was far enough away not to aggro him (I was a level 10). It just seemed so scary.
Near the end, it was sad when I would log onto Infinity and there would only be a handful playing.
So we head there, and zone it and just the shear sound of the Rikti beaming down spooked us. We stayed in the zone for a bit then hightailed it outta there. :o
You meant the Rikti Crash Site (via Crey's Folly). And I know what you mean about the Rikti incoming teleport Portal sound. It creeped me the Hell out for a longest time. It wasn't until I had to suck it up, so I could farm the Rikti Portals to get enough Prestige to build out my first solo SG Base. After, I think, about 8 levels farming the Portals (until I outleveled the zone), I was finally benumbed to the sound.
Pretty sure they meant Crey's Folly, as there were Rikti all over it.