It's the little things I really miss the most.

[doc7924]

I know Memorial Weekend used to be a biggie for COH ad I miss it more this weekend then I ever have.

Its the little things that I can never see again, since no other game will be COH:

Waiting with your team outside a mission while you wait for someone to level up or the leader is looking for more members and everyone is just chit-chatting or killing local mobs or showing off emotes.

Waiting when you get just inside your mission while everyone 'suits up' and gets buffed, turns on toggles, spawn pets, whatever.

The excitement when you level up and its a new power level and you can't wait to go train.

Doing the cool AV missions like Inferno ad Neuron and all those.

Hitting levels 10, 20 and 30 and running to Icon to get new costume slots.

Hanging around in RWZ with 50 or so people waiting to do a raid.

Creating a new toon and making beeline to get on a sewer team to hit level 7 or 8 in about 20 mins.

Halloween! (trick or treating n the doors)


There is so many things I miss besides the actual gameplay.

99% of he people I have teamed with or got friendly with or joined SGs were just so much fun to hang out with.

Even the 1% or idiots I teamed with were amusing in their own way.


I have been playing DCU and CO and maybe some things they do are better ten COH was, but a whole experience, nothing will beat COH.

[Reaper]

Even the 1% or idiots I teamed with were amusing in their own way.

This.  But I would change it to could be amusing in their own way.  Although I had many laughs at their expense, there were a few that just plain annoyed me.  However, I wouldn't let it get to me.  There were always more friendly people than not.  :)

[Golden Girl]

Its the little things that I can never see again, since no other game will be COH:

That's true - technically ;)

[Virlouny]

There was usually a little thing in the story, here are some examples:

Mu - A real...thing...ish. Well, I heard about it before City of [Supers], it's like Atlantis. Mu is the name of a fictional continent that was once believed to have existed in one of Earth's oceans, but disappeared at the dawn of human history.

Babbage - Named after Charles Babbage. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century. He did this in the 1800! So advanced, that investors couldn't even wrap their minds around it.  :-\

There's more, there was always something, but it was little stuff like this that made playing the game so much fun to me.

[Triplash]

The pinball machines in the back room at Wents and in Pocket D... if you stood close enough you'd hear little pinball machine noises.

If you stood under a tree the leaves would slowly fall all around you.

If you used certain powers near a mailbox the mail would come flying out.

The pumpkins that would spawn around Eochai and Jack at Halloween. I once kicked one from Argosy Industrial Park clear across to Ms Liberty's dais. Up the steps and everything. It was hard kicking things up steps in that game, too. You had to go reeeaaallly slow or they'd go flying off in random directions. That was fun, dangit!

The junk that would come from using Propel. "I'm going to arrest you by throwing a forklift at you!" *sigh*

Dual Vanguard glowy-katanas. One red and one green.

Ninja running with a katana or axe drawn.

The flippy bit at the top of a ninja run jump. If you were moving backward when you jumped, you'd do a backflip. And if you were strafing when you jumped you'd do a side flip. God, the flippy bits... with the little whooshing sounds...

Keeping a friend company while he unlocked the Rularuu weapons one night, and finding out they unlocked for my shield and axe at the same time.  ...That one guy afterward who asked me in total amazement how a level 12 character managed to get Rularuu weapons unlocked.

Unlocking the tommy gun assault rifle model, and giving that alt a mobster outfit to match.

There was always one level 6 Hellion lieutenant spawned in Atlas Park who had a proper name. Ash, or Smoke, or Burn, or what have you. The name and spawn location of the new guy would move around each time you took one out, but there would always be one. Why? Why was there one named guy? Was it for a mission that never got added? An easter egg? Some kind of spawn rate test? There had to be a reason... I was determined to get to the bottom of it.

The 'crouch' emote on a roof ledge.

Popmenus.

[GamingGlen]

I find lots of things I miss, especially now that I can run or fly in the game (can you switch zones once inside?)  I really do miss WALKing, though.

One of the things I like to do is write a story using screenshots in City of Heroes: graphic stories if you will.  Without emotes it makes it much harder to do now (i.e., no sitting).  I'm working on one now for the background story of a sci-fi RPG  character I'm playing in a tabletop sf campaign.  I could use Star Trek Online, but the costume options are severely limited; although I have cut and paste a CoH character into a STO scene.

[srmalloy]

The 'crouch' emote on a roof ledge.

If you went to Nerva at night, on the islet the hospital sat on, you would find the Council Equinoxes (aka 'vampires') in that pose on the edges of the roofs.

[DJMoose]

Ninja running with a katana or axe drawn.

The flippy bit at the top of a ninja run jump. If you were moving backward when you jumped, you'd do a backflip. And if you were strafing when you jumped you'd do a side flip. God, the flippy bits... with the little whooshing sounds...

The 'crouch' emote on a roof ledge.

All of these; but the last one in particular.  Every character I had with a cape crouched on a rooftop and had a Batman moment. 

I actually miss ALOT of the emotes CoH had.

And lest I forget the hands on hips/crossed arms default idle; I miss this the most from any superhero game I have played since.

[Reiraku]

Going into the middle of a mob on a MM and using the "waiting" emote while your crew cleaned up.

Even better on teams.

[healix]

The real sounds of running on grass, sand, wood and metal....

Watching the windows in buildings light up as the sun went down...

Seeing a good friend (who you haven't seen in a while) log on...

Sitting on top of the highest rock above the waterfall in the Dragon's Teeth, and watching the sun set over the ocean...

Swimming...

Listening to the ambient sounds from Perez Park...

Laughing at so many NPC comments, and seeing them use your name...

[General Idiot]

NPC comments with your character name in them were a source of endless hilarity, yes. Also, I really miss being able to get my character into cutscenes. Made me crack up laughing the first few times I saw people dancing in front of Marauder in the Lamba trial. And I have a screenshot somewhere of a full team (Minus the one guy who had to trigger it) standing in a cutscene doing /e eatfood. So the villain's going on about their plan and such and there's seven heroes just chilling out behind them absently munching on sandwiches.

Also: Physics. Sure it was a bug but knocking someone off a bridge only to have them catch on the side and spend the rest of the fight just hanging there spazzing out was always hilarious. Also, I have many screenshots of enemies in compromising positions after death. Guys with their heads embedded in a ceiling, guys impaled on their own swords, guys who landed on a fence in the most painful way possible... :p

Edit: Here's another one I bet some of you don't know about. Self-destruct. Or more accurately self-destruct on a character with an aura, preferrably a full body one. When you exploded it made your body invisible but the aura remained, so you'd get this random aura just hanging in midair in the most ridiculous pose.

[JaguarX]

NPC comments with your character name in them were a source of endless hilarity, yes. Also, I really miss being able to get my character into cutscenes. Made me crack up laughing the first few times I saw people dancing in front of Marauder in the Lamba trial. And I have a screenshot somewhere of a full team (Minus the one guy who had to trigger it) standing in a cutscene doing /e eatfood. So the villain's going on about their plan and such and there's seven heroes just chilling out behind them absently munching on sandwiches.

Yeah that was goood stuff until people started to spaz out and gripe about that.

Ironically, for all the times I seen people in that cut scene I have never once ever seen it crash, especially if it was supposed to crash immediately and or Maurader immediately flees and cause instant fail as often as people say it does. Probably juts people taking stuff too seriously and or just trying to control every aspect of how other people play.

[Virlouny]

Laughing at so many NPC comments, and seeing them use your name...

/agree! These never stopped being a good laugh.

[General Idiot]

Yeah that was goood stuff until people started to spaz out and gripe about that.

Ironically, for all the times I seen people in that cut scene I have never once ever seen it crash, especially if it was supposed to crash immediately and or Maurader immediately flees and cause instant fail as often as people say it does. Probably juts people taking stuff too seriously and or just trying to control every aspect of how other people play.

The only way that happens is if the people who were in the cutscene are stupid and stand close enough to where Marauder spawns properly at the end of it to aggro him, AND if they then run in the exact wrong direction to pull him out the door.

[JaguarX]

The only way that happens is if the people who were in the cutscene are stupid and stand close enough to where Marauder spawns properly at the end of it to aggro him, AND if they then run in the exact wrong direction to pull him out the door.

Yeah I figured it was more complicated than common belief that merely being in the cutscene caused crash or immediate failure that resulted in the usual reaction of "You stood in the cutscene!!! NOOOB!!!" *kicked from team*, even for some that accidentially ended up in the cutscene after respawning got kicked in many cases I seen.

[silvers1]

Yeah I figured it was more complicated than common belief that merely being in the cutscene caused crash or immediate failure that resulted in the usual reaction of "You stood in the cutscene!!! NOOOB!!!" *kicked from team*, even for some that accidentially ended up in the cutscene after respawning got kicked in many cases I seen.

The only time that I got irritated was when the objective of obtaining the max number of debuff powers failed - then you see several people posing in the cutscene....  People sitting there waiting for the cutscene rather than contributing to the mission objectives, and causing said objectives to fail is unconsciable.

[Lycantropus]

The first thing I did when I loaded up Icon was go to Atlas and spend at least a half hour just flying in and out of the Atlas Park 'area' just for the visual approach to Atlas holding the globe and hearing the main theme swell up. I didn't realize how much I missed that alone.

It's still the first thing I do when I run it.

I loved the NPC texts too, especially when they popped up out of context, or showed one of the Dev's sense of humor. I still remember not being able to catch my breath after having a Skull (or maybe Hellion, but pretty sure a Skull) proclaiming something like "I'm going to do a B and E on your face! Wait... that didn't sound right..." (referring to breaking and entering) the fact something like that made it into the live game still tickles me.

Lyc~

[Optimus Dex]

I miss the little odd areas of COH.  The dome on top of the building they put in the revamp of Atlas Park. In Kings row there as an area that was like a little park between two large towers- hardly ever saw anyone there. Also in Kings Row thee was a building  that if you walked under the overhang you could fly up to an enclosed area of ledges. Something similar in COV on the second map near Arachnos main building.

[Super Firebug]

I loved the NPC texts too, especially when they popped up out of context, or showed one of the Dev's sense of humor.

I enjoyed those, too. Like a purse-snatch victim's very-California protestation, "Stop! You're making poor life choices!" Or the street thug prying, prying, prying at the manhole cover: "This is ridiculous! I work out, for crying out loud!" Or the similar comment by a street thug watching his buddy in a perpetual tug-of-war with a woman over her purse (which had a VERY strong purse strap). Little things like that showed how much the devs truly enjoyed what they did. We were very lucky, as players, to be part of that. I started wondering if we might, someday, get comments about our toons that dealt with not-so-heroic moments, like leaving a flying toon on autorun: "I saw Captain Heroname fly right into the side of a building. What a klutz!"

[Triplash]

I loved the NPC texts too, especially when they popped up out of context, or showed one of the Dev's sense of humor.

Oh heck yeah. I remember seeing this one in Atlas after the revamp:

"Worried Citizen: I dropped a twenty and the wind blew it away. When are you police going to do something about the wind around here?"

;D