What Stuff Have You Forgotten Was in the Game

Steelhelm · July 09, 2014, 10:07:42 PM

Quote from: Relitner on July 09, 2014, 09:46:03 PM
I played the first Shard TF and fell asleep at the keyboard after about 8 hours... :-[

EIGHT hours?!?! Are you kidding me?!
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I HAVE to try it IMMEDIATELY when/if CoH comes back. Anyone want to form a group in advance for this? :P

Tinybolt · July 10, 2014, 03:58:50 AM

Quote from: Steelhelm on July 09, 2014, 10:07:42 PM
EIGHT hours?!?! Are you kidding me?!
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I HAVE to try it IMMEDIATELY when/if CoH comes back. Anyone want to form a group in advance for this? :P

Me! It's something I never did while in game but always wanted to...I never had the right characters for it when I had friends that ran it (super jump before temp powers=pain in the you know what).

And there's way to speed them but they're all endurance fests, even with the speed run.

Thirty-Seven · July 10, 2014, 04:01:52 AM

I'll be happy to join you folks! Its long and grueling, but I think I did all of them but 1.

*goes to check badges*

Edit: Nope, I actually did all 4 of 'em on my badger.

Aggelakis · July 10, 2014, 04:02:31 AM

I never took eight hours to do any of them. I think my max time was five and a half for Dr Q.

Granted, later on, with mission port (and later, team mission port), time was cut WAY down.

Thirty-Seven · July 10, 2014, 04:05:46 AM

I think my run of Doc Q was over 8 hours... but we did take an hour break for lunch IIRC.

MWRuger · July 10, 2014, 04:23:28 AM

I would gladly do it. I know it's long but I always wanted to. I'll even server transfer if I have to. I had to do Hami so why not?

MaidMercury · July 10, 2014, 04:46:20 AM

I'm sure I would need to practice using menu a little, however, I haven't forgotten my fav places in Paragon.

Von Krieger · July 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PM

Was just reminded about how you could hit your battle cry button during the cutscenes. I never used my battle cry otherwise, but I now recall that I often had people cracking up by using my battle cry at the most appropriate (or inappropriate) places in the scenes.

Said battle cry was "...in my pants."

I think my shining moment of glory was on the BAF incarnate trial. I think damned near every line spoken was made hilarious by a perfectly timed "...in my pants."

Minotaur · July 10, 2014, 01:56:42 PM

Quote from: Aggelakis on July 10, 2014, 04:02:31 AM
I never took eight hours to do any of them. I think my max time was five and a half for Dr Q.

Granted, later on, with mission port (and later, team mission port), time was cut WAY down.

Try doing it with a team of 40s on SOs (with the difficulty bumped up to +1 at the start and +2 when we levelled) :)

We had a set team in the old days that could steamroller anything less than +5 easily, so we did a 13.5 hour Dr Q over 4 weeks one evening a week.

Relitner · July 10, 2014, 06:35:27 PM

Quote from: Steelhelm on July 09, 2014, 10:07:42 PM
EIGHT hours?!?! Are you kidding me?!
...
I HAVE to try it IMMEDIATELY when/if CoH comes back. Anyone want to form a group in advance for this? :P

Aye... There were a lot of team wipes. It was not a "clean" run.

Edit: It was all the [censored] Paragon Protectors that ate our lunch IIRC

Brightfires · July 10, 2014, 07:03:42 PM

Here's where I admit to being something of a masochist...

Since my "bird-thing" characters were supposed to be Rularuu themselves (Non-canon, obviously. Their collective back-story was that they were Faathim's creatures-) I took a certain amount of pride in running those tedious, ye-gods-long Shard TFs on as many of them as I could. At the very least, I liked them each to have the Protector of Kindness badge from Justin Augustine's.

Nasty old Circle magi going after THEIR boss? They took that personally. ;D

Shenku · July 10, 2014, 07:15:48 PM

I had made it a point to do all the Shard TFs at least once(for the badges...), but I think that the worst I ever had with Doc Q was about 7ish hours split between 2 nights of play. Yes it was a long TF, but once you got use to working with your teammates and knowing what they were capable of, you got into a good rhythm, really got to have fun with the folks, and the missions just flew by. For me anyways...

Then again I think I was on my scrapper, so Scrapper Lock probably took over and kept me from noticing anything else other than just mauling the crap out of things...... :P

MWRuger · July 10, 2014, 07:28:06 PM

I like to maul things. I like to blast things. Sounds doable to me!

Serpine · July 10, 2014, 07:42:41 PM

Now to go a bit negative: Today thanks to a post somebody else made I was reminded of the random purchasable virtual card thing where you had like a 1 in 500 chance of getting a pet black dog. My mind had totally managed to blank out any recollection that CoX had such a thing, which allowed me to feel more annoyance at similar schemes in other games. Definitely something I hope doesn't transition if the game ever relaunches.

Brightfires · July 10, 2014, 07:57:57 PM

Yeah... I argued against those things pretty strongly on the beta forums... I was the one who opened something like 600 packs when they were testing it before I found the wolf. I still think it's just a bad, bad, bad idea to put ANYTHING exclusive into a rando-gen like that, especially if you're going to monkey with the odds to make those exclusives rarer than hen's teeth.

DBadger · July 10, 2014, 09:41:40 PM

Quote from: Hellkat on July 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PM
Was just reminded about how you could hit your battle cry button during the cutscenes. I never used my battle cry otherwise, but I now recall that I often had people cracking up by using my battle cry at the most appropriate (or inappropriate) places in the scenes.

Said battle cry was "...in my pants."

I think my shining moment of glory was on the BAF incarnate trial. I think damned near every line spoken was made hilarious by a perfectly timed "...in my pants."

Reminded me of when we ran levelling groups and in Faultline is was always a race to get to the boss spawn points before the cut scene to hit emots/battlecries etc

Steelhelm · July 10, 2014, 11:04:08 PM

Quote from: Relitner on July 10, 2014, 06:35:27 PM
Aye... There were a lot of team wipes. It was not a "clean" run.

Edit: It was all the [censored] Paragon Protectors that ate our lunch IIRC

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?

Serpine · July 11, 2014, 12:03:12 AM

Quote from: Hellkat on July 10, 2014, 01:46:57 PMI think my shining moment of glory was on the BAF incarnate trial. I think damned near every line spoken was made hilarious by a perfectly timed "...in my pants."

I battlecry "Squeek!" during that... Not nearly as funny.

Relitner · July 11, 2014, 02:08:18 AM

Quote from: Steelhelm on July 10, 2014, 11:04:08 PM
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?

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

*shudders*

MWRuger · July 11, 2014, 04:15:57 AM

Quote from: Relitner on July 11, 2014, 02:08:18 AM
"Moment of Glory" or MOG... essentially sixty seconds of becoming an unkillable blender of death.

*shudders*

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.