I have a lot of great memories of CoH, so I'll share two of them with you.
I started playing the game back in the initial open beta at the urging of a friend of mine who was
was also in the beta.
Usually, I played solo primarily, but whenever he was on, we'd duo together. His playing pace was
typically much faster than mine, so frequently, he'd be in the lobby of whatever building we'd be in,
jumping around like a mexican jumping bean while waiting for me to get there (he's a huge fan of
Super Jump and Combat Jumping).
On this particular mission we were tasked to clear out the rabble from some warehouse, and as usual,
he arrived first and was hopping around the lobby like a ping-pong ball. Just a few seconds after I
zoned in, one of his hops managed to get his character stuck in between the security camera and the
wall.
It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen - his toon just "hanging" on the wall. Even more amusing,
was that /stuck wouldn't free him, and by this time, the both of us are laughing hysterically. I forget now,
how exactly we finally did get him off the wall (TP friend, or a GM, I think), but I'll never forget the look.
The second one is in the "payback's a b*tch" category. In the early days, before the hollows, your contact
would send you to Perez Park - typically when it was still several levels higher than you. Invariably,
your mission would be in the twisty little maze of forest paths that weren't visible on the map (one of
the few mods I downloaded was a map of those #^$%&^# passages).
As a blaster, this was a Very Bad Thing, and several times I'd get hospitalized trying to get to the mission
door and/or trying to get back out again after the mission. That doesn't even include the cases of Kill 10
(CoT, Skulls, Hellions, Clockwork etc) in Perez Park missions. Ouch.
As you can imagine, that area was as much a source of dread as
any place in game, for my Blaster,
at the time.
Fast forward a bit, and my Blaster is now L50, and a well accomplished Super Hero. One Saturday,
in broadcast, some poor lowbie was grousing about Perez Park, and it brought back all the early (&
painful) memories my blaster had suffered in PP, and ... it was time for retribution
I spent the next couple of hours in PP laying waste to anything and everything I came across in that
zone, and I can tell you all, that while I didn't get a single XP point or influence for it, there was a pretty
large, self-satisfied smile on my face the entire time.
Cheers,
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