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One More Fat Nerd posted:CoH is the only MMO I ever enjoyed, and I downloaded homecoming thanks to this LP. Spent about two hours in character creation so far, no actual gameplay yet tho, lol. In high school I'd constantly design new characters in the creator but never play them.
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playing CoX with goons is probably the most fun i had with an MMO. put way more hours into EQ/WoW, but CoX is probably the one i had the most concentrated fun in. getting a group of 8 people, setting the difficulty to max, and either bulldozing or getting bulldozed by enormous pulls of enemies i think the only character i got to 50 on was The Honorable Senator McCarthy, Thug/Poison Mastermind. named most of the thugs after members of the mccarthy committee, but the big motherfucker end thug? Ronald Reagan. because obviously
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Jan 5, 2023 18:53
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I had a Grav/Storm Controller back in the day named The Flying Suit, burying the villains in the stormy gravity of paperwork. I'm in the background of one or two of the big goon CoH screenshots and I have nothing but fond memories. If you need any rando team partners for a mission or two I'm happy to hop on any of my villain/vigilante characters and help with anything.
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Jan 5, 2023 19:02
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Wait, COH's shutdown was a Decade ago? Goddamn Time flies.
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Jan 5, 2023 20:35
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Deki posted:Wait, COH's shutdown was a Decade ago? 
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Jan 5, 2023 20:40
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I remember getting this game back in like '06 or '07 I think, and playing with one of my co-workers. One of the first and only times anyone in real life called me "master sord". Ah memories! I'm tempted to jump on but I'm out of space at the moment.
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Jan 6, 2023 02:15
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This game owns. I seem to remember the writing quality/coding for missions in CoX really jumping in quality a few years before the shutdown, but CoV always had higher quality writing than CoH, in my opinion. I had a Robotics/Force Field Mastermind and casting the two single target force field buffs on every single one of my bots (plus any teammates I would be with) and making sure that they stayed up at all times was a loving nightmare. Often, by the time I'd gotten done setting the last force field up, the first one would need to be replaced. The absolute dopamine rush I got from siccing all my bots on some poor unsuspecting Longbow operative with the press of a button was always worth it, though. I've never found any game that had a class that played quite like the Mastermind, which is a real shame.
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Jan 6, 2023 02:48
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Good news on that score, the force field basic power now bubbles everyone at once with one click.
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Jan 6, 2023 08:29
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MMOs tend to address major balance and QoL issues.... eventually. It always takes ages. I played early EQ and it was awful - I'm vaguely ashamed that I played it. The game was so punitive, so glacially paced, there was only one healer class that was worth a poo poo... of course, it took them years to address any of it.
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Jan 6, 2023 16:36
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God, CoX was pretty much the only MMO that successfully convinced me to constantly subscribe to it, up until it's shut down. I still remember most of my characters: Flint Hadows, dual pistol wielding detective for the PPD, with some magical powers over the shadows to help him out. Simon Fawkes, beam rifle wielding mercenary loaded with traps, and willing to sell his services to the right bidder. Seth Weston, dual wielding cowboy also bearing some traps, and a former villain, now working as part of Hero Corps in Paragon City. And finally, Kharn Bloodaxe/Bloodege, wielder of stupidly huge objects, and a former overlord who constantly got foiled in his world, and decided to try his luck in Mercy Isle. Guess that didn't pan out either. Did Homecoming ever implement the Gadget Belt pool power? It was something my "normal" characters could've used. Edit: Turns out I accidentally blended Gadgetry and Utility Belt together. Gilgamesh255 fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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Jan 20, 2023 22:46
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So when people settled on CoX for what to call the pair of MMOs, this was an absolutely deliberate choice of phonics, right?
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Jan 20, 2023 23:00
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Gadget Pool and Sorcery Pool do exist in Homecoming.
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Jan 20, 2023 23:00
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FoolyCharged posted:So when people settled on CoX for what to call the pair of MMOs, this was an absolutely deliberate choice of phonics, right? yes 100%
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Jan 21, 2023 00:59
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Hell yeah! Such a great MMO. Played City of Heroes for years back in the day. But quit before ever getting a single max level villain despite having about a dozen max level heroes. The whole dark and gloomy art direction of the Rogue Isles just didn't do it for me I guess.
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I should note a slight correction regarding the tutorial; villains no longer have to be broken out of jail, rather, they share it with heroes now in the now effectively nuked Galaxy City. That's right, the new tutorial features the rarely visited Galaxy City getting utterly borked, by new Shivans to boot, and your character has to fight their way out of there. Near the end, you get to make a choice which makes you either hero or villain, and fight a huge Shivan boss (who's kind of actually not that strong for his size).
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