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>>258552721
>City of Heroes
Literally what?
Hope it happens
I was wondering how the private server project was going. Good to know people are still trying to revive this game.
>>258553450
this
>>258554784
This isn't a private server.
>>258552721
Does this mean I might get to play my beloved Ice/Ice blaster again?
>>258553450
it's ok, we just knew you turned 18. Happy birthday
>>258555518
>Not playing a Fire/Ice Steamloard
Jump is still best mobility.
>>258555276
I know that but it's the same end goal of being able to play CoH again.
>>258555604not him but i actually did just turn 18 and i probably have 2k+ hours in CoH
i doubt anything will come of this, ncsoft is the devil
>>258555646
>Implying I shouldnt be loyal to my elemental waifu.
pretty cool
Teleporter here Flyers are fags.
Speeders are cool
>>258552721
Who?
Holy fucking shit. I miss my 50 Stalker Akimoto Yuuko. Made her when I was 11.
>>258556025
>'thepaper'
>not 'REMEMBER ME EDDIE'
>>258556241
>mfw SJ/SS combo
I miss my Evil Richie Rich Merc/Traps Mastermind.
Wish I had screenshots saved...
>>258556027
>Implying heat doesn't also involve cold as a power
Super speed also requires super breaks.
Oh god yes
>>258556495
WHEN I KILLED YOUR BROTHER I TALKED JUST LIKE THIIIS
rip bob hoskins
>>258556762
Mastermind was amazing.
>tfw I went full retard and accidentally sent my robots into a giant mob and got my entire team killed
Good times.
>>258556798
>Implying I ever want heat near me.
Cold weather is best weather
dc universe is better so why bother with this?
Posting my old screenshots because I'm giddy there is a CoH thread on /v/.
>>258557146
No its not.
>>258556405
>tfw i made a robot gentleman in a suit
>people called me daft punk
>didn't know what daft punk was
Good times.
>>258552721
Yay I can make slutty heroes and prudish villains again!
>>258557138
Cold is the lack of energy, you wanna bring on the heat death of the universe? What a fucking dick
>you will never party hard at pocket d
>>258557282
Yes it is
>>258552721
Dear god, I'm actually looking forward to all of my characters being wiped and having to re-level my characters.
Glorious rebirth of GOAT MMO.
I may even bite the bullet and learn how to RP Macro with Mastermind Minions.
Hamidon in Pocket D. The developers were fucking around so much that day.
po' one for one of the best MMOs ever.
>they're still trying to get CoH back
Holy shit I thought they gave up already.
Too bad they're dealing with the EA of gooks.
>>258556241
>not using flight to freely explore the map, including outside the boundries
I remember my villain guild applauding me in getting every single exploration badge when the game launched and thus activating all the teleport units like a day after CoV's launch at level.. what, ten? eleven? Whenever actual Flight became available. It was so bloody long ago I forget now.
http://cityoftitans.com/
>>258557614
Nuh uh
Cuppa Jo. Anyone remember her?
>>258556241
What about leapers?
>>258557608
>pocket D
Devs being assholes.
>>258557843
>Picking easy mode
Holy shit please happen
>>258557608
>Pocket D
>not Club .. holy fucking shit I don't even remember anymore I am a bad CoH fan
Ghost Widow was at one of the parties.
>>258558302
>easy mode
more like most fun mode
>>258552721
VIRTUE REPRESENT.
Sergeant Blade reporting. (@Jagblade)
Where were you when it ended? I was teleporting people into the "Matrix Room."
>>258557843
I used to do shit like this in WoW, fun times
>>258558437
I remember when it wasn't called Pocket D and was just a generic warehouse interior with poor lighting and laser beams.
>>258558437
>ThugMastermindUsesGangwar.jpg
>>258558647
I was taking selfies so I could remake my chars if the game was revived.
>>258558647
FOK YEAH VIRTUE @MadInferno reporting.
>>258557751
RIP Atomman
>>258558605
>not making mad dosh being a teleporting taxi
>>258558647
I was chilling with a two friends and everyone else in Pocket D after speed running a bank robbery 10 minutes before servers went down
Don't get your hopes up people.
Other than destroying amazing MMO's, NCSoft is also known for never ever selling their old stuff and shutting down any attempt at trying to rebirth even through original source code.
So what was /v/'s favorite support powerset and why is it Forcefields?
>>258559416
>Not Kinetics
city of heroes blows dongs
bring back exsteel instead
>>258559667
>implying anyone would play it with SD Gundam Capsule Fighter around
literally the same game but better, besides the chibi shit.
plus asians have real gundam games.
>>258559416
Kinetics is objectively the best.
>Standing around AP handing out free SB to people
I'm starting a fundraiser in order to bring back Wildstar after it's inevitable shutdown.
Donate at Kickstarter.us.com
Thank you
>>258558647
I had stopped playing long before the end of the world, like 2007 or so, but I was still sad to hear it ending.
>mfw this Rikti wanted to have a fucking knife fight
>>258559554
Kinetics was fun. But I could never get into playing it.
>>258559786
MOOOOOOOT
>City of Heros
SCREENCAP TIME
/v/ should buy Tribes
>>258559554
>choosing the babies first defender set
>not choosing manly forcefields
>not standing and laughing as your entire team never needs heals
>>258560146
Do you have the one with one anon talking about how he caused drama from pretending to be a girl?
>>258560552
>how he caused drama from pretending to be a girl?
That doesn't help Anon.
>>258560430
>Babies first defender set
>Not Empathy
>>258559416
Empathy master race.
>>258560669
Thats all I have on it...
It was last year I believe.
I used to play an Empathy Defender on Pinnacle.
No one ever died in any team I was in.
Sad I never had that kind of success on any other game.
>>258560146
You stole my image you twat. Also, god damn it Moot fix this shit
>>258560136
>>258553450
>>258555015
So this is what /v/ has turned into.
>>258559857
The Rikti were fucking crazy, man
I was flying around in Crey's Folly one day and found a group of them just blasting this old abandoned car.
>>258553450
>tfw neo /v/ is so god damn real
Man...
>>258560430
>Forcefield Defender
>Set up defenses
>Spend rest of time RP'ing your hero with wisecracking banter
I miss this fucking game.
Thug is objectively the best Mastermind minion.
Mercenaryfags go and stay go
>>258560916
Empathy was great. I loved that shit.
GO
HUNT
KILL SKULS
>>258560840
I think Young Face 10 was the only good female face. I used it on all my characters.
>>258561269
So what you're telling me isYou know that feel?
>>258557843
Flight was objectively best for a scrapper. The attack had a knock down that you could exploit in combat to stun-lock an enemy of your choice. 1v1 was trivial if you had faster cooldowns, and watching villains cry in agony as their dumb mastermind was pinned to the ground was priceless.
>>258561252
Demons were pretty good too, even if they only did fire damage.
>>258558647
VIRTUE HERE
Officer of Ex-Patriots StealthUnit1 HERE
Come at me bro
Okay this is going to be a bit of a stretch.
WHO VIRTUE TEAM APEX HERE?
>>258561252
>Not being a beast mastermind named the zookeeper
Don't make me break out Citizen Snips on you.
So I play a bit of Champions Online. What makes this game better?
I'm not trying to bash CoH, I honestly want to know since I never played it.
Better skill trees, mechanics, zones, dungeons. What made this game good?
>>258559416
Ez
Psonic/Energy Manipulation Blaster with Force Field spec for PFF
I loved watching people rage in pvp anlbout PFF BROKEN PLS GO
Just a reminder that everything NCSoft touches turns into liquid shit because the company is full of greedy beady eye'd hook nosed kikes.
>City of Heroes
>Tabula Rasa
>Lineage
>Wildstar
>City of Heroes/City of Villains
>Blade & Soul
Gravity/Kinetics controller here. Sorry you didn't get to move while we were fighting. Maybe if a new server launches, you'll get another chance.
>>258553450
what the actual fuck
>tfw city of heroes is my favorite game but i am the embodiment of flavor of the month and cant stick to anything for too long
Zombeh Defendar from virtue here FF/Rad/Dark defender
>>258561347
>babbie doesnt know about CoH
>falls back on MUH BOARD CULTURE instead
Stay faggot and never change
>>258556241
>tfw when leaper in CoV as an edgy martial artist man with a hood and bug legs
man why did these games have to die
>>258552721
Holy fuck is just nearly had a stroke reading this
>>258562527
>Babbie does know CoH
>still insists on MUH BOARD CULTURE
>age: 13 years old
>>>/reddit/
So why exactly did they kill off CoH? What was the reason exactly?
So If they manage to get the rights from NCSOFT whos up for a /v/ sg?
>>258561347
>>258562527
take your new somewhere else
>>258562772
Koreans are shittymy dad was a business man and all the japanese men he worked with told him koreans will always try to cheat you
>>258562527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSC_VjVhpok
>>258562012
The character creator for Champions Online was only a slight upgrade, which is saying a lot. And even then CoH put in the ability to customize the animations that your chracter uses.
The power system for CoH is MUCH easier to approach than Champions Online and the enhancements system was an amazing way to min-max characters.
Much more coherent introduction to the world and better quests, even at launch than Champions.
More content and the full separate villains game.
Going rogue actually added in quests where you can chose how to proceed and they would affect how your character advanced and what would open up for them. Even so far as switching from a hero to a villain and vice versa.
>>258562061
I personally loved when I grabbed Air Superiority and Flight on a Melee character and buttfucked ranged/flight easy mode kiddies thinking they could get free kills like low level PvE.
>>258562772
Because they're fucking stupid and make horrible decisions.
Remember Tabula Rasa? They're still being sued by Richard Garriott to this day.
>>258562772
NCSOFT hates the west.
CoH was still making them some pretty decent cash. They shut it down for no reason and refuse to tell anyone why.
I wish I had spent more time playing this instead of sinking my MMO time into Champions Online, I hope we get this game back some how.
NRG boxing gloves are the best shit.
>>258562772
CoH became too expensive to run, not enough people were buying ingame content
>>258562873
>believing jap lies
>>258562873
That's because Japanese hate all other asians, all asians hate all asians.
>>258562772
Not profitable enough / successful enough in the eastern market. Super Heroes are more of a western thing.
>>258562996
But thats wrong.
CoH was making a profit at the time of shutdown.
>>258562273
Tabula Rasa didn't really have long enough time to breath to turn into shit. It was born then immediately nailed into a coffin.
>>258562996
>game dies because the playerbase wasn't children abusing baby boomer parents money
>>258562996
Wasn't it still generating profit up till shutdown?
Hell I kind of remember it being on a positive trend.
As someone who played Star Wars Galaxies and completely missed this game, what made CoH so good?
>>258563205
Really? Shit. That's just how I understood what was happening.
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,9675.0.html
as far as i know this is the thread about buying city of heroes
>>258561681
And I was a Scrapper.
>>258561160
I think that was just an issue spawns had sometimes. I caught this group of Elements breaking into.. nothing. This was during the transitional "construction" period before the buildings went up that Hellions could randomly torch.
>>258562273
and now Guild Wars 1Theres reports that NCSoft is thinking of shutting down GW1
>>258562989
God damn it
Okay awhike ago me and another Paragon employee came to /v/ to discuss this.
I was a PR om the forums along with Lighthouse and other employee's
The truth of the matter was really Paragon studios/Cryptic wanting to move CoH franchise to another publisher due to NCSoft not having the best "interests"in line with the game. This entered a Dispute between NCSoft and the Dev's of CoH with which court hearings were filed and Cryptic lost to NCSoft.
The response after this was to shut it down to work on GW2 and other projects(this was NCSpft plan for YEARS with only Paragon Studios and Cryptic defending it)
With Cryptic out if the picture, some devs left for other projects and few stayed.
Its pretty shitty situation since then.
>>258555719
Superjump and Superspeed were the best combo.
>>258562920
>>258557843
>>258561681
>getting a group of lowbies together and ferrying them around with Group-Flight
>turn off Group-Flight
>>258563316
No like seriously it why almost all CoH fans are upset as fuck when it was getting shut down.
The game was generating a profit for ncsoft and they just decided one day to shut it down. They still refuse to tell anyone why they did this and have turned down almost any and all offers to buy the IP because "We looked to sell the franchise multiple times, however, we were unsuccessful in finding a suitable partner that we thought would support City of Heroes' fans in a manner they were accustomed to for years to come"
They just hate us.
I've never played this. How is this compared to DC universe online?
>>258563692
>not being god tier Fire/kin troller and charging your lowbie ferry ass 1 mil for a PL
Stay pleb :^)
>>258563595
>Cryptic has nothing to do with CoH at that point since they sold the rights to the IP and an unlimited license to the engine
>Paragon was formed by NCSoft to make the game after Cryptic left
>somehow Paragon employees decide that it is a good idea to sue a massive publisher
tripfag pls go
>>258552721
FUCK YES
i loved my thugs/trap mastermind
fucking doing 5 man missions with my traps that made the mobs throw up their guts with the brusier foot stomping
sending spirit sharks as a stalker in Recluse's victory...
TV farm with nemesis
good times
>>258561996
>>258561252
>>258561682
>Not being a robotics Mastermind
>Not naming your robots after Mega Man conventions
>Not being full techie and taking Force Fields as a secondary
All my robots were MTL-001 through MTL-006
...it got a little boring doing nothing but refreshing my 'bots bubbles all the time
>>258563595
>The response after this was to shut it down to work on GW2
OH FUCK I KNEW THAT WAS GOING TO BE A REASON, FUCK EVERYTHING I MAD
>Be a kid
>Hear about City of Heroes
>Holy shit this could be the best thing ever
>Game constantly gets delayed
>lose interest
>Game confirmed as an MMO
>lose all interest
>Game dies
>don't care
Alright, guys. I missed CoH sadly, only having witnessed life and death of EXTEEL. I have also played DC Online and Champion Online. What can you tell me about the game? If this game gets brought back, i would love to play it if it really is a whole different game. DC Online was bearable but a bit boring while Champions Online was REALLY bad. At least that's the way i remember it. If it matters, i LOVE customization in video games.
>>258558961
That's hilarious and awesome
>>258552721
I was honestly surprised to see so many people actually caring when CoH shutdown. I only played it at a friends house and then a trial at my house and both times it seemed like shit, just like every other MMO ever made that isn't Tibia before the Brazilians overran it.
>>258563873
>Cryptic was FORCED to sell it away after LOSING a lawsuit with NCSoft
>Most of cryptic left NCSoft and CoH and the few who remained were assimulated into Paragon studios by NCSoft so they had JOBS
>NCSoft stopped giving a fuck and continued to work on other porjects with the intent on shutting down CoH once a project was near completion
>your a fucking retard and think tripfag is wrong
Dumbass pls go, even Lighthouse fucking said this
>You will never watch muffin maiden and captain outhouse againfucking AE babies
>>258564236
CoH has one of the best character creators in game history.
>>258561170
>tripfag talking about neo /v/
I want summer to end
>>258563832
I don't even remember what those abbreviations mean, aside from pleb, but I'm just talking about suddenly dropping a bunch of lowbies from high the air for fun.
Why so serious?
if anybody wants to see the customization of city of heroes this still exists http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Titan_Icon
>>258564325
Peregrine Island? Is that near Atlas Park?
>>258553450
Fuck you.
>>258564451
Anything praisable concerning gameplay? Maybe there were a lot of classes there?
>mfw I made a Spikes/Willpower character and made him look like that one guy from Naruto with the bone powers
>>258563832
>not having a second client running with a brute/troller combo to make runs take half the time
it's like you don't want to get billions of free infamy
>>258564451
Star Trek Online surpassed it in facial customization
>>258564581
Translation for you: not being god tier Fire/kinetics controller and charging your low-level tag-along ass 1 million influence (the CoH currency) for a Power level.
>>258564898
>not the guy with boneitis from Futurama
>>258564908
Nigger ofc i did that.
Fuck i was the guy who showed players about the Snake Eggs PLing on Mercy Island til my coworkers found out about it and nerfed muh eggs ;.;
>tfw running earth brute for PLing
Feelsgreat.jpg
>>258564325
I cant find a link to that anywhere its pretty sad :(
>>258564874
5 archetypes with an offensive power pool and a defense power pool to pick from. Apart from archetype, there was no restriction on what combination you used. Heroes and villains differed fairly significantly with heroes focusing more on cooperative play and villains focusing on aggressive play.
>>258565027
Oh, thanks!
>>258563832
Nigga I did it for free whenever I was bored.
>>258564236
It was definetly a step behind CO for character model customization having less costume slots to edit and way less sliders (chest, hips, height and mass if I remember correctly) and in terms of powers you could pick a primary and secondary powerset (which could be attacks and defence, or support and dps, it depends on your role).
But the powersets were very diverse ranging from baseball bats and thuggish punching to swords made of fire and alien transformation and dimensional manipulation. Instead of gear you could augment your powers with bonuses like extra damage, less cooldown time etc and later on you would get additional power effects.
The world was diverse and the factions in the world well mostly very thought out and well designed. There was good variety for quests, bank robberies, super hero strike team missions and more. I'm missing a lot more stuff but I don't want to spend ages writing about it.
tl;dr cooler characters and actual content.
>>258564874
There was a shit ton of 'classes' called Archetypes.
But the thing was with each archetype you selected you were given the choice of a primary and secondary powerset and there were hundreds if not thousands of possible combinations you could choose from.
I can't list them all but just take a look.
http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Primary_Power_Sets
The gameplay itself is somewhat dated as it is a pretty old game but it was solid and pretty fun to play.
>>258552721
Could be interesting.
Awwww shit son, that means I can bring back my mercs/storm mastermind?
He designed and built a weather device and uses it to do storm related things while his hired goons just shoot everyone else
>>258561785
I fucking remember you, piece of shit.Is it bad that I miss the days of petty drama?
>>258565334
>he does it for free
Wh-why would you ever screw with the powerleveling economy m8?
Do yiu want to watch the world burn?
>>258565129
SHEEEEIT i remember that shit, powerleveled 10 characters that way, and shit was easy too.
i still remember luck of the gamblers and purple recipes going for a several billions towards the servers closing too.
LVL 1 BLASTER LF SEWER TEAM PST
>>258553450
>Not wanting to play City of Villains growing upFuck you
Fuck YOU
FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKING FAGGOT
This is some sword art online shit
>>258564612
Holy shit.
That is cool.
>>258565461
Because I just liked helping people. I did it for fun, and I had more than enough INF.
>>258565483
Oh god, you level 1 faggot, why didn't you just do the tutorial to get that extra level + power, not to mention the badge you can only get in that area
>>258564236
I can tell you that almost every attack in the game had 2 animations you could chose between at character creation.
CoH is a little hard to describe as there was just so much added by the end. But to give you an Idea on the hero side one of the first sets of missions involved you joining an almost 'Teen Titans' esque small-league superhero group. You go on missions with your little super team, and learn a bit about each of their personalities (I loved the fact that one of them actually straight abandons you in a misssion when things get hairy.)
You can actually make 5 different costumes for your hero, like if you wanted to addopt a team color scheme in addition to your normal one, and there were even 'costume change' specific emotes.
But to give you an idea of what CoH did that most other MMO's don't. They made it a point to add in things like being able to emote-commands to make your pets and stuff talk. It was complex enough that you could actually load in .txt scripts to actually have your character act out a scene if you wanted. Which was great when you saw a Zombie Mastermind yelling at his minions to stop talking about brains and get in a line or something.
Oh, and every content patch was like a new issue of a comic book, with plot details slowly moving forward. And not that pussy WoW 'nothing actually changes' shit either, they killed off their flag character near the end.
>>258565456
>tfw no 1. EM stalker on virtue
>tfw started so much shit with players in Pocket D over PvP shit
>tfw people raged at me on the forums and id let them rage bc itd be wrong to silence them with mod powers
Ya man, i made alot of players mad in the RP community hahaha
>>258565461
Go. Hunt.
Kill Skuls.
>>258552721
I remember reading about the game on a magazine a long time ago, it caught my eye due to the customization, sadly, i was reluctant about paying subscription for games and didn't play it.
Was it any good?
>>258565710
>not to mention the badge you can only get in that area
FUCK YEAH I LOVE THAT BADGE
>>258565712
Shit I remember that...
MANticore lost his waifu.
The CoH Comics were great.
>>258552721
M-maybe someone will buy GW1? Please?
>>258565461
I bet you charged to heal lowbies during the sewer runs didn't you, ya' douche?Twas AE that killed it
>>258565710
>Be an hero
>Kill 100 guys with 1 power
>Villain
>Walk into this prison cell
J-Justice
Man, fire/kin controllers were the fucking best
No-one can fucking argue that
Fire Imps, + speed boost, + siphon power + fulcrum shift = insanely fast sonic minions burning NPC's to death in 1 or 2 hits
>>258565716
Man, I was like 16 when I started in CoH and I got thrown into that whole PvP mess. I was so fucking confused and was awkward as shit, but damn was that shit fun back then.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few people are still assravaged over you. I wish I could remember their names.
>>258565468
The beauty of working with the Devs of CoH,you literally knew all the secrets/broken exploits and I am not going to lie
I Abused them ALOT but at the same time it helped out my co workers by finding them so they could patch.
Now if only they could fucking fix Force Field stats in PvP and economy pricing.
Fuck all that man
>>258565329
>>258565345
>>258565339
>>258565712
That sounds awesome. Thanks, guys. I'll be waiting for the game.
FREEDOM SERVER ISN'T FREE
Where my Freedom bros at?
I was Deepfreezer11 (made him when I was 11) and 'Lumina.
POST 'EM
I know I was so creative in 2006
>>258564874
The game also seriously rewarded exploration, awarding badges and experience from simply exploring the map.
Powers were customizable far beyond just choosing two sets. You also had enhancements, which were one time use upgrades to improve things like accuracy, base damage, cost or cooldown. Powers had limited slots to which enhancements could be applied. There was a certain level of strategy in tailoring you enhancements to be appropriate to your playstyle.
Massive enemy encounters were frequent, usually on a 4 to 6 hour spawn time. Think of it as the super villain unleashing their giant monster on the city.
Each questline was an ongoing plot against a villain group. Instances were fun and engaging with selectable difficulty, though I don't know anyone who played on anything other than Invincible (enemy level +6).
Guilds were never better in any MMO, in my opinion. Someone else can elaborate on that, its making me sad to think about.
>>258566018
I would bring my level 50 controller down into the sewers and just speed boost, fulcrum shift, siphon power and inertial reduction all the lowbies grinding
For FREE
>>258563454
>Theres reports that NCSoft is thinking of shutting down GW1
nonononono, I fucking need this
>>258565629
>just because I liked to help people
>taking muh business
Nigga, thats like going into a mobs area and giving the mob shops free protection from us.
Id take your hands boi
Best character creator of all time
OF ALL TIME
>>258561475
The guy who started that died last month.
Not going to lie my favorite thing about coh was the low level sewer runs. just grouping in general was fun in that game.
>>258566381
Anon noooo.
No. Please?
>You will never grind sewers again
Some of the best social interaction I have ever had in vidya
Man Archery blasters were the fucking bomb
"Hey, let's give the most damage dealing class the best fucking AOE attacks in the game, capable of recharging fast and killing everything up to lieutenants in one hit"
>>258565398
10/10 design, would run like a bitch.
Currently trying to recreate my old characters in the Icon thing...
I want this game back so badly.
>>258566451
>tfw when you finally mapped the entire sewer system.
That fucking labyrinth took over and hour to totally uncover.
I prefer DCUO
>>258566548
When I was in college, my friend in the psych department wrote a paper about social interaction online using my CoH guild and a few weeks of pugs as his basis. There was seriously something about that game that just attracted more social people in general.
>Those fluffy low quality fire blasts
>Still better looking than any fire balls to date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uiC-ObCbs
>>258566116
>tfw Chasing a fucking speed demon building jumping motherfucker around
>tfw kiting a bitch all day and disappearing into the shadows
>tfw popping 4 reds and 4 yellows and 1 shotting players
>tfw only blasters with PFF on could survive my 6 bil stalker build
>tfw people would be capslocking uncontrollable in Pcoket D about me
>tfw was no. 1 in arena rating for over a year
>tfw won the offical 2v2 tournament first time around
>tfw ran the PvP hard against Nigger SGs who would stack pocket healers
Bro we made SO MANY people angry and i was the main reason, becaus ei loved to pvp bitches no matter what
>>258566558
I miss my mastermind so much...
>>258566636
>tfw randomly running across another 8 man sewer team.
FUCK YOU MY SEWER TEAM IS BETTER THE YOURS.
>>258566556
No they didn't they used arrows you bastard!
Fuck!
Literally the only mmo that din't bore me to fucking tears. I really do hope it comes back.
I wish Cryptic would make an actual sequel to CoH without fucking it up, like they did with Champions Online.
Superhero MMOs are an awesome concept, but no game has done a good job of it since city of heroes.
>>258566018
I was a Jew m8 when it came to PLing
It was my bread n butter bruh
>>258566119
Hey Tripfag. Word on the grapevine is that Paragon did something that basically forced them to shut it down.
Know anything specific?
I saw your previous "truth" post but it don't seem as shitty as the impressions I've been getting.
>Just start playing in 2007
>Group with a guy named Vash the Heals
>Play together for a few months, he disappears
I have never been so sad in my life
>>258553450
>>258566804
That team comp
Literally every villain group ever.
>>258552721
Why.
Seriously. It was a shitty MMO that had you run through the same warehouses, caves and submarine tech bases and defeat enemies with the same animations. For fifty levels. The pvp was awful too, everyone got wrecked by blappers unless they stacked silly amounts of IO sets.
>>258566356
For everything related to the head, Star Trek Online is superior.
If the two creators were combined... My god the possibilities
>>258567110
That level 50 defender will never find his team ;_;
carnival of shadows was the best enemy group prove me wrong
So how would it be funded?
>>258566316
Come on, don't like be like that.
>>258567360kikestarter
Kinetic/Electric defender masterrace
Could literally 2-man arch villians by completely draining them of endurance
>>258567326
Thats not my image...
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
City of Heroes was/is still one of the most unique MMOs out there. You could transition the game to a F2P system with all powers unlocked, but with cosmetic unlocks/crafting and you'd make a fortune. Make a majority of the costume pieces free, but the more fringe stuff and weapon pieces, power colors etc cost dosh or craftable/tradable.
The F2P system they had on release was overall pretty good but a bit too restrictive. I'm still fucking pissed at NCSoft though because literally a week before the game was announced to be shutdown I had bought some CoX funbux and NCSoft refused to refund me.
>>258567110
>That one guy looking for a team
>>258567024
I left employment as PR after Cryptic pulled out. Lighthouse, myself and acouple others made formal posts about our resignation and that was it.
From what the other Guy who did the AmA on /v/ afew months back was hired by paragon studios after the cryptic leave. He said literally NCSoft just walked in and told them to pack there desks there all fired while they were midworking.
It was literally fucked
>>258567464
>City of Heroes was/is still one of the most unique MMOs out there.
No
Stop
I miss my character, I forgot what his class was, but his powerset consisted of punches, strong punches, stronger punches, and buffs to his stats.
His name was Pistonfist Vince.
I'll miss my character, he was such a fucker
>>258566184
I think I had a bit of an edge problem back in 06
>>258567379
Nah i did free runs for SG members and guys who ran with me usually in pvp or in pocket D.
Just your bros, or if it was a slow night id offer free pl and discounts etc.
>2011
>Not being Wonder 111
>>258567638
It was unique you fucking ass blaster
Name any other super hero themed MMO's in 2003
Warshade for life.
Would switch between all three forms like a boss, jump into a group Phased, take the alpha hit, drop phase, suck their energy, buff myself, hit my big AoE. Pop a few blues, resurrect a corpse as a fluffy, use corpse to heal me and restore end. Go squid form take out any stragglers, then tank groups in crab form until all that shit recharged.
Was really fun.
>>258567692
I wish I was fighting crime.jpg
>>258567809
considering one of the two games is called City of Villains, it's kind of passable
>>258564874
I think one of the best balancing aspects of the game was animations for attacks and the effects on combat.
When you use a skill in CoH, it has its own animation with its own properties. It checks for your position and then plays it and essentially 'locks' you into a position for it.
This meant that there were attacks with very large windups that were interuptable, and that sometimes it was wiser to use an attack with less animation to go through. Like if you were chasing an enemy and knew your attack wouldn't kill them and needed to keep moving.
Other times you would want an attack with a long animation (Shadow Maul comes to mind, a cone based punching attack) because you would regain a little bit of energy as it went on.
The biggest praising from game-play though comes from groups. EVERY class can do it's job. And by that I mean that it can do it's job damn near entirely with 0 support from other members of the team. It's amazing to see a game designed where a Tank is going into a boss encounter with minimal or even 0 healing from another team member.
>>258567838
It was a grind. A terrible, horrible grind with samey instances and shitty balance. It wasn't unique in the slightest except for maybe the suit customization.
>>258567960
It helps that they really nailed the animations for attacks.
Like holy shit was Titan Weapons a fucking blast to play.
>>258566184
FUCK YEAR ASSAULT RIFLES
>>258557146
>dc universe
>better than anything
Nah, m8
>>258567960
THIS
This is why I loved that quick little hammerblow you could do with the flight set. It was fast as fuck and it had knockdown. CoH knockdown made shit BOUNCE. You bought your team a full one or two seconds to unleash hell, maybe stun or hold the damn thing. Plus, if they happened to be flying when you used it, there was bonus damage.
>>258567464
You could transition the game to a F2P system with all powers unlocked, but with cosmetic unlocks/crafting and you'd make a fortune. Make a majority of the costume pieces free, but the more fringe stuff and weapon pieces, power colors etc cost dosh or craftable/tradable.
It was fine as it was, it didn't get shut down because of profits (there's articles online stating how it was making big profits even up until it got shutdown). Bring it back as it was or return to it's sub to play roots, f2p a shit.
>>258568381
Whoops, forgot my meme arrow.
>everyone in this thread is 21 or younger
Prove me erong
5 get
>>258568165
Shit design, wouldn't run with
>>258568582
Jokes on you nigger, I turned 22 August 8th.
>>258568582
I'm 19
check my 9
>>258568149
>same-y instances and shitty balance
Maybe if we're talking like, pre-City of Villains era.
But the game really, really started to hit its stride near the end of its life. The game's lore started becoming legitimately interesting to read, missions and bosses were top-notch and every new powerset added was better than the last. I'm so salty because the latest shit they were going to add looked SO GOOD.
>tfw your first cape
>tfw trying to decide the best aux powers for your character
>tfw you ran through a dungeon for the first time
>tfw discovering secrets in bank heist mode
like tears in the rain
time to die
>>258566184
Fuck time bust out my external for this, I knew screencaping my villians and heroes was a good idea. Going to post a few.
This is the one I played the most, my undead zombie waifu. She's all fucked up in the face so she wears a gas mask to cover it up. Cliche I know but I love it.
>>258566356
Champions Online has a better one.
>tfw you'll never have CO's character creator and CoH's everything else
>tfw you lost all your screencaps to a computer virus.
Wasn't able to save them. Had to reformat.
>>258568792
I vaguely remember her, I think she had wings and duel wield kanatas.
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