Apogee

Listen to Skyhawke, save yourself! Also, I can't imagine playing the game without it.

I see that, (and raise you) the fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

I find "lighten up Francis" works well

That was my exact initial take on the event (I've only done SBB once) and I didn't even run it for the first 10 days or so, but... then I ran the wedding event, solo. As a devout soloist, I found the fight fun on many of my alts, challenging on others. I enjoyed testing my builds and strategies on each different alt. I think my easiest run was with my namesake, a 50 Elec/Elec tank. I prepositioned in the midst of each spawn point and laid waste to them all as they appeared. It was fun.

How about random sequences?

I lost count after 300 or so runs. 47 complete sets, bunch of merits. Hi, my name is Apogee, and I am an alt-aholic...

Wow, dating yourself there

The Dance Gun was one of my favorite CoX videos and during the dark times I would often watch it to remind me of the good old days in the City. One day in the Spring 0f 2019, I stopped at a grocery store on my way home from work. Over the store's speakers, Korn's Word Up started playing and I started grooving down the aisles of the store thinking about the game and how I missed it. When I got home later that day I checked the Task Force Hail Mary thread on the Titan forums (which I hadn't done in about a year) and there was a new thread (that started that day) unveiling the existence of the Secret Server. That was the day everything changed for us. The first server popped up, then shut down. Finally Homecoming was started and here we are. I don't know how long it would have taken me to find the new servers if I hadn't heard "Word Up" that day. It was very serendipitous that I was in that place, at that moment, to hear that song, to spark that memory, on the very day that the news broke. Really, it just blows my mind.

Well...ok then.

For me it's Dr Hetzfeld. He is just so unhinged and the end of his arc is so fitting

You caught me

I must be old. I've never heard of Sea Lioning. Andrew Dice Clay sure, even haiku, but not sea lioning. Who comes up with these terms?

Damn, now I want to get spanked...umm moderated, yeah that's what I meant

Anytime, my friend. I have seen an uptick of Goldsiders lately on Torch. Hopefully more people are enjoying it on the other servers as well.

Sweet

They won't talk to you if you are on the opposing faction. If you try to talk with Mr. G as a Resistance member he will tell you to go pound rocks (not literally, but that would be cool if he did). Same thing with Dr. Hetzfeld and all the other "Power" contacts. What you really need to be careful about (I have done it once and it is a pain to fix) is switching factions before completing the (Crusader/Power) arc and not having any other arcs left in the zone. I once switched to Resistance on my second to last arc in Nova. Unfortunately, the only arc I had left in Nova was Reese's and as soon as I switched to Resistance the mission and contact were gone and inaccessible. I had to run through the entire Crusader arc in Imperial with my XP off and stuck at level 10. I betrayed Wardog and switched to Loyalist then went back to Nova and beat up Reese. I was almost halfway through Imperial City by the time I hit 15.

I would love to see a full group run Bobcat's "Hunt Down Shen" mission. I can only hope the ambushes are at x8. Bring your AoE!

That and the final decision missions are single player only. The Crusader and Power factions contacts are locked to their specific faction. You must be aligned with the Resistance to access Crusader contacts and Loyalist to access Power contacts. And as Zhym said, "are you MAD?!"

Nah, just a normal programmer/gamer/enthusiast in the process of building a new rig. At the rate prices are going there will soon be a convergence in naming and pricing. ~$6,000 for the RTX 6090 anyone? Video card pricing is seriously f*d up

Well, CoH isn't the only game I play

MSRP is not even close to what the new cards are selling for. ASUS has the RTX 5090 listed for $3409 and that is before scalper pricing. The RTX5070ti is supposed to MSRP for $750-$1000 but I suspect it will sell for 2-3 times that price when it is released. I am by no means planning on paying that kind of price for a video card. edit: ok, to be fair the ASUS card had an AIO cooler included. Still, $3080 for the bare card is kinda rediculous.

Now to come up with $3,500 for a video card...a freakin video card!

I used to use black a lot as a base color but then learned it really washes out the costume piece details. Keep up the good work.

Not to be confused with the Brooklyn "yutes"

It may just be my aging eyes but from between the effects, liberal use of black in the costume, and the long distance shots I can't tell the difference from any of your costumes. They all look the same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯