LeFantasque

I haven't really dabbled in base editing yet. There's so much in this game I haven't wrapped my head around yet, it feels like I'm an actual new player. Architect? Incarnates? No idea. I guess that just means I have more fun ahead of me yet than I thought. Thank you for the advice and welcome back yourself! 🙂

I think you've right: it's all about the memories. And a lot of those memories are linked to people who - more often than not - are not there anymore, twenty years later. I have a friend from back then I convinced to start playing again. Sadly she doesn't have as much disposable time as I do nowadays so she hasn't been around much. Still I think I will make new memories with new people too... and thus some new names will take on a more meaningful aspect for me. As for the faster speed of the game I have to admit I wasn't around when it happened on live. I had left CoH before that. That's very interesting to know - thank you! I did notice that teams are appreciative of anything you can bring to the table. CoH has a very open, forgiving and easy-going community and it's something that I still find marvellous to this day. I just need to get myself out of the mindset of "am I contributing enough?" I constantly have - so more of a me thing than an actual issue with the game, I think.

I came back to CoH a few months ago, when the announcement was made about the licensing deal with the original publisher. I thought I could make this short post and share with you what it was like in the last few months of getting back the hang of the game and see if anyone else shared a similar experience. My first instinct was to try and grab the names of the characters I used to play and to recreate them. I was successful in most cases, but I soon found that those characters were those I would neglect in favour of trying new power sets and concepts. Maybe my tastes as a player have changed in 20 years. There’s also the fact that the game seems a lot faster now - faster to level up and mostly faster in the missions themselves. I was shocked when I did my first task force and it took less than an hour. The teams I join regularly clear maps in a fraction of the time it used to take back in the day. At least that’s my impression. It also looks to me like damage is king now. I feel like a team with overwhelming DPS can easily overcome any challenge, regardless whether they have access to support or control. This feeling has changed the way I choose which archetypes I play. I used to mostly play defenders, now I play a lot of corruptors and blasters. So anyway I just wanted to dip a first toe in the forums, maybe see if anyone else has had the same impressions I did when coming back. And if you ever run into Lady Meredith, Arbiter Jolicoeur, Lady Masque or Maggie Magnum, don’t hesitate to say hi.