Talk about the "good ol' days!"

[Forager]

Does anyone else still run to Miss Liberty to train to 50? No travel powers? No tram?

 

Sometimes your team would run with you.

[gameboy1234]

On 5/1/2025 at 10:37 AM, Frozen Burn said:

Green Line and Blue Line trams - Had to run across Steel or Skyway to get from one or the other.

 

And I had forgotten about this comic.

 

[MoonSheep]

- back in the day, it was an impressive thing to see people with the portal jockey accolade, it was the sign an alt  had “made it”

- the eden trial was genuinely difficult and/or i was terrible at the game

- a 40 minute STF run was impressive

- oldschool blaster defiance was great

- herding parties in the hollows where a tank would herd up huge mobs and lowbies would cast AoE immob powers to get good XP

- sirens call PvP was -the- place to be

- having a shivan was nearly mandatory at times to complete certain events if the team wasn’t optimal

- IOs used to have massive value, if a purple melee recipe dropped you were 200m richer. if a PvP recipe dropped you could be 1-2bn richer

- the old sidekick system was kind of awful

- the Cathedral of Pain trial was such a rare event, i didn’t play it until the HC days and only heard about it on live like a legend or myth

- i took part in a few base raids which was fun

- endurance management used to be such a massive problem in the lower levels, anything that gave a +recovery buff was a big help

[Glacier Peak]

I still prefer the original accolade auto power colors for Portal Jockey, Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member, and the Atlas Medallion.

Edited May 8 by Glacier Peak

[MoonSheep]

2 minutes ago, Glacier Peak said:

I still prefer the original accolade auto power colors for Portal Jockey, Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member, and the Atlas Medallion.

 

they’re the same aren’t they? portal jockey has always been a nice vibrant pink

[BZRKR]

On 5/1/2025 at 12:56 PM, srmalloy said:

<snip> ground down by PBAoE attacks.

PBAoE?!! Back in the dumpster diving heyday, Tankers could hit that stack with Energy Transfer and kill all the wolves and themselves!! Then you would get one of the mids to rez you and you're off to the races again!

[PeregrineFalcon]

On 5/6/2025 at 6:26 PM, gameboy1234 said:

And I had forgotten about this comic.

I had to. Which is really funny because every time my friends and I take the tram in Paragon City we yell "To the Subway of Justice!" specifically because of this cartoon. We'd been saying it so long that I'd nearly forgotten where it'd originally came from.

[Seed22]

I used to enjoy being support in this game because emp back in the Virtue days was a best in slot pick. 

 

I remember yellow and green line trains, good times...

 

Doing the MLTF(Back then known as STF as states was still kicking) as an emp and buffing my brother with CM who was the stone tank.

 

Good stuff. But a lot of(okay all of) the difficulty was simply knowledge and resource based, looking back on it now.

 

With all the resources and knowledge we have now, the true difficulty of CoH is on full display. A difficulty i actually like!

Edited May 8 by Seed22

[Glacier Peak]

20 minutes ago, MoonSheep said:

they’re the same aren’t they? portal jockey has always been a nice vibrant pink

AM originally had a green accolade auto power icon, FPRM had a pink one, and PJ was blue if memory serves me right. 

[Psyonico]

9 minutes ago, Seed22 said:

Doing the MLTF(Back then known as STF as states was still kicking) as an emp and buffing mybrother with CM who was the stone tank.

And basically needing a Granite tank for recluse and having to spam clear mind on said tank for Ghost Widow

[Uun]

3 hours ago, Psyonico said:

And basically needing a Granite tank for recluse and having to spam clear mind on said tank for Ghost Widow

I no longer remember his name, but there was a Fire tank on Protector that used to lead STFs almost daily. Ran one with him just before the servers shut down.

[Glacier Peak]

4 hours ago, MoonSheep said:

they’re the same aren’t they? portal jockey has always been a nice vibrant pink

Big thanks to darkbladed, I'll be uploading these to the HC wiki for posterity.

 

@Greycat I know you're a fan of these sorts of things. 

 

Atlas Medallion

 

Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member

 

Portal Jockey

 

Vanguard Medal

 

Crey Immobilizer Pistol

[FinalCyclopedia]

4 hours ago, Uun said:

I no longer remember his name, but there was a Fire tank on Protector that used to lead STFs almost daily. Ran one with him just before the servers shut down.

Impyre

[MoonSheep]

9 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

Big thanks to darkbladed, I'll be uploading these to the HC wiki for posterity.

 

@Greycat I know you're a fan of these sorts of things. 

 

Atlas Medallion

 

Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member

 

Portal Jockey

 

Vanguard Medal

 

Crey Immobilizer Pistol

 

oh wow! i had completely forgot about that, thanks for finding 

 

when did the colour change? i started in summer 2005. i love the original look of the atlas medallion 

[Glacier Peak]

2 hours ago, MoonSheep said:

oh wow! i had completely forgot about that, thanks for finding 

 

when did the colour change? i started in summer 2005. i love the original look of the atlas medallion 

Looking back, badges were first introduced with Issue 2, which came out in September of 2004. So it was some time between then and when City of Villains came out in October of 2005.

[Skyhawke]

This was one of my favorites and soooooo true.

 

 

[Healix]

[bAss_ackwards]

10 years from now we'll be looking back at these days as the good ol' days as well. 🦸‍♀️

[Psyonico]

6 hours ago, bAss_ackwards said:

10 years from now we'll be looking back at these days as the good ol' days as well. 🦸‍♀️

I sure hope so.

[Lusiphur Malache]

Back in the day had a nrg/nrg blaster.  Had somewhat mastered hoverblasting when I seen my first blapper and realised I was doing it wrong.

 

First time seeing a squid, I was mesmerised, then the 'troubles' started.  People refusing to team with a Kheldian, low level tanks ignoring quantums as a 'you' problem.  Nictus and Cyst were an automatic team wipe.

 

 

[SeraphimKensai]

1 hour ago, Psyonico said:

I sure hope so.

I mean hell this server group has been around long enough it has a chance to make it longer than the live servers did.

[JasperStone]

Hasten used to take Defense Enhancements.

Forget which update early on changed that.

I used to keep a screenshot of DEFEnh slotted .... that computer died, and I lost it

[Skyhawke]

I remember the first time someone in our SG got a travel power. He dinged 14 during the Positron TF, leveled at Valkyrie and jumped straight up in the air to test it. Back then you moved at a snails pace unless you turned on Sprint (to go slightly faster than a snail), so this was mindblowing.  

[Psyonico]

22 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

I remember the first time someone in our SG got a travel power. He dinged 14 during the Positron TF, leveled at Valkyrie and jumped straight up in the air to test it. Back then you moved at a snails pace unless you turned on Sprint (to go slightly faster than a snail), so this was mindblowing.  

I remember the first time I took Super Jump as a power pick.  My jaw dropped at how high I could suddenly jump.

[Uun]

4 hours ago, JasperStone said:

Hasten used to take Defense Enhancements.

Forget which update early on changed that.

I used to keep a screenshot of DEFEnh slotted .... that computer died, and I lost it

Appears to be Issue 5, which "featured" a Global Defense Decrease.