Because I know you were all just waiting on tenterhooks for one.
We played a bunch of CoH this weekend.
Margie actually developed some additional characters, trying out different archetypes. Unlike I, who simply creates things that sound cool, Margie actually does research on this stuff. Yeesh.
I ended up creating an additional character, too, so that I’d have someone immediately-post-tutorial to team with her. That would be Totally Unstable, my Rad/Rad Defender. Fun guy, and remarkably effective. He’s in the pic to the right with TT, Margie’s Flame Tanker.
We did a fair amount of teaming up with others — the Testerfolk (who were kind enough to SK us or Exemplar down, since they play around at rarified levels above us), Stan, Scott — or, at least, chatting with them. Two noteworthy adventures that ended rather frustratingly, though:
- Hunting the Jewel of Hera in caves in Perez Park. Ended up with Stan and Margie and me having cleared the caves, found the jewel — but still lacking one dimwitted Circle of Thorns dude hiding somewhere. We ran around for a good 45 minutes in there, at least, searching high and low, before giving up and exiting. Frustrating.
- Outcast base against Electric Eel in the Hollows. Yikes. Don’t know how the adventure geared up so high (perhaps Doyce’s scrapper), but after many painful adventures on the second floor, including deaths, we finally battled through to the bad guy’s lair, only to find multiple purple and red folks who were two-shotting Doyce and then finishing Stan and Margie and me up for dessert. Yikes, redux.
After the last assault — where I could eventually see from my perspective on the floor that we were down to just Eel, and had him down to about 20% HP, the others on Doyce’s “I got more debt than George W. Bush” recommendation to simply quit the mission for another time.
Rrg.
I did manage to get Velvet (after too many deaths) up to lucky 13th level (helped by some direction to stores in Steel Canyons by Doyce). I need to do some teaming with her, though — most of the activities were solo, and I want to get back into the fray with her.
Some of the best times were Margie and me running duos. Lots of fun pulling the bad guys and defeating them in detail. Good stuff. Left a lot of crap undone for the weekend, but it was a fun time nevertheless.
Avocet should make level 14 today. You know what that means. Hello, true Flight! Wa-hooooo!
ok, two more to add to my friends list.
Also, a bug that I’ve noticed is that it thinks that there is one more guy when you’ve taken out everything. I don’t know if there is a guy in a wall or something, but it has happened at least once with each of my characters.
Also, The team ups of the core group has been a lot of fun. Even De from friday afternoon was quite the hoot.
If VJ needs help let me know, I’ve got several characters that would be willing to aid you.
I once found the last guy hiding in a corner behind some boxes. You have to look everywhere!
I went on my first timed mission yesterday. I panicked when I lost connection to the mapserver while trying to enter the mission, losing about 7 of my 45 minutes. Lost more time on my one trip back from the hospital. (I had tried to avoid that by using Awaken when the Skulls’s backs were turned, but they turned right around and blasted me. Double debt! Whee.) Had a good 10 minutes to spare when I disarmed the last bomb and freed the last hostage, though.
I never did find the key in another mission, although I had already gotten the Mission Complete notice. I’ll always wonder what was behind that flingin’-flangin’ door!
FWIW, the technique described here might help with finding that Last Guy (as a last resort).
Hey. What servers are you folks on. I’d love to join you guys sometime. My mains are on Protector: Lord NightRaven & Riptide Mark V
I have a couple on each server.
Champion BP.
Heh. I think that is where my Buffy-based characters are.
We’d love to have you along.
Has anyone else played with the Global Chat beta? I’d love to have a more unified (by player) friends list than keep adding or updating the friends per-character per-character.
I am Lord_NightRaven on Global Chat. Have not had any occasion to try it, though… yet.