{"id":475,"date":"2006-02-28T21:17:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T03:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/02\/well-that-was-game-quitting-frustrating\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T03:17:55","slug":"well-that-was-game-quitting-frustrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/02\/well-that-was-game-quitting-frustrating.html","title":{"rendered":"Well … that<\/em> was game-quitting frustrating …"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we sign on as Psi-clone and Amorpha.
\nSo I run across Puck Bunny by accident, and she tells me she’s on her way to a Hami raid. Never done one, but sounded like one of those Experiences One Must Have. I invite myself along.
\nI lose PB on the way there, and am told which direction to go from the gate. Which, it turns out, is the wrong direction. I’m not teamed, because I know nothing about the whole Hami situation and am either waiting for an invite or waiting to get some clue as to what to do.
\nAmorpha makes it into the Hive, and is engaged in action, and starts to give me directions of where to go, at which point I get similar directions from PB (who had died and was heading back to the zone) correcting the earlier mistake. (Well, heck, mistakes happen, and I made a few navigational errors myself tonight).
\nFollowing instructions, I run across the whole Hami amoeba complex thingie. There are people around, but not sure what’s going on and I come in closer …
\n… and am one-shotted. Swell.
\nFly back from the FF hospital (after first heading in the opposite direction — my aforementioned navigatoin error). On the way, Amorpha (also a neophyte at this) is telling me that there’s some sort of organization to the mass mayhem, and there’s some sort of Illusion Controller group that has a specific role to play. So even though PB finally invites me onto team, I then drop and get onto the Illusion Controller team.
\nWhich was, let me tell you, a laugh a minute, hovering over Hami, dropping Phantom Armies, and listening to banal netchatter.
\nFor, oh, about an hour.
\n(In retrospect, should have stuck with PB. Or joined the Empathy team and done healing down in the action.)
\nGot to listen to lots of action for Amorpha. She’s having a tense, exciting time — along with about 11K XP per Mito that goes down (which is about 11K more XP than I’m getting per Mito).
\nFinally, the Mitos are all down, and things start to get interesting. Big strategic maneuvers. Orders. Counter-orders. Wave attacks of certain ATs.
\nBut we’re reaching the climax. I begin to earn fractional XP as I spam Blinds onto Hami along with similar Hold attacks from other Controllers. Which fractional XP is better than the zilcho XP I was getting earlier. But at least I’ll get big bucks when Hami goes down now, not to mention a Hami-O, right?
\nTension mounts. Holds are spammed. Hami’s HP drop. Lag increases. Tensoin mounts some more. Things are just about …
\n… locked. Frozen. Slowed, halting then …. nothing<\/em>.
\nFucking. Discoed.
\nTakes about 5 interminable minutes (with Amorpha giving me an HP countdown) for my machine to decide it’s lost its connection, and cycle back to the login screen for CoH. Quickly login to come back to everyone chattering about what Hami-O they got and what they’ll trade for and whew, wasn’t that exciting?
\nSo … 1 death and three hours of my life, in exchange for, oh, about 25 XP.
\nFrelling swell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we sign on as Psi-clone and Amorpha. So I run across Puck Bunny by accident, and she tells me she’s on her way to a Hami raid. Never done one, but sounded like one of those Experiences One Must Have. I invite myself along. I lose PB on the way there, and am told … Continue reading “Well … that<\/em> was game-quitting frustrating …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}