Out of Pod Experience

oh... ill/rad controller named X86 (i.e. the CPU) which was a small android/robot. My attempt to inject geekdom into nerdom! Good at launch, caught wind that they were going f2p and bringing in microtransactions so left. Generally when a game does that, they lose focus on the game and community and move towards trying to milk the under-developed (mostly younger players) vulnerable player type with schemes to cha-chang on their credit cards, sacrificing fun-factor.

Best thing... probably super jump, but had it on my primary-alt which was a scrapper (or second main, whatever). Looked like a big cat and with those wolverine type blades, pouncing from above with super jump. Also liked the simplicity of item drops which were mostly those skill tokens or whatever. Didn't stick around for all the changes revolving around items and junk which was inevitable for going f2p/microtransaction, and inevitable it would eventually close over it's direction change.

Tried it at open and quickly hated it. The powersets were essentially the same within an archetype but with different graphics (in the meta sense, e.g. all the blaster powers.)

It suffered the same problems that almost every MMO has faced. No long term content.

I guess but I found content in creating new heroes at least. I also think CoH was the MMO to get leveling up right.

It encouraged teaming by giving exp boosts with the more team members present. You could change the difficulty of your encounters to either have more or less enemies and have them either lower level than you or higher. That was really great, granted pretty much all missions are instanced but I think it was worth it.

Mastermind Mercenaries/Traps here as a main,

Mastermind Robotics/Dark Miasma, Mastermind Thugs/Poison and Blaster Assault Rifle/devices as alts, and many other altlings.

Yes, I miss it. A LOT

It was an awesome game back in the day, but died to many reasons, but I would gladly play again in a pirate shard

Masterminds are for me the peak of Pet Play in an MMO after Necromancers in EQ1.

I really really enjoyed Thugs too as a power pool.

Good memories. good memories indeed.

Like many others have mentioned before, endgame was severely lacking, and the joy was mostly derived from making alts and the cool costume options.

Badge hunting was I remember, back in pure COH days a chore for me after hitting cap, and was relieved when CoV was released, for me it was the best thing about the mmo.

Just loved Masterminds and even had the cool script macros via text scripts keyed to numpad for easier management, but yeah, endgame it stopped abruptly.

I still fail to see how the daily/rep/token/symbol/sigil/point grind of most MMO´s these days has been accepted as a norm for "endgame" holdover.

Endgame is such a brutally needed aspect for a solid MMO and few IF ANY manage to get it "right" for me.

Plant/Kinetic Controller.
Awesomeness incarnate. The Carrion creepers were roaring like an angry Godzilla while my debuffs were laying waste to the baddies. Playing this character kind of felt like the curse-Necro in Diablo 2, only better.


Ah...memories...

I played it from launch on US, then got the expansion (Villains), at some point moved to euro. It was a funky entertaining MMO that didn't try to be more than it was; simple fun. Have to respect that.