Skerj
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I actually did HARDCORE from beta until 3 months after release. Somehow WB ****ed the game up on the last day of beta. It was pretty cool then, like City of Heroes with a better combat engine and without the superheroes and the Matrix Mythology actually got pretty deep. Also the storyline from the movies continues in the game and IS canon.
I remember the last day of beta, we were running around then the sky turned all demony red and giant eyes were looking down at us as Neo was flying around in the sky everywhere we went. That was like the first time they allowed you to see Neo in the game because until then the Machines still had his body and I don't even think it was actually Neo.
So here I am running down the street and an Agent is following me. Normally if you're spotted by an agent you better jump the hell away or somehow get the **** out of wherever you are because they're level 255 and will kill you in less than 4 hits. But apparently, this one was drunk. ..and just followed me around so I didn't attack it. Then this guy comes up and is like "WHOA why is he following you?" and I'm like "I don't know, he just did" and then the guy's like "can I hit him?" and I'm all "go for it". Then he did and the agent shouted curse words and chased him down the street and killed him. ..then came back to me. I still have no idea wtf that was about.
Then the release happened and we were all like "WTF!?". They released a patch on the last day of beta for the retail release and it made some really nasty unfavorable changes. I remember one of them screwing with the node tapping XP which sucked because it was really awesome XP, and one of the quickest ways to get to level 10 so you can use the super jump. So then I stopped playing after my time was up, then SOE bought the game off of WB and the screams of hatred ensued but I think they recovered.
We figured out how to dupe items since Lith had some stupid "character" save thing going on. If you hard disconnect before your character "saves" then you lose all items acquired after the last save, but you keep everything prior to the save. A soft disconnect saves while you log out. So armed with this knowledge and having people screaming curse words in open chat all day from losing precious code bits and other crap (my customers included) my friend and I figured it out.
So we went into a vacant building. Which was one really cool thing in MXO, most of the buildings could be entered but they were mostly empty but who cares, you can go in!! So we went in, timed the saving message, and I gave him all my items and code bits and process killed the game. Then came back, and I still had all my ****, and he had what I gave him. After someone walked in on a celebratory gay MMO kiss with 2 dudes standing in a supposedly vacant building, we proceeded to dupe all those freaking pain in the ass code bits that I had to gather and expensive items I crafted so I didn't have to make them again. Then we filled our item boxes, and sent a letter to Lith explaining everything. They fixed it but we got to keep the stuff.
I actually miss that game so every few months I'll go find a trial and log in but it's always barren :( so EVE I will continue to play until New World of Darkness.
< Message edited by Skerj -- Sep.-27th-2008 11:11:07 >
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