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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1490444" data-attributes="member: 151">Three of my players are playing in the CoH beta, and they LOVE it. They are all longtime Everquest players, but they stopped really enjoying EQ a long time ago. CoH has them raving about it. In particular, features like 'sidekicking', where you team-up with another higher-level player, is awesome. Essentially, you get your level temporarily raised as long as you stay within a set physical difference of your partner...allowing you to go on adventures with a group that may be much higher than you in level. The story-lines are fun, and there appear to be lots of features to make the game more enjoyable and less tedious. One of my players who's very into it told me this weekend that it was a lot like Asheron's Call, in that you could play solo and have fun or play in a group, and you could get something done in an evening without having to go through the huge convoluted hoops presented by EQ, for example. He was asked flat-out if he was planning on dropping EQ for CoH, and his answer was a qualfied yes. Example: he side-kicked with a group of heroes who got a mission by calling one of their contacts over a cell phone (one gimmick to get missions in-game). Turns out some villains with ties to the nazis were doing something nasty in a warehouse downtown. They head down there, and get a private mission in the warehouse (that only his super-group can enter...no dungeon-jumping, no lewt-whores, no camping, etc.). They fight their way through the minions, and bring the villains to justice, stopping their evil plan. Mission over. They depart the warehouse, and sit around to talk about it for a few moments. HOWEVER, the villains haven't taken this lying down, and have dispatched a bunch of giant Nazi death-robots, which suddenly come around the corner outside the warehouse and ambush the heroes, some of whom are no longer sidekicked and not ready for the much more powerful villians. Many heroes go down, but eventually they win through...and much fun is had by all. I'll ask one or two of them to pop over here and lend some info.</blockquote>

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