Back in MY day! (Nostalgia Screenshot Thread)

Unknown

Hey guys, so I have played this game since day one and the other day I was looking back at some of my old screenshots and I found it pretty interesting seeing how much the game has evolved. Some things I had even completely forgot about! I unfortunately don't have screenshots from the VERY beginning but I know some of you (or the devs) out there can help fill in all the blanks. I am talking about the old level up system, old character powers, environmental tiles. anything! Anyways, here are all the oldest ones I have with a little explanations. I have put them in a spoiler tag for easier viewing.

Here is the screenshot which made me want to start this thread, I had COMPLETELY forgot that back in the beginning everyone got THREE chances to beat you in pvp. Not only that, but the damage you had dealt from the previous match stayed. Meaning if you had downed 2 /3 of their team, your second attempt would start with them already downed. Needless to say, def wins were few and far between.




If you notice here, the same guy attacked me many many times on my shield, this is because right when they added the shields, people who were shielded would not disappear from the nodes. So take the same problem of seeing the same targets over and over but make it so its all the high point shielded people. Needless to say, this caused MASSIVE point inflation.


How bad was the point inflation? Well, this score may not seem like much after some of the stuff we have seen lately but the point inflation from being able to hit shielded opponents was so great that they actually raised the 1300 cover (which NOBODY was hitting) up to 2500 points! The crazier part? A lot of people were actually hitting it!! If fact, once everyone got to 2500, they would put in a tank team and then shield out. This let everyone hit 50 point tank teams all the way up. :) There is a lot more going on in this screenshot too. The leader board looks way different as well as the fact that this was a featured 2 star pvp(Ares).



The rest are just random screenshots but I will post a little explanation if I can.

Old battle screen showing the 3 attempts.



This one is just a small change. Showing the boosted characters.



Here is a shot of the old recruit screen. The covers on the tokens would cycle showing you what you could possibly get.



Old leaderboard. I believe this was even before shields.



Old Shield Sim? I think. Looks fairly the same, minus the placement indicator.



And finally, a picture of the old Cstorm yellow. This power was crazy. This is only at level 30 but I believe at max it would do around 1200-2200( can't remember) to the enemy team every time it went off. ON TOP of giving you 5 red. It did not go off if you attacked storm so you would have to take her out first or die very quickly. There was also a fun time when you had a storm v storm matchup because if you triggered the enemy storms passive, it would then set off your storm passive and it would just go back and forth until someones storm died. It was pretty ridiculous, especially with all the red you would gain from it.



That's all I got. If anyone has some cool old screenshots I would love to see them! I know there are some vets still left!!

Unknown

I wasn't playing this game back in the day but looks awesome thank you. And looks like you were killing it even back in the day!!

Unknown

That's some cool stuff. I didn't start until just before season 1, so I only have this:

IceIX

I've got some stuff from early on from my account which is easily postable. Got a bunch of even older dev images but I can't post those without permission. So old but Live stuff it is. Standard disclaimer as an employee: These are my images from my personal account. These are not marketing shots or user acquisition usable shots.

Pre level skip. Look at the Level 7 Thor!


Storm's old tile icon


Old character info/level up screen


Hey look, it's the old Black Widow cover!


Old ability upgrade screen. You used to choose a character then it'd take you to a different screen with all available duplicates there for upgrading. No personal vault.


Old cover draw screen before we switched to the rarity based ones.


Ability screen


Level 50 9360 HP X-Force?!

Unknown

IceIX wrote:

I've got some stuff from early on from my account which is easily postable. Got a bunch of even older dev images but I can't post those without permission. So old but Live stuff it is. Standard disclaimer as an employee: These are my images from my personal account. These are not marketing shots or user acquisition usable shots.

Pre level skip. Look at the Level 7 Thor!


Storm's old tile icon


Old character info/level up screen


Hey look, it's the old Black Widow cover!


Old ability upgrade screen. You used to choose a character then it'd take you to a different screen with all available duplicates there for upgrading. No personal vault.


Old cover draw screen before we switched to the rarity based ones.


Ability screen


Level 50 9360 HP X-Force?!

Bring back environmental abilities. Dino is hungry, but dp demands tacos, not hot dogs, be the vendor food of choice.

Unknown

IceIX wrote:

I've got some stuff from early on from my account which is easily postable. Got a bunch of even older dev images but I can't post those without permission. So old but Live stuff it is. Standard disclaimer as an employee: These are my images from my personal account. These are not marketing shots or user acquisition usable shots.

Pre level skip. Look at the Level 7 Thor!


Storm's old tile icon


Old character info/level up screen


Hey look, it's the old Black Widow cover!


Old ability upgrade screen. You used to choose a character then it'd take you to a different screen with all available duplicates there for upgrading. No personal vault.


Old cover draw screen before we switched to the rarity based ones.


Ability screen


Level 50 9360 HP X-Force?!

I see that standard covers used to be cheaper... I like the old storm icon better!

IceIX

Mattfal wrote:

I see that standard covers used to be cheaper... I like the old storm icon better!

Sure, but at the time nodes gave 50 and 100 Iso prizes. Flow was much smaller/slower at that point.

Unknown

Related to the old character boost, that was back when boosts used to be a straight up multiplier rather than a level boost. Significantly, it wasn't just damage tiles, it was also crit and environment tiles that got boosted. I remember running the original Hunt with **Hawkeye, who had like a 9x multiplier and generated 9 environmental AP per match. With the main location of the event being the one (Baxter Building?) that generated crit tiles at ~40 AP. Probably my favorite event right there.

Unknown

IceIX wrote:

Mattfal wrote:

I see that standard covers used to be cheaper... I like the old storm icon better!

Sure, but at the time nodes gave 50 and 100 Iso prizes. Flow was much smaller/slower at that point.

And they. Actually had good drop rates, so 300 ISO for a3* cover was worth spending

CNash

Common characters sold for 25 HP? No wonder that got nixed... Was it as easy to get 1*s then as it is now?

Dragon_Nexus

Mattfal wrote:

IceIX wrote:

I've got some stuff from early on from my account which is easily postable. Got a bunch of even older dev images but I can't post those without permission. So old but Live stuff it is. Standard disclaimer as an employee: These are my images from my personal account. These are not marketing shots or user acquisition usable shots.

Pre level skip. Look at the Level 7 Thor!


Storm's old tile icon


Old character info/level up screen


Hey look, it's the old Black Widow cover!


Old ability upgrade screen. You used to choose a character then it'd take you to a different screen with all available duplicates there for upgrading. No personal vault.


Old cover draw screen before we switched to the rarity based ones.


Ability screen


Level 50 9360 HP X-Force?!

I see that standard covers used to be cheaper... I like the old storm icon better!

I'd forgotten she used to have a different tile icon. I remember not knowing what I was looking at, it looked like a strange arcane symbol. Only now do I realise it's lightning.

Edit: Also...never knew GSBW used a different cover. It looks better than the one we curently have. More dynamic and features her more prominantly.

turul

Not exactly a screenshot, but nostalgic

Unknown

CNash wrote:

Common characters sold for 25 HP? No wonder that got nixed... Was it as easy to get 1*s then as it is now?

No - they didn't used to drop in PVP, just from tokens and progression awards.

turul

Ben Grimm wrote:

CNash wrote:

Common characters sold for 25 HP? No wonder that got nixed... Was it as easy to get 1*s then as it is now?

No - they didn't used to drop in PVP, just from tokens and progression awards.

- no tokens
- covers as node rewards
- 20 total cover levels for single power to upgrade

Unknown

turul wrote:

+ 20 total cover levels for single power to upgrade

I actually started playing right after they changed it. I remember the pop-up about it, but I didn't have anything to compare it to, so I didn't know what it meant until I found the forums.

Unknown

Now I wish I'd taken more screenshots back then. Does anyone have a shot of the original character upgrade screen? The one where you needed to gain many many cover levels to see any ability upgrade at all?

Orangecrush

Remember when leveling your character up restored their health fully?

Unknown

Orangecrush wrote:

Remember when leveling your character up restored their health fully?

Ah, beat me to it! Plenty of nice long sessions fighting, adding one level, fighting, adding one level...

turul

Remember abusing Wind Storm + loaner in LR?

Spoit

Man, remember when the nodes actually had set levels?

Unknown

Spoit wrote:

Man, remember when the nodes actually had set levels?

This is why all of us look back so fondly on PVE. It's because grinding was so easy with the set super easy levels! You could blaze through all the subs of an event with no health packs if you had a decent enough team!