More details about Mordu's Trials/Codex/Chromosome that come to mind:
- RDVs that were easier to kill than tanks.
- Disco tanks (tanks would land upside down and spin around like a top killing everything in their path and awarding the enemy team with kills)
- Light poles that would insta-kill tanks on collision
- Dropships that didn't have collision damage flying around running people over
- Small Turret Installations with forward facing shields that guarded the gunner (could only be attacked from behind)
- Bunker installations (turrets would have small walls infantry could hide behind)
- Random note; I ran a Cal Assault with x4 Armor Repairers because hit detection was so bad I could rep-tank.
- Different weapon sounds
- CCP being completely indecisive with what they wanted the Assault Rifle sights to look like (went from Camera Sights, to horrible iron sights, to the iron sights we have now).
- Laser Rifles being 100% OP being able to kill players just by touching them with the laser beam
- Equipment would 'slide' down hills until they either exploded or found level terrain before activating
- Terrain itself would reach out and grab your ankles. Lot of players would get stuck and would have to suicide.
- Maps had holes (like, legitimate freaggin holes) that tanks could fall endlessly to their deaths through.
- Kindred/Solstice Scouts, Relic/Firebrand Assaults, Anasoma/Colossus Heavies, and Hazard/whatever the other one Logistics aurum cosmetics that were totally awesome.
- Skill boosters could only be activated one at a time and could not be queued, so you literally had to be on at the exact moment they expired.
- We got more SP from being in a match than playing in a match. AFKing was pretty bad.
- Bug in which Dust 514 would randomly delete itself from your hard-drive and not allow you to re-install stating 'download corrupted'
- The only things a squad leader could do was drop an orbital and make someone else a squad leader
- Vehicles would not return to assets after a match, meaning a LOT of tanks vanished into thin air.
- Players were segregated by random NPC corporations and had corporate forums with which to talk to one another. It led to a lot of alienation for some of the dumbest reasons.
- The front turret on a tank used to be off-set and on top of the chassis so that it, as well, had 360 degree fire.
- 'Experimental Sniper Rifle' that had bullet drop mechanics.... because.... Rail Guns do that at 300m.
- Contact grenades were stupidly OP with a 6.6m blast radius and could only be obtained via Aurum.
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Literally all upcoming information about the game had to come from IRC. - Players, especially those in corporations like STB,
actually made their characters with their clan tags to show loyalty because we didn't have corporation identification.
- You could do damage to the MCC using Railgun Installations.
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CCP was considering a martyrdom mechanic. - Black Ops Tanks with built in CRU that were the single most useless vehicle at the time.
- SP Daily cap instead of weekly cap. Then, when we got a weekly cap, you would hit it and then would get next to nothing (I think it was like, 50 SP a match).
- We had an Oceanic server that was primarily used for AFKing, testing, and dicking around.
Politics:
- Triton Industries who tried to bully their way to the top annnnnd failed.
- Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz who were considered the elite of the elite until Uprising came out and then they got roflstomped into failscade by Hellstorm.
- Subdreddit and Goonfeet which was hilarious what with Cerebral Wolf Jr. basically trying to take up the Dust 514 crown for Goonswarm before getting hellfired into oblivion by none other than The Mittani himself.
- Onslaught Inc. which would up being quite literally one of the only remaining closed beta corporations today.
- Restless Spirits which no-one remembered for anything important.
- Pro Hic Immortalis which... for some reason I think turned into Molon Labe??? Dunno.
- What The French which pretty much failscaded as soon as Cazaderon rage-quit the CPM over Legion.
- The Southern Legion which was an Australian corp run by Black Jackal.
More as I start to remember it all.