Johnny_Butane

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Hey BAB, has there been any news lately on the development of that Psionic Weaponry set? I'd love to know if my hopes for it are at least remotely founded.

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Castle makes a strange noise whenever it's mentioned.

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I heard they are mocapping BAB thinking very mean thoughts in preperation for the psi weapon set.

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I wonder, if they do a Psi Weapons set, will BaB go into a dark closet and hit things with his head until he sees the color to make the attacks?

Seriously though, you guys are thinking to small. Why do Psi weapons have to take the form a blades?

Why can't it be like a melee form of Green Lantern's ring? You know, form a giant fist and bash someone, anything the imagination can think of.

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If you ask me, the dev's mindset with Electric Hammer was:

"Hey, we've got a bunch of hammer animations already done with Stone Melee. Let's do an Electric Hammer so we don't have to bite the bullet and port over Electric Melee to Tankers like everyone wants."

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You guys are still kicking and screaming that your choice on the poll did not win.

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The power sets I wanted weren't even on the polls, save one.

-Super speed melee
-Street fighting
-Super Stretching
-Staves

All of these have way more presence with super heroes and comics than some of the options that were trotted out with that poll and that's just looking at the ones that start with 'S'.

Dual Blades won because WoW players want to port their Rogues into Stalkers. Period.

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Statesman, im calling you out. This power set has NOTHING to do with comic book heroes.

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Ah, but it has everything to do with players recreating their GW, EQ and WoW characters in CoH; which is the mindset of how the majority of players vote.

"Hmm. How can we make CoH more like every other fantasy MMORPG? I know! Loot and more medieval weapons! Yay!"

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No.

And I don't think the devs should devote any more time or resources to it unless it's to make it into something like an open arena match where people enter and leave the zone freely and the player who 'hosts' it can kick and remove players at will.

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[ QUOTE ][*] He's got a hate on for both heroes and villains for "kidnapping" Penny in the LGTF.

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He hates you (the hero you) becaues you remind him of the hero that beat him into a brain in a jar.

It's mentioned in an early mission.

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But I look nothing like Blue Steel!


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Here's a huge possible hint at Issue 11:

From the last RWZ Dark Watcher mission, after you finish off Nemesis:

Nemesis: Your victory is hollow.
Nemesis: I am Nemesis!
Nemesis: I am...
Nemesis: Eternal...!

"Eternal"...and the symbol of Issue 11 is a brass looking ouroboros.

Hmm.


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Not enough in the articles to go on to say either way.

A theory I've heard put forth:

You (your character) have been erased from existance by the Clockwork King using the PsychoChronoMetron from the Faultline arc. Your hero isn't there to stop the Outbreak and your villain never gets out of the Zig.

The evidence:
[*] The King is now aware of his psychic powers, as evidenced by the LGTF and his psychic Clockwork. It takes psychic powers to run the PCM.
[*] He's got a hate on for both heroes and villains for "kidnapping" Penny in the LGTF.
[*] We know Penny Yin feels sorry for him; maybe enough so she'd fake destroying the PCM so he or she could use it to undo the King's murder at the hands of Blue Steel. But instead the King uses it to get revenge on you.

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I call upon the great and mighty Floyd to bring back the awesome to this thread.

Post something awesome, dude.

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Okay

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Once again illustrating the need for you guys to impliment the ability for players to throw cars (and homemakers)!

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I'm also guessing you can't just make the CoX rig available for legal/time/technical reasons.


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I understand what you're saying there, but I think there's been a little mix up. Here is what I think is going on:

Before an animation is exported from 3d Studio Max, it exists as just the animation in .max format. No effects or anything else. That's how it's worked on by the animators.

After the animators are finished, it it exported from Max into whatever format their engine uses. Then it's scripted into a sequence and imported into their game engine.

The animations still exist by themselves in .max format. They have them saved somewhere in their database. The fact is, it's too much work for the devs to re-export every animation in the game and as well as re-write how the game handles the scripts to make power customization possible.

Having the players re-do all the animations acomplishes nothing.

However, Back Alley Brawler said earlier in this thread that it *might* be possible for users to create new Emotes (not attacks) if the Devs made a way to convert animations done with the Cryptic AR rig to their old ones.

Possible, but unlikely given the legal issues and ammount of work involved.

That being said, I still want to create a few myself. Just for fun and practice. You never know what ideas you'll give them and there's always the chance they like what they see enough to make something happen.

So, I ask again, What are some emotes / attacks you people would like to see?


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Could you post a link to this? That doesn't make any sense. Why wouldn't they have the source animation files for their own game?

If this is what they said, it's sounds like a fib coupled with a scapegoat to me.

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Why not starting to animate the attacks that already are in the game?

I think that if they can get their hands on a good stack of the power animations without the power effetcs (just the body animations), then power customization become possible...

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Um...wha?


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Ok folks, start listing listing emotes and new/redone attacts you'd like to see. I'm bored and haven't animated in a couple years. Keep in mind I'm partial to Tankers and Super Strength.

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While I'm amused at the idea of Paragon's biggest and brightest hero being uncomfortably objectivist, I'm not sure I like the idea that the rest of the city's heroes should be endorsing his methods without question. Especially when States is being awfully vague about what this doomsday device actually is; it would be quite embarassing to fly into the Rogue Isles guns blazing only to find out that Recluse was just working on a really big ice cream machine.

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Lord Recluse: "You JERKS! This was Black Scorpion's birthday party! We were building him a water slide, which you BROKE! I hope you are happy. NO, you don't get any CAKE!
Tell Marcus to bite me!"


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