rian_frostdrake

oh, and for one of my favorites, one thing i REALLY want is kanji chest symbols, we got greek letters? who cares about greek letters(well, jack did of course) but im willing to bet that there are more manga/anime nerds on here than greek geeks. obviously we cant have them all, but the big ones, fire, ice, earth, water, steel, dragon, that kind of stuff would be cool.

oh, and could we finally get the ability to put chest symbols on backs? im sure its related to the whole anchoring point issue, but especially for leather jackets and martial arts robes, having the symbols on your back would fit the theme better. plus when you are playing, you dont see your chest much, so id like to have them on my back.

actually fel, one thing i was thinking of last night was how much of a pain in the butt high level content used to be. it was peregrine, and that was it. no rikti war zone as you know it, no papers/police band, no cimorea, no oroboros, just running carnies, malta, and the praetorians, who, before the eb-av change were always av's, so you pretty much had to get a team or have an optimized build.

i was thinking of this because of the farming talks, and i did farm one level back then 47 with a fire tank and a drek map, because of how bad the old content was, it was garbage that i didnt even want to play through, and the shard was worse as well back then, the geyser paths werent marked, and there was no jet-pack vendor. so yeah, looking at how now im pretty much drowning in content that i havent finished from several issues ago. I want more, of course, but you guys are so very very lucky for the current stuff.

chaos and lots of powers firing off at once against massed hordes of enemies is why i enjoy it.

[ QUOTE ]
*post made irrelevant by deletion of bad pun*

[/ QUOTE ]*is sad because he missed the bad pun*

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
It looked cool, but its execution time just made it unusable.

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't remember, but was it longer than Shadow Maul? That thing seems to go on FOREVER. Maybe they could alter the damage of Storm Kick or make it a cone to compensate for the time?

I miss the old Storm Kick animation, too. I remember talking to my friend about it in the office one day and telling him how awesome it felt when I used Storm Kick.

[/ QUOTE ]well, the deal is, altering the damage would change the power, and that would kind of kill the idea of interchangeable animations. so while it might have been cool to see it turned into a cone like maul, that might be for a more ambitious idea to add more then the 9 powers.

you know, it WAS alternate animation selection for martial arts. i will want more animations, of course, heck, if it were up to me wed have ones for shaolin form kung-fu as well as mantis style, drunken monkey style and 5 animal style, muai-thai, tang-soo-do/tae kwon do, shotokan karate, capoeria, savate, and street brawling. but overall what i wanted MAY have gotten bulls eyed . i wont be sure till open beta, and it could go wrong, but if it goes right it will be my main request fulfilled.

throwing or weaponizing background objects. like tossing cars or using a tree like a massive baseball bat.


a "raygun" styled powerset, im guessing it might work as a defender/corrupter buff and ranged damage set, but one that captures the over the top nature of the pulp sci fi ray guns, with freeze rays, shrink rays, and such.


id love an underwater zone with water powers and an epic at shapeshifter with aquatic forms.


actually cross server pvp zones would be pretty nice. i'm not hardcore enough to try to hit the arenas, but a good packed pvp zone is a lot of fun, provided everyone in zone has their basic social skills enabled.

i did prefer hell freezes over, it had a certain meta-awareness to it.

Im partial to magic, primarily because the game proper has a lot of tech looking options, but really both are very good, but if you have to choose, magic is a bit better. maybe wait till you start having chracter ideas, are they more tech or magic? that would be the best way to tell.

boo

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Super Strength and Martial Arts will each receive an alternate animation for their powers, and Stone Armor and Necromancy will include limited customization.


i am going to drive to paragon studios and kiss posi directly on the mouth.

[/ QUOTE ]

Word is that Positron was going to have the Restraining Order sent to you prior to this announcement. Then someone in accounting tallied all you'd spent on this game- and all you'd probably spend due to this Issue... and decided he'd just have to "take one for the team."

[/ QUOTE ]he would join jay and babs in having restraining orders against me.

seraph blue is getting blue buffs and heals. Rian(martial arts) and dire worg(super strength) are going to check out these new animations, and the rest probably wont change much, might change djinn's dark last powers to be different colored, since she really isnt dark so much as generically magical.

oh, and since babs mentioned that we will be able to colorize the swooshes , rian is becoming the rainbow brawler. every strike gets another color. his sabom will be roy g biv

It looked cool, but its execution time just made it unusable.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Heh, I'd stop wasting your breath Munki. Same tired debate is still the same and tired.

Before I leave the thread though, I'll only say two words...

Cryptic Bucks

[/ QUOTE ]

Now, now, they won't sell anything that isn't already available through gameplay.

[/ QUOTE ]there is some wiggle room, they say that anything that affects the game will be available through regular play. costume bits, for instance, don't affect the game, they just affect aesthetics...and so it begins...

oh, one last though, claws brutes and solo 8 man groups, billz is so coming back for issue 16 :P

oh and a few direct questions for any dev that feels chatty, since this is one of my particular pet issues.
1. will the ma/ss animations be new or will they be reused existing anims.
2. will the animations be selectable per power, as the colorizing is, or will we need to choose suite 1 or suite 2 of animations?
3. this one is for the street fighting fans, but there will be punches for martial arts? if so, im thinking a number of people will be quite happy.

thanks in advance and if you cant answer, i understand.

[ QUOTE ]
I couldn't help but give a squee...

This is so awesome.

I'm giddy!


EDIT:

I'm also on the boat of 'Not able to disable custom powers.'

If I have to see your god awful costume of a pink power ranger on the huge build type with a dragon head, you're gonna get to see my pretty pink energy blasts.

[/ QUOTE ]YOU SAID YOU THOUGHT I WAS PRETTY...

erm..err sorry, anyhow, one question i have been wondering about, remember how back before they replaced the sonic shields effects, it was making a number of players ill to see it? Given that we seem to be able to change buffs that we can apply to other players, might we see some of that back with insane color combinations?

[ QUOTE ]
LOVE the difficulty setting change.
LOVE the power tinting.

Freaking LOVE all the powerset proliferation...how is BaBs still alive after all this work? SOmeone give him a large root beer and some donuts...

[/ QUOTE ]he DID mention that he was working a lot, didnt he? it does splain some stuff.

Super Strength and Martial Arts will each receive an alternate animation for their powers, and Stone Armor and Necromancy will include limited customization.


i am going to drive to paragon studios and kiss posi directly on the mouth.

[ QUOTE ]
Those don't look like any pants I've ever seen.

[/ QUOTE ]hmm, either you have a much better graphics card than me or i need to kick more sorcerers out, because i am positive i have seen the legs seperate but apparently my memoriy failed me and ignore the legs rant, and instead feel free to imagine me in a dress showing babs how "crane kick" is supposed to animate.

agree, thats part of what i was saying, though heavily more technical, my primary dispute was calling those "robes", they aren't, they are heavily stylized versions of these pants. and thus really mean nothing to whether or not we will get long dresses.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
So you have time to giggle like a schoolgirl for hours on end but not enough time to give us juggle animations that work while flying?

[/ QUOTE ]

Actually, BaB keeps using that as an excuse to get people in the office to be videotaped trying to juggle while jumping on a trampoline for an animation reference.

Which, incidentally, is also the reason why Martial Arts was claimed to be the reason for the lack of long skirts for females for years.

[/ QUOTE ]

Babs can't get anyone willing to do martial arts kicks in a long skirt for an animation reference? That close to San Francisco you should be able to find ANYONE willing to do ANYTHING...

...Unfortunately, the most eager are usually the ones you really don't want to see in such poses....

Maybe the TRUE reason is that he's burned all recordings before slipping into the alcohol-induced coma brought on by the encounter.

[/ QUOTE ]if babs comes up near the pittsburgh area, i will happily throw on a dress and demonstrate the moves...this will not help said coma situation..in fact it will certainly exacerbate it.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
also, thats not a skirt, its more like a hakama, a pair of really broad pants...

[/ QUOTE ]
Move your eyes to the left please. That Sorcerer is wearing a robe. An ankle-length robe.

Yes I know. The devs have said that we're not going to get power customization and long robes/dresses. Both of those things would be far too difficult to add to the game. That's too bad because power customization would really rock!

Oh wait...

[/ QUOTE ]oy vey, you are wrong on quite a lot of things, so give me space here. first, while your picture could have been better centered, i knew which guy you were talking about, had you checked what i mentioned, hakama pants look nothing like the second tsoo in the pic, and you are still wrong. hit a tsoo sorcerer and make sure he ragdolls, now note how the legs seperate(or look at the pic the gentleman posted under my post of the tsoo using an axe kick) note that they are not wearing an open "dress" style robe, but a pair of extremely broad pants. this is different than a dress, dresses have only one "leg" that has to conform to the shape of both legs.

next, babs was pretty clear on this a while ago, but we will go through it again, he NEVER SAID that power customization was something we were not going to get, he made a fairly clear post on the very topic because people kept misquoting him, he said it was time consuming and would require a significant amount of work. Im not sure it can really be made any clearer. as for long dresses, jay has mentioned several tiems that he could make long dresses but felt they would look really bad, and its not directly related to martial arts, either, they simply look bad past the knee. so you are attempting to draw a link between something that was time consuming and something that simply looks unacceptable to the art team, and thats simply a weird thing to draw.

so while we can appreciate your ever so witty attempts at irony at the end, your post is pretty much fact free, and you may wish to look into that.

i will probably pick it up some day soon, nothing really grabs me, but i do have some shapeshifters who might benefit from size shifting.

[ QUOTE ]
HAHA yea i have been playing a lot of WoW.

[/ QUOTE ]well, glad you are here, as you may have seen this weekend there are going to be alien invasions, those are fun, basically you will get a note in your chat box(make sure you have hero/villain event messages enabled) about space ships going to zone x, first there are bombing runs where the aliens will drop bombs in certain places, some wont explode and smashing a number of them will get you a badge, try and get ona team, since they have high hit points and regen fora solist. then the aliens(rikti) will beam down en masse and beating down a bunch of them will get you a badge..and if you get a big enough group, there will be big robotech looking things that will get you the final badge to get you an accolade power thats nice vurses psi enemies, plus its fun to see 20 or so heroes standing around together blasting the heck out of a bunch of aliens porting down..but expect some lag..and now expect a lot more. but you may want to check it out.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Which, incidentally, is also the reason why Martial Arts was claimed to be the reason for the lack of long skirts for females for years.

[/ QUOTE ]
Yep, and I always believed that was true, until one night in Dark Astoria I saw this.

Notice the high kick? Notice how there is no clipping? If he can do that then so can we.

I wonder if Champions Online has long dresses/robes? I'd bet that if they did then we'd get them too, if not then I guess we won't.

[/ QUOTE ]also, thats not a skirt, its more like a hakama, a pair of really broad pants, worn a lot by kendo and akido practitioners. but they have two distinct legs. long dresses are one "leg" that would look intensely silly splitting like that for several kick motions. heck, look at a character running in the pencil skirts, they tend to look a little too clingy to the legs and seperate kind of oddly when running, imagine that with the lower legs that move apart much more.