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Possible "New" Powerset preview......

0zymandous

By 0zymandous,
Posted on: 2007-02-22 10:03 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Ill bet Castle is wishing he had never said anything on this post at all.

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Not at all!

Samurai: It was a player, not an NPC. I know, since I was playing him! He is a Spines/Regen scrapper.

The power: What you are seeing is actually a graphics bug created by the demo-record/playback process we use to take screenshots.

And now you know!

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The point I would like the Devs to get is: how bad we all want spines to get a new look.

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Seconded.
I don't need a new powerset, just make Spines bearable to look at, would have the same effect for me, one more usable set.
I really like the concept behind it, i even tried it, for all of six levels, then the hideous look made me delete the char.

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You have a melee character tha has ranged attacks with none of the wekaness of the Blaster AT.

I'd say the spines look are one of the "negative" things arout the set. So let's redo their look and take away the ranged attack, would that be better?

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This never gets old... or does it? Are daggers melee or ranged? How about batons/billy clubs? Yes the character V throws daggers at about the same range as spines Impale, and Dare Devil and Night Wing both throw battons/billy clubs at a far, far greater range than spines. Does that make these three characters blasters? No. All three are clear examples of comic scrappers with ranged attack.
Later,
Zyph
And silly me I left out the big one Batman...

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And you don't see a MA/SR/Devices, which is what Batman, Nightwing, et al, would be in the game now either do you?

I'm talking game balance, and keeping the focus of the AT's in what they are meant to be, which is Scrapper = melee, Blaster = ranged and only melee at potential great cost.

To use your examples as to what is in the comic's should be in the game we'd have a combo of Storm Defender (super breath), Rad/Kheld blaster (eye blasts specifically), Invul, Super Strength, Super Speed hero like Superman. Yes I know you can have about 95% of Superman in game now, but the point is game balance does not equal comics. Period.

If you want ranged then play a Blaster or deal with the ugly look of Spines. Seems like a fair trade off to me.

 

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Incase you missed it this is a COMIC game. I am not sure where or how you missed this point. The Devs gave us EPPs to cover things like Batman, night wing, DD would be a MA/SR with the weapons mastery epp. So this does not mean that mroe powers of this type can not be added, or that the ones in the game can not be made to look even better. How you can say the ugly looks = game balance is beyond me.

Also game balance is not more imortant to me as a player than theme and apperance. I have never been one of those "Not Fair!" people. This game would be better off if there were less of those type of people in it. Class envy in this game is worse than any game I have ever played.

Just remember this is a comic super hero game. People play this game to be like those heroes you said do not belong here because they do not fit youre view of balance. They work fine to me, but so does spines, claws and another scrapper primary with short range powers. Now if all fo a sudden it could hit from the same distance as my blasters do I may see some of these probelms people have with them. As it stands now they do not, so I do not. So there is no reason to not give the set a make over as every scrapper set has already gotten.
Later,
Zyph

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And knowing is half the battle...

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GI JOE

The Real american Hero

 

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i'm still hoping that someday weapons customization will be added

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What do you think the screenshot in the OP was? DUHHH!

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::loads propellant into the flamethrower::

God damn zombie posts.

/e chewcigar

 

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No.

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No.

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No.

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The best part of necro posts is I get to quote JRanger. Changed the text to something more appropriate.

I miss that guy.

 

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Incidentally, it was that thread on "who was Jranger?" that inspired me to do a search for his posts, and lo and behold came this gem (probably only still here because Castle posted in it).

@macskull, @Not Mac | XBL: macskull | Steam: macskull | Skype: macskull
"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."

 

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Yep this might be the last remaining vestige of JRanger on the forums...

to that I must say:

NO.