Consolidated Power and Weapon Customization Thread

Iv been reading the latest posts and most of them seem to be concerned with new power animations, but for me I feel that costume customization has been left out. While I will say CoH has the best costume creation out their it does seem to be missing a few basic things in my opinion. For example, where have knee pads gone? Why do both my shoulders have to have the same thing on them? (there are a few exceptions I know) Why can't I have huge cloaks that cover most the body or loin clothes or loin armour kinda things, and why doesnt most of my clothes move realistically? Iv seen a couple of gameplay clips of champs, and I wondered why does it make CoH feel so slow, and I've come to the conclusion this is mainly because there is very little interaction between character models. For example, I know it would be really hard but wouldn't it look awesome if when characters would brush up against each other, they would sorta shrug it off, stiffen or even be affected like a normal object would when in contact with another moving thing.

I know that the devs have a limited work force and I am not flaming on them, i am just bringing this up to get people to start asking some questions. Although I'm I haven't been a huge fan of the recent updates (the seemed kinda 'meh' to me) I am really impressed by the evolution the game is making. I am looking forward to a new expansion as this will give the devs a huge boost to the game's funding and publicity hopefully. It will also hopefully breath new life into an aging game and help to revitalize it. The biggest hope that i have is they will make some small fundamental changes to the game mechanics to give the character even more life and individuality.

Can we get better colors for ice powers?
It seems like only blues and a bunch of blah neutrals.
How about some bright colors like reds or yellows or greens?
thanks

I like the new Super Strength animations, but can we get them with the old effects instead of the color-tintable as an option. Same thing with Martial Arts.

I'd like a different animation for Blazing Aura; a port of the Hot Feet animation for example. Or just one that doesn't do the puff-puff-puff bit. The constant visual pulse-pulse-pulse gets on my nerves very fast. These days I get around it by coloring Blazing Aura black so it's not so in-my-face; but I don't really want all my /Fire characters to have black auras.

Another thing I'd like is a way to color Dark Miasma pure white; I was really hoping to do that with my Ice/Dark.

I'd like to see animation choices for the elemental melee sets (fire, ice, earth). I'd like to be able to make characters that used only the fists animation, or only the sword/mallet animation, as appropriate. Having weird mishmashes leads to concepts like "Indecisive Flamy SwordFist", which just doesn't do it for me. All-Fire-Swords, please!

Round pizza pie shield
Pizza-cutting tool (rotating disk) as a sword option

Tombstone/gravestone shield

In my opinion, the new Dual Pistols animations are awesome. However, I feel that having such cool animations makes our old powers look... old! Is it possible to make alternate animations for our older attacks? Here's some examples:

For Flares, can we have an animation that makes the character look like they're THROWING the fire blasts? Can we also have the old animation for the same attack back? I liked that one too.

For Ball Lightning, the character holds his hand behind his back and charges electrical energy in his hand before releasing the Ball Lightning.

I'll try to come up with more ideas.

What with the announcement of Electric Control and trying to think of a thematic combo for it, this popped into my head: how about a shiny metallic theme for Earth/Stone type powers? For one, it would make a good stand-in for "Metal Control"; and thematically, metal-looking versions of earth would go well with say Earth/Elec or Elec/Earth. Perhaps with "rough metal" and "polished metal" variants.

If the Devs won't let Kheldians change the color of their powers because of "fictional reasons", then how about letting us shut-off the visual effects of our powers on a power-by-power basis?

Some of the Dual Pistols animations are a bit over the top at times. I mean, I don't want my characters getting sick from constantly turning 360 degrees whenever they want to dual wield! I'd like a set of animations more akin to the Thugs Mastermind set, less flipping and spinning. Not that I don't think the default animations are cool, just that they don't make sense for some characters. I can see alternate animations for all but Bullet Rain and Hail of Bullets.

And I have mentioned this in another thread, but love to machine-pistol/SMG Dual Pistol options would be pretty cool. We have the Mini-Uzi option already, and Enforcers have burst-fire animations already. It's not a total longshot to adapt the current animations from single-fire to burst-fire while completely leaving gameplay out of the equation. This could pave the way for more SMGs to be included, maybe even assault rifles/machine guns for Rambo-style characters.

Apologies for the double post, this one is completely unrelated to DP.

I'd like to see an animation variation of the Crane Kick akin to the Thrust Punch from Resident Evil 4, found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyOxbk0Tth4&feature=fvw

I think it's kind of strange that there's a punch variation for all MA powers except CK, which has the most awkward-looking default animation.

change the names of the Fire, Ice and stone Weapon powers to Fire Weapon, Ice weapon, and Stone Weapon then allow for more custom looks such as:

Fire:
other fire sword looks
Fire Axe
Fire Whip

Ice:
Ice Axe
Ice Hammer
other Ice sword looks
Mace



Stone:
Stone Axes
Stone Sword
Stone mace

I'd like to see alterante animations for dark melee. Two really a more magic/tai chi style and a martial arts style one with kicks for smite or shadow punch, a charged hadoken style assassin's eclipse, a punch kick combo for shadow maul even?

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the Resistance pistols would be nice to have.

An open letter to NCsoft

I demand a chainsaw... somewhere.

Give it to Fire Blast so it looks like I have a fireball spitting chainsaw.

What I'd like to see most is more of a toggle effect than an animation, as such I'm not sure it should be here, nonetheless:

I'd love to have a "plasma" option for electric armor visuals. One need only look at Malta Attacks for inspiration, replace the cracling zaps with a hum.

In order to comply with the "animation" part of this thread I'll suggest that the same stylistic options be available to electric assault/melee/etc. animation effects.

I would like to see Energy Melee get more straightforward "punching" animations, like a boxer. It just strikes me as the kind of set to get powers like that.

I'm very happy with what they've done with weapon and power customization. Just take a look at the beginning of the thread, on the opening post where both Statesman and Positron had dropped color customization in the unhappy land of "Not Likely to Happen."

It ended up happening anyway.

We've come a long way, and this is one of those things I love about this game.

Here's where I would love to see it go further. I'll try not to go over ideas that we've probably heard a million times (custom MM pet colors, Patron/Power Pool Color Customization), but don't kill me if I happen to repeat something. The way I see it, the more something pops up - it may be a redundancy, but even moreso a magnified voice for the demand of such a thing.

1. Boxing and Kick unlock different animations for weapon based sets. Especially AR. The fighting pool is supposed to represent a gained skill in your character's ability for close combat. It's already in use for Brawl, so - why not? It will be an extra perk for those of us who reslotted into fighting pool for whatever reason.

2. Custom jetpacks, with a different color for the jetpack, and the jetpack flame. It would be a real boon to technological flying heroes.

3. Alternate run animations for Ninja-Run like powers. Like an Olympic runners sprint, or even some kind of comical 'Benny Hill' run (or just copy a civilian 'flee' and put it on hyperspeed). If an animal pack comes in the future, dare I hope for an 'all-fours' sprint? While it's cool to be a ninja, not all of us can run like them.

4. Alternate sounds in-game for gun-based sets. It -is- possible to tinker with the game and switch out sounds if I'm reading it correctly. (Which I have found here ), but it would be grand if you could select a different sound for your weapon, the same way that different animations could be selected for different powers.

What comes foremost to mind is perhaps a 'silenced' soundset for AR.

@Kyuu

Can we get different animations for the Mastermind secondary set, Poison? Some that focus more on the throwing, tossing or "shooting" of assorted chemicals rather than spitting them?

We get a couple powers that throw or toss, but then we start spitting at the enemy? For a set that appeals to all the evil mad scientists out there, that's a bit irritating.

At least if my character were making hand motions, I could pretend I was using some kind of hose or something. I don't get why my chemist would be ingesting his chemicals just to vomit them up later.

Dark Melee, Midnight Grasp, make the tentacles optional. A cloud of smoke would be fine. Same for Tenebrous Tentacles.

Not sure if this has been said before but...

Way back when CoV went live, I made a ninja blade/ninjitu stalker. I loved everything about him, still do. He even had ninja-like animations with every power. I'm not sure when it changed but Ninja Reflexes & Danger Sense no longer have those ninja-like animations, they have the same animations as Tough & Weave. It sorta ruins a character who looks disciplined & precise with his blade & healing, but once you click on his defense powers if they should ever drop, he looks like a boxer from the Bronx. Can we have those animations back?