City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Costume Help? Arachnos Armor

Chaotic_Ice

By Chaotic_Ice,
Posted on: 2008-01-27 09:00 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

Posted

Hey folks!

Sorry to interrupt your usual art swapping schedule, but recently I became very stumped with a costume I wanted to make (Thats never happened before!) and I thought here would be the best place...

Anyways, one of my main villains on Virtue recently joined an arachnos themed VG. With this I figured I would alter his generic vanguard armor costume to be a set of arachnos armor (I have the pre-order helmets and special ed cape and chest detail)

Sadly though, I just can't come up with a creative costume! I want to make something from a combination of vanguard, enforcer and arachnos pieces, but no matter how long I sit in the tailor, fiddling around, I can't come up with anything that just sticks...

So, if you guys could come up with any ideas or forms of inspiration, I'd really...REALLY...appreciate it

 

Posted

I don't really know what to tell you here, other than to link one of my character's Arachnos costumes. I don't have the helmet though.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...lack%20Jacket/

your = Belonging to you.
you're = Contraction meaning "You are."
Ur = The name of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
ur = This is not a word.

 

Posted

so how do you get arachnos costume parts?

 

Posted

I got my chest symbol and cape from the Collector's Edition CoV DVD. Those are the only parts I have though. The helmet was available as a prestige costume part or something.

your = Belonging to you.
you're = Contraction meaning "You are."
Ur = The name of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
ur = This is not a word.

 

Posted

Correction: the helmet was available when CoV was released. If you pre-ordered the game you got a code with it depending on the company you pre-ordered with. Entering the code into your account would unlock an arachnos helmet.

I'm pretty sure you can still find some of the codes on Ebay.

 

Posted

I threw one together in the creator for you using the helm and enforcer 1 chest piece so you'd be with out the symbol, also armored pads chest and legs, bare/smooth- Bands for gloves, techbot boots I think they're called and tech tactical belt; enforcer on the female version.
Male
Female bane spider variant sans helm

 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
Correction: the helmet was available when CoV was released. If you pre-ordered the game you got a code with it depending on the company you pre-ordered with. Entering the code into your account would unlock an arachnos helmet.

I'm pretty sure you can still find some of the codes on Ebay.

[/ QUOTE ]

And... here are the helmets....

Crab Spider From EB Games

Arachnos Mystic From Best Buy

Blood Widow Female Only From Game Stop

Wolf Spider Very Rare From "All Other Retailers"

The "Red Eyes" on all the helmets do not glow. They are just colored red.

You can not adjust the color of the helmets and the helmet colors are slightly unique in their shading. Especially the Crab Spider which is a sea-green black.

Careful who you buy your helmet from on ebay. Each helmet was available only at certain locations and Ebay Sellers might not know where the product originally
sold so they can't tell you which helmet you will get.
I wound up with the Crab Spider helmet. I dont' think I have a pic of that character but I'll look for one.

In the meantime, here is my first costume attempts on making a Quartermaster.
Quartermaster Refference

Quartermaster Agent

And Another Try Quartermaster Agent II

 

Posted

[ QUOTE ]
From What I remember you can't get those helmets anymore, you could only get it if you played City Of Villains the weekend before the game was released to those who didn't preordered the game...

[/ QUOTE ]

I got my key around August of last year? I got it from an Ebay Seller. I just checked Ebay and no one had any of them on sale.

If you do find some one on ebay or amazon that is selling over-stock copies you can add it to your account like you would if you added the Good VS Evil Gear code to your existing.

 

Posted

Well, not to go out of my way, but here is my Arachnos-themed character character's enforcer costume. his original is on the left, his enforcer variation is on the right, and I threw together a quick hybrid of the two to see what it'd look like in between.

 

Posted

Maybe you all could help me? I'm attempting to construct an Arachnos themed toon as well. I have it all together but the cape. I have the Crab Spider Helmet and the armor all picked out. My problem is the cape symbol. I do have the CoV DVD collector's edition. The symbol shows up as a choice for my chest, but not for the cape. Any suggestions? I've already posted a petition in-game and have yet to hear an answer.

(EDIT) Thank you all. I was pointed in the right direction and will post a picture of my toon soon.

 

Posted

acceptable arachnos themed colors based on mob types:
dark green
red
black
purple
metal
dark gray

that said I think a costume mostly made of black/dark gray and silver/dark green metal piece with purple/red accent pieces (such as shoulders/belts/etc.