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More Costume Change emotes, Please?

Bad_Wonka

By Bad_Wonka,
Posted on: 2009-04-23 24:47 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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Now that we have the Magic Pack and those kooler than kool Costume Change emotes, I am feeling a bit flat on that Cyborg (Tech) Pack. Where are the Tech CC emotes? Will there be Natural CC emotes? What about Science and Mutation? We're doing a Pack for every Origin, right? Then why shouldn't we have CC emotes for every Origin?

My suggestions:

Tech:

cclightshow (laser light show display with a flash during the transition)

ccbeammeup (character pushes buttons on wrist followed by a classic Star Trek style disintegration and reintegration)

Natural:

ccphonebooth (a phone booth appears and the character steps in and then steps out changed)

ccripoff (the character does a chest ripping aniamtion as a clothlike animation rips apart revealing the new costume)

Science:

ccinjection (the character pulls our a syringe and injects him or herself, they do the shaking electrocuted animation as a cloud of green enshrouds them and then fades away to reveal the new costume)

ccpotion (the character imbibes a potion which causes him or her to wretch, terrible pain causes them the do the frustation animation as red liquid drips from their pores and reveals the new costume as the liquid pours off)

Mutant:

ccelectric (a surge of electricity crosses the character's body and electrical burst reveals the new costume)

ccpillarofflame (a pillar of fire blasts into the sky as the character, engulfed in flames, transforms)


Anyway, these are my ideas. Let me know what you think and add more if you have any.

Thanks!

 

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can't the ccLightning work for tech and (mad) science too?

The hubby and I have been using ccPrestoChango with our natural / ninja characters as a sort of Ninjavanish / smoke bomb stand-in.

I do love the Beam-me-Up suggestion though

 

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Not sure if they would add any more to Science (Cyborg), since you already got what you paid for. I am sure Cyborg is science since it is science fiction, half man half robot. Tech would be like gadgets and stuff. But the others I like!

 

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Not sure if they would add any more to Science (Cyborg), since you already got what you paid for. I am sure Cyborg is science since it is science fiction, half man half robot. Tech would be like gadgets and stuff. But the others I like!

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No, Cyborg was released as the Tech Booster pack. Half robot sounds more like Tech to me than Science. You're implanting technology to make yourself more powerful, faster, etc..

Science is more when you're involved in a chemical explosion that changes you or you drink or inject a serum that changes you or when you're bitten by a radioactive spider that changes you, etc.. Being involved in a scientific experiment that changes the genetic structure of your body is Science. Having some mad scientist implant cybernetic parts in you is Technology.

 

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Not sure if they would add any more to Science (Cyborg), since you already got what you paid for. I am sure Cyborg is science since it is science fiction, half man half robot. Tech would be like gadgets and stuff. But the others I like!

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To add on to Blackavaar's comment: Using gadgets and tools is more of a Natural thing. It's kind of a fine line, but basically anything James Bond would get from Q is in line with Natural, whereas a suit of power armor, cyborg implants, or an antimatter gun is Tech. Science is mostly chemicals, radiation, or drugs -- Captain America, The Elongated Man, and The Fantastic Four are all examples of Science origin heroes.

Freeze rays and time control might be SCIENCE!, but sadly, we lack that origin. ;p

 

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Request <a href="'http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/game_updates/issue_15/issue_15_overview.html'" target="_blank">granted</a>.

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I think you meant:
granted!

(or is it just my browser that 404s out on that link?)
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Costume change emote list from the Issue 15 info page:
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[*]Backflip[*]Salute[*]Howl[*]Evil Laugh[*]Peacebringer Transform (Kheldian's only)[*]Warshade Transform (Kheldian's only)[*]Vanguard Sigil


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While I think the first 4 are probably self explanatory as far as what they'll look like I'm looking forward to seeing the last 3 in-game. It's strangely interesting they are offering "Kheld only" emotes - makes you wonder how long it'll take before someone whines that there are no "VEAT only" ones.

Anyway as far as the OP's emote suggestions go I like them all although my guess is that we'll never get a ccPhoneBooth one for the same reason we'll never get a "Newspaper Reporter" Day Job either. One could argue that some of the other costume change emotes are fairly familiar, but that one is SO iconic that it'd be obvious which existing hero IP that one came from.

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the same reason we'll never get a "Newspaper Reporter" Day Job either.

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I'd personally like that, except there is no "The City Scoop" office building in CoH. Hmm, now there is a suggestion I think I'll make .



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Request granted.
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Yes, I saw these. But while those are good, I still like my ideas more.

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Anyway as far as the OP's emote suggestions go I like them all although my guess is that we'll never get a ccPhoneBooth one for the same reason we'll never get a "Newspaper Reporter" Day Job either. One could argue that some of the other costume change emotes are fairly familiar, but that one is SO iconic that it'd be obvious which existing hero IP that one came from.

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Not necessarily. There have been other heroes that used a phone booth to change in. I know Supes is the most famous, but he isn't the only hero to ever do that. Does this mean revolving doors are out of the question too?

If that is the case however, then my other Natural alternative would be the simple:

ccninjasmoke

I know a lot of players that want that one and it's an animation that is already in the game.

 

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I'm looking forward to seeing the last 3 in-game.

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Well, I think the Vanguard Sigil is going to look like this.

I'm figuring the Kheldian ones will look a l lot like their current transformation animations. And I don't think they'll be so great that VEATs will really give a damn.

 

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Not sure if they would add any more to Science (Cyborg), since you already got what you paid for. I am sure Cyborg is science since it is science fiction, half man half robot. Tech would be like gadgets and stuff. But the others I like!

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To add on to Blackavaar's comment: Using gadgets and tools is more of a Natural thing. It's kind of a fine line, but basically anything James Bond would get from Q is in line with Natural, whereas a suit of power armor, cyborg implants, or an antimatter gun is Tech. Science is mostly chemicals, radiation, or drugs -- Captain America, The Elongated Man, and The Fantastic Four are all examples of Science origin heroes.

Freeze rays and time control might be SCIENCE!, but sadly, we lack that origin. ;p

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Could be argued that Fantastic Four are mutant. They were mutated when he thing in the space station happened.

 

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Not sure if they would add any more to Science (Cyborg), since you already got what you paid for. I am sure Cyborg is science since it is science fiction, half man half robot. Tech would be like gadgets and stuff. But the others I like!

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To add on to Blackavaar's comment: Using gadgets and tools is more of a Natural thing. It's kind of a fine line, but basically anything James Bond would get from Q is in line with Natural, whereas a suit of power armor, cyborg implants, or an antimatter gun is Tech. Science is mostly chemicals, radiation, or drugs -- Captain America, The Elongated Man, and The Fantastic Four are all examples of Science origin heroes.

Freeze rays and time control might be SCIENCE!, but sadly, we lack that origin. ;p

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Could be argued that Fantastic Four are mutant. They were mutated when he thing in the space station happened.

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Nope, they're Science. If they were anything else it would be Cosmic, since they were altered by cosmic radiation. But alas that Origin is not available in CoH.

Mutant = granted powers by a mutation of the genetic structure by natural means (ie. evolution).

Science = granted powers by a mutation of the genetic structure by unnatural means (ie. scientific experimentation).

 

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If we look only at the 5 origins in-game, then yes, they're Science (in the vein of The Hulk, Barry Allen [The Flash], Deadpool [No, seriously], and Poison Ivy).

 

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Costume change emote list from the Issue 15 info page:
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[*]Backflip[*]Salute[*]Howl[*]Evil Laugh[*]Peacebringer Transform (Kheldian's only)[*]Warshade Transform (Kheldian's only)[*]Vanguard Sigil


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While I think the first 4 are probably self explanatory as far as what they'll look like I'm looking forward to seeing the last 3 in-game. It's strangely interesting they are offering "Kheld only" emotes - makes you wonder how long it'll take before someone whines that there are no "VEAT only" ones.

Anyway as far as the OP's emote suggestions go I like them all although my guess is that we'll never get a ccPhoneBooth one for the same reason we'll never get a "Newspaper Reporter" Day Job either. One could argue that some of the other costume change emotes are fairly familiar, but that one is SO iconic that it'd be obvious which existing hero IP that one came from.

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Make it a changing booth. A voting booth. A toll booth. Even a Powers Boothe. And it should rise up out of the ground (this one wouldn't work while flying, even after BAB fixes that bug). But I do acknowledge that it's probably not very likely.

I'd like to see "Flash" - a simple flash of light, just like when you activate Build Up.

And I can't have the Kheldian "Earth Shattering Kaboom" for my tiny little alien character? This makes me very angry. Very angry, indeed.