Kheldians and Power Customization

There's some speculation that 'Going Rogue' will allow power customization to some extent, prompted by the vid with the lovely evil lady's (Desdemona?) fireball changing from Blue to Red.

It it turns out to be true, and is available to Khelds, to what extent will you customize your Khelds 'look'?

For me, if we're only allowed to change colors (which is the most likely by far), then I'll probably change the 'white light' of my PBs powers to a Goldish Coloration. Gold's more valuable than Silver, Baby...

If we're able to change a bit more than colors, say, Auras, Bubbles, etc., then I'll remove the Bubbles from my shields, keeping only the Aura effects.

Finally, if we can pick our Animation (never gonna happen )...Hmmm. I dunno, maybe apply SS's Knockout Blow animation to Incadescent Strike, and maybe a Handclap for Pulsar, or maybe even Solar Flare...

Anybody else given this any thought?

Dude.. slow down, haven't you heard the proverb about the Squid learning to count their tentacles before they can use them for blasting?

To be honest... I'm not sure how far I'd (if I will even bother to) go with customizing my Kheldians, and quite frankly, I think that if people were allowed to customize their own powers and such, some people would make such a terrible job at it, they may decide the whole character is now botched and delete it!

At the very least, I suggest a "Revert Changes" button on the Customization interface.

Nah, I'm not ready to guess that Going Rogue will include Power Customization. I suppose it's possible, but it seems symbolic to me, in that video.

What could happen is that when you switch sides, you get your counterparts' color scheme. So for instance when an Invulnerablity Tanker goes evil, he gets the same darker colors for his auras as an Invulnerability Brute. Since those are not the same Power Sets, though, just duplicates, the color difference isn't exactly the same as Customization. More like two different ATs getting different forms of the same power.

If it does work that way, though, I would like to see Warshades get something to distinguish them as Nictus. Perhaps a darker color scheme. And PB's could become sort of blue-grey.

In the in-game lore, though, there is no difference between a Warshade and a Nictus. It's just a name some Nictus have chosen to indicate their "change of heart".

I'm much more interested to know if crossing the line means your characters get to actually change anything about their powers...?

Guys.... one of my first sentences was *IF IT TURNS OUT TO BE TRUE*

That means I'm quite aware that it's all speculation and might not happen. I was just inviting whoever wanted to speculate on the speculations...errmmm...if this was true

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My problem is that there's not enough on which to base a speculation. "If it turns out to be true", yes, but if WHAT turns out to be true? Full Customization? Color Customization? Your powers change colors when you switch sides? Ability to choose animations, or just what's attached to you, like in Weapon Customization?

And this does nothing about the appearance of the Kheldians themselves. Would Power Customization allow you to change the way your forms look? Or would it only allow you to change the way their powers look?

Too much speculation... head'splodes!!!!!! *POOF-BOOM!*

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My problem is that there's not enough on which to base a speculation. "If it turns out to be true", yes, but if WHAT turns out to be true? Full Customization? Color Customization? Your powers change colors when you switch sides? Ability to choose animations, or just what's attached to you, like in Weapon Customization?

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Sure there is - I gave *Three* different speculations based on *Three* possible degrees of customization we might receive (Colors, Auras/Bubbles, Animations)

I don't see why it's so difficult do say something like, "if we can change our power's colors, my PB's Luminous Blast will become Red."

Maybe I'm making it sound more complex than I'm thinking...

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And this does nothing about the appearance of the Kheldians themselves. Would Power Customization allow you to change the way your forms look? Or would it only allow you to change the way their powers look?

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I don't know what options they're gonna give us. I just know that Power Customization is being hinted at. However, I think changes involving colorization and/or existing animations are much more likely than creating new forms or new animations, thus that's what I used in my examples.

If they do give Khelds optional forms, then I will look thru them, find the one I think looks the coolest and best fit my concept, then change it. But that's difficult to speculate on. Something better would be if we could change the colors of the forms, and if we can, would you? And to what color?

Hey, most everything we post assumes an 'if' until we see it live

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Haha...how so...?

Seriously, if we get anything, by far the most likely is a simple color change of powers. Is it that hard to say I'm gonna go 'Green' or something...

Okie... green's cool! I like green... and if we're just talking about which colors I'd select for my Kheldian powers if we were given the choice, I think my WS would have to go with deep reds, like Pain Domination, while my PB would go with florescent greens, or a weird mixture of golds and pinks!

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Okie... green's cool! I like green... and if we're just talking about which colors I'd select for my Kheldian powers if we were given the choice, I think my WS would have to go with deep reds, like Pain Domination, while my PB would go with florescent greens, or a weird mixture of golds and pinks!

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Ahhh... a Partidge Family PB...Cool

Shhhhhhhh don't refer to her like that, she's much too young to think it 'cool' because of the reference!

Well, I'm gonna resurrect this thread instead of starting a new one... I know there are similiar ones, but very few Kheld specific. I was told 'Not so fast when I first put this thread out there, but now we have I16 and some ideas of the possibilities, so...onward

I think mosts of us are assuming (hoping) that Khelds will get the Customization treatment. So, assuming the Devs haven't already baked all Khelds possibilities up, and just waiting for release, maybe we can 'influence' them to offer customizations we prefer

So, again, specifically, what customization options do you want for Khelds?

For me (speaking for PBs mostly):
1) The obvious; changing Power color. I do think that Peacebringers should be limited to the Bright pallete and Warshades the Dark one, however.

2) Alt. Animations. I want the Alt Superstrength Footstomp Groundstrike animation for PB's Solarflare and the Alt. Martial Arts Tier 9 Eagle's Claw Animation for Incadescent Strike (or something similiarly cool). An Alt, animation for Radiant Strike would be nice, but it's decent as is.

3) The Human Shields: I just don't love the Bubbles (esp. Quantum Shield's luminous eggbeater): a way to minimize the FX, or color them so they're not so obvious would be welcome.

4) Lightform: I have Photon seekers; I'm tired of looking like one. As we know, Khelds eventually can form energy templates of their host's forms. Well, why can't Lightform be of the same translucent appearance as Dwarf and Nova, but be your Human Form's shape? The rationale is the Kheldian is starting to take on the Human Template like it did Dwarf and Nova long ago. Or something similiar. I just hate losing my humanoid shape and turning into a ball of light.

5) the Forms: Tough one here. The forms are so entrenched in the Lore. However, I don't see why color changes (limited by Bright and Dark palettes) would be so bad.

Speak now, folks, give the Devs some ideas

I think that under the "For Fun" section of the forum, we should have a "Pleas for the Devs" section where this thread would feel at home...

I do not like your choice of words Alien One, but back on the subject I am not at all concerned about power customisation for Khelds. To me they are both part of a race and it maybe as like the human race can only customize so far...but with Going Rogue coming up I think it would be nice if should your Peacebringer be bad then their power effects darken. Like light sabers, erm I think, really. With Warshades they could darken even further.

Some people may decide that they are nothing to do with the Kheldian race and so a full set of options should be available. Rather than go into Dwarf Form one could go into a larger, similarly coloured and armour plated as Dwarf form, but Humanoid form (For want of an easy alternative).

To be honest, I've never really wanted to customize the appearance of my Kheldian powers but rather the appearance of my Kheldian forms. Being able to choose for example the "eye" color of my Nova/Dwarf, and add a sash to the Dwarf and tie scarves to my Nova's tentacles means a lot more to me than changing the colors of my blasts.

If anything excites me about I16's power customization it is the ability to choose a graphic theme to your powers — for example, the Crystal theme usable on Earth Control powers — than actually changing the colors themselves. Even that though is just a cosmetic that I wasn't ever bothered with.

From what I have gathered they intend to include Kheldians, MM's, pool powers, and all the other forgotten sets into a patch sometime "soon".

Basicly issue 16.5.

How much we will be allowed to change or exactly in what way we will be allowed to customize is still open for speculation.

Again I say... Where in canon does it say Kheldians are a specific color?

Nowhere.

At best, all it says is PBs are "light" and WSs are "dark." And that is coming from Memphis_Bill's canon "resource."

Show me somewhere in game where it says "Warshades have to be purple" or "Peacebringers have to be white/lightblue" and I won't make this claim again.

I tire of people saying that those two specific colors are "canon," when in fact, they are not. It's just how the Devs originally made them. There is no specific storyline or concept art that "explains" that the homeworld the Kheldians came from was not multi-colored. There are "light" colors and there are "dark" colors. Nothing prevents "light blue" from being the ONLY "light" color where Peacebringers come from, and nothing prevents "purple" from being the ONLY "dark" color where Warshades come from in canon.

"Alien"

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