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Powers: Future Possibilities?

British_Beetle

By British_Beetle,
Posted on: 2008-10-16 08:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Taken from a Cryptic powerset wishlist poll, do you think any of these are possible with our current engine and could be introduced into CoX?

#Absorption / Elemental Absorbtion (absorb taken damage as a power-up)
#Acid Control
#Acrobatics
#Air Blast / Control
#Animal Control
#Animal Mimicry / Animal Totems (take on the traits of an animal)
#Animate Object (bring inanimate objects to life as pets)
#Archery / Trick Arrows
#Armor
#Black Holes
#Body Launching (ala Cannonball, Speedball, Human Bullet)
#Bone Manipulation
#Claw Attacks (actual fingertip claws)
#Chainsaw
#Chameleon
#Charisma / Seduction / Confusion by Beauty
#Claws
#Curses / Hexes (debuffs, weakness, etc.)
#Danger Sense / 6th Sense
#Dual blades / Dual Katars / Dual Knives
#Duplication / Cloning / Dopplegangers
#Earth Powers
#Electrical Blast
#Electrical Control
#Electrical Melee
#Elemental Weapons / Energy Weapons (flaming swords, etc.)
#Empath (heals / buffs / debuffs enemies)
#Environmental Changes
#Exploding Cards (ala Gambit from X-Men)
#Extra Limbs / Prehensile Tails
#Fire Powers
#Flip / Throw melee
#Force Fields
#Gadgetry / Hyper-Invention
#Grapple / Crush melee
#Gravity / Density Manipulation
#Grenades (tear gas, glue grenades, etc.)
#Hacking / Lockpicking
#Hammers
#Haste / Time Dilation
#Heightened Senses / X-Ray Vision
#Ice Powers
#Ice Sliding (travel power)
#Illusions
#Induce Fear / Cause Insanity
#Insect Control / Swarm Powers
#Interrogation
#Invisibility / Light Control
#Invulnerability
#Katana wielding
#Leviathan Mastery / Shark Powers
#Luck / Probability Manipulation
#Machine Control / Technopathy
#Magma Blast / Control
#Magnetism / Metal Control
#Matter Control (create object)
#Mimicry
#Mind Control / Telepathy / Mind Scan
#Minion / Support Squads / Pets
#Multi-form powers (Green Lantern's ring / Dr. Strange's magic)
#Multiple Different Melee Styles (Punching, Kicking, etc.)
#Multi-limb combat (having four arms, etc.)
#Muscle Mimic (Blue Mage'esque)
#Nature Control
#Nunchucks
#Offensive Damage Shield / Damage Reflection
#Phasing
#Pistols & Dual Pistols
#Plague / Disease Control
#Plant Control / Plant Manipulation
#Poison / Toxic Powers
#Polymorph / Shape-Shifting / Alternate Forms (Animals, #Plants, Minerals)
#Portal / Dimensional Manipulation
#Power Drain / Suppression / Stealing
#Psi Melee (similar to Psylocke's psi-knife / psi-blade)
#Radiation Melee
#Radiation Blast
#Rage / Frenzy
#Rapier / Fencing Blade
#Regeneration
#Rifles
#Robot Minions
#Sand Blasts
#Sand Control
#Scythes
#Shadow Control
Shields
#Size Control (Growth, Shrinking)
#Skateboard / Surfboard / Broomstick (travel power)
#Sonic powers
#Staff / Quarterstaff / Baton
#Stealth
#Street Fighting (dirty fighting / brawling)
#Strength Drain
#Stretching (Plastic Man / Mr. Fantastic)
#Super-Speed (as a combat / non-travel power)
#Super-Strength
#Swinging / Grappling Hook (travel power)
#Telekinesis
#Teleportation (as a combat / non-travel power)
#Tentacle Powers (sort of Omega Red or Dr. Octopus)
#Throwing Blades / Boomerangs / Shuriken
#Transformed Travel (turn into a group of bats to fly)
#Tunneling
#Two-Handed Melee Weapons (Sword, Hammer, Axe, etc.)
#Walk Through Walls / Phasing
#Wall Crawling / Wall Running (travel power)
#Water Blast
#Water Control
#Weather Control
#Web / Lasso powers
#Whips / Chains / Grappling Hook
#Wind Powers
#Vehicles

After all, plagiarism should run both ways right?

 

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Most of them are pretty hard to make, some even impossible, and some there have already appeared, eg Claws.

 

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I can imagine teleport could be adapted as a variation within a set (aka Warshade) with new animations to be a fantastic ground based teleport.
Eg: you target any spot on a flat surface with the target recepticle and (for sand or tunneling powers) your character dissolves into a pool of sand or tunnels and disappears mole-like into the earth - to reform or spring up amidst rubble at the target.
Sand would be a fantastic one in my opinion, as it lends itself conceptually both to increased density or phasing, ranged attacks or concealment (sandstorm).

 

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Two handed weapons, certainly. I kind of regret not voting on Electric Hammer the last time around now, merely in the hope it would be an almighty two handed smash machine.

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Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."

 

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Woah, that list must be really old.

I remember Babs mentioning a while ago he'd liked to get started on Staves since it's on the wishlist all right, but there was too much to do already.

Sounds fun though..

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Two-handed melee weapons and body launching FTW!!

 

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Animal Mimicry

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Reminds me of DC's Vixen: or the Wonder Twins
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Vixen, aptly named after a female fox, was introduced in Action Comics #521. Her back story is rather simple compared to other heroes. Orphaned, Vixen aka Mari McCabe fled to America where she used her beauty to become a model, and with that wealth travel the world. On a trip back to Africa, she came across her uncle, and got back the Tantu Totem, using its power to become the Vixen.
Though only existing since the early 80’s, she has made a nice impact on the DC universe. Only of the few heroes of African decent, and even fewer African Women (though technically she is African America, but not in the sense you might understand it).
Vixen wears an African artifact object called the Tantu Totem, a fox-head (again the name Vixen) shaped talisman given to her ancestors by the African trickster Anansi. Vixen can make direct contact with Earth's Morphogenetic field. This allows her to mimic the abilities of any animal she can think of, by simply focusing on a specific animal's abilities and then drawing it directly from the field. Currently, she seems to have to call out the name of the animal she wishes to draw power from in order to use that power such as saying "bear" before she could use the power of a bear.


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Just because I want to shout out "I call upon the power of The Beaver/Sloth/Koala"

 

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And currently, is part of a storyline in which Anansi is being annoyingly overpowered!

Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.

Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."

 

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#Stretching (Plastic Man / Mr. Fantastic)

Nothing beats stretching ur arms around the zone/mish map just to slap the big bad guy around the head with ur hand

 

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Wonder Twin powers activate! - Shape of The Gopher!

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this is why i think DC needs to think harder for there heroes, they all look to glossy and lame, reason 3 why i like marvel a lot more then DC can ever trow around.

 

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#Absorption / Elemental Absorbtion (absorb taken damage as a power-up)
#Acid Control
#Air Blast / Control
#Animal Mimicry / Animal Totems (take on the traits of an animal)
#Animate Object (bring inanimate objects to life as pets)
#Armor
#Bone Manipulation
#Chainsaw
#Curses / Hexes (debuffs, weakness, etc.)
#Danger Sense / 6th Sense
#Electrical Control
#Elemental Weapons / Energy Weapons (flaming swords, etc.)
#Gadgetry / Hyper-Invention
#Hacking / Lockpicking
#Hammers
#Induce Fear / Cause Insanity
#Insect Control / Swarm Powers
#Interrogation
#Luck / Probability Manipulation
#Machine Control / Technopathy
#Magnetism / Metal Control
#Multi-form powers (Green Lantern's ring / Dr. Strange's magic)
#Multiple Different Melee Styles (Punching, Kicking, etc.)
#Nunchucks
#Pistols & Dual Pistols
#Plague / Disease Control
#Polymorph / Shape-Shifting / Alternate Forms (Animals, #Plants, Minerals)
#Power Drain / Suppression / Stealing
#Psi Melee (similar to Psylocke's psi-knife / psi-blade)
#Radiation Melee
#Rage / Frenzy
#Sand Blasts
#Sand Control
#Shadow Control
#Staff / Quarterstaff / Baton
#Street Fighting (dirty fighting / brawling)
#Stretching (Plastic Man / Mr. Fantastic)
#Super-Speed (as a combat / non-travel power)
#Telekinesis
#Teleportation (as a combat / non-travel power)
#Tentacle Powers (sort of Omega Red or Dr. Octopus)
#Transformed Travel (turn into a group of bats to fly)
#Water Blast
#Water Control
#Web / Lasso powers
#Whips / Chains / Grappling Hook
#Wind Powers


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Chopped it down to ones which can be done imo... And they would ALL be awesome

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Sometimes all at once.
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I want a fencing set, oh yes I do

I would love an Ice Slide travel power

Also like the sound of Shadow Control

"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

 

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Aye, brilliant

"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

 

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Also like the sound of Shadow Control

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Yeah, could be a great fear-based set!, your toon stands round the corner from the mobs with a strong light.

Bite of the Crocodile!
Studyness of the Moose!
Speed of the Wolf!
Presence of the Bunny!

/em,cower

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Heh heh - so close to happy memories

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Laughs - "speed of the poo-ma!" - think I'll bind that one to powexec_superspeed and an emote.
And whats with that Horseguy?. - That is one cartoon I completely missed way back when.

 

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I would love an Ice Slide travel power

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This but i would like to go full iceman as well and have the all over ice look.

 

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#Animate Object
#Animal Control

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Possible future MM sets imo.

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#Ice Sliding (travel power)

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Could use powerslide as the animation and have a mixture of superspeed/fly in it? lower speed/flight cap but has the benefits of both?

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#Luck / Probability Manipulation

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IMO this is one of the many powers on that list that came into SR.

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#Sand Control

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Oh please!!! Animations which could be used are already ingame! Could have a sand storm (tornado), sand blast (cone -acc), sand pet (like mr poo?), alternative to quicksand (in that instead of slow it immobs?), a toggle PBAoE power that does slow/-acc to all foes nearby (like artic air?)

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#Water Blast
#Water Control

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my 2 most wanted sets ingame, cannot fail with a water dragon pet xD

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Wonder Twin powers activate! - Shape of The Gopher!

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this is why i think DC needs to think harder for there heroes, they all look to glossy and lame, reason 3 why i like marvel a lot more then DC can ever trow around.

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Yeah cos Marvel is so original. Oh, there's a new x-team? Lemme guess, Wolverine is on it? Of course he is! The biggest loner in the marvel universe must be on 4 different teams as well as having 2 solo books. (I know Batman does the same but I couldn't give a damn about him, he's a lamer)