Idea for a permenant weapon showing

Simple idea, now shields has been released and its been made possible to effectively keep items out permenantly if its in toggle form, why not make a basic toggle thats awarded to all weapons charecters on creation that has no endurence cost and 1 second recharge that has no effects but draws your weapon?

It could be named 'Draw -Weapon Name-' and if would stop it disappearing every 10 seconds or so. As a precaution this power could detoggle everytime an ability is used that isnt in the weapons attack set so you dont get someone for instance with a corrupter using Assault Rifle/Trick Arrows having a problem with drawing two weapons at once and you dont have clipping animation issues when trying to use another power that looks like your doing a kamikaze.

For the issue with two powers like again Assualt Rifle/Trick Arrow, then you have two toggles, each detoggle the other one so you either have one or the other.

The idea is purely for cosmetic reasons such as costume contests and would not have any effect on combat whatsoever.

It shouldnt be used in combat so the issue of constant detoggling would not be a problem since its just cosmetic anyway.

Not sure if this is worth the development time, snce you can just tap your attack key every ten seconds, or target a distant Hellion, for costume contests. If it'd be easy to do for the devs and non-obtrusive for those that don't care for it, sure, why not.

It is annoying though when your weapons just disappear randomly if you leave them too long.
Whilst it isnt a game breaking issue, i find it very annoying for items to just fade out, where as this wouldnt be technically hard to achieve since its already been done in a similar way with shields and would make the whole game experience slightly more realistic.

The bonus to this is if they ever released sheaths they could change the weapon draw animation per costume piece, kind of like how talsorian shield works now. When you have talsorian shield at the minute, it plays an animation of it activating.

With that costume piece active, whenever your weapon draws it could be drawn from the sheath, and there could be a few different styles of sheath so so weapons can be drawn from different areas. Now the problem with this is it would be very tricky to get the animation times to match each other to prevent one style from being technically very slightly better than the other because of the draw time, but if the power doesnt deactivate whilst using attacks from the same set there wouldnt be much of an issue because the draw times wouldnt be massively far apart anyway, we are talking about a half second max difference.

For instance, a samurai would draw a weapon much like a katana from his/her side from a sheath, where as a barbarian would draw it from the back but could also draw from the side from a different style sheath and a kunoichi could draw from her lower back.

The bonus to this is you could have the sheaths award a different drawstyle and combat stance depending on the style chosen through the power, purely cosmetic of course. It could be done instead with one toggle for stance that deactivates in combat, and making the draw animation come with the sheath.

The stance could also be done via emote awarded when the costume piece is on if movement animations become an issue.

Whilst granted this isnt a 100% nesessary suggestion, it would give a much better feel to playing a weapons style charecter.

Already suggested (by me =P )
But still /signed. Agreement with the 'so long as' points by Blitz. But it would be nice.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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ahh sorry i didnt see it had been mentioned before.

When a Forums search function = epic fail...

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

A power toggle to just show your weapon sounds like a nice idea and to me at least not a thing that would devote a lot of developing time. The sheath option would be nice but despite lots of pleas are not implemented yet. So I guess that would be a bit tougher.