Random options for new animations

So it appears that you can choose a new animation for SS and MA.

For those powersets where there are multiple animations that can be selected, why not add a random option where sometimes you'll hit the footstomp and other times you'll hit the ground punch.

One knockout blow will be the windup and the next time may be the double fisted blow.

I think it would be a nice addition.

Probably because people would rather not have something entirely unexpected happen every time they click?

I'd rather just choose, since we know ahead of time what they look like at all.

Yeah what I"m suggesting is to give people the option. So if you just want 1 of the 2, fine. But if you want it to randomize it, that's cool too.

I think there'll be camps for either side.

Random as an option would ROCK for both animations and colors in my book.

I know I'm not supposed to "bump" so I'll make this relevant. Now with DP the animations are cool but they're repetitive of course like all the other animations for attack sets.

How cool would it be if we were to get multiple animations (same length for powers) and it just randomly decides what animation to use for a particular attack.

I think this would make DP and other sets like SS and MA better and help further immerse the player into the game.

I don't think the tech to do this would be tough and I still think it'd be a nice feature.

Regards,
Fitz

/signed

for both existing animations and DP, if it wouldn't be oo much work for the devs. it would make for less disciplined heroes who make stuff up as they go along (spiderman style)

I rollled a DP Corruptor just to 'have a looksie'. I could swear there were different animations for the single shot tier one. One was like a sort of sideways stance shot. Another was almost like you were leaning back (dodging?) while shooting. Seemed to happen when foes were in your face.

I'll look again tonite, but sure seemed to be what was happening...and it really got me wishing my SS brute could random thru the animations available for a power. I prefer the New SS Animations, but I sure wouldn't mind that Two-Handed over the the head 'Haymaker' smacking in here and there.

So... /Signed. Give us the choice of a specific animation, along with a Random Option (Dark Random, Bright Random

DP's Pistols and the classic power of "Brawl" show it can be done: an attack that cycles through animations. It's NOT random, but every time you use it it flips. I'd like this in Martial Arts and Super Strength. Additional options called "Bright Switch" and "Dark Switch" where you set the color for it to always be, and then it flips back and forth between the two animations.

For the record, Brawl goes Right, Left, Kick, Right, Left, Kick, etc, skipping animations as your current mode denies. (If you have a shield, for example, you just go right, kick, right, kick.)

Pistols goes Right 1, Left 1, Right 2, Left 2, and then cycles back, so you alternate hands with each Pistols shot, with two animations per hand.

Am I crazy*, or is there a similar set-up already at work in Super Strength? I seem to remember at least one or two of the powers (Jab and something else, maybe) having separate "right" and "left" animations.

I made a SS brute a while back with one massive robotic arm and one normal one, and I remember wishing at the time that I could make him use the mechanical one more (or take the meat arm out of the rotation altogether). Not that I'd ask for that level of control or anything, it was just sort of an idle musing.

Either way, I like this idea.



*It's entirely possible.

/signed

Want NAOH!!!

When I first learned that I could change the animation for ground punch I was very disheartened at the lack of a "random" option.

With more alternate animations coming "soon" I'd like to bring this up again.

/signed for Mr. Simmons.

Also /signed.

I'd also like to see more animations in general, but I can understand why the blast sets were chosen, first. =-3

-Rachel-