Swinging Travel Power

I got a chance to try this out during the CO open beta and I have to say that as a travel power swinging is fantastic! Flight is flight, jumping is jumping and teleport or tunneling are far to pigeonholed to be widely usable but swinging is an easy fit for just about any type of hero. I'd love to see a swinging travel power added to CoX as maybe part of a gadget themed power pool. Please? I'll send cookies!


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Presumably he would swing from the same things he would in CO. The issue as I understand it is that the engine in CoH can't support it (which astonishes me, since this is a seminal power in comic books - I mean, how could they design a comic book game without it...).

I wouldn't be surprised to see a new travel power or two in Going Rogue or the Issue that coincides with GR.

I thought I would be bothered by the none attachment issue in Champions Online but the swinging power was so cool I totally forget it. The sound and the animations were amazing. And the swinging device they used(instead of webslinging) worked for many of my more natural characters.

Yes, I would very much like it. I will let my own mind fool myself with accepting the impossibilities, like I have always done with things in this game.

There are several watery areas in zones. Should swinging work over open water?

Should swinging work only in urban areas and skip grassy areas like the Hollows hills and parts of Striga?

Actually, I once suggested it be made almost exactly like SJ in reverse... And all my charcters that should be swinging haev SJ since it captures the "feel" better than other powers.

How about this...

Gadgets Pool

1) Climbing Line - a grappling hook that allows you to move up, in a more or less straight line.
2) Tangle Net - use your grappling line to entangle your enemy. - Immobilize with a chance to Hold.
3) Swing Line - Like SJ in reverse...
4) Not sure what to put here

Just off the cuff...

I remember a dev post a loooogn time ago that said, "Swinging is HARD." However, power customization was supposed to be hard to.

That is about an exact quote if I remember correctly. Swinging would be great, but I suspect the devs are going to stay focusd on large scale things that will retain subscriptions...GR, AE, proliferation etc. I'd also like to see a motorcycle travel power, but that one has been suggested about 4000 times already.

Back when I was a kid, I wrote a game for my Commodore 64 that allowed you to create a customizable superhero and give him powers. There were three travel powers available, Flying, Jumping, and Swing Line. Swing Line was essentially Flying, but instead of having full three dimensional freedom you just "rose" to a static level and then "swung" in a straight line. The line was just a line that went off the top of the screen.

Way too simple for a game like this, but that's one way to get around the question of where to put the line.

I always figured the reason for no Swing Line is that it's just too engrained a concept with a copyrighted character. Then again, so is Claws and Regeneration, and they took a chance with that. I suppose only Cryptic and Marvel know if they got away with it. At any rate, who knows, if they can customize powers, who knows what else they can do.

Personally, I thought of an idea for a "Zip line" which, instead of swinging you around, could be used to pull you to the top of a building, or from building to building. For where there are no buildings you could have a "glider" power that would let you slowly descend back to the ground, then use the zip line to shoot back up to a height again. Kind of like Super Jump, but you would move up almost instantly, and then glide down slowly. I figured it would be easy enough to implement with the game as it is.

I had the opportunity to test Swing on the CO open beta this week and really liked it. I was swinging through the wilds of the frozen Canadian landscape. I just assumed that, although my character couldn't fly, his magic rope COULD, and he was just hanging on to the bottom end of it.

Ever since Peter Parker watched Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery .. he wont shut up with the "I put the GRRrrr in Swinger Baby, yeah hehh !!"

I say if it's do-able, bring it on although, of the very few things I liked about CO, the travel powers, especially tunneling, were tops.

Yeah, you could rationalize the swing line over water in any number of ways... Maybe my character is a stellar entity and he's actually swinging from the moon... Maybe he's a mystical shaman, and he's swinging from a dimensional locus in the sky... And so on...

The AOE thing in the pool idea is neat, but not quite in keeping with other sets. The format has been...

1) Minor Travel power (eg Hover)
2) Attack or Defense power (eg Air Sup./Combat Jump)

3) Main Travel power (eg Flight)

4) Group Travel power (eg Group Flight)

Anyhoo...