Release Notes for 1600.20091102.0 - 11/04/09

Can anyone post a video of male/huge walk cycles?

And maybe a video of the idle post when you stop walking but the power is still toggled on?

My test server thingy isn't working for some reason.

The idle pose is the same as the normal idle pose - you can't tell that Walk is on.

Overall Response

Beautiful! Wonderful! I love it! It looks so cool, especially if you zoom in for a close up of your toon and swing the camera to the side.



Hunh Department

I never realized moving backwards was slower than moving forwards. It's noticeable that walking backwards is slower than walking forwards by the beat of the pace of footsteps. Timed courses showed that's the case. But it's also true for normal trotting, Sprint, SuperSpeed, and Fly, even though Real Numbers doesn't show the change in speed.



Walking on Water

When you walk into water, you keep the walking animation. However, if you're already swimming while trotting, Sprinting, or SuperSpeeding, then switching to Walk puts you in a slow breast stroke. In fact, the breast stroke animation is exactly the same no matter how fast you're swimming; it even keeps the same speed, which looks too slow for superspeed swimming and too fast for walking swimming.



Walking on Geysers

When walking into a Shadow Shard Geyser, the animation is a slow walk through the air. And if you stop moving forward, the animation is the idle position while being catapulted through the air.



Buffs and Toggles and Walking

Any click buffs, or inspiration buffs, or the Proc120 buffs will continue to work while walking. All toggles, however, detoggle and don't come back on when you leave Walk; which can be a little bit of an annoyance, especially if you have a lot of toggles running. Could toggles be suppressed instead of detoggled while walking?



Sounds of Footsteps

Walking on pavement or grass had a really good sound (male toon tested). It sounded like there were three footstep sounds per terrain, and they'd switch randomly so that it didn't sound so mechanical. Footsteps had a heartbeat rhythm rather than a steady beat, which also kept it from sounding mechanical. Good work!

You know, I noticed that walk is like, really useful for turning off all your toggles in one click.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

This will also make in-game weddings more dignified - a dash to the altar won't have to be a genuine dash anymore

Costume Contests can now have a catwalk.

Chained /follow-ing an NPC will be more fun.

When the level requirement for the Shard was dropped in I16, we talked about a level 1 foot race from BAB to the Storm Palace. Now make that a Walk-only race.

Awesome job, BaB. I understand that this is a non-combat power, but could it be made to use with the costume codes that we get with Halloween and conventions?

I know more people that RP with the costumes on... heck, on Virtue, many players use the convention costumes as their full time costume.

Sadly, we can't use both at the same time. Sad, really. I'd love to just walk around in a Freakshow or Praetorian Clockwork costume.

Ok, just was fiddling around on test again.

Walk might become more of a hassle for those that RP and use binds, as anything that is power related will have to be rewritten to include the "off" command for walk. Which means MM's can't summon pets while walking. Players that RP as soldiers can not draw weapons.

Mostly, the problem I have is that [Walk] detoggles all other powers, yet [Walk] can not be detoggled by anything else. Which is rather difficult if a situation arises, such as a Rikti or Zombie invasions, where you need to jump right into action from any stance.

Unless you mean for [Walk] to be an indoor only power. Because, on Virtue, I only know of a handful of people that RP in Pocket D, while everyone else RP's in the open, away from combat. Things like the Invasions put anyone and everyone into danger, regardless of where you are located.

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Unless you can code it so that [Walk] is greyed out in zones during Invasions. That the trigger for the invasions auto-detoggles [Walk].

Ook!

Okay, I am going to be a grumpy monkey this morning:
I can't believe they are allocating resources to do such marginal things, when they could be designing huge intergalactic suneating robots that we can smash! =(

PS: Well, at least there is some reason to make my next character a fashion model..

Next, the Fashion Model day job badge. The only day job that you actually get while 'playing': Spend 21 days of *in-game time* walking under the Atlas Globe. You just know people would do it!