Walk power improvements

(First post by the way!)

Just recently City of X gained a new power, a highly requested feature to enable characters to walk. After trying it out for a while I was happy I could put it on auto-walk and keep moving at an easy pace, even with the ability to jump. And it sure makes it easier to manoeuvre cluttered environments and line up sit emotes on ledges.

But unfortunately I found that even though the description said the walk power is not for combat, it doesn't just discourage it, pretty much forces you into a blanket power-suppression. I can understand that walking doesn't give you any tactical advantage during a fight, but the way it does it is rather forceful and unneccesary.

After a bit of thinking I managed to come up with a few ideas to integrate the walk better, with minimal side-effects when it come to combat.

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Power Suppression (v.1)
This may seem a bit redundant as the powers under walk are already unusable whilst active, but the way to convince players it's not for combat is rather harsh. Any active toggles are detoggled and ones with long recharges have to charge again.

One solution is lessen the impact by making all click powers unusable as normal but suppressing or 'Affecting Self only' the effects of toggles. This way walk doesn't turn off toggles with their recharge and can start working again when walk is detoggled.

Power Suppression (v.2)
A more lenient variant of the previous suggestion, all click powers are unusable but active toggles remain active and working. This could help out with ATs such as the Stalker who require their Hide power to be as reachable as possible. Also players running lots of Leadership powers can move around as slow as they want while benefiting their team-mates.

No Suppression
And naturally, get rid of the restrictive nature of Walk altogether. If Walk gives you less of a tactical advantage by slowing you down in the first place, why make it worse by making all other powers useless?

Players might accept walk better if they're just warned rather than forced to the idea of 'Not for combat'.

Brisk Walk
If there had to be one power that could work well with Walk, it would be Sprint. Why? Well considering that Sprint boosts the speed of running somewhat, it would make sense that you'd want to walk faster than normal.

It could be like power-walking. If players find regular walking too slow and running a little fast, at least they have a mid-ground to work with.

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That's all I could think of at the time. It's now the communities turn! Are any of these suggestions good, do you have any comments of your own?

I think the idea is that there is tons and tons of animation work needed to get all of the powers in the game to work properly with walk..

Or that was the justification until Ninja Run came out

If walk is a live feature in process I could understand that, nobody likes buggy animations if powers don't work with it yet. But generally a blanket power-suppression kind of turns Walk into something of an RP-only thing rather than a genuine slower form of movement.

Not to mention powers like Hide, Stealth and Invisiblity would work pretty well with Walk. In fact, the whole issue with people running WAY too fast after being Speed-Boosted would get the ability to actually slow the **** down. And for that reason, allowing powers to be active during combat and speed boost would be most helpful indeed.

From the Patch Note thread:

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Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler As stated in the patch note, this toggle is not intended to be used in combat. It's mainly there for people to RP in safe areas...Atlas Park, Pocket D, etc. It can certainly be used outside of those areas, but there's only a certain level of functionality that we're going to be able to accomodate for now. Eventually, I'd like to create walk animations for the various combat modes...but that's a significant chunk of work and I don't know if we'll ever be able to get to it. If we can, then Walk could be made into a regular travel mode power...one which could work with combat as well. Which would make the issue of toggle deactivation/suppression moot.

Well then, if BaBs says so, then that's the way it will be.

I kind of liked the idea of being able to turn on the Walk toggle as a solution for those that really dislike getting Speed-Boosted, but oh well.

So said the BaBs, so it was done...

But Babs, do work on allowing us to use or powers with it. Things are not always about being faster, bigger, better (ok, maybe bigger), but this would so much add to those little QoL things that few other MMOs out there have. In addition, it would look really *ZOMG*KEWL* with certain powersets.

I know you guys aren't busy or anything (note the sarcasm), but if you do this, I'll send some pies to Paragon Studios. What kind of pie do you like? Chocolate pie? Lemon Pie? Pumpkin Pie? Name your pie, I'll send three or four! Just don't say p**t*ng pie, that I can't provide.

Akry

P.S., and you don't hav to share with Posi, but he can sit there and watch you eat.
P.S.S., I'm serious, too!

I'm still at a loss, was there really this much demand for this feature to be added? I still do not see, any benefit other than strutting your stuff on the catwalk under atlas.

What are the odds of getting multiple walk animations to choose from? Like all the prestige sprints.

Don't get me wrong, I'm as thankful as the next RPer that they even released the power, and great job on it. But the sultry vixen wiggle isn't as... how to put it... adaptable for female character concepts as the male and huge walks. A lot of character types look great doing the female walk. A lot of character types also look incredibly wrong, if not disturbing, doing the female walk.

good luck D.B.B.

Thanks for the work on Walk. I hope it becomes fuller-featured, but like the walk power itself its not a priority!

How about this for an improvement:

Make is usable after switching builds.

Seriously, both WALK and NINJA RUN have this strange bug where, if you switch builds, NEITHER will activate for 15 minutes.