Super Booster Pack V

Recently there was a tweet by Posi that said something about animated tails..if tails become animalted in SUpper Booster V, I might pass unless there is a power like Ninja Run or costumes like the magic set.

I highly doubt well get anything that breaks the models for the playable characters, I would love more beast like options or fish fins, gills.

On a side note: What is the Argus face based on?

Oh, ok. I was up late when I read it. I still dont feel like SBPV will be that amazing

I hope we still get one with the changes in management and all.

More base items!!

Mmm, here's how I see it.

Natural = Your birth, growth and development have followed the norms of your species. You have no severe genetic abnormalities. You were never altered in any way from the way you were born. Any powers or abilities you developed are considered within the acceptable range of normality for your species.


Mutant = You have deviated from the norm of your species by random act of evolution. This change might manifest later in life, but it was inside you from the moment you born. You were never altered in anyway. Never experimented on. You just were born different.


Science = You were altered from whatever you were born as by the powers of SCIENCE.


Ok, that last one is a little weak. Let me go with an example. The Rikti. People here debated what Origin the Rikti are. Mutant or Science. I would also propose "Natural" as an option here. Now, here me out. This all hinges on what defines a species. As I recall, it's the ability to breed amongst themselves. The Rikti's origin depends on how they reproduce then.

If they are born human and then altered in the womb/giant floaty tubes by the Lost mutagen. Then they are Science.

If they are natrual born Rikti. As in, Mommy Rikti + daddy Rikti = Baby Rikti. Then they're Natural.

And... I don't really know how you'd consider them Mutants. Mutants in this game rely on a quark of genetics to spark your powers. But that can't account for an entire RACE. Unless everyone of them had human parents and then developed identical mutations.

Yes, they WERE altered humans. But that was generations ago. At some point, you have to consider them their own species. You're not really a mutated human if your great-great-great-grandparents were the same as you. All the way down.

Now, of course. If we're going by where they get their POWERS from. Same deal. If radiation/psychic powers are within the norm for the species. It's natural. If we're only seeing the "heroes" of their world that developed mutations that caused their normal powers to go WAY beyond the norm. Well, that's Mutant. And lastly, if they're being altered to be faster/stronger/more psychic/etc. Then it's science.

It's really up the Manticore to deliver on some lore.


It should be noted however. According to CoH lore. There was no mutants before the atom was split. Apparently the act of a sentient being spiting an atom(Note, dogs and cats didn't develop powers(much)) And there's atoms being split all the time even inside the core of the Earth or in the upper-atmosphere. It was the act of a HUMAN splitting an atom that did something.

I doubt their point was that it caused world-wide genetic damage from radiation poisoning. More like... it upset some fundamental law of probability.

Under that reasoning, I don't consider it to have much of an impact on the lore of characters. At least until they friggin' explain themselves more.

I wonder about the veracity about the claims of no mutants before atomic science. Like, maybe there were bucket loads of mutants, they just stayed in hiding due to the "World that fears and hates them" thing.
*Spoilers*
Anyway, don't the Rikti Undergo a forceful Mutation thing as part of their cultural norms? Would'nt that make them science? or did I misunderstand that.