New Powerset: Cybernetic Blast

Armour Blast / Secondary. The same way as AR/Fire or AR/Anything, DP/Anything, Archery/Anything. It CAN work, especially if the 'weapons' were customisable the same as AR/Bow/DP etc.

Get rid of the Rayman blast (Tier 1) and, yes please. Would love some of that. /Signed

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I like how everyone but the guy I asked gave me reasonable and creative solutions to the question of origin.

I wanted him to answer because I wanted him to see the fallacy in his argument, obviously one with such an incredibly powerful mental capacity as myself (ahem) can think of anything to work with anything.

I sometimes feel like in the suggestion forum somebody *has* to think of something to go against the idea. Like every suggestion requires some antagonist. That said, I think it's a good testament to how much something needs done when the best we can come up with is "But what if we aren't creative enough?"

Fine, since we're all playing this game, let's play it the other way.

First off, my using AR as an example was meant to show how forced an idea has to be to make AR work with a specific origin. Yes, you *can* do it, but most people are just going to throw in Natural or Tech, 'less they are also spewing fire from their secondary, in which case they might opt for nearly anything. There are sets *already* in the game that are very difficult to explain for every origin, so to argue against it now is missing the point. I doubt the vast majority of the game saw assault rifle and went "Hey, these aren't magical at all! Now I have to make up some reason why they are!"

However, you can do it with power armor too. Again, most people are *probably* going to pick tech or natural, but here we go:

Science: You have formed a symbiotic relationship with a suit of armor. Using the natural processes in your body you can power the suit to do a multitude of different functions. See Positron.

Natural: Your kick *** physical condition combined with your advanced power suit makes you a power to truly reckon with.

Technology: This is a power suit you invented or bought off of Ebay. You figure you can fight crime with it.

Magic: Some magical dilly-doo powers up this ancient power armor that you stole from the Circle of Thorns or whatever.

Mutant: Your enhanced mutagenic abilities have given you the necessary strength and dexterity to wield the infamous powersuit zeta 9000 xg max supreme thingy.


"Lack of creativity" is a flimsy argument. Especially when that "lack of creativity" is at the mercy of a truly archaic game design such as "origin", which has done nothing but pigeon-hold my creativity, rather than enhance it.

I understand concerns such as "balance", "time to make" or "not enough popularity", but "lack of creativity" just sounds like grasping at straws, and I don't understand why every Suggestion topic *need* an antagonist or counter-point. If we can think of a GOOD reason, sure, throw it in there, but this isn't it.

This is why we can't have nice thing :P. First people are against this because its tied to the tech origin then when people give ways for it not to be it's still bad. Should we really be tied down to the same powersets just because of this? It's a good powerset. I don't care if CO has something like it most of their stuff spawned because of this game.

I don't see how this is helping the game? Limiting new ideas just because they fit one theme. I rather see more ideas like this rather than other powersets spawning because of existing ones. Thats pretty much what I've been seeing so far. Kin melee, electric control. Sooner or later they will run out of ideas and they'll have to add suggestions like these

still any idea is going to have complaints about it, look at dual pistols for instance.

People have been asking for those since like issue 5 on these forums in suggestion section, we finally get them and now all you hear is 'its a fancy looking set but thats it' and people complain wanting it buffed.

Point being you cant please everyone, and if you cant use a certain origin to make a charecter, then why are you trying to do it in the first place? theres no rules stating you HAVE to make a mutant cybernetic monster (which is one way to use mutant btw ) however if you want to thats your choice.

You cant put a set down simply because you cant think of a way to use it with every single origin. If your creative enough its possible, much like masterminds, yes it is heavy tech orientated but i see no reason as to why that should stop a perfectly good set stop being made.

'Oh noes i cant makez a mutantz cyber manz' isnt exactly a reason to disregard a set. Whats to stop them making sets for each origin in turn?

For instance this for tech, some transformation set for mutation or science, demon summoning is pretty much magic based already, and something like whips or spears for natural?

If your really imaginative it is still possible to come up with backstorys for every origin still, if you cant think of a way to make it fit, simply change your story... its not set in stone is it?