Non-Humanoid Character Models?

Lol I see what's going on here...

Posters have speculated that the new upcoming mutant booster might have monsterous and animal costume parts. Now you guys are all butt-hurt because "Waaah! The devs are giving those dirty furries what they want! Where's my attention? Waaaah!"

:P Well CRY MOAR! Your whiny complaints and tears of anguish and scorn sustain me

Furries are the only thing that makes me want open world PvP.

I love how people go straight to calling someone a furry the moment they ask for animal costume options. It doesn't seem to matter that there have been a large number of animal like people in comics for years. Wanting to play a Beast Boy type hero does not make someone a furry.

I find it interesting that so many people know that turm. You'd think that only he people who are interested in that sort of thing would know it.
Me, I had to look it up. Hentai no baka!!! :P

Seriously wondering if Mondo isn't just seeing how quickly she/he/it can get banned for a second time in a row (honestly thought bans on the forums were a one strike and you're out kind of deal...guess not). The main problem with this suggestion is a case of "OH GODZORS DO NOT WANT FURRIES!" its a rather larger problem...

...Unfortunately the amount of work required isn't just 'another powerset' kind of new animations...you're looking at thousands upon thousands of animations. BaB would probably personally come round your house, gut you and strangle you with your own intestines if you were to make him do this...the game is at too later stage for this to happen within even a reasonable timeframe...

Lets take a quick look at the two non-humanoid models we already have. Tarantulas lack proper arms...and Snakes lack Legs...and neither could use martial arts.

Now as an additional branch to the Arachnos AT where your powers are pretty much 'locked in' then yes I can see the Tarantula/Tarantula Queen type body working because you'd be limited to powers that would work with that body type...you'd still have the problem of travel powers though...

The work required is just so massive that you're looking at no new powersets for probably at least a year...if not longer...

Well my mistake then because I distinctly remember seeing your name and 'banned' underneath it...

....if not then my bad...

Perhaps if you tried being less hostile you wouldn't get the reaction you're getting...you know...just because it's the internet doesn't mean you have to subscribe to Gabes theory on it...

Well obviously you do or you wouldn't be here in the first place...

While animal body-types are not really workable with the powersets, we currently have costume pieces that approx what most are looking for. And with the application of the proper emote, bingo!

I'd like to see diff body-types for the non-glam hero

I would absolutely LOVE some new skeletons. If they created one all fours skeleton and did all of the proper animations and used that one skeleton for cats, dogs, foxes, horses, elephants etc. there is still the problem with the powers that require you to use weapons, devices, arms or legs. I wish it would happen, I really do, but it won't. You all can argue until you kill each other. It still wouldn't change the fact that this game is not made for animals.

The best idea I can offer with minimal problems is a compromise of making animal pets for a MM aka beast master. Such pets would not have to deal with being compatible with the power sets, so scratch the blah blah blah about power set animations. They would still have to do a LOT of work, but like I said if they made one 4 legged pet skeleton, they could use it for several types of animals. I would like to see the following pets for a beast MM:

Wolves (3 pack): Winter wolf with cold damage, regular wolf with lethal damage, and a dire wolf with toxic damage.

Bird: Could be a falcon or an eagle, a dangerous bird of prey. (could possibly use the kheldian nova skeleton just change the 3d model) Lethal damage.

Cats (2 pack): maybe a lion and lioness, or a lion which would use lethal damage and a black panther which could use dark energy damage type.

Large animal: possibly a bull or rhino with smashing/lethal and lots of knockback.

The beast master himself could have:
hold power that uses a large boa constrictor, wouldn't need a skeleton it could just be cosmetic.
2 damage powers: give him a sword or a bow and arrow to recycle a couple of those powers and animations.
Empowerment buff: gives the pets a few extra powers or abilities.

So now you have 4 different animal models to make. They would require significantly less animations: 4-8 powers each including Clawing/biting melee attacks, lunge/pounce attacks, charging and raring for the large animal. Spawn, despawn, Run, jump, flight/perch for the bird, reaction animation for buffs (a growl of some sort) and a few special emote animations since they would not be able to use any of the current emotes and a few for being idle. So each would need about at most 20-25 animations for a total of 100 new animations for the entire powerset.

As much as I really like this idea, it will probably be shot down as well because it is just too much work to make new stuff. But it is a much more likely alternative to getting animals into the game. Even if it were implemented, I wouldn't expect them to start on it for at least 2-3 years from now because there are too many things they want to do with the game that require less work and apply to a broader spectrum of players.

But it would be pretty sweet right?

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