Super Booster V - Mutant Theme Costume Sets: Feedback

Subjective Feedback: I really like both of these sets. As people have mentioned before, a Tops with Skin option would be nice for both, so that they really feel like part of our characters and not something our characters are wearing. I think I saw a few posts about the seams at the neck and the boots, so I'll add my vote onto the pile for fixing that as much as possible

On a slightly related note, I would also likely to agree that the Bioluminescent stripes should be an Detail option without the scales, either in this pack or as a separate addition to the game. This would allow many new options for characters with glowing tattoos or runic magic on their bodies. Perhaps this could even be a way to facilitate both the bones from Organic Armor and these stripes onto a more skin-like/Tops with Skin option for both male and female models.

Hrm.

Nope, still don't think Biolum will work well with anything else that isn't Biolum.

ESPECIALLY the neck. Can we please get a version that has the neck fleshy instead of glowy?

Subjective: Honestly? And I'm really really surprised no one has mentioned this yet but everyone seems caught up on mutant=animal, but I was hoping a Mutant pack would give us something in the direction of the Shields, elemental designed gloves, boots, belts, models like the fire and ice swords as dual blade options...I would have loved an energy crown or crystalline gloves for instance. The organic sort of works in that direction, and the sets are pretty, but if anyone's reading feedback, how about sticking an Elemental booster in the pipeline?

Oh, right. I guess I should use that Objective/Subjective format.

Objective: The colors on the Organic Armor overlay in the Detail 1 slot for heads don't work properly. It has two color slots, but only the second slot matters. On the rest of the organic armor overlay costume bit things, like shoulders, you can set the base color to one thing and then set the bright spots to another, but Detail 1 Organic Armor seems to set both of its colors to whatever you have selected in the secondary color slot, ignoring the primary.

Subjective:

-I'd like it if bioluminate looked different around the neck, so that it could blend into a wider variety of heads. Argus, for example, should in theory look excellent on a bioluminate chest, but doesn't.

-I wish the top stripe on the bioluminate gloves were moved down a bit, so it isn't split between the gloves slot and the chest slot. I'd really like to make a character who uses bioluminate on chest, pants, gloves, and boots, but has one color glow for the chest/pants and another color glow for the gloves/boots, but I can't do it without the top glove stripe looking all half-n-half.

-I'd like a "tops with skin" option for Organic Armor.

-I wish this set was scheduled to come with a piece of chest detail armor in the style of Organic Armor, because I love those things, and the Valkyrie breastplate ended up being the single most-used costume piece on my mains once it showed up.

Subjective Feedback: Organic armor highlights some animation timing... issues.

I put together a mixed Organic / Witch costume and coupled it with the animated cat tail on the smallest female skeletal frame.

When I activated sprint and ran down the tutorial, I couldn't help but think that something was... well... off... about the rear end animation.

There's nothing I can pin point, but it looks like when an avatar with an animted tail is in sprint mode, the tail does it's twitching animation every time the rear-end moves back and forth, and small frames, this movement is quite rapid. This causes the animated tail to rapidly switch animation states, something that I really haven't noticed on other costumes, but seems to standout against the organic armor's jutting leg peices.

Maybe the tail needs to be given a seperate animation when in sprint / run modes? Like it has in Jump modes?

Since I can't go on test I have to judge it by the pictures in this thread.
But I like what I'm seeing so far. I got a couple of concepts in mind I can use the bioluminous parts for and the bioorganic armor thing'll look great on my demoness.

As most people I was expecting animal parts, but unlike most people I'm not dissapointed to find out the actual contents of this pack, on the contrary, I'll get a lot more use out of this.

Ok, I´m being only subjective here but I have to... And sorry about the long post.

I really like the costume sets and think there can be done some great costumes as some people have shown here, but as many have said they´re few and NOT what we were expecting... Specially after some comments made about montrous parts seeming like a mutant pack.
Correcting myself, I can´t talk for everyone, but it was not what I was expecting at least.
And considering we already have some of that in-game, even if only to NPCs, I am a lot dissapointed...
- Shark head, fins and "finger-claws" in Mako
- Werewolves
- Cyclops and Minotaur heads are in Cimerora
- Organic armor and "hair" in Coralax
- Tentacle arm (ugly, but assymmetrical even!) in the Lost... BTW: That seems more mutant to me than this booster.

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Originally Posted by Dispari CO has bird feather tails and fish fins and all kinds of things we don't have. It's one area where they have us soundly beat. And a lot of people were expecting this to be it. But from the way David talks, they haven't even started thinking about doing it yet.

Ok, never played Champions and don´t have the intention to do it anytime soon but... Sorry guys, we are losing the battle in what counts for customization. Maybe it is time to work on it. From what I saw before while they were in Beta you could already create A LOT of stuff you can´t do here and if you got to their store you can see lots more... They have Transparent/Invisible, Feathers, Fur (not only "Furry", but "Beasty"), Monter heads, Robot parts... Heck, they have back accessories! And "chest details" that can be, besides chest, used in back and head emblems, insignia shoulder pads, and belt!
Since we´re paying for these boosters, as they do in their store, I don´t know why I can´t expect something like that.

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Originally Posted by Kai Subjective: Honestly? And I'm really really surprised no one has mentioned this yet but everyone seems caught up on mutant=animal, but I was hoping a Mutant pack would give us something in the direction of the Shields, elemental designed gloves, boots, belts, models like the fire and ice swords as dual blade options...I would have loved an energy crown or crystalline gloves for instance. The organic sort of works in that direction, and the sets are pretty, but if anyone's reading feedback, how about sticking an Elemental booster in the pipeline?

An Elemental booster would be really great... We can´t even costumize how we look with Granite Armor on yet... And just to add to it, water based power would be wonderfull too.


Edit: Anyway, even if not what I expected I like it, so I´ll probaby be buying this if able to...

Two things Trial:

First, citing an MMO that's failing / failed as an example of what City of Heroes should do is probably Not a Good Idea(tm). Now I'm not saying I don't want to see further customization in the game, or that I don't want to see some of the developer only costume parts made available to players, but, there needs to be more logic to implementing feature sets beyond pointing to game that will likely never actually pay back it's development costs.

Second, citing granite armor isn't a good idea either. The fact that it needs ENGINE AND USER INTERFACE WORK TO EXPOSE COSTUME OVERLAY TO THE USER has been mentioned so many times, I might as well keep a standard copy of the usual rant saved in a text file.

Objective:
I have to agree, you seriously need to work up some variant pieces for Monstrous gloves and boots.

Subjective:
I think they look pretty sweet. Still as hard as always to combine with other costume pieces, though. I know you guys like to really cut loose, but I like to be able to cherry pick costume pieces as well, and these look a little hard to mix and match. I can probably figure something out, though.

David,

With your pictures here is my -new- feedback.

Wow, that Organic Armor looks great. Can we get a Shield variant?

Also I feel, the Bioluminecent rips in the flesh would go MUCH farther as a Mutation if it were an overlay that was accepted with MORE skin types; placed in the secondary paint channel like Perplex or Islanders. So that we could be Bioluminecent and not necessarily a Frog thing too. Adding it to Stone, Lizard, BioOrganic, ect... would have much more utility for executing the same idea; giving it more breadth.