Super Booster V - Mutant Theme Costume Sets: Feedback

Closer screenshot:

I was asking for your settings because it might have been a bug, as some costume pieces in the past have not scaled well with the texture/shader settings.

It looks like you should just be fine though, similar settings to mine. Are you sure you didn't do something like pick a dark color for your glow maps? Choose Organic Armor face option for example and pick a bright shade or color.

If that fails, do you have the latest graphics drivers?

Subjective: shouldn't these costume pieces have been released with demon summoning?

edit: just hopped on test and checked the stuff out. Under - wait for it - whelmed. I'll be passing on this not-so-super booster pack, which is sad as mutation was the one I was most looking forward to.

I'd suggest improvements, but I doubt you guys are going to take it all the way back to the drawing board and start over again, so there is no point.

Test isn't working for me right now, but going by the pictures I've seen so far, I think the costume sets look very good - but they don't seem very...mutant - especially the demonic looking one.

Also, welcome to the forums, Jagu

EDIT: The first sentence is subjective

Subjective: +1 on questioning the mutant nature of this. Shades pretty hard into demonic, which as others have pointed out there are many items in this direction. Either way, I'll be getting the pack for the emotes. Hope to eventually find use for the items. And look forward to seeing what the new heads and tails actually look like.

Subjective moving forward: PLEASE for the next costume sets in development, PLEASE PLEASE no more tech armors, tech suits or demonic items till we hit some of the several areas that are lacking in the CC content. There is a noticeable lack of truly biomorphic items: better plant and stone parts, and grotesquely proportioned parts and growths with an emphasis on asymmetric looks. We know this can be done because of the few asymmetric details we do have, such as the gladiator shoulder. And of course animal parts--frog heads, fish heads, webbed hands and feet, bird legs, talons, monstrous heads that are up to current cc geometry standards, bushy tails and stubby tails. Personally I don't have a huge use for a fox/skunk tail, but a large number of people have been requesting these items for 4+ years now.

There needs to be a "Tights with skin" option for Females. To be able to layer the Organic Armor over regular skin would be incredible. Currently I have to fake it with Succubus Kali, but other characters that might want to utilize it in the same manner would have to resort to mismatched color schemes.

Subjective Feedback: Really loving the Organic Armor set. Having a hard time wrapping my head around Bioluminescence, but it's the kind of biological/mutation-based costume pieces I expected. It would be great if the...glowiness of it were a bit more pronounced though. Also, Organic Wings are terrific; shouldn't there be matching Bioluminescent wings?

Objective Feedback: No tails or heads. No sleeves or pants. No armors (unless you're referring to the Organic Armor individual parts and not the Armored top). Since these names actually exist in the costume creator, it would be better to say new tights instead of sleeves and pants, and new faces instead of heads (assuming what we see is what we get). But I'm betting tails are simply missing as they are listed in the OP. Notes may need lead to confusion, especially depending on whether or not other pieces are just missing right now.

Also, Alpha/Omega auras were available at tailor (in Pocket D, lvl 22 male toon), but not when creating from scratch or editing lvl 35 female in IP. Not sure if that's a bug that they're available or if you're just testing those at same time.

ETA: when editing a female, I noticed that Organic Armor is under tights, while Bioluminecence is under tights with skin. WAI?

Subjective Feedback: Dig the two sets... somewhat. Quite specific, though; not sure if they'll blend well with other costume sets, although the design abilities of the CoH players will surely surprise and impress me.

The set feels a bit empty, what with no belts, chest details, face detail 2s, heads, or tails. And no new monster legs either? Really?

Also, the more demonic feel of Organic Armor, along with a number of the science-feeling emotes, make this set feel less like a mutant set, and more like a mutant/magic/science set.

Oh, so you were expecting particle effects to accompany the individual glow maps. No, it does not do that. These glow maps are essentially sections of the texture that are more or less not affected by lack of light. They don't actually emit any sort of glow themselves.

Since this is the costume thread, I'll keep it relevant:
Objective: New tails what? New heads what? Glowy parts what? Where are these things we were told about?
Subjective:
The bioluminescent set looks BRIGHT but I can't tell that it actually glows with light of its own. The Organic Armor is a beautiful set...for my demon summoness. And no monstrous options with this set, are you serious? I sincerely hope that there are massive missing parts in this preliminary rollout because this is extremely disappointing in an otherwise fun pack. I enjoy the /cce's and new emotes immensely, and I like the new temp power if we can get the looping animations debugged. But this... This would be what I felt to be the heart of this pack and it feels like a letdown. I was honestly expecting more Were- things.

Also: Hi bassAckwards! I saw you in the D not thirty minutes ago. (I was the weredragon who asked you to /em growl with him for testing purposes.)

If they don't introduce new monstrous heads, legs, tails, ears, and maybe an on-all-fours travel power with THIS pack....I REALLY hope they do in another one, soon. People have been waiting a long time for this stuff.

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.... Random idea!

As a "face detail", add various animal muzzles that blend seemlessly into the base face. Eh? Ehh?

Thought I'd throw out a non-diabolical use of the new costume sets. Here's a spines/fire mutant.