Super Booster V - Mutant Theme Costume Sets: Feedback

In the future booster pack ideas thread in general discussion, I did suggest a Kawaii themed Booster, complete with floating heart auras. Butterflies would work too. Because it's cute, sadly the devs might dismiss it as a joke. As a challenge, though, I dare the devs to think about serious characters with cute or beautiful aesthetics rather than just the sinister and edgy. Goddesses. Fountains of life. Animist spirits of the cosmos. Or of the planet. Children with unlimited powers (think Lama++).

I totally agree with Sam as he points out a page or so up, there has been a real hard edge to a majority of the costume releases over the past 3 years. When this first began, it was refreshing, welcome and quite arguably needed. But this hard edge does contribute to that sense of sameness I was speaking of.

Several ways to break this, none of these strategies are mutually exclusive:

- asymmetric models
- rounder more organic shapes
- convincing modeling and texturing of soft, organic materials
- more lighthearted themes

In addition to the often requested better furry bodies, shoulder fur, animal bits and bushy tails other possible options in no particular order:

- feather and fur boas that use cape physics, but are 3d capes essentially
- convincing feather and fur trim for tights, catsuits and existing clothing options
- shoulder pieces as asymmetric as the gladiator shoulder, but portraying large bushy branches, allowing players to make sentient trees. asymmetric boots and belts in this direction that are also ridiculously bushy with vegetation could work as well
- simple spherical, reflective heads, shoulders, elbows and knees
- GG and others (mostly female players IRL from what I could tell) went a bit gaga over Mother Mayhem's bosom. The only gathered and lifted bosoms we have are sharply framed by either the witch leathers or this new organic armor set. create some more generic gathered and lifted tights options, with and without keyhole cleavage reveals
- an "antoinette set" with powdered wigs for his and hers, tricorner caps, and a close approximation of a hoop gown slightly lifted and tilted forward, ala how the Warrior belt geometry from the martial arts booster currently works
- jewelry details of pendants, medallions and head details for earrings, including feathers and dream catchers

on the more sinister side--it doesn't all need to be cute or cuddly:
- a set that looks less like fractured hard materials and more like melted wax, with large gobs of ones body gathered up in big heavy drips that have hardened in place
- big bulbous boils or mud bubbles on the skin--not just as a texture, but a few large spheres the size of a fist, like on the back or chest or shoulders
- others already mentioned taking advantage of the robotic arm divisions to have mutated arms. what about just one big honking mega muscular arm? ditto in monstrous legs

Anyways, I'll still be getting this pack to support Paragon Studios. I definitely can use all three CC emotes and will use the growl as a bound stance emote for a few of my rooftop avengers. I also have perhaps one use for the bio-lum set. Still don't see how "hell-spawn" as David calls it constitutes a mutant. And though it is a very well done set, going to be stubborn on my opinion that it is very redundant with already existing demonic costume options and feels. And I'll begin the wait yet again and hope that booster pack VI or i19 has something that fills some of the standing gaps in basic comic genre themes and aesthetics currently in the CC.

All of the above.

Yeah!! I'd so love that glow without the egzama!

I have to say that I'm disappointed. Mostly because what we got was not what we expected. When I was at Comic-Con last year, I specifically asked Positron about more animal themed costumes. His reply was that it made a lot of sense for them to be in the mutant pack. I think he later said something similar on the boards. So that was what I, and I think many others were expecting. Since it has taken significantly longer for the mutant pack then for any of the other origin themed packs, I expected something really impressive.

What we're getting looks nice, but just doesn't seem that impressive considering the time it took. Also, I don't really see myself using either of the new costumes, since they don't fit any of my existing characters. I'll probably pass on this one, at least for now.

Thanks for the clarification, and the pics of the new tails, and notification of the sword. It helps a lot, actually, because I can see everything you're saying. The more I see that frog-like face, the more I fall in love. Frogs ARE animals, after all.

At this point, my biggest problems with the set: the seaming & the way the armors don't match skin colors.

• The seaming is a tad too obvious, especially around the neck and boots (hate the way that armor just stops at the neck). If those looked more seemless, they'd work better with other sets.
• Given the discrepencies between the skin color palette and costume color palette, the armors don't look like they are a part of you so much as something you are wearing.

And oh yeah -- I too add my vote for another matching weapon or two at some point (but your Lost questions/answers analogy was true enough that I LOLed, so I won't be too upset if they never come).

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Dude, I would so love to use that costume for Charquill!
Edit: Am I missing where it says what power comes with this pack?

I dug it, Fab. Made me smile and burst out in a stirring rendition of 'Alejandro.'

quite good, i was also going to jokingly chime in as the guy known for "odd" costumes that people may not want my opinion . but i like it, it flows well, plays up her penchant for oddness. thinking back to her looks, she usually goes for either a bulky top and a minimalistic bottom or vise versa, and the shoulders work with that.

there is a second thread for that, it is called secondary mutation, its a random self buff, some beneficial, some less.

Yah. I would love glow lines on normal skin.

Those look excellent!

Huh?

Don't get me wrong, the quality is there but I am still disappointed by the demonic, hell-spawn as you yourself said, feeling of this pack...