SBP V: Mutant

So I gotta say mutant is my least favorite origin. I don't know why but all it ever makes me think of is people turning into animals or turtles or something. I know mutant can mean a lot more than that but it's just what I think of. I have a couple of "mutant" origins but kind of X-men like, just a couple cool powers and that's it.

So I have to say that Mutant was the pack I was least looking forward to and for a long time thought I might skip. Which is a big deal for me since I haven't skipped any so far and have bought pretty much every one of them, from Wedding pack to Valkyrie and all 4 super boosters within a few days of them going live.

Then I took a look at the Mutant costume pieces on the test server not long ago and I will say I was impressed. They were both not at all what I was expecting and both were very cool especially with the glowy-bits, though I honestly couldn't think of any character I wanted to use them on. But I was very impressed with the new Costume Change emotes, the power and the other emotes.

It went live, I bought it more for the costume change emotes and power than the costume pieces but wouldn't you know it, inspiration struck me when I was looking at the new pieces.






Both of my Kheldian's now have costume upgrades. I've been looking for a new look for my warshade. My peacebringer, well she got an impromptu update even though I though I was happy with all her costumes.

So this is all by way of saying, I've been converted, the Mutant Booster is fantastic, great job devs!


So what are the next round of super boosters going to be? No more Origin theme I assume, so any hints on what's coming next?

Potentially the Origins from different angles.

We've got the Magic USER pack (witches and warlocks) but could still use a demon pack, or Chimera, or gargoyle... Any number of inherently magical beings that could have a pack devoted to them (Heck! Maybe with Gargoyles we'll get a decent loincloth!)

We've got a ninja Pack for Naturals. but that leaves out Soldiers and Scientists and people who use both magic -and- tech (Dual Origin enhancements mean Naturals can use Natural/Magic and Natural/Tech)

The Science Pack came with size changing options and costume change emotes along with a few new "Scientist" costume pieces (mostly new goggles!) How about a pack where the costume bits are more "BioOrganic" or "Plant" or "Rock Monster" in the form of Science Experiment creations.

Meanwhile the Tech pack came with a bunch of cyborg pieces for robots. How about Gear costume pieces. not Gears the object, but Gear as in utility belts and backpacks (many technical hurdles to leap but not impossible) New weapon options. How about a Steampunk pack with Nemesis styled dual pistols and the like?

And then you get to the Mutant Pack. There's already a call on the forums for an Animal-mutant pack with bestial heads...

So there's plenty of ways to keep hitting the Origins that already exist from different angles with new costume pieces, emotes, and concepts. there's also Dual-Origin packs to consider as well (Magic/Mutant anyone?) So I wouldn't say "no more origin theme" boosters. Not by a long shot.

-Rachel-

This thread has lots of new booster ideas and I expect we'll see something culled from that. My short list of guesses would be Beast/Anthro, Steampunk/Victorian or Modern/Civilian based purely on what's gotten the most chatter.

heh, don't feel bad, most of my characters are Magic or Natural oriented, very very very few tech/science/mutant.

I've bought all of the SBP except the Science one, I'd say that's my least favorite as it had nothing I really wanted.

I started out ambivalent about the mutie pack but picked it up after fiddling around with it on test.

And of course now that I've got it I found more applications than I expected to.

The various bits and pieces are quite a bit more flexible than I initially gave them credit for. I do wish we'd gotten some new monsterous feet & hands and some claws, but aside from some genuinely horrible joins for the heads and tails it's a great pack.

I'd love to see a Glider pack. Some sort of Jetpack\backpack with wings that extend for flight and fold back up when flight is off. Something sleek, aerodynamic and tech looking.

Of course you could also do something in steam punk, or mystical etc. A glider pack could work for a lot of things.

I don't know I have an idea I posted a few times but I'm trying to think what kinda pack it could fit in

Aracnos base: where it's liek the vanguard base where you have missons, enhancements talor and access to other zones, and you acually exit from the door of the base in thoses zones, the base map I thought of was that one with the shooting range, baracks, equipment depot in it, I say they could add a merchant for enhancements and a talio then toss some new contacts in and maybe then the exit would open to the bases in the area's scatterd arund the rogue isles, .. and withthe GR thing maybe even in the city itself where the dam is heh

Fae portal: ths one is where you toss seds animation to summon a Fae ring then Hop into it you end up in the map of Witches Lair, again add in an enchancment merchant, insperations, a tailor and maybe a contact, thn th exit could take you to the Crossroads of the Midnighters club, that sounds easy enough

see both these are useing the animations and thigns already in game and nothign is really new, just placed in new code so it can be done and it just takes alittle creatiity to do ( somethign our devs have is creativity)

but see I have no idea if that would be a issue addin or a booster pack, becuse seems kinda weak for a issue, but might be kinda cool for a booster

think ofit liek the VIP pass for the D, it could be a Mystical rune for the Fae Portal and a Arachnos ID card for the Arachnos Base

And a cup for my Willpower Tanker.