Will the dev's please stop saying we have total freedom ^^

now before we get started let me say this first,i like this game,made alot of good friends playing it,but i did find myself leaving from time to time for one particular reason.

eather they underestimate people's imagination ,or they are arogant enough to asume that if they put something in the game it and it only is the way a hero should go about things.

i like super hero's ,i like the lore,concept and thought that go's with them ,and so the idea of a game where i could create my own "brainchild" and fight the forces of do no good with it are verry apealing to me.
but they are selling the genre extremely short with the rather strick set of restrictions they impose on our capability to create characters,and before you say no two hero's in this game are the same alow me to elaborate.

we get the choice of gender,rudementry but adequate controll of physical apearance,a verry varied amount of costume options,we can choose an origen,two powersets and a name.

what we get from this freedom is a bipedaled,uprightwalking humanoid with a symetrical costume.
now this alone shouldent pose a problem,the options are varied and indeed no two costumes are alike.

moving on to powers and origen is where it all kind of falls apart to me,for example:
i have a magic origen fire/therm controller,great fun all in all but the thing that bothers me is that there is absolutely nothing magic about her,when she summons imps it whould be nice if she could do it in a simular fashion to demon summoning and not make it look like i'm about to burst out into a YMCA dance ^^
if she were a mutant the imps could spawn from a fire consuming her body.

if you make a sword scrapper with a rapier it whould be fun if her moves had more grace then the hulk having a field day
see where i'm going with this ?

what use is it to spend your time thinking of a cool concept when every move you end up making is genericaly the same as everyone else.
i kinda feel they are to hung up on the apearant importance of how your char looks while the super part of a super hero is not the costume,its the powers.

"we're taking the game to the next level" should be "we improved upon cov's resolution and added just about as many new powersets",still the rogue system is an awesome feat and since it means that you can change just about everything about your character save for what i just mentioned there is hope ^^

To end please dont think i wana see this game end,or expect me to make any wild "this game sucks i'm canceling my account" claims,most of it is a direct result from just having watched the lasted video,my burning hatred toward missadvertisement and yearning for more dept of character beond tights or skirt.

I think the alternate animations system put in for Superstrength and Martial Arts is the beginning of what you're asking for.

Given enough time and resources, the devs could fit Fire Imps or any other power with a number of different animations - the current Y pose, a chest-spawn and so on.

Alternate animations could in theory involve runes and so on for a more "magical" appearance, but even then you're portraying just a single vision of what magic looks like.

This isn't available right now not because of dev arrogance or them underestimating our imagination, but because it takes time to implement.

So yeah, hang in there, I guess. We have more customisation than we used to, and I see that trend continuing

The Devs are also limited on what a system going on it's 7th year can handle.

Some limits like body types are hard wired from when Crypt had control. So adding four armed figures is not possible. (Or so I believe).

What it all comes down to really is time. Right now with Going Rogue a little over two weeks left until release, they're concentrating all of their time on the expansion. We also know that they do plan future issues in advance. Who knows? They're probably already planning on Issue 20 content as we type this!

With new Martial Arts and Super Strength animations, we do know that the tech is there. It's only a matter of time until they decided to add more animations to the pool. Just wait until things calm down a bit, after Going Rogue's release and the new "incarnate system" everyone is buzzing about, you may just get your wish. =D

Of course, you shouldn't get your hopes too high yet... I'm just speculating on the future. I have no idea what's going to happen or what they're going to do...

... or do I?

I keep hoping for alternate animations. I think we'll see those before to long.

Not to worried about heroes/villains who run around on all four. Really, they're such a minority in superhero comics, that there's so much more to be added imo before they get to that.

Power limiting is a little disheartening, but I think they can figure something around that at sometime...like maybe combinging all the APPs into a pick this power type of deal, which then opens other tiers, blocking out certain ones obviously.

Ignoring all the "blame the devs" flame bait (because I'm good at that.) except to point out that, just because they aren't doing what you think is of utmost importance doesn't mean they aren't doing anything, or aren't trying to figure out how they can give you exactly what you want.

Yes, I would like alternate animations for powers as I feel they, along with colour customization, allow a whole new depth of individuality. I would also love Asymmetrical costumes.

No I don't want them tied to origins, and tying it, or anything else, to origins is counterproductive to that idea of "freedom" you proclaim to enjoy. Because suddenly my character, who I picked as a magic origin for whatever reason, is now doing things "magicky" that I didn't want him to do.

Where did the dev(s) said that we had total freedom? =O

There no Such thing as True Freedom, in RL and Online life, if we had enough Freedom there be to much Choas, Also it's a game it's not perfect, you can't have it all, in time maybe we can have more add to this game, just patiences for now.

I would love to see alternate animations for powers.
A lot of powers are using same animations, lets say mace/axe/broadsword or lots of the control/blast type.
Only a few got exclusive animations, like dual blades, demon summoning whip, dual pistols...
We dont need new ones, just having a couple of existing ones so we can switch.

Total Freedom Now!

I will not be happy until my dream character, Pancancer Doom, can correctly be represented in game. 93 foot long crystal centipede armor, 32 segments, each segment marked with a glowing rune of my own devising [see 32 inclosed bitmaps], with a tier 9 attack that gives time-travelling pancreatic cancer to the recipient, three days before the attack lands, and a defense set based on rendering oxygen inert. "Choking" is not a valid substitute.

The 'total freedom' in the viddoc wasn't in regards to animation, but char storyline development. Now I'll finally be able to have my ruthless borderline sociopath hero kill criminals for example. I've been RPing that she does, but now it'll be fact.