Why the hell are there no Water powers??

Yes, i've been reading, and i heard that they couldn't make it look "water-y", but it has been a long time ago.

I must say, the electric control was already done before you started working on it, just one chain effect added...

I would love to see some water control, or water blasts. I really thing that some of the rad blast's powers look alot like water (the one with the 4 bubble-y balls thrown, for example).
I think a water control/blast using the rad animation would be both realistic looking and fun to play.


It's just not a superhero world w/o water control!

I remember hearing that "energy blast " was originally suppose to be a "Water" power, but was changed to energy in beta. I don't really remember why/what but I beleive it had to do with the visual aspect of it..... Or not.... I'm sure someone with a better memory than mine can chime in on it.

So play an Ice powerset, it's cooler.

Well, we have water in our lakes and oceans in game. We have the waterspout on villians. And whats the stealth/def aura on heroes that looks like running water? I think lookwise, it could be done. May not be the OMG LOOK AT DAT, but i think it could work.

You need to be able to swim lower than 3ft before you can make use of water based attacks.

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

Random swearing due to the forum title, made PG by the moderator in me! Dangit, dangit, DANGIT!

*ahem* Anyway, there isn't technically a water power set, but power editing has made it possible. Kinetics and Energy Blast can work well enough for the concept, I would think. Maybe even that Kinetics Melee when it comes in with Going Rogue.

Chum puke, or whatever it's called, is pretty watery.

Bile Spray is the real name.

As DerangedPolyglot said above, what's holding them back isn't the ability to do water physics, it's having those water particles be compatible with the minimum specs. They've said before that they wanted to do a water set, but not unless it looked right, and they can't do that without requiring at least a portion of the playerbase to update their hardware.

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I also want a water set, although perhaps not as emphatically as the original poster.

For some reason when this topic comes up the conversation tends to head toward "it must look like a realistic sparkling ocean foregrounding a breathtaking Tahitian sunset." I think that's setting the bar impossibly high.

There are water fountains, water falls, and exploding fire hydrants already in the game. The water doesn't need to be any more persistent than other effects. Fire, after all is a lot more problematic than water is (shouldn't it cause... fires?), and logically Ice should melt and have the same problems with persistent water does. Further, if we can just 'recolor' existing effects to produce a water-y effect it means the argument that water effects can't be made.. uh.. doesn't hold water.

Fingers crossed that it is the next Control set. Which at the current rate of Control set creation will occur in approximately 2015.

Power customization would have to be even more restrictive for watery powersets. No red, yellow, or brown tints obviously.

So what type of damage would water do? All smashing? To be realistic another damage type would have to be put into the game. Water vs Fire one would think would do much better than Cold vs Fire. And elec vs water would be better than elec vs cold. And then psychic would do double damage to poison and fighting but be weak vs bug........