Question: What powers do you want Alternate animations for?

Shadow Maul, Smite, Shadow Punch would be my first choice. DM is close to a magical melee set now, with five powers not involving physical contact. I skip Shadow Maul every time because of the activation (I know, that won't change) and the, to me, out of place speedster nature of the attack. Nothing else in DM evokes super speed. I'd love to see those first three given any kind of alternate that would look more like Siphon Life and Touch of Fear.

Aid Self: Arcane version, please! Or even just something that looks like Empathy?

All the melee spin attacks look strange with wings, especially in Hover, which most of my melee characters use. I'd like Hover-friendly versions.

And, I'm another vote for more natural claws (less Wolverine, more Cheetah), not having a backflip in Eviscerate or a jump in Total Focus and its clones. And being able to keep the fire scimitar out, and alternate breath attacks, and wand/staff blasts. The Blackwand was really well done. More of that! I like how the blasts were done in general. I could see alternate animations with gadgets (Starman's cosmic rod, Sonar's sonic gun), too.

I'm throwing in my votes for previously mentioned items:

- alternate (more subdued) animations for Dual Pistols. I think the animations look really cool.. but they're so spastic that I think I will get sick of them pretty quick.

- alternate animations to all eye-beam powers. I have a thing about my eyes, and I absolutely can't take any of the eye-beam powers. They totally squick me out.

- adding elemental swords for all (or more) powers in each set that has access to an elemental sword, and possibly sets that are elemental and don't have swords. I keep making /ice doms just because I love ice sword circle so much. I started the game as an ice blaster and watched jealously as a friend used her fire sword circle all the time. I wanted an ice sword circle so bad, and I glee every time I use it on a dom.

And something that has probably been mentioned but I don't have time to read the rest of the thread:

- alternate animations for any of the "using a keypad on my arm" powers, such as summoning and upgrading bots. Also alternates for any tech based animations (medi pool comes to mind) so that they can be more believably used by non-techy toons. (Not all of my bots MMs are actually techy, and none of them wear gloves that support the "keypad on my arm" animation as believable.)

Fly: we already have the animations, just make the /flypose emotes available in form of alternate animations.

Breath of Fire that comes out of the mouth on huge models...not the nose.

Can we have a 2 handed animation for use with swords/axes/maces, baseball bat would look so much better used 2 handed.

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but the below are mine, in order:

Min FX/Fire/Electric/shadow/ice/glow alternates for the travel pool powers. Not sure if this is animations, of simply FX.

Fire/frost breath alternates that fire from gloves/hands (for natural/tech types)

Punch/Kick animations that support drawn weapons

Fire/Ice swords power alternates which use no sword, but fists instead. (For those that use elements unshaped)

Energy Transfer.

Any power that has that slow jumping up and landing with a double-fisted smash, like Thunderstrike and Total Focus.

Jump Kick, changed to anything less flippy.

Energy Transfer.

Can we get some alternate Dual Pistols animations that are more spaghetti Western and less Equilibrium?

For the elemental powers that have weapon attacks (Ice, Fire, and Earth), options so that you could use either all attacks with the elemental weapon or all attacks with no elemental weapon. For example, being able to change Stone Melee so that all the attacks use the Stone Mallet, or Fire Melee so that all the attacks involve burning hands.

And for Breath of Fire and Frost Breath, being able to change the origination area of the attack from the "mouth" to the hands.

And did I mention Energy Transfer?

good luck D.B.B.

Icicles is ugly.

Hasten...pretty please.

Thunder kick?

Broad sword: I would like to see some two handed strikes and just over all redone animations with the blade.
Hack - A quick two handed over head strike

Slash- A quick single hand diagonal strike starting from the lower left and ending at the upper right

Slice- A two handed sweep from right to left

Parry- An actual parry with the flat of the blade, with a quick strike (would actually like to see a kick or punch while parrying to be slightly more realistic)

Confront-MEH get rid of it and give me another attack power >;p

Build up- ????

Whirling sword- A ground based spin starting with a two hand over the left shoulder swing that follows the momentum of the blade from the upper left corner diagonal strike spinning around 360 and ending with a lower left hand corner diagonal strike with the blade coming to a rest on the upper right

Disembowel- A two handed horizontal strike across the midsection from right to left followed by a semi diagonal two handed upward swing from lower left to upper right corner

Head splitter- a MASSIVE two handed behind the back over head strike straight down.

Oh yeah and we still need an impervium Sword >;p

I did some quick stick figure thumbnails for the animations I'm talking about
http://img821.imageshack.us/i/broadswordanimations.jpg/

I also did a VERY rough impervium broad sword sketch
http://img291.imageshack.us/i/imperviumbroadsword.jpg/


ANd I waive any and all rights to said images and descriptions incase you guys like them and want to use any part of them.

-Kaoru

A "Two by Four", or "Four By Four" for Mace.

Hasten/SS = A NoFX version (or even a 'non-obnoxious' version)
Medicine Pool = option(s)
Teleport = option(s)

"Less graphic" Versions of AoE Imobs/Holds - Specifically for Controllers & Doms = Example = Earth Control - causes my whole machine to heat-up, sometimes to the point of GFX card's ram overheating & forcing me to do shutdown and let it cool off.

I don't even think about playing alts with some Powersets depending on the weather (particularly this summer), yeah I need a new PC, still that's not the point.

MinFX or NoFX Options for every Powerset where it's even remotely feasible/plausible.

Also (off topic) while I'm at it:
A "Restore to Default Colors" in Powerset Customization - accidentally changing something and realizing I've just screwed the proverbial pooch is heartbreaking.

An option to shutoff all "Music"... (I realized not long ago that Arachnos is into 80's/90's hair-metal/arena rock bands) even with the environmental Music turned down to 0%, but with my equalizer and Headset Volume cranked up far enough.)
And another option to shutoff ALL Sound FX/Music - (with the possible exception of glowies) = I want Freem Mode!

*I often have other stuff I should/(or actually need to) be listening to, even when I have time to play the game.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

Despite a seriously awe inspiring collection of emotes, many toggles (specifically older powersets) use 4 possible animations.

Unlocking various animations as options for these toggles would provide additional customization for PvE

For Widows: Any sort of biting animation instead of melee. Go full spider on this

For Dual Pistols: I agree with earlier posts that the Gun Fu might not fit all concepts. What about a "Gunslinger" variation for some of the powers that focus on "Quick Draw" and "Trick shots"

What about power pool animations that derive from the origin you selected? This way there is no new UI needed to support customizations for power pools AND origins selected has an additional purpose. This would only be where appropriate (Heal, Teleport)

I'm going to jump on the Dual Pistols bandwagon. It's begging for a calm/cool/collected approach to pistols (think Clint Eastwood/Steve McQueen) It's difficult to imagine any cowboy or cop jumping around like that. For instance, instead of one of the spray attacks, I'd like to see the character go single gun and slap the hammer back repeatedly.

I'd like to add my 2 cents for alternate animations for sonic blast. While the animations are perfect for my namesake character, WolfSoul, it would be nice to see either a sonic gun for blasters or out of the hand blast.

Didn't read every post, so I apologize if these have already been said. Just a couple of ideas. First, an alternate for blasts where it emits from an extended finger. Probably most appropriate for "laser-ish" attacks like laser beam eyes (obviously without the eyes), but might work for some others, maybe snipes.

Second, someone mentioned making the Nova-type attacks more distinctive to each power set. For Nova itself, one could make it like an actual supernova: a sphere forms with some size around the character, collapses in and then rebounds for the blast. Not sure how to animate the character while this is happening.

Elsewhere, mark me down as another person who doesn't like the animations on either Eviscerate nor the Tarzan bit for Integration.

Capoeira, drunken master and animal styles for martial arts.

Two handed weapon animations, like a two handed overhead smash, I want that on bash with a shovel, or a double handed whirling sword/mace/axe. Sheaths for weapons.

More blaster animations, finger beams like executioner's shot without the guns. Sonic animations with a bunch of #$@%'s coming out from the mouth for my pottymouth panda. More flashy nuke animations.

I would like an alternate animation for Broadsword's Parry. http://www.ehow.com/video_4970806_br...echniques.html

My genie-type heroes would love to be able to FLY using the yoga-sitting emote that is allowed in Hover...

My genie-type Hero would love to be able to FLY using the yoga-sitting emote while on a magic carpet. *nods*

This may have been mentioned but I haven't read the whole thread... any power that uses the underhand sweeping motion used in Electron Haze, Twilight Grasp, etc