Clockwork Weaponry - Power Armour Hint?

I can't be the only one thinking (or rather hoping) this. Wrist mounted flamethrowers, blasters, and shoulder cannons? If that doesn't scream POWAH ARMOUR I don't know what does.

Maybe this is just the start, like how Cimm was the initial introduction of shield defence hmm?

I doubt we'd get a power armor set... most powersets seem to be designed to be as open to interpretation as possible, and power armor feels pretty constrained compared to most of them. Shield Defense is kind of a special case, since we couldn't really have shields otherwise, whereas we've been able to make power armor outfits since launch. Adding new emanation points, like being able to have Energy Blast shoot out of a shoulder cannon or something, though...

Well maybe they could have animation options to use the default or costume specific animations but that seems like a LOT of work to mod power sets to specific costume pieces.

I think it would be easier just to make items like say the Piston boots which happen to work with a specific power which you can equip like say a chest piece that lights up when you use certain powers.

PPD Enforcers, Malta Titans and Assault Bots have always had shoulder mounted cannons. Blood Widows and KoA's get a wrist mounted dart thrower, so this isn't new.

I'd rather see power armour pieces (wrist mounted, shoulder mounted etc) come in as costume pieces and alternate animations for existing blast sets.


That way you could design a power armoured character with a variety of powers, eg. an Assualt Rifle set that fires bullets from the wrists and a Flamethrower mounted on the shoulder, or Energy Blasts that fire their AoEs from the chest and single targets from the hands.


A dedicated Power Armour set would lock the player into one set of game mechanics.

Oh, we wants our Parrot Gun my precious, yes we do.

I'd love to have my Fire blaster use wrist cannon instead of lobbing fireballs, and a Parrot Gun for things like Breath of Fire (love the power, HATE the animation) and LRM. Let's not even go into Sonic Blast... I like the set, I hate the yelling attacks.

It would be a whole lot less restrictive than demon summoning, and I support it.

Exactly what powers would a power armor set have that would make it unique?

Seems to me like everyone really just wants new emanation points for their powers.

I REALLY don't like the idea of a power set that locks me into certain costume pieces (probably why I can't get into VEATs), and a "power armor" set would do exactly that.

What if you don't like the look of what the devs decide power armor should look like? Too bad, that's what you get. I mean, unless you're also asking for hundreds of new costume pieces as well so you can customize what YOU think it should look like. (which is pretty unlikely)