Eye Blasters


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I don't know if it's been said before but I would love to play some eye blasters. Much like cyclops of Xmen. The game already have some eye blasting with rad blast, The kheldian( don't know if I spelled that right), and the body munitations mastery. They could expand that power and make it like a defense debuff, knockback, and stun based. What yall think? I don't have the time or the mind to come up with the list of powers but if yall think of some be my guest if you dig this


 

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Aside from possibly being hit with another copyright-based lawsuit... I don't really think a lazer eye-based powerset would have the variety a powerset needs to exist.

Every single power would essentially be a blast from the eyes.


 

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Aside from possibly being hit with another copyright-based lawsuit...
From the same company as the first lawsuit?

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I don't really think a lazer eye-based powerset would have the variety a powerset needs to exist.

Every single power would essentially be a blast from the eyes.
I could see a laser-themed set. I would go with Energy Damage, with a Fire DoT and/or a -Res to go with the "laser burning a hole through things"

Tier 1: A quick, low damage single beam.
Tier 2: A slightly higher damage dual beam.
Tier 3: A shorter-range higher damage heavy beam.
A cone.
A Multi-shot single-target attack. Animation: multiple beams from the eyes, one right after the other, while the character points his fingers like a pair of pretend six-shooters. (Oh yeah, we would have to have fingers instead of mittens first)
Throw in Aim and you still have only six powers. I don't see much AoE that would make any sense, or a tier 9 to cap it off without being any sillier than what I've already suggested.


 

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Originally Posted by Stingman View Post
I don't have the time or the mind to come up with the list of powers but if yall think of some be my guest if you dig this
Generally, if the OP (Original Poster) of an idea isn't able or willing to provide a fleshed-out idea, the thread usually doesn't go anywhere.

If you have more to this Eye Blast, please share. If not, then feel free to post more later.

Here's what I'd like to see:
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9 powers listed.
What makes it mechanically different from the other sets, yet roughly the same power level?


 

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Optic Lasers:

1. Telescoping Blast (ST energy dmg + -res **+** ST energy dmg + fire DoT) Ocular Focused(OF) mode, the attack is a narrow beam from the eyes. In Ocular Spread(OS) mode, the attack is a larger beam that will cause much heat and burns.

2. Telescopic Burst (ST energy dmg + -res; chance of stun **+** Narrow Cone energy dmg + fire DoT; chance of KB) In OF mode, this is a persistent beam from the eyes that is a moderate damage ST attack that lowers resistance. In OS mode, this attack is charged before firing an unfocused burst of energy that does moderate damage and can hit a few foes in a row.

3. Plasma Beam (Narrow Cone energy dmg + -res **+** Ranged AoE energy dmg + fire DoT; chance of KB) In OF mode, this is a narrow beam of energy from the eyes that is traced on the ground near the foes, hitting multiple foes with high energy damage. In OS mode, this is an unfocused beam traced along the same path but does less damage while hitting more foes.

4. Optic Laser Blast (ST energy dmg + -res/-def **+** Short Ranged ST energy dmg; foe kb) In OF mode, this is a normal 80ft ranged attack that does high energy dmg. In OS mode, the range is cut in half but the damage is increased.

5. Focused Beam (Sniper energy DoT, non-interrupt **+** Sniper energy dmg) In OF mode, this is a sniper attack that is instantaneous and isn't interruptible. You will focus a beam that starts out invisible then increases in intensity, all the while causing energy DoT. In OS mode, this turn into a standard sniper attack that is interruptible and does 1 round of sniper damage.

6. Recalibrate (Self Toggle minor -ToHit, activates Ocular Spread) Turning this on will unfocus the intensity of your beams to allow the user to hit more targets. It has several drawbacks, however, such as a small -ToHit debuff to self and causing Focused Beam to turn into an interruptible attack.

7. Caustic Plasma Strike (ST minor energy DoT; foe hold **+** Cone minor energy dmg; foe KB, minor chance of stun) In OF mode, you fire a blast from your eyes that erupts in a cloud of bright plasma that disables the target. In OS mode, your beam is larger and the plasma cloud is more like a plasma smog that might stun foes but the initial explosion will knock the enemy's down.

8. Plasma Gaze (Foe Toggle high energy DoT; Self immobilize) Cannot be used while Recalibrate is running. This attack will focus a beam of energy on a single target and cause huge amounts of damage for the time the toggle is aimed at the target. You can shoot some of your other attacks while focusing on your target. Maximum run time is 12 seconds.

9. Omega Beam (Cone Energy/Fire dmg + Fire DoT) Can only be used when Recalibrate is running. This extreme damage beam is the biggest and widest of your blasts that will swallow up entire groups in your gaze followed by a moderate END crash (just eats all your endurance, no -recovery).


 

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There ya go!


 

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Ok I'am give it a shot when I get back. I never did a fantasy power set before! lol But I dig the above one! Big time gratz!


 

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Maybe they should just add a choice to make the power shoot out your eyes in Power Customization.


 

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Maybe they should just add a choice to make the power shoot out your eyes in Power Customization.
For Ice, Fire, Dark and Energy Blast, sure.

For Trick Arrow and Assault Rifle, maybe not.


 

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Maybe they should just add a choice to make the power shoot out your eyes in Power Customization.

^This.... options on where you fire from would be awesome. However I could see how this could be a serious amount of animation work to look right. Otherwise ultimatly every power set could end up looking the same.


 

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For Ice, Fire, Dark and Energy Blast, sure.

For Trick Arrow and Assault Rifle, maybe not.
Bah! I want to shoot bullets and arrows from my eyes!

And knives, too!


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Maybe they should just add a choice to make the power shoot out your eyes in Power Customization.
This.

Just make it so the animation comes from the eyes, the toon takes on different positions, and have the animation take as long as the current blast animation.

I might enjoy this for an Energy Blaster (or Rad Blaster) if I could make all the animation come from the eyes, and they don't look like Laser Beam Eyes.

I'm thinking, look like all the Energy Blasts powers in use, but from the eyes and not the hands.


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Bah! I want to shoot bullets and arrows from my eyes!

And knives, too!



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<snipping the large Dr. McNinja panel>

yes, that's exactly what I had in mind when I posted that.


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Did you just use "casual gamer" and "purpled-out warshade" in the same sentence?
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Now if we could adjust how and where we want our energy,rad,fire, and ice blasting abilties to come from that would rock! No DP, AR, knives or anything dumb come on now .

This is my first try at doing a fantasy power set so don't be to harsh on the critique


Eye Energy Blast

1) Eye Bang: Short ranged quick blast from eyes. Reduce foe damage resistance. Low damage fast recharge

2) Eye Cannon: Slower than eye shot, but with a Longer range and more damaging blast from eyes. Able to Knockback foe. High Damage moderate Recharge

3) 20/20 Vision: Focus power to your eyes for a short time adding more damgage and to hit ability and less endurance used. Long Recharge

4) Eye Volley: Fire three eye shots in front of you in a cone reducing damage resistance of all enemies caught in the range of fire. Able to knockdown foes. Moderate Damage Slow recharge

5) Eye Flash: Fire a quick flash of eye power in front of you that leave the foes in the targeted area blind and cannot attack. No damage Moderate Recharge

6) Scope: Greatly enhancing your ability to hit targets long range for a short time. Long Recharge

7) Focus shot: A long range shot able to pick off foes with precise aim. Reducing damage resistance and able to knockback targeted foe. This power need a clear view of vision and can be interrupted. High Damage Long recharge

8) Eye boom: A slow devastating ball of eye energy is unleashed from your eyes into a group of foes.Knocking back enemies in the targeted area back very far and stunning them. High damage Long Recharge

9) Optical Domination: Focusing all your powers to your eyes letting off blasts of eye attacks all around you hitting all foes in the area. Foes are knockbacked reducing their damage resistance greatly. Superiour damage very long Recharge

I'm sure I left some stuff out for the more experinced power developers. Like I said it's my first power pool creation.


 

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Laser eyes as primary power set would be soo cool No no not rocks, knives or old grannies, just scorching laser (or some other bright steel cutting beams).


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I like the option of taking existing powersets and have the devs add new animation options for them aside from just their hands. Eyes and chest (tihink Iron Man's chest beam) would probably be the only 2 options needed (maybe shoulder one if they ever add backpacks). Then you can have your ice/fire/dark/rad/... fire from whichever spot you desire. For obvious reasons I would say that any powerset with a weapon and Sonic (sonic eyebeams?) would be excluded from this option. As a personal opinion from playing a fire blaster, I feel that Flares would look great as an eye based attack. There are also a number of heroes from multiple comic universes who use eye beams for at least some of their attacks that, so that there wouldn't be any copyright issues.


Dragonhawk (lvl 50 fire/energy blaster)
Flamefrost (lvl 50 fire/ice blaster)
'Snowflake (lvl 50 ice/dev blaster)
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Psyshock (lvl 30 Rad/Psi defender)

 

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Im still waiting for a full laser gun set, pulse laser set devs you hear I have cookies, beer, bananas and bribes for any dev who wants to make the laser gun set. <_<

As for laser eyes, well as said three powers already sort of do all laser eyes would do. so maybe one or two more but, I think it would suffer the same trouble mind attack sets suffer. All looking the same, plus the probable copyright stuff, though if that was the case they would already be in trouble with the laser eyes they have, so. hummm can't realy see this.


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I think this whole game is full of copyright stuff lol. Claws, hello wolverine! Storm summoning,Storm! The shields is mos def off of cap america lol. I don't think that eyes would be such a big deal, if they already beat out the other suits


 

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While I really don't want to disagree with Leo's well-designed powerset, I would honestly prefer to handle this via power customization by allowing us to shoot recoloured Energy Blast from our eyes. That sort of power customization for not just Energy Blast, but most "arm blast" powersets would be good for the game.


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I was just posting a suggestion because someone said no one could make one that's interesting with a new mechanic.

Although I kind of like the idea of a set with 2 nukes (a ST one and a cone one) that are mutually exclusive.


 

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I think this whole game is full of copyright stuff lol. Claws, hello wolverine! Storm summoning,Storm! The shields is mos def off of cap america lol. I don't think that eyes would be such a big deal, if they already beat out the other suits
The difference is that there are other characters that have similar powers. Captain America is not the only character in the history of comics to ever use a shield. Wolverine is not the only character who has ever had claws. And Storm is not the only character who has ever used storm controlling powers.

There are other characters who have used eyebeams, but there is only ONE for whom eyebeams are their main (and only) power: Cyclops.

For the other characters that use eyebeams (Superman, Gladiator, a few others I'm not thinking of), the eyebeams are part of a larger set of powers, which Laser Beam Eyes covers perfectly. A powerset consisting solely of eyebeams is coming very close to one specific character's trademark, while none of the others you mentioned are the domain of any one character.

If they didn't add powers that anyone had ever used before it'd be a pretty crappy game. No fire powers because of the Human Torch. No Ice powers because of Iceman. No Super Strength because of Superman and the Hulk. No martial arts because of any number of characters. No Plant Control because of Poison Ivy. And so on.

They can do it because there are a LOT of characters with those abilities, while there is only one who uses eyebeams exclusively.

Also, how do you do animations for 9 powers where you basically just look at your target?


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I'm just saying that their shouldn't be a big issue with having eye blasters since the whole game are based off of other comic books. I'm not sure how the animations would be. Use your imagination lol. Quite sure the devs could come up witha cool look for this set


 

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Oh, I had a concept in mind like this, I planned to use PSI blast, close as I could get, but I never made the toon.


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Also, how do you do animations for 9 powers where you basically just look at your target?
Well they could use some of the various emotes and at the end tack on a dramatic stare.