Costumes!

So I love the features announced in i19, but like many others I want to know one thing.

Are there any new costumes?

I look at David's posts over the past few months, and I had hope, not seeing costumes listed in the features makes me sad though.

I hope to see the old NPC costumes David spoke of, that Kheldian sash is much needed on many of my characters!


What costumes do you hope to see, if anything?

For free costume bits, I'd like to see them get back to basics and revisit the ORIGINAL strategy behind the i0 costumes: provide some generic classic comic book items that could prove versatile for a variety of concepts.

Simple things like some face mask items (like those used as eye details in the full masks category), iconic geometric "full helmet" heads that are a simple perfect sphere, pyramid and cube (in metallic and non-metallic finishes), metallic tights option, some new torsos that have geometric tunnels passing right through the sternum (cylindrical and cubic--this one may be harder than I think due to animations?) and some BASIC geometric tights patterns (no bump map indicating seams, nothing subtle like Vines or Baroque, nothing diamond agey like Stealth and the other myriad great textures Jay introduced when he first got to Cryptic/Paragon)--simple basic geometric patterns in high res format that are evocative of classic spandex wearing superheroes. A few cape options in a similar vein and a few new bold chest details (i.e. I don't think we have a full set of cards chest details, do we?)

As I see it, there are still some basic generic gaps in the CC and I think they could be filled here and there. IMO, some of this low hanging fruit has become ready for harvest. These sorts of items seem like perfect things to put a junior level production artist on. Just keep the art direction clear. We don't need a hundred new pieces an issue, but a return to promise of more character customization per issue would be a good thing IMO and would definitely keep me subscribing.

I said it in another thread and I'll say it here again: as far as I'm concerned, this game lives and dies by the strength and continued and expanding novelty of it's character creator. It behooves marketing, distribution and the devs to work in at least a few costume bits for free with each issue. (That being said, I am extremely enthusiastic about i19 simply because of the new power animations and two measly auras!!)

I quit trying to follow those art threads. There were just too many of them. But the things I'd like to see are:

a traditional Robin Hood like hat
Hats and helms for some of the monsterous heads.(The Egyptian one would be great for Mythological toons)
Skirts/Kilts/Shorts for Monsterous Legs
Some Leggings for Monsterous Legs instead of Boots(using some of the current styles like Valkerie, Stealth, Tech, etc)
Reptile scales, Monsterous Hair, Bio(s), Insect, Organics, as a Skin type
More Gloves for Monsterous Hands (Vanguard esp since we have to earn them)

I'd like some new costumes and I'd love for old costume bits to get touched up with better textures. I'm looking at YOU Tops with Skin - Metal. I love the piece but it looks outdated and there is a glaringly obvious bug that they've never fixed.



Here's hoping for both!

When you've used the piece for 6 years you become painfully aware of it. :P Sadly, you do not become used to it. Not in my case anyway! hehe

So from now on, any new NPC costumes that will be made will have in mind compatability with player costumes? I kind of guessed this was the direction things were going based on newer groups like the Praetorian Clockwork.

Also, can we get a sort of feather detail for use with hats? You may need a couple versions of it in slightly different positions to match most of the hats, but it would be a nice touch.

I'm gonna hop on the bandwagon as well and say that I'd REALLY like to see the older villain group stuff become available to players wherever possible, even if it would require more work and prevent new (so to speak) costume pieces. Heck, I know the carnie leggings wouldn't work on characters because they have about a bazillion colors, but a variant that takes two shades and mixes as needed to create a similar effect would be fine with me.

What I want more than anything really is a porcelain mask like the Carnival wears, for BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, or if not that at least a whole face mask very similar to it. I have many characters that would make use of it, even if just for a formal/halloween costume. There's plenty of stuff that NPCs have that would just make sense to give characters.

Heck, do us one better and make it the focus of a future issue to further exemplify the Going Rogue system. Give us a whole mess of classic villain group costume pieces, perhaps some new powersets/proliferation that would tie into it (Dark doms for Carnival/Skulls, Fire/Thermal defenders for Hellions, Psionic corruptors for Carnival/Rikti) and toss in some new arcs that might make reference to a bunch of criminals in Paragon starting to break away from their groups and turning their abilities to the fight for good, or on the redside of the spectrum, a bunch of villain group splinter cells and soloists moving in on the Rogue Isles and upsetting the balance of power. I think it'd be a fantastically fun and well-recieved issue.