New Travel Powers

Will we ever see new travel powers added to this game? The travel powers we have now are the same ones we've had since the release of the game. It would be nice to finally see some new travel powers add. I'm not talking about Ninja Run type travel powers, I mean real travel powers.

I'd really like to see Ice Gliding, or sliding whatever you want to call it. That would be my most wanted. Others would be great too, I'm just getting sick of using the same old travel powers. I think travel needs a bit of love

Ice gliding would be nice. I suppose it would be similar to blending Prestige Power Slide and Super Jump while generating an ice road underfoot that would fade/melt over time or distance of the character from it.

What would be the other 3 powers from the set or were you thinking just individual travel powers from an alternate travel power pool set?

I wouldn't have any problem with getting new travel powers. I think the only thing that's holding them back is whether or not the Devs could make a new mode of travel look good from an animation point of view. That's obviously easier said than done.

At any rate I think we'll probably get some way to "power customize" the current travel powers (like being able to change the color of the Super Speed aura) before we get completely new powers.

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Although, Ice gliding seems a bit too concept specific. I've seen other's mention, and I like the idea of boards. If we get power pool customization, we could perhaps have ice boards, fire boards, etc. In my mind it would fuction like a cross between fly and super speed. Perhaps in between the two in terms of speed, but more limited than fly in terms of height. It would be cool if they could implement some kind of system that would limit the movement speed as you gain altitude. Essentially slowing you to fly speed at higher altitudes and moving at close to super speed when you are close to the ground. I'm not even sure if that is possible. This might be a little overpowered, virtually making super speed and fly obsolete. Perhaps not having the stealth component that SS has and making it a little more end heavy would help balance the utility of the power. Anyway, here's my new travel pool.

Boards
Tier 1: Hover board- Similar to hover in that it gives a slight def buff, but limited ariel movement. Perhaps not allowing the player to hover above normal jump height.
Tier 2: Board smack- Single target, minor damage/stun
Tier 3: Surfing- The Actual travel power
Tier 4: Planted- KB protection. Only works while close to the ground.

Not sure about tier 4.

I think we could get a lot more mileage out of some of our current travel powers if the devs added some more costume recipes as opposed to breaking current travel powers into a half a dozen similar powers with different animations like has been done by others in the MMO industry.

A "board" for example, can be a craftable recipe that appears when Fly is activated. There can even be several different ones to choose from. The standing animation already exists in Power Slide.

Tech can have a disc of some sort.
Magic can have a carpet.
Elements can have a Boulder for Stone, Ice for Cold, a shadowy disc for Dark energy, etc.

We don't need to waste time and resources duplicating Flight powers that already exist in the game when a costume recipe can make a dramatic difference in how that power looks.


Now as far as brand new travel power, sure as long as they don't look stupid.

Web slinging/swinging too? Want any more MARVEL powers?

Stilts.

My Ice Controller has been using Prestige Power Slide and Super Speed together for years, it works pretty well. It doesn't leave a persistent trail behind me, but I think that the Devs might be leery of such a thing being a griefing tool, in the same way they've been leery of letting one character change everyone else's environment in other cases.

Might just need to put this one in the "keep dreaming" category

I was thinking maybe the current travel powers could be part of the power customization options, and then pick which ones we would want to use for those powers.

For instance, for flight, you could choose which animation you want to use, so it wouldn't go to defaut all the time and then require you to key in the fly emote.

Swinging and ice gliding would be great. Maybe some alternate animations for super speed? It looks silly as is, to me.

I think we don't need to go as far as building new powers. Aside from swinging almost all of the travel powers you can think of are well represented by what we have. They just need to be reskinned and maybe reanimated. That is a tall order. Because of the travel powers unique nature. being interoperable with all other powersets changing those travel powers is a great deal of work potentially on the same scale of the original power customization. But for 4 powers, 6 if you count CJ and hover. Since you can take multiple travel powers you run into more issues like if you have a tunneling version of superspeed and a board version of fly, what is your result? Obviously that isn't a common predictament but it is something that must be taken into consideration. I think esablishing the basis for Travel power customization is a better use of time because it will then be quicker to make changes and updates to travel powers down the lines where as wholly new travel powers still have to be made compatible with all other powers, a much more difficult process. Perhaps the time balance isn't quite bad but would you rather respec into boards or just go to icon? I think that is really bottom line.

I just want them to make the Power Slide AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE already..

I want Uncontrollable Leap. You pick a direction you want to travel, and you're hit with unresistable mag 400 knock-back in that direction. It would have a Tpoooomm! sound effect.

Seems to me that the "other travel" suggestions really build off the originating four, though. I'd agree that having a skinning option for your travel power might be the better way to go, a la power customization. Other people above have given examples of how to do it, and honestly it'd be a way of getting the same "effect" without throwing in new travel powers that would demand a six month moratorium on combat balance.

...personally, I'd settle for a Fly that didn't have those annoying little puffs of air coming from your hands and feet, even when holding still.

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