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Speculation and Hopes for the Animal Booster

AmazingMOO

By AmazingMOO,
Posted on: 2011-01-17 23:52 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07 View Post
All I really care for out of an animal based booster is more/better bird chest emblems. We have 3; one's an American Indian-style bird, the other two are just bird heads. I've seen some Customization Options in other games that have a ton more bird-related chest emblems. A few of them look really cool, and I'd just like to see more.
This would be nice - but if we get even more chest details, they really should divide them into separate sub-menus - just too many now if you have some of the Veteran awards.

 

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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
Pigs might fly


You called?

 

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Originally Posted by ShockWolf View Post
YES! I would love to be able to just trounce someone with a tackle, pounce, or bear hug! You could finally greet everyone with a hug!!!
Some of us do not wish to be trounced, tackled, pounced or bear-hugged by perfect strangers. Ixnay to enabling player closeness in such a fashion.... and 90% of the time this would be used by people you don't even know, as you stand there at the market trying to decide if you really want to pay that much for a Stabilized Mutant Genome.

 

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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post
It's all fun and games until your animal is being eaten!

I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.

 

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Originally Posted by Bad_Influence View Post
Some of us do not wish to be trounced, tackled, pounced or bear-hugged by perfect strangers. Ixnay to enabling player closeness in such a fashion.... and 90% of the time this would be used by people you don't even know, as you stand there at the market trying to decide if you really want to pay that much for a Stabilized Mutant Genome.
I think he meant bear-hugging mobs, dude. Relax there

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I think he meant bear-hugging mobs, dude. Relax there
Speaking of which, I have in the past been an advocate for alternate melee animations that permit head goring and butting. This might be the perfect pack for a small sprinkling of a couple great power customization animations.

 

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Speaking of which, I have in the past been an advocate for alternate melee animations that permit head goring and butting. This might be the perfect pack for a small sprinkling of a couple great power customization animations.
I don't expect anything like that. Animations take a lot of development time (and thus, money), and the party pack proved that people don't put as much value in them. I anticipate this to be heavier in the costume bits and lighter in the animations/emotes/powers, as critter appearance variety appears in high demand.

That, or this booster's gonna have one heckuva price tag.

 

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I think he meant bear-hugging mobs, dude. Relax there
LMAO! No, I actually meant, yes, getting to hug random people. Similar to what we get to do when we throw a snowball or a rock at someone. Hugging mobs seems counter-intuitive... we'd all get to laugh at the dumb idiot running up to mobs and hugging them instead of attacking and getting himself waxed... It would bring Leroy Jenkins-ing to a whole new level!

 

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I don't think it was Schismatrix's family that had the good taste....
Okay, that's amusing.
Although if you hadn't felt the need to quote the golden lackwit i would have never known what she driveled in response to my post.

Still, i admit to having the terrible taste required to appreciate and care for horses and yet only rarely ride them. i can see that actually taking care of horses and improving their health and comfort is inferior to riding them and then having someone else take care of them afterward, but then none of us are as morally and aesthetically superior as the spoiled princess of shallowland, right?

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*heh*
People who base their judgment on the morality of eating animals solely on how cute they find the animal or simply what adults said when they were children are people who probably don't spend much time thinking about morality at all.

Still, i suppose if you're going to decide which animals you will and won't eat arbitrary standards handed down from others and blindly followed is better than nothing.

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Curious. Is there a thread that has a compilation of the images of the new parts the devs are showing off. I've seen 2 so far, the Avian head + new feet and then the Leopard head in the Vanguard pack preview.

Were there any others?

 

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none yet at all, but then again, usually they dont show them prior to their appearance in the test server..not counting the occasional goof. the only shots we have are the bird head and feet, and the rather zoomed out cheetah, and technically they haven't been confirmed as available for players, technically we dont even know that it is an animal pack, its just a series of pics that seem to strongly lead to that conclusion.

oh and schism, could we dial back the personal shots there? its fine to disagree with someone's opinions, but the name calling was just low class.

 

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There was a pic of a gorilla showing up for EMPulse's birthday, but that may or may not have been to do with the Animal Booster...

Also... Since we're unofficially calling it the Animal Booster, can we have this Monstrous Head?




Please?

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none yet at all, but then again, usually they dont show them prior to their appearance in the test server..not counting the occasional goof. the only shots we have are the bird head and feet, and the rather zoomed out cheetah, and technically they haven't been confirmed as available for players, technically we dont even know that it is an animal pack, its just a series of pics that seem to strongly lead to that conclusion.
Well, I wasn't jumping to the conclusion of an animal booster pack, I'm just asking if there were any pics by devs showing off new parts like that one shot David gave us of the Eagle head and if they'd been compiled into a post/thread that I could be pointed to.

Also, I doubt the leopard head is just some NPC since it was a pic for a player emote. You'd have to be stretching your skepticism to not expect those pieces and patterns not to become available to players at some point.

I will, however, limit my expectations to what I've seen. I was just playing up my DP/Fire blaster whose concept is being 2 demons, both of which can transform into pistols and one of them is suppose to be a bird creature. So I'm certain to be happy with whatever we get. It won't stop me from asking for more but I'm already pleased.

 

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fish heads, fish heads... rollie pollie fish heads... fish heads... fish heads... eat them up.. YUM!

No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
"The potato goes in the FRONT."

 

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Still, i admit to having the terrible taste required to appreciate and care for horses and yet only rarely ride them.
For the last five years of my mare's life, I rarely got on her back. She was a pet. A very expensive pet, but a pet - not a working animal.

If you love horses, you enjoy their company without having to be running them all over the countryside in a mad dash.

Back the the subject at hand: we already have a "fish" head, it was in the Mutant pack. My money is on that being as fishy as it gets, folks.

 

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fish heads, fish heads... rollie pollie fish heads... fish heads... fish heads... eat them up.. YUM!
I'd love fish heads, and shark heads and hammershark heads.

I'm doing a Zodiac Project down in the screenshot forum and one of the entries for Pices was a Koi Fish



I'm pretty impressed someone could make something so fishy out of the parts we have.

I'm also blown away that in this game you could have a Koi Fish and it makes sense. I don't think you could work the theme into many other MMOs

 

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oh and schism, could we dial back the personal shots there? its fine to disagree with someone's opinions, but the name calling was just low class.
Sure. i mean, since it was basically one shot. Errr, unless i made several others recently that i've forgotten. In which case i still say sure, but i retain the option to take one or two more if it feels appropriately inappropriate. i do almost feel bad about the name calling. Almost. i was trying to tactful and not fully stating my opinion, but it may have been a bit strong anyway. There's something about people who are aggressively and willfully ignorant that gets to me when i'm in a bad mood. *shrug* If it's completely out of line i'm sure i'll have been redacted in that post by now.

At least it's not like i was posting something that others might have thought, but have been too well-mannered to state.

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Originally Posted by Positron View Post
There has been some scarily accurate, as well as wildly inaccurate, predictions in this post.

Nice to see we hit a couple things the players are dreaming about. Sad we can't bring them everything they want.
I'm excited to hear that we'll be getting that thing we correctly guessed!

But seriously, you couldn't give us that other thing that we guessed incorrectly? Worst devs ever!

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Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

 

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Someone asked for pictures of what we know.


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Well all i shall say is - Me Want Now

Never really been into the Animal Debate but i have a great fondness for cats and the bird head looks damn good

Just when I thought that was my last booster

Only things left would be powers (Quarterstaff and Water) more magic emotes and affects and backpacks/quivers/sheaths/gadgets on power armour

Oh yes and flowing hair (for Golden Girl)

 

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I've been waiting for this booster for a while! Let's see what I can think of to add...

A big one: Another "layer of skin" in costume editing so that fur patterns may be used with "skintight" clothing items. Currently, my spotted-fur character's wardrobe is greatly restricted for the lack of this.

New "monstrous" heads for as many species as possible (including wolves, the current wolf heads are really horrible. I don't use them no matter how appropriate they would be for a character for this reason.) Also, more customization options for each head/face like fur marking patterns and shape differences

Digitigrade (monstrous) legs that don't look awful with multiple paw/claw/hoof options that also don't look awful (again, the current ones are awkward and horrible.)

On-all-fours travel powerset.

Emotes for common animal behaviors. Maybe:
;scratch (sit down and scratch at ear with a rear foot)
;tailwag (happy on-all-fours emote)
;curlup (walk in a circle on all fours then lay down curled up in a ball)
;play (maybe both feline and canine versions; dog play stance, and playing with a cat toy or string ^^)
and I liked the idea of a "fetch" emote.

Non-monstrous faces; A face option that is a slightly extended muzzle (maybe several styles of this for feline, wolf, fox, avian/beak, lizard, etc) along with several new face "skins" to match, that can be used with hairstyles. I think these would be quite popular.

 

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Originally Posted by Jagu View Post
New "monstrous" heads for as many species as possible (including wolves, the current wolf heads are really horrible. I don't use them no matter how appropriate they would be for a character for this reason.) Also, more customization options for each head/face like fur marking patterns and shape differences

Digitigrade (monstrous) legs that don't look awful with multiple paw/claw/hoof options that also don't look awful (again, the current ones are awkward and horrible.)

Non-monstrous faces; A face option that is a slightly extended muzzle (maybe several styles of this for feline, wolf, fox, avian/beak, lizard, etc) along with several new face "skins" to match, that can be used with hairstyles. I think these would be quite popular.
Ye gods, thank you. I'm NOT the only one who can't stand those abominations against modelling and character design...

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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

 

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Ye gods, thank you. I'm NOT the only one who can't stand those abominations against modelling and character design...
Not by a long shot. I think the best example of animal-like faces is Noble and Mako.

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All I want to know is this:

We know that the Vanguard Pack is coming around April 18th. Can we expect this before or after or around the same time?

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