Scabbard \ Holster \Weapons Booster pack

Eh if a "backpack" pack get's us these things tht have never been in the game for PlChs then eff it just get it done already.

Included Power: "Battle Flight" faster than hover doesn't suppress during combat, no defensive bonus, can be used with hover but the speeds won't stack

Maelstrom's holsters aren't really new technology; they're just animated costume pieces. They're basically the opposite of weapons.

Before i11, drawn weapons were lasting FX on a character model. After i11, once we got weapon customization, they became animated costume pieces; their "animation" consists of invisible when outside of normal weapon stances, and visible when it the appropriate weapon stance. Maelstrom's holsters are the reverse of that; when he goes into Dual Pistols weapon stance, the gun part of their geometry goes invisible.

There's really no reason they couldn't do the same for us, it's just a matter of doing the work. They just haven't had the chance.

Nice as this all would be, there's still one major hump to overcome on this camel's back beyond just using the "reverse weapon" graphics tech used by Maelstrom: Players have access to more types of the same weapon than NPCs.

Maelstrom never changes his guns because he is a loser and does not believe in using other costume slots (likely because he failed those missions), and we only see him with his trademark guns which we see in his holsters.

PCs on the otherhand, for Broadsword alone there are no less than 21 different customization options, and that counts the legacy and color tintable broadswords as the same, and nearly all of them have different hilts, hilts that would/should be poking out of the scabbard, and would fit very differently into different scabbards.
The legacy broadsword and Valkyrie broadsword are definitely not going to be able to use one sheath because of very clear design differences.

But all in all, I'm all for scabbards, holsters, and such, and really don't care if they're functional or not. Hell, half of my characters are supposed to be keeping plenty of weapons on them, swords, knives, guns, bombs, laser-cats, and not all of them would get use in every fight.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

It occurs to me that there's another issue with sheaths/holsters -- done the same way Maelstrom's are, with the holstered weapon and empty hands being one frame of an animation, and empty holsters and hands holding weapons the other, there's an inherent problem -- all costume parts have, at most, two colors. You'd be restricted to two colors for the drawn weapon, and then have the holster/sheath be one of those colors, mucking up either the weapon or the holster/sheath. And making the costume parts accept a third color just for _one_ aspect of weapon customization is, I suspect, a great deal more trouble than it is worth to the devs.