How cool would it be..
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Bad_Influence,
Posted on: 2011-03-17 16:26 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Hey before those stinkin robots got customisation like that, im getting it!
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Yay for another power customisation thread
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Well hey, at least they don't come from your MM's hands. I would love it if my Tech Blaster's electric attacks could come from a rifle. |
Originally Posted by CedricO
If my Bots MM's Laser attacks dident come from a rifle. but rather from a device on his shoulder like in predator.
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YES to shoulder laser-cannons, would like to see forearm laser-cannons, and yes to electric attacks emanating from a rifle.
NOw if we could just get a decent looking rifle in the game! Why is that so hard? All of the rifles we have now stink, to put it mildly. Even the Arachnos ones are not that hot.
Moar new tech-type stuffs, please.
Yes. I would like shoulder/forearm firing options and more choices for rifles. Very good suggestions. :-)
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I wish my bots MM could just shoot laser beams from her hands or eyes.
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Toss us a freakin' bone here! 
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Originally Posted by redtornado
Yes. I would like shoulder/forearm firing options and more choices for rifles. Very good suggestions. :-)
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More rifles, more pistols, laser-cannons of several types, a BUNCH of new bladed weapons of all kinds, bows - we need more bows.... we need all of these yesterday.
But especially we need shoulder - and forearm-cannons. Just think how decent Fire Breath would finally look coming out of a forearm-mounted cannon a la Terminator.
Ignoring the fact that basic power customization is not yet done, this is really the last technical hurdle we have to cover before this game runs out of things that can be innovated or invented. Let me explain.
Right now, power customization can customize powers, but it can only do so within their own activation sequences. Activation sequence, as defined by BABs, includes many things, but one of them is a call to drawing a weapon. He did alter that call to summon up a specific costume piece, instead of a written-in-stone effect like it is for Fire Swords, thus giving us weapon customization, but we still have no control over the SET of weapons that activation sequence recognises. This can be changed by developers via a patch, but there is no precedent to suggest that the powers system can handle this in real time from user input.
What I'm saying is that while you can pick your rifle and colour it, as well as potentially pick the gestures with which you shoot it and what comes out the barrel, you cannot pick whether you want to use one rifle, two pistols or the bridge of your nose. This is no longer within the realm of power customization, because it concerns a system which is purely in the realm of the powers numbers system.
The way power customization works now - and you can see this if you look at a Powers file, is that Powers call a visual FX script, just as they always have, only you can customize what that script does. This script includes animation, power effects and power colour, but DOES NOT include root duration, power stats or, most notably, activation sequence, which is written into the power.
On a more positive note, IF we eventually do get the ability to switch between different sets of weapons, including a "no weapon" option, then the sky is the limit from then on. Ice Blasts from a bot, Fire Blasts from a pair of pistols, Assault Rifle ammunition from arm cannons, Pulse Rifle blasts from your eyes. Literally the sky is the limit. The sky or art team time and resources, but at least the potential will be there. As of right now, we have no precedent to suggest that such potential exists without further tech being developed, and I'm pretty sure that it would be AT LEAST as big a venture as the original power customization. I'm not sure the team would commit to such large-scale cosmetic additions ever again now that BABs isn't here to push for it.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I agree that it is iunlikely that we will get laser cannons.
We could sure use a Weapons pack, though. 
If my Bots MM's Laser attacks dident come from a rifle. but rather from a device on his shoulder like in predator.