The Costume Creator is Stagnating

I would like to see more actual colours to choose from. I'm surprised that hasn't been mentioned before. I'd love to see more variety in every area and an overhaul of the general costume creator interface.

It seems to me that a lot of the requests for specific chin/nose/eyes/legs options would benefit from a completely redone character model. I'd love to see this too and I'd love to see new expressions and even fingers on the players. Having said that given the current age of the game I'd have to admit that this isn't very likely and it'd be more likely for a COH2 game.

This tool is enough to get you into the game and to differentiate yourself from others. CoH's "stagnating" Costume Creator is still way more than what others have. Also, do you buy the boosters? They have additions.

I don't think the issue is more choices but just having a nicer interface that's user intuitive. They can never add enough costume options but finding a way to sort through all the choices would be lovely.

Plus the power customization window its so broken now its not funny. Either animations for certain powers don't play at all or they play the wrong power animation. Very annoying.

What are you talking about? I just respeced 2 characters and I was able to change the animations when they were available and change the power illuminations/hues.

I remember back when, there was a downloadable offline costume editor. It was VERY incomplete, but that's not the point. What I liked about it was after creating your costume you could flip through a range of emotes, stances and animations so you can get a really good idea of how the costume looks in motion. Sure you can do that on the power customization screen, but then you also have to deal with the particles/effects/etc from your powers.

I often find that I'll make a costume that looks great in the editor, but once I get out and start doing missions and such, somehow it just doesn't look as good anymore.

Plus there's the seeming missing camera zoom to anywhere but head and upper torso. Used to be able to zoom to focus on gloves/legs/boots when you were working on those parts.

I'll also third (4th/5th?) the asymetrical parts.

Allowing non barfy colors for dark and ice powersets would be nice too. It's hard to make dark armor/blast/melee/miasma look good as anything other than black since everything STILL has a heavy black 'fuzz' at the core of the particle animation. Ice colors are just kinda dull. Haven't you guys ever seen a popsicle?

I took the last two years off from City of Heroes, and as a returning player there are certain aspects of the Costume Creator that both thrill me, and greatly disappoint me.

I love that they finally introduced Power Customization. It still needs some work, but I do like what I see so far.

The big disappointment though is that there's very little new content in the CC. Having been gone for 2 years, 6 issues, and a full-fledged expansion, there's really only a small handful of new costume pieces in the CC.

In fact, it seems to me that there's more new pieces available via the now-numerous "Booster Packs". That still bugs me to no end; micro-transactions in a subscription-based game. If there were ways that could also unlock those pieces in-game, I wouldn't have a problem (much like how Team Fortress 2 handles its economy), but there's several pieces I'd love to have that I likely will never get, as I can barely justify paying a monthly subscription for the game, let alone spending $40 or so dollars for a handful of costume options.

Anyhow, that's my two cents worth.

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To be honest, we barely got new pieces before the boosters came out. Sure, it's been a little while since we got the last batch, but I'm pretty sure I20 will introduce a few new sets. Point is, boosters have tremendously increased the amount of costume pieces we get on a regular basis. And if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have certain new features designed solely for costumes, such as costume change emotes or the ability to use different genders per costume slot and changing height.

Let's see. We got Clockwork, Resistance and the Praetorian police. Very recently with i19, didn't we?

Still here, even after all this time!

Overguard, Sport, Clockwork, Resistance, PPD, etc. All those pieces were unlocked when you bought Going Rogue. Technically not a booster, but I'm sure people would complain regardless because you had to spend extra money and didn't get 'em for free.

The things that I think would add a lot to the CC is being able to two tone the aura colors and being able to have asymmetrical costume parts. This would require no NEW art but several database changes to existing art combinations. I'd like to have mix matches feet and hands of all sorts not just robotic arms.

Of course new costume bits are always welcomed but I think we can get a lot more mileage with just those two above for starters.

I agree with the OP. Asymetrical designs are needed in a big way. Head options need to reworked as well. I want all head details available to all types of heads. I want monstrous heads to be able to have options. Hats, hair, glasses, horns, etc... Maybe switch to 3 colors on outfit pieces. Where's our pouches and gun holsters? Stationary wings? Backpacks?