Backpacks!

So now that there is a tab in the costume creator for backpacks (thank you Steampunk pack!) are we going to see any NEW backpacks?

(Personally I think some kind of techpack would look awesome for robot masterminds, mercenary masterminds, and traps defenders/corrupters... )

I think we might see some in the Paragon Market later this year

*Still hoping for some new trenchcoats personally*

Let me preface this by saying that I LOVE the idea behind backpacks and jet packs. I've been turning my fingers raw campaigning for backpacks for years now, and just the mere fact that we have one now brings me great pleasure and hope for the future.

However, some of the fears I had about backpacks seem to have been realised with the Steampunk Boiler backpack, namely that the attachment and alignment on the thing is... Ugh. I posted the following screenshot back when the pack was in Beta:



The Steampunk backpack seems to be anchored not at the shoulders or at the waist, but somewhere in-between, at around the level of the shoulder blades. What this means is that when the character bends forward as the Huge model likes to do when running, the thing sticks WAY far off the body. What's more, the Boiler backpack has a convex back, with the mounting point actually protruding from the body of the pack quite a bit. This makes the thing look like it's mounted on a frame bolted to the back more so than like a backpack.

Moving forward, I want future backpacks to be rendered MUCH closer to the back, with a back shape that matches the curvature of the spine more closely. What I also want to see is backpacks extend farther inside the model's torso - clip with it more, as it were. If they did this, then there' be more backpack to show up when the character bends forward, making the pack seem less like it's sticking out. Finally, packs need to either be articulated in at least one place so as to follow the curve of the spine as the character animates, or otherwise they need to be small enough to not extend below the bottom of the rib cage where they could clip with the lower back.

I want to see more backpacks. Lots more backpacks, as a point of fact. I've been waiting for these things for years, an I hope and pray that we'll see actual running jet packs before too long. However, I also believe that there's more work to be done on the backpack tech to make the things fit our backs better.

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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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Anyone got a bottle of Robot-Tossin'? I seem to have a sore throat ...

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

I thought I remember reading somewhere that the delay with backpacks had something to do with there only being so many nodes, or something, to attach costume pieces to, something like 32, and they were out of them or VERY low and had other things they wanted the nodes for before backpacks.

I'm surprised that, now that we actually have backpacks, they didn't make that Steampunk Jetpack a back option, as well. Seemed a little lazy.

I want to carry around a huge cross!