While ice slide would be a nice travel type to have, I'd like to see more flying platforms or some kinds of mounts first, as I have a lot of just human characters that would like to get around by something other than temp travel packs or the two run types. But, that being said, more diverse options all around is what I'm looking for.
Also, my hope is that we'd be able to keep affect only self toggles running while using these travel powers.
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I would love to see animal mounts (horses, fiery horse, unicorns, sabertooth tigers, lions, bears, and raptors) Then there's vehicles (motorcycles, unicycles, rocket bikes, hover bikes, a flaming bike) Things you can fly on (a cloud, swarm of insects, chunk of rock/earth, pegasus, glowing energy disk, a metal disk) These are some of the things I would love to see thrown into the game for additional travel options.
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For the slides, you can also do so much more than just ice. You can also have energy slides, and even a rainbow slide for those who want to RP (give them a unicorn head in a new beast pack...lol).
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Considering i just rolled my first ice/ice blaster, yes...yes i would.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
The most interesting thing for me, reading all of this talk about iceslides, is that the idea seems to have a surprising amount of support. Would all of you really want an iceslide before, say, other flying platforms, some kind of mount, etc.? Let us know what you're dying to see in game!
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I'd certainly love to see effort put into sliding - my main is an Ice/Ice Dominator. Sliding doesn't have to just be for ice though, as has been pointed out already.
It seems like there are three main requests:
Flying mounts
Land mounts
Sliding
Get one of each done and it'll be easier to make more by swapping parts out.
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This is a good summary of what I'll taking away from this thread. You guys clearly want more flying devices; vehicles (esp. motorcycles) would be a welcome addition; and elemental (esp. ice)-themed travel is definitely on many of your short-lists. That last one's fascinating to me--I would've thought a specific elemental power like that would be more niche, but if forum tastes are anything to go by, it's more than that. |
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It seems like there are three main requests: Flying mounts Land mounts Sliding Get one of each done and it'll be easier to make more by swapping parts out. |
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It's a specific elemental power that could be translated to other elements, like maybe rock/sand sliding, a la Terra or Toph (earth bender), or something that looks more like water (if you can ever get flowing water powers to look right), or even some sort of tornado-riding power. Ice is a more commonly chosen power set, so it would make sense to start there, but there are other elements.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
This is a good summary of what I'll taking away from this thread. You guys clearly want more flying devices; vehicles (esp. motorcycles) would be a welcome addition; and elemental (esp. ice)-themed travel is definitely on many of your short-lists. That last one's fascinating to me--I would've thought a specific elemental power like that would be more niche, but if forum tastes are anything to go by, it's more than that.
That's what I'm here to find out though, so thanks for the insight. |
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Motorcycles would be cool, but not necessarily flying ones. Would it be possible to make them an SS style power but lock out other power use for animation purposes. I've always thought that the Skulls villain group should have motorcycles. It just seems like it would be natural for them as a gang, especially to differentiate them more from the hellions (which are basically just vandals). |
Originally Posted by Noble Savage
This is a good summary of what I'll taking away from this thread. You guys clearly want more flying devices; vehicles (esp. motorcycles) would be a welcome addition; and elemental (esp. ice)-themed travel is definitely on many of your short-lists. That last one's fascinating to me--I would've thought a specific elemental power like that would be more niche, but if forum tastes are anything to go by, it's more than that.
That's what I'm here to find out though, so thanks for the insight. |
For elemental travel powers, inFamous 2 gives a few interesting ideas. For example, aside from the lightning glide powers, there is an ice travel power which simply creates a stack of ice that propels you into the sky. The fire one simply gives you a boost in one direction. I think either power would make for a good SJ analogue, with Ice being something projected at the ground to boost you, and fire being similar (maybe using some sort of rocket like the current steampunk jump power). A modification of Prestige Power Slide where ice is generated below you leaving a short trail that melts away behind you would really cool as well.
One other thing, as most of the travel power ideas seem to be based off Flight, SJ, and SS, I think TP should get some love. Since TP doesn't have as much of a visual effect as the other travel powers, perhaps it would be possible to open the power to customization. Basically have a couple different effects that can be chosen (rather than the burst of light), Maybe as you warp you leave crackles of energy, or flames, or the effect is similar to the transporters in Star Trek. This would allow for a little bit more uniqueness for the people who go that route with their travel power.
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Would there be a way to create the slide VFX so that it made sense for non-ice toons as well? As it stands it would appear to be rather specialized.
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Motorcycles would be cool, but not necessarily flying ones.
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"Flying bikes that can cruse on the ground and require no code time, only gfx and animation time"
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"Land bikes that require code time and additional work to make then behave in a sensible fashion and thus will take much longer and thus are less likely to ever happen"
Then I vote for the first, because if I want to cruse on the roads I can.
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Prestige Power Slide was my favorite mode of travel when I first started out. There's something awesome about sliding along and looking like you're not expending any energy to do so. For me, I'd rather see more than just ice-themed sliding added. If we could get a purchasable version of Prestige Power Slide that had various elemental effects (earth/stone, fire, wind/vortex/cloud, dark, etc.); I'd buy most of them. And if we can get custom coloring on them too; well, I'd nerdgasm. That's one reason I stopped using PPS so much, the color of the glow on it just never matches anything I make.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
This is a good summary of what I'll taking away from this thread. You guys clearly want more flying devices; vehicles (esp. motorcycles) would be a welcome addition; and elemental (esp. ice)-themed travel is definitely on many of your short-lists. That last one's fascinating to me--I would've thought a specific elemental power like that would be more niche, but if forum tastes are anything to go by, it's more than that.
That's what I'm here to find out though, so thanks for the insight. |
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Most of my current ice characters use the prestige power slide combined with beast run to get around (I used to use Ninja Run but the flip was very un-ice-like). I would be happy if I could change the color of the power slide and it has a more gradual up arc followed by a sharper downward arc on the jump portion. Actually it might be cooler if it were more like steam jump only once you started to go down you couldn't go up again until you touched the ground like in super jump.
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This would be pretty boss. Especially with a little pebble trail aura behind it... or maybe a little pebble swirl a-la the magnetic aura.
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As an Earth Controller, she's always wanted a large boulder to float/fly on, and has made many comments about things she would do in order to get something like this. So if it hasn't been mentioned yet...FLYING ROCK!!
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That's actually a lot easier/more feasible than broomsticks, etc. If the stance animations remain the same, all we'd really have to add would be new models to go beneath the feet. Should be very doable, so please let us know what would be your top requests for alternate flying devices.
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Earth, ice, lightning, fire, darkness, light, steampunk hoverplatform, crystal, giant bird, some Rularuu-ish monstrosity*; there's all sorts of potential flying platforms that could be made now that the basic animations exist.
* I picture something you stand on shaped like a stingray with a great big eye in front. A good themed transport for sorcerers & Lovecraftian horrors.
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I hope this leads to chase style minigames in the future.
Imagine folks on various mounts racing on a Skyway overpass or zooming through the canals in Founders Falls after some mobile miscreant - even if it was just our character images copied into a super sexy cutscene. 
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What about jump powers? In Infamous 2 they had ice conduits that would have a column of ice shoot up underneath them to launch them in the air like a super jump. This same mechanism could be used for other types of super jump like earth, water, fire etc.
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It's mildly amusing to leap from the top of a skyscraper and summon your rocket board just before you hit the ground.
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It's mildly amusing to leap from the top of a skyscraper and summon your rocket board just before you hit the ground.
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I like the reverse - switching from rocket board straight to [Walk] as you arrive at your destination is ridiculously fabulous. I can't wait for magic carpets and flame-powered segway scooters.
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I have no real interest in ice slide, but different flying things, like the Hobgoblin's glider, or a cloud of flame/ice/darkness/raincloud/etc would be cool. What about just plain old wallcrawling?? No webslingers/grappling hooks needed, just wallcrawling. Would be cool for ninja themed characters and stuff..
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I kinda Want a Color-able Rocket Board, I'm sick of Red and white stripes I want Black with Green Flame Stripes.
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FWIW, I like Sky Skiffs too, and would love a version of something similar usable by players.
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