I'd love just a plain ol disc, maybe even a garbage can lid or manhole cover. Perhaps have various animations ala the current flyposes, with sitting, standing, crouching etc...
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how about a flying Persian rug, UFO or plane/jet, helicopter, powered paraglider (flight) a summonable car you can drive on the streets [would be extra fun if you could run over civilians] or galloping horse (super speed) a pogo stick or spring boots (super jump) not jet boots
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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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Or a flying disk.
Or various FX based versions. Using path auras for the riding of ice, fire, light, stone...
That one could, in theory at least, be easiest to employ.
What about a flying beast run. Running on air. Maybe little poofs of smoke from its feat when it hits the non existent ground.
Running on nothing make it look like invisible platforms. with little expanding color able circle like expanding rings in water for each impact.
The various shields would make for good boards.
And you have to make the titan weapons ride-able.
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how about a flying Persian rug, UFO or plane/jet, helicopter, powered paraglider (flight) a summonable car you can drive on the streets [would be extra fun if you could run over civilians] or galloping horse (super speed) a pogo stick or spring boots (super jump) not jet boots
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Stick to what ideas they asked for, something that can be used with a common stance.
A simple metallic disk would be cool. I know, it's a little "dull" but less work for the guys making stuff. Though, a high tech disk(with some tech texture/pattern on it w/ blinking lights) would be cool too.
A big rock or piece of cement/asphalt, maybe w/ a summon animation where you see it rise out of the earth. Maybe give it a trail/path type aura, so if somebody stayed near the ground you'd kick up a big-ish dust cloud too. This last bit so if somebody decided to always stay near the ground it could appear like an "earth control" type of travel power.
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I'm thinking like a flying rock or comet.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
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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I'm thinking like a flying rock or comet.
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In the vein of flying discs, something to go with the Time Manipulation set:
A large floating sundial with the gnomon acting as a sort of faux aerodynamic fin.
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Originally Posted by Du Hast
how about a flying Persian rug, UFO or plane/jet, helicopter, powered paraglider (flight) a summonable car you can drive on the streets [would be extra fun if you could run over civilians] or galloping horse (super speed) a pogo stick or spring boots (super jump) not jet boots
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By the way when are traps going to get alternate animations, being different objects that are summoned to represent magical origins? Runed pillars, totem style poles, floating faces with glowing eyes/mouths for force fields, pulsating sigils on the ground for poison traps or weird shroom shaped things etc...
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And how about a burrowing travel power?
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No bin discussed. To difficult for complex terrain.
And no webshooters ether. Many places have nothing to swing on.
Though I would like to be able to pull an enemy to me.
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A chunk of crystal would be cool too...rocky torn out of the ground style, and another with that whole lava look. Like the customization for stone melee's hurl boulder.
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A simple metallic disk would be cool. I know, it's a little "dull" but less work for the guys making stuff. Though, a high tech disk(with some tech texture/pattern on it w/ blinking lights) would be cool too.
A big rock or piece of cement/asphalt, maybe w/ a summon animation where you see it rise out of the earth. Maybe give it a trail/path type aura, so if somebody stayed near the ground you'd kick up a big-ish dust cloud too. This last bit so if somebody decided to always stay near the ground it could appear like an "earth control" type of travel power. |
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The Vanguard Sigil(is the demon summon symbol on the ground the same?) that is used for costume changes, standing on that would be cool, in lieu of a rocketboard.
Along similar lines using pre-existing things, the Ouro portal symbol, the thing that is on the ground used to be solid, that could make for a cool looking platform to stand on. Though, not sure how a time travel portal would really work as a flying platform.
I'd suggest other players, but other devs have already overruled that particular idea.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
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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Though I see it as an alternate Ninja Run type thing, except it would have a lower jump speed and more running speed.
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So yeah, broomstick would be killer. And by the way, it's not that there wasn't tech to support Rocketboard; rather, animation time was the major consideration. Would be very curious to ask the animators about the possibility of broomsticks now...
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
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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There will now follow a protracted argument over whether the broomstick animation should be between-the-legs or side-saddle...
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/em broomstickpose2
/em broomstickpose3...
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alternate animations, so we get both
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There will now follow a protracted argument over whether the broomstick animation should be between-the-legs or side-saddle...
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David, I think what needs to happen here is all this talk needs to get rolled under the umbrella of Pool Power Customization.
There didn't need to be a duplicate Fly power IMO and Ninja and Beast run, while they have their place as a low-game pseudotravel power, shouldn't be relegated to just the lowgame. I know plenty of folks who would rather go forth on all fours at 80+mph than with feet on fire. Flipping as you jump across rooftops shouldn't be the sole domain of the <14 crowd. A rocket board should be enhanceable. You can upgrade the kit on your car to improve performance, it seems daft that you couldn't do the same with the turbines on the board.
But, so as not to derail, here are my suggestions for other things to fly on:
Broomstick (a given.)
Magic Carpet
Some kind of disc, either a manhole cover or some kind of tech disc
Nemmy Warhorse.
Customizable rocket board.
With the advent of the market system you could gate some of these as microtransactions once you get the backend code in place for customizing pool powers. But be mindful not to nickel-and-dime us to death.
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Originally Posted by Noble Savage
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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David, I think what needs to happen here is all this talk needs to get rolled under the umbrella of Pool Power Customization. There didn't need to be a duplicate Fly power IMO and Ninja and Beast run, while they have their place as a low-game pseudotravel power, shouldn't be relegated to just the lowgame. I know plenty of folks who would rather go forth on all fours at 80+mph than with feet on fire. Flipping as you jump across rooftops shouldn't be the sole domain of the <14 crowd. A rocket board should be enhanceable. You can upgrade the kit on your car to improve performance, it seems daft that you couldn't do the same with the turbines on the board. But, so as not to derail, here are my suggestions for other things to fly on: Broomstick (a given.) Magic Carpet Some kind of disc, either a manhole cover or some kind of tech disc Nemmy Warhorse. Customizable rocket board. With the advent of the market system you could gate some of these as microtransactions once you get the backend code in place for customizing pool powers. But be mindful not to nickel-and-dime us to death. |
As we all know it'll likely be impossible for the Devs to provide multiple new fully animated travel powers that'll cover all the suggestions that have been mentioned in this thread so far. It's just not going to happen. And even the idea of "power pool customiztion" is problematic at best because once again you're talking about having to create an entire set of animations for each customization. If that were "easy" the Devs would have done that years ago.
But it may be far more possible they'll be able to create a new batch of flypose emotes that'll handle many of these ideas. For example there's really no reason they couldn't create a flypose emote that has a character appear to be riding a broom or standing on an energy disk.
Yes the flypose emotes are a bit cumbersome to use and aren't as cool as fully dedicated powers (with all the associated animations that make them react appropriately in all situations) but as a compromise feature that already exists in-game they're probably our best bet for many of these things.
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Along the line of flat(ish) standing (kneeling) surfaced flying props:
Any of the Trail/[Path] Auras (for standing-pose flight/flying power-slide, ala Iceman)
Giant Manta/Sting Ray
Giant Tortoise (Gamerra?)
Giant Bat
Magic Carpet (w/a Bear Skin Rug option)
Storm Cloud (or a little nimbus one... or even a Cloak of Fear type cloud)
Meteorite
Platform w/horizontal propeller underneath
Giant Kites (diamond and/or triangle, w/design options for the underside)
Giant Hand-Fan (saw one on a couple of anime)
Customizable Summoning Circle (of complex design-type)
Generic Hover Platform (complete w/blinking lights)
Giant Blinking DOS Cursor (w/trail?)
Something that we can put a Large Face on the front of (or bottom) (w/option to use any of the faces already available in-game) (bringing up adding Faces to Shield design again )
Re-purpose (perhaps re-size?) the Shield design as a flying platform (w/all the options currently available for Shields)
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Just a normal board with alternative colours would make me extremely happy
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