Staff Fighting
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Posted on: 2011-09-14 10:20 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
The video was posted on Youtube a couple months ago, and was taken down almost immediately. Kind of a limited time thing.
I downloaded a copy of that video and am ready to repost it once it would be OK to.
And no, I won't email anyone a copy. Please don't PM me about it.
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For anyone interested, just search for "city of heroes staff fighting.flv" on Google, shouldn't be too hard to find.
Anyhow, I imagine they'll be an official release of it sooner or later. For now they seem to be denying it even exists(I blame marketing 
), which is sad considering how awesome it looks even for an alpha version(I say alpha because it didn't seem to have any powerfx yet, according to the video.)
Honestly I am more interested in this vs Titan, since Titan so far reminds me of katana/broadsword in that same vein.
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Just saw the video and it does look pretty insane 
. Hopefully the staff will come with some kinda customization. Animations seemed very quick, maybe my computer is just slow O.o
The only thing I can say is that there better be a Scythe weapon customization for Staff Fighting. That would be sick. I imagine that Titan Weapons would include different types of large weapons. Large hammers, large swords, large axes and such. I'm letting my mind get too in to this.. bah. I'm partially picturing animations from Champions and DCU that would just look cool.. Bah.
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I don't really think the look of a staff fighting set should really be interchangeable with that of a scythe set. While I suppose there could be some overlap between the animations for the styles of fighting I always imagine just putting a scythe blade on a staff set's animations would be severely shortchanging it. I mean, you'd essentially have to ignore the blade part of it in the animations or else you'd have just made a scythe set instead. And really, you'd need at least one or two more animations that imply striking through an opponent with the scythe blade instead of striking them solidly with the staff.|
Originally Posted by Kain Tremere
The only thing I can say is that there better be a Scythe weapon customization for Staff Fighting. That would be sick.
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Basically if I have a scythe set I'm going to want at least some animations that look like I'm striking through/into an opponent instead of smacking them upside the head with a staff or poking them with the butt of one.
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I'm really curious as to what some of the customization options are going to be... Clearly there's going to be a 'standard' quarterstaff, and possibly a more modern looking collapse-able one (even if it only looks like it could). But beyond that? not sure. I figure other Pole weapons, but I fear they may shy away from some of the axe/spear/scythe type heads due to the smashing damage of the set. :/|
Originally Posted by Oliin
I don't really think the look of a staff fighting set should really be interchangeable with that of a scythe set. While I suppose there could be some overlap between the animations for the styles of fighting I always imagine just putting a scythe blade on a staff set's animations would be severely shortchanging it. I mean, you'd essentially have to ignore the blade part of it in the animations or else you'd have just made a scythe set instead. And really, you'd need at least one or two more animations that imply striking through an opponent with the scythe blade instead of striking them solidly with the staff.
Basically if I have a scythe set I'm going to want at least some animations that look like I'm striking through/into an opponent instead of smacking them upside the head with a staff or poking them with the butt of one. |
Also, it's likely we'll have a bit of a wait before we get staff fighting, as street justice and titan weapons are probably ahead of it in the queue.
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Awesome! Really cant wait for this set! ;P
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Enough with the melee gosh darn it.
Give me a new control set?
Give me a new Assault set?
Give me a new ranged set?
Please?
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Well, hopefully we'll see your request for control and assault be addressed sometime after i21 when they announce whatever it is they have in mind for Dominators. |
Originally Posted by Test_Rat
Enough with the melee gosh darn it.
Give me a new control set? Give me a new Assault set? Give me a new ranged set? Please? *Cries* |
On ranged, there is Beam Rifle which is new.
But, I'm afraid that we may well need to get used to a preference to create melee sets. Once Freedom goes live and the freebs start playing, controllers won't be available to the majority of them. For control there'll only be Doms and they're outnumbered by melees 4 to 1, given the popularity of Scrappers currently, I'm fairly certain that the devs have assumed that popularity will continue with Freedom, and bleed over to the other melee sets as well do to their ability to solo with ease (and to an extent, play with ease on a team).
Just take a look at what we know is coming down the pipe.
Street Justice
Staff Fighting
Titan Weapons
and something for doms at some point in time.
My bet this will be par for the course with control / assault being switch out for buff-debuff / ranged with possible blaster secondary on occaision.
I'm not faulting the devs, as they're only working to appease the popular playstyle of the game. At least, that's my guess. I could be wrong.
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This. Seriously. I personally don't mind if melee becomes the focus (because AT-wise it already is), but at least break the melee releases up with other things like an Armour, a Buff/Debuff, a Control, an Assault, a Summon, a Ranged, or a Manipulation.|
Originally Posted by Test_Rat
Enough with the melee gosh darn it.
Give me a new control set? Give me a new Assault set? Give me a new ranged set? Please? *Cries* |
I know that there's probably a lot of stuff they have on the go (I believe Tunnel Rat and someone else said on a Ustream that they only have a small amount of time to make FX and animations, so I imagine it's the same for the numbers side too), but only talking about melee sets is a bit disheartening for those of us among the player-base who don't get much of a kick out of melee.
I cant wait to get StJ, TW, and SF. Im a melee player.
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Also we just had a Ranged power added with Beam riffle and a Support power with Time manipulation.
Neither of the new melee sets were added yet, and we dont know when they will, maybe October for StJ, Xmas for Titan, and early 2012 for Staff fighting.
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Melee got no love this time around... Buck up little camper!|
Originally Posted by Test_Rat
Enough with the melee gosh darn it.
Give me a new control set? Give me a new Assault set? Give me a new ranged set? Please? *Cries* |
Beam Rifle? Ranged.
Time Manipulation? Control.
Blasters got Dark Blast AND Dark Assault...
No need to get upset.
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Yeah, I think people are forgetting this Staff fighting stuff is leaked and not really announced yet. I don't think it's too out of line to assume other sets are in the works. There have been many sets the devs have mentioned as being interested in making.
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Originally Posted by BeornAgain
Melee got no love this time around... Buck up little camper!
Beam Rifle? Ranged. Time Manipulation? Control. Blasters got Dark Blast AND Dark Assault... No need to get upset. |
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