Things I would love to see happen/changed...
By
Mr_Samoa,
Posted on: 2011-10-16 05:32 in Suggestions and Ideas
Some of these have been addressed over the years. The travel power thing and the weapons thing, specifically, aren't in because it's a hellish amount of work for a simple visual QoL improvement. It was a big thing to be able to use Brawl with a weapon out. Would I love to use my Dual Pistols with an Energy Punch for some kind of super-pistol whip? Sure, it'd be rad. But that's a heck of a lot more coding, plus adding in an option to turn that on/off for people who didn't want weapons out all the time. I understand why those are on the backburner, or not on the list at all.
I have noticed the costume thing, too, though. A lot of the face masks don't really look like the material they'er supposed to be, and it makes the costume lose some of its flow. But again, coding textures for every mask on every head size type (normal, intellectual, this, strong, etc...) is just a staggering amount of work. I do think, however, that there's a face or two with whited-out eyes. But that would limit you to that style of face, I suppose. *shrug*
Well, the are "flight poses," which are emotes that you execute while flying: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Guide_to_Flight_Poses
If I recall correctly, there were initially added as random poses that Fly would use, but they were turned into emotes, in part, at least, so people could choose what pose they wanted to use.
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Like I say, I completely understand the technical issues with not having your weapons out at all times, and yeah, sure for if you're for blasters the logistics of it are too much to consider. And likely they're not worried about it at all.
But it's really the putting them away when they don't have to that bugs me. Sure if I activate a power from another power pool, yeah, but I don't want to have to keep queuing a power to keep the look of my character.
I could take it or leave it, it's not completely affecting my game, but I think the others are inexcusable.
I'm not looking for some completely insane costume options to match all available body pieces...sure I would love access to a range of them, but even just a few with a leather texture that doesn't look like face paint would cut it. Maybe one full face mask, one mask with the mouth visible, and one eye mask?
And yes, you have specifics faces with white eyes sure, but most masks are designed to go around the eyes, meaning your character just looks like he's got no pupils rather than looking like a standard superhero.
The fact that Super Speed and Super Jump don't have unique animations baffles me. Fair enough in the beginning but it should have been remedied by now. I have no problems with flight at all, and in fact I really like the default flight poses, especially hover, which I have on my main.
It's all nit picks that I'm sure are not worrying anyone too much, but I would pay for them in a heart beat. Just as I have with every other pack, only these I would actually use.
I've been playing City of Heroes for a number of years now. I love the game, and mostly I'm happy with everything from the design of the game, to it's near impeccable core gameplay.
I make a couple of new heroes a week, most of them don't last long, but doing this has made me realise that there's just a few things I'd love to see changed or added. I apologise for the size of this post in advance...
The first thing is some additional animations. These are a travel power based nit pick...but I find super jump and super speed to look particularly boring. I've never really understood why these powers use the default animations, and I genuinely think I would enjoy them more with fancy new ones. I like to see super speed also run across the top of the water rather than the super swim thing it's got going, but I understand this may not be possible.
Secondly, I think the costume system needs changed. A glaring problem I can't believe hasn't been seen to is the face masks that don't match up with the body pieces. You have a wide selection of great metallic, leather, etc. clothing, but the masks are just painted on. I don't understand the logic. It needs access to more standard super hero style headpieces, and also preferably a way to white out the eyes.
Lastly...I understand why people may like this, and I also understand the technical reasons why this may not be possible...but I would love the option to keep my weapons out at all times. I have many characters with weapons and they simply do not look right without them. And having swords or guns out also makes Ninja Run look better.
There are probably tons of nit picks people have, and really they don't make the game any less enjoyable, but I'd pay my subscription fee doubled from now until I'm done to have them fixed.