Aura Pack: Battle Tested

Quick idea for an aura/costume pack: emotes and aura effects designed to activate on low health and/or defeat. No buffs or special powers, just some flavor to customize your game playing experience more closely to your character. It would run like a costume toggle with no end cost, that would not become obvious until you lost some health.

For example, a Tech origin toggle. As you lose health, your character begins to spark and smoke. Maybe the odd twitch and spasm. If defeated, you character would do a low-grade BOOM, like Self Destruct without the nuke. When you use a wakie or temp power rez, a repair plaform (like the ones that upgrade Robot Mastermind minions) would get you back on your feet. Again, nothing that would inhibit or enhance combat performance. Just flavor.

Or a Magic-based toggle, draining all color from your costume as you lose health. On defeat, a ghostly image of your soul hovers over your body. A wakie or temp power self rez would be a brief ritual to seal your soul back into your body.

Non-magic origin toons could use the magic toggle. They would not need to be origin exclusive, although the store could sell the toggle by origin for fewer points or bundled together for savings.

Of course there's lots of other ways to express injury and defeat. Characters limping, breathing heavy, bleeding raw energy or devolving into primordial goop. Perhaps even a costume slot that ONLY appears when your character is floored.

Anyhow, just a thought on a fun way to add more flavor to the game, as well has something fun for the store to push.

Actually an interesting costume concept.

+1

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I like this idea, and the idea of coming out of a fight with 1% health and actually looking like I just made it through hell. I like all of the ideas from the OP and also would love to see one that makes you look all bruised and battered.

Agreed. I would really enjoy this. have one of your soul assending. when an awake is used, you go back to your body kicking and screaming.
"wasn't heaven wonderful?", "yes" [crosses his arms with an attitude]

I love it! For example, you could turn into a random household object when you go, and when you're rezzed, you change back, Disney-Style!

Nice idea, but please change the fact that it attaches an effect to a specific origin to making various effects just generally available.

For example, some of my Tech Origin heroes don't possess anything that would "spark" but the fading color effect would work quite nicely.

As a general rule, I don't like to see anything to a specific origin because different people have different concepts of what fits within any particular origin.

Yeah, I was just using the origin system as a way in, a way to organize thoughts.

The powers could be themed around costume packs in general, so when you were defeated using the toggle from, say, the Gunslinger pack, your body could be replaced by a weathered tombstone. When you rez, the tombstone could shatter as you claw your way back from the grave.

This is a great idea posted some thing like this about alternate death animations this idea goes farther with a condition that gets worse as they take damage, kind of like that.