New Powers or New Animations?

I'd LOVE new animations.

For example, if i were fire melee, and i'd pick a flamng hammer for a weapon. the fire melee attacks would use the animations for mace. Then next cossie, i'd have two fire sword, and it'd use some dual blade animaitions etc.
And if i were broadsword and picked a flaming sword for weapon, my attacks would be 10% fire damage and 90% lethal. Or maybe have their own unique animations to pick from that for example an fire melee with a broadsword wouldn't get.

Or have ice blast and pick a rifle for weapon, would then shoot snowballs!



Something i personally would wish for.

On one hand, I've loved every single Powerset that's been released since Freedom. Even the "weak" ones like Beam Rifle and Beast Mastery. I have more alts to level now than my entire time playing CoH.

On the other... getting a Sonic blast that actually shoots entirely from the hands (the last animation pass came so close), a Fire/Ice/Stone melee that is all fists or all sword/hammer, Claws without that "one-two" punch animation, just off the top of my head... would give me just as many new alts to run around and stay subbed playing.

Of the two I'd prefer new animations to spruce up the older sets... but I know new powersets would likely generate more point expenditure in the Market.

*saves up for Staff*

I would rather have new powersets. And this from someone who still regularly plays characters he made in the first month after CoH release, including Broadsword. I would not pay the price of a new powerset (or greater) for new animations unless they were insanely good.

I'm sure it helps that my character concepts follow the decision on powersets, and never the other way around. I would thus never be in the position of wanting to re-roll a character because something that better matched their concept visually came along later. Given what I do with them, that's close to impossible.

The main problem with selling the animations is that there's probably no way of locking animations in the power customisation UI. So that relegates it to an issue release as long as there's nothing else to proliferate.

That path goes away from the preferable one of least resistance, however.

Here's an alternate animation I'd like for a newer set:
I would like the Tier Nine for Beam Rifle to have the alternate animation of "painting" a target for a Satellite Cannon blast.

The big difference I see is having the animations being that the blast comes from above rather than from the actual rifle, maybe have the rifle still pointed at the target and projecting a Targetting Laser on them.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Just sell new animation packs. They WILL sell for people who are single-character purists.

A more thrust and jab Katana set would sell like pancakes. Let alone Iaido Style.

Same for Broadsword.

Dual Pistols Traditional Style? CHA-CHING!

A more flashy Archery? Say, elemental or energy arrows? MOOLAH!

These WOULD sell.

well, this is kind of a soapbox of mine but while I appreciate the new powersets, I really want new animation sets. pool powers need alt animations, epic/patrons need alternate animations, elemental melee sets desperately need new animations, and even though it got some alt anims, I still contend martial arts needs new animations that are martial arts instead of street brawling. it made sense before street justice, but the game has changed.

To some degree i see the two sides as focusing on different aspects of the game. new powersets encourage alts, alts are cool, i alt a lot myself, but with the incarnate system, as well as the numerous side actions heroes can now do, players who have made main characters that they enjoy playing with are left in the cold when new sets come out, they cant switch powersets so their old mains can either reroll from the beginning or just make alts and have the old favorites be at a thematic mismatch. plus, while the old animations were acceptable for last gen mmo standards, where most weapon use looks like they are trying to fend off a swarm of bees, bars got raised, bars got raised by new powersets here. its hard to play a broadsword user after running a titan weapon user. so yeah, a break in the new powersets is about due, and a return to alt animations would be massively welcomed.

we had a good start, and very few other mmos do what coh does, I can only think of one other one on the market with alternate animations, and those are only for ranged blasts, and a small subset of them at that. but it needs to go further.

I have done long posts on what id love to see for alt anims. if interest is there, i can repost. its martial arts centric, but has ideas for ranged emanations, alt control/buff animations, and has several ideas for pools. lets get it done.

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Does an animation dev even post on the boards? Is there someone who can say they hear us, that they know the old powers need new animations as much as the game needs new powers? Hey Devs, new animations make old powers new again! New enough that a lot of us (the majority) have said we would pay for those animations in the same way we would new powers!

Please breath some new life into the old characters that we love. Please let us know you hear us.

We just need a dev to use their Abuse of Power card to make new animations for old(er) power sets!

Unfortunately I think all the AoP cards have been used to make new power sets

I'd vote new animations, if we're talking about pool powers (incl. epic and patron). Weapons? I don't care all that much - with all the f/x flying around, I can't generally see them anyway (there is always that ONE guy who thinks his dark red "blood" powers are so incredibly awesome, we won't care if we can't see anything else. But there is always one .

When people are refusing to be buffed, or refusing to choose armor that will keep their character alive, for no other reason than it's too ugly to stand to look at, there is a BIG problem.

I hope at some point they will share some of the StJ animations with MA, if StJ had been purchased that is.