Super Jump animation?

INspired by Android's "teleport needs a change thread" I began thinking about super jump and it's animation.

Every time i see a super hero in a comic or movie, or a person in real life, leap a large distance their arms are flailing and their feet sometimes are too. Much like the animation in champions online. In cox, you tuck your legs bend your arms and soar upward.

If you've ever had your character slide off of a surface and fall off the edge their arms flail like you're actually falling, which essentially is the same thing as reaching the peak of a jump with SJ. You fall and flail.

Would anyone like a more dynamic animation, like from champions online, or is it just me?

I am 100% on board with this suggestion. Super Jump looks terrible because it lacks any visual cues as to how much force is required to leap over buildings. The animation should have some indication of force/speed, and the "cracked earth" effect should be added upon jumping and landing.

I cringe every time I use this skill, and would NEVER use it if it weren't for using Spring Attack to fill a gaping AoE hole on my DM Brute.

I used super jump and like it how it is. However, an alternative animation for it would be fantasitc. The current one is more more about gracefully defying physics to leap great height. One that is more about power would be fun.

All of the travel powers need to be looked at and/or given alternate animations to fit character concepts. With as much money as paragon made off of the super packs new costumes, animations, and powers should be coming out faster.

If the Hulk was flailing his arms around every time he jumped, it would look pretty dumb.

As an alternate animation? Sure, I guess. As the new norm? No thanks.

Meh. Super jump is fine the way it is.

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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn If the Hulk was flailing his arms around every time he jumped, it would look pretty dumb. As an alternate animation? Sure, I guess. As the new norm? No thanks.

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Originally Posted by Trilby I used super jump and like it how it is. However, an alternative animation for it would be fantasitc. The current one is more more about gracefully defying physics to leap great height. One that is more about power would be fun.

I like Super Jump just the way it is... Beast Jump however needs to be rotated forward a bit, from "|" to "/"

I'm all for alternate options.
However, overall, I like Super Jump's animation and certainly feel like it was the right choice when there is only one option.
If the only option was flailing arms and legs... wow, I can't quite find the words to express how much I'd not like that, haha.

As an additional option though, it could make a funny one (I'd rather see a panicked flailing option for Flight, hehehe).

If i could just have the option for NR's animations for SJ and SS...i'd be a happy camper.

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Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe ::looks at RaikenX's signature:: Something funny.

Champions online did super jump right

I always pictured SS as more of a forceful, power jump, covering distances in short times like the Hulk, not some passive, calm ascension over different buildings. And for god's sakes, where are the damn craters when I land?! They can just use the crater effect from the Energy Morph costume change emote.
Plus, I don't think Super Jumpers should lose health from falling, I mean, they planned to cover that distance, why get hurt doing it?

As for SS, they can speed up the character running movement to make it look like they're actually running really, really fast. When I first saw SS, I immediately thought of Flash, running here and there with that swoosh sound followed by blurry afterimages....All I got was a yellow glow under my feet and a faster-than-normal sprint movement.

Yay for changes!

CO's super jump also caused massive self damage and was virtually uncontrollable last time I checked, which was shortly after the game's launch. That certainly sounds more realistic to me but something tells me it wouldn't be universally loved as a revamp to super jump at this point in CoH's existence.

No CO's super jump doesn't cause any damage if toggle is on when you land. If you turn the toggle off mid air you will eat concrete however. In any case I'm mainly talking about the look of the jump, not how it functions.

It has a fast start time, which makes sense because of the burst of energy of when you jump, then normal fall time.

Man, that reminds me of how our Super Jump used to look and sound.

The sound wouldn't turn off, and the rings behind you were a bright solid yellow.

If they could give Super Jump (and even Super Speed) Ninja Run's animation, I'd pay for it! Not only that, I'd have an actual travel power again!

Ninja Run may not be to everyone's liking, and admittedly, I don't care for the idle stance, buuut, it's run position doesn't bother me at all, and it gives a good feel of "run and jump from rooftop to rooftop" that I want

NR fits perfectly with Stalkers, and I don't know what you guys hate, but the animations are great, especially if your character has weapon-based power sets. By far, the best travel animations in the game, IMO. Super Speed looks so damn plain, doesn't even feel like you're actually moving at super speeds. Maybe if they added the shadow effect like in Dual Pistols, it might look cooler.

As for SJ, maybe a idle crouched position might make more sense, as in having a character that is always ready for the next leap everytime he/she lands.

Hmmm.....

We have Ninja Run and Beast Run. Just give us another Clone, called Athletic Run, with Athletic looking runs and jump. I'd buy it - we'd all be happy.