I love Ninja Run, but not just because it's a halfways decent travel power I don't have to dedicate a pool to, I love it for the animation. It looks cool running, it gives shield users a good "shield charge" stance, and then there's that sweet flip in there (very important, because how can ninjas "flip out and kill everything" without being able to flip?).
Unfortunately, Ninja Run chews up a lot of end, and is mutually exclusive with Combat Jumping (which most of my characters have on either all the time or all the time they're in combat), which is fine because you don't want Ninja Run's performance to stack with other such movement powers considering it's accessibility - however, I'd really like to be able to have that "flipping out" thing going on amidst to fury of combat, even when Combat Jumping is on.
Therefore, I'd like to request a Ninja Sprint (or maybe Ninja Dash?) power. Many of us already have a bunch of extra Sprint variants cluttering our powers screen, but with the exception of Prestige Power Slide (which is wonderful for some concepts) the effects of the others aren't very distinct or interesting. It would also open up a sprint variant to people who were unable to get Slide, and haven't reached the point where they get all the others yet. Better yet, from a development point of view, it would require no new art or animations, and no performance/balance testing, since the animation would just be Ninja Run, with performance being Sprint. I wouldn't go so far as to claim Synapse could just Copy/Paste some numbers into a new file named Ninja Dash (I'm thinking I like Dash better, because it's different, and also saves 2 characters when I come close to the 255 cap in long keybinds)... or well, maybe he could... but I'm sure you get the idea.
And of course, same thing could be said for Beast Dash.
Dear NCsoft, if you go through with this shutdown you've guaranteed you'll not see another dime from me on any project you put out, ever.
I love Ninja Run, but not just because it's a halfways decent travel power I don't have to dedicate a pool to, I love it for the animation. It looks cool running, it gives shield users a good "shield charge" stance, and then there's that sweet flip in there (very important, because how can ninjas "flip out and kill everything" without being able to flip?).
Unfortunately, Ninja Run chews up a lot of end, and is mutually exclusive with Combat Jumping (which most of my characters have on either all the time or all the time they're in combat), which is fine because you don't want Ninja Run's performance to stack with other such movement powers considering it's accessibility - however, I'd really like to be able to have that "flipping out" thing going on amidst to fury of combat, even when Combat Jumping is on.
Therefore, I'd like to request a Ninja Sprint (or maybe Ninja Dash?) power. Many of us already have a bunch of extra Sprint variants cluttering our powers screen, but with the exception of Prestige Power Slide (which is wonderful for some concepts) the effects of the others aren't very distinct or interesting. It would also open up a sprint variant to people who were unable to get Slide, and haven't reached the point where they get all the others yet. Better yet, from a development point of view, it would require no new art or animations, and no performance/balance testing, since the animation would just be Ninja Run, with performance being Sprint. I wouldn't go so far as to claim Synapse could just Copy/Paste some numbers into a new file named Ninja Dash (I'm thinking I like Dash better, because it's different, and also saves 2 characters when I come close to the 255 cap in long keybinds)... or well, maybe he could... but I'm sure you get the idea.
And of course, same thing could be said for Beast Dash.
Dear NCsoft, if you go through with this shutdown you've guaranteed you'll not see another dime from me on any project you put out, ever.
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