Powerset Wise, What Comic Book Staples Are We Still Missing?

Obviously, a stapler power set. Melee impale and hold. Powerful t9 that has a bad sideeffect of jamming when you need it most.

Storm Summoning does have wind (gale, hurricane, tornado), lightning (lightning cloud, thunder clap), and ice/snow (freezing rain).

The reason you can't have web control or exploding cards is because they are very specific to those characters, and you have to deal with copyright infringement.

/facepalm

The reason we don't have Web Control and Exploding Cards (outside of Web Grenade, Web Envelope, and Entangling Arrow) is that it's a very specific power of one very specific character. The GMs wouldn't be able to generic the copyrighted characters fast enough.

As for throwing shields, that was discussed at length when Shield Defense was in beta; it's an animation/power mechanics thing (the same as stretching/elastic attacks), plus the aforementioned cloning issue.

If you only want to blast eye beams, take that one attack and don't use anything else. There isn't a lot of animation variation, at least not enough to devote an entire powerset to it.

Storm Summoning:

- Gale (wind)
- Lightning Storm (lightning)
- Freezing Rain (ice/snow)

All in *one* powerset! The mind is blown!

Batman is easy: Street Justice/Willpower/Weapon Mastery. Punches, kicks to the gut, *natural* defenses, and you get the throwing stuff! Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

Before we got Street Justice, Martial Arts got an animation update with punches instead of kicks.


GEEZ WHY EVEN BOTHER, WE COULD TOTALLY MAKE PUNCHING CHARACTERS WITH MA WHY WASTE RESOURCES MAKING SJ.



Just because we can "fudge" abilities using existing powersets doesn't mean that newer sets shouldn't be made.

*chuckle* I semi-agree with that; I have both a StJ and MA, but (to me) the punching animations in MA are HUGELY different than the "flow" of Street Justice. When I picture Batman or Spiderman fighting a group of thugs (which isn't particularly hard to picture), Street Justice just fits better than the punchy MA.

As I've said before in multiple threads, I have absolutely nothing against new content of any kind. It shows that Paragon is still investing time and money into the game I love (and have devoted more time to than is probably healthy) but, come on! There has to be a limit to it.

Besides, the development impetus for new powersets (I'd imagine) is never "Well, Superhero X uses this set in the comics, so let's put it in the game!" Which is why threads like this are kind of nebulously helpful. A "staple" is wildly different from one comic fan to another.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

Sitting here trying to visualize even five or six different versions of "stick face out to shoot crap at bad/good guys" is making me laugh hysterically.

Just this:



Over, and over, and over, and over, and over and over again.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

Beam *Rifle* is just that. A rifle. Could they switch it up and have, say, wrist-mounted laser gauntlets? Absolutely.

To change it to come out of your face would be...less than ideal.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

What if you had like...laser...goggles....yeah....


Hey I've seen weirder.


But yeah, it would be neat to see a "beam" powerset then. With eyes/hands/chest options. Along with being more "beamy" than Energy Blast or Beam Rifle (which are kirby dots and electrical respectively.)

What Comic Book Staples are we missing?

Why, the staples in the comic books' spines, of course...

Though, in a similar sort of vein.

I would like a power duplication sort of power. Not sure how it would be implemented though, as it seems like you should be able to duplicate allies as well as enemies. Also, what limitations do you put on it? By level? Also, how would it react to duplicating guys with guns etc? Use guns too? That seems odd.