Laser Sword Skins

vonqball

Thanks for the nice new laser sword powers. Now, can we get some weapon appearance options for the set?

I would personally like to see...

A broader energized sword (suitable for larger heroes)

A magical energy blade (for the synergy with arcane)

A laser-edged Katana (cyber samurai!)

Some of the existing models could work well. Adding a glow effect to the robot samurai sword might look pretty sweet.

revanantmorituri

Some new skins for the hilt/handle would be nice. I have no idea where they were coming from with the weird angled crossguard thingy.

• Simple tube. (Gundam, A New Hope)
  
• Bell guard. (Harlock, Treasure Planet)
  
• Invisible. (ie: integrated into your armor, not an Obvious Accessible Focus)
  

sterga

I'd be happy if they just allowed all of the MA skins as-is for Laser Swords. I wouldn't even care if they had fancy particle effects or whatever. We do have Laser Sword skins in MA blades, so what's the difference?​​

avianos

It's really dissapointing they didn't gave Laser Swords new weapon skins

heck Variable Robot concept art HAD a laser sword weapon skin which never made into the final product

I would like to use the Meltdown ultimate on non-LS characters, but LS don't have imaginary weapons

speaking of the ultimate, you should try it once it gets cheap
Good damage, good animation​​

kaiserin

Gonna chime in here and say that directly porting MA skins isn't an option.
The laser fx is built directly into laser sword powers (the same way the bow string is for archery powers, this cannot be removed), and any laser sword skin costume has to work with the fx. We could take the hilts of old costumes and rework them for Laser swords, but it's unlikely we'd retrofit all of them.

A couple skins have been added to pts, and there will likely be more added in the future.

Also weapons that use fx like this can't ever be made truly invisible...once again much like the invisible archery bows still displaying their bow string fx.​​

themightyzenith

kaizerin said:

...once again much like the invisible archery bows still displaying their bow string fx.​​

Is it possible to remove the bow string fx from the bows @kaizerin ? I'm pretty sure that under that fx is just plain bow strings (which is more suitable, visually)......... I used to be able to show it by spamming the weapons bind process a few times, but can't seem to do it anymore.

I did hear a rumour that the bow string fx were originally just supposed to be on the Laser Bow (which would make sense), but somehow got put on them all. Dunno how true this is though.

sterga

kaizerin wrote: »

The laser fx is built directly into laser sword powers (the same way the bow string is for archery powers, this cannot be removed), and any laser sword skin costume has to work with the fx.

That doesn't make sense. Shouldn't the fx be attached to a mesh? Shouldn't the powers just be in a big old database with pointers to meshes? It makes me sad that it sound like you're saying that my farting around modding Bethesda's games is amazingly sophisticated and easy compared to whatever ghetto tools Cryptic has.​​

flyingfinn

I think the News page Toybox Lockbox's picture has a new Lasersword skin showing.

How does one even shoot regular arrows with an laserstring???
I mean i could go with laserarrows with laserstring...

herodad1

laser sword would look cool coming out of a characters fist/ hand.

vonqball

kaizerin said:

The laser fx is built directly into laser sword powers (the same way the bow string is for archery powers, this cannot be removed), and any laser sword skin costume has to work with the fx.

Well... I can think of some ways of integrating the laser sword effect into other skins. A translucent blade with a glowing core might look interesting (if done well). A chunky hilt that extends along the back of the laser (to give a glowing edge effect) might be a nice option too.