I was looking around Caprice and realized that not only are there a wide variety of hero-wannabe outfits, but some of them are pretty cool. I have no idea how much work would be required, but.... maybe the characters could be made into sidekicks?
Sure, pics of the costume would be nice. There's something like 2-dozen to choose from.
Honestly I started out thinking it was a bad idea because the costumes in question are less cool than the costumes we see on lockbox sidekicks, but then I realized something.... that's LOCKBOX sidekicks. They show off the new lockbox costumes. For example, there's also Harley Davison... he uses a rather generic costume from a Cobra Lord NPC.
Honestly I think the main reason this is unlikely to happen right now is that it's too much work for too little reward.
BIO: Activist against Argent cruel and greedy nature,a long time ago one time he find a way to get inside Argent New Advance Tech HQ, find's they are working on a New Nanobot Bionic Enhancement, that allows the nano's to change and Enhance body part, however the change is permanent and can't be controlled unless a microchip is in-planted in the brain, that sometimes short circuit, that will lead to brain damage and memory loss, And Death, this is being seen by this as well recorded by Don Castle, but he later found out and captured, became the 5th subject to be Tested out of the 4 that had died, but this time, chip didn't malfunction, scientist Cheered, but Don soon came to realize he could utilize the Nanobot Bionic Enhancement to free himself from captivity, changes parts of his body to free himself and to escape, but soon to realize the parts of the body he change will never be the same again and will never look like himself again, he takes on a form of a camerahead robot, and made Videosite app know as WATCHER, he a man that records the truth and nonthing but the Truth,
ability: to control machines and construct metal parts of any kind, regeneration of organic or metal tissue,
Role: offensive support
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DAYTONER / Daniel Hahn
hmm... we actually have a camera face costume prop already. It's part of the Foxbattle Bot lineup. So it could use that. A tech based healer sidekick sounds like a nice idea.
What I'd really like is the ability to customize my own sidekick the way I can create my own nemesis, and have "Summon Sidekick" bring it out as a controllable pet through an ultimate power selection. I realize we're way past that level of development effort, but I can dream...
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What I'd really like is the ability to customize my own sidekick the way I can create my own nemesis, and have "Summon Sidekick" bring it out as a controllable pet through an ultimate power selection. I realize we're way past that level of development effort, but I can dream...
Recostuming sidekicks is more likely than a sidekick you actually choose powers for.
ROBOT SHARK SIDEKICK
A robot shark that fliesaround shooting lasers while also using bite attacks
SKELETON SHARK SIDEKICK
Same idea, but it uses ebon/dark attacks and also bites
Also, Giant Hands as sidekicks.
Around the size of the whole characters body, could count as one entity, or each hand as a separate entity
Stone Hands
Giant stone hands that use Might and Earth attacks (specially that shockwave attack from the might powerset)
Robot Hands
Huge Robot hands using Electric and Might attacks (specially that thunder handclap one), maybe some missiles too
Knight Hands
Abnormaly large Knight hands usingCelestial and Might powers
Skeleton Hands/Claws
Gargantuan skeleton hands using Feral swipes and casting dark magic
And some weird/odd ones
Floating Moai head
A Large floating Moai head hovering over the ground, using sonic attacks and beams tha cause dimensional damage
Only the mouth is slightly animated (open and closes)
Completely normal skeleton
A normal skeleton using single blade attacks (with a bone skin), throwing bones etc.
Just standing near enemies has a chance to apply fear
When it moves it does clackity noises
When it remains idle it makes xylophone noises
Old Wizard
An old classic wizard.
Flying aorund on a carpet or cloud.
Uses a wand(like the ones from Demon members), casting elemental attacks, sometimes summons furniture that crushes enemies (can we get recycled furniture assets from NW? )
Could say stuff like:
"Its magic, i dont have to explain it"
"Science is for wimps"
Old Witch
A classic looking witch
Flying on the Halloween Broom back-piece with the hoverboard animation
Cast hexxes , and summon black cats and bats that explode doing dark damage
Ninjas
Plain and simple ninjas (maybe 2 or 3)
Use dual blades and claws, throw shurikens and smoke bombs, maybe some MA moves.
Levitating Psychic Octopus
What it sounds like
An octopus swimming across the air using telepathy & telekinesis powers
Last two cause we have too much cats
Cat-Astrophe
A Stone Cat (maybe like a sphinx)
(larger than the player, at least maybe the size of the mechanon spider creature)
Uses magical and earth powers besides those "cat attacks"
Cat-Atomic (its a pun on catatonic, laugh now)
Either a Robot or Irradiate-like cat
Larger than the player.
Uses some Radioactive powers and beams (if robot, maybe some micromunitions too)
TBH I feel like Cryptic dropped the ball on sidekicks. Sidekicks should be just as customizable as your Nemesis.
Like the sidekick devices are great and all, but could we have a "custom sidekick" device that you can purchase to summon a character you created? It could be accessed from a database like the Nemesis database, positioned outside or by Champions HQ. You customize their appearance and (to a limited extent) their powers/role. When you purchase the "Sidekick: custom" device, you are able to call them just like you would Indy Kid or whoever, but it's your own sidekick.
That way you no longer have to wish there was "this" sidekick or "that" sidekick, and Cryptic can stop putting resources into adding sidekicks, delegate that responsibility to the player.
> @markhawkman said: > Well, they're coded as summon pets with fixed stats. NW more or less does it that way. > > Star Trek Online though? Well Bridge Officers have a massive array of customization options. Heck there are lock box items for adding new Boff powers.
Saying "this is the way it's coded" should not deter any suggestions.
People moaned about CoH not having customizable powers for years, they just kept saying "you can't because of the way it's coded"
Then Champions was released and within months CoH had customizable powers.
> @markhawkman said:
> Well, they're coded as summon pets with fixed stats. NW more or less does it that way.
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> Star Trek Online though? Well Bridge Officers have a massive array of customization options. Heck there are lock box items for adding new Boff powers.
Saying "this is the way it's coded" should not deter any suggestions.
People moaned about CoH not having customizable powers for years, they just kept saying "you can't because of the way it's coded"
Then Champions was released and within months CoH had customizable powers.
Yeah but having to re-do the system would require giant masses of work. Sure, it COULD happen, but something smaller scale would be quicker for the devs to do and more likely to actually get made.
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that would be nice or so, but never seen them use an existing character before. it would be nice they do that.
Honestly I started out thinking it was a bad idea because the costumes in question are less cool than the costumes we see on lockbox sidekicks, but then I realized something.... that's LOCKBOX sidekicks. They show off the new lockbox costumes. For example, there's also Harley Davison... he uses a rather generic costume from a Cobra Lord NPC.
Honestly I think the main reason this is unlikely to happen right now is that it's too much work for too little reward.
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BIO: Activist against Argent cruel and greedy nature,a long time ago one time he find a way to get inside Argent New Advance Tech HQ, find's they are working on a New Nanobot Bionic Enhancement, that allows the nano's to change and Enhance body part, however the change is permanent and can't be controlled unless a microchip is in-planted in the brain, that sometimes short circuit, that will lead to brain damage and memory loss, And Death, this is being seen by this as well recorded by Don Castle, but he later found out and captured, became the 5th subject to be Tested out of the 4 that had died, but this time, chip didn't malfunction, scientist Cheered, but Don soon came to realize he could utilize the Nanobot Bionic Enhancement to free himself from captivity, changes parts of his body to free himself and to escape, but soon to realize the parts of the body he change will never be the same again and will never look like himself again, he takes on a form of a camerahead robot, and made Videosite app know as WATCHER, he a man that records the truth and nonthing but the Truth,
ability: to control machines and construct metal parts of any kind, regeneration of organic or metal tissue,
Role: offensive support
Image used
Cameraman
BY
psdeluxe
DAYTONER / Daniel Hahn
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The poster formerly known as Lightwave!
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ROBOT SHARK SIDEKICK
A robot shark that fliesaround shooting lasers while also using bite attacks
SKELETON SHARK SIDEKICK
Same idea, but it uses ebon/dark attacks and also bites
Also, Giant Hands as sidekicks.
Around the size of the whole characters body, could count as one entity, or each hand as a separate entity
Stone Hands
Giant stone hands that use Might and Earth attacks (specially that shockwave attack from the might powerset)
Robot Hands
Huge Robot hands using Electric and Might attacks (specially that thunder handclap one), maybe some missiles too
Knight Hands
Abnormaly large Knight hands usingCelestial and Might powers
Skeleton Hands/Claws
Gargantuan skeleton hands using Feral swipes and casting dark magic
And some weird/odd ones
Floating Moai head
A Large floating Moai head hovering over the ground, using sonic attacks and beams tha cause dimensional damage
Only the mouth is slightly animated (open and closes)
Completely normal skeleton
A normal skeleton using single blade attacks (with a bone skin), throwing bones etc.
Just standing near enemies has a chance to apply fear
When it moves it does clackity noises
When it remains idle it makes xylophone noises
Old Wizard
An old classic wizard.
Flying aorund on a carpet or cloud.
Uses a wand(like the ones from Demon members), casting elemental attacks, sometimes summons furniture that crushes enemies (can we get recycled furniture assets from NW? )
Could say stuff like:
"Its magic, i dont have to explain it"
"Science is for wimps"
Old Witch
A classic looking witch
Flying on the Halloween Broom back-piece with the hoverboard animation
Cast hexxes , and summon black cats and bats that explode doing dark damage
Ninjas
Plain and simple ninjas (maybe 2 or 3)
Use dual blades and claws, throw shurikens and smoke bombs, maybe some MA moves.
Levitating Psychic Octopus
What it sounds like
An octopus swimming across the air using telepathy & telekinesis powers
Last two cause we have too much cats
Cat-Astrophe
A Stone Cat (maybe like a sphinx)
(larger than the player, at least maybe the size of the mechanon spider creature)
Uses magical and earth powers besides those "cat attacks"
Cat-Atomic (its a pun on catatonic, laugh now)
Either a Robot or Irradiate-like cat
Larger than the player.
Uses some Radioactive powers and beams (if robot, maybe some micromunitions too)
In groups of 2 or 3, male and female
Height below the characters knee-line
They could use Earth attacks and some healing magic
Dwarves
Similar to Gnomes, but less magical, and more melee, also have a chance to increase your resource drop while active
Maybe some Skeleton gnomes, Gnome Bones
Tiny skeletons for the edgy Necromancers and dark wizards
Also something like this Small Land Drones-Robots
Their movements can be sen in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCCsWDjTInA
Like the sidekick devices are great and all, but could we have a "custom sidekick" device that you can purchase to summon a character you created? It could be accessed from a database like the Nemesis database, positioned outside or by Champions HQ. You customize their appearance and (to a limited extent) their powers/role. When you purchase the "Sidekick: custom" device, you are able to call them just like you would Indy Kid or whoever, but it's your own sidekick.
That way you no longer have to wish there was "this" sidekick or "that" sidekick, and Cryptic can stop putting resources into adding sidekicks, delegate that responsibility to the player.
Star Trek Online though? Well Bridge Officers have a massive array of customization options. Heck there are lock box items for adding new Boff powers.
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> Well, they're coded as summon pets with fixed stats. NW more or less does it that way.
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> Star Trek Online though? Well Bridge Officers have a massive array of customization options. Heck there are lock box items for adding new Boff powers.
Saying "this is the way it's coded" should not deter any suggestions.
People moaned about CoH not having customizable powers for years, they just kept saying "you can't because of the way it's coded"
Then Champions was released and within months CoH had customizable powers.
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