Sooo...Water Powers?

chaosdrgnz43 · August 2017

Apparently, DCUO has released their Water powerset.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eK_4ioefhxg

The effects are mundane, but pretty much expected. Making it look 3d may cause problems.

Better step up your game CO~

ealford1985 · August 2017

I stopped at 3mins, but nothing impressive there. Our fire extinguisher looks better than most of those. The few powers that did look cool were no different than force powers.

championshewolf · August 2017

I will always be impressed by people that have to have the power named exactly after the name they want despite you have multiple powers that already pull off the effect. And, as predicted the effects look like crap. No wonder they waited this long to reveal them, despite having announced them a while ago. CoH water power set looked like crap to, but better than that. Scratch that it looks worse than crap, like they took splats from other power sets and just recycled them painting them blue, not even water blue, just blue.

flyingfinn · August 2017

DCUO also has running on water and on walls. So your suggestion is negated.
Also Batman.

themightyzenith · August 2017

I'd rather have Plant Control.

championshewolf · August 2017

flyingfinn said:
DCUO also has running on water and on walls. So your suggestion is negated.
Also Batman.

Running on water isn't exactly a thing since they don't exactly have the ability to go under water. It's just an effect when you are in water, and hell even the acrobats run on water not just the speedsters, as water is just another ground texture made to look watery, since you can't really go under it. As far as running on walls, it was a sloppy solution, in short since even brushing a sign post in DCUO is a result of doing a spin around for a few seconds.

spinnytop · August 2017

Oh look, several variations of holy water o3o

By that standard, we already had water powers. Step up your game dcuo uwu

chaosdrgnz43 · August 2017

spinnytop said:
Oh look, several variations of holy water o3o

By that standard, we already had water powers. Step up your game dcuo uwu

Eh, it's just two powers. Not really rooting for DCUO, but they have more water-based powers than we do.

championshewolf · August 2017

chaosdrgnz43 said:

spinnytop said:
Oh look, several variations of holy water o3o

By that standard, we already had water powers. Step up your game dcuo uwu
Eh, it's just two powers. Not really rooting for DCUO, but they have more water-based powers than we do.

You mean crappy reused effects that are blue. Again you don't need a power set called water to simulate water. Hell the entire force set can simulate water since that was what it was originally hence all the waveyness.

chaosdrgnz43 · August 2017

championshewolf said:

You mean crappy reused effects that are blue. Again you don't need a power set called water to simulate water. Hell the entire force set can simulate water since that was what it was originally hence all the waveyness.

Can't really blame them for reusing effects. I mean, CO does it too. There's really no point fussing over it tbh.

qawsada · August 2017

I'm more curious as to why people are still using horrible soundtrack in their youtube video.

legendarylycan · August 2017

because different people have different tastes in music

if you don't like their taste in music, ask them to release a non-music version; most would probably be willing to do so if asked politely

championshewolf · August 2017

chaosdrgnz43 said:

championshewolf said:

You mean crappy reused effects that are blue. Again you don't need a power set called water to simulate water. Hell the entire force set can simulate water since that was what it was originally hence all the waveyness.
Can't really blame them for reusing effects. I mean, CO does it too. There's really no point fussing over it tbh.

Animations get re-used but one thing CO does try to do is give at least different effects to suit the power. While it doesn't always happen, you can at least tell the difference between a fireball, ebon blast, and infernal blast, all of which use the same animation but a different effect.

servantrules · September 2017

I agree those water powers simply boil down to aesthetics rather than having a unique function. TK, Force, Wind, and Ice pretty much can cover it in CO. It's possible to make up new or revise existing mechanics for it to create a new framework, but personally would rather see the ones that haven't had a review yet be resolved (which, looking at the current progress, will probably be another couple of years before every framework remaining is done; which is quite respectable, really, given the circumstances).

avianos · September 2017

WATER IS NOT LAME >:C

legendarylycan · September 2017

it kinda is...

i mean, you see a fireball heading for you, you're pissing your pants
you see a bolt of lightning heading for you, you're pissing your pants
you see a giant shard of ice heading for you, you're pissing your pants
you see a huge boulder heading for you, you're pissing your pants
you see a ball of water heading for you, you're...not

avianos · September 2017

Seeing a giant tidal wave which is about to crash you is not dangerous apparently

getting drown inside a huge ball of water and getting soaked so much that makes you vulnerable to electricity doesn't sound lame to me neither

You all are underestimating the power of water

Sidenote: the OP video has terrible Music

jonsills · September 2017

shadowfang240 said:
it kinda is...

i mean, you see a fireball heading for you, you're pissing your pants

you see a bolt of lightning heading for you, you're pissing your pants

you see a giant shard of ice heading for you, you're pissing your pants

you see a huge boulder heading for you, you're pissing your pants

you see a ball of water heading for you, you're...not

Well, no matter which attack hits you, your pants are going to be wet.

jonesing4 · September 2017

> @shadowfang240 said:
> it kinda is...
>
> i mean, you see a fireball heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a bolt of lightning heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a giant shard of ice heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a huge boulder heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a ball of water heading for you, you're...not

Dis guy's never been to Houston or Florida.

markhawkman · September 2017

jonesing4 said:
> @shadowfang240 said:
> it kinda is...
>
> i mean, you see a fireball heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a bolt of lightning heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a giant shard of ice heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a huge boulder heading for you, you're pissing your pants
> you see a ball of water heading for you, you're...not

Dis guy's never been to Houston or Florida.

What? you mean Florida hasn't sunk yet?

I forget which city it was, but when hurricane Camille made landfall back in the 70s there was a yacht club who decided to test their expensive new "hurricane proof" building. They were never seen again, not even their corpses.

wrathsoul1 · November 2017

gradii said:
I'd rather have time powers, a decent maintain eye beams, and raw energy manipulation. water seems kinda.. lame.

I'm fairly certain that the Force powerset is about raw energy manipulation.

spinnytop · November 2017

"raw energy" is so comic booky u3u what even is that? Sounds like something a hippie would talk about. "It's just like... energy man..."

riverocean · November 2017

Been playing DCUO a bit for the past few weeks. The water set isn't horrible, but there's nothing in it you couldn't do by cobbling together existing sets in CO and tinting them blue. *shrugs* I'm actually more exited by the stats revamp they did..which has opened up so many more build options. Including, weapons focused and iconics builds.

But I'm still one of those weirdos hoping that CO get's Plant/Nature type powers.

legendarylycan · November 2017

water is clear, not blue

it only looks blue because it's reflecting the sky - which generally happens best when it's still, and not speeding towards an enemy at 80 miles per hour

markhawkman · November 2017

actually..... it depends on dissolved minerals, some places the tinting is quite blue

championshewolf · November 2017

Yea, water color is a variety of many factors. AYou can't say it's reflecting the sky in many shots of the ocean and many ocean paradise shots. It has to do with mineral content in the water, depth of the water, etc.

spinnytop · November 2017

Is the water I produce to sploosh some badguys in the middle of milennium city going to qualify for any of those things that makes water blue? o3o

legendarylycan · November 2017

i guess that would depend if you're pulling it from a nearby existing source (like a river or lake) or producing it from hammerspace...and since the latter is far more likely, i'd say 'no'

beezeeze · November 2017

I mean like honestly it should be whitish and opaque like water from a hose or hydrant.

markhawkman · November 2017

beezeeze said:
I mean like honestly it should be whitish and opaque like water from a hose or hydrant.

That's due to foaminess not the actual color of the water.

pantagruel01 · November 2017

markhawkman said:

beezeeze said:
I mean like honestly it should be whitish and opaque like water from a hose or hydrant.
That's due to foaminess not the actual color of the water.

Under what condition would you expect water being used as an attack to not be foamy?

markhawkman · November 2017

pantagruel01 said:

markhawkman said:

beezeeze said:
I mean like honestly it should be whitish and opaque like water from a hose or hydrant.
That's due to foaminess not the actual color of the water.
Under what condition would you expect water being used as an attack to not be foamy?

Depends on how the attack is being launched?

spinnytop · November 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSYDmcjtWo

High speed water is white o3o and wouldn't water need to be moving at high speed to cause damage? Only other use would be encapsulating someone in water, in which case it would not be moving and would be clear.

Also all this dumb stuff you guys are talking about could be advantages.

High Mineral Content - an advantage on the paralyze power where you encapsulate someone in a globe of water... applies stacks of poison over time.

Sooo...Water Powers?

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