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Why arent we geting more stuff from this pnp game?
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Like there are countless powers and rich detail stories about things. Why not develope this content for us in future. And yes champions online needs more powers. We need spines, Earth, Wind, Gravity, And even some more meele type classes. I mean how can we have a super hero game with out a storm person? I no this takes time but honestly make a update for this game with lots new powers. I no your all busy but come on now this is Champions online when use said you can pick the hero u envision i took that as a solid deal. Now we cant do that now if we dont got some basic powersets.
Earth shoulda been made in beta and if not why make earth travel? Its pointless without the earth set i think.
Ill be easy now i no this takes time but powersets are just as important as any other new content. If we have more variety then this is really a customization power system.
Earth shoulda been made in beta and if not why make earth travel? Its pointless without the earth set i think.
Ill be easy now i no this takes time but powersets are just as important as any other new content. If we have more variety then this is really a customization power system.
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Spines? Hahahahaha.
Earth, Wind, Fire...j/k, Wind, Gravity, Magnetics, Kinetics, Radiation, Sonic.
They got two earth travels, tunneling and earth flight.
They also need to add powers that ain't from COH like desolidification (I KNOW we won't be able to walk through walls and buildings etc...so waht), density increase, growth, shrinking, invisibility, enhanced senses.
The way I kinda see Enhanced Senses vs. Invisibility is like this: Rank 3 Enhanced senses with the 'special' advantage...meaning you spent 5 advantage points on it would mean you can see and target a rank 3 invisible target at 10 feet probably, but the target would get his Dodge and Avoidance vs. the attack. Anything less and rank 3 inviso can't be targetted because it can't be seen, but can be hit by an AOE, against which they'd get their dodge bonus and avoidance for invisibility.
This power is an example of TWO powers from Champions that must be put in the game simultaneously. The game mechanic for perception vs seeing an 'invisible' target in the client window would need to be enhanced. There would need to be 'special effects' for seeing into infrared, ultraviolet, and x-ray vision.
Danger sense could come in at this time. If it activates you get a dodge/avoidance buff...if you roll a critical on your danger sense...you SEE the target and can fully attack...even if they are invisible.
I hope they code something similar to this...because it would allow them to actually put FLASH in the game. No not the comic book guy, FLASH, the power...it blinds you. In your client...if your toon was flashed...all you'd see is a blinding white light in your client...or blackness or what ever hue/color the attacker chose until you Z out of it.
These examples of power would take, I estimate, 6 months to 1 year to develop for these few powers alone.
Making powers, the effects, the animations, and streamlining it all, I believe, is one of the most difficult, time consuming, and resource intensive development tasks that Cryptic does. When a player says, "I'd like X power" and Cryptic says, "Sure, we'll do that", that player won't see that power in the game at all until 6 months from that time...minimum.
But, I also believe that when it comes to making powers, making one from scratch is heavy, but making 3 or 4 at the same time isn't 3 or 4 times as heavy, it might only be 1.5 times as heavy. So a 4 power update might take 6 to 9 months...minimum.
How long did it take to get the Tier 4s?
How long did it take to get the Craftable Temp Powers?
Some champions powers not present in the game aren't just 'add a graphical effect', some powers will need game engine add-ons that, yup, you guessed, the folks at cryptic will have to build. But that is OK, those kind s of systems are also useful in game for doing the same kind of effect to players in missions.
When I ask for shrinking...I can wait until after the level cap goes to 50. I have no problem only being able to take shrinking or desolidification at level 41+, for example.
For instance, in PvP, you can't electrocute someone to death or similar attacks as effectively if you have to take the 1 point advantage, affects desolidified opponents, on every attack power...kinda cuts into ranks and special advantages a bit, but that is how desolidification works, if a players takes it, they can desolidify and attacks without that advantage do nothing, although a mez might deactivate desolidifation ;-) That is much more powerful than phase shift, by virtue of how it would work...oh yeah, desolidified players can attack each other.
Duplication? I bet duplication never makes it into the game.
Multiform? Multiform could be in the game...if they did it as each build could have totally separate power, rank, characteristics and super stat selections, each multiform power would eat a power slot. This power right here is an entire game update in and of itself. This power absolutely should not come into the game until well after the level cap is 50.
Stretching, clinging, and multiple limbs - I'd like to see these some day soon.
In fact, some of these powers would definitely give Champions Online a distinct flavor from other comic games, hehe.
So in conclusion, adding even one power is months of work. So if your being impatient, sorry, that's how it goes.
They're working on it. The Serpent Lantern looks like it's going to draw heavily on lore from VIPER: Coils of the Serpent.
Great friggin' book, one of my favs, actually.
Oh, right.. you wrote it with Steve! You are so awesome, Scott!
Nothing to see here, move along.