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Whether they are intially 'Become Devices' (which replace your powers with specialised vehicle powers while you are in them) - or evolve into something more customisable...
Lets hear your ideas on vehicles!;
Lets hear your ideas on vehicles!;
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Actually, what I'm hoping is that they can be taken as a travel power that acts like a "become" device until toggled off, and that in exchange for, perhaps, less manueverability, you can get a substantial speed boost. Back in beta they tried upping the speed on travel powers, but you needed a certain level of control to really make use of them. However, if you have the option of bulky, less manueverable, but incredibly fast vehicles, that could be great. Even if they are stuck with outdoors only (due to small doors and such), a large enough speed increase would make them worthwhile, especially since right now there isn't that much reason to have two travel powers, but having a second one that is fast but harder to manuever in small areas could be alot of fun.
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Motorcycle that transforms into wearable power armor, ala Mospeada, Bubblegum Crisis, Megazone23
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And some motorcycles that look as cool as the one in Akira,
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or the Second Generation Light Cycle from Tron Legacy.
VTOL-type batwing named The Bat (in the Dark Knight Rises).
Tumbler type vehicle - become device powers; machine guns, rocket launchers, hubcap mines, turtling-shell (lockdown / lockout shell like in Burton's batman film at the chemical plant), proximity mines dropped out the back to flip pursueing cars (Nolan's BB).
Westside Choppers; (problem of whether tech will allow your toon to appear to be sitting on the bike).
Concealed bike pod ( think more tron-like but encapsulated).
Missions that have you pursuing a criminal across rooftops / along city streets at a fast pace needing you to jump into your vehicle and follow them on a tracking device you've previously shot them with in the mission-storyline.
I (still) want my hogg.
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* 50's shiny silver streamlined rocket!
* 50's shiny silver bubble-domed flying saucer!
* Bird-shaped fighterplane
* Bat-shaped fighterplane
* WW1 Bi-plane
* armoured limousine
* Giant Vampire Bat (Mystic vehicles won't always be vehicles as such)
* Big Green Dragon
* WW1 style Zepelin
* Techno-Squid style Zepelin
* 80s Flying Motorcycle (this vid contains spoilers from the movie Megaforce) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NpZxn860M but don't worry about copyright cause Battlestar Gallactica 1980 also had flying 80's motorcycles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7CvyLCZtMg
* Giant steam-powerd spider
* steam-powered metal dragon
* Shiny Martian 3-legged Walker-mech
Or one of those nifty Osprey gunships.
I don't think calling one of the signature Champions for a piggy-back will do their flagging confidence any wonders Smoochan. :rolleyes:
Your character stands or sit in the middle.
Also perhaps, although not advocating a full shapeshifting powerset.... yet - a become animal (cheetah / eagle / mole) travel-power.
But anyway... back to vehicles specifically.
Like in MIB III?
Then again I didn't hear the winner of this years ESC until a few days ago...
So umm... Yes? Minus the horrible actor.
Advantage over normal tunnelling? - faster!, weapons loadout on above ground-level.
I'd also like all vehicles to be restricted from Ren-Centre, PowerHouse, mission Interiors, local shared-world interiors and basically anywhere else they could spam and cause a problem.
No lets go crazy, lets get nuts!, (/em,Keaton) - progress is never made by playing it safe!.
In all seriousness, its a brainstorming thread. I acknowledge technical limitations in the opening post.
Also how about a moped with a built in 75mm recoiless rifle. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/rndthomet/scotterrecoiless.jpg
Oh those wacky French.:D
I'd love (if vehicles were ever made to work with maps, ie; recognising buildings and street assets, lamposts walls etc) - that they handle a little more realistically than the moving vehicles on the streets.
I'd love to see a little camber and physics in the handling, even if its only a hint, because that would make all the difference programming team!.
OMG!, sitting on the barrel!, :eek: - just WTH wartime sensibilities!.
Hmm... How about both.:D
I mean as far as different colours you could easily go the 'become brown wolf / become black wolf route' of differing coloured models essentially; eg; become gun-laden loadout / become stealth-plane loadout / become bird-concept livery loadout - same model, just with different configurations and paintjobs that make them look different.
I'd also like to add to my wishlist of an emote calling the vehicle to you by your tapping on your wrist-communicator. I always thought the magic carpet emote would be better presnted by 1 sec of your toon rubbing a lamp or throwing it out and jumping on it instead of it just; 'bampf' - and being underneath you.
So with regards to the vehicles, suddenly 'bampf' and turning into a car / VTOL / whatever - not ideal.
I think it would be best presented If however your toon called a bike and straddled it, or called a UFO and beamed-up, or climbed into a cockpit (even if its only a second or so or animation) - I think that would make all the difference. Still, wishlist 'n' all that.
Vehicle costume creation system
* A small series of basic frames such as jet, tank, car, bike, winged beast etc
* Then some sliders to adjust basic proportions, not too complex but enough to stretch that car out or make it compact, narrow that jet like a dart or make it wide like a stealth bomber, just length, front width, back width front height, back height.
* A series of costume areas. Wheels/landing gear/feet, Fusalage/hull/body, Canopy/cab/turret/back-detail, Nose/grill/fairing/head, Wings, Tail/spoiler/fins. These to get some simple choices at first but enough to make the following- sportscar, limo, armored car, tank, armored motorcycle. Private jet, fighter jet, stealth jet animal-themed jet. Dragon, Griffen, Eagle, Giant Vampire Bat. These could be mixed and matched.
* A couple colour areas on each part and an emblem spot on the front/top/underside
* A visible weapon section including: machine guns, rocketspods, underslung missiles, tesla-cannon, none
* Transform effects. A small menu of options like: Teleport, hologram construction (like hologram-man and tron etc), smoke-cloud, sudden speedy arrival (vehicle is drawn a short distance away and drives/flies up to the hero at extreme speed)
* Expansion via costume packs in the c-store!
You mean like Big Wheel?
Oh and jet plane! Your character is in front of one of the engines with the cape dangerously close to getting sucked it.
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Here's a though: The fact that they told us about it probably means that they already have their own plans.
But anyway, here is a rather practical design I would sugget.
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http://www.microforever.com/Rider/rideshooter.htm
- Remember magic users. There must be magic vechiles also.
- Them must be optional. All superheros does not use vechiles.
- Them must be faster than any travel power.
- Whole team can be transport in vechile.
It might not be possible for them to have your character on a winged horse, what about magically transforming into one though?
If they aren't fully customisable, or at all (please at least let us have colours, otherwise how do we tell all the same jets apart?) , we'll need a number of different styles to fit the different styles of the game.
* Silver Age Tights
* Pulp
* Golden-Age
* Retro Scifi
* Iron Age
* Hi-Tech
* Mystic
* Dark
(any others?)
We should throw out ideas for each of these kinds of categories so that if the devs are going just by wholly pre-made vehicles with little or no customisation that we give them ideas for each era and sub-genre they might not have got to yet.
Certainly my earlier suggestion of a shiny streamlined rocket or bubble-domed flying saucer will suit retro scifi. What about the others?
They have even integrated weapon and the driver isn't really seeable.
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I would really hope that there would be a bit more customisation than just the power hue button.
If there was going to be more customization, I'd expect it to be no more detailed than the level of customization we have with hideouts - maybe 2-3 options in a few places - like 2-3 base fuselage types, 2-3 wing choices, 2-3 canopy options, 2-3 tail options, then 2-3 accessory options - like fins, spoilers, antennae, thrusters, etc.
I like the car in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I know where the actual car used in the film rests btw having been behind-the-scenes at local film memorabilia company's barn-warehouse... hurry up if interested its not ageing very well, ps; I think he wants about £50k i think for it) - *ahem*, anyway, where was I?..... oh yes, - and the suped-up car the Red Skull owns in Captain America; The First Avenger.
Besides, they really cool!
Ahh Mospeada, if they do that we better get the gender issues in the game fixed, including different gender costumes on the same character.
- Bikes:
Passengers: 1
Weapons: Light
Shields: None
Speed: Fast
Travel power: Only able to travel inside the map and inside buildings.
- Cars
Passengers: 1-2
Weapons: Medium
Shields: Light
Speed: Medium
Travel power: Only able to travel inside the map
Includes a small inventory
- Jets/Helicopters
Passengers: 1 - Full 5 chars team
Weapons: Heavy
Shields: Medium
Speed: Fast
Travel power: Able to travel anywhere (not inside buildings)
Includes a medium inventory
2.- There should be customizable or at least have parts that could be customized: colors, wheels, weapons, wings, emblema...
3.- They should appear in the hideout if the player has one. That could mean using some of the unused room of the hideout, for instance the 2 empty domes of the moon (if you're going to ask how a bike got to the moon just put outside of the dome an atrezzo shuttle). This room/garage should just have the vehicle there and you should be able to take your vehicle from there. If there's no room, do just like in the Black Mask hideout.
So people can buy the cheapest vehicle and have its functionality, then the medium priced vehicle with other functionality and the most expensive one with even more and different functionality.
There should be fights with the vehicles. There are viper's ospreys and tanks, flak and AA missiles... Nice fights.
I would love to be in a jet that can hold more than just me and has its own original weapon set.I support this 100%.Also for the hideout part,they can make it into a zone transport to any zone,really they should do that with the vehicle itself,I mean u have your own method of transportation now,why do you even need to ride that Jet in Ren cen,not to mention that riding that thing gets boring.
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Umm why only two passengers in the car? Sure some heroes cars are two people only like the batmobile but what about Green Hornets Black Beauty? I'm not sure about The Spiders roadster as it's been a while but plenty of souped-up cars can still have some passenger space for more than just the sidekick.
I'd make the cars 1-5 too, the jet/heli can fly so will be faster.. considering millenium city has a fair bit of traffic at times it'll be WAY faster. And as for travelling in canada, the desert, monster island etc the jet/heli has lots of advantages even if the car is off-road or has Kit style boost jumps.
In reality flying vehicles need to be lightweight to fly and are more vulnerable to damage rendering them no longer functional. Swap the shielding. Jets/Heli should be light or medium at best. Cars however can be tanks literally and figuratively. A family member owned an old Daimler and the hailstorm which destroyed our roof and dimpled the mini till it looked like a golf ball and shattered it's windscreen just polished the Daimler and cleaned it's windshield so tough was the material in the old car.
Make the cars armoured and tough and capable of carrying a whole team.
And i want my shiny silver streamlined 50s rocket! One shaped like the pen i got for christmas http://static.neatoshop.com/images/product/89/1689/Rocket-Pen_6597-l.jpg?v=6597
We need to ensure that heroes of every era and style have a vehicle. Art-deco and Retro-Scifi and Pulp and Iron-Age and Mystic and Hi-Tech. I'm not sure just a little customisation will cover this fully unless there are a few themed versions of each type to build from.
While she has been rescued
what diabolical mastermind
was behind the devious brain-napping of
the Volterrific Dr Cerebellum?
For the later, I think they should start with motorcycles and hoverbikes before they take on living mounts, as inanimate mounts whould be easier to create.
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Why not to do surveys and free offers
yea like jets that can bank and pitch when they turn without changing the camera angle than just swerve from side to side horizontally, also instead of that lame turbo boost button the should have a convert flight mode like you hover and move slowly like a VTOL in one mode and the in the other mode you fly like a real fighter jet but you can't stop until you press the convert button.