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Quote:From a profit point of view, they need to make movies for each of these characters, with budgets based on the popularity of the characters. I don't think a Martian Manhunter movie will be as big as a Wonder Woman movie.Originally Posted by Nericus
This. Majority of viewers should by now be familiar with Batman, Superman and even Wonder Woman's origins.
Green Lantern is simple: a dying alien passed him the ring.
Aquaman: came from Atlantis to join the fight.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
This argument doesn't work. Each power has an activation sequence that is hard-coded into the power, and that activation sequence determines which costume set is accessible in the costume editor. Power Customization CANNOT affect activation sequences at this time. There is not and has never been precedent for this.
Assault Rifle powers will always call for a costume piece in the Assault Rifle category. You cannot customize this on the fly. You can possibly add custom animations, but these animations will still be required to spawn a costume piece from the Assault Rifle category. This is no more mutable than it is to tell a power which pet to spawn. This isn't doable in the current game.
Powers in City of Heroes are hard-coded to call a specific visual effects script which determines what animation is played, what effects are displayed and what props are summoned. Weapons are customizable by altering the FX script to "enable" a costume piece instead of spawn a static prop, and then giving the player the ability to customize this costume piece within a very rigid set of boundaries. Colour and animation customizations work by altering this script, as I understand it, to read off player-mutable variables for its colours and settings. But at the end of the day, the powers system still reads from ONE script, and that one script has one activation sequence hard-coded into it. There is no evidence to suggest that the current game system is even capable of customizing this without new tech.
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All of that said, I support the spirit of the idea on a larger scale. The ability to customize weapon powers into non-weapon powers, or powers using different classes of weapons, as well as customizing non-weapon powers to use weapons instead, is just about the final frontier of new tech for the character editor, beyond which there isn't much left to ask for. I want this to be INTRODUCED, however, and see no point in arguing that it already exists when it doesn't. Not yet.
I was gonna PM you Sam to explain, but you beat me to it. -
Quote:Only because you walked right into it:Originally Posted by Ironik
The Well by any other name is Magic, so that's what we're all going to be soon. Yay.
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Quote:People really think Clark will ever become Superman in this show? (Morphious eye-brow raise) Hmm.Originally Posted by Hazmatter
I suspect it's to drum up interest in the proposed Blue Beetle TV series that the sfx test reel from a while back was for.
Then again, we now have not only Supergirl but (clone) Superboy before Superman actually makes his official debut in this universe, so what do I know?
I do like what I can see of the 'Smallville'-ized Booster costume, though I agree what little there is visible of Beetle looks gawd awful. And they damn well better have Skeets in there! -
I don't think it's the costume creator, I think it's the models themselves. A few more polies wouldn't hurt.
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I think your forgetting that, in the case of projection powers, the source of the power is also part of the power itself. You would literally have to make several versions of the same powers for each point of projection.
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Dynamic Content (tm)branching, non-combat missions where you can earn points toward toward certain skills, like hacker, scientist, investigator, etc by doing certain tasks often enough. You could also get bonuses like faster glowie dowloads in missions, or the need for fewer clues and such. This, as it has been said, could be built on top of the combat mission to take some of the focus away from just getting to 50.
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Dynamic Content (tm) With that, you don't need an end-game, because it's never that same game every time you log in.
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I feel like I am becoming Martin Henri of destructible environments, but I wanted to rekindle the discussion of being able to lift and throw object as discussed in this thread http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=240853a while back. While I fully understand why this can't happen in the open world, the instanced missions would be open for all kinds of "mayhem". I had an idea for picking up and throwing select objects in the previous thread that I still feel may have some validity. I wanted to see if there were any fresh perspectives on the subject?
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I may be dating myself, but every time I think of Captain America movies, I think of this theme song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exLO3zKa69Q
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Dynamic Content (tm)! The city need to feel more "active". Bad guys standing on street corners waiting to be beaten up is no way to make us feel heroic. Random even should happen at every level, not just zone-wide city invasions, but gang wars, REAL robberies with police actions in the open city, rescuing people from random burning buildings, not just canned fires at the same building over and over. Give us real damage during invasions with real panic and fires and explosions make use feel that the people of the city are really in danger! The new missions from Ray Cooling is a perfect example of this, why can't we have more missions where the civilians actually seem like they're in danger? The canvas is already there, what we need now is the initiative.
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Quote:I personally feel that the Devs missed an opportunity with Safeguard and Mayhem missions to give heroes and villains that type of variety. Give heroes missions where that get clues and special items to stop an NPC villain plot, where the villain get to choose a path for form a plot and along the way stop an an NPC hero along the way.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
In an ideal game world, you'd have a little bit of all of the above, so you could pick and choose which you wanted to do. However, most villain content just gives you a pat on the head for being a good little evil minion. The tip missions swing entirely the other way. It's like they heard all the criticism that redside didn't make you feel evil enough and filled the missions with evil for its own sake.
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Now voices are out of the question, but I would like more ambient noises.
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See: Power Customization
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Quote:I see what you did there...Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
The biggest problem with the Doors was Morrison's inability to get his stuff together...
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If I were to take a "flight-of-fancy" look at it, it seems the Well doesn't care who gets it's power, as long as someone has the will to make it to the bottom of the rabbit hole. At the moment, the front-runner is Cole, but I think the the reward for winning the race isn't what Cole thinks it is. If I had to guess, I would say the Well wants a "walkin' around" body that can contain it's entire being. Now why the well would want this now is a mystery, but seeing as how we have had some "issues" with Rularuu lately, I would imagine the Well may sense a threat that Rularuu may reconstitute it's fragmented psyche and start consuming all of reality again.
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Quote:Sh looks like Linda Carter, who herself looks Greek.Originally Posted by BrandX
Now this I can agree with. Well, I don't know if her face looks like it hangs down from her temples per se, but then, could they find an actress who could do the roll who had the face, looks, and ability to act?
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Quote:Dubious at best.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
With it's revenue now up over 1,000% since it went F2P? Source
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Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I think they can come up with a better costume than that one.
Oh and dear lord I hope they come up with something better than the spin transformation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4TD8p_hB8
They'll probably just give her a pair of glasses to use as a disguise. I hear that works pretty well. -
God I wish they would fix that!
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Honestly, I can see past the shiny and and the makeup (which is reflective of the comic) and I think it looks ok. If anyone here though WW would be running around in a corset and bikini bottoms, is not quite in touch with reality, even Linda Evens had problem with the outfit she wore in the 70's and those look like granny-panties compared to today. I do think they could have made the effort to make the boots red though. Over all, this show will live or die on the script and cinematography. It has to look amazing and be intriguing.
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And lets not forget the glove and shoe options that completely override a skin texture you may have had going.
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Let me be the first to call this missile - Fired-And-Forgotten!
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I here I was about to sacrifice another puppy thinking this was another City Vault thread.