Power Customization and Existing Hero/Villain Themes
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Captain_Photon,
Posted on: 2009-09-22 20:43 in Suggestions and Ideas
I like it! I dunno as I'd ever use it, but I like the principle.
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Ditto.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
I like it! I dunno as I'd ever use it, but I like the principle.
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I suggested this in open beta and alas it didn't make it in.
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This * 2. Although, I'd elect for the names 'Heroic' and 'Villainous' instead, as that sounds a bit more apt than just 'Hero' and 'Villain' IMO.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
I like it! I dunno as I'd ever use it, but I like the principle.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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I do like those better. My names were just suggestions to get the point across, but yours are good. |
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
This * 2. Although, I'd elect for the names 'Heroic' and 'Villainous' instead, as that sounds a bit more apt than just 'Hero' and 'Villain' IMO.
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Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
With Power Customization we can do many wonderful things to change our powersets. However, there are subtle differences between what we can achieve with customization and the original appearances of powers. For example you usually can't recreate the exact appearance of the "original" powersets using the customization palettes.
Additionally, some time back, there were differences introduced in the "original" effects for powersets shared between heroes and villains. Many people are aware of the striking visual differences between Tanker or Scrapper Invulnerability and the Brute version. Dark Blast and Miasma for Corruptors and Masterminds are darker and more opaque than the Defender versions. Electrically themed powersets are blue for heroes and red for villains.
The suggestion here is to expand the "original" selection to offer two non-modifiable preset: "Hero" and "Villain". This would allow, for example, a Brute to use the default Tanker Invulnerability effects. Clearly a majority of powersets might not have any such options since they lack different versions on the two sides.
I come here with this suggestion because I have villain characters for whom I actually liked the original "heroic" effects which their powersets had, but which were changed at a later time. Yet I cannot adequately reproduce the original heroic versions with the customization palettes. I would really like the choice to use either version on either side of the game, based on visual preferences.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA