The latest update gave us a list of powers to play with. choosing animations are a big part of the build. For example, Ranged Burning could be flames, lasers, frost...even bullets. Psychic bullets scare me...weapons are just props that come with animations and attach to existing power sets: like Burning Claws. I imagine Brawn will be generally used for swords and such.
with that said, build a toon with the tools we now have (limited as they are). I just built Black Falcon from the list.
--I really want to see what inventive minds can do with a few hints and a little speculation
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Powers List
(all names tentative)
Protection
Burning · Agility · Invulnerability · Solid Form · Grit
Melee
Super Strength · Burning · Brawn · Dark · Kinetic
Ranged
Force · Burning · Kinetic · Psychic · Dark
Support
Heat Generation · Sonic · Devices · Force Field · Kinetic
Control
Gravity · Mind · Cold · Illusions · Force
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[b]Black Falcon build;[/b] just drawn from the above lists
Gladiator/Brute
[b]Melee: Dark
Protection: Burning[/b] (I will choose/purchase a minimized animation to show as little flame as possible, colors will be black and purple)
[b]Tertiary Powers: Brute Build[/b] increased strength/damage with Rage (?). standard brute stuff
the original Black Falcon was a Dark/Electrical Brute. I played her more as a solo character...the electrical was there for two reasons. The damage shield and the animation did not obscure the character like Dark Defense did - I want to SEE my toons. I loved to jump into a mob, take out the Boss, the Lieutenants, and by the time I was done, the damage shield took out the minions for me. I loved playing brutes for just that reason.
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[b]Bounty Hunter:[/b] Gunner build, not available at launch
[b]Ranged: Psychic[/b] (animation, two pistols. he shoots soul bullets)
[b]Protection: Solid Form.
Tertiary:[/b] Not enough information, but something weird, like true invisibility.
Bounty Hunter is a ghost from the old west. He wears a western outfit, gloves and a hat, but no head is visible (this is based of a thread that asked for an invisible skin option). His two six shooters never seem to run out of ammunition. He is back from the dead to seek redemption by hunting super villains. The more he succeeds, the more real he becomes. Right now he can eat meat and drink a refreshing beer.
(feel free to steal Bounty Hunter. I'm an altaholic, so I won't care. but Falcon is my baby, so hands off.
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Because Brawn as a name is confusing, let me explain a little bit. It is a combo-focused set, and has been bounced around numerous names, and likely will be renamed a few more times before we are happy. But, think Dual Blades or Street Justice.
Technical Director
Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
[b][font=lucida bright]AIko[/font][/b]
[b]Support: Force Fields[/b]
[b]Melee: Superstrength[/b] <-this is assuming that Superstrength is a better fit than Brawn is for, for example, Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider Man.
Tertiaries may include anything to simulate being able to hack most non-isolated computer systems or extra gear from her moms.
[font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] is a very lifelike gynoid. Because of events during her construction, she's been equipped with an extensive array of force field projectors. She is also much stronger than she looks.
([font=lucida bright]AIko[/font] is mine, unless you're in the Wearing the Cape 'verse, in which case she doesn't have the force fields and MGH has her license. ^_^ )
Foradain, Mage of Phoenix Rising.
[url=https://cityoftitans.com/forum/foradains-character-conclave]Foradain's Character Conclave[/url]
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Gonna be a bit presumptuous with the travel set as well...
[b]Nail
Melee:[/b] Super Strength
[b]Protection:[/b] Solid Form
[b]Travel:[/b] Parkour
Nail is a woman that, upon hitting puberty and her powers coming in, her body underwent a startling transformation from flesh and bone to strange non-ferrous metals. She's an athlete at heart, supported by the strength her powers give her. This is a character I've been intending to do in CoT for a while now.
An infinite number of tries doesn't mean that any one of those tries will succeed. I could flip an infinite number of pennies an infinite number of times and, barring genuine randomness, they will never come up "Waffles".
Since it's combo-based, any thought about naming it Kung Fu, Melee Techniques, Precision Melee, Fighting Styles, Rising Force Melee, Technical Melee, Combinatorial Melee, or some combination of those words?
R.S.O. of Phoenix Rising
Brawn (prior to an explanation) made me think of weaponless grappling/throws or weapons with slow high-damage stunning hits (war mace, broadsword) as opposed to the more precise or faster powersets (claws/Martial Arts/Katana/DB). I'd support a name adjustment; those are some good ideas, Radiac. "Combo Techniques" (if combos are the main feature and you want to make it really obvious) or "Precision Styles" (if combos aren't the only notable feature) might work too.
I'll be recreating all of my CoH characters as their powersets and class-spec options are released, but this startup list raises a few avenues I want to explore with totally new characters:
> SuperStrength/Agility, since CoH never quite proliferated it scrappers and it never felt right to me in playstyle or backstory to make as a brute.
> all variants involving resistance-based defenses for Stalwarts, Enforcers, and other classes when available. Like Cyclops, I was often thwarted in my designs by the fire, stone, and dark armor toggles obscuring my costume and character.
> Devices as both primary and secondary. I was never keen on its visual implementation in CoH, so I'm curious to see if more magical and ultra-tech aesthetics can be applied and test whatever unique mechanics it offers.
King Fu is more of an aesthetic theme. Combo Melee was the previous name. Tactical Combat and Tactical Fighting have been suggested. This covere both unarmed and armed melee, and are terms that have been used by special forces for their hand to hand and close-range combat training.
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[color=#ff0000]Tech Team. [/color]
I think the names Super Strength and Brawn are a bit confusing. If I'm understanding them right wouldn't Strength and Finesse be a little more descriptive?
Since the request hasn't been acknowledged or answered in the Powers thread, let's try it here.
There have been a few questions about which powers filter under which heading and "How can I create X power?" so far.
Can MWM provide more information on all of the launch powers so we understand the decoupled baselines?
If we understand the function & mechanics of the basic powersets, we can then apply the aesthetic form to complete the picture.
"Just, well, update your kickstarter email addresses, okay? Make sure they're current?" - warcabbit
As close to BS/Regen as I can get. :)
I'm betting your answer will be a future update all by itself. It'll take more than a a single post to answer.
But Devs, I would like to see a few examples myself. Your powers system is fascinating, and the myriad of combinations will may take years of play to master! I really cannot wait to sink my teeth into character creation, and the resulting discussions here on the forum.
The sheer variety already available is dramatic.
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[b]Cool Whip[/b]
gladiator
[b]Melee: Burning[/b] animated as ice/cold powers
[b]Prop: Whip
Protection: Flaming[/b] also animated as ice powers
the Frigid Felonious Feline with the Fantastically Fabulous Mad Magic Whip
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TIR37 a.k.a. Terminal Incident Report 37 (part of a series inspired by the SCP concept)
A humanoid corium construct, origin unknown or TBD (possible lore connection to a nuclear reactor accident, but adding an unreported magical attempt at containment that was partly successful).
Stalwart
Primary - Solid Form, aesthetics of molten metal if possible, otherwise solid metal. Damage aura power (if any) made to look like glowing particles. Supplemented by costume choices to appear as dull metallic under normal conditions, with a mild flame aura.
Secondary - Burning, aesthetics would be a mix of electric arcs, flames, and bursts of light depending on the specific power being used.
Hooray for "stone" tanks no longer stuck with one Granite appearance!
I would re-create my TW/WP brute but better! And here's how:
Since Titan Weapons are props, I guess maybe Kinetic for Melee to attempt to emulate Brute's Fury and/or Momentum? You know, something that let's me sustain a damage boost as long as I remain in combat or degrades over time out of combat. I'd also like Momentum but not like the builder/spender that CoX implemented but instead to have a scalar value like Fury that affects attack animation time. All Primary attacks would contribute to build up (or maintain) a Momentum value up to a cap that allowed for attacks to animate faster. This Momentum value would degrade slowly while in combat and [i]quickly[/i] if out of combat. Maybe even degrade less quickly if moving?
As much as I loved my TW/WP brute, I definitely would have preferred this version over what they implemented. I even PM-ed Synapse at one point, but he said the amount of work involved to implement it that way would have been a non-starter. It was disappointing because I wanted it to be different from other build/spender/combo systems that we had seen previously, such as Dual Blades or Street Justice.
+1 for Tactical Combat as a name for combo using power sets. Spot on.
FIGHT EVIL! (or go cause trouble so the Heroes have something to do.)
To me naming it Martial Arts would be better since it conveys a much more structured form of combat that in part uses follow-ups from previous attacks, a.k.a it's much about planning ahead. Tactical Combat is a bit too broad for me since it sounds like you look at the encounter as a whole (including teammates) and just yourself but also because it's purpose/role agnostic.
On the other hand SS would be, to me again, one "style" within Brawling which imo is a better name than SS, which conveys a much more unorganized form of combat where you just throw the punch or kick you think is best at that point or even just feel like doing.
For aesthetic decoupling they would be effectively interchangeable since nothing prevents one from using martial arts moves in an unorganized way and nothing stops one from thinking ahead while just throwing punches and kicks around.
Kid Rad
Former wrestler who was mutated by radiation to have super strength, so the logical choice would be:
Melee: Super Stength
Protection: Invulnerability
Alastor
Fallen demon, formerly executor of lucifer's sentences, now fighting for good.
Ranged: Burning
Control: Illusions
The thing with Martial Arts is that the name can be misleading in that it is heavily influenced by Eastern fighting styles. Where as you could end up using animations which are very opposite of conventional fighting styles. Martial Arts will most likely fall along the line of a category of themes.
Naming needs to convey something about how the set operates, if possible the mechanical and aesthetic themes, without being too specific, too broad, too bland, too obscure a term, or too much of a stretch of the term.
Tactical Combat can cover both conventional martial arts as you described, but more uncoventional fighting using both armed and unarmed combat, and it conveys that there is some thought that can go into how to combine powers for combinations.
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[color=#ff0000]Tech Team. [/color]
Can I use Martial arts with Burning Melee? Fire Fist. He does more property damage than Iron Fist.
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Yes you could. You can use martial arts animations for ranged attacks too. You could take that Burning Melee set, give it hammer, with eletricity and now you have an electric hammer. Aesthetic decoupling makes it si you could have the same exact two characters but their look (costume and powers) are completely different.
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[color=#ff0000]Tech Team. [/color]
I. LOVE. THIS. GAME!
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[b]Redcap:[/b] Stalwart/Bulwark
[b]Side:[/b] Blue
[b]Protection:[/b] Grit
[b]Melee:[/b] Brawn
[b]Prop:[/b] Dual Blades
[b]Tertiary:[/b] Something ice based
[b]Travel:[/b] Super Jump... or Tunneling if available
He was my Blueside main and I'd really like to bring him over to Titan City.
What's to say, you all know 'em. He's not as bad as Snaptooth though.
Red is more of a lovable rogue and heroic sociopath, kinda like Wolverine. Only bigger. And magical.
(It's Slumbering Season!)
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[b]Mephiles:[/b] Guardian/Sentinel
[b]Side:[/b] Red
[b]Support:[/b] Heat Generation
[b]Prop:[/b] Trident
[b]Ranged:[/b] Burning
[b]Tertiary:[/b] not sure yet... something with KB maybe?
[b]Travel:[/b] Flight
"Hey you. Yes you, you're evil right? That's great, really... but those goodie two shoes look mightily tough. Need help?
What? What I want in return? Why... I just want to help you, to [b]BURN THIS WORLD TO A CRISP[/b]. And afterwards we can dance in the ashes if you like."
A scrawny guy in what appears to be a cheap devil suit, but with an evil smile and fire in his eyes
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[b]Chimera:[/b] Enforcer/Gladiator
[b]Side:[/b] Red
[b]Melee:[/b] Burning (bleed)
[b]Prop:[/b] Claws
[b]Protection:[/b] Solid Form (chitin)
[b]Tertiary:[/b] RAGE!
[b]Travel:[/b] Parkour... possibly Super Jump
Chimera was once human, she is sure of that... sort of. She worked(stayed?) in a lab. Was she a scientist, a test subject or maybe just the janitor? Doesn't matter now. When the lab blew up (why did it blow up? Yes, there was that hero...what did he do?), that life ended. She was weak... No More. She was afraid when the transformation began, but the pain washed any fears away. Now there is little more than rage left in her. Maybe one day... one day, when she can calm down, she can regain enough sentience to do something about her state. But for now she hunts. That hero's gonna pay. (too bad for everyone else, that she doesn't remember what he looked like =P)
Chimera is a hulking green/purple-furred monstrosity with a horned wolf's head and gorilla like arms ending in massive claws. When threatened, her mutable body covers itself in heavy chitin plates.
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[b]The Outsider:[/b] Ranger/Partisan
[b]Side:[/b] Blue
[b]Ranged:[/b] Force/Kinetic (whatever fits better)
[b]Prop:[/b] Tentacles (please MWM, don't leave me hanging here)
[b]Support:[/b] Sonic (Darkness would be perfect...oh, well)
[b]Tertiary:[/b] Self-Heal
[b]Travel:[/b] Wallcrawling/Swing
A somewhat innocent, kind hearted [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumanoidAbomination]humanoid abomination[/url] grown from a severed part of something eldritch (I'll have to wait and see what CoT's lore has to offer) and dressed in discarded clothes. But a hooded trench coat will be a must to not scare the populace... too much. Maybe a rudimentary costume hand sewn from rags?
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HUdf89hI8]Send out your signal, call in your hero
I kidnapped his lady, now his power's are zero.
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My first 4 characters will be my 4 mains from CoH brought over here. They'll be:
A Burning/SuperStrength Bulwark w/Flight
A Burning (lightning themed, hopefully)/SuperStrength (With a Hammer/Mace prop) Bulwark w/Flight
A Protection (whichever Primary will allow me to equip a physical shield prop)/Burning (with a Sword prop) Bulwark w/SuperJump
A Brawn (hopefully Martial Arts Themed)/ Protection/Support(whichever secondary will allow me to equip a physical shield prop) Enforcer (Gladiator or Bodyguard depends on shield thing) w/SuperJump
Hopefully, I'll be able to get close to their inspirations.
On the edge of your Perceptions......
Turn away and feel his hand upon your shoulder.....
Look for him and he shall not exist.....
in the middle of the crowd....lost in the faces....
Stands a Figure....of Gray......
+1 for Tactical Combat as well!
On the edge of your Perceptions......
Turn away and feel his hand upon your shoulder.....
Look for him and he shall not exist.....
in the middle of the crowd....lost in the faces....
Stands a Figure....of Gray......
Chi : Control/Range
Control : Gravity by sorcery symbols on the floor
Protection: Kinetic through sorcey signs (drawn in the air <3 )
Tertiary: I really don't know... Oppression maybe
Travel: Fly
I hope we'll see, soon, something which alow us to "build" our hero :)
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Aren't nails typically iron, FE for Ferrous?
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The very existence of the taunting tank irritates, for it requires idiotic AI that obeys the taunt.
For my Mercenary - name currently classified
Archtype : Commander
Primary: Kinetic (Gun props)
Secondary: Devices or Agility
Tertiary: Any Agility, Team Support Buffs and Medical
Travel: Free-running and (Equivalent of Combat Jumping)
Maybe it comes more from the expression "tough as nails"?
Wait wait wait.... we're going to start off with a gimmick power? That's awesome!!!!
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Also? I have question... what's the difference between Grit, Solid Form and Invulnerability? They all sound like they do the same thing much like super strength and brawn
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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About the same difference as between Willpower, Stone and Invul
Technical Director
Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
Oh okay cool :]
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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The Beekeeper
Villain
Hunter
Ranged: Burning (BEEEEESS!!!!)
Manipulation: Burning (MORE BEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!)
Tertiary: BURNING (PROBABLY MORE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!)
Prop: A rifle..... (THAT SHOOTS BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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That was the idea, yeah.
It's also to show she's not super clever, given her name is kind of counter to what she is and does.
An infinite number of tries doesn't mean that any one of those tries will succeed. I could flip an infinite number of pennies an infinite number of times and, barring genuine randomness, they will never come up "Waffles".
Hammering bad guys into the ground?^^
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HUdf89hI8]Send out your signal, call in your hero
I kidnapped his lady, now his power's are zero.
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Big old school 2d fighter fan, so my character, hypothetically pending what is available would be an humanoid bird with gi, who can tap into his powers to become a flaming bird.
Melee: Burning
Protection: Burning
As a child, I thought my name was handsome, cause that is what everyone called me.
I may actually change the name that I've gone by for quite awhile in CoT. Undecided! However, if I can pull it off, since weapons seem to be props (awesome this way if it's like I imagine)...
Primary: Brawn (Titan Weapon/Martial Arts)
Secondary: Grit (if it's like WP, it may be the closest I can get to a Regen/Reflexes combo. Hopefully this time around, I can actually get positional defense -concept- with regen/burst heal...so like my Stalker WP that was LOVE)
Tertiary: Dual Pistols!
But right now, this is all me imagining the game playing like Devil May Cry and me being all giddy with anticipation! :p
Rookie Blue
Gladiator
Primary: Burning (Stun Baton)
Secondary: Agility (ninjitsu)
Tertiaries: a bunch of control power to represent police equipment and ninja tools, also? A side arm that shoots rubber bullets
Story: Anai Kull, is a ninja who has taken on the mantle of a police officer. She combines ninjitsu and police equipment and training to fight crime.
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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The Taser
Primary: Burning Protection (electrified armour)
Secondary:Burning Melee (Street justice style fighting enhanced by electrified armour)
Tertiaries: Burning ranged and control powers to represent other electrical based equipment he has
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Fixed that for you! #GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2
You... I like you...
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Stone Monkey
Gladiator
Primary: Brawn (Staff melee combined with geokinetic abilities)
Secondary: Agility (kung fu)
Tertiaries: Control and ranged attacks focused on geokinesis
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Proffesor Blighter
Gunner
Primary: Burning (a rifle that shoots radiation)
Secondary: Invulnerability (power suit)
Tertiaries: Burning Control (other functions of the radiation spewing rifle)
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Phantom Noir
Primary: Gravity Control (poltergeist powers)
Secondary: Kinetic Ranged (Pistol)
Tertiary: Dark melee attacks
A detective who has died in the 1930's and can't go to the afterlife until he's solved his own murder
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Just saw that movie today.
/em rofl
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
I'm gonna see it tomorrow, it's the present I'm giving my mom for mother's day
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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The Grey Man
Primary:Mind control (just general mind control powers)
Secondary: Devices (alien tech with a retro 50's feel)
Tertiaries: Burning ranged (for his laser pistol)
The Greay Man is a stereotypical looking grey alien in a suit, tie and sunglasses. He a secret agent for his race, called the Greys, to prepare earth for it's invasion.
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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I can barely remember when I was just a woman, just a girl, but I was one – once.
I can just remember the first time the Goddess came to me, came into me, came over me, filled me, possessed me, spoke through me, and worked miracles through my hands.
And not just one goddess, but all goddesses, who are one goddess, over and over, through time.
I journeyed from place to place and people to people, as time passed.
Goddess-touched, I grew no older, I did not die – I went on.
Filled with power and miracles, I remained powerful.
I was Inanna. I was Ishtar. I was Isis.
I was Ashera, Astarte, Anahit, Artemis.
Many goddesses and one.
But she came less often.
And less often.
And not at all.
I was alone.
For a long time.
Now it is a new time, a new place, with new gods and goddesses.
And I am here.
[b]Astarte Tsovinaar[/b] - 'Goddess' of Love and War and Fire and Storm and Chaos
Primary: Ranged Burning (Fire)
Secondary: Storm Summoning (Support)
Tertiaries: As needed for balance.
Signature Move: Freezing Rain and Rain of Fire = 'Rain of Chaos'
Be Well!
Fireheart
The Ink painter
Primary:Ranged: Burning (his signature "ink")
Secondary: Manipulation: Burning (more of his ink)
Jason Thorn, is a sociopath capable of creating and controlling a bizzare, corrosive ink like substance. His main way of killing is to leave his victims in the form of various famous painting and sculptors
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Not available at launch, Gunner, ranged + protection.
[b]Bazooka Joe[/b] placeholder till I think of a better name
[b]Ranged:[/b] Kinetic (animation military weaponry, Guns, grenades, tank fire, etc) (prop: Fired not from weapons, but from a pointed finger)
[b]Defense:[/b] Solid Form
[b] Movement[/b] Parkour.
[b]Tertiary[/b] Probably defensive, he wants to just stand there and take it.
Joe is a kid who watched too many WWII movies. His mutant power manifested and he could fire any existing weapon from his pointed finger. He's not a trained soldier and doesn't dress the part. He's just a kid out to help the world. Sure he does a lot more property damage than other heroes, but thats what the mask and gloves are for.
He wears jeans, tennis shoes (non designer--he can't afford them), a spandex shirt, steel gauntlets, and a simple mask.
Joe thinks he is a tank. He's not, but his solid form lets him advance into fire generally unharmed.
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My first character is always grossly over-complicated, with later ones being more identifiable, so.... I'll stick with tradition! =P
Alias: (unsure, might end up going by a given name and not a super one. May go super-generic also.)
Side: Neutral if possible, or an unusually altruistic villain or unlawful/disinterested hero.
Melee: Superstrength (bare hands, random implements, or claws)
Defense: Agility (super-human reflexes and senses)
Movement: Acrobatics + Wallcrall
Tertiary: Something that weakens or hurts over time to show a natural toxin, animated by spit attack or quills (eventually), possibly from Dark ranged?
Background: Just an underclass poor biopunk (person who does bio-research out of a garage, shed, or basement and not for any official group) who started self-testing. No, he wasn't sick, nor looking for revenge, he just believes he owns his own body, and felt like it. Moved to the city of titans because freaks are overlooked there (comparatively) and can blend in. Will mod the willing for a fee, even though it's probabily illegal. But, will also help someone if he's in a position to. Will end up more hero or more villain depending on how the city reacts to his "life choice" and may change sides repeatedly (if possible). Starting motivations are base survival (money, shelter, safety) and fighting for self-ownership of the body (aka right to mod).
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Edit: Added joke character for Blue side: A super-annoying super-cheesy pop diva type that blue wishes was red so they could hit him.
Alias: Dash Majestic
Side: Blue
Support: Sonic (singing)
Range: Dark (high-tech crowd suppression device, like a space-age equivalent of pepper spray or tazer, for fighting off fan mobs by weakening and not killing them)
Movement: Flight (high-tech hover boots or something)
Tertiary: Dark melee (same as ranged)
Background: Alien pop star who's star faded so he came to Earth to make a super-hero themed reality show and try to rebound his career. Utterly annoying, self-obsessed, and presumptuous, like Zoolander combined with Booster Gold, yet somehow worse. Considered attractive where he comes from, but probably hideous to our eyes (diff cultures have different ideas of beauty). Hand him battle plans and he'll autograph them and hand them back without reading.
Long Face
Archetype: Partisan
Ranged: Burning (tesla cannon)
Support: Devices (steampunk)
Long Face is from a race of alien anthropomorphic horse people known as Equins who have a natural affinity with steampunk technology and have a penchant for talking like the Lutece twins from bioshock infinite. He was sent to earth to improve their society and make it suitable for the Equins.
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Back on track :p
Sky Trooper
Archetype: Partisan
Ranged: Kinetic
Support: Force Field
Tertiary: Flight, Fighting (I'm assuming there's a decent melee tert)
Extra-Terrestrial known to use winds to assault opponents and protect his allies, and is also an excellent hand-to-hand combatant.
May be reimagined as a Kinetic/Agility scrapper.
Aesthetic: using grey clouds as the kinetic blasts and using minimal/grey-white force fields.
On Brawn: I'm in favor of Tactical Combat, but there're few ways to easily capture melee quicker than super strength AND various weapons.
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Iron Badge
Primary: Brawn
Secondary: Grit
Iron Badge is a time displaced medieval knight turned cop, fighting evil with a riot shield and nightstick
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Can one be a cop and not use a gun?
Tertiaries my dude
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Ask a [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19641398]British bobby[/url].
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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Iron Badge is his hero name. His real name is Wotsall Thisthen.
Twitter: @SisterSilicon
I wouldn't be asking the question, if the game took place in the UK :p
As a matter of fact, there was a CoH player who was a RL cop who played a character that used no lethal devices. He won some reality TV superhero contest back in 2006 or 2007 as that character. I'm totally blanking on the name, but Redlynne and I got to meet him at the NCSoft Meet & Greet at Dave & Busters here in Austin in September 2007.
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
...and just then Iron Badge changed from a dragon slaying knight cop, to a british supercop who's basically axe cop with a night stick instead of an axe
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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I recall that. However, that too had me asking the same thing :p
You know if I remember the history correctly back in the early 1800s the so-called London "police" of the time had such a horrible reputation of brutally beating up and harassing people that they were collectively almost worse than the criminals they were supposed to be protecting "innocent" people from.
After a series of reforms they finally became a more civilized and professional organization. Part of the reason they traditionally don't carry firearms now was part of that "taming" process to effectively "decriminalize" them and make them less likely to hurt people they weren't suppose to hurt. They're named "bobbies" because the name of the PM that was responsible for many of the reforms was named Sir Robert Peel - so they were in effect "Bob's men" or "bobbies".
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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That would be Jarrett Crippen aka @Detective2416 from Champion, who's original character's name was 'TakeDown' but due to copyright issues had to change it to 'The Defuser' for 'Who Wants To Be A Superhero?'. We teamed-up at HeroCon for some group competition activities with some other Champions, like the scavenger hunt, and he's a super nice guy all around. According to Facebook, he's actually retiring soon from being a police officer, but to answer your original question about cops and non-lethal weapons: his character was technically a vigilante who used non-lethal weapons, but police officers do have tasers and pepper spray and collapsible batons as non-lethal means of force, and technically bean-bag shotgun rounds.
And yet we manage to turn teasers into lethal weapons, confuse them with sidearms, and pepper spray immobile protestors.
Stun phasers can't come soon enough for us. We're bad at this.
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
Speaking of lethal weapons, did you know that Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs? True story.
linx or gtfo
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
When Chuck Norris was born he drove his mom home from the hospital.
Chuck Norris has a diary. It's called the Guinness Book of World Records.
Chuck Norris threw a grenade and killed 50 people, then it exploded.
Chuck Norris doesn't worry about high gas prices. His vehicles run on fear.
Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice.
Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
When a zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.
Big foot claims he saw Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris can hear sign language.
Once a cobra bit Chuck Norris' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.
Chuck Norris doesn't cheat death. He wins fair and square.
Giraffes were created when Chuck Norris uppercutted a horse.
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris is the reason Waldo is hiding.
Jack was nimble, Jack was quick, but Jack still couldn't dodge Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick.
Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.
There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
Chuck Norris' calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd. No one fools Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris once fought superman. The loser had to wear his underwear over his pants.
Chuck Norris can kill your imaginary friends.
Chuck Norris's computer has no "backspace" button, Chuck Norris doesn't make mistakes.
Chuck can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
Chuck Norris makes onions cry.
Chuck Norris is the only person that can punch a cyclops between the eye.
When Chuck Norris enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.
M.C. Hammer learned the hard way that Chuck Norris can touch this.
Chuck Norris plays russian roulette with a fully loded revolver... and wins.
Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.
Bill Gates lives in constant fear that Chuck Norris' PC will crash.
Chuck Norris is the only person on the planet that can kick you in the back of the face.
Chuck refers to himself in the fourth person.
Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
Chuck Norris doesn't have good aim. His bullets just know better than to miss.
Chuck Norris wins games of charades without moving.
Chuck Norris makes fire by rubbing 2 ice cubes together.
Chuck Norris tells Simon what to do.
Chuck Norris knows Victoria's secret.
Chuck Norris's Blood Type is AK-47.
Brett Favre can throw a football over 50 yards. Chuck Norris can throw Brett Favre even further.
When Chuck Norris gives you the finger, he's telling you how many seconds you have left to live.
Chuck Norris can speak braille.
Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
Cars look both ways before Chuck Norris crosses the street.
Chuck Norris will roundhouse kick you in the back of your head while clipping his toe nails.
Chuck Norris once bowled a perfect game with a marble.
Chuck Norris beat Halo 1, 2, and 3 on Legendary with a broken Guitar Hero controller.
Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
Chuck Norris doesn't play "hide-and-seek." He plays "hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you."
Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience.
Chuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".
Chuck actually died four years ago, but the Grim Reaper can't get up the courage to tell him.
Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
Chuck Norris can unscramble an egg.
Chuck Norris doesnt wear a watch. He decides what time it is.
Chuck Norris can hit you so hard your blood will bleed.
Chuck Norris CAN find the end of a circle.
Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete.
Chuck Norris once robbed a gun store with a knife.
Chuck Norris doesn't lie. He simply changes the truth.
Chuck Norris recorded the making of the first video camera.
Chuck Norris can make a happy meal cry.
Tsunamis are created by Chuck Norris practicing round house kicks on the beach.
Chuck Norris was dropped twice as a baby. Once on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki.
Chuck Norris can drown a fish.
The reason newborn babies cry is because they know they have just entered a world with Chuck Norris.
Police label anyone attacking Chuck Norris as a Code 45-11.... a suicide.
The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.
Chuck Norris can kill you 101 different ways with a roll of extra-soft toilet paper.
Every one of Chuck Norris blood cells have black belts.
Global warming will end as soon as Chuck Norris puts his shirt back on.
Chuck Norris uses hot sauce as eye drops.
Chuck Norris never fails, he tells success to come back when it's ready for him.
Chuck Norris beat a black hole in tug of war.
In space Chuck Norris can hear you scream.
Chuck Norris can follow you into a revolving door and come out ahead of you.
Elvis Presley, Richard Petty, Budweiser, and Michael Jackson all call Chuck Norris "The King".
The world did not have a tilt in its axis until Chuck Norris stubbed his toe on the North Pole.
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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Blue Shield plays an MMORPG. In that game, his character is named Chuck Norris.
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Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
On the tenth of March, two years ago, Chuck Norris hit 75.
75 is still in a coma.
Foradain, Mage of Phoenix Rising.
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Ah, Lothic, you did keep a chat log from Star Trek Online's launch!
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
People bothered to spout these off during STO's launch? I don't remember that but I'm sure I could have easily missed it. I just cut-n-pasted from a "Top 100 Chuck Norris quote list" I googled. ;)
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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The Constable
Primary: Brawn
Secondary:Invulnrability
The Constable is a steampunk british super soldier from the late 1800s. He has super strength and invulnerability.
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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The Soprano
Primary: Dark (enchanted baseball bat)
Secondary: Burning (other effects of the enchanted baseball bat)
Tertiaries: Ranged dark (powers of the enchanted baseball bat)
The Soprano is the name of a supervillain working with the Unforgiven who wields an iron bat that was used to assassinate an Fairy Princess, the blood of which enchanted the bat turning it into a powerful weapon
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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[b]Blue Deville[/b] was a college student and a football fan. Her mutation fit with her preferred team mascot perfectly.
[b]Gladiator:
Primary:[/b] Burning (prop is a b!tchin cool staff)
[b]Secondary:[/b] solid form with NO special effect
[b]Tertiary:[/b] rage defense and damage
a better view
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Fireballs, machine guns, and giant slicing claws were not technically lethal in COH as everyone was teleported to a hospital (or, in the case of bad guys, The Ziggurat), healed, and let go or caged accordingly.
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The very existence of the taunting tank irritates, for it requires idiotic AI that obeys the taunt.
Hopefully CoT has a better storyline for that, than that crap CoH had.
Do you have any suggestions for 'better'?
Be Well!
Fireheart
I DO!
Just don't have one! :)
You die. You just rez to a waypoint/whatever we want to call it/mission start point and continue the mission and keep it all meta. And those with a rez power can use it to rez where they are.
So, just let the explanation be whatever it is. I admit, Most of the games I've played didn't bother with a story for what happens to you, when you de-rez. Maybe it's the Rapture?
Be Well!
Fireheart
Your character loses consciousness. They wake up wandering through their hometown in the past, seeing but not hearing, and notice the occasional store sign blurred out. Then the world goes white and they wake up on the moon, with the Earth hanging in the sky, but there's a lake and snow. After a minute, they realize it's a spirit realm, and the snow is the memories lost by those before them. Calmly, they give up a memory of their own, fade, and wake up back in the hospital.
:P
[i]Has anyone seen my mind? It was right here...[/i]
I dunno....I was good with the First View...... >.>
On the edge of your Perceptions......
Turn away and feel his hand upon your shoulder.....
Look for him and he shall not exist.....
in the middle of the crowd....lost in the faces....
Stands a Figure....of Gray......
Was part of the problem with CoH lore. "All who get hurt go to hospital. No one dies! Unless you're Statesman!" :p
Count Stravos
Villain
Primary: Dark
Secondary: Agility
Tertiaries: Mind control
Count Stravos is a Space Vampire from the planet Nosforatu here to suck your blood
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Iron Serpent
Primary: Kinetic ranged
Secondary: Devices
Tertiaries: Brawn
A member of the Five Dragons who uses a mix of gun fu and metal magic in combat
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Dr. Pain
Villain
Primary: Brawn
Secondary: Invulnerability
Tertiaries: Devices
Dr. Pain is a mad scientist who, due to self experimentation, can grow physically stronger and more durable with the more pain he's feeling
Beatbox
Hero
Primary:Brawn
Secondary: Agility
Tertiaries: Sonic
A masked hero that uses dance themed fighting and music themed gadgets, he's kind of like a mix between Lucio from overwatch and batman
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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The Cosmonaut
Villain
Primary:Gravity Control
Secondary: Devices
Tertiaries: Burning (laser blaster)
Zangief Karloff was once an astronaut who crashed his ship and was accidently thrusted into a cosmic storm made of bizaare and alien energies, he returns to earth again, wearing nothing more then a damaged space suit and preaching about "The Glow" who he claims to be the true lord of reality, with a heightened intellect and a gravity powers he will do his lord's strange and dark bidding
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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Xi Long
Hero
Primary: Brawn (kung fu mixed with metal bending)
Secondary: Agility
Tertiaries: force control (metal bending)
A man who used to be apart of the 5 dragons, metal branch, before quitting and becoming a private detective
not my video just one I lke ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-SdIN0hsM
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EDITTING BECAUSE I NOW UNDERSTAND TERTIARIES BETTER
Name: Safehouse Or Overload - undecided
Hero, Magical
Primary Powers: Super Strength or Brawn, intended to look less like "Hulk SMASH" and more like Spiderman fast-paced brawling like powers. Think street justice. If I can give it particle effects I will.
Secondary Powers: Agility. If the game ever has a defensive set like "phasing," or if I can make agility look like phasing with aesthetic decoupling, that would be preferable. I really hope for phasing thematically. Again, if I can give it particle effects I will.
Tertiary: Force Blast. My understanding of tertiaries is that you can give someone, even a melee fighter, ranged capabilities. If an energy blast tertiary is available at launch, I intend to use it to round out this character's magical power.
Travel: Super speed/super jump. Acrobatics.
Something of a "late bloomer," he didn't awaken his magical gifts until he reached his 20s, after which he was shown to have unusual talents. An event in his childhood "broke him", and because of that he cannot call upon magic power for spells like his peers can. Instead his power floods through his body, granting him great strength, especially when he consciously releases it. He can shoot energy blasts, although if he overuses this ability, he begins to weaken. Long battles are not his strong suit as a result.
Name: Safehouse
Ranger: Gunner
Primary: Force Blast
Secondary: Atrophic Aura
Tertiary: Kinetic Melee
Travel Power: Parkour
Status: Traveling. Following rumors of a huge city in Massachusetts that is teeming with supers.
I felt like this thread was pretty neat, so i wanted to bump it with another one.
A concept I did in DCUO, because my heroes usually overlap. Meaning, I usually create the same heroes in DCUO, CO, etc.
Kryptonian/Saiyan: Many comic book fans are anime fans. Many want to see Goku vs Superman, so I figured to incorporate both heroes into one cross-over concept. Like Ultron Sigma, but with a Kryptonian flavor, like Val Zod. & there are not Black Saiyans, hehe.
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Primary Powers: Fighting prowess; unlike thoroughbred Kryptonians, having Saiyan blood makes him a better overall fighter. More of a powerful hand-to-hand specialist.
Secondary Powers: Super Agility
Tertiary: Blast
Travel Power: Flight
Obviously I am not going to put an "S" on his chest. In CO, I had clever ways of avoiding the petty police "Marvel, etc"
The Black Panther would literally be a black panther. One that the CO people seem to like is The Incredible Hawk, whom is a man whom literally transforms into a huge green hawk. Get a lot of compliments on that one. Or The Phoenix was a Phoenix, whom wore green and yellow. Anyway, back to the topic.
As a child, I thought my name was handsome, cause that is what everyone called me.