Kanade wrote:

Also another thing I would like are mini skirts, lots of mini skirts. (No idea if thats been covered). But I have found in other mmos I have been playing is the lack of mini skirts or good mini skirts. Leather, frilly, plaid and so on. I am a huge anime fan so I like their kind of outfits. Stockings, long pigtails and things like that.

So do you want CoT to have [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DangerouslyShortSkirt]Dangerously Short Skirts[/url] or have you considered whether UE4 can handle [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicSkirt]Magic Skirts[/url] or not? ;)

Bah, I bet you just want to put frikkin Lasers on your frikkin Shark-head, *grin*

Be Well!
Fireheart

Halae wrote:

So, something that consistently bugs me about choices of power armor in games, with few exceptions, is that it's all sleek. Now, I get that Sleek tends to look finished, look good, but sometimes, I'd prefer something more... brutal. Something that looks more like the person wearing it is going to pound you into the dirt with his fists. Something hard looking, angular, military, that sort of thing.I spent a bit looking for examples of what I meant, and found a guy on deviantart called "StTheo" who does almost exclusively the type of work I mean. Picked out a few choice images for the sort of thing I mean; angular armor with sharp edges and a very military feel to them. there's also a couple outright robots towards the end, because while robots will generally be humanoid, that doesn't mean they have to be human shaped. They've also got some examples of military gear and/or clothing hanging off them, which would be a cool addition.http://imgur.com/a/rauxrIf you want to see his deviantart, it's here:http://sttheo.deviantart.com/I feel like "sleek" isn't always a good thing when it comes to armor of this sort - I much prefer heavy, functional gear myself, and there's definitely a place for "put together in a scrap heap", particularly for someone who's just starting out, and the typical sleek aesthetic doesn't work for those. there's also villains, who want something to be more effective than showy; for example, a soldier come home from a war with powers. A tinker who doesn't have the funding for more than scrap from the local junkyard. That sort of thing. It's just about having breadth of choice, you know?

If they could keep the Helmets proportional, avoid doing the Stargate thing with some of the goa'uld armored soldiers..
ex:
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Jaffa_mask.jpg[/img]

it didnt look right to me. :{

Oh, another request from me - I'd really love for there to be truly bulky robes in the game. Like, you look at CoH, and the closest you got to bulky robes was the Circle of Thorns stuff, which was baggy pants and a baggy shirt, for the most part. I personally am looking for something a bit closer to what Black Desert developed for their wizard class, because it's a sorely underrepresented clothing style. [url=http://i.imgur.com/xzjIsXS.jpg]Here's an example of what i mean.[/url] Note that the belt going under the outer robe, rather than over it; for some reason, that seems really important to me.

I'm a fan of bulky robes for several reasons. the first is because they're one of the very few outfits that can be totally concealing of the body within without looking bad. The robe is also classically well embroidered, allowing players to figure out what sort of design they want on a surprisingly large canvas that emblems on the chest or something just don't quite match up to. Even the hem of the robe can be interesting; the bottom of the robe can hang in tatters, can be straight, be embroidered, can hang in several tails, lots of things.

Izzy wrote:

I know this is out of context, but made me think about using Sliders to control the length of Capes Trench Coats, Scarves, etc...

Scarf slider now needs to extend to 16 feet. Why? No reason ...

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt171/RazyCal/Crochet%20Projects/TomBaker.jpg

Mentioned this in another thread, but costumes similar to Roinesh from Champions Online and Venom/Carnage. Amorphous, tentacles from arms, back, etc.

CAPES

Half cape/but cape combo
[img]http://s32.postimg.org/3ng7qri2d/zephyr_character_sheet_commission_by_phil_cho_d7.jpg[/img]

Wing cape
[img]http://s32.postimg.org/ysn01nrjp/gaviota_by_gaston25_by_legacyherocomics_d46vdfx.jpg[/img]

I think the wrinkled shoulder cape is just a cloak thrown back by the arms, but either way I'm game.

PS, the guy with the red eye's is probably about to lose consciousness... I don't think she is helping.

Halae wrote:

Oh, another request from me - I'd really love for there to be truly bulky robes in the game. Like, you look at CoH, and the closest you got to bulky robes was the Circle of Thorns stuff, which was baggy pants and a baggy shirt, for the most part. I personally am looking for something a bit closer to what Black Desert developed for their wizard class, because it's a sorely underrepresented clothing style. Here's an example of what i mean. Note that the belt going under the outer robe, rather than over it; for some reason, that seems really important to me.
I'm a fan of bulky robes for several reasons. the first is because they're one of the very few outfits that can be totally concealing of the body within without looking bad. The robe is also classically well embroidered, allowing players to figure out what sort of design they want on a surprisingly large canvas that emblems on the chest or something just don't quite match up to. Even the hem of the robe can be interesting; the bottom of the robe can hang in tatters, can be straight, be embroidered, can hang in several tails, lots of things.

DITTO!

Robes were horribly underused in CoH. What bothered me was that groups like CoT had a variety of robes, none of which toons could have.

City of Titans needs to take a better approach on robes.

Understanding the first outfits will be spandex related, I want cleavage, various neck/collar options, and shoulder pad options.
Notice the elaborate collar here, she has a choker that matches the leather outfit, its has an emblem/logo, and the outfit still has an upturned collar to frame it.
and the shoulder pads, with glowing stuff! I love glowing stuff. Please include glowing stuff!
[img]https://s32.postimg.org/6knew7esl/Wildstar2.jpg[/img]

and bunny ears...for launch. and glowing stuff.

+2 on glowing stuff. I was absolutely thrilled the first time night rolled around when I was playing my Sylvari and her back lit up like a radioactive Christmas tree.

About Hair!

I don't remember if I requested this before. I might have! I just can't seem to find it.

Please, let's have hair in Two (or more) pieces. One piece is for 'above the ears' and one piece for 'the ears and below'. These two pieces of hair should certainly blend and combine into whatever wonderful hair-do designs the Devs come up with. However, if one adds a Hat, then only the Top hair-piece needs to be removed and characters can keep their lovely hair and still wear a hat.

In too many games, if a character puts on a hat, or bandana, or half-helmet, then they immediately get a savage haircut, or some bit a drapery is added to cover up their hair. Wear a hat equals lose your hair and that's not Right!

Even better, if the two-part hairstyle was Embraced, then we could create many 'custom' hairstyles by mixing different hair-pieces. Males and females could share hair-piece libraries, too.

Be Well!
Fireheart

Fireheart wrote:

Please, let's have hair in Two (or more) pieces. One piece is for 'above the ears' and one piece for 'the ears and below'. These two pieces of hair should certainly blend and combine into whatever wonderful hair-do designs the Devs come up with. However, if one adds a Hat, then only the Top hair-piece needs to be removed and characters can keep their lovely hair and still wear a hat.
[...]
Even better, if the two-part hairstyle was Embraced, then we could create many 'custom' hairstyles by mixing different hair-pieces.

This is a pretty good idea. IIRC, Fallout 4 actually does something like this with its hair options. That game offers what seems like hundreds of hair styles but what's really going on is that there's maybe only 20 individual default "styles" but the rest are created by meshing two of the styles together on different parts of the head. Some of the combos clearly work better than others, but it's a clever way to "double-up" on the options they provide.

The part about letting this work for people with hats is great too. That was a major point of complaint back in CoH - due to the limitations of the game a hat would basically render you completely bald and you had to hope it completely covered the bits of your head you wanted covered.

Lothic wrote:

Fireheart wrote:
Please, let's have hair in Two (or more) pieces. One piece is for 'above the ears' and one piece for 'the ears and below'. These two pieces of hair should certainly blend and combine into whatever wonderful hair-do designs the Devs come up with. However, if one adds a Hat, then only the Top hair-piece needs to be removed and characters can keep their lovely hair and still wear a hat.
[...]
Even better, if the two-part hairstyle was Embraced, then we could create many 'custom' hairstyles by mixing different hair-pieces.
This is a pretty good idea. IIRC, Fallout 4 actually does something like this with its hair options. That game offers what seems like hundreds of hair styles but what's really going on is that there's maybe only 20 individual default "styles" but the rest are created by meshing two of the styles together on different parts of the head. Some of the combos clearly work better than others, but it's a clever way to "double-up" on the options they provide.
The part about letting this work for people with hats is great too. That was a major point of complaint back in CoH - due to the limitations of the game a hat would basically render you completely bald and you had to hope it completely covered the bits of your head you wanted covered.

Oh yeah. I always hated how in most MMOs, not just CoH, that hats and head coverings completely do away with any hair that the character has. That always has bothered me. It never quite made sense to me too as their is a decently noticeable amount of hero characters out there that wear headgear that does not cover their hair. I mean I know it isn't practical but then again this is flashy superheroes/villains we are talking about here.

In light of the most recent Meet the Developer.

The State of the Game from June 2014 had the following statment in it:

"Hats on your hair? Sure."

Does MWM still think they can do this?

notears wrote:

Well DCUO did it and their running a worse system than city of titans is going to run

Not quite the same thing.

For some hats, they just removed the hair altogether. But for many of the newer hats and hairstyles, they did make them compatible. I just tested out the Warrior Braid hairstyle (one of the Themyscira special bundle styles) with a ballcap and the two looked perfect together. It looks like they replaced the upper portion of the hair with the ballcap and it looks like the long full braid actually comes out from under the cap rather than just clipping through it. It also worked with some of the other hats, like the leprechaun hat. But if you put on the biker's spiked helmet the hair disappears altogether like any other hairstyle does, so there are some hats they never got around to making compatible with hair.

But here's the big difference between DCUO and CoT: in DCUO the hair is static plastic. It has no physics. So a simple replacement of one static mesh in the shape of a head of hair with another mesh in the shape of a hat with a matching portion of hair poking out is all they had to do.

In CoX the hair will have volume and physics and will flow and fall. How will we constrain it when we're wearing hats? How will someone with an afro put on a ballcap?

I won't presume to know how we are going to deal with hats in our game, but I expect some hairstyles just won't be compatible with some hats. How could someone with Jeannie hair wear any kind of hat other than this one?

I don't think it would be viewed poorly by the players if the game gave you a notice that "you will have to modify your hair if you wish to wear this hat, here are a few suggestions that would work."

I want a utility belt and a magical equivalent with poition of different sizes in it

In the currently closed beta of Revelation Online, they do something interesting with the eyes. They give us the option of choosing the look of the reflected glare on our eyes. The shape and color of the reflection can be chosen. In combination with the various iris shapes and colors of the iris, it gives a very good mix of possibilities. I like it.

In the following video, you can see this at the 4:30 mark.

We have heard that our eyes will be a simple texture over a static sphere. Will our our eyes will be a reflective material such that they actually reflect the light of our environment? If not, I would recommend we adopt this kind of glare customization. I think it gives an extra little something with a good effect.

I can't believe no one posted this before now.

Combat skirts.

I believe combat skirts have pockets. The hem stays in place relative to the body under any and all circumstances, including but not limited to: bodily inversion, acrobatics, and explosions. They may also conceal large weaponry. :P

Grimfox wrote:

I believe combat skirts have pockets. The hem stays in place relative to the body under any and all circumstances, including but not limited to: bodily inversion, acrobatics, and explosions. They may also conceal large weaponry. :P

It also covers your naughty bits at aaaaaaall times

Starhammer wrote:

I would like to be able to hold my head in my hand/s. For instance, being headless is getting easier these days, but add to that the option of holding a flaming pumpkin or a ghostly skull hanging from chains, or just a severed head held in both hands (also moved down into the chest area). Optimally, it would be great to be able to create the head held using the same options as for the head on the character creator, though that may be a bit complex... unless there were a way to just cut/paste the head from one area of the body to another.
"Being able to remove one's head is the norm. There is a whole room in the next castle that is just filled with the lovely heads of various ladies. Would you like to see it? You can see their headless bodies dancing yet motionless in the court yard."
Inspirations include, but are not limited to: The Headless Horseman, Labyrinth, Reanimator, Kingdom Hospital, others...

Camelot Unchained is making the Bean Sidhe (pronounced Banshee) a playable race, and they have a class called a Black Rider that takes advantage of the detached head, as you can see in some of the sample powers in the linked website. Because it is a shapeshifter, I don't think the race is limited to BeanSidhe.

Why am I linking to another game? Just to show that the idea is out there and some game studio thinks it is doable. So it could be a real consideration for CoT as well. (how to deal with the unique animations that would need to be made for what really is a costume choice is another matter)

Or were you looking to go for the more innocent look of Kyouko Machi:

Stuff like inanimate objects and giant eyeballs for heads

dis

[img]http://mysticinvestigations.com/paranormal/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Dr-Death-Doctor.jpg[/img]

Cyclops wrote:

Just to confirm...feathered wings will be available at launch...right?

I'd be amazed if they didn't include the classic "angel and devil" wings in CoT. These were the first type of wings available in CoH so they almost have to be among the first available in CoT as well.

Cyclops wrote:

also a Princess Leia slave outfit from Jaba's Palace, Obviously not exact, but close enough.

I'd be in favor of having any sort of "sci-fi bikini" style costume items in CoT.

Cyclops wrote:

I would like to request an invisible head like a ghost cowboy with nothing between his bandana and his hat. maybe with glowing/smoky eyes.

People have suggested having transparent body parts before. I have nothing against the idea but it's possible they'd prevent people from using them during PvP for obvious reasons.

Cyclops wrote:

and ways to dress up gloves with techno gadgets and glowy bits. Some heroes don't have powers, just techno gauntlets.

I always had a guilty pleasure for the original 70s era [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_Woman_and_Dyna_Girl]Electra Woman and Dyna Girl[/url]. It was a very campy Saturday morning kids show that was pretty much an exact clone of the 60s era Batman and Robin cult-classic except with female leads. Like Bats and Robin they had no inherent superpowers but used all sorts of gadgets and "crime computers" to fight crime. Their main go-to gadgets were their ElectraComs which were these silly, clunky box shaped gauntlets they wore on their left wrists.

[img=400x400]https://firebreathingdimetrodon.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/ewdg01.jpg[/img]

These gizmos did practically anything/everything you could imagine - it seemed like every episode they'd dream up yet another completely new kind of power the ElectraComs could do. So I'd love CoT to provide several wrist-based techno-gadget devices like that as costume items to be able to create proper Electra Woman and Dyna Girl homage characters.

Phararri wrote:

Champions online has this. When I saw your post I immediately thought CO because I have no idea of the origins.

It's a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor][b]plague doctor[/b].[/url]

Lothic wrote:

I always had a guilty pleasure for the original 70s era Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. It was a very campy Saturday morning kids show that was pretty much an exact clone of the 60s era Batman and Robin cult-classic except with female leads. Like Bats and Robin they had no inherent superpowers but used all sorts of gadgets and "crime computers" to fight crime. Their main go-to gadgets were their ElectraComs which were these silly, clunky box shaped gauntlets they wore on their left wrists.

These gizmos did practically anything/everything you could imagine - it seemed like every episode they'd dream up yet another completely new kind of power the ElectraComs could do. So I'd love CoT to provide several wrist-based techno-gadget devices like that as costume items to be able to create proper Electra Woman and Dyna Girl homage characters.

I remember that show!
Superhero shows on TV were so rare at that time that a lot could be forgiven - like Cathy Lee Crosby's Wonder Woman (in a blue track suit). Particularly if you were less than 10 years old.

They even did a mini-series reboot of it 2016 but I never saw it.
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, that is. Cathy Lee Crosby's Wonder Woman was completely eclipsed by Linda Carter and has remained mercifully all but forgotten.

The concept of some sort of Super Gauntlet which is as versatile as a tricorder has a lot of appeal. One of my toons in CO has just such a setup with a gauntlet on one wrist and using it for all the emanation points.
I'd love to be able to dial that concept up to "11".

CHAINMAIL BIKINIS AND LOINCLOTHS FOR ALL!!

A chainmail material too, also a leather material.. let's get medieval up in here!!

Nos482 wrote:

Something I like about CO, and would love to see in CoT, is their mix-and-match approach to auras. Not so much that each aura is only good for one toon and mostly either on the cash shop or worse, box locked.

CoH let you assign a different aura to every costume slot. I had characters who had 10 different costumes and 10 different auras ready to go. Does CO offer more flexibility than that?

Nos482 wrote:

Yep, you have up to eight aura slots. Four that are always on and four for whenever you are in combat stance. Although new toons have only one of each unlocked... the rest costs money, on a per character basis.
For example, here's Spookjob.
On the left is how he looks without any auras (on the char select screen) the middle two are his normal auras (3, one of which is invisibility) and on the right with the combat auras added (4 more).
Since I can't really see the costume, just it's outline as highlighted by the auras and Fire Flight, I didn't bother to color him... so he's almost all black =P

Well that certainly sounds interesting. I stopped playing CO about six months after its launch so I assume this multi-aura thing was added sometime after that.

CoH had the ability to set each of their auras to "on all the time" or "switch on only during combat" and many of the auras could be targeted to certain areas of the body (i.e. hands only, head only, full body, etc.). Given the number of costume slots you could have (up to 10 per character) it seems that CoH could have at least "simulated" what you're talking about using multiple costume slots with identical costumes and different auras. Not saying what you're talking about here is a bad idea - I'm just saying that if they decide to make CoT work exactly like CoH did in regards to auras then I think you could "kind of" do what you're talking about.

Ideally CoT will give us a multi-aura deal like your suggesting. But if they don't I'm just pointing out what the likely alternative will be.

lipstick on guys and girls

OathboundOne wrote:

Honestly I'd like to see all of the makeup options for both genders. Whenever possible I tend to use "guyliner" on my characters (sometimes even in multiple styles and shades at once). It's a great way to make their eyes pop.

Not just makeup but all clothes and such as well, yes even "male/female cut". In the long run I don't see why there should be male or female exclusives in that regard.

Huckleberry wrote:

There was some discussion earlier about wraparound capes and why it would be too difficult to incorporate them without clipping.
I was watching the latest episode of Granblue Fantasy the Animation, and I noticed that Katalina has her cape actually attached to her pauldrons. I find it to be an attractive look and I wonder if we could do something similar in CoT with some of the different pauldrons we get to have in our Avatar Creator.
Notice also the skirt-like surcoat she's wearing, and that it has no upperbody portion to it. So would you call it a waist-cape? Whatever it is, I think it should also be a costume option.

Butt-capes and wrap-around cloak? Put me down for sashes too!

Huckleberry wrote:

Cobalt Azurean wrote:
Put me down for sashes too!
Sashes? like this?
or like this?
or like this?

To quote one of my favorite MST3k episodes, Agent for H.A.R.M., "Yes and yes."

OathboundOne wrote:

Honestly I'd like to see all of the makeup options for both genders. Whenever possible I tend to use "guyliner" on my characters (sometimes even in multiple styles and shades at once). It's a great way to make their eyes pop.

blacke4dawn wrote:

Not just makeup but all clothes and such as well, yes even "male/female cut". In the long run I don't see why there should be male or female exclusives in that regard.

I'm pretty sure the Devs of CoT have already told us here in the forums they intend to have no "female only" or "male only" limitations where it comes to costume items. I assume that would carryover to any makeup options as well.

I trust that they'll at least try to stick to that promise because they seem genuinely committed to having as much costume design freedom as possible.

Wolfgang8565 wrote:

Tight tights...
;)

[youtube]G59JnM4JKNQ[/youtube]

P.S. Quick historical trivia - [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hose_%28clothing%29]Hose/tights[/url] were originally designed as MEN's clothing. It was only much later when women started wearing them.

Huckleberry wrote:

Cobalt Azurean wrote:
Put me down for sashes too!
Sashes? like this?
or like this?
or like this?

Put me down for sashes too. Bonus points for sashes you can decorate: like that early update I keep mentioned where decals and such can be scaled and translated.

Redlynne wrote:

Very much a Form Follows Function sort of deal that is all too rare to see these days.

[frantic robot voice]Female?... armor?... protection?... professional?... not?... eye candy?... illogical! illogical! Does not compute! Norman coordinate! coor-din-ateeeee...[/frantic robot voice]

;)

Redlynne wrote:

designed to be worn by a female, but it's also designed in such a way as to deflect blows to the chest AWAY FROM the center of the chest, rather than towards the center (which is what you get with a "twin lumps" design of chest armor). .
Very much a Form Follows Function sort of deal that is all too rare to see these days.

I noticed that too, it's still boob plates, but the cross in the front does attempt to direct force away from the sternum. Still, a strike above or below the cross would break ribs easily.