How about Mounts as an additional travel power for Heroes and Villains. I do not only mean horses or flying dragons, but also cars, motorcycles, small jets, flying carpets,...etc.
It would be an great alternative to superspeed and flying for players whos Villain/Hero is Natural or Magic and need a Vehicle to get from Point A to point B. You could have to Versions one for land and the other for air and the models of the mounts could be changed by the player.
There are many examples in comics like ghostriders motorcycle, the batmobile, shining knights Pegasus, lobos spacebike and vigilantes motorcycle.
Thu, 11/14/2013 - 12:57
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Mounts for Players
Don't forget to charge real money for nonfunctional horse armor.
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Congratuations! You've manage to suggest the same thing that was suggested maybe 1,000 other times back on the CoH forums. ;)
I don't mean to poke fun at you specifically for making the suggestion here and now. I'm just pointing out that having superhero-appropriate mounts in CoT would be a highly appreciated and desired thing for a lot of people who've wanted these things for many years now.
P.S. For what it's worth CoH finally did get a Flying Carpet in the last months before it was shut down. Maybe that'll provide a glimmer of hope for these other things in CoT.
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Ideally if they are separating the animation from the actual power...and based upon what they said about the "skyboards"...then Flight as the power...with wings, nothing, jetpack, glider, etc...should all be possible. Same with SuperSpeed...via car, motorcycle, horse, fast moving legs, etc.
It was long hoped that many of these could be handled like Flyposes were in CoH. That way like you said you could just use "standard" travel powers but have your character emote riding a motorcycle or whatever. Hopefully the Unreal Engine will be flexible enough to allow for it.
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The problem with the whole "emote poses" thing was: If you stopped moving forwards, you stopped doing the pose. I'd rather it be a more or less permanent thing.. If you start doing superspeed, you were on a motorbike (or whatever method you picked).
Shazam!
Yes I recall the Flyposes were "less than friendly" to use in CoH. Pretty much the only way they were tolerable was if you had them keybound to your Fly powers, and even that was less than ideal. The main problem really was that the CoH system was never really designed to support "travel-based emotes" and it was never a priority for the Devs to get them to work right.
Again with the Unreal Engine and a fresh start with a new game something better might come of it. The upside of getting emotes to actually work well this way would be that it'd be simpler to do than to create separate "objects" shaped like motorcycles and to have to worry how they would move around independently in the game world. Basically it'd be the "easy" way for the Devs to make these things..
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Right, the "Sky Surfing" thing is one type of "mount" based travel power that involves standing on things that fly. I thought this thread was the more traditional suggestion about basically having anything a character could ride and/or get into which would include land and water based vehicles too.
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Anything that can be made to "Fly" can also be made to "Run" and "Jump" and "Swing" and ...
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*watches as a pack of manhole covers swing by the thread, in persuit of a running cloud and three jumping hot air balloons* ... o.o
Shazam!
I have heroes who definitely need a motorcycle travel power. Or a hang glider.
I want motorcycles.. at least two types: Need the "Kawasaki Ninja" style bike (ultra modern style), and the "Harley Hog" style (Like the bike the tier 3 Thug Pet) ^.^
Shazam!
Fair enough. But even CoH had its version of a "flying surfboard" so I had little doubt CoT would have something similar. But like back in CoH we're still waiting for word on vehicles based on "running", "jumping", and... that's what was being suggested here.
For what it's worth the thread on the "flying manhole covers" does give me hope we'll finally get all sorts of other vehicles we've been hoping for as well.
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Extra bonus points if it can use Smoke Ejectors to enter Stealth. ^_~
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Kawasaki Ninja with rear caltrop release, undercarriage smoke ejectors, and wheels with built in ninja cat claws for climbing the side of pesky buildings ^.^
Shazam!
This brought up memories of the CoH mount request thread. I recall around the time of the F2P announcement of people asking if VIP players would be able to use Freepers as mounts. That soon degenerated into a conversation about VIP's mounting Freepers, and ERP catgirls in Pocket D.
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All that talk of bat-like gadgets makes me want to have one of these in CoT:
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I wonder how long it'd last before the game got its pants sued off? ;)
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I prefer this model ...
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How's this for a ninja airbike?
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*cackles*
Shazam!
Well I'd agree that one has better... accessories. ;)
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Only if you throw in the whip-like hair spikes...
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CO tried to put vehicles in. I can't say i liked that approach bt I don't mind a vehicle as a travel power but they should not provide extra things to engage in combat.
[url=http://cityoftitans.com/forum/one-sweet-ride]This thread[/url] likely hits closet to the mark of what Ashington is after.
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Since i began playing CoV, I wanted ar car or a motorcycle toride through one of the citys. I just want to ask for this before its too late and can't be implemented anymore. Yes there were a million request back in the coh forum...but there is none here. So i dare to attemp the unthinkable.
I'm [i]Ye Olde Skool[/i] about this sort of thing Becky. I actually prefer designs like the "skybike" seen all too briefly (for all of 12 seconds!) in the Robot Carnival animation segment ... [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkjrFL398c&t=108]DEPRIVE[/url].
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