LETS TALK FX!
The jpg below is from City of Titans developers (Released on Kickstarter)
Devs have confirmed there they do have some plans for certain FX to be open ended.. Burning could look like Fire, or Bubbling Acid. While they hope to stay within limitations for FX what are some of the variations you hope to see?
- I really want "Radio Waves" as an option for any "Remote Control" framework that Crowd Controllers get to access. Bonus points if the effect is made mostly of "distortion" instead of a bunch of light particles (Think the way a heat wave blurrs light)
The gif below is from Champions Online. And no.. it's not actually available in that game
Saturn Girl's got NOTHIN on me!
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Also .. with this game provide "Auras" that players can toggle on and off? *cough* "Flame On!" */cough* If so what auras would you like to see?
I want a "My eyes are glowing" aura.. it's a small one, I know.. but If I could just toggle it on and off (Think Storm from X-Men's first movie) it'd be awesome.
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I like the idea on the radio waves, though I thought a few of the CoH Mind Control/Psychic powers captured the look you're talking about. Either that or Sonics.
Also, there was a lot of creativity to be had with the costume change emotes and "toggling on" powers. I had a character inspired by the Human Torch, and I used the "Evil Laugh" CCE. The emote would start, flames surrounded his current costume, and the costume he changed into was actually a cleverly designed set of tights/skin surrounded by the Fiery Aura.
If memory serves the "combat-activated auras" were popular (I certainly thought they were) so I think that is something that will certainly find their way into CoT.
As for my own hopes: I hope we get a set of ice powers that incorporate some beam/stream type effects, or have such effects available as alternate options. I don't mind hurling ice chunks at bad guys, but I also really like the ice beams and snow streams present in many of Ice Man's powers (as they are illustrated).
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yeah I like radio waves too, but also I hope their is an ice beam/blast set too because, it's an important power for one of my old main characters(hopefully resurrected in CoT).
For weapons based Powerset, I'd actually like to see the FX happen on the weapons as well, instead of just an after effect, such as Archer.
If I remember right one of them was like Flaming Arrow or something, AoE if memory serves. I liked the AoE graphics in the end, but seeing plain ol arrows being knocked was kind of...well, I kept thinking, "aww...no fiiiiire!!" Granted, I have poor memory for this, because it was the last power sets I used before close down.
That would be absolutely wonderful, if there was some sort of distortion available for powers like that. Especially for abilities that cause disorient/stun. Having it on a toggle would be nice too, for those who have motion issues, it might cause problems.
Are you talking for Sustained attacks, or just attacks in general? I can see it with both though.
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I don't know if we'll have Sustained attacks in the conventional gaming sense of the term (I am impartial toward them) but I was specifically talking burst attacks with stream effects. They would likely just be alternate animations, so it would be the same animation time, but instead of seeing an chunk of ice and/or snow hurtling through the air, the character avatar would shoot an ice beam from their outstretched palm/fist/etc.
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gotcha. What i was seeing in my head (a while after I'd made the post) was a chunk of ice/fireball, (as per the norm) being used for a power similar to ice bolt/blast and Fire blast, and the stream for a power similar to Freeze ray and Fire breath. Effectively utilizing both "ball" and "stream". Workable? Dunno. Good Idea? Possibly. :p
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