aethereal Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 Mockingbird, Nightwing, Daredevil sometimes/sorta, there are several fairly prominent comics characters who fight with paired sticks/short staves/clubs. Making a weapon for this would be easy: it's just a short featureless rod. You could also use a few of the smaller war mace weapons, and potentially the sai and hook swords weapons from DB. The animations could mostly/entirely be reused DB animations. While War Mace can potentially be used to sort of hit the same thematic elements, War Mace seems pretty clearly to be principally aimed at simulating super-strong characters who fight with a blunt weapon, with its slow-paced, high-impact strikes. There are a class of martial-arts-oriented superheroes that are clearly more "fast and agile" than "strong and tough" that use sticks, and the DB animations are a good match for this conceptually. So I think that there's a niche here and compared to many other "create a powerset" suggestions, there aren't big blockers on the art side of thing.
SeraphimKensai Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 Why not just add a weapon skin for dual blades that are escrima sticks or batons? Less work that way. 3
aethereal Posted February 11, 2022 Author Posted February 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, SeraphimKensai said: Why not just add a weapon skin for dual blades that are escrima sticks or batons? Less work that way. I think it'd be nice to have a whole different set with its own plusses and minuses. I expect that some players would be willing to alter concept slightly on characters between DB and DS depending on which set of mechanics appealed to them more, and DB is a somewhat polarizing set. Plus it's always nice when the game mechanics reflect aesthetics (so your clubs do smashing rather than lethal damage, etc).
Marbing Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 2 hours ago, aethereal said: I think it'd be nice to have a whole different set with its own plusses and minuses. I expect that some players would be willing to alter concept slightly on characters between DB and DS depending on which set of mechanics appealed to them more, and DB is a somewhat polarizing set. Plus it's always nice when the game mechanics reflect aesthetics (so your clubs do smashing rather than lethal damage, etc). I like the intent behind the idea but this goes back into the whole, similar powersets argument that tends to get downvoted into oblivion... Limited time/resources would indicated the simplest way to appease this would be to add clubs/sticks as weapon choices for DB. As Seraphim said. 1 Find me on Everlasting or Indom as:Marbing (Psi/Rad Corruptor), Fortunata Moon (Fortunata Widow), Dynanight (Fire/DM Tank), Timesync (Elec/Time Corruptor), Static Sparrow (Elec/TA Controller), Cryo Punk (Ice/Cold Controller), Chamelea (SJ/Bio Stalker), Sword Fist (Claws/SR Scrapper), Mangusuu (DP/Nin Blaster), Blink Shot (Beam/Martial Blaster), Ratchet Dog (Beam/Traps Corruptor), Phonoalgia (Pain/Sonic Defender), Powered (FF/Energy Defender), Nullpunkt (Rad/Kin Corruptor), Black Fate (Fire/Therm Corruptor), Mirror Mage (Ill/Dark Controller),Gravoc (Gravity/Energy Dominator), Mind Pyre (Fire/Psi Dominator), Nettlethorn (Plant/Thorn Dominator), Boggle Blade (Psi/Invuln Stalker), Kelvin White (Ice/Regen Stalker), Dead Haze (Katana/DA Scrapper), Echo Boom (Sonic/EM Blaster), Ceyko (Archery/Time Blaster), Sleep Doctor (Mind/Poison Controller), Nachteule (DP/Dark Corruptor), Fulgrax (Axe/Elec Armor Scrapper), Void Knife (DB/Ice Stalker), Tryptophan Zombie (Mind/Kin Controller), Indo Manata (WP/Staff Tank), Masuku (Claws/WP Stalker), Blackbright (Rad/Energy Sentinel), Bedlam Bane (Sonic/Poison Corruptor), Helena Black (Necro/EA Mastermind), Boom Ranger (Sonic/TA Corruptor), Grave Sentinel (FF/Dark Defender), Dead-Life (DM/Regen Brute), Red Gloom (Dark/Pain Corruptor), Marble Marbina (Thugs/FF Mastermind)
Cancrusher Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 5 hours ago, SeraphimKensai said: Why not just add a weapon skin for dual blades that are escrima sticks or batons? Less work that way. Yep. This. ^ 1
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