The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #61: What costume pieces do you love to use - or love but cannot find a use for?

[DougGraves]

There are so many costume pieces.  Some are very generic and some are very specific.  Unless I am making a firefighter I cannot find a use for the firefighter helmet.

 

So what are your go to costume pieces that you use on a lot of characters and what pieces do you love but can't find an excuse to use them?

[High_Beam]

Carnival of Light Boots.  I love them.  Kind of crave them in RL 🙂 Every one of my female characters has at least one costume slot with them.  So Secksi and I always imagine them being suede or perhaps Velour Kif.  Dual holster belts for every DP toon (all 6 of them).  Galactic Googles.  Vanguard back thingie I use for a catch all jump/jet pack explanation for SJ/fly.  Keyhole top appears on a lot of my toons.

[furniturepolish]

I love the pumpkin head to death but it doesn't match anything I've wanted to make.  On the more used side I think I have regular old cape on maybe 4 or 5 of my most played toons.

[FupDup]

Some of the stuff like Mecha Armor and Black Knight have a shiny texture that can make them hard to use with many of the older, flatter-colored pieces so sometimes it feels like "all or nothing" with them. I wish that either the shiny stuff had options for matte/flat textures, or the older stuff had shiny options, similar to how some stuff like chains and skulls have metallic or basic options. 

 

I wish that the Cosmic Corsair backpack's armored color had an alternate version that was lowered a bit, because if you try to use it with tights or such it will be just floating way above your collar area and it looks wonky. 

 

I wish armored chests in general had more chest detail and shoulder pieces because sometimes it feels like tight chests can create a bulkier feel by using certain pieces like Black Knight that aren't available when you're "armored." 

 

The Mechanical Claw feet should have an in-between medium option. The small version looks like a robotic goat or something, while the large version looks too goofy. 

Edited January 4 by FupDup

[gameboy1234]

1 hour ago, FupDup said:

I wish armored chests in general had more chest detail and shoulder pieces because sometimes it feels like tight chests can create a bulkier feel by using certain pieces like Black Knight that aren't available when you're "armored."

 

This is a point, a lot of the special geometry options could use a look by the devs.  I think also the sleeveless jackets option has very few choices for gloves allowed, when it could easily have many more.

 

I think many of the Tech Knight pieces I find hard to integrate into other costumes.  Except the gloves, which are great.

 

Some of the imperial dynasty pieces can also be tough to use (esp. #2, which has the pants and the lion head piece).

 

Celestial Boots are like wth?

 

The body pieces from Fire and Ice need more relief.  They're just flat on the basic body.  I realize this might be a tech limitation (they're just textures), but I think that's what the deal is with them for me.

 

[rolandgrey]

It's the Wonderful Windup Wings for me.  They're so neat-looking, but I've rarely had a character concept that could use them properly.

[Techwright]

I am such a gnome:  I love working with goggles.

 

 

I'm also rather fond of the scarf option under capes, and combat boots, smooth.

[DougGraves]

13 hours ago, Techwright said:

I'm also rather fond of the scarf option under capes, and combat boots, smooth.

 

Do you make an alternate costume which is the same except with the goggles pushed up on the forehead?

[JasperStone]

Wings. 

Loved when they came out during live.

Most of my flying characters have a "wings" costume

[cranebump]

Hard to answer because, if I loved it, I'd likely use it. But I'm guessing it's due to the types of characters I play. I think all the magical stuff, including the witch's peak, and things like jester hats and such are cool, but I'm always running tech/natural origin, and most of the time semi-serious. The mime-turned-vigilante just won't work for me (although...if I ran as a villain, all bets are off).:-)

 

I'll go with wings as something I'm impressed with, but don't use much. I think I have exactly one toon with them, and he's a sort of armored paladin-type, and one of my very few magic origin characters. I'm always wishing I could fold them away, though, when not in use.

[Oubliette_Red]

I love the CoT pieces, especially the shoulder pads. Need the tall hats and the belts though.

 

 

[VioLight]

I use the Spectrum set and auras a lot. 

[Coyotedancer]

I'm all about the spikey Oranbegan bits, for... probably obvious reasons. I'm also fond of all of the various bits that go into my Nova Primeva characters' "Temple Guard" uniforms... 

 

 

[Clave Dark 5]

I have used and abused and overused the pumpkinhead.  I like the few spikier, messier looking hair options.  I've used a lot of cat-heads and cat-ears looks.  Shredded capes are boss.  I like animal legs sometimes.  Tails are fun, not too big on hats but hoods are nice.  I also over-use the Banished Pantheon auras, still can't make the floating lanterns work well for me though, but I love the idea.

 

I in general dislike how the game leans heavily into the super-power-armored look, like 70% of the options are some kind of wildly large power armor gloves or whatever, so I often don't go that rout.  Same thing seems to apply to the array of goggles, I end up going with the same one or two usually.  Love the idea of the brain-in-a-tank but just have not been able to make it work for me for some reason, like, ever.  I don't like toons that look like Rob Liefeld bloated monsters.

[SeraphimKensai]

I have used the Cot and Ascension pieces probably too much that I have a self imposed embargo on them for new costumes. The only way past that embargo would be if the character concept didn't work any other way.

Edited January 6 by SeraphimKensai

[UltraAlt]

On 1/4/2024 at 2:46 PM, DougGraves said:

So what are your go to costume pieces that you use on a lot of characters

 

The round mask (Domino mask), fingerless gloves, and smooth shoulders. I probably use those three more than any other costume parts.

 

On 1/4/2024 at 2:46 PM, DougGraves said:

what pieces do you love but can't find an excuse to use them

 

Hard to answer that, because if I saw some costume part that I loved, I would figure out a character conception to utilize it.

So, yeah, if I "love" a costume part, I don't have an "excuse" not to use it.

 

On 1/4/2024 at 2:46 PM, DougGraves said:

Unless I am making a firefighter I cannot find a use for the firefighter helmet.

 

Seems like there are always fires to put out in Skyway.

I guess if I made a firefighter, I would want them to have ice or water powers as those are helpful in putting out fires ... even though I think there is a fire-axe weapon as well as I remember correctly.

 

 

 

 

[Palabradot]

I....I have a Disco bottoms problem. Either with or without skin, the pattern flows very nicely with a lot of tops I choose. Also full body tights.  And sleeves.

 

I do a lot of LSH homages, sooooooooo

Edited January 7 by Palabradot

[Snarky]

Modular pieces are my favorite.  Especially ones with multiple options for that area.  Building a robot or armored head from scratch you have so much flexibility.  Laying certain chest shoulder arm poe es brings the same joy.  I also love one-offs like the head in a jar.   Although you can still layer that with (just one) backpack piece.  Creates a neck guard ring.  Even though i do not love that backpack.  
 

I would dive hard back in if there were more costume parts you could layer and design your own look.  I am not great at it but i love trying 

[Greycat]

On 1/6/2024 at 9:14 AM, UltraAlt said:

 

 

Seems like there are always fires to put out in Skyway.

 

 

 

Steel. Skyway has the troll raves.

[rashnudamz]

Head > Animal Bird > Eagle.

 

It's a cool looking head and i've made a few animal based characters but i just don't like how the head fits with most costume pieces compared to the other animal/monster options unless you're making a pure eagle style character.

[Techwright]

On 1/5/2024 at 11:51 AM, DougGraves said:

 

Do you make an alternate costume which is the same except with the goggles pushed up on the forehead?

Yes, I did that once.  But I'm more inclined to alter the goggle style.

 

[blackhand]

I have this on going character bio theme where I imagine what I would be like if I had super powers. And mostly, I imagine I would not want a very super supername or costumey costume. So I use a lot of the plain pants, shoes, and shirts. And a lot with some random number on their chest as if it is a sportball player they are a fan of. 
 

The ones I really loved but long didnt use were various wings, jet packs, i.e. flying bits. If my character concept doesnt make sense for another travel power, or the build isnt so tight, I prefer fly. And I think the wings and such add to that experience. But I didnt feel like they made sense on most of my character…until I duhhhh remembered there are costume change macros. So now I have many flying characters that ‘put on’ their mech wings or jet pack when traveling.