Style AND Substance, A couple of suggestions and concept ideas.

[Runetide]

Hello Homecoming!

I'm glad to see how popular the servers have gotten since NCSoft has done the right thing! I have had some thoughts percolating in the back of my head since I was playing the original CoH, and thought I'd like to put them together into one post and maybe even see something get into my favorite game.

 

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So, to start this off... Y'all ever see a Kinetics-boosted character start just... speedwalking?

It made me think of this. (Picture attached.)

So what I was thinking was that we could totally do this as a stance for walking, sure, but why not also have it as an available Sprint stance like Blitz and parkour? It would look pretty neat, and it's not like that kind of animation doesn't happen in the game. You could even use the 'runes' aura animation and replace the runes with Kanji for 'step' or something while you're using it. It would also be a good alternative for the Sultry walk animation, call it Swagger or something.

(If I had access to the tools used to play with CoH animations you bet your bacon I'd have something mocked up by now)

 

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Prospective Idea number two!

We have a bunch of interesting Mastermind Primaries, but why not have... Clones?

The major appeal of the powerset would be to have the minions be visual duplicates of the character, but with some kind of visual difference like an aura effect or whatnot. IF it was possible, I think it would be cool for the minions to have a randomly selected costume from one of your costume slots. We could call the powerset 'Parallel Selves' or something like that.

 

The attack powers would be like, predominantly a ranged smashing attack, but it's animated like a very temporary copy of you appears next to the target and punches them or something. The more powerful attacks would be you appearing and doing something more dangerous and perhaps some status effects, maybe even have the 'crowd summon' one be calling up a bunch of you strapped with bombs to do an AoE kamikaze attack like the embalmed zombies do.

 

Minions: Up to three 'you' with minimal powers. Predominantly Melee focused with maybe the 'upgrade' power granting them a ranged or AoE attack option.

 

Lieutenants: Up to two 'you' with support focused powers or equipment and some better attacks.

 

Your Boss: Would be as single you, but with powers you don't have, like maybe instead of being tanky they're more crowd-control focused.

 

I find it difficult to properly construct how it would work beyond this, but I think this has merit. It would at least be something new for MM's since they don't have a lot of primaries.

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That's all I have for now!