New energy blast animations (energy torrent)

[WindDemon21]

I got the idea when testing out the new animation for energy torrent on the scrapper epic, when I noticed how badly it doesn't make sense that it's an eye sweep like cutting beam, but rather the new animation it should have gotten is like a giant optic blast from cyclops with a wide burst, I believe i've also see this in an image of superman doing it as well! This needs to happen! But it would also be really sweet if all of energy blast could be changed into a cyclops like set where all the blasts come from the eyes! And nova can be the one where you look up at the sky and do a big blast and it creates a shockwave around you!

 

The animations can be different variations of the quick blast, to how you hold your head to do a stronger blast etc. They would all be similar yes obviously cause how much you can do with the same eye beam but just slight variations in the animations plus the actual cast time on them and the size of the blast coming out would still make it seem different and fun! I'd imagine the creating of the animations would be very easy to do too because of this with mostly just changing the size of the beams and how long you stand there but would still be so sweet for just those few powers like nova I mentioned above which the actual human animation would mostly be the same anyway, with just a large blast coming out at the end!

[tidge]

On the other hand...

 

How about porting some of the Energy Blast animations as options for the Sorcery and Force of Will pool's ranged attacks? I don't mind the other aspects of those powers (animation times, etc)... it's more that I find the specific default animations to be a little bit immersion-breaking for some of my characters. Energy Blast is IMO one of the more 'neutral' appearing blast options.

 

Yeah, yeah, I understand these were originally intended to be "origin specific" power pools... but these pools are among the better balanced IMO so it's hard to pass them up... and since the ranged attacks are one of the three "gates" to pick a fourth or fifth power (from the chosen pool) I'll end up with some sort of oddball animation for non-magic or non-psychic characters.

[WindDemon21]

On 10/27/2024 at 10:05 AM, tidge said:

On the other hand...

 

How about porting some of the Energy Blast animations as options for the Sorcery and Force of Will pool's ranged attacks? I don't mind the other aspects of those powers (animation times, etc)... it's more that I find the specific default animations to be a little bit immersion-breaking for some of my characters. Energy Blast is IMO one of the more 'neutral' appearing blast options.

 

Yeah, yeah, I understand these were originally intended to be "origin specific" power pools... but these pools are among the better balanced IMO so it's hard to pass them up... and since the ranged attacks are one of the three "gates" to pick a fourth or fifth power (from the chosen pool) I'll end up with some sort of oddball animation for non-magic or non-psychic characters.

More animation options are always good. (though hard disagree on animation times lol, especially, if not specifically, wall of force, should at least be 2s not 2.5)