Alternate Animations

[Ultimo]

On 3/11/2025 at 7:53 PM, Stormwalker said:

 

To be honest, I'm pretty sure they've deliberately avoided this with Energy Blast because Energy Blast is so very similar to Cyclops' optic blast in terms of  its "concussive blast" style.

 

I think that ship sailed when they made claws with three retracting claws on each hand...

 

Even if the animation had the blasts coming from the face/head, that would be sufficient.  I probably should have included the other blast sets too...  I mean, I can easily imagine characters who spit fire or ice, or what have you...

[Rudra]

52 minutes ago, Ultimo said:

I think that ship sailed when they made claws with three retracting claws on each hand...

Not really. There are several comics, movies, cartoons/anime, and other media that aren't about Wolverine but have characters that extend 2 or 3 claws between their knuckles from within their forearm. Wolverine is just the most famous of them. So there is ample grounds to argue against Marvel for copyright infringement on the Claws set.

 

That said, there are other characters that fire various blasts from their eyes too. Not specifically concussive blasts like Cyclops, but various blasts nonetheless.

[ZacKing]

On 3/11/2025 at 4:33 PM, BasiliskXVIII said:

The whole premise of power customization is that you're not forced to be bound to what the developer decided was the best way to represent their idea of the power was. Until it came along, invulnerability also had strong visuals, making you look like a walking light show. Or worse, if you were a villain, some kind of weird negative-light show. It isn't as though what the game chooses to depict as "stone" actually looks like stone—it's a representative abstraction. It's a low-poly blob with some gritty textures on it which kinda reads as stone because we've been primed to accept it as such by seeing the name "rock armor." 

 

100% this!  Thank you.

[Ultimo]

19 hours ago, Rudra said:

Not really. There are several comics, movies, cartoons/anime, and other media that aren't about Wolverine but have characters that extend 2 or 3 claws between their knuckles from within their forearm. Wolverine is just the most famous of them. So there is ample grounds to argue against Marvel for copyright infringement on the Claws set.

 

That said, there are other characters that fire various blasts from their eyes too. Not specifically concussive blasts like Cyclops, but various blasts nonetheless.

Quite, that was my point.

[TheGoldenMeme]

On 3/10/2025 at 7:41 PM, Ultimo said:

DUAL PISTOLS

I find the overly flashy gymnastics really ugly and unrealistic, and frequently out of character.  It would be nice if there was an alternate set of animations that were simpler and more realistic.

That's the point, in my opinion. The flashy gymnastics of Dual Pistols are to immerse the player into feeling like a badass, acrobatic, death-defying superhero. You know, in an entire super hero-themed MMO designed around BEING a super hero?

[golstat2003]

4 hours ago, TheGoldenMeme said:

That's the point, in my opinion. The flashy gymnastics of Dual Pistols are to immerse the player into feeling like a badass, acrobatic, death-defying superhero. You know, in an entire super hero-themed MMO designed around BEING a super hero?

 

There are plenty of Dual Pistol users that don't jump around and act flashy. I too would like something a bit toned down for Dual Pistols. I think it was asked for during live also. Paragon simply never got around to it for obvious reasons.