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03-26-2010, 11:27 PM
This is my Travel Power overhaul idea - most of these powers are not my original idea and have been proposed by countless other people but I thought I’d give this a go and see what people think. I also thought that some travel powers like ‘Fire Flight’ should be an option under regular Flight to make the Travel Powers List look a bit more polished.
Acrobatics-
Default Acrobatics
-Optional running animations need to be added ie; Average, Heroic, Beast, Ninja, etc. Even though you can already choose these through your regular stance - they really need to be separate.
-I can’t think of any visual effects that could be added to it but as an aside it most definitely needs a wall jump/mount ability and an option to get rid of the crater graphic when you make a landing.
Flight-
Default Flight
Dark Flight (maybe something with a graphic similar to ‘Aspect of the Dragon’ but black or something like ‘Shadow Form’.
Electric Flight (same as the ‘Storm Rider’ craftable power but free)
Fire Flight (same as it was just sub-categorized under Flight for ease)
Force/Energy Flight (I was thinking something like the glow that 'Aspect of the Celestial’ gives you or the ‘Protection Field’ bubble)
Heli-Pack (Inspector Gadget-esque perhaps?)
Jet-Pack (Ala Boba Fett or the Rocketeer)
Magic Flight (same as the ‘Aethyric Incantation’ craftable power but free)
Rocket Boots (same as it was, just sub-categorized under Flight for ease)
Tempest/Air/Storm/Tornado Flight (Like Thor and Storm in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, I think graphically it could be really cool with a whirlwind underneath your character)
-Optional poses added to all flight options
Hover Craft -
Default Hover Disk
Earth Flight (same as it was, just sub-categorized under Hover Craft)
Force/Energy Disk (think ‘Force Shield’ but flipped underneath your character.)
Ice Board (‘Ice Slide’ revamped with Hover Disk’s mechanics)
Storm Cloud (Earth Flight’s alternate animation)
Super Jump -
Default Super Jump
Rocket Jump (same as it was, just sub-categorized under Super Jump)
Pogo Stick Jump (why not)
Super Speed -
Default Super Speed
Rolling Super Speed (same as the ‘R.A.D. Sphere’ craftable power but free)
Electric Super Speed (throw on a electric graphics trail on top of regular Super Speed)
Fire Super Speed (same as above)
Ice Skate (similar to the idea of ice sliding, but rather freezing the ground in front of you and skating on it at super speeds)
Motorcycle/Hovercycle (something for natural/tech based heroes)
Roller Skates (for fun)
Tempest/Tornado Super Speed (Like Taz the Tasmanian devil, you spin so fast that you appear as a small tornado and travel at super speeds)
-Super Speed desperately needs to have a wall-run ability
-Multiple running animations need to be added – just something other than Ninja or Beast.
Swinging -
Default Swing
Chain Swing (Something to go with all the chain powers in the Supernatural set)
Vine Swing (I’ve never seen anything like this in comics or games, the only thing I can think of is Tarzan or George of the Jungle, but other people have mentioned this and it sounds neat to me)
Web Swing (to appease the masses and it would be cool anyway)
Whip Swing (I saw an old episode of Batman the animated series from the 90’s where Catwoman pulled this off. I think this would be pretty sweet with an inserted whip crack sound effect.)
Teleport -
Default Teleport
Dark Teleport (if I could just color regular teleport as black I would be content without this, but if could be it’s own thing it would be great with the dark wispy tendrils that you see in the Dark set.)
Electric Teleport (I’m thinking that the ‘Thunderstrike’ animation at the beginning of the animation, then ‘Ball Lightning’ while you’re traveling in wisp form and then another ‘Thunderstrike’ when you come out of teleport would work perfectly.
Fire Teleport (similar to’ Electric Teleport’ you could just reuse some Fire set animations)
Force Teleport (same as above)
Tech/Gadget Teleport (Your character whips out some gizmo or presses some buttons on his arm and your charater turns into little hexagons like in energy shield and then dematerializes Matrix style.)
Tunneling -
Default Tunneling
Earth Meld Tunneling (maybe instead of digging and diving into the ground your body turns to stone and crumbles into the earth.)
Plant Tunneling (roots and vines or even a giant flytrap rises from the earth swallowing you and later spitting you out. Will be fun for plant control users - YES, plant control will happen!!!
Tech/Gadget Tunneling - (remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Drill Tank that Shredder used? Might be difficult to animate but nifty none the less)
-This power needs to be a bit faster and less buggy with the terrain BTW
Just throwing out ideas. I trust that the devs will be rolling out some awesome stuff soon and I hope some of this stuff eventually makes it in game.
Please add/edit.
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Acrobatics-
Default Acrobatics
-Optional running animations need to be added ie; Average, Heroic, Beast, Ninja, etc. Even though you can already choose these through your regular stance - they really need to be separate.
-I can’t think of any visual effects that could be added to it but as an aside it most definitely needs a wall jump/mount ability and an option to get rid of the crater graphic when you make a landing.
Flight-
Default Flight
Dark Flight (maybe something with a graphic similar to ‘Aspect of the Dragon’ but black or something like ‘Shadow Form’.
Electric Flight (same as the ‘Storm Rider’ craftable power but free)
Fire Flight (same as it was just sub-categorized under Flight for ease)
Force/Energy Flight (I was thinking something like the glow that 'Aspect of the Celestial’ gives you or the ‘Protection Field’ bubble)
Heli-Pack (Inspector Gadget-esque perhaps?)
Jet-Pack (Ala Boba Fett or the Rocketeer)
Magic Flight (same as the ‘Aethyric Incantation’ craftable power but free)
Rocket Boots (same as it was, just sub-categorized under Flight for ease)
Tempest/Air/Storm/Tornado Flight (Like Thor and Storm in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, I think graphically it could be really cool with a whirlwind underneath your character)
-Optional poses added to all flight options
Hover Craft -
Default Hover Disk
Earth Flight (same as it was, just sub-categorized under Hover Craft)
Force/Energy Disk (think ‘Force Shield’ but flipped underneath your character.)
Ice Board (‘Ice Slide’ revamped with Hover Disk’s mechanics)
Storm Cloud (Earth Flight’s alternate animation)
Super Jump -
Default Super Jump
Rocket Jump (same as it was, just sub-categorized under Super Jump)
Pogo Stick Jump (why not)
Super Speed -
Default Super Speed
Rolling Super Speed (same as the ‘R.A.D. Sphere’ craftable power but free)
Electric Super Speed (throw on a electric graphics trail on top of regular Super Speed)
Fire Super Speed (same as above)
Ice Skate (similar to the idea of ice sliding, but rather freezing the ground in front of you and skating on it at super speeds)
Motorcycle/Hovercycle (something for natural/tech based heroes)
Roller Skates (for fun)
Tempest/Tornado Super Speed (Like Taz the Tasmanian devil, you spin so fast that you appear as a small tornado and travel at super speeds)
-Super Speed desperately needs to have a wall-run ability
-Multiple running animations need to be added – just something other than Ninja or Beast.
Swinging -
Default Swing
Chain Swing (Something to go with all the chain powers in the Supernatural set)
Vine Swing (I’ve never seen anything like this in comics or games, the only thing I can think of is Tarzan or George of the Jungle, but other people have mentioned this and it sounds neat to me)
Web Swing (to appease the masses and it would be cool anyway)
Whip Swing (I saw an old episode of Batman the animated series from the 90’s where Catwoman pulled this off. I think this would be pretty sweet with an inserted whip crack sound effect.)
Teleport -
Default Teleport
Dark Teleport (if I could just color regular teleport as black I would be content without this, but if could be it’s own thing it would be great with the dark wispy tendrils that you see in the Dark set.)
Electric Teleport (I’m thinking that the ‘Thunderstrike’ animation at the beginning of the animation, then ‘Ball Lightning’ while you’re traveling in wisp form and then another ‘Thunderstrike’ when you come out of teleport would work perfectly.
Fire Teleport (similar to’ Electric Teleport’ you could just reuse some Fire set animations)
Force Teleport (same as above)
Tech/Gadget Teleport (Your character whips out some gizmo or presses some buttons on his arm and your charater turns into little hexagons like in energy shield and then dematerializes Matrix style.)
Tunneling -
Default Tunneling
Earth Meld Tunneling (maybe instead of digging and diving into the ground your body turns to stone and crumbles into the earth.)
Plant Tunneling (roots and vines or even a giant flytrap rises from the earth swallowing you and later spitting you out. Will be fun for plant control users - YES, plant control will happen!!!
Tech/Gadget Tunneling - (remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Drill Tank that Shredder used? Might be difficult to animate but nifty none the less)
-This power needs to be a bit faster and less buggy with the terrain BTW
Just throwing out ideas. I trust that the devs will be rolling out some awesome stuff soon and I hope some of this stuff eventually makes it in game.
Please add/edit.
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