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08-29-2009, 04:56 AM
I love this effect so much I've gota post about it!

When I read 'Ice Form' I was worried it would be a really tacky, obvious bright blue casing. Instead there's this nice layer of frost that sheens over your character.

10/10 to the artists on this one. :cool:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j193/dmshaman/IceEffect.jpg
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08-29-2009, 05:12 AM
Sweet! Do you have screenshots of the other ice powers? I am curious what they look like and too lazy to make an an ice character :)

Actually, it would be fun if we had pictures of all the powersets! :)
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08-29-2009, 05:23 AM
I know this is kinda off topic.. but your character is hot :o
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08-29-2009, 05:25 AM
I know this is kinda off topic.. but your character is hot :o

She looks cold to me.

/bad pun
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08-29-2009, 05:32 AM
I know this is kinda off topic.. but your character is hot :o

Here she is in all of her glory. :P

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j193/dmshaman/PhoebeProfile.jpg
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08-29-2009, 05:46 AM
She looks cold to me.

/bad pun

lol that made me laugh

I agree OP some of the powers in the game look amazing :D
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08-29-2009, 05:51 AM
Doesn't the coating get thicker when you rank it up? Eventually to like Iceman level?
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08-29-2009, 05:51 AM
You may or may not like rank 3 of iceform if you really like rank 1. = (
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08-29-2009, 06:01 AM
You may or may not like rank 3 of iceform if you really like rank 1. = (

Boo. :(

I have noticed it's been ramped up a bit with 2. Still looks good, but I'm hoping it's not proper covering at three, and is still translucent.
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08-29-2009, 06:01 AM
Yeah, the graphics change as you rank up the power. For example, Electric Form started out very light, almost not noticeable bits of static and sparks. Rank 2, it was faint tendrils of lightning crawling over my entire body. At rank 3, my character model dissappeared entirely, replaced by a character-shapes bunch of bright electricity that spark and spat all over the place.
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08-29-2009, 06:14 AM
do power sizes increase as they rank up? e.g. fire attacks etc :)
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08-29-2009, 06:19 AM
do power sizes increase as they rank up? e.g. fire attacks etc :)

In my experience they do.
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08-29-2009, 06:19 AM
Yeah, the graphics change as you rank up the power. For example, Electric Form started out very light, almost not noticeable bits of static and sparks. Rank 2, it was faint tendrils of lightning crawling over my entire body. At rank 3, my character model dissappeared entirely, replaced by a character-shapes bunch of bright electricity that spark and spat all over the place.

See powers like that really disappoint me. The rock armour power in CoH was much the same; why bother making a custom outfit you like when it's going to end up covered in ugly ass rocks?
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08-29-2009, 06:21 AM
1. It would be nice to have a toggle switch that allowed you to set the outward look of powers like that.

but

2. It's not as if The Thing got to choose ;)

Ah, how I love playing devil's advocate...
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08-29-2009, 06:24 AM
Don't those energy forms only activate in combat? If so, at least you'd be able to see your costume the rest of the time. It's better than in CoH, where most everyone left their toggles on all the time. There was almost no reason to turn them off.
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08-29-2009, 06:26 AM
It sounds fine to me, it should get bigger or look like it's more of what it says it is as you lvl it.. If you don't like it don't lvl it or don't get it :P
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08-29-2009, 06:32 AM
Don't those energy forms only activate in combat? If so, at least you'd be able to see your costume the rest of the time. It's better than in CoH, where most everyone left their toggles on all the time. There was almost no reason to turn them off.

I never played CoH, what was the effect of leaving the toggle on - You -could- see your costume, or you couldn't? (i.e. the graphical effect obscured it)

Either way, at the end of the day, I'm all for more customization of how your characters looks. As a roleplayer myself, that's pretty important to me, too.
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08-29-2009, 08:23 AM
So iceform only covers you completely at level 3?

I wish ego form was like that, but yoruc ostume vansihes already at rank 1.
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08-29-2009, 08:32 AM
I never played CoH, what was the effect of leaving the toggle on - You -could- see your costume, or you couldn't? (i.e. the graphical effect obscured it)

Either way, at the end of the day, I'm all for more customization of how your characters looks. As a roleplayer myself, that's pretty important to me, too.

In CoH, as long as you had your toggles on, the effects would stay on your character. It started off worse than it is now. The devs have changed a lot of effects to make it more costume friendly. Still, most people with toggle armors never turned them off. They never saw their costumes fully, anyway.
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08-29-2009, 08:45 AM
I know this is kinda off topic.. but your character is hot :o

I'm so pathetic, I was gonna say this as well, lul
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08-29-2009, 07:07 PM
I'm so pathetic, I was gonna say this as well, lul

Heh, shall I make a calender of her in various sultry poses?

I just spend time on getting a good look right that's all. I'm somewhat ridiculed amongst my friends for my attention to detail with aesthetics.

My NWN characters would have almost ten outfits each.