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10-08-2009, 03:55 AM
I've seen a couple other players have a travel power in which they are flying on a cloud. I don't see that in the travel powers list. I know we get another TP at 35, but these guys were lower levels than that. So...how does one get that power? Is it a modification of another power?
Archived Post
10-08-2009, 03:55 AM
I've seen a couple other players have a travel power in which they are flying on a cloud. I don't see that in the travel powers list. I know we get another TP at 35, but these guys were lower levels than that. So...how does one get that power? Is it a modification of another power?

earth flight, if you use it in mid air you get clouds
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10-08-2009, 03:56 AM
It's a graphics bug on that rock flight thing. I've had it happen to me.
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10-08-2009, 03:58 AM
It's a graphics bug on that rock flight thing. I've had it happen to me.

I don't think its a bug since the cloud actually has flashes of light and thunder inside it.
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10-08-2009, 03:58 AM
earth flight, if you use it in mid air you get clouds

Excellent! Thank you.
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10-08-2009, 03:59 AM
It's a graphics bug on that rock flight thing. I've had it happen to me.
Not sure it's a bug as such... But I do know I get it(maybe 6/10 times) when activating Earth Flight on the ground.
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10-08-2009, 04:00 AM
I don't think its a bug since the cloud actually has flashes of light and thunder inside it.

well, it certainly isn't intentional. I haven't had the lightning and thunder thing.
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10-08-2009, 04:02 AM
If you charge Earth flight and jump it works every-time. Not sure if it a bug as the graphic is completely different from the standard one. Probably a trial left in by mistake. Have fun all you Monkey clones :p
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10-08-2009, 04:02 AM
It's not a bug. There was a dev post in either CB or OB (can't remember which) that confirmed that it was an "Easter Egg". Pretty cool, actually.

*Edit* Oh and you do it by activating it mid jump or by toggling it off then on mid-air.
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10-08-2009, 04:03 AM
Earth flight copies the terrain you use it on.. use it on rock you'll fly on a rock use it on grass, you fly on grass and so on.
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10-08-2009, 04:05 AM
The title of this thread made me think.....

"Would you like to swing on a star.....
carry moonbeams home in a jar....
and be better off than you are...."
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10-08-2009, 04:07 AM
well, it certainly isn't intentional. I haven't had the lightning and thunder thing.

It is intentional. I remember people requesting it months before release and a dev saying that it would be possible to fly on a cloud using Earth Flight, although he didn't want to reveal how. Instead he just teased us by saying something along the lines of "that's for you to discover on your own".
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10-08-2009, 04:07 AM
The title of this thread made me think.....

"Would you like to swing on a star.....
carry moonbeams home in a jar....
and be better off than you are...."

Or would you rather be a fish?

A fish is an animal that swims in a brook, can't write it's name or read a book.
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10-08-2009, 04:08 AM
Or would you rather be a fish?

A fish is an animal that swims in a brook, can't write it's name or read a book.

dammit... i need to watch hudson hawk now
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10-08-2009, 04:13 AM
Earth flight copies the terrain you use it on.. use it on rock you'll fly on a rock use it on grass, you fly on grass and so on.

Try the frozen lakes in canada (not the rivers) and tell me if it ISN'T better than ice flight graphics.
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10-08-2009, 04:26 AM
Maybe the cloud is a tribute to Dragonball
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10-08-2009, 05:06 AM
Maybe the cloud is a tribute to Dragonball

No its from the TV series Journey to the West based on the story of the same name. The character Monkey rides a cloud.

Monkey Flying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuwWwVjmK0o&feature=related)
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10-08-2009, 05:12 AM
No its from the TV series Journey to the West based on the story of the same name. The character Monkey rides a cloud.

Monkey Flying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuwWwVjmK0o&feature=related)

All monkeys ride clouds, silly. How do you think they reach bananas?
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10-08-2009, 05:14 AM
It is absolutely intentional. If you use it in the air, you get a cloud that had thunder and lightning.
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10-08-2009, 09:04 AM
I can create it now all the time. Works like a charm. If this is a bug (which I doubt) then it's one I hope they never fix.

Thanks again, guys, for the tip on how to use it. It fits my character far better than fire-flight did.
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10-08-2009, 09:10 AM
well, it certainly isn't intentional. I haven't had the lightning and thunder thing.

Actually it is intentional.

In beta, when someone first posted about it, one of the dav's came out and flat said he didn't expect anyone to discover it so soon.
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10-08-2009, 09:31 AM
Actually it is intentional.

In beta, when someone first posted about it, one of the dav's came out and flat said he didn't expect anyone to discover it so soon.

Yup its intentional. And Nifty.
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10-08-2009, 09:32 AM
well, it certainly isn't intentional. I haven't had the lightning and thunder thing.

You're playing on an 8-bit system, then. Turn up your effects.
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10-08-2009, 09:36 AM
Hm wow, I didn't know that about Earth Flight, that makes it much more appealing of a power now, I should try that out at some point
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10-08-2009, 09:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Q3orQhEcA



Whoooo could it beeeeee?
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10-08-2009, 09:44 AM
Hm wow, I didn't know that about Earth Flight, that makes it much more appealing of a power now, I should try that out at some point

Canada is a great spot to try it out for the first tme. Since you can get snow, ice, ground, pavement and clouds nearly on demand. Its harder to notice that the power adjusts to what you're standing on desert-side.
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10-08-2009, 09:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Q3orQhEcA

Whoooo could it beeeeee?I think that would be William Katt (http://images.google.com/images?q=William+Katt&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=jiTOStraGMewlAeYyICpCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5). ;)
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10-08-2009, 09:56 AM
Hm wow, I didn't know that about Earth Flight, that makes it much more appealing of a power now, I should try that out at some point

My sorcerer rides on a cloud! Very theme-compliant.
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10-08-2009, 11:46 AM
No its from the TV series Journey to the West based on the story of the same name. The character Monkey rides a cloud.

Monkey Flying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuwWwVjmK0o&feature=related)

Yep, and Dragonball is a re-imagining of that very story as well.

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball)

Wanting to break from the Western influences common in his other series, when Akira Toriyama began work on Dragon Ball he decided to loosely model it on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. He also redeveloped one of his earlier one shot manga series, Dragon Boy, which was initially serialized in Fresh Jump and released in a single tankōbon volume in 1983. This short work combined the comedic style of Toriyama's successful six-year series Dr. Slump with a more action-oriented plot and paid homage to famous martial art actor Jackie Chan. Toriyama notes that his goal for the series was to tell an "unconventional and contradictory" story.

Whether this has any bearing on the thread at hand, I have no idea, but thought it might be fun to bring it out since it had been mentioned ^_^