It's not you, it's me. Well, ok, it's you. Specifically it's how long it takes to get jet boots to top speed.

(This is going to be me rambling, apologies in advance. Mostly this is just me whining to get it off my chest.)

I know it's to balance the fact that they're the fastest flight travel power but honestly? By the time they've fully charged I would have gotten there already with regular flight. Why not just take regular flight, you ask? Because I *love* the visuals of Jet Boots. They're SO perfect for my robots and power armor characters that I have to take them even though I've come to hate the slow-start. In regular gameplay I need to travel short distances quickly, either to reach a teammate in trouble or just get from mob to mob, and Jet Boots makes that torturous.

I would be so happy to be able to charge my Jet Boots like you can with the Become Destroid device. I would (personally) be happy to exchange maximum speed for a faster start although I know that wouldn't be to everyone's taste. Anything to bypass the slooooow start! :)

Anyway, that's my whine. Anyone have any nifty ideas for changing Jet Boots?

what i dont get about rocket boots is that they are one of the few powers that beain able to charge them seems logical with

Yeah, I agree. I'd be perfectly happy to have them function exactly like regular flight- drop the top speed down to regular flight speed, let them charge like flight, but keep the nifty boot effect. You're right- the higher top speed doesn't help much at all, since they take so long to actually reach that top speed.

I say let Jet Boots be able to charge...and bring the other flights speed inline with Jets Boots speed.

Accelerating to your top speed too fast might hit you hard, like the jerk you feel when a car suddenly accelerates from braking and pushes you back into your seat, imagine that happening to your face harder. I think it is fine the way it is and rather like using the 2nd form before the final charge up in instances rather than full speed which can get troublesome to control in tight situations.

Compromise. Allow Jet boots to be charged to second stage speed but still have to wait for it to get to stage 3 speed on its own. Keep Jet boots faster than regular flight (note: I didn't say keep it as the fastest of the flights because it's not...)

I like that idea.

If Jet Boots simply allowed for full charge then there'd be NO reason outside of concept/theme for the other flights. There needs to be some trade-off / balance.

Keno's solution allows for things to be a little more balanced while still making things easier for the Jet Boots users.

Thinking out-loud, as it were, would it be unreasonable to have a second Jet Boots power that was mechanically identical to regular flight with the jet boots animations?

Not unreasonable IMO.

I wish they'd bring back the experimental (prototype) jet boots. Think Mark II from a certain movie.
Same great top speed, quicker ramp-up of acceleration.

















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