Ability Animations As Weapon Skins.

[(PSN)Guerrilian]

Just a suggestion that would look awesome. For example, you could equip the Amperex or Synapse to Volt, and while the effects of the weapons are the same and they still consume ammo, it would look like it was being fired from Volt's bare hands. Reload would be Volt clenching his fist and charging his arm to let loose another stream of lightning.

 

Ember could use the Ignis stream, Oberon could use the Flux Rifle beam, Rhino could use the Obex animations with his bare hands. Probably not Nova and the Ogris, but maybe the Stug...maybe Frost could have icicle kunai if we go beyond the simpler switches.

 

Remember, the only advantage this would have is style. Switching weapons would look like priming and retracting their powers, reload speed would be casters refocusing the attack, and ammunition would stay separate from energy in all factors. You could buy it in the market or craft it from a blue print in the alerts. In the foundry, it would probably take a specific ammo mutation mod and 2 forma.

 

Maybe some melee weapons could have Ability animations, so Ember could conjure daggers made of pure fire (heat daggers), Volt could form a rod of electricity (Prod), and Nekros could have a nanite scythe (Ether Reaper).

 

Thoughts?

[JohnProdman]

Abilities 2.0? lol.

 

+1 for managing to post in the correct section!

 

Edit: Sounds more like a suggestion actually.

Edited May 8, 2014 by JohnProdman

[se05239]

As cool as it sounds, no thanks. 

[(PSN)Daikon177]

That'd be cool, its not gonna happen but cool idea anyways!

[(PSN)Guerrilian]

That'd be cool, its not gonna happen but cool idea anyways!

I can hope. I could also, maybe, draw mediocre fan art until I'm satisfied, but that takes a lot of graphite, ink, and time, so I'll just stick with hoping.