Champions Online Power Set Interview – Telekinesis, Force, and Telepathy

ThomasN7

Can you tell us a little bit about the Force, Telepathy, and Telekinesis power sets, the themes with them, and some of the secondary powers players can have when they pick these powers?

 

Mind over matter indeed!



Bill Roper: Sure. Force is almost more kinetics than telekinetics. Force features a lot of powers that shove people back. There is a lot of knockback involved. It’s more of a physical presence, a kinetic power set.

Telepathy is definitely a straight mind set where you are doing things like summoning pets you use, other illusions or creatures of the mind, as well as some direct powers like mental bolts.

Telekinesis features a lot of what you'd expect out of this power set, but it also has the ability to create weapons out of mental energy. A lot of what we are putting in right now is being able to do things like being able to pick up objects with your mind and throwing them around.

Kinda like what Psylocke does in the X-Men? That sort of thing?

BR: Right.

In our previous interviews, we've always talked about the secondary powers that each of the primary powers has. What do these mental powers have for their secondary effects? To me, these are not as obvious as an ion charge or a fire DoT or a fear with darkness.

BR: One of the big things you get from Force is a lot of different knockbacks, so when you are hitting enemies you are not only damaging them but you have increased chances of knockback. If you tend to do charges more than taps [hold the button and then let it go – Ed.] you get a much higher chance of knockback. So if you want to be fighting enemies with a force blast and don’t want to knock them back for whatever reason, you’re tapping to do that. If you want to get them away from you, you charge and do that.

Also, force field is a force bubble effect barrier around other people, and you actually get energy back when you defend other people. Force field is kind of a secondary power.

How does that work?

BR: If I throw a force field around someone else, I get a percentage of the damage they take on that force field as energy back.

That way I am encouraged to defend other players, and that’s a secondary way of me getting energy.

So essentially, you’re taking the energy that is being dispelled into your force field and using it for yourself?

BR: Exactly.

With the ego stuff in telepathy it has different types of damages to deal with different types of resistances, physical resistances obviously. It also has telepathic reverberation, which returns energy over time to enemies of the affected target. So, if I hit an enemy with ego blast for example, it will apply telepathic reverberation for ten seconds if they have under half their life.

So, when the enemy has half life or below, I want to make sure I hit him with something that has telepathic reverberation so basically I start getting back energy over time. Actually it’s for anybody who’s in my group because they are friends of the enemy target.

 

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