DCUO The powers seem lackluster...

wireyankee

I'm really trying to like this game. The one major holdup im having is the crappy powers. I like the whole weapon concept, but hate that my main powers seem outdated and graphically appalling. I hate bringing up previous games but the powers in COH (rel 2004) made you feel powerful. So far i can't see one spell in DCUO better then Energy Blast. Thats just effing sad. Please tell me when you reach level cap the powers get more awe inspiring. Its 2011, you can do better.

Draenor

It's difficult to make gaudy, crazy looking cool powers in an MMO because of graphical and latency issues...not only that, but this is an action MMO, the pace moves fast, a power where the animation took a long time would be unusable in this game because you'd be dead by the time it got off.

 

Personally, I think that a game like this NEEDS to have powers go off as soon as you hit the button, and that's what the powers do here...if you pressed the fireball button and then watched as your character wound up to throw out an epic fireball, you'd be getting beat on the entire time.

 

I'm not sure what you're talking about with the powers in CoH looking cool or epic, I never found the powers in those games to be particularly awe inspiriing.

 

Kaneth

I have found the powers to be pretty decent, and I do like many of the looks better than CoX. There is a difference in art style between DCUO and CoX, and frankly, DCUO looks a hell of a lot better than CoX does to me.

Naqaj

I like how most powers aren't going too crazy with their effects. Only thing they could improve is differentiating the visuals withing a power set a bit more.