Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Lost Power Files: Teleporting


Another ability we haven't heard much about is the teleport. While the ability itself is certainly in-game, we're referring more to the in-combat teleport that avoids a falling building or gets the teleporter out of the way of bullets, energy bolts and other manners of danger that would otherwise send him or her promptly to respawn.



While it seems complicated, it also seems like it would be an easy implement. We don't see a big issue with appearing in a random area to the left, right, in front or back of where our character was standing. As long as we're not appearing inside something solid it seems workable.

The one potential issue could be the teleport frequency. If a teleporter were able to vanish and reappear every time they used the power command there could be an issue with balance. It seems a simple way to resolve this would be to make the frequency upgradeable wit XP so that a level 30 character has the option to teleport at a more rapid rate than a level 15 character if they upgraded their powers accordingly. Having the ability to teleport during combat is a DCUO necessity, so we hope its included sooner than later.

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