I am very excited about the Gear system and nobody seems to be talking about its potential outside of ruining the meta. Is anybody else but me hype? The current quote is "say, a thousand pieces for Flash" so I'd like to hear what other people who are excited might be thinking.
Just a couple of my current discussion points:
-How many slots do you think a character will have?
-Are these our alternate costumes or do you think there will be alts as well?
-Do you think every character will have the same amount or will Batman and Superman have gigantic closets while Sinestro has a measley 10 items?
-Do you think characters will share pieces or will you have to grind it out for every single character?
-Do you think every piece is unique or do you think we have a one bracer with 20 different stat variations situation?
-Do you think we'll be able to customize them or combine them or even buy / sell them or just all of them sitting in a giant menu waiting to be picked like MKXs player cards?
-Will there be "conditions" for unlocking them similar to time shifted chests in the Krypt or do you want to just keep playing and get one every couple fights?
-Do you think they will grant actual moves or character abilities (traits) or just have effects in battle like abilities in custom kombat (frost touch, slow down, speed up, criticals, insta-kill, etc)?
-Do you think they will tell us how many are actually in the game or will we be finding them two years from now like we still are with Brutalities?
Or anything else you happen to be thinking. My personal hope is that this is how they "include" all those characters nobody wants but people insist they want. A guy gardner face for Hal, an inverted S and color scheme for supes, even equipping amell's voice on my arrow woudl all be fantastic ways to expand the roster without actually doing it.
What are your thoughts?
I'm very excited for those too, I really can't wait to customize all of my chars!
- I hope they have the basic slots like: Arms, Legs, Chest, Head + a couple of unique ones per char like I don't know Ring for GL, Cape for Supes, Trident for Aquadude! + they'll probably have something equivalent to ''rings and amulets'', simply passive items with no aesthetic attached.
- I feel like these could be the alts, with notable costumes like let's say ''Animated Series Superman'' being some kind of legendary set, so either you collect all the pieces or it's a one-piece item that takes all your slots.
- I would hope every character has the same amount, and then maybe when they add item sets they'll add for example the Dawn of Justice set and Grodd'll get left out.
- I think it all depends with the nature of the gear items. If they're just cool-ass armors designed by NRS like in the trailer, they could be shared like in games such as Diablo. You find ''Leather Helmet'' but it looks different on every character. If every gear set is based off of some story arc, comic or movie, we'll probably have character-exclusive stuff.
- I think we'll have rolls so you can unlock the same bracer with different stats.
- I do think it'd be a good idea to give as much customization as possible if you're gonna claim ''your Aquaman is going to be unique from every other Aquaman''.
- I hope most are available as you play the game any way you want but I can definitely see some being unlockable in Story for example, or in ''challenge'' mode.
- Moves yes, Custom kombat abilities I really hope not.
- If there are A LOT, don't tell us the number. If there are just a couple, give us numbers and let us collect them all.
Bam.
