Is time on your side? Well, it will be for City of Heroes players who choose to take advantage of the upcoming Temporal Manipulation powerset, which launches alongside the free-to-play conversion later this year. But some pretty visuals alone don't make for a compelling new powerset, which is why players will no doubt be happy to see the recent rundown of the abilities within the set as well as the rationale behind each of the given powers.
As Temporal Manipulation is a set for Defenders, Corruptors, and Controllers, it's no surprise that there's a solid mix of debuffs and buffs for players to explore. In addition, Temporal Manipulation allows players to juggle a specific set of buffs and debuffs, with certain powers Delaying enemies or Accelerating allies and certain other powers having additional effects on those who are Delayed or Accelerated. The document also contains advice for players once the powers go live -- a bit far in the future, perhaps, but this would be the set where that's appropriate.
Reader Comments (17)
Posted: Aug 11th 2011 9:10PM Ghostspeaker said
It's also a secondary set for Masterminds, btw.
Posted: Aug 11th 2011 11:23PM mattwo said
Time to make my kamen rider den-o homage .... wait he doesn't use that kind of power, his train does...
Maybe the doctor? ....Nope that's the TARDIS.
Booster Gold? No that's Skeets....
Maxwell L- ya know what? Forget it!
Maybe the doctor? ....Nope that's the TARDIS.
Booster Gold? No that's Skeets....
Maxwell L- ya know what? Forget it!
Posted: Aug 11th 2011 11:27PM mattwo said
My point is. Which heroes (or villains) have ever manipulated time on their own?
They all had devices that did it for them.
Their powers were something else outright.
Kamen Rider Den-O had many forms that used different weapons, so the only one useable would be a dominator for gun form. Even then you can't explain the time manip powers
The doctor and I think Maxwell Lord didn't have their own powers so they're ouright exempt.
Booster Gold is do-able however, but Skeets doesn't quite have that kind of control over time, just time travel.
So where are they pulling this power from?
They all had devices that did it for them.
Their powers were something else outright.
Kamen Rider Den-O had many forms that used different weapons, so the only one useable would be a dominator for gun form. Even then you can't explain the time manip powers
The doctor and I think Maxwell Lord didn't have their own powers so they're ouright exempt.
Booster Gold is do-able however, but Skeets doesn't quite have that kind of control over time, just time travel.
So where are they pulling this power from?
Posted: Aug 12th 2011 11:11AM (Unverified) said
@mattwo
Well, there is the Time Trapper and Glorith from the LSH...
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Well, there is the Time Trapper and Glorith from the LSH...
Posted: Aug 11th 2011 11:29PM mattwo said
By the way. If The Doctor is a time LORD and Maxwel is a time MASTER. How do they compare in terms of power over time and rank?
Could Maxwell himself have been a reference to The Doctor?
Could Maxwell himself have been a reference to The Doctor?
Posted: Aug 12th 2011 12:57AM mattwo said
THIS COMMENT SYSTEM CONFUSES ME!
Posted: Aug 12th 2011 10:07AM (Unverified) said
sounds like a HoT set!!
guess this is the first HoT set in the game? i think the other power sets that increase healing all increase +regen, like triage beacon, not heals over time
other than that the set looks like a combo between rad debuffs, kin buffs with slows
and I will cringe at every doctor who/timelord themed character thats going to swarm the servers
guess this is the first HoT set in the game? i think the other power sets that increase healing all increase +regen, like triage beacon, not heals over time
other than that the set looks like a combo between rad debuffs, kin buffs with slows
and I will cringe at every doctor who/timelord themed character thats going to swarm the servers
Posted: Aug 12th 2011 10:16AM Budokan said
Posted: Aug 15th 2011 8:48AM AceSteveC said
Any power which inspires me to make a new hero (which isn't as easy as it sounds - I need a story for the hero, one that fits with the power set and a costume - that can be a serious sticking point too) and that's fun to play is great. So far it's scoring 1 out of 2, but that's only because I can't play it yet - I'm confident that when I can actually play it it'll hit the whole 2 out of 2 :)







