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Something to point out as well, of the girls, only Harper and Riley have powers that have combat applications.
Valentina could stay invisible, then suddenly appear dressed as she was in the nighttime hallway this update. :love: That would render any heterosexual villain completely unable to remember what illegal thing he was doing and be so stunned it would be simple to tie him up and drag to the hoosegow.
 
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Valentina could stay invisible, then suddenly appear dressed as she was in the nighttime hallway this update. :love: That would render any heterosexual villain completely unable to remember what illegal thing he was doing and be so stunned it would be simple to tie him up and drag to the hoosegow.
Daring maid of mystery
Champion of right
Swoops out of the shadows
Valentina owns the night
Somewhere some villain schemes
But his number's up

Cloud of smoke and she appears
Master of surprise
Who's that cunning mind behind
That shadowy disguise
Nobody knows for sure
But bad guys are out of luck
'Cause here she comes

Valentina: I am the flasher that flashes in the night!

(Sorry, for some reason I just pictured her naked during the Darkwing Duck / Batman:TAS intro with the crack of lightning revealing her silhouette was actually entirely nude...)
 

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I know it is a low priority, but just for the fun of it, i'm asking for a height chart.
Most of the time when multiple girls are on the screen they are either sitting or they are in a pose which makes comparison difficult. But seeing how much shorter Valentina is than Riley was just funny. I don't think i ever consciously noticed it before this point.
 
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Oh huh, was replaying the game a bit and noticed Ojou-Trauma is the character we fought while training to beat Sumire in the arcade fighter. Neat.
 

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I think it was already somewhat confirmed the rescue will be near or at the end of the story, meaning that there will not be much interaction with her at all. Maybe as a (non-canon) side story though? Like in Power Vacuum?
I wouldn't hold my breath though, it doesn't really mesh well with the project so far.


That is a somewhat outdated notion, Cyberpunk with path tracing looks amazing. Only in VR I have to dial it back some to prevent my pc from catching on fire.
You can't run it with Path Tracing at 60fps without fake frames from frame generation
 

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All the girls are listed as 18 years old, but why do they all look like MILFs?
Strictly speaking MILF isn't age specific.

That aside, who and what are you talking about? Riley I can see a very strong push but she's not supposed to be 18. But the other academy girls don't look much beyond 18-20.
 

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I mean, it's pretty obvious that's the case. Not to mention that the villain is obsessed with blood samples, she's no doubt looking to get all the powers she can.
well if wants to monetize superpowers the no many ways.

this dev should read some marvel stuff
hero training is mockup battles and sparring USING powers, also simulations
this "academy" its just a gym club at this point
not simulations pre-1990s or so.

The big sparring and battle training used to be all holographic Danger Room stuff or they had super-powered healers on hand to fix them up.
before 1990s or so danger room was mechanical and same with avengers training room and also not any big 3 teams had any healers nor have nowadays either.
 

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before 1990s or so danger room was mechanical and same with avengers training room and also not any big 3 teams had any healers nor have nowadays either.
1983, New Mutants #1 had Professor X rebuild the Danger Room to hard light illusions (holograms) using Shi'ar tech instead of the mechanical trap and obstacle course it was before.

As for past-healers... I can't remember if it was pre- or post-Archangel but Angels blood heals people. Both Thor in his human persona (Donald Blake) and Doctor Strange were surgeons and - as the writing team deemed it - magically healed people as needed. That's just a couple random thoughts without even digging deeply.

Comics that far back / pre-Claremont were episodic (and Comic Code) so either people didn't get hurt (all the "no blood allowed" old Comics Code stuff) or they just hand-waved the injury away as needed so it wouldn't appear in another issue (i.e. Professor Pym has a gadget that just once heals exactly the sort of trauma / transformation suffered and is never spoken of again sort of thing).

These days... I stopped reading comics in general back at the start of this year from event burnout (just put out a solid ongoing book Marvel, not everything needs to be an "Event" or an "Age of" book) but I think two of the X-teams had support or background characters that were healers. Not front-liners but the characters who hung out back at base.

The Avengers have an entire super-hospital full of healing type mutants, mystics, and other metas (detailed in the Storm mini-series while she is/was an Avenger and was dying from cancer) so while they don't have current team members who heal they do have an entire super-hospital for rapid healing and recovery that is open to the entire healing community.
 

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1983, New Mutants #1 had Professor X rebuild the Danger Room to hard light illusions (holograms) using Shi'ar tech instead of the mechanical trap and obstacle course it was before.

As for past-healers... I can't remember if it was pre- or post-Archangel but Angels blood heals people. Both Thor in his human persona (Donald Blake) and Doctor Strange were surgeons and - as the writing team deemed it - magically healed people as needed. That's just a couple random thoughts without even digging deeply.
1. that's possible.
2. it's post-archangel and was forgotten soonish.
2.1. thor/blake helped on severe injuries besides working at hospital, strange helped mostly on supernatural injuries unless it was really emergency.
2.2. x-men had morlock's healer helping them occasionally (f.e. after brotherhood attacked on colossus). other times sickbay called.
2.3. later they added healing factors to some chars besides wolverine and deadpool.

marvel has night nurse's office (neutral ground for both heroes and villains) which is very well equipped and dc has similar.
 

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Whelp, i don't know shit about comics.
But yeah, this team really isn't combat oriented. Riley has the most experience, but she is basically a brawler with enhanced throws and grapple. Harper could use her power in combat and it would be interesting to see, but with her personality she is more of a search and rescue type. Chrys and Valentina already showed their function in combat: to create surprising situations and ambushes. Even MC is more successful when he comes up with insane ideas.

For this team, some kind of superpowered puzzle solving would fit much more than the x-men combat training.

But everything else put aside for a moment, all the tech we saw so far was either regular IRL stuff or directly tied to Shiro. Even if the Academy had a holodeck or dangerroom, they probably couldn't use it anyway because of this.

But if we are at cross-fandom debate: is Lovestruck an orc for machines or does she turn the machines into orcs that think they work?.
 

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Whelp, i don't know shit about comics.
But yeah, this team really isn't combat oriented. Riley has the most experience, but she is basically a brawler with enhanced throws and grapple. Harper could use her power in combat and it would be interesting to see, but with her personality she is more of a search and rescue type. Chrys and Valentina already showed their function in combat: to create surprising situations and ambushes. Even MC is more successful when he comes up with insane ideas.

For this team, some kind of superpowered puzzle solving would fit much more than the x-men combat training.

But everything else put aside for a moment, all the tech we saw so far was either regular IRL stuff or directly tied to Shiro. Even if the Academy had a holodeck or dangerroom, they probably couldn't use it anyway because of this.

But if we are at cross-fandom debate: is Lovestruck an orc for machines or does she turn the machines into orcs that think they work?.
Something to remember is that the academy is more of Mrs Powell's pet project. Its not necessarily about making a superhero team, but a place where people with powers might be able to learn some control over them. We can see this with the MC, Mrs Powell figured out that his powers would take time to replicate the powers of others, and those who had a greater degree of control would transfer faster than others. Its why Mrs Powell was always knocking the MC down during exercise and helping him up, as well as other touches like fixing his collar, she was microdosing him. While Riley didn't know, she was effectively doing the same, massages and kisses and sex. But its also why he's having trouble replicating Valentina and Chrys' powers.

Actually now that I've said it, I've just realised Mrs Powell wasn't making a place to help develop a superhero team, she was making a place to create a single superhero. And with the way Shiro has been acting, I'm starting to suspect Mrs Powell has known about the MC for a long time, not his powers but that he's Harsh-Light's grandson. And Shiro is pissed that Powell didn't tell him about MC's grandfather. Because then he'd have a target for revenge.
 
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