Finally got the beta client up and running and decided to mess around with it. There's some cool stuff in there that I wish we'd have been able to get- some of it future things, some of it just NPC stuff.
Firstly, a character I'd wanted to make for a long time: Arachnette. She'd have been one of the villain group counterparts to a teen hero group I played in with a bunch of friends called the Young Phalanx. They were mostly based off of the Freedom Phalanx, in the sort of way the Young Avengers or Teen Titans are spinoff groups of their universe's iconic hero groups. Arachnette would have, of course, been based on Lord Recluse.
And then there's a kind of alternate armor version of P-Tron, my primary Young Phalanx character. She does double duty as both a teen Mynx and a teen Positron, basically. In an ideal world, she'd have been rerolled as that new Striker AT so she could be a proper ranged/melee hybrid character. Here, she's salvaged some stuff from Praetorian bots and grafted it onto her existing armor because that's cool. I'm happy the NPC editor lets us actually use Mynx's cat ears- most people don't look close enough to notice, but they're actually unique looking, and not available to players.
I don't know what this guy is, but he's super awesome. Some sort of rularuu-posessed robot thing, energy fountaining out the top where a head would be. Being able to make headless characters is pretty awesome, actually. I'd totally play this guy. Probably another Striker, with Darkness powers or something? Not sure what he would be.
And then this is a slightly updated version of one of my existing characters(she's Water Blast but I like the trident so who cares). I noticed there's some interesting behavior in terms of arm replacement using short sleeved options with jackets. I'm guessing this is specifically built into some NPC parts and players never had access to them? But it lets you do some cool stuff with previously arm-covering chest texture options. Like I did here.
Even without the game itself, making characters and costumes is still pretty fun. Hopefully, if there's some sort of private server thing that goes up, they'll enable dev costume bits for all players to be able to use. (unless there's some crashes associated with that or something weird, but I'd imagine the chances of that are pretty slim)