Champions Online Community Q&A

Cryptic Studios' official Champions Online website has been updated with a new community Q&A covering character development, crafting, PvP, and more.
Will there be instances in which certain powers can interact with the environment such as a fire attack on a gas main causing an explosion that takes out a group of enemies or an electric attack on a fuse box that knocks out the lights?

Arkayne: There will definitely be environmental destructibles but we don't want to limit it to specific powers simply because of the breadth of available powers. Damage from fire, electricity, lasers, etc. should all be able to trigger a volatile explosive object. We'd rather have players utilizing those destructibles most of the time than restrict it to a certain power build.

That being said we do plan to have skills that can be used to trigger/shut down/override certain objects in the environment: shut down security systems, grant a temporary radiation imbuement, disenchant magical runes, etc.