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Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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"Oops my boobs are falling out" is a terrible strategy.
unless you are a zombie then you have a legitimates reason
Being too conservative in this area is just as bad as having over the top and exploitative armor skins, and many female players find sexy empowering and exciting. You can also have form fitting and feminine heavy armor, without making it expose any skin.
No, just...just no, buddy.
No, just no what?
If guys want to droll over their sexy female characters let them. If girls feel empowered let them.
Bikini armors look silly, but going all tactical about it is stupid. You mean to tell me that the robes that mages wear wont get pierced and slashed the same way that the bikini will?
That the high heels are not proper protection but the sandals are?
Btw... why isolate a few lines from a logical post to discredit?
Here is the bottom of the line:
A game with pornographic armors that aim to attract players for sexy characters, is laughable.
Demanding that all female characters (made both by guys and girls) should look like Brienne of Tarth is even more so.
Its possible to make realistic armor that accentuates the female form to some extent. It might not always be practical and emphasizing breasts too much could be detrimental, but it didn't stop real men from making giant cod pieces or muscle armor in history, so why should it stop women in fantasy?
I fail to see how disagreeing with “being half naked and sexy is empowering” means wanting every character to look like they’re covered in ten layers of clothes. So far Intrepid’s take on cosmetically appealing armor has been pretty good going from one sex to the other, and they’ve all been aesthetically pleasing in their own ways.
Pleasing to look at =/= showing as much skin and cleavage as you’d see at hooters
Though I won’t lie and pretend I don’t get a kick out of the players who put the “battle bikini” armor onto their hefty and bearded male characters. That makes my day when my tank is a big burly man in a bright cyan “sexy” costume.
I've never understood the desire for strictly real world design for armor in a fantasy game, sure bikini armor on a hulking tank doesn't make any sense because it goes beyond the ability to suspend disbelief, but boob plate isn't much of a stretch.
Oh I agree 100% but I just find it fun to have the two in the same sentence
I find that there are plenty of ways the breastplate can be defining around the breast area without being overly sexual
Rogue
Fighter
Cleric
Tank
Mage
Ranger
Bard
Summoner
From those pictures though the biggest things I see to make them look realistic and "feminine" are accessories, coloration, or "flowy objects" like the back cape on the fighter, cape on the ranger, and shoulder cape thing on the bard and summoner. Like if you took away all those belts and corset thing on the rouge she'd just be wearing a grey shirt and grey pants, which might be cool for the increasing armor shows increasing power or whatever. Like the more powerful that set of armor is the more belts you get until you just turn into a belt.
The tank one also makes good use of coloration because that one the boob plating seems the most obvious and kind of weird out of all the pictures but still semi-works with the material of the armor I guess. But the little bit of purple added gives that "pretty" feel
The other thing I noticed is they all either wear high boots with a noticeable visual gap between them and the shirt region or long socks, which personally always been a fan of either of those designs. (sue me, I like what I like
I do find it funny that out of all the classes the cleric one is, in my opinion, the most sexualized looking one ahahaha
To be fair, I've watched enough of that show to know that she fought with a very acrobatic style that would probably be hindered by heavier armor and/or armor that covered her up more. Her gear is fine for a "female rogue" type. Though there is no reason to show off that much skin between the neck and breasts aside from being able to flash cleavage, that is probably the worst thing about it.
But again, I'm not a Xena hater and her outfit was fine IMO.
From Dragon Magazine #140
I'm glad you like them! I was actually quite surprised to find out that there weren't a whole lot of 'non-sexy' pieces for the cleric cause I really did search for a good while
Let’s take Tera for example. Pretty sure many people are thinking of that game when making their argument against good-looking feminine clothing options. I’m personally not a fan of the clothing or armors of that game.
I really liked a lot of the sets in Black Desert. There were many female armor/clothing choices that were very covered up and many that were very revealing, one or two that are even a bit much for my taste but never a bikini made of chain mail or any other material. Not everyone wants to play a character that’s covered in big heavy plate armor like a medieval knight. Some people actually do like to be fashionable in a game and sometimes that means some cloth or light armor sets could get away with being revealing. Even if it’s just a cash shop cosmetic rather than actual earn-able armor.
TLDR: quit whining about “bikini plate?! omg keep the bikinis away from my game!?”. We want hot armor, not literal bikini armor. Though I assume underwear and swimsuits will be a thing for the RP-ers. (No not THAT kind of RP).
References for what we *actually* want when we ask for this stuff:
I"m not sure if this is a reply to my armor idea, but in case it is, it wasn't entirely out of just wanting to see it, there's also the functionality to think of. If a wrap-cross top does get added to the game, it would be best for agility stats due to how simple it is.
There is however a difference between feminine charm and lustful over-sexualization and I hope that we can strike a balance without going down the stupid route New World has chosen.