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hideable chest armour?
Shergrim
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have they mentioned anything about being able to toggle off/hide the appearance of your chest armour so it shows only bare chest whilst maintaining the stats for those of us that want to play something along the lines of a slayer dawi/ barbarian?
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If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
I would feel pretty good about that...
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
The public outrage at ideas such as this on another startups forum already has me shying away from that game and looking into this one, even though the open world pvp thing has me a bit concerned for its long term viability. I hate armor with shine, graphical sparkly shite weapons etc, for myself. I just want to be able to look how I would want to look in a fantasy game, and feel others should have the same right. The immersion crowd in a fantasy game has always amused and irritated me. It would be great to finally have a game that allows me to do that, and looks good to play for the next decade.
Not paying yet, but watching your progress.
@TyranthraxusEQ Nice name! I see I'm not the only one who was fond of the Pool of Radiance.... Would you have dipped in it, or banished it?
/cheers
My usual form isn't that spelling so i likely wont be racing you for naming rights
Aye, no worries here, either: This won't be the name I'll be trying for in-game, anyways. There's another moniker I go by in games. I might change my forums-name so that no one thinks that we're the same player, posting up multiple times.
I agree with you. I do think the aesthetic works well for dark elves in fantasy, but I don't know that it would fit in well for AOC. I have stated a few times that I hope Empyrean can get dark elf skin colors, I don't see it as a deal breaker. I am also a major fan of Greek/Roman history, and also love that aesthetic.
My main plan has been to just make a dark skin empyrean with black dyed gear. Skimp of no skimp. If it's not possible, its not the end of the world. It just makes a lot of sense to me because the Roman Empire had a fair diversity of skin colors for an ancient civilization.
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The day they put an outfit like that on the cosmetics store is the same day they make a big bag of money.
I'll buy if my overweight, overly hairy male dwarf can wear it.
Before you mention it, yes I know Entrepid plans to introduce some kind of system that allows you to see on your HUD what kind of gear quality someone has.
I was just going to bring up the fact that. Full body cosmetics do a pretty good job of hiding potential stats.
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i'll play without chest armour if it comes down to it but it'd be nice to be on the same level as everyone else whilst having my character look the way i want
Just dye it the same colour as your skin. The chest armour tends to be rather important in your defence.
That, edgy teenager male faces, and underaged-looking girls are the mayor factors why I avoid eastern MMOs like a pest.
I get anime has set some aesthetics and behavioral standards for some kind of people, but it's so unpleasant or even disgusting for the rest of us... 😕
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Better than this, surely:
Depending on the year.
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
Skimpy Armor sets are ok in my opinion some people just like running around half naked and its a Fantasy Game nothing is ''realistic'' so why not.
tbh everybody knows they will make big money if they sell sets like that xD
sorry for bad english
We do indeed know his feelings on that front, and I believe I shared a helpful wiki link that mentions it at the top in a previous month's Q&A wrap-up for you!
To OP's question, while we've previously addressed that your helmet would be able to be toggled, I don't believe we've specifically mentioned whether you'd be able to toggle the other slots, either regularly or through the use of cosmetics to "hide" your existing gear. I might recommend sharing this in an upcoming Q&A thread so we can dive in further!
There are those of us who want to look the way we envision our alter selves to be.
And those of us who say, no you can't look like that because I don't want to see it, for whatever reason. Be it immersion, faith, bigotry, what have you.
My side has never demanded you wear a skimpy outfit, or asked for a toggle to turn off your head to toe plate graphic because we want to see more skin. We just want the freedom to look the way we want to, in our fantasy experience.
Personally I don't like particle effects and overly ornate gear in video games. I do however like to see a little skin. The dark elf pictured above pretty much exactly hits my wifes hopes for what her avatar can look like in a game. My ideal is my sig pic. Both can coexist in a western styled mmo. If the puritans don't have full control that is. I was hoping that since Steven is from Lineage that was the direction the art would go, but I've seen little evidence to that effect yet, and that's disappointing.
that'd be awesome ty!
Excellent! Yours truly refers to the Wiki often, but sections like this can be hard to find.
I'm quite pleased, then!
Totally agree. Players should be able to look the way they want to look as long as it fits in with the fantasy genre and doesn't go all race cars and high tops (like Terra did). I don't consider "plate mail bikini's" to be "disrupting immersion" but I would consider someone wearing a full body hotdog suit, or wearing a digital robot suit, to be disruptive of the theme.