hideable chest armour?

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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Rhuric

Barbarians are barechested because they're not wearing chest armour though....not because it's invisible.

Vhaeyne

FFXIV has a invisible cosmetic for every slot. Should be standard.

Cadac

If players can use their cosmetic slots to look gaudy, I see no reason the opposite should be disallowed.

Jamation

I don't know how I'd feel about a bunch of naked looking people running around with wolves and bears and beasts slashing and clawing at them xD

Vhaeyne

Jamation wrote: »

I don't know how I'd feel about a bunch of naked looking people running around with wolves and bears and beasts slashing and clawing at them xD

I would feel pretty good about that...

TyranthraxusEQ

Expected the usual attack on "ruining our immersions" either the usual forum warriors aren't awake, or their still formulating their rage. I'm very curious about this one too. I'm still playing EQ using a very old bug to make my plate life vest invisible while tanking.
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.

Tyranthraxus

@Vhaeyne Heh - after I saw this kind of stuff in clips of Lineage 2, I started asking in the monthly Q&A's whether we'll see skimpy outfits. Steven was a big L2 player, but we still don't know his feelings about thongs and bikini bottoms in in AoC. I'm personally hoping it won't be in, as it subtracts from immersion, for yours truly.

@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?

TyranthraxusEQ

Honestly never finished the game lol, but it was my first rpg on a c64 with a 4 inch screen, liked the name have used forms of it in every game I've played since.

/cheers

My usual form isn't that spelling so i likely wont be racing you for naming rights

Tyranthraxus

TyranthraxusEQ wrote: »

Honestly never finished the game lol, but it was my first rpg on a c64 with a 4 inch screen, liked the name have used forms of it in every game I've played since.

/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.

Vhaeyne

Tyranthraxus wrote: »

@Vhaeyne Heh - after I saw this kind of stuff in clips of Lineage 2, I started asking in the monthly Q&A's whether we'll see skimpy outfits. Steven was a big L2 player, but we still don't know his feelings about thongs and bikini bottoms in in AoC. I'm personally hoping it won't be in, as it subtracts from immersion, for yours truly.

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.

Lycancoffee

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Jamation wrote: »

I don't know how I'd feel about a bunch of naked looking people running around with wolves and bears and beasts slashing and clawing at them xD

I would feel pretty good about that...

The day they put an outfit like that on the cosmetics store is the same day they make a big bag of money.

Rhuric

Lycancoffee wrote: »

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Jamation wrote: »

I don't know how I'd feel about a bunch of naked looking people running around with wolves and bears and beasts slashing and clawing at them xD

I would feel pretty good about that...

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.

Songcaller

Here I am loving the full cloak surround concepts we've seen, and, on the other side of the coin here we are discussing the naked possibilities for other character types. Rock on.

Volgaire

Rather than hiding the slot maybe some kind of body tatoos or other that support a "barbarian" playstyle, this would let both sides who want immersion and vanity to get some common ground.

Blandmarrow

Hiding armor is equal to hiding your potential stats, so personally I don't like the idea of hiding gear for visual aesthetics.

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.

Vhaeyne

Blandmarrow wrote: »

Hiding armor is equal to hiding your potential stats, so personally I don't like the idea of hiding gear for visual aesthetics.

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.

Shergrim

Rhuric wrote: »

Barbarians are barechested because they're not wearing chest armour though....not because it's invisible.

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

daveywavey

Shergrim wrote: »

Rhuric wrote: »

Barbarians are barechested because they're not wearing chest armour though....not because it's invisible.

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.

Sov54

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Jamation wrote: »

I don't know how I'd feel about a bunch of naked looking people running around with wolves and bears and beasts slashing and clawing at them xD

I would feel pretty good about that...

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... 😕

Vhaeyne

Sov54 wrote: »

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... 😕

So this is what you want instead?

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