Vanu aesthetics buff incoming (colour and camo)

Sonny · 2013-04-17, 03:04 AM

Following on from several threads last week here and on Reddit discussing how the Vanu aesthetics may be connected to their current population issues, we now have this from Higby yesterday:

It appears just to affect colours and camo coverage at the moment, no changes to models. Any thoughts? Will it help? Will it be enough?

Sonny

EDIT: We now have an album of the before/after colour changes of each Vanu class, look here

Plus the new camo coverage can be seen here

Sonny · 2013-04-17, 03:31 AM

And just after I posted this, TRay now says there will eventually be model changes for each faction to better match the lore:

Helwyr · 2013-04-17, 03:52 AM

Please no glowing bright shinny stuff, especially on the Infiltrator.. emphasis on Camo! Look forward to seeing the new looks.

o Solei o · 2013-04-23, 02:12 AM

Originally Posted by Helwyr

Please no glowing bright shinny stuff, especially on the Infiltrator.. emphasis on Camo! Look forward to seeing the new looks.

Meh. I don't need to spray paint my eyeballs or be 100% invisible all the time to be sneaky. I do it the old fashioned way, by sneaking. (That and I can totally get behind looking cool and high-tech, so at least 1 vote for a few strategic emissives from me.)

In other news, totally dig the new VS look. Well timed too, as I just started playing VS a lot more regularly.

Are they loosing camo coverage on the head? Someone was bitching about that to me the other day over voip...

Maarvy · 2013-04-17, 04:36 AM

Originally Posted by Sonny

Following on from several threads last week here and on Reddit discussing how the Vanu aesthetics may be connected to their current population issues, we now have this from Higby yesterday:

https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/324201218014584832

It appears just to affect colours and camo coverage at the moment, no changes to models. Any thoughts? Will it help? Will it be enough?

Sonny

The way I read the higgers twitter was that the base suit's and camo coverage were bieng changed .

We'll see soon enough I guess one way or another its a welcome change for the VS's infantry design .

Sonny · 2013-04-17, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by Maarvy

The way I read the higgers twitter was that the base suit's and camo coverage were bieng changed .

We'll see soon enough I guess one way or another its a welcome change for the VS's infantry design .

I'm pretty sure it's colour specifically too and not just camo changes. From a follow-on tweet from TRay:

Kenshiken · 2013-04-17, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by Sonny

I'm pretty sure it's colour specifically too and not just camo changes. From a follow-on tweet from TRay:

https://twitter.com/PS_TRay/status/324218944938459136

It's sad. I wish it was a some basic class models re-design.

Kinya · 2013-04-17, 06:32 AM

In one of his tweets PS_Tray mention "more color as in more dark grey"...
Does it mean we won't be wearing purple and teal armor in the future but purple and grey?

Kenshiken · 2013-04-17, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by Kinya

In one of his tweets PS_Tray mention "more color as in more dark grey"...
Does it mean we won't be wearing purple in the future?

We'll see.

psijaka · 2013-04-17, 07:41 AM

It will help. The teal is particularly insipid. As to whether it is enough; only time will tell.

Hopefully we'll get some model changes too; the MAX in particular looks stupid.

And please get rid of the stuffy academic voiceovers!

HiroshiChugi · 2013-04-17, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by psijaka

And please get rid of the stuffy academic voiceovers!

They're part of the VS's "We're better than all of you" attitude...

psijaka · 2013-04-17, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by HiroshiChugi

They're part of the VS's "We're better than all of you" attitude...

One of the reasons that I especially like to kill Vanu.

I do have a VS char, currently around BR6, which I created to try out Dual Comets, and I have to say that I find the old fart really irritating, especially when he's chastising me for failing to defend a base.

Skarn · 2013-04-17, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by psijaka

I have to say that I find the old fart really irritating, especially when he's chastising me for failing to defend a base.

Spock is not chastising you, you didn't fail to defend the base, you failed yourself.

Lucecarentes · 2013-04-17, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by psijaka

It will help. The teal is particularly insipid. As to whether it is enough; only time will tell.

Hopefully we'll get some model changes too; the MAX in particular looks stupid.

And please get rid of the stuffy academic voiceovers!

I acutlly like the VS voice actors, the TR and NC ones kinda sound like douche bags, specialy their taunts.
I also love the VS announcer , he sounds like a wise old man which imo is awesome. Not all FPS games need to have some annoying general screaming down your ears while you're playing.

The NC have an annoying girl which is trying to act bad ass but fails
And the TR have a generic general which loves to rape your ears

Kinya · 2013-04-17, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by Lucecarentes

I acutlly like the VS voice actors, the TR and NC ones kinda sound like douche bags, specialy their taunts.
I also love the VS announcer , he sounds like a wise old man which imo is awesome. Not all FPS games need to have some annoying general screaming down your ears while you're playing.

The NC have an annoying girl which is trying to act bad ass but fails
And the TR have a generic general which loves to rape your ears

I have to say that VS announcer voice reminds me of Leonard Nimoy voice as Spock... One of the reasons I choose to play VS