Originally Posted by Higby
This seems like a weird thing to get hung up on. If someone feels like having squads with tiger stripes, or zebra stripes, or snow camo, or whatever to make yourself or your squad distinct - it's totally up to you. There are dozens of different texture variants like that to put on your vehicles and armor, just because zebra stripes were the one shown doesn't mean that's all we're making.
There are tons of real world examples of this stuff for those saying its not "realistic"
Now, maybe those are show planes or "mascot planes" like the blue angels, but who's to say we shouldn't let people customize their vehicles to be like that in Planetside? I want to have a blue angel plane. Whats wrong with a squadron deciding they wanted to be the screaming zebras or the wailing walruses.
Customization isn't 100% freeform, we're going to be sure that everything that goes in fits into the world and it doesn't turn into giant mecha-cupcakes shooting lamprey eels at eachother or something. |
Sci-fi books/games have a history of painting their ships. For any of you who have read Rogue Squadron all 12 different fighters each had their own distinct colour scheme based on where they are from, family crests etc. Ignore the people getting butt hurt about this Higby, they are just not used to seeing this sort of thing.. They will come around.
I personally think it will add tons of depth to the game, imagine seeing a swarm of 5 galaxies flying over a hill all with a puppy dog crest and a load of hearts on the window.. you know its the Enclave, or a swarm of mags with pink headlights and a dildo sidegrade attachment.. GoTR.
It will make outfits much more readily identifiable without them having to add stupid tags to the end/beginning of their names.
2012-05-24, 04:20 AM
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