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[Tristan Winter]

Looks totally different from the previews. Which is bad news for the 10% who liked it as it was presented. Great news for the 90% who were either indifferent or disappointed.



I like this a lot better. A LOT better.

[August55]

Is there a reason why they're locked?

[Tristan Winter]

August55, on 09 December 2014 - 11:42 AM, said:

Is there a reason why they're locked?

No good reason, certainly. But I imagine they're going to inject them while the game is live, no need to take the game down for maintenance while they patch it. At least, that's how UI 2.0 is supposed to work.

[RustyBolts]

So you cant change the colors?

[Tristan Winter]

RustyBolts, on 09 December 2014 - 11:45 AM, said:

So you cant change the colors?

It looks like you can only change 1 colour per faction skin. Presumably for Alpha, Beta, Delta galaxy or whatever. So Jade Falcon clans will always be shiny jade green, but you can replace the yellow with another colour.

On Clan Wolf mechs, you can only change the yellow.

Edited by Nicolai Kabrinsky, 09 December 2014 - 11:48 AM.

[KraftySOT]

Doesnt look like any clan wolf ive ever seen

Edited by KraftySOT, 09 December 2014 - 11:50 AM.

[LordKnightFandragon]

I liked the look of that camo better on the wave 2 page pictures lol.

[Tristan Winter]

KraftySOT, on 09 December 2014 - 11:48 AM, said:

Doesnt look like any clan wolf ive ever seen

Granted. Although the regular clan colours are rather easy to emulate with normal colours and camo patterns, surely?

They want to create some unique skins that people will pay a lot for, while keeping them clean of insignia, so the same people will also buy decals later.

[Walluh]

Well these camos just became completely useless if you can only change the primary. The primary is the only passable color.

[Milocinia]

They can also be used on the invasion variants right?

I wouldn't know seeing as mine haven't been delivered

[the wr3ck]

I just patched and they are not in the game. I have purchased the correct package and selected the themes.

[KraftySOT]

Nicolai Kabrinsky, on 09 December 2014 - 11:50 AM, said:

Granted. Although the regular clan colours are rather easy to emulate with normal colours and camo patterns, surely?

They want to create some unique skins that people will pay a lot for, while keeping them clean of insignia, so the same people will also buy decals later.

Yeah I totally get it. And hopefully (I dont have any clan mechs) you can paint them up appropriately. Its easy to get IS mechs to look like that with one of the one shots and two colors. But clan mechs seem to all have these weird stripes. I havent seen anyone running around in an iconic paint job yet.

The only ones I see are the Skye Rangers red and black, but thats just people loving red and black, its not specifically them emulating the Skye Rangers.

I see alot of Drac looking mechs...but people just like Red.

And ill bet Jade Falcon has green paint.

Not red, or light blue...

Kind of frustrating. Ive always hoped for some Laio specific patterns or colors, but looking at these, ill just do my own lime greens, whites, reds, and blacks. Id really love to see an exact replication...just once.

[Pezzer]

All that I can really say: I'm uber dissapointed. I didn't think they would mess up the Clan Wolf paint this badly (looks like someone was messing around in the CryEngine devkit and broke one of the textures), and I never in my wildest dreams expected to see locked color selection like this.
There is literally NO reason to lock the paint. It takes no coding effort to implement, doesn't really break lore (and if it does, why does it matter? Unique Clan units/Mercs are going to have different colors, only makes sense to allow them to use their bought camo skins however they choose), and adds to MWO's replayability as a whole. I love to play with color schemes, and they just took that away from me with this design decision.

Maybe they'll patch full paint customization in later? I hope so

Edited by Pezzer, 09 December 2014 - 12:11 PM.

[Walluh]

I really hope they can make these customizable. The weird wavey effect isn't worth it.

[Tristan Winter]

Pezzer, on 09 December 2014 - 12:10 PM, said:

There is literally NO reason to lock the paint.

Well, at this point it seems like it's some kind of attempt to encourage uniformity for CW. Make all Clan units from the same faction look the same.

PGI has certainly clamped down on customization lately. A lot of hero mechs with virtually no freedom to choose colours (hello Ember) and the Clan non-Invasion variants are all grey with a few drops of paint. A cheap attempt to make everyone buy camo patterns.

[Brody319]

Pattern is better. Colors are still pretty turrible.

[Tristan Winter]

Brody319, on 09 December 2014 - 01:18 PM, said:

Pattern is better. Colors are still pretty turrible.

Probably figured more bling (shiny, glossy, metallic colours) would sell more than just regular paint. Would have been pretty sweet to keep the same pattern, but with matte desert camo colours, I think.

[Brody319]

Nicolai Kabrinsky, on 09 December 2014 - 01:20 PM, said:

Probably figured more bling (shiny, glossy, metallic colours) would sell more than just regular paint. Would have been pretty sweet to keep the same pattern, but with matte desert camo colours, I think.

I wanted more reds. but I guess the brown colors are fine, just not what i pictured for clan wolf.
pattern is fine

[0bsidion]

I don't mind the pattern so much but weird brown, pea green, and yellow don't make much sense to me for Clan Wolf colors. I wouldn't mind the color lock if they didn't look like someone just threw darts at a color wheel to pick the colors for us. I'm tempted to use Smoke Jaguar, the colors actually look like they belong to that faction. Same with Ghost Bear and Jade Falcon for that matter.

[All Nine]

I just wish they had more then 12 pixels per mech. Look at that Hellbringer. Eurgh.