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[Ully]

So I just had a look at the clan camos which have unlocked channels now.
The Clan Ghost Bear camo looks quite strange now, before we used to only be able to change the colour of the little stripe thingie on the shoulders, as with the other clan camos.

That's still the tertiary channel for the ghost bear camo at the moment, so now the camo doesn't even use the ghost bear light blue. Which doesn't really look that nice at all, as it makes for the nice transition and the kind of "ice" effect at the top. Instead, that colour just changed to black since it has nothing assigned to it.

My suggestion would be to just merge the stripe channel with the secondary channel, since both of those are white by default anyway, and make the tertiary channel be what used to be the light blue instead.

Some screenshots of my mad dog:

Before: http://i.imgur.com/1FgykEJ.jpg

After: http://i.imgur.com/r2koYs2.jpg


Hellbringer and Timber Wolf look horrible:

http://i.imgur.com/dXuRgS6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DYKlGKg.jpg

Edited by Ully, 22 April 2015 - 06:41 AM.

[Milla]

Agree! Looks so much worse now. Grottier, dirtier. I'm not sure how this change got through - but at least it doesn't look as bad as the Clan Wolf camos.

[Bishop Steiner]

I really like my Metallic Clan Mechs.





So now I gotta actually thank those silly Moldy Pigeons...for my favorite Clan Mech and paint job. What a revoltin development. Gonna have to go kill some in CW to get that bad taste outta my mouth, now.

[FupDup]

[Deathlike]

These threads are truly new and refreshing.

Cheap Gold Mech alternatives are great.

[Bishop Steiner]

Deathlike, on 21 April 2015 - 07:54 PM, said:

These threads are truly new and refreshing.

Cheap Gold Mech alternatives are great.

just a shame the gold ...er...yellow channel is so limited. Wanted to pimp mah mech, yo!

[Deathlike]

Bishop Steiner, on 21 April 2015 - 07:55 PM, said:

just a shame the gold ...er...yellow channel is so limited. Wanted to pimp mah mech, yo!

If it looks better than the Gold mechs, more power to you!

[Corbenik]

Yeah i actually was thinking that Jade Falcon and Wolfs shinyness can make cheap "camo gold" lol they look nice though

[SpiralFace]

Ok, I've known that the clan default patterns where going to take a hit when it came to customization, but I did not expect THIS much of a visual hit:



This looks like a MAJOR downgrade of the original one, and I'm actually not happy at all with the results and would rather have the locked previous version.

Cyan transitions are not just not there anymore, they are coming in as BLACK! Which seriously downgrades just the whole package of the mech.

Wolf one doesn't fair much better.

I get that people wanted more customization out of the mech colors, but do they have to look like such a downgrade from what we as customers where happily sold months ago?

Please PGI, fix this. This is a MAJOR step back from the previous version.

[El Bandito]

Prepare for incoming nerf by PGI. Cause gold needs to be monetized, yo.

[jay35]

Here's another example of texture issues with the Clan faction patterns. I don't have a "before" image, but look at how pixelated this camo looks! This looks like how bad some of the earlier low res camos look when applied to the Clan mechs.

I think at some point, after they'd created a few of the patterns, they decided to up the texture resolution significantly. That's why newer camos like Polygon look fantastic on the Clan mechs, but if you try out the older ones, some of them look like all pixelated and fuzzy like this Ghost Bear one does now.

The issue here is that I don't recall any of the new Clan faction camos looking this low res before this patch. I think that's different than what OP is saying, but I'm curious: Did they get down-res'd somehow by accident?

Edited by jay35, 21 April 2015 - 10:22 PM.

[Thunder Child]

Smoke Jaguar Camos got naffed as well. The Jag Red has absolutely NO USE on the chassis, as the red stripe channel appears to have vanished.

[Destructicus]

really though
I usually don't like to complain about cosmetics, but this really bothers me
I understand the color may not be all that great, but the texture quality is absolute garbage.
at least give us the same shade of blue.
this shade may be more lore friendly, but still.....

[627]

Just wait for some disgruntled founders show off there founders mech...

[MoonUnitBeta]

PGI is not doing so hot in the visual department lately... this customized thing is really starting to take its toll on the looks of the game.... not in a good way i might add....

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for customization, but does it have to be so gaudy? I don't really know how i feel about these camo's yet, but the weapon customization is a notable one that bothers me.

How things are trending, I kind of want to take back my suggestion and vote for customizable mech visuals, like different atlas head variants, etc...

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 21 April 2015 - 10:48 PM.

[627]

Just wait for some disgruntled founders show off there founders mech...

dafuq double post?

Edited by 627, 21 April 2015 - 10:52 PM.

[MoonUnitBeta]

627, on 21 April 2015 - 10:41 PM, said:

Just wait for some disgruntled founders show off there founders mech...

Do you want them to? lol

[627]

MoonUnitBeta, on 21 April 2015 - 10:51 PM, said:

Do you want them to? lol

actually I'm happy with my founder's cat but I know there are much much people moaning about the founders looks.

By the way those are the same people who complained that they can't paint them. So whatever PGI does, it is never right

[WhineyThePoo]

I am hijacking this thread (the topic was "broken faction camos" and not "broken clan camos" after all)
to point out that the third colour choice is locked on the FRR camo. Now all those snaking patterns are just some dull grey that cant be seen from more than 5 meters away. I want them to pop! Let us make them FRR orange or whatever the third FRR colour was called.

[AlexEss]

Well i guess that in order to keep the textures the same size... something had to give... But i fail to see how this is news to anyone.. The exact same thing has happen EVERY time... from founders to to now.

At least these are crisp and clean and still readable.