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[TopDawg]

I hope they reconsider exactly how they're going to do the Camo/skins. I was hoping for something similar to LoL or Smite, where you buy a skin and can always choose it at a later date. I wouldn't even mind if it was a per chassis or per variant MC cost attached to each skin.

But as has been said, I seriously doubt I'll spend any money on fleeting, temporary changes I don't even get to keep.

[Omega Drebin]

I saw this and ran to my client only to find my my HBK without a desert camo skin.

Bryan Ekman, on 22 November 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

I'm not sure where you are getting that info from, as it is very inaccurate.

Ah.. hahah.. you are hacking files...

So relieved to read this and find out I'm not missing out on anything...haha

[ian davion]

TopDawg, on 23 November 2012 - 02:44 PM, said:

I hope they reconsider exactly how they're going to do the Camo/skins. I was hoping for something similar to LoL or Smite, where you buy a skin and can always choose it at a later date. I wouldn't even mind if it was a per chassis or per variant MC cost attached to each skin.

But as has been said, I seriously doubt I'll spend any money on fleeting, temporary changes I don't even get to keep.

I also wish it was more like LoL. I have a friends that have spent tons of money on the skins and champions. I doub't I will be spending any money on camo if it this way.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

seriously, I want the "bullseye" pattern and I want the ability to target my bullseyes

Id BUY that ****

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 23 November 2012 - 04:07 PM.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Almeras, on 23 November 2012 - 02:37 AM, said:

Look at All point bulletin paint job editor for their cars/characters;


I used to like the beater look for my cars;

heck, look at what ppl do in Forza 4 with just shapes and no free drawing tools:

Yes, the Stig is driving my car

Edited by Mechwarrior Buddah, 23 November 2012 - 04:12 PM.

[Marzepans]

Bryan Ekman, on 23 November 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:

The founder pattern has 1 colour channel.

Are you referring to the blue colour our Founder Mechs are currently, or are we going to be able to customise them with the upcoming patch?

[ian davion]

I believe they said there was some sort of pinstripe on the founders that could be changed

[Smeghead87]

What really ****** me off is the fact that not getting the paint job I like will make my guns cease to function.

What's that you say? It won't?

Then what the smeg is everybody complaining about?

[ian davion]

I am complaining about the fact that I am not going to get any awesome skins and they are not going to get any of my awesome money.

[SkkyHigh]

Camo skins? I dunno I kinda like my Blue Founders Cat

[Smeghead87]

ian davion, on 23 November 2012 - 06:18 PM, said:

I am complaining about the fact that I am not going to get any awesome skins and they are not going to get any of my awesome money.

If you find yourself with an excess of money and nothing decent to spend it on, you could always just purchase a load of mc and wait.

[Synra]

The problem I have with this is the MC costs. I cannot see spending MC to custimize a mech if I am not going to keep it forever.

I WANT to customize all of my mechs. Come up with a custom look and color scheme and use that on every mech I pilot. But that means spending MC on every mech I ever purchase. And at this time, the only mechs I know I will have forever are my founders mechs. Many of the mechs I purchase are purely for the sake of opening up the experience teirs. I am planning to sell them when I am done. But I do need to spend quite a lot of time in said mechs, and I would like to show my colors while I am using them.

I am sorry, but this whole setup stinks. I wouldn't mind paying the MC cost if my custom paint job, if that custom look could be then freely applied to all of my mechs as I see fit.

[Onyx Rain]

Synra, on 23 November 2012 - 06:50 PM, said:

The problem I have with this is the MC costs. I cannot see spending MC to custimize a mech if I am not going to keep it forever.

I WANT to customize all of my mechs. Come up with a custom look and color scheme and use that on every mech I pilot. But that means spending MC on every mech I ever purchase. And at this time, the only mechs I know I will have forever are my founders mechs. Many of the mechs I purchase are purely for the sake of opening up the experience teirs. I am planning to sell them when I am done. But I do need to spend quite a lot of time in said mechs, and I would like to show my colors while I am using them.

I am sorry, but this whole setup stinks. I wouldn't mind paying the MC cost if my custom paint job, if that custom look could be then freely applied to all of my mechs as I see fit.

I agree.... You buy it...you should get to keep it and at least be able to swap schemes back and forth on that one mech type without having to remake/rebuy it every time... Their prices seem a little steep too IMO, when you consider you can loose what you paid for.

[MouseNo4]

Onyx Rain, on 23 November 2012 - 08:10 PM, said:

I agree.... You buy it...you should get to keep it and at least be able to swap schemes back and forth on that one mech type without having to remake/rebuy it every time... Their prices seem a little steep too IMO, when you consider you can loose what you paid for.

Wonder how long before some fanboi states ''the devs gotta eat!''.

[ian davion]

Well, the prices are just silly for something I can't keep. I guess I will spend my awesome money on mechbays, heromechs, cockpit knickknacks, and other videogames that are not MWO, you know, things I get to keep.

[Khan Reaper]

Where has it been said that we won't be able to keep the skins/camo we purchase?

[Onyx Rain]

Khan Reaper, on 23 November 2012 - 09:50 PM, said:

Where has it been said that we won't be able to keep the skins/camo we purchase?

I don't have the links...I'm to lazy, but they have said that once you put a scheme on the mech you will pay to change it (fine with that if I'd then have both schemes), and will loose the old scheme (color/pattern/decal) you paid for. I also don't mind paying more for things that are permanent and interchangeable/transferable....stuff that isn't should be dirt cheap...and the prices I've seen so far are not dirt cheap IMO.

I want value for my money....Give me more value...I'll give you more money.

[Stingray Productions]

I suppose the camos will get better as time moves along.

[Cache]

MouseNo4, on 23 November 2012 - 01:44 PM, said:

So the truth comes out, that i was not at all ''incorrect'' after all. The skins currently in the game ARE IN FACT all there is for the mechs i mentioned. However, the difference being - those are just only those that are finished.

Uh... no, you are incorrect. The skins you mentioned are not in the game. "In the game" means we can use/apply them. Files in a folder that aren't accessible in-game don't mean you're going to have to wait longer for a skin on your Raven. In fact, some of the older Mechs (Commando, Hunchback, Dragon, and Awesome) will have to wait a little longer for new skins because they are being re-textured while new skins will be available to your Raven starting 27 November.

[Taizan]

Khan Reaper, on 23 November 2012 - 09:50 PM, said:

Where has it been said that we won't be able to keep the skins/camo we purchase?

This - as far as I understood from the command chair post on the camo system, the active pattern gets erased and replaced with the new pattern.

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When you apply a new Camo Spec to your BattleMech, any changes made will erase part or all of previous application.

Example: If you had previous applied the Dazzle pattern, then apply the Urban Block pattern, you will erase the Dazzle pattern. Your previously applied colors will not be affected.

The way I understood this up till now is that you can only have one active pattern per mech, but keep the applied colors. Up till now I was of the opinion that once you pay for a pattern (MC or CBill) the pattern is archived if it is replaced by a different pattern.

Later on for with the cockpit items they state this, but not clearly for the patterns.

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Rules:

• Purchased items are permanent. They cannot be sold.

So how will this now work - the rules on the command chair post are clear for cockpit items but not that much for the camo skins imo.

Are once purchased camo patterns permanently archived, like the PC gamer skin and you only pay up if you change / erase a pattern/color on a mech?
I had in mind to create 4 or 5 patterns for my mechs for different maps or different moods I am in, but if every pattern swap to a mech means I have to pay additional MCs each time an MC-cost pattern & colors gets applied, even though I had paid for and applied it previously, I am not so sure I will want to do that.

Edited by Taizan, 26 November 2012 - 09:20 AM.