I'd rather see new weapon parts rather than skins

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This might be controversial, but i like playing barbie doll with my weapons rather than having new expensive skins added.

Currently most weapons have 3 parts per category. If they added even just one more part in all categories for a weapon that massively increases the permutations of possible weapon creations.

With weapon skins, if i dislike one part of it then i'm not gonna use it. With the default weapon system i can at least customize the parts to get rid of the portion of the weapon that looks ugly to me.

Jaaxxxxon 5 years ago

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reason why this isn't as possible is that the default weapon uses a texture atlas, which can't be expanded on.

from my limited understanding - a texture atlas is a big ol picture with all the weapon parts' textures on it, and the game reads this one file per weapon. this helps a ton with performance, but you can't just take that atlas and add more stuff to it, since there's no more room.

This is why we make more skins - but I'll ask the team if we can get some new skins with some parts for customization :)

Jaaxxxxon 5 years ago

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If they did something similar to how the second zweihander skin works that would be cool. A second skin that has its own collection of parts. So at least people can still play barbie doll with their other weapon skin.

They basically just have to do what they did for the zweihander for the other weapons that need love, like the bardiche etc

Yeah I think we can do that, not 100% sure at the moment though

(2020) I'd rather see new weapon parts rather than skins

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