Am I understanding this right?
I was reading this article. http://www.wildstar.tv/news/10-things-wildstar-has-that-wow-does-not/
"Tired of how the light armor looks? Found an awesome looking heavy armor piece? The costume system in WildStar allows you to wear whatever style of armor you want visually while playing the game.
In World of Warcraft there is the transmog system, however, it forces you to change the visual view of the item and it must be of the same material type (i.e. leather replacing leather). However, in WildStar they designed their costume system to be separate allowing you to fully customize your character's look how you want without having to modify the actual gear with stats."
In essence, stat wise, you need to wear the armor assigned to your class (say it's medium armor). But you have a 'costume' paper doll in which you can wear -anything- .
If you want your Esper to appear to be in full metal plate, you can! It's like town clothes you can fight in- being able to wear any armor type cosmetically.
This has excellent uses RP wise, allowing for some creative character concepts not bound by typical class appearance. :)
This guy may actually be a Medic. >_>
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/trinka5/N1CV3Mn_zps113a5980.jpg) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/trinka5/media/N1CV3Mn_zps113a5980.jpg.html)
I forgot to mention a dye system, and that you can also dye and customize your mounts. ^_^
This is great. I have always disliked those silly constraints on appearance.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
It seems like they are actually listening to gamers and all the things we usually do not like about MMOs. I loved that super hero game I played with Vilidius (the name escapes me presently) that allowed you to collect every appearance option into a huge list and then you can make your character look like whatever you want. That was amazing.
Yet another point for Wildstar in my books. They are currently at 105862048683.3968 points and counting.
It's a wonderful system. I can't wait to get the look I want
Quote from: Val Gith on December 16, 2013, 01:41:52 PM
I loved that super hero game I played with Vilidius (the name escapes me presently) that allowed you to collect every appearance option into a huge list and then you can make your character look like whatever you want. That was amazing.
Yeah, that was DCUO. A game where they did several things really right, and everything else really really wrong.
Years and years ago no one had this on their radar, but at some stage game designers caught on that people wanted gear for (a) appearance, and (b) stats, and the two didn't always go hand in hand. Designers always at least tried, at least in theory, to make the best gear look the coolest. But that's so completely subjective that it will always fail most of the time. Inevitably, gamers who care about how their characters look end up torn between stats and appearance.
So, we have this more recent trend of trying to untether appearance from stats. You see it done in a variety of ways. GW2 has the whole skinning system. Other games have similar systems. DCUO had the most un-tethered system I've ever seen. An "item" drops and it may either be an appearance option or it may be an item with stats. They have essentially nothing to do with one another. The appearance works like dyes do in GW2. Once you have it, you have it. You can always look like that. Your functional gear is aside from the point.
I don't know how other games will handle it in the future. But I know that worked well for DCUO at least.
I don't like the idea of any armour for any class. Sorry.
I don't want wizards running around casting in chainmail.
I don't want thieves "sneaking" wearing plate armour.
Choosing the colour of your outfit, sure.
I like how GW2 has it divided into light, medium & heavy.
And I like how you can swap appearance and stats among pieces.
It would be even easier to just have a stat page and an appearance page and a town page.
Quote from: PinkRose on December 19, 2013, 03:42:46 PM
I don't want wizards running around casting in chainmail.
... Hey. Battlemages are cool. They're hot stuff. :bm1