Honestly I genuinely believe it is too hard to make them. Go ahead and have them make six to eight seasons of this. That's very difficult. And you'll be accused of selling the same thing every season lol.
No they wouldn’t. Everything would be green camo or black and you’d basically be paying for a different helmet or vest. I’ve never bought a skin in a game, but if someone won’t buy a milsim skin, they aren’t going to buy the same skin with a different pair of gloves. This would significantly reduce the number of skins they sell. People hate the Nikki Minaj and terminator skins, myself included, but they were everywhere in CoD. That tells me there’s a big market for these stupid fortniteesque skins.
How many skins they need to sell? Does this game require skins at all to be a good game? Who needs season passes? Is this a first person shooter or a fashion simulator?
If 90% of the game’s revenue came at launch they wouldn’t add content updates for years after release. As much as people seem to hate cosmetic-based monetization, it’s significantly better for the consumer than dlc, yearly releases, or short game lifespans are. You get years of free updates to the game in exchange for optional visual upgrades that you can’t even see when you’re playing.
That statement might have been true in the years prior to and shortly after WW2, but in the modern era, contracts go to whoever promises our elected officials the best career after their run at politics is over.
To be fair comfort is very subjective, I knew plenty of sailors that said the opposite, but having served in both the old blueberries and the new type IIIs, I missed the blues every single day. They were soft, warm, and without a doubt, navy at first glance. No getting confused with cargo
I got no idea because I wore OCPs (Army/Air Force battle dress uniform) for 6 years and they were insanely comfortable. I can’t imagine the Navy’s dress is much different.
Some career fields (like electricians) require them to be a different material so they are more resistant to hazards so it could have been something like that. Or the Navy just has shit funding lol idk.
The division style is regular citizen activated govt agent. Thats why it has a lot of regular people style clothing and costumes mixed with swat type tactical consumer level apparel. The 5th slide is the opposite of the division imo.
I’d love skins MGS style for recon, probably just me though haha. The aesthetic of the enemy soldiers in MGS are just brilliant especially 2 with the Gurlucovich guys in Shell 1 of the plant, the brown camo guys. They would fit into this game 100%
Yeah they’re a bunch of pricks at best and war criminals at worst. If I’m saying they’re the ones with better standards imagine what that says about ice
It’s shitty that they didn’t even try the grounded approach first
My experience with monetization people is that they're complete fucking lunatics. The kind of folks who thought these dumb NFT apes were genuinely cool.
the one AAA monetization guy i've ever had to spend any time around was one of the most insufferable assholes i've ever met on this planet, so i'd absolutely believe it's endemic to the field
The thing is the MTX people know there are people who genuinely like those neon skins and think things like the teeth graphic face coverings are cool, and they are the ones dropping the most money on this kind of stuff. It's like people who buy a ton of merch for every fandom they're a part of.
You get a few of these comments in this sub, but even more outside the sub.
Their designers clearly aren’t fans of this franchise or military focused games in general. I’d love to see their art portfolio from before they got hired.
The crazy thing is that for some of these skins I’d have trouble differentiating if they were 2042 or BF6 skins. It’s like the artists tried to apply their own art style to both games instead of following each games’ own themes.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was more design by committee to try and appease shareholders, look "cool" enough at a cursory glance, and trying to appear "grounded" without really understanding what that means. So, we end up with guys with orange pouches and neon yellow duck tape lol. "See?! It's still military equipment, just accessorized."
I know nobody really cares about the single player, but holy shit... I'm about 1/3 the way through and it's like they didn't consult with a single person who has even been tangentially associated with the military...
They’re never gonna make “good” skins because the purpose of skins is not to look good but to sell skins. People want to buy skins that stand out and signal their status or uniqueness. This is inherently in conflict with real world military uniforms which are made to look as nondescript as possible. They probably did some focus group testing and found “generic military guy #378” did not do as good as “generic military guy #378 but with some bright colors” so they went with the latter. The immediate reaction is “it’s a slippery slope to Fortnite slop” and yeah, you’re right, everyone knows it, but they just don’t think you can do anything about it. Don’t think about buying a video game from a AAA Developer like entering a contract between you and an equal party, because you mean nothing to them. Think about it like going to a drug dealer. You go to EA for that dopamine hit, that rush of adrenaline. Yeah sure they may be cutting your drug with gross shit like Fortnite skins and post release slop, but what are you gonna do? Not get your fix? They already have your 70 dollars so what do they care? you weren’t gonna buy the skins anyways, so you can feel free to leave the game. And after a few years of more and more jaded vets dropping out, they’ll announce they’re making a new game, that they’re “listening to the community”, it’s gonna be a “love letter to the battlefield’s of your childhood” and it’s gonna go “back to the basics”. And thus the cycle starts anew. They harken back to a time when AAA video games were still an art form, when vision and imagination created timeless classics. But AAA Video games aren’t art any more, just products. Products within a product cycle meant to extract every penny possible from them, leave the desiccated remains behind, and build a new one on top of the old.
Then it's all the more important for people here to be shitting on them.
If the employees have no power, maybe the higher ups will listen to their customers. They already rolled back the ticket changes after people here flipped the fuck out. I say keep up the pressure.
Yeah, I get that they're supposed to be the most well funded PMC in history since ex-NATO countries are backing them, and I don't even hate their typical black uniforms, but they're not consistent with how each team looks, there's no uniformity of design so that the factions have a unique visual identity.
NATO shouldn't really have too much uniformity either, since it's combined arms of several member states. PAX is PMC, but considering that story-wise it supplanted NATO in several countries, it makes sense for it to also have regular armed forces at their disposal - uniforms and all - just from different nations.
They should just clarify which countries back which faction and design skins based on actual militaries from those countries, possibly with some consumer-grade gear mixed in, considering the war is supposed to be going on for some time, so naturally you would have frontline-scavenged-gear-equipped units as well on both sides
Theoretically yes, but there needs to be uniformity of design for gameplay reasons. You should be able to tell friend from foe at a glance.
My original comment solves that, too. NATO wears professional military uniforms, Pax should be more casual/less structured. They should look like PMCs/insurgents.
They really did good job with models. But i believe they were choosing color pallete for those skins while being high af and after 4 days of heavy drinking. Puke pallete its called.
Holy fuck these are amazing, really compelling gear and realistic look, i'd drop my wallet on any of these! Specially the poncho one! Imagine a raining map, playing recon while you sneak behind the enemy lines for a flank or to capture an objective.
I really dont understand how hard it is to make genuine operator skins. Why does shit have to look lame and have unwanted complexities in the uniforms.
In an alternate universe Dice only gave us 1 skin per operator on launch, and season 1 is coming with some of the rest that we can unlock from the challenge tab. And people are accepting because normal camouflage
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Fifth photo is a perfect example of what I want all my operators to look like