Slurmez Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 well Bioware did achieve the impossible and got an entire MMO community to agree, unfortunately as it flies in the face of their "dream" they will ignore it and foist those offenses to all things pixilated onto the live servers soon enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cipher_nemo Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) well Bioware did achieve the impossible and got an entire MMO community to agree, unfortunately as it flies in the face of their "dream" they will ignore it and foist those offenses to all things pixilated onto the live servers soon enough If they're foolish enough to think most players will like this new artwork, then they're going to be surprised when most of us de-slot those items and throw the mods into other, more attractive gear. NOT looking like a reject from AoC is totally worth a couple stat points here and there. Skill and tactics will make up for the stat loss. Edited March 21, 2012 by cipher_nemo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDucheMagnifico Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 with almost 50 pages of complaints, with no serious objections (admittedly with some trolling in the mix), youd imagine that someone from the BW team would let us at least know they acknowledge this problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidRaid Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 If they're foolish enough to think most players will like this new artwork, then they're going to be surprised when most of us de-slot those items and throw the mods into other, more attractive gear. NOT looking like a reject from AoC is totally worth a couple stat points here and there. Skill and tactics will make up for the stat loss. Mmm maybe that is their secret agenda. Have everybody use the new feature of de slotting ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDucheMagnifico Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Also, to the art team(s) in charge of armor. I googled star wars armor and star wars fanart and this is what i found. Please try to step the game up to the level of these pictures. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100325232847/starwars/images/4/4a/HyloVisz-TOR.jpg http://swx.gorillaninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/darth-ferra-star-wars-x.jpg http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/5/50/Rohlan_Dyre.jpg/450px-Rohlan_Dyre.jpg (the next two are star wars armor with samurai inspiration) http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/gallery/samurai-star-wars/samurai-starwars-03.jpg http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/gallery/samurai-star-wars/samurai-starwars-01.jpg http://www.designyourway.net/diverse/starwars/Djynn_Veil_Star_Wars_charac.jpg http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/229186_221929611152077_152159784795727_923935_7231633_n.jpg http://geektyrant.com/storage/page-images/dark-side-992x700.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1298074703333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ha Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 It's going to cost alot of friggin credits to remove mods from endgame gear & put it into Oranges. Bioware seems incapable of finding a middle ground, a compromise that can probably make the most amount of people happy. They always nerf something too far in one direction I think. Color match doesn't work at launch? Get rid of it & get rid of half of the gear in beta too cause it's too much gear & the players might get confused. I'm still really cross that I'm expected to pay much too much credits to use what is basically BioWare's version of the appearance tab in MMO's. Every other MMO I played that had an a-tab, it was free to use it to customize the look of my character how ever I wanted to. I wonder if BioWare's once again taking notes from Blizzard's playbook? I'll bet they are NOT charging their playerbase as much equivalent gold to transmorgrify their WoW gear, so that 2 armor pieces meld into one better looking piece. I'll bet ya, we're getting charged more than Blizzard charges their playerbase so they have access to appearance customization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admoniter Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) Hideous armor is hideous. Of all the sets the sage pve strikes me as the least visually offensive; and even that one has problems (looks horrible on male toons, and the greaves blehh.) Trooper pve and pvp aren't nearly as terribad as the others but the pve set looks like it would belong on an imperial class not a republic one. As for BH the pve looks more like something you would run into while leveling definitely not end game material. PVP isn't too bad the greaves, gloves and boots look decent enough (with the exception of the toe spikes on the boots,) as for the chest piece, it wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the oversized comical shoulder pauldrons, and I won't even comment on the helmet. Seriously lots of people have already said this but it clearly needs repeating, THIS ARMOR LOOKS LIKE IT BELONGS IN A HIGH FANTASY GAME, NOT STARWARS. I honestly don't know what was going on with these sets but it looks like the designers ripped the design paradigm of final fantasy except replace the mentality of "Need moar straps and belts" with "You get obnoxiously large shoulder pauldrons, you get a pauldron..." The only saving grace is that I won't have to wear this crap for that long thanks to critable orange gear. Oh well better luck with tier 3 BW. Edited March 21, 2012 by Admoniter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedricDur Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 So Bioware, it's time to re-evaluate your art-department's work and do some serious reprimanding. If that doesn't work, time to let some artists go to replace them with people who know how to make a Jedi and a Sith look like a Jedi and a Sith. Jedi and Sith http://img239.exs.cx/img239/9162/malerobes6bg.jpg The last robes to the right made me shiver. *THAT* is Star Wars! I will add my voice, for what little use it may do (because as someone pointed out, the designers my be coming up with this art, but they need to get it approved so someone higher up is pretty okay with this). Please. THIS IS A SCI-FCI MMO. HELMETS WITH HORNS. PELTS. SKULLS. SPIKES. STUPID HUGE SHOULDERPADS. THEY HAVE NO PLACE IN A SCI-FCI GAME. THEY BELONG TO A FANTASY GAME. Please. WATCH THE SIX MOVIES. LOOK HARD AT WHAT YOU SEE. LOOK HARD AT WHAT YOU CAME UP WITH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cipher_nemo Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 HELMETS WITH HORNS. PELTS. SKULLS. SPIKES. STUPID HUGE SHOULDERPADS. THEY HAVE NO PLACE IN A SCI-FCI GAME. THEY BELONG TO A FANTASY GAME. Quoted for emphasis. I've watched as my Sage levels up, and what started off Star Wars sci-fi has eventually turned into medieval fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kllashaa Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) The more our high-end gear looks like ridiculously ostentatious fantasy/WoW gear, the less I want to play to get that PvE and PvP gear. Part of the reason I rerolled IA was how understated the class is. I don't want gear that looks like it's from some NYC or Paris fashion show. This is Star Wars and Sci-fi. Edited March 21, 2012 by Kllashaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killamajig Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 To be honest, the gear looks like it was a bunch of old designs they had left over from Warhammer Online that Mythic had lying around and they just said "**** it, we'll use this for SWTOR". Look at the sorcerers gear and tell me that it doesn't belong to a zealot. Also, just wanted to say, the people saying that this gear looks like WoW gear, this gear wishes, at least the WoW art department has a grasp of their game and what can actually look good, this is genuinely out of place and horrid looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgon Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 If we are going to complain about armor models from the patches. Let's at least do it productively in this thread. Once we do that, people can start saying "I can make better armor than the dev artists." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkalman Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Sorcerer, Warrior, Consular, Knight, Agent gear looks pathetic and awful... has the designer even seen the movies?? we want something we can familiarize with... not this cra.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicSkimmr Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I honestly don't get it, if you want to look like a jedi from the movies, go to Coruscant and pick up the level 15 orange armor there. Boom, done. If you want to look like an imperial agent from the movies, go pick up the level 40 orange gear that is EXACTLY THE SAME OUTFIT. Boom, done. Bounty Hunters and Troopers? Nearly all of their orange gear is almost a carbon copy of armors from the movies. I just can't fathom why you people continue to ask for armor that looks exactly the same as armor that is already IN GAME. I play an operative and I personally LOVE our new looks for both PVP and PVE. I love our current end game gear. I like the majority of the new tier too, aside from the helmets, which are never good in any game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Kelerak- Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Bioware you should make your designers work harder lol, i am sorry but all of the new gear pve and pvp dont look like Star Wars... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacedemon Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Looks like us rage juggs will be buying lots of Marauder boots and stripping the mod/enhancement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunisherAS Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Eh these outfits look kind of stupid. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchJedi Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I think they should worry about what that class should be wearing versus how the clothes should look for the armor type you are. The only one it seems like they understand is BH/Trooper because there is a set image in your mind of what they should look like. Don't worry about a jugg looking like he's wearing heavy armor or robotic. Worry about them looking like a jugg or a sith fighter with robes and dark colors. I think the simpler the better since you rarely see jedi knight is crazy looking armor. Just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janne_josefsson Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Why does some of the gear remind me of the pyramidhead guy from silent hill????????????????????????????????????? DAMMIT ALL TO HELL!!!!!!! Edited March 22, 2012 by janne_josefsson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgelue Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) F I R E T H E D E S I G N E R ! ! ! I thought this is star wars and not CLOWN WARS!!! Clone Wars Adventures gear (Press the gear button to view all the gear) is better than the new 1.2 gear in SWTOR... Edited March 22, 2012 by georgelue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razot Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 @OP why did you link pictures of wrecked cars and puke? I dont get it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slurmez Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Clone Wars Adventures gear (Press the gear button to view all the gear) is better than the new 1.2 gear in SWTOR... yeah that just makes these crappy armours all the more depressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miscai Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I made the mistake of looking at the 1.2 armor designs. I can honestly say I will NEVER be using the new inquisitor gear. The PvE stuff looks like someone just pulled it out of a "Barrel of Monkeys" game. I mean, come on - HOOKS????? The PvP gear isn't much better with the shrubbery sprouting out of one shoulder and tree looking helm. I can't decide if it looks like it should be on some sort of demonic druid or underwater warrior merfolk. Why do designers think that having random crap springing off of armor makes it look "cool"? I am not particularly fond of a lot of the Imperial side light armor in general. It's supposed to be LIGHT and yet it has huge pieces of plate armor around the neck making it look like you have a neck brace or jutting off the shoulders. There is an entire lvl of gloves that all make it look like you are wearing tire blocks on your wrist and another that has weird radio antennae sticking out from them. I bought the gloves from the dancing outfit set on the security key vendor and just added the mods. When I see it, I can't help but wonder exactly how you are supposed to be able to wield a lightsaber effectively with so many things on your armor that can get in your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silky_soft_ Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 They should just run a community competition to design new armors every now and then. Gets us involved, gets people art work out there and they will look hell of a lot better then the crap BW is giving us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgelue Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) They should just run a community competition to design new armors every now and then. Gets us involved, gets people art work out there and they will look hell of a lot better then the crap BW is giving us. An old game I played used to do that... the winners' design were really nice. Edited March 22, 2012 by georgelue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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