divinecas Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Before you start flaming me, note I specified species. All races should have the ability to be a cyborg and it should be an option to check during creation. Let those who want to be a cyborg of their species have both their species ability and the cyborg ability if they choose the cyborg option. Limiting cyborg to not only human, but segregating it to its own species is very limiting and not very realistic in such a species diverse world. In canon there are even Twi'lek's with cybernetic lekku, so it isn't an impossibility in the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaesha Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Never going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresnosmokey Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Yeah, probably not going to happen. However, cyborgs should never have been a separate species to begin with. Cyborg implants should've just been a character creation option and should've been available for more than just humans. Looks to me as a cheap and chintzy way to create an extra species for character creation. I never choose cyborg anyway. I think the implants available are pretty ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaesha Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Yeah, probably not going to happen. However, cyborgs should never have been a separate species to begin with. Cyborg implants should've just been a character creation option and should've been available for more than just humans. Looks to me as a cheap and chintzy way to create an extra species for character creation. I never choose cyborg anyway. I think the implants available are pretty ugly. Yeah I happen to agree. Cyborgs are not a species by definition considering all a cyborg is is a biological being with mechanical implants. Honestly I don't know what BW was thinking making a race out of something that isn't one. However, I still hold to what I said earlier it won't be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrellma Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 An alternate option, would be to add a slider into the character creation for cyborgs, allowing them to pick their "base" species, though that would create some complications, as each base species would need to have their own cybernetic options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SelinaH Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 An alternate option, would be to add a slider into the character creation for cyborgs, allowing them to pick their "base" species, though that would create some complications, as each base species would need to have their own cybernetic options. It could cause problems with dialogue options as well. I'm not sure whether cyborgs are currently marked "human" for the purposes of NPC interaction (remarks about filthy aliens, et cetera), but if that's the case, those settings might need to be tweaked. I never could understand why cybernetics weren't simply included as an appearance option for all species. Unless the devs were simply scrambling for another race to throw in, and "cyborg" was the easiest to implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul_of_Flames Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Yeah, I've been saying this since day 1. It's a waste of a species. Not only does it limit cybernetics to humans, it merely is a literal clone of a human. Tbh, I think they just did it so they could brag about having 8 species to choose from at launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomiSotto Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Yes, i also never understood the purpose of the Cyborgs as a species, rather than a customization option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muljo_Stpho Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Yeah, probably not going to happen. However, cyborgs should never have been a separate species to begin with. Indeed. As has been noted already, a number of NPCs can be seen throughout the game that are non-human with various cybernetic implants showing. We can also say that the issue became redundant when they started adding the cybernetic gear sets since those allow a character of any race to be part machine. And let's be honest, every player character is kind of partially a cyborg anyway when you consider the implant gear slots. (I'm kind of surprised that they didn't set up the system to have the earpiece and implants as visible gear (possibly with "hide earpiece" and "hide implants" toggles like how we have the "hide head slot" toggle). Certain types of implants would add certain types of cybernetics to your character's appearance.) But it's true though. The time for them to have chosen to implement it differently has most likely long since passed us by. They aren't going to just randomly remove cyborg as a "race" now. Hmmm... Random thought which would also be something that would have to have been part of the design before the game launched: What if social abilities and certain emotes (or other random stuff like that) had been tied to specific pieces of gear? So, for example, perhaps each distinct cybernetic set has an associated cyborg themed social ability and you gain that ability while you have any one piece from that set equipped. Likewise, different dancer outfits could grant specific exclusive dances as social abilities. That would have been something to really set some gear apart from other options. (Would it have been possible though? What would they have to do...? Make it possible for any piece of gear to function like a relic?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilikaa Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Cyborgs are here to stay as a "species" but they should have never been one in the first. This is yet another example of the original dev team being stupidly shortsighted. This game had so much potential that was absolutely lost on the original team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Slaughterhouse- Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 they should remove it as a race, make them all human, as a free reset, and then free to change to any other race(one time only), then allow every race to add cybernetics, as just a physical appearance slider option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplashNOR Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 they should remove it as a race, make them all human, as a free reset, and then free to change to any other race(one time only), then allow every race to add cybernetics, as just a physical appearance slider option. /signed Btw, they should go through the appearance-menu and add more options for each attribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoskitoMando Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Ideally this would be amazing, but I doubt this would ever happen. The best we'd get is a slider for the Cyborg race that changes your 'race'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriquecorseuil Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Yeah, mechanical implants should've be available to set in all characters, just as an customize option. But as you know, the character customization of SWTOR is junk, not compared to any other TOP MMO. That's why we can't deny it will never happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aries_cz Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) they should remove it as a race, make them all human, as a free reset, and then free to change to any other race(one time only), then allow every race to add cybernetics, as just a physical appearance slider option. Pretty much this, pretty simple to do it seems (even if they couldn't do the free reset, just give everyone a CC grant when this would be announced for every cyborg they have). I was really hyped when we got cyborg Chiss during Bounty Week, but nothing happened since then. Edited April 9, 2015 by Aries_cz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izorii Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Yeah, I've been saying this since day 1. It's a waste of a species. Not only does it limit cybernetics to humans, it merely is a literal clone of a human. Tbh, I think they just did it so they could brag about having 8 species to choose from at launch. I agree - and the cyborg points are pretty worthless they are not a true cyborg an eye patch or a bit of metal on the head. It was simply to say 8 species and then to allow Sith Warriors to be more than Human and Sith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Gambit Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 shouldnt really be that hard, as they already have added more hair etc to some of the races, and republic twileks can unlock imperial twileks options (cyborgs too ;-) ) I myself would love to be a chiss cyborg ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monumenta Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Totally support this idea, and having leveled 2 cyborgs to 60 I can't recall a single dialog where it was referred to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrutchCricket Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 As far as the visible implants of cyborgs go, I can't think of any that would be incompatible with current species, since they're all facial, and all races are the same face-wise (Cathar are I think the biggest outliers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Rammstein Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Would have been nice to let more than humans be cyborgs but I'm not sure if it will ever happen at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_Mcturney Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Yeah, probably not going to happen. However, cyborgs should never have been a separate species to begin with. Cyborg implants should've just been a character creation option and should've been available for more than just humans. Looks to me as a cheap and chintzy way to create an extra species for character creation. I never choose cyborg anyway. I think the implants available are pretty ugly. Agreed with everything, except those black glasses that look like Leon (the professional) movie, those are so damm ******, my sent has them LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts