But, *swallows*, but all I wanted was to impress you,...

I really want full racial parity WITH GENUINE ART ASSETS. I'm sorry but the placeholder thing is SUCH AN UGLY HACK. It's like producing a chess game, saying we don't have the resources to model Rooks and Knights, so we're just going to re-use pawns and paint them a different color (we'll replace them soon--I swear). I understand that resources are constrained, but if I were in CCP Rouge's position, I would beg/borrow/steal whatever it took to fill in the full racial lineup with real art assets. We have the resources for project Nemesis apparently. Maybe CCP Rouge could beg CCP Hilmar to snag the EVE artists to work on this stuff as an off-hours side-project for DUST, or crowdsource it, or to take up bank-robbing so he had the funds in the budget to make it happen.

The problem with placeholders is that it's way too easy to just let it be "good enough" and we could go years before seeing them replaced with actual art, as they stop being a high priority.

How long do you think it will take to create Minmatar and Amarr small and large turrets, LAV's, HAV's, Dropships, and Heavy weapons with the existing size of the Art team? A year? 2?

I say nothing til we can actually get working models in there.

As far as the CPM goes, they've had YEARS to get additional racial diversity
in DUST vehicle-wise. Your lack of vision, intentional or otherwise,
is idiotic.

We've been with this game for a long time, vehicle operators.
We were sold on this idea of additional vehicles being added.

But nothing, NOTHING, but what, the ADS?
In fact, it has been nothing but TAKING and
killing our DIVERSITY. Took away the Marauders, Gave and then
took away the Enforcers. Promised to bring back Marauders/Enforcers,
gave us the utterly useless Mardok/Gladius. I mean
the latest patch has made armor useful again, but that
isn't NEW content, besides some additional modules,
a few that aren't used competitively, and nerfs on our
EHP.

A simple paint job on existing models and calling it MIN/AMARR without truly new turrets reflecting their racial preference
is a slap in the face, just as the loading screen which shows the multiple vehicle class's icons irks my inner tanker.

I got into this game because I believed it had promise. I believed that the vehicles would be expanded upon.
From beta to now, I cannot honestly say that there has been much in the way done substantially that doesn't
feel like some switch flipped on a spreadsheet. I mean, we do have the tiers between the tanks now, but why
isn't there a color difference between tiers? Infantry suits receive different colors between tiers.

We need to return the Logistics vehicles of all tiers back. We need to return remote repairs for armor and shield.


But I doubt anything will actually be done.

I disagree. Better for them to finish the damn project than give us additional USELESS vehicles that are pretty much just Madrugar/Caldari in nature.

I mean, they just giving turrets, the same ones by the way, with new colors.


I think I've been damn patient with this game.

Not some new person off the street.

Been with the game since BETA.




So, after all the promises of parity, we get repainted madrugar/gunnlogi as "Amarr/Minmatar".
It is a letdown.

And if there is a problem, CCP needs to actually hire a rendering team, no insult to Rattati,
who can get this done within a reasonable period of time.

We made new skins for each, so that we can create new types, add those skins to those types and edit those types however we want.

The Minmatar Blaster could have 2x the ROF etc, not sure that's what I want to do but it's possible.

Im glad to see that instead of bringing LAVs and DSs in line along with AV and the new tanks, we're playing dress up instead

Rest of us? I am not the only one who feels this way. Many vet players feel this way.

Might want to stop being such a sycophantTired of whinersand maybe look at it more deeply.

You are an asskisser.

A try-hard.

You troll because you have nothing constructive to add.

Gives me a bunch of cheap skins and a BPO Gal LAV, and I'd get on my knees. Give me a BPO Maddy, and I'd open my legs.