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cheatercheater0's avatar
7 years ago

New cosmetic - selection backgrounds, squad poses

Hey guys, how cool would it be if we could customize our legends with the following:

1. Selection backgrounds: when selecting your legend, rather than just have a colorful fog behind your character you could have some sort of kickass 3D background? You could even display the character in a completely 3D environment, and have the camera pan around them (think the scene from Gladiator where the main character is on the battle grounds...). For Wraith you could have her in the rift space, surrounded by floating debris. For Bangalore you could have her aboard a broken ship departing orbit or taking cover while on a battle field. For Octane you could have him jumping over some stuff kinda like in a monster truck show. Pathfinder could be doing some cool workout, or could do something funny and totally pathfinder-like. Like gifting someone a grenade that then explodes in their face, or something. All legends have some sort of cool thing that they could be doing! This would let people connect to their legends even better. These backgrounds could be not only a great way to express yourself as a player, but they could also sneak in character story background about the characters!

2. Squad poses: once you've selected all 3 characters, instead of just seeing 3 "cards" next to each other, we could have an actual 3D scene with the characters doing something cool together, high-fiving, etc. Just think about what's shown on the loading screen. We could have Wattson sitting on Gibraltar's shoulders, Wraith appearing into the group from within a portal, Octane running incircles around the rest, Bloodhound playing with Lifeline's DOC drone like it's a pet, etc. Wouldn't that be cool? I would love that. It would give the legends so much character!!

Do you guys like these ideas? If yes, please click the "me too" button at the bottom of the post. Also post what you would like the characters to do. The only limit is your imagination 🙂

6 Replies

  • Thanks! I think it could be a little inspired by the last mission in Titanfall 2, what do you think?

  • I like the idea of squad pose, but If they have to interact with each other, the designer will have a nightmare since there're so many combinations , so much work for just 1 screen that last only 2-3 seconds.

  • EA_FieryHelios's avatar
    EA_FieryHelios
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    7 years ago

    Hey @cheatercheater00 ,

    You have great ideas about selection backgrounds. I totally agree that will be awesome to have some amazing 3D background or some sneak in character story background about the characters! It will be cool to see your ideas!

  • cheatercheater0's avatar
    cheatercheater0
    7 years ago
    @EA_FieryHelios Thanks so much! I have some other ideas posted on this forum if you'd like to read more. I love this game a lot and want it to get even better than it is now!
  • @asukojo If they interacted I think it could be a little complicated, but think about it this way: each interaction could show off some of the background story, and could be a separate cosmetic. That means it would be some work, but it would also be pretty valuable. I'm not an animation expert so I can't tell if motion capture on this would be terrible, or run of the mill.

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