...being fought by 10 characters. Yes I know in past games the soldiers all looked the same but they were nameless. Giving these characters names and backstories and putting 128 players on a map with all of them sharing one of these 10 detailed identities is just weird.
Hey @Natetendo83
For me the name is just the class 🙂, i think specialists will have lot of customs and each one will be differents. Assault just named "Brenda" what else ^^ if we can custom all the character.
I really think we will customized your own avatar for each class, look the trailer, it have more than 10 skins shown, so i'm not too worried with specialists skins. Really think we do see brenda as gameplay options (ex: run faster and shoot faster and maybe unlock more for this class). Ingame we will see our tag so brendo totally disappear with skins and tag 🙂.
But be patient we will see more soon as the multi gameplay video.
I think the character name and backstory are mainly there for marketing and social like how they made mini vids for the elite's in BFV. BFV's main characters were all the same faces too so it's not much difference but you should be able to tell what the enemies perk is at a glance.
I'm wondering how they'll let you change character on the respawn screen, it could be that you will have presets and set them up look wise before hand or just the generic pics of characters and you'll probably ignore the character name and just know which 1 has the perk you want. Unless they've still divy'd them out by class. Also the pre-purchase options suggest they have skins for character and guns and gun tags and in this game full masks would actually make sense so you can probably hide their faces.
What I want to know is how the guns/gadgets/grenades will work with specialities and the in game radial attachments options for guns and how many we can have at once, and whether not having clearly defined classes means ammo has changed, bigger maps too may mean you don't want to rely on players for supplies as much. They also mentioned multiple ammo options so I wondered if that meant armour.
Sounded like there's a bunch of in game unlocks too so you may not have to wait for chapters for cosmetic changes, and hopefully no annoying assignments that mean every1 has to use the same character.
@Natetendo83 wrote:...being fought by 10 characters. Yes I know in past games the soldiers all looked the same but they were nameless. Giving these characters names and backstories and putting 128 players on a map with all of them sharing one of these 10 detailed identities is just weird.
This reasoning genuinely baffles me.....
You are perfectly happy to have 4 identical character models in earlier games but 10 identical models is weird because they have a name?
Really?
@Trokey66 wrote:
@Natetendo83 wrote:...being fought by 10 characters. Yes I know in past games the soldiers all looked the same but they were nameless. Giving these characters names and backstories and putting 128 players on a map with all of them sharing one of these 10 detailed identities is just weird.
This reasoning genuinely baffles me.....
You are perfectly happy to have 4 identical character models in earlier games but 10 identical models is weird because they have a name?
Really?
Yes, really. Playing as a nameless soldier is one thing. 128 players sharing 10 unique identities and backstories is just strange.
@Trokey66 It has something to do with immersion. The first is that at that time it wasn't a big thing to implement an avatar system. though such a system is the dream for every game that is multiplayer.
When playing at that time the Unknown soldier is fighting for the faction. So you were either faction x or y. This is being removed by giving the players are a certain hero with a story. so when you join the game you are playing this hero not "yourself". the lore also remove any feeling of faction loyalty since we are all no-pats now or PMC as they truly are.
I will bet that spec system will be these heroes with different skins through battle passes. same as warzone and apex. Its going to be a pain in the å** when the enemy team also like identical too the ones own faction..
My wish would have them make an avatar system where you could customize your soldier but with a limitation to the faction, they are fighting under for unit cohesion.
If I get to be a 'Brenda' that works... 😉
I'm hoping for a Karen and Chad, really. Names don't matter.
Brenda, Bobby, I'm the guy with the gun...
