The Curious Case of Cuirass of Helius

[PAMPKIN]

This Cuirass, the fabled missing item in Amalur's Game Files, at least according to the wiki.

It's been bugging me since 2012 that this Cuirass still doesn't show up even until now and so I decided to try and farm the living heck out of all the Trolls I find in Haxhi Dam and those Tyrants from Skoria Mine to get this Item.

So far I haven't made any luck finding it and I'm starting to lose faith in its existence...

Now one thing I have in mind is this:
Is there someone who knows how to browse the contents of local files and at least confirm the exitence of this Cuirass in any of the Game Files? Because even though the Wiki says the Item doesn't exist, we got a Data of its Stats and all so there should be something to be found.

That's all for now, if there's someone that can help confirm it, I'd be greatly grateful to you.
Now, back to farming it again.

[Valden21]

Can't really confirm anything, but if I had to guess, I would say that the item was originally planned to be in the game, but then was cut. It was completed to the point of having stats, but didn't get much farther than that.

[Heardy]

Originally posted by Valden21:

Can't really confirm anything, but if I had to guess, I would say that the item was originally planned to be in the game, but then was cut. It was completed to the point of having stats, but didn't get much farther than that.

I don't understand why they cut it from the game. It's not like it was causing issues with the game's files, it's just a piece of armor. Unless there was some legal action taken against it, like the White Hawk and Swordsman armor sets from Dragon's Dogma for looking too similar to Griffith and Guts' armor from Berserk. So If I were to guess, it'd have to do with Copyright.

[Valden21]

Originally posted by GigaBro2110:

Originally posted by Valden21:

Can't really confirm anything, but if I had to guess, I would say that the item was originally planned to be in the game, but then was cut. It was completed to the point of having stats, but didn't get much farther than that.

I don't understand why they cut it from the game. It's not like it was causing issues with the game's files, it's just a piece of armor. Unless there was some legal action taken against it, like the White Hawk and Swordsman armor sets from Dragon's Dogma for looking too similar to Griffith and Guts' armor from Berserk. So If I were to guess, it'd have to do with Copyright.

Some clarification needed here.

I'm not absolutely saying that it was cut, I was just offering that up as the most likely possibility. To tell the truth, there's a lot of reasons why content can be cut from a game. Perhaps the devs decided it didn't fit, or maybe the execs at EA didn't like it, or maybe there was a time constraint. Problem is, it's all conjecture at this point, as the devs went under.

As to the example you gave, Capcom actually did have permission to put Gut's and Griffith's armor and weapons in the console version of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. But when the game was ported to PC, they weren't able to get permission to use them again. So it was a copyright issue, but not that kind of copyright issue.

[SGUDestiny]

I believe there is a Cuirass but I can't remember if its the one you are talking about. I've been playing and replaying the game for the past six andf half years and one of those times I found a weapon that had the word Cuirass in it. I don't remember if there is more than one Cuirass. I think I found this one on the Dead Kel map.

[Valden21]

There's multiple kinds of cuirasses in the game. It's a piece of armor that goes around the torso, so cuirass is just another name for breastplate.

[SGUDestiny]

Originally posted by Valden21:

There's multiple kinds of cuirasses in the game. It's a piece of armor that goes around the torso, so cuirass is just another name for breastplate.

Oh. I got the names mixed up. I see. thanks