Cosmetics being a bit disjointed

[Dave from work]

As much I detest lootboxes, it's as simple as not buying them, and these additional skins is making it SO much easier.

I've seen enough players run around in their blinking, glow-in-the-dark, neon casino sign, "grafitti" skull guy skin to know, there's a market for the more "edgy" skins.
(Having fun in PvP getting shot from the other side of the map yet?)

Imo the best looking part of that set is the hood.

But who's buying these pink "barbie's dreamhouse" looking ones?

The new list of bugfixes are great, the work on some of the issues the game has are great.
But where the hell are the "play to earn" cosmetics?
There's been a grand total of 6 pieces available in the seasonal shop for the entire lifespan of the game, while they keep squirting out these fartnite looking skins.
I have 1k cosmetic tokens and nothing to use them on.

I know we're 100% not getting a transmog feature, because it'd detract from sales, so I'm not even going to entertain that idea.

Can those of us that don't wanna run around looking like a graphical bloom glitch or a Mattel reject get some military fatigues / basic clothing / Tactical gear?
Just a pair of boring cargo-pants in olive drab would suffice.

[Mattias]

About skins, yeah, I don't buy them.
I can somewhat understand ppl who's buying them.
I want MY char to look "special" and so on.
(tbh,I want my char to look like Harley Quinn but I won't buy skins)

"But where the hell are the "pay to earn" cosmetics?"
What is that?

[Dave from work]

Originally posted by Mattias:

About skins, yeah, I don't buy them.
I can somewhat understand ppl who's buying them.
I want MY char to look "special" and so on.
(tbh,I want my char to look like Harley Quinn but I won't buy skins)

"But where the hell are the "pay to earn" cosmetics?"
What is that?

My bad, I ment "play to earn".
I.E. free to play earnable cosmetics.

You know those points you get for doing the phase journey challenges?
You can use them to buy a seasonal journey crate (it's got a few ugly cosmetics in it), every duplicate you get gives you tokens instead.
They're like 50 points a pop.

these are tokens you can use to buy cosmetic pieces, or at least, that's the idea.
But that shop has like.. 6 pieces, and has had 6 pieces since day 1.
sadly, they look like something you'd find dumpster-diving behind a thrift-shop.

[Mattias]

Originally posted by Dave from work:

Originally posted by Mattias:

About skins, yeah, I don't buy them.
I can somewhat understand ppl who's buying them.
I want MY char to look "special" and so on.
(tbh,I want my char to look like Harley Quinn but I won't buy skins)

"But where the hell are the "pay to earn" cosmetics?"
What is that?

My bad, I ment "play to earn".
I.E. free to play earnable cosmetics.

You know those points you get for doing the phase journey challenges?
You can use them to buy a seasonal journey crate (it's got a few ugly cosmetics in it), every duplicate you get gives you tokens instead.
They're like 50 points a pop.

these are tokens you can use to buy cosmetic pieces, or at least, that's the idea.
But that shop has like.. 6 pieces, and has had 6 pieces since day 1.
sadly, they look like something you'd find dumpster-diving behind a thrift-shop.

Yeah, I know. It's very disappointing and I'm saving mine, hope for a better day coming ;)
Well, I bought those kinky gloves thou

[Vile]

Originally posted by Dave from work:

As much I detest lootboxes, it's as simple as not buying them, and these additional skins is making it SO much easier.

I've seen enough players run around in their blinking, glow-in-the-dark, neon casino sign, "grafitti" skull guy skin to know, there's a market for the more "edgy" skins.
(Having in fun in PvP getting shot from the other side of the map yet?)

Imo the best looking part of that set is the hood.

But who's buying these pink "barbie's dreamhouse" looking ones?

The new list of bugfixes are great, the work on some of the issues the game has are great.
But where the hell are the "play to earn" cosmetics?
There's been a grand total of 6 pieces available in the seasonal shop for the entire lifespan of the game, while they keep squirting out these fartnite looking skins.
I have 1k cosmetic tokens and nothing to use them on.

I know we're 100% not getting a transmog feature, because it'd detract from sales, so I'm not even going to entertain that idea.

Can those of us that don't wanna run around looking like a graphical bloom glitch or a Mattel reject get some military fatigues / basic clothing / Tactical gear?
Just a pair of boring cargo-pants in olive drab would suffice.

Yes! I want to support the game and contribute financially but so far I've seen NOTHING in the shop that even remotely resembles something I would consider using and paying for. I will also NEVER buy an RNG loot box. I suspect there are many people in the same situation. I love the post apocalyptic/H.P Lovecraft vibe of this game world but it seems to have a bit of an identity crisis when it comes to cosmetic skins.

[Dave from work]

Originally posted by Vile:

Originally posted by Dave from work:

As much I detest lootboxes, it's as simple as not buying them, and these additional skins is making it SO much easier.

I've seen enough players run around in their blinking, glow-in-the-dark, neon casino sign, "grafitti" skull guy skin to know, there's a market for the more "edgy" skins.
(Having in fun in PvP getting shot from the other side of the map yet?)

Imo the best looking part of that set is the hood.

But who's buying these pink "barbie's dreamhouse" looking ones?

The new list of bugfixes are great, the work on some of the issues the game has are great.
But where the hell are the "play to earn" cosmetics?
There's been a grand total of 6 pieces available in the seasonal shop for the entire lifespan of the game, while they keep squirting out these fartnite looking skins.
I have 1k cosmetic tokens and nothing to use them on.

I know we're 100% not getting a transmog feature, because it'd detract from sales, so I'm not even going to entertain that idea.

Can those of us that don't wanna run around looking like a graphical bloom glitch or a Mattel reject get some military fatigues / basic clothing / Tactical gear?
Just a pair of boring cargo-pants in olive drab would suffice.

Yes! I want to support the game and contribute financially but so far I've seen NOTHING in the shop that even remotely resembles something I would consider using and paying for. I will also NEVER buy an RNG loot box. I suspect there are many people in the same situation. I love the post apocalyptic/H.P Lovecraft vibe of this game world but it seems to have a bit of an identity crisis when it comes to cosmetic skins.

Yep, I'm not touching the lootboxes no matter what they put in there.

A lot of the design decisions are questionable, like, why even give players "cosmetic tokens" where the description literally says "used to buy rare cosmetics in the shop".
And then completely ignore that section of the shop?

They obviously have time to pump out pink skins and dances, so what's the holdup?

I get the impression there's a lot of ideas put into the game, and then they completely botch the follow-up.

[nguren]

Yeah, the aesthetics of this game confuse me. The loading screens show these paramilitary guys, while in game gear makes you look like angsty teens with ragged hoodies and giant backpacks.
I'm enjoying the game, figured I'd drop some money to support it. Looked at the shop. There's a bunch of more ragged hoodies, no reason to buy any of that, I can already look like that with the normal gear in game. There's some creepy anime fetish costumes, hard pass. And there's extremely hideous stuff. Huh.