I dont like the champion skins

[El Macho]

They look cool in my opinion but i feel like it would be much better to just make accessories that all skins can use instead of making a full skin for only one class. That way you can be a salamander champion while playing tactical or heavy

[Mini]

The lack of customization options makes them useless in my opinion

[[HN]]

Literally everyone (that isn't one of the 3 hardcore white knights on that forum) will agree here, as the DLC reviews prove.

Champion skins are painfully in contradiction with what the people want, and with the game design itself which strongly push you toward customizing your marines.

The only moment I could see a case for "locked set" would be for something actually unique, like a grey knight or Legion of the Damned skin, other than that, the DLC should just deliver "standard sets" that can be broken down and recolored like any other skins.

I'd push further and say that each DLC should have delivered a full set for each class, with a full set of weapon skins.

It's not as if it was something hard to do when 80% of the armors are reused trough different sets, and slapping a random chapter iconography on a piece of armour is literally the most basic reskin job possible.

Originally posted by Mini:

The lack of customization options makes them useless in my opinion

Exactly. I don't use any of them, because they either don't fit the look I want, or I simply don't want to look like "generic dude that bought the DLC".

A shame really, because some sets could have been great if we were allowed to customize them. The Dark Angel one in particular would have been the perfect set to turn into an Inner Circle with a hood and black paint.

[The_Dipl0mat]

I wish we could use the Salamanders head on any class, rather than being stuck on just one champion skin

[lissi]

In dozens of games I have now once seen a champion skin used. I mean its ok and looks good but yep it seems that this is really not what players want. Some non customizable skin that also with the Salamanders makes little sense in class. Even the Ultramarine HEavy was kinda meh. You look at Ultramarine chapter description and unisono everyone will go Tactical as a good fit. Salamanders are deliberate descibed as a close quarter focused chapter. That doesnt make a Sniper invalid but its just a very strange lore opposing choice when the solution is so obvious. W40k is not rocket science.

Havent used a champion skin and like I wrote doesnt seem anyone else wants to. Its just a gimmick season pass buyers get that they dont really want.

[Infrasound]

they cant sell them if its part of the base system.

[Gaju]

Originally posted by Mini:

The lack of customization options makes them useless in my opinion

100% agree, I thought that it was Games Workshop limiting them from adding them as regular customizable skins, so you couldn't use them in a "not lore-friendly way", however they added single chapter themed armor parts in the DLC packs (Dark Angels & corvus armor & pauldrons etc.). You can freely use them on marines from other chapters, so it doesn't make any sense....

[G]

They are all lame, especially the Sniping-Salamander....

[El Macho]

Originally posted by G:

They are all lame, especially the Sniping-Salamander....

should've been a heavy with a flamer. Not saying the flamer should be locked behind a paywall tho

[[HN]]

Originally posted by G:

They are all lame, especially the Sniping-Salamander....

The Dark Angel is good. I'd even say it's perfect as it is...
But the fact that you can't customize it at all kist totally kills it.
You can't give it some cool knee marking (this guy is BEGGING to get a checker on his knees), you can't give him a hood, etc etc. It's just turn an objectively great armor set into something you don't want to use.
(also, I'd kill to be able to use the helmet on a tactical).

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by HN:

Originally posted by G:

They are all lame, especially the Sniping-Salamander....

The Dark Angel is good. I'd even say it's perfect as it is...
But the fact that you can't customize it at all kist totally kills it.
You can't give it some cool knee marking (this guy is BEGGING to get a checker on his knees), you can't give him a hood, etc etc. It's just turn an objectively great armor set into something you don't want to use.
(also, I'd kill to be able to use the helmet on a tactical).

Listen, if Tactical can get a lame ass tactical mohawk, it should absolutely be able to get the massive ears

[Gargoyle]

Originally posted by Mini:

The lack of customization options makes them useless in my opinion

very much so, Skin is class locked...ontop of a game where we have class limits..lmao

[[Evil Inc.]Drakkon]

Originally posted by Mini:

The lack of customization options makes them useless in my opinion

This exactly.

Side note is some of the champion skins don't even make sense. The Salamanders who are famous for flamers and meltas....A sniper champion.

>_>

nice choice.

[Brother Belial]

Yeah, the champion "skins" should be named characters from 40K, or failing that be armour parts that you can equip to any class.