skins vs war paints

[Chase McCain]

Was the war paint system a good idea or should valve have stuck to the weapon specific skins of tough break and gun mettle. Personally I’m torn since war paints have the obvious advantage of being applicable to so many weapons, but skins have the advantage of being designed around certain models so they are of much higher quality and have more detail. The drop in quality in war paints is also very noticeable since they’re fairly simple to make. What do you guys think?

[https://t.ly/Ygmki]

skins are better

[rin]

Originally posted by Aurora:

skins are better

[Zaokllr]

It's not necessarily advantageous that they can be applied to everything. It makes things less impactful and has made it so that any amount of effort put into specifically tailoring skins to weapons is for naught as VALVe isn't interested in quality where quantity can be concerned. This isn't to say that every skin is automatically a win because there's still more ♥♥♥♥ skins than good skins, but it certainly was more impactful when they were made with the weapon in mind, rather than "this texture goes here on every single weapon"

[SANDMAN CLEAVER PATRIOT]

Both are pretty awful, skins less so.

[road work ahead]

Originally posted by Aurora:

skins are better

[Chase McCain]

Originally posted by Zaokllr:

It's not necessarily advantageous that they can be applied to everything. It makes things less impactful and has made it so that any amount of effort put into specifically tailoring skins to weapons is for naught as VALVe isn't interested in quality where quantity can be concerned. This isn't to say that every skin is automatically a win because there's still more ♥♥♥♥ skins than good skins, but it certainly was more impactful when they were made with the weapon in mind, rather than "this texture goes here on every single weapon"

Yeah, tbh I don’t even know why I said I was torn because the more I think about the more I realize I prefer skins way more. And as far as quality goes I agree that there are a lot of mediocre skins but the worst skins from those older collections are still leagues better than the worst war paints. Most of the “bad” ones people cite are just boring/bland like a lot of the merc/civ grades, but aren’t really offensive. I think I would personally argue against there being more bad skins than good since the only skins I actually consider bad are the brain candy and flower power ones. Just my opinion though.

[Chase McCain]

Originally posted by pizzle:

Both are pretty awful, skins less so.

How are they both awful? Do you mean bad for the game in general or that a lot of skins/war paints individually are bad.

[Cat_Soldier]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it’s Chase McCain from Lego City Undercover

[Mr.Mapache]

Ill never open a crate for paints as battle scarred exists, ugliest thing ever and i bet I'd get it a hundred times in a hundred crates

[Chase McCain]

Originally posted by Cat_Soldier:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it’s Chase McCain from Lego City Undercover

Indeed

[my heart is a battery.]

Originally posted by Aurora:

skins are better

[Mcfighter2]

Originally posted by pizzle:

Both are pretty awful, skins less so.

They're only bad because people make bad skins.
Skins that actually mesh with the game can be good for it.

[Bob]

The fact that most warpaints make look even the worst skins look decents speaks volumes. It's genuinely shocking how many warpaints are just pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Chase McCain]

Originally posted by lunch lounger:

Skins look better, I can't really say there's any war paints I actually like, but I do think a few of the skins are really cool, like the killer bee scattergun or the wwii bomber rocket launcher

You've probably heard this before but check out the gentlemanne's collection. Its one of the old contract collections and every skin looks clean as hell. They are fairly expensive if you want fac new tho

[road work ahead]

skins are like buying a handcrafted piece of furniture from a well respected furniture store

and buying a warpaint is like buying a cheaply manufactured lawchair from walmart