About female characters.

[✪ Sgt. Spiers [51st] ✪]

Why would they add this? Im just curious.

[Kaybe]

Well, you see, when Mommy Dwarves and Daddy Dwarves love each other very much ...

Basically, if there's two genders, then players should eventually be able to have the option of playing either one. That being said, it's possible that they are already in the game and we just can't tell them apart ;)

[Horoai]

I don't see a single reason, frankly.

[Dwarfurious]

You dont get to see a lot of female dwarves, especially done properly. Broad and bearded ! Plus it might coincide with the potential 5th class

[Kaybe]

Originally posted by Dwarfurious:

You dont get to see a lot of female dwarves, especially done properly. Broad and bearded ! Plus it might coincide with the potential 5th class

The devs may need to tread carefully here. If they make it so that female characters can only play one class, the Buzzfeed mob will have a field day. They get triggered very easily, even if it's just a silly game about space dwarves.

Best move would be to simply make all classes available to both genders. Plus they are dwarves ... the character models can be virtually the same but with a lighter voice and different cosmetic customization options.

[D.e.v.i.OS]

Originally posted by Dwarfurious:

You dont get to see a lot of female dwarves, especially done properly. Broad and bearded ! Plus it might coincide with the potential 5th class

5th class confirmed as nurse/feild Medic

[Solitus]

Originally posted by D.e.v.i.OS :

Originally posted by Dwarfurious:

You dont get to see a lot of female dwarves, especially done properly. Broad and bearded ! Plus it might coincide with the potential 5th class

5th class confirmed as nurse/feild Medic

By Karl I REALLY hope they don't do that. Besides the horrible stereotype of Lady=Healer; I does this game really need a Medic?

[gungadin22000]

You misunderstand - all dwarves in the game ARE already female. As Terry Pratchett told us, it's just very hard to tell the difference between dwarf genders without looking under their skirts, so to speak.

Her full name was "Karla", by the way.

[Shrimpins]

Originally posted by Solitus:

Originally posted by D.e.v.i.OS :

5th class confirmed as nurse/feild Medic

By Karl I REALLY hope they don't do that. Besides the horrible stereotype of Lady=Healer; I does this game really need a Medic?

Well, hazard 5 coming, yes I think so

[phittte]

Originally posted by Personal Space:

Originally posted by Solitus:

By Karl I REALLY hope they don't do that. Besides the horrible stereotype of Lady=Healer; I does this game really need a Medic?

Well, hazard 5 coming, yes I think so

Devs said Hazard 5 is no new difficulty level, it's when you play Hazard 4 with a female dwarf.

[gungadin22000]

AND she wants to talk about your relationship.

[Barranoid]

Well to be honest...I'd like to see some proper dwarven women. Alone due to the fact that a couple of my regular teammates (including my wife) actually ARE females and it would increase immersion for them. Yeah it's just that simple. If you are a male you can easily play as a male dwarf. If you are female I can see the appeal of playing a female dwarf. If you are...something else...well...I'm old enough to just don't care about whatever you identify as.

[Simonson [29th Ret.]]

There are no dwarf women. Dwarves are born of rock and stone.

[pyr0kid]

Originally posted by Barranoid:

Well to be honest...I'd like to see some proper dwarven women. Alone due to the fact that a couple of my regular teammates (including my wife) actually ARE females and it would increase immersion for them. Yeah it's just that simple. If you are a male you can easily play as a male dwarf. If you are female I can see the appeal of playing a female dwarf. If you are...something else...well...I'm old enough to just don't care about whatever you identify as.

+1

[Horoai]

Originally posted by Barranoid:

Yeah it's just that simple.

And also irrelevant. Have you ever played Beyond good & evil or Metroid and thought to yourself: "This would be a great game if only the main character wasn't of the opposite gender!"? Or perhaps you're more of a Tomb Raider fan?

I think you'd be an odd fella to answer 'yes'.

Whatever small boost in immersion this might yield is totally not worth the dev time they could instead spend on more important features.

[MezzoMax]

I am all for female dwarves and more customization and options for players. It is time for a proper represantation of female dwarves!
Also they don't have to change too much. Armor could stay the same, I can easily see that the armor would fit a female dwarv without the nonsense of implementing some female dwarven features. I mean, heck a normal medieval armor could easily fit a human woman, and the armor in DRG is bulky enough without the need to change much.
They only need one new face. I hope they get all the bear choices and some more! Where are the fine or even thick dwarven braided beards? What better time to implement them along female characters?

I am against tying a female character to a new class. But than again I don't see the need for a fifth class anyway. The 4 are all we need. What could a 5th class bring in term of a mobility gadget for example? Without beind redundant. And a medic class is bad in my opinion because this will either trivialize lower difficulties or be mandatory on higher difficulties and we only have 4 player slots. The game should be balanced around the four classes. If you want a healer you could add upgrades to grenades to either heal or do damage. For example for the scout class. So he/she has to make a choice which to bring on the mission.