It's already been stated...
...that we are talkin' about DM only. Yea, it's gay in teamgames to not see the team color blah blah blah...
Originally posted by Swedix|PuF
But it can also be a disadvantage with a flickering or multicolored skin. People will have you as target #1.
This is my biggest reason for skins selection. Some where between that and a certain style. I currently play as Arkon Team Green because he's got the brightest pants, and the coolest look combination
in my opinion (ha ha, I typed it out).
I used to use various different "
skin cheats/hacks". My favs were the ASMD explosion (animated), and the Plasma Beam (not animated). The green bolt just looked really cool. The dark one with the animated blue explosion looked awesome too, though agreed that one was hard to see. Personally, I liked them.
It's not about an ego trip, that is one of the most lame "hacks" in existance. The mose difficult part was opening textures in UEd, and finding out which ones had the correct name format. No one did that thogh, they just went to wesites/forums and copy and paste.
What was cool for me (especially since I could find them myself) is using a skin you never see used by anyone else. Originality is king. With the skin I use, I've only seen someone w/ my exact skin combo a total of 3 times in my 3 years (or however long it's been out) playing this game. I've used the same skin since the demo, and only seen 3 other do the same, and each time, I was thinin' to myself, "that mutha ƒûckâ". I'd take the §hî† personally.
I stopped only because of CSHP. It stopping it made it lame to get stuck w/ the marine skin when it was blocked, and if anyone can change what skin you default to, I'd be the happiest man alive, 'cause then I could make my top secret super spy skin... and no one would complain. Speaking of which, here is a list of compaints (most of which I think are lame) that I've heard for the "skin cheats" in DM, 'cause I don't give a rats ⧧ about team games...
- Can't easily distinguish a head.
- Can't tell which way model is facing.
- Can't tell how far away model is.
- Can't see darker skins in shadows.
- Animated skins are distracting.
- Animated skins drop FPS.
- Certain skin textures are camoflauge.
All I can think of right now. The only one of these that is not hella lame, is the can't tell which way a model is facing one. But even that one most of the time doesn't make much matter, you know when he fires his next shot... and the camoflauge one, Female, WarMachine Team 255 (no team) on any map w/ the cryptic texture set is silly. I can't see that skin on Codex, Bishop, Gothic, or liandri well, and that is a legit skin. I bitch about that more then these "cheats". But what can you do?