oracle1990 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I'd like them to look tougher than the average nice guy A few characters (from Alliance X): Harry: Max: Samuel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrashMan Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 News flash: Real Spec Ops operatives don't really look like Arnie or Rambo or Vin Diesel. They look like regular Joes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenjiro Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I suppose aliens aren't really gray dwarfs with big balloon heads either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Nope they all just look alike to us. We all look alike to them. Welcome to the world of Xenophobes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erutan Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 I'm someone that paid for the custom portrait via kickstarter and I'd have no problem with people being able to customize their soldiers. Someone that paid for their name to be in game would have a legitimate reason to feel differently though! I do suppose that they get to know that their name will be played by unknown people around the world which is unique, but that does limit things. Character customization something that people will strongly want... and those that want realism can easily ignore. The following routes seem viable: * only customize callsign (and keep it separate from name ala Gorlom/XCOM). I liked the XCOM unlock after promotion but that's tangential. * when you hire a soldier you can edit their info, then it's locked aside from callsign * you can click a field to edit any part of the soldier at any time Roles do take a little heat off of renaming, in X-COM I'd add Mk/HW/Th/Rct etc after people's names to show what they were good at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir William Monocle Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 It seems that the main issue here is that some people (like me) would really like to be able to customize their soldiers for role play and some people feel that customization of soldiers breaks their immersion. Here is my solution: This is a game meant to be intense and heart pounding. Some people find it hard to get attached to random sprites with random names and so those people like to name their soldiers after people they actually know. For instance, I care much more if my buddy Ross dies than if Ivan Vassyliovich dies. For those people (particularly since customization is such a beloved and integral part of the X-com games), soldiers should be highly editable. For the people who don't want to edit soldiers for whatever reason, don't edit your soldiers. The option for customization doesn't force anyone to customize but it does add options for people who want them. For an indie game like this, I'd imagine that you would want to appeal to more than just one group of people in as many ways as possible and, honestly, the reason given for not being able to customize soldiers by our beloved leader just seem insufficient. Forcing your customers to mod the game to do something so basic for the sake of "immersion" is ridiculous especially when it isn't even compulsory. On the callsign discussion, the "real name" is also used instead of the callsign when you receive the notification that a soldier has suffered a bleeding wound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 I've got my name in there. Well , my name on these forums in there anyway. Now take a person new to the game. Would I insist they are unable to change John Thothkins (that's number 18 on the list for all those who want to have him in their game ) and ruin the squad they want that consists of their family/ friends names? No, of course not. That would be mean and most of all needlessly frustrating for the player. When I typed the caveat above, I was actually thinking of the portraits along with the names. Not something that shouldn't be done, just something to give some thought to. Tweaking starting squads to give a higher appearance chance to those who have provided pennies might be another option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 On the callsign discussion, the "real name" is also used instead of the callsign when you receive the notification that a soldier has suffered a bleeding wound. That's a bug then. please report it in the bug section if it hasn't been reported yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordobb Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 (edited) Well, it isn t much relevent as in any Xcom titles, soldiers dies a lot, so your dream team will probably disassemble from energy poisoning and lead poisoning among other things. What could be done now is let a paste will all random heads and info of how to create them for anyone willing. Or at most a paste with haeds and minor subpastes : male caucsian, male asian, male afro, male not so male, and the other side for female, female caucasian, female afro, etc. Thought maybe this would give a work to the face selector, but i suppose faces are already somewhat like that because of the the name ties. It only lack variety, let comunity donate faces. Edited November 22, 2012 by Mordobb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrashMan Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 Well, it isn t much relevent as in any Xcom titles, soldiers dies a lot, so your dream team will probably disassemble from energy poisoning and lead poisoning among other things. But that's the whole point, isnt' it? To watch little friend clones you love (or hate) die in a horribly grusome fashion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordobb Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 But that's the whole point, isnt' it?To watch little friend clones you love (or hate) die in a horribly grusome fashion. LOL... i m not much akin to clone wars, see people i like die, or do petty revenges that doesn t affect my ennemies. Jokes aside: I understand what you neam, but when Zed is dead i don t tries to Dolly him. But as you, i think that keeping your peeps alive an extremely relevent part of the game, but once dead, dead it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teemu Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 This thread is a bit old, but I didn't want to create a new topic to request a feature. The naming, etc, I'm all fine with, but is there any chance on getting a feature that enables changing the character portraits (the ones that are already in-game) for the soldier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 I did a search as I was sure I had posted an image with what I'd have liked ... turns out it was post #95 of this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The New Romance Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Still an important topic, I'd say. I am, however, unsure whether there's been an official and final reply regarding the topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I seem to recall that once the revised UI was done, it was done. Plenty of time and effort had been put into it, and there's only so much tweaking that is worthwhile. Something those lines, with a little more tact possibly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OthelloNYC Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I'd settle for being able to change skin color, or have some people on my team who aren't white. I fond it funny, when I placed my base in central Africa, that my entire team was white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erutan Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I'd settle for the game taking faces out of the cycle until you loop around again. My first new hire was a clone of Chris England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assoonasitis Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I would enjoy running into battle with warriors equipped with Iklwa and Iwisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I fond it funny, when I placed my base in central Africa, that my entire team was white. You thought you'd done the right thing, joining a fanatical small group dedicated to ridding the Earth of something. Unfortunately, instead of joining Xenonauts, you've joined the KKK. An embarrassing mistake to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoGomez Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Oh dear, that's an entirely different kind of xenophobia right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Bah! I can't believe I didn't add Xenophobes! as the name of the game, having done it elsewhere. What a missed opportunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmimus Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I've read some of the previous pages and can understand the arguments for and against customisation. However although i'd like complete customisation I'd settle for being able to choose portraits. For me that and a name are the most important! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meepichi Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Old thread but important topic. If the developers refuse to add an option to pick custom portraits, then I hope a modder can do it at some point. I hate it when I have multiple people in my squad with the same portrait. It just seems odd to me why that basic option was left out to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I find that after watching an episode of the Waltons, everyone looking related makes perfect sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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