(Unrealistic Suggestion) Beta Models
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(Unrealistic Suggestion) Beta Models
Alright, first off, I'm just going to assume this is close to impossible. But it warrants asking anyway.
One of the reason I stopped playing Vanguard a couple months after release is that I felt the game was pretty much going downhill with every patch (I do not blame SOE btw, but that is another very long topic). Granted that is a personal opinion, which no doubt some people will disagree with. After all, there's people who played it for years and years, obviously they found it more redeeming then I did. But for me at least, having played through beta and watching how things developed, I think the game lost too much of what sold me about it in the first place, and I just didn’t have the heart to keep playing.
One of these things was the character model “revamp” with pretty much changed the entire art style of the player characters and NPCs, and in my opinion, it was a terrible, terrible decision, almost on par with moving New Targonor and removing the castle interior (which is close to the stupidest thing done in gaming history by the way). The official statement was that this was to allow for helmet models, but honestly, I’d rather have just never had helmet models at all.
I have no idea if the original models are preserved anywhere in the game files, or if there is anyone anywhere who still has a copy of the beta client which has them. But, if there was a way to revert the models to their much less terrible original forms, I would love that option.
Trust me, I have no expectations of that happening, since not only would you need those original files but you’d have to know exactly how to replace them game wide, which could be as simple as changing one ID in a database, or as complex as changing hundreds of lines of code we don’t even have access too. That all depends on how Sigil in their “infinite wisdom” set things up. I have plenty of experience as an Unreal Developer, but I have absolutely no idea what insane systems Sigil might have invented to handle things, nor what dummied out content might still exist (Like the Nexus).
Regardless, let’s just say I’d be really happy if by some insane miracle that was not only possible but realistically achievable. Not holding out hope though.
One of the reason I stopped playing Vanguard a couple months after release is that I felt the game was pretty much going downhill with every patch (I do not blame SOE btw, but that is another very long topic). Granted that is a personal opinion, which no doubt some people will disagree with. After all, there's people who played it for years and years, obviously they found it more redeeming then I did. But for me at least, having played through beta and watching how things developed, I think the game lost too much of what sold me about it in the first place, and I just didn’t have the heart to keep playing.
One of these things was the character model “revamp” with pretty much changed the entire art style of the player characters and NPCs, and in my opinion, it was a terrible, terrible decision, almost on par with moving New Targonor and removing the castle interior (which is close to the stupidest thing done in gaming history by the way). The official statement was that this was to allow for helmet models, but honestly, I’d rather have just never had helmet models at all.
I have no idea if the original models are preserved anywhere in the game files, or if there is anyone anywhere who still has a copy of the beta client which has them. But, if there was a way to revert the models to their much less terrible original forms, I would love that option.
Trust me, I have no expectations of that happening, since not only would you need those original files but you’d have to know exactly how to replace them game wide, which could be as simple as changing one ID in a database, or as complex as changing hundreds of lines of code we don’t even have access too. That all depends on how Sigil in their “infinite wisdom” set things up. I have plenty of experience as an Unreal Developer, but I have absolutely no idea what insane systems Sigil might have invented to handle things, nor what dummied out content might still exist (Like the Nexus).
Regardless, let’s just say I’d be really happy if by some insane miracle that was not only possible but realistically achievable. Not holding out hope though.
Re: (Unrealistic Suggestion) Beta Models
Aye your not the only one, I touched on this in the graphics options thread, and would love to see them returned to their old state. I felt they added more uniqueness to the models, and you really could customize a heck of a lot. We might be in the minority, but I for one kept my Show Helm state to False. I have never once had them displayed, found them just bleh (Spec the Kojani Horn Helm ??) So for me I would just as soon reverse them to no-helmet state, but Im don't know how many share this feeling, and if like you said its even possible. But verdicaysen mentioned once they have the client stable with the content in, they might then have time to take a look and see what if anything can be done. so Keep the faith!!