@hyper-neutrino @Fredy31 They are in for lot of hurt now...
Get ready for players raging worse than back at the anniversary.
not interested in the fanservice to be fair, but this sets a precedence for the Chinese influence to just do whatever they want after the character has released and been sold for actual money.
Should we expect them to suddenly change Xingqiu because "not male enough"?
@Fredy31 they do give an alt costume. The point is that the "alternate" costume apparently will be used in every animation old and new, and that is not what they said before.
Basically, this open to the possibility that you pull a character that has a certain look and then they change it afterward and force you to see the new look in every cutscene.
Guess i'm not really giving a damn because I play a character for strength and gameplay, not their appearance. I guess blame my 10 years of LoL and not being a one trick pony in LoL.
But yeah I can see why some people would be mad, if they have their waifu and love it like that
Yeah, I see your point of the small change being the start to bigger changes. But at the same time, not like the devs have choices. You are in china, you know that if the government asks you something, you can't just ignore it. If you value your own life/family
That is kinda my point. Either they have to move out - and they have the money to or....
If we were to reduce the problem only to this costume thing, they were quite lazy.
If MMD teach something... having the animated cutscenes rendered twice for two separate countries (that already differ on other resource files like images and text) cost is probably close to zero...
yet, while I couldn't care less if someone notices and removes Ying'er dialogues (they are somehow disturbing) I would probably be annoyed if they changed the ones for the girl that has a crush on Jean - that is just more homophobia for free.
@Fredy31 btw right now it seems like the only difference is that global keeps the older outfits as an option outside cutscenes. But IF I recall correctly China gets something like 1k primo.
1200 to be precise
and it starts.
the anniversary...
that gave us this gem
the KFC Wings...
I now wait with trepidation for "Alternate Outfit Fallen Qiqi"
Ironically, since Ludi was thought to return in March someone back in september made this
that is the outfit Amber had in the comic , that people assumed would be sold sometime in the future
now the pictures takes a different meaning. Before it was a rant because people assumed it would be overpriced... now they will rant that thanks to recent "changes" the outfit will never be made.
For comparison, this one
@Fredy31 BTW, IF they are unable to use the current skin in cutscenes (that are not animated/CG anime stuff etc)... that is VERY stupid programming...
I kinda remember Tales of Berseria using whatever you had equipped at the time... resulting in scenes like this.
Yeah, thats why I'm wondering what you were saying when you said they had to rerender all cutscenes. Its always funny to see your weird custom player in a cutscene.
But I guess what they are talking about is those that are not in engine, clearly
@Fredy31 COULD be prerendered to save space. COULD. I don't know the details, and I don't care.
What I mean is that even something as basic as MMD shows you that you can do the same video twice and just swap the character model for a different one.
So, if a one person project made to animate Vocaloid music videos works that way...
I expect a game made by an actual company that made billions $$$...
@Fredy31 Much simpler: did you ever notice that sometime the game loads a low version of the character texture for a second if you quickly swap region or such?
That is probably a mix of preprender and in game. Like the scenes you could machinima and recreate in game, but the parts where there would be too much elementss like the rise of the lanterns might be prerendered.
