The reworked skins are BAD

Dead island dern beasts

 

I'm not shitting you, the gear skins being called Dernic WAS A COINCIDENCE

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Bob's weapons weren't meant to imply they had some origin in the realm of darkness or the expanse, they were just called Dernic based off the fact it meant "mysterious".

 

The word Dern has been thrown around since 2013 yes. Not sure when was the first time it was used, but the oldest example I recall was this really dark and spiky island in the middle of the ocean that used to be where current day Dead Island was. The island was referred to usually as "Dern Island" since the enemies in it were literally called "Dern emigrant" or stuff like that.
Proof:

 

it is literally so flat, like look at the old and new frost skins genuinely how is that an upgrade. also like old dernic weapons were sick and now they are boring and look like plastic weapons

 

you look like a plastic weapon

 

AND THE CROWD GOES WILD

 

I don't have ton of opinions on this besides that I think that the new Yahya's fantasy skin looks considerably less trippy, which I dislike. Otherwise I think most of them are improvements. That said, I don't like the idea of major changes to paid cosmetics after the fact. I'm generally a fan of knowing what you're buying when you buy it, and I don't like the idea of paying for something and then having it changed after the fact. I can definitely see why people are upset with that, especially because many of the changes are fairly extreme and very much a matter of personal taste.

 

I am once again asking if anyone has pictures of the reworked cosmetics

 

Spoiler: ok

https://discord.com/channels/143852930036924417/1294273262146289696 for better pictures of the weapons

 

I am really glad that the skins were reworked, their inconsistencies with the new cosmetics made them feel very outdated. My personal ideas for slight changes Id make would be:

Remove the pixels sticking out to match the older design and how the hats look in real life as well


Change the corrupted dagger to actually look like a dagger cause this is straight up a short staff, it actually would look pretty cool as a replacement for the corrupted staff as the new design looks really lackluster. Still a good looking skin

Also I think the frosty set looks great in terms of shape, it is just very under-detailed for black market tier, which a lot of people feel, as all the corrupted, dern, and frosty set were made with the same level of detail despite being of different rarities. They should be of the same detail level as the Boreal set in my opinion, especially since the new set doesn't actually look very icy since its lost from the lack of detail.


Those blue "icicles" around the edges are so bulky and look more like blue crosses. Its giving winter graveyard

No hate to whoever made these reworks, they look awesome, I just think a decent amount of people would appreciate some small tweaks

PS - I feel like these holiday lights are already outdated with the new design changes If they don't feel it now, they probably will in a few years


Also side rant: Why do assassins keep getting weapons skins other than daggers, I'm seeing staff looking skins, claws (make a bit more sense) swords?? Feels like half the assassin skins aren't even daggers

 

tbf half the default assassin skins are gauntlets and swords

 

hell no. The old design was a spiked mace, the new design is a morningstar.

 

I found the old mace to be odd too back in the day, but whatever, archers get a hand cannon so assassins can have this.

Still good for variation I guess

 

Warrior has scythes, polearms, pikes, spears, axes, hammers and the dullahan g-- dullahan guisa-- guisarme(?)

Assassin has daggers, swords, maces, gauntlets, nunchucks, and claws.

Archer has shortbows, longbows, repeaters, pistols, rifles, crossbows, and cannons

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Point is they all have a lot of variety. Only one that is mostly consistent is Mage, which things almost always being staves of some form

 

i like the new models because they're at least consistent with minecraft voxel size wise

 

This is kind of the though thing when it comes to adding new classes

 

Add a poll so I can dislike it :D

 

The main issue I notice here is that they are too small.
Like, the spear is the same size as the player? Nearly all the spears in the game are way bigger than that. It makes the skin feel like a toy rather than an actual weapon.
Like, I refuse to believe that scythe doesn't feel like styrofoam. Just make its display much bigger and it would be okay, but these skins seriously seem like they should be much bigger than that.
Also I've read in one of the posts above that the 4th image is actually the dagger? Like? What? That's not the wand? That thing's supposed to stab people? Like, I'm all for unconventional weapon skins like I assume the bow is in the 2nd image, being turned into a sort of hand-cannon, but that one is DEFINITELY not a dagger or anything resembling a stick with a sharp edge.

Honestly, all of them actually look really nice except for the relik. They are all very well textured compared to it and their shapes are super nice. However, the relik is incredibly lackluster in comparison. Aside from that. I do think the bow is a bit monotone compared to the others and the dagger could use some symbol reminiscent of winter or something because right now all I see is a big cybernetic knife (although it is a very cool big cybernetic knife).

I think the set is fine over all, it's just that the relik has very mediocre texturing compared to the rest and the christian crosses definitely do not help at all as unless they are supposed to be exactly that, I'm not seeing what they are supposed to be. Other than that and the bow and the dagger needing some very small tweaks here and there, I think it looks good. I specially like the spear.

Honestly, the dern set (I assume this is the dern set due to the dagger's shape) looks nice over all. I can see why some people might be mad due to the color palette's change, but objectively they are all really good. Unlike the other two sets, I have nothing to comment on.

All the hats are nice tbh. The only thing I would say is that the mushroom one doesn't look nearly as psychodelic as it should. Although it would be quite a lot of work to pull off, I'm sure just animating the colors so that they slowly rotate through the whole color spectrum would make it look as psychodelic as it used to look (or at least as I remember it)

Over all, I see why people have complaints but saying the reworked skins are bad, period, is definitely very exaggerated. There are definitely issues and very valid complaints to be made but I do think the majority of the models are equal to or improvements over the old ones.

 

the corrupted dagger skin was a mace before the rework

 

These changes are definitely somewhat weird, for some like the corrupted set, they look a lot nicer, same with the dernic set, but the Frost set was done so dirty, it looks like an event rare, genuinely think it needs a downgrade from black market