What I don't get is that FD can design great ships like the CM5 and T-8, but then go on and create these kits that are the visual equivalent of having a seizure.
New Paintjobs
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ROFL!
In spaaaace!
Sweet Brabus my eyes
To be fair, the paint itself is miles better than the soul eating Racing paint- with only one stylized font I can look at it and I like the yellow, red and white.
But these bits
To be fair, the paint itself is miles better than the soul eating Racing paint- with only one stylized font I can look at it and I like the yellow, red and white.
But these bits
Haha, pegi 7, for the mario cart (pretty good game!) kids
Well obviously, you need jet engines strapped to your starship with thrusters capable of handing several Gs of pull, if you ever go flying into a dense atmosphere.Sweet Brabus my eyes
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To be fair, the paint itself is miles better than the soul eating Racing paint- with only one stylized font I can look at it and I like the yellow, red and white.
But these bits
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My serious answer - I don’t have a goddamn clue.
Redcand yellow isn't my taste, but the other colours. 7 of them, are good. Shame it's not for newer ships.
Don't get why the Python has this though. /confused
Is that for real?
Here's my old/existing-cosmetics racer. Admittedly this cost slightly more than a Competitor Pack (because kit and paint were separate), but this is old stuff and I think it's decent. FDev can make this stuff. So... what's with the new kit? The pod-racer geometry might be fun but I can't tell because of the paint. Why is the red&yellow version selected as the show-off gallery example? It's not doing the ship kit any favours
(Don't worry about eggshells if you hate my racer; I won't take it personally if you want to mock it, I know tastes vary. Wip3out with The Designers Republic is still on my future-racing mood-board )
I expect the Competitor Packs geometry used with an older paint job might be a better combo, or maybe even a different paint color in the Competitor Pack, but I'm finding it hard to buy these new inflexible ship kits at all because there is no variety in parts to choose from so everyone's kitted ships look identical to each other and it's back to paint being the only difference. Especially when the kit's own custom paint (that should offset the lack of parts and nicely integrate the few parts there are) is instead a bit uninspiring
(Hmm, I gotta fix that Elite decal, it's kinda awkward there yet doesn't quite look race-sponser-logo-slapped-on awkward either
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(Don't worry about eggshells if you hate my racer; I won't take it personally if you want to mock it, I know tastes vary.
Wip3out with The Designers Republic is still on my future-racing mood-board )I expect the Competitor Packs geometry used with an older paint job might be a better combo, or maybe even a different paint color in the Competitor Pack, but I'm finding it hard to buy these new inflexible ship kits at all because there is no variety in parts to choose from so everyone's kitted ships look identical to each other and it's back to paint being the only difference. Especially when the kit's own custom paint (that should offset the lack of parts and nicely integrate the few parts there are) is instead a bit uninspiring
(Hmm, I gotta fix that Elite decal, it's kinda awkward there yet doesn't quite look race-sponser-logo-slapped-on awkward either
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New paintjob packs ...
Also available for the Viper, Python, Mamba and Cobra mkIII, and the paintjob is only available with the pack.
cough Type 7 cough
The V4 is just a V3 with a ship kit. We would get K i t c e p t i o n.
Sadly yes.Is that for real?
To be honest a lot of the new paints are nice- especially the Fed / Imp and Kale Muncher ones.....but I just wish there was some sort of restraint / in game consistency to paints and ship kits.I randomly ran it through a color filter. Even that was better
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I mean, its been done really well years (and years) ago with games like I:War, you also have in game megacorps......why do we have so little used in paints? A Brewer themed T-7, graffiti'ed up pirate paints etc?
And then the ship kits- if people like them then thats cool, but for my inner design autist its like looking at a rejected Gerry Anderson Century 21 Kitbash
FD obviously put heaps of effort into the ship itself, why is that all thrown away with crazy out of place parts?