If cosmetics didn’t matter than 343 wouldn’t be charging for them.
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They’re out here trying to score “woke points” because people like me say that some people seem to be more into playing a “barbie dress-up sim” than a FPS.
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It is what it is, and they’re probably never disable the ability to view them as long as the store exists. Since that could hurt their business model.
I personally don’t care what people put on their Spartans, it allows them to express themselves in their way. Even the more obnoxious things, like the kill effects, don’t bother me that much. As long as I can still play the game, it’s mostly fine.
If they did anything though, they’d probably only put in a toggle for the particle effects and that’s it. They probably wouldn’t touch the armors, coatings, and their accessories at all.
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@VINNIEtheWOLF75 @BurningWidow
I believe @rilakkumakitten is referring to people using phrases such as “dress up” and “playing with barbies” as sexiest, not the game itself. One could interpret it as sexist because “only little girls play dress up.” Kitten claims that these phrases are only used to demean and devalue others opinions because playing video games is “more mature” or something than “play time.”
Anyways, I’ve exceeded my allowance of “quotes” for the day.
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I prefer the term “space marine dress up”.
Especially when there is active prioritization within an argument for customization aspects over gameplay functionality, no threads in particular more of a generalization on my part.
Boiling the argument down, it puts the act of looking cool ahead of what makes the game actually playable.
What determines a cosmetic is “non-canon”? Be specific.
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“If I like it It’s acceptable and canon, if I don’t then it’s noncanon and should be toggle-able”
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An individual toggle would be an interesting feature
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Yeah they’re 100% talking about people like me, not the game.
How many quotes did you make?
Let me answer that rq
By hitting the cap myself as a test
Ok bad idea on my end
If i has to guess it’s probably 20+
I just make each core a theme, and I use the MK VII as my goofy, over the top, nonsensical spartan. I have that purple shiny nail polish coating, cat ears, the neon Mohawk, etc on it
I’m trying to make the rocketeer with the eagle strike.
I hate yoroi
My reach build is just my build from reach with a coating I like
And my Rakshasa core is my main spartan, so I have kind of serious looking
What you’re seeing, is a fanbase thats passive and doesnt care. I would wager that a lot of Halo fans dropped Infinite some time ago, and simply do not care what gets added to it outside of content it desperately needs.
There’s also the element of just giving up, because evidently those stupid cat ears sold like hot cakes and now 343 has a vested interest in making more garish cosmetics that look terrible and anyone who likes them is wrong and dumb. I hate the cat ears.
So ultimately, there’s nothing we can do. As much as the tiny communities on Waypoint and Reddit complain about it, 343 will probably just keep doing it because it makes boatloads of money.
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Lol, not really. It was a sarcastic remark because of all the quotation marks I had in my post.
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Oh i wish you said that before i made a post in general discussions lmao
I legit thought there was a cap as i hit a cap myself on a certain aspect of the forums
For me it was Likes lol
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Everyone is entitled to what they believe in.
Some like a SciFi Military shooter to be more faithful to the universe and dress-up Spartan breaks that, so they are understandably pissed. I respect that.
Some like their games to not be so darn serious and so dress-up is fine within reason. I respect that.
I’d worry about what someone else is wearing after I can play at a stable ping. Or you know, just let us toggle default armor on. Player choice is always welcome.
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I don’t agree with that. I think just the term “Barbie” refers to dress up being such a factor. We call Star Trek Online, “Space Barbie” since chasing cosmetics to show off is SUCH a major factor of the experience (lmao). Nothing quite like rolling up to your TFO group with a Discovery Era Constitution class in a Section 31 shield, or appearing on a ground TFO in competitive armor (cosmetic). Any STO player can tell you we just… Constantly show off our stuff, but we very lovingly call it Space Barbie, knowing it’s silly how hard we chase this stuff, but… There’s nothing quite like having the coolest ship in the space dock - or showing off your kitbash creativity.
So I don’t think calling it barbie is sexist, IMO.
Don’t worry about it!
Jerks might say that, but them playing nothing but “HARDCORE CAMO TACTICAL” is also LARPing as badasses and it’s honestly really funny when some bk on here takes themselves so seriously that they get REALLY mad at Cat Ears.
I’ve worn cat ears since I could have them at all and lemme’ tell ya’, the salt is lovely.
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I don’t mind the cat ears because they’re metal, and the other stuff being a hologram is alright too, but the Santa hat leak or the snowman leak that i saw around Christmas time DID go too far to me. I guess the line i’m drawing is between something that looks like it goes “with” the helmet, and something that just looks like it’s “outside” the helmet. The ace card that is magnetized onto the helmet is fine because it carries a classic war them of carrying a card or picture in your helmet as a good luck charm.
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Lmao no one knows what a straw-man is anymore. That term has lost all meaning. You can’t straw-man a hypothetical person. Just call it hyperbole. That’s what it obviously is.
But would they make a ninja helmet, a jeep that looks like a warthog or a puma, or name every vehicle after animals? What if the fact that it looks like cat ears is a practical design decision? There are helmets that look sillier than an ODST with cat ears in just about every Halo game with customizable armor in it. I dunno, I feel like the suspension of disbelief in this case is totally applicable for plenty of people, myself included.
This is why I don’t like multiplayer being canon. In Halo 3 ODST I once played Firefight with a team of two Bucks and two Sgt Johnsons. There were never two Bucks and two Johnsons fighting side by side in New Mombasa against unending waves of covenant. I’m sure glad I could experience it though, and I wouldn’t really care to take that away from anyone.
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