yeah, also for invisible skins, just use the default textures as an underlayer?
You should be able to see the skin if BOTH users have it installed similar to DCS.
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Yeah that would also work but problem is how are they going to know if you have the same skin? Unique IDs?
No, thats not what I suggested. The reports system would remove your ability to use user skins either temporarily or permanently.
Then whats the point of adding it? Also, do you really care about skins of other players? Because I dont…
the point of adding it is for us that like skins and decorations (seeing goofy faces and shit). I like seeing what ppl put on their tank personally
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In hypotetic case of that feature will be added, i will stay on my actual parameter “semi-histo and histo only”…
I dont want wound my eyes and brain with thats … Extravagant camos…
Buying fictional skins and decals in the workshop as I found out is 99% of the time pointless as the game by default has skin viewing settings to historical/semihistorical and most people don’t know about it to change it, why would I ever buy a fictional workshop skin use those decals if only I can see it 90% of the time, just get a user skin at that point. It’s a shame really, a lot of really cool gaijin made decals that you could see before are null and void automatically
NO.
Just NO.
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That’s spitting on skin makers who earn money.
No thx
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NOOOOOOOO!!!
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I see 0 issues with swastikas on planes and tonks. Of course in some countries swiastika causes some unexplained pain in the rear, but it’s their own problem, not everyone else’s. However, it would take more effort than fixing:
- MG151/20 M-geschoss passing clean throigh soviet fighters
- lack of tracers in MG131 HEIT belt
- no damage from He-112 A0 HEFI round.
First one has been in game for years.
The rest have been in the game for months (Gaijin broke these weapons with one of their patches, it has been reported during dev server). And this is the amount of cares given by Gaijin and this is how much effort they are willing to make to make player experience better - around 0.
Player skins would mean high effort, and WT is generally a low effort environment.
If its on ww2 tanks then obviously not. But once it will start appearing on modern tanks it will raise some eyebrows. Also, there is legislation in some countries forbidding it. And Gaijin dont want to end up in some kind of news article as “Game with swastikas everywhere”. And this is just swastika. Trolls will place high resolution penises and other stuff on their tanks. Also, political slogans or pictures, which are not allowed by rules of game.
You can go through hundreds of skins every day to check if they are all correct but I doubt Gaijin will pay you.
I will ignore rest of the post since im not your shoulder to cry on.
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All it takes is very basic verification and allowing skins from only 1 source. There is maybe 1000 of skins that work with current iteration of the game
all togerher. That’s a few hours of clicking through. People will happily do that for some platinum chickens or some super rare vehicle (Panther II f.e.) which costs Gaijin literally nothing.
Even if people started making a lot more skins that’s still maybe 15 to verify daily. That’s literally 6m of work assuming you are slowly siping coffee in the process.
I’d like it to stay optional but could gaijin at least have see all skins camos , enabled by default? Make the option to turn it off easier to navigate as well, most don’t know it exists
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I like this idea, for those who don’t like skins it wouldn’t change a thing, though it would suit perfectly for those who just want to see some goofy paints, i don’t get why they don’t just add this if players could choose between them
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Because it can easily be abused, faster than anyone can report it… Just think of how often people don’t report players, and then think about the idea that a vehicle with objective material on it, would be able to be in many matches, seen by many, and be objective before being actually acted upon.
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User skins should be opt-in, I don’t see why this is a bad thing besides the usual troll here and there.
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oh no thanks, i have set historically. but some nonsense is still displayed. i always get a puke irritation when i see a red tank driving next to me.
the pumpkins and garden gnomes are already shitty enough …
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seems its already in game or something i come across another player today and he had a pink camo skin with jaws etc that i could see really confused me