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[Voidrek]

Yeah, I am definitely getting this game, but I still think it sucks that we won't have full gender options for every class. Still keeping my fingers crossed that this could be sort of a long term goal for them to eventually get every class fully fleshed out with customization options. It doesn't have to be a priority or anything, though. Maybe something that could be worked on in the background and slowly released over time?

Once again, I don't know how much work such a task would require, so I don't even know if something like this would be feasible. I would definitely be happy, though.

We will see, I guess. I just want the Beta to be announced, at this point, lol.

[Avlaen]

it just seems very wierd that they have SO MUCH customisation for all the classes, but then half of the classes cant choose something simple like gender.

[Voidrek]

Yeah, as I said earlier in the thread, the only reason that I can see them making the decision to omit certain gender options is because of a lack of time to work on them. Everything we saw and heard before Gamescom gave off the impression that every class would have a male and female option. And up to that point, the six classes that we knew about did have that option.

Then all of a sudden, every other class in the game is locked to one gender or another...? I don't see why they would release every class that had gender options first, then follow them up with every class that didn't offer that option. If this was their plan to begin with, I would think we would have gotten a mixture of gender locked classes and non-locked classes.

Basically, what I am trying to say is that with the release date looming closer they decided to just focus on one gender for the remaining classes. Whereas with the first six classes they were able to give them full options since they still had a lot of time until release. So yeah, I am thinking the gender option for these last six classes ended up on the cutting room floor, unfortunately. Because, other than saving time and money, I don't see any actual benefit to limiting a class to a specific gender. It sucks.

I wonder if there is any concept art of some of these gender/class combos like the female Lawbringer or the male Peacekeeper. Just wondering if they did some work on these before deciding to ultimately cut them. That would be both cool to see and depressing at the same time, heh.

Anyway, like I said, I am holding out hope that we may get the missing options at some point in the future. I guess we will see what happens.

[Masked_Yurei]

It does not particularly make sense for there to be male valkyries, or gigantic fat female juggernauts or tanks roaming about.

Playing exclusively as female it does blow that I will not be able to play as at least two classes that I was interested in, but whatever.


Care more about them balancing the broken combat system above all else. Alongside making more interesting multiplayer modes as a very distant second.

Gender options can screw off for a later date after release; the Alpha was unplayable by day three because of all the abusive players. There are at least two dozen class and combat system based features they need to change in order for the beta to be any different.

[Avlaen]

It does not particularly make sense for there to be male valkyries, or gigantic fat female juggernauts or tanks roaming about.

Playing exclusively as female it does blow that I will not be able to play as at least two classes that I was interested in, but whatever.


Care more about them balancing the broken combat system above all else. Alongside making more interesting multiplayer modes as a very distant second.

Gender options can screw off for a later date after release; the Alpha was unplayable by day three because of all the abusive players. There are at least two dozen class and combat system based features they need to change in order for the beta to be any different.

why dosent it make sense for a big fat female character? we allready have female raiders.

[JukeboxJuliet]

Care more about them balancing the broken combat system above all else.

the Alpha was unplayable by day three because of all the abusive players. There are at least two dozen class and combat system based features they need to change in order for the beta to be any different.

What? How is the combat system broken?
The only thing that made the game unplayable in my experience was the fact that people kept getting booted back to the main menu in 4v4s.

[Voidrek]

why dosent it make sense for a big fat female character? we allready have female raiders.

Yeah, I feel like female Shugoki and Lawbringers would be pretty awesome, actually. I have faith that the art team could come up with designs that looked good for both.

And I am not sure what is so wrong with the gameplay. I feel like once I got the Kensei down, I was pretty much dominating most players with the crazy mixups that the Kensei have.

The only thing I think Ubi might need to look at from a combat perspective is that playing defensively seems to give you a huge advantage. If you are using a KB/M or rebind your controller keys to make dodge and guard break easier to press, it can be way too easy to counter every move launched by your opponent. Just sit there and counter all the opponents guard breaks and wait until they launch an attack so you can parry them and punish. I think there needs to be a stamina cost for being overly defensive. Not sure how they can fix that, though.

Anyway, that is kind of an off-topic point for this thread.

[Avlaen]

Yeah, I feel like female Shugoki and Lawbringers would be pretty awesome, actually. I have faith that the art team could come up with designs that looked good for both.

yeah i was really looking forward to a female law bringer in full plate halberding the hell out of pansy samurai ;P

[Ymir.exe]

And I would have loved to play a female warlord. Be a badass shield maiden. But, you know... It is what it is.