option to remove clothes during character selection

  • spankee
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    It would be great if there was an option to toggle a characters shirt during initial selection. The reason I ask is that I want to be able to play a character full of piratey tattoos but lots of the time I may find someone that looks about right but I cant see whats on their chest/arms/back to make sure they are properly inked due to the way the random characters are spawned. Some have shirts, others are shirtless but I would never be able to pick one with a shirt due to not knowing whats underneath.

    In earlier weekend tests I picked characters that had the body type or look I wanted but was always disappointed when they had next to no tattoos or ones that didn't look right.

    In the last beta the best guy I found was a huge fat captain with the skull and crossed pistols covering his whole chest and it looked amazing but if he had been wearing a shirt I would never have given him a second look. The tattoo is what made it the perfect look.

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  • SeasickSig
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    you dirty being

  • Business Beagle

    @seasicksig you beat me too it

  • xixoterremoto88
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    I totally agree

  • Mad Jack Ketch
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    I think the majority of Pirates with clothing do NOT have tattoos where as the t*****s Pirates do have tattoos.

  • Inflickked
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    Yeah any Pirate wearing a shirt is going to instantly be out of the running for me. All the different body physiques already had me hoping this would be an option, but now that we know we won't have any immediate control over scars/tattoos, that makes this a pretty big deal imo. I would be pretty annoyed thinking I picked out the perfect Pirate only to find out he has body disfiguring scars or a giant unicorn tattoo on his back.

    Unfortunately I'm not anticipating a change like this anytime soon; certainly not before launch.

  • xCALYPT0x
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    @inflickked said in [option to remove clothes during character selection]

    Unfortunately I'm not anticipating a change like this anytime soon; certainly not before launch.

    Exactly. Definitely a needed feature, no hope of getting it by launch. Will be picking the shirtless pirates.

  • Tre Oni
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    Thats why scars and tattoos just suck right now in the IPG.

    I've passed on plenty of characters I've liked but they had a coat on and what looked like no tattoos whatsoever, scars in certain placements can't be seen from a certain distance or angle when the character begins their highlight animation, and the characters can't be rotated individually for better viewing.

    The randomness, and permanence of certain character choices that should be vanity, and alterable is my only disappointment with the game tbh.

  • LoboFH
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    Devs said that hair colour and tatoos customization is on the works, it won't be ready for release though.

  • Tre Oni
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    @lobofh tattoos was kind of an unclear answer though. Not even exactly confirmed.

    They just mentioned "they were looking at how they get tattoos to players" and that it'd be cool to have them tied to events and unlocks.

    Whats unclear from that point is, what happens post launch if this happens, to our characters who already potentially have tattoos? Do all tattoos become vanity, or are those ones still permanent because of IPG with new ones just being added on to us as well if we'd like?

    I could see it going either way tbh. Although the first way makes more sense.

  • Crossx2
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    I really agree with this. It would make it easier to tell if it's a woman or a man (What? Sometimes its a little difficult to tell..) and they've said they want to let us change our tattoos in the future, but its not going to be a feature at launch. So it'd be nice to be able to tell what kind of tattoos we're going to be signing up for..

  • Luci6396
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    @spankee I know whats really going on you sneaky devil you just want to see them sexy bodies hahaha. I agree this should be a thing but my bigger concern is seeing the teeth! I picked a hot girl once only to realize she was missing several teeth haha this is a no go for me. So i do not pick the pirates that dont open their mouth haha.

  • LoboFH
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    @tre-oni dijo en option to remove clothes during character selection:

    @lobofh tattoos was kind of an unclear answer though. Not even exactly confirmed.

    They just mentioned "they were looking at how they get tattoos to players" and that it'd be cool to have them tied to events and unlocks.

    Whats unclear from that point is, what happens post launch if this happens, to our characters who already potentially have tattoos? Do all tattoos become vanity, or are those ones still permanent because of IPG with new ones just being added on to us as well if we'd like?

    I could see it going either way tbh. Although the first way makes more sense.

    Yes, I know it was not a straight yes but I hope they will do. It's not difficult, just a problem to solve for the UI team, not in time for release, but hopefully it will happen sooner or later.

  • TheRealXanFrank
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    It would be cool if they implemented tattoos as cosmetic items that u could choose to have and it would let u pick what tattoos u want

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