Schismatrix

You could have used my Gunslinger/Ginslinger Pack suggestion... (Admittedly i suggested it a bit after the release.)

If you release a Gunslinger 2: Now it's in the saloon! pack with chaps for the ladies and a fancy bartender/gambler shirt for the men and maybe a stained buckskin tunic for the huge i would buy it in a second. Yes, it involves separate pieces for the different genders, but fancier saloon wears suggest more definite gender roles than the occupation of gunslinger would. Gunslinger as an occupation implies practical trail wear with a certain badassitude for both genders. Saloon has more period-and-gender-specific implications.

Or, as Organica put it while i was composing my post:

i just think they should aim for a balance of having more shared costume pieces, especially pieces that would be considered iconic of a set's theme. This isn't to say that they should stop having gender-specific pieces altogether.
Although they do make a point of porting all the male pieces over to the huge model, and i doubt that adapting most pieces to the female model is more work than to the huge model; in fact in some cases i'd think it would be less.

Speaking of diversity, i don't recall many huge-model-specific pieces being released, so they already had a policy of reducing diversity by a third or so.

It's more the above responses in my opinion. i don't really mind some of the details on a piece having colours that can't be modified, but i don't particularly care for pieces with the colour already baked in to the point that all we can do is add a little bit of tinting to the preset colours.

The only thing you can change on the helmets is the glow of the lights on the helms that have them. The red helms can be approximately matched using other metallic pieces colored red, but the other helms, especially the Crab Spider, are shades that are almost impossible to match with other costume pieces.

Anyway, David's posts regarding the plans for the helmets are pretty reassuring. Not to mention i think the other Devs have noticed the subtle hints about how some players feel about precoloured pieces from the responses to the use of precoloured pieces in the last two packs. Three if you count the Celestial Armor pieces.

It's been a while, but as i recall Tetsuo had an encounter with an escaped psychic and apparently exposure to the psychic's abilities affected him. Sort of like being bitten by a radioactive spider. So the experimenting was a response to Tetsuo's exposure after he'd been injured at the scene of an encounter with a top secret military project incident and brought along as part of the clean up/cover up.
Well, it's probably more because to this day the American movie industry insists on turning most protagonists caucasian regardless of original ethnicity. (Airbender, Akira, et al.) A desire for greater parity in skin tones that is more representative of the real world (or original source material in many cases) is not completely incomprehensible.

i have a slight issue with this defense in that for weeks female posters have been posting regarding their feelings on the pieces for female avatars in the gunslinger pack. Especially in the beta forums. For the most part all you did was get them to repeat themselves, sometimes for the umpteenth time, to address your apparent assertion that real women have no issues with the gender disparity in new costume pieces. Now it's understandable that you might not read the beta forums, or even the earlier posts in this very thread, but you're mostly giving yourself credit for making women repeat themselves because you weren't reading the first (and possibly second, third, fourth, etc.) time they posted. To me it seemed almost like you were simply ignoring female posts that didn't agree with your position prior to now, but really i think it's more likely you simply hadn't read them. i hope.

Most of your replies regarding the Gunslinger Pack reminded me of this comic.

Oh, and i just thought of how to rename the pack to fit the actual selections provided: Call it the Gunslinger/Ginslinger Pack.

Why not? It's a tree country.

Ah, i wish him success and fun at his new projects.

So... now that the Sexy One has moved on, does that mean the cornrows/dreadlocks for females, and dreadlocks for males are now a possibility?

(Yes, i know there's been hairstyle called "dreadlocks" in the game since launch, but it's about as dreadlock-like as taking a dog, painting it yellow, and then adding a collar with a tag that says "Meow" is catlike. If anything it resembles gutterpunk style spiked hair. (And i shouldn't even mention the original "punk" hairstyle that i can't recall seeing on actual punks more than maybe a few times out of tens of thousands of punks viewed from over 35 years of punk styles.))

That's cool. It's not that i think any of the pieces are bad in themselves, but i really do wonder about the decision to call it a gunslinger set and give one of the three genders pieces that have nothing to do with what a gunslinger would wear. The saloon girl pieces are pretty nice, and a bartender/saloon worker shirt for the two male pieces would complement it nicely. Maybe a Gunslinger 2 pack where females get, well, gunslinging themed pieces and males get saloon worker pieces?
The CoT pieces are pretty unique in their visual interest and they also take colour well. This may be inaccurate, but i would describe most of the pretinted pieces as being more precoloured with the ability to add some tinting to the preset colours.

i'm still a little puzzled by the random addition of miniature cattle skulls and/or horns to some of the pieces, especially the pistols. i like the gun/knife combo, and they have been made and used in the past, but the skulls on the gloves and horns on the guns seem almost like there was a mandate from someone in higher management to make sure there were some cattle skulls and horns in the set because it's totally Western Gunslinger to have them and the artists decided to just stick them on there to get it out of the way. Still, it does make designing a holster for the pistols more challenging with the horns. Which i guess is moot anyway since there aren't any holsters.

For all that i may have complaints about some of what was or wasn't done for the set the individual pieces are quite nicely made.

Another set with female gunslinger pieces, male saloon worker/gambler pieces, and maybe some Native American pieces would be nice for a future pack. Just a thought.

Yes, yes we do.
CoH remains the superheroic MMORPG.
In my opinion it also remains the best MMO i've ever tried.

You love the "Gunslinger Outfit", but nothing in your description of it sounds like it has anything to do with being a gunslinger. Or were German beer hall girls known for their marksmanship?

To clarify, for a pack that's labeled "Gunslinger", not "Wild West Saloon", i'd expect an outfit that's slightly more Calamity Jane, and slightly less Lili Von Shtupp.

Apparently female gunslingers mostly work while prone. Skeet shooting and all that...

*shakes Tragic Eight Ball*
Without a doubt

On the gripping hand my villains also generally love bats. Some as adorable critters, others as tasty snacks.

Will we get to keep enemy heads and torsos twisting 180 degrees or more when defeated? It makes some of the models and textures look really odd sometimes, but it's about as gruesome as a game without blood or bodies flying apart can get. (Robots and cyborg spiders blowing up doesn't really count no matter how much it may frustrate Warshades.)

Gunslinger set disappointing? i only really have one gunslinger themed character, a pistol wielding cybernetic kangaroo Blaster, but Gunmetal Roo could use some new... oh wait, G R is female... never mind.

Well, i will be getting the cigarillo anyway, and if i ever decide to make a male gunslinger or other male character that needs chaps and a nifty-ish jacket i'll probably get the rest of the set.

Pants.

Pants.

Pants.

Pants.

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It's no use, it's pants all the way down except for where it's Troy Hickman; which, as everyone knows, means no pants.

Yeah, but who wants to be the brown ranger?

Gotta say that was an entertaining video after i turned the volume down.

Tier 5 unlocks Controllers, which is quite a lot more than the OP has said they want to spend, but they can be unlocked for 1200 points, which admittedly is also more than the OP wants to spend.

All IOs require either VIP status, a high enough rewards tier, or an invention license to get any benefit from them. Nothing i've seen anywhere suggests that store bought IOs are any different.

Which was explained in this thread long before he necroed it just to complain about something the thread had already debunked.

That's either brilliant or brain-hurtingly dumb.

Skittles, anyone?

At least it's still all stuff you can also get in game easily enough if you're inclined to do so. Although the attuned aspect is making some of them very tempting over the normal versions.

i'm seriously considering the LotG procs and a few KC pieces to complete a few sets on several alts.

If they come out with sets that can only be acquired through the Paragon Market i will have issues with IOs sold through the market.