Dresses

CoH totally needs more dress choices for girls.

In the official sites video trailer there is a white skinned girl on the villians' side wearing a cool black and white tabard/dress kinda outfit...where is this found in character creation?

It's not. There are a ton of signature costume pieces that NPCs get to wear and we can't. There are also a ton of costume pieces that no one in the game gets to wear, NPC or PC, in trailers and promo posters/pics.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Moving stuff is a clipping nightmare, as well as a resource drain. (Their words, not mine--see "two capes" or "moving hair.") I would love to see more realistic clothing options, but we are kind of constrained to fixed items that won't clip.

Pretty sure Jay has said he will only add long skirts when he can get it to not look stupid. The issue is how do you have a long skirt on a Martial Arts type character. It's difficult to say the least.

This was my reply in a different thread about Wizard "robes" but it is the same for long dresses, etc.

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The reason the "cool"costumes are only on NPCs (like Airlia and the Tsoo Sorcerors) is that there is only one model for that NPC and it's only one size. The costume is inherent in the NPC models for those. And also - think about this - long robes (a la Wizards) would look downright stupid with Martial Arts Kicks and some of the lunging attacks in other powersets. And our Devs don't make costumes that look stupid, they want them to look nice. (And I appreciate that). I know there are exceptions to this general rule, but they are just that - exceptions. Costumes need to look fairly good on any size character (allowing for the gender differences they have made) performing any attack or travel animation in-game.

That being said, we have lots of options for dresses in the costume creator, just not long ones. Many of the tops, especially "Tops with Skin" blend seamlessly into the skirts (some don't, though).

Here is a character with a longer skirt and the Magic Bolero which is the closest I have come to an "elegant" dress.



It's not Ghost Widow (who I suspect is who the OP is referring to), but Lady V is still a classy dame.

Just bought the Magic Booster Pack because it says you get a couple "magic" costumes...you get a idiotic Witch costume...nothing sorcerous or cool.

Horrendous waste of $10.

And most people only look cool standing still so long clothes would still look good when your standing around where others could actually "see" your outfit.So clipping isnt an issue id be worried about standing around.

I really think we're on the verge* of some changes, and hopefully longer skirts is one of them. Moving tails too!

*poster makes no attempt to claim "verge" being any faster than "Soon™"

Aren't Ghost Widow's clothes just a Night Widow Uniform? if so, her costume pieces are indeed available to players

Yeah, there are a lot of options with each one of the boosters. And while aesthetics are going to be a person choice thing, I still think the Magic booster is the strongest of all of them. And that's even with me annoyed at there being no wizard hat option for males. STILL. Cabal hat looks female and has been in game for a long time, and then this booster came out... and females got more witch hats! But no wizard hats. Mmmmkay.

But yeah, don't buy something until you know what's in it. If you buy without looking, it's your own fault for not liking it.

I like it just for the costume change emotes, emotes, and random buff. The nifty costume looks make it just gravy.