It's always been there. Players don't have access to it.
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Originally Posted by Smersh
It's always been there. Players don't have access to it.
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Darn that jamais vu.Sorry
There was actually a dev comment--either in post or from one of the conventions--regarding an earlier foray into trying to get the back detail slot scaling properly in the character creator. It was not too long after the RWZ revamp and it was intimated if not explicitly expressed that "soon" that final vanguard item would be made available once the scalable tech was working right.
We're here. Years later. Still no tech working for it on live or public test.
We've gotten more recent acknowledgments from Noble Savage that they have heard loud and clear the drone and drumbeat for back items. And something to the effect that they are "trying to get it working."
And it's arguable that a passage in Jay's holiday Virtue pocket D speech alludes to a coming back slot this year. But others have offered the interpretation that he was alluding to animated holsters and scabbards for weapons based characters. Hard to know. The oracle that is Sexy Jay is often difficult to interpret. (Though FWIW, I did get the animal pack hints 100%. That was pretty clear to me! 
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Frankly Sexy Jay's attempts to be funny or "mysterious" with his vague costume hints mostly just come off as tedious rumor-mongering to me. I sadly suspect if he'd put all that creative energy he wastes in teasing us with cryptic clues about upcoming content into his 'actual' job we might be playing with back items and scabbards by now. |
Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
And it's arguable that a passage in Jay's holiday Virtue pocket D speech alludes to a coming back slot this year. But others have offered the interpretation that he was alluding to animated holsters and scabbards for weapons based characters. Hard to know. The oracle that is Sexy Jay is often difficult to interpret. (Though FWIW, I did get the animal pack hints 100%. That was pretty clear to me!
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Let's just say I'd rather be entertained by his artistic ability to create new costumes items rather than his lame attempts to poke fun at the people who effectively pay his salary. *shrugs*
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To be fair, when I personally am deep in production on something--especially during the more tedious and repetitive tasks--I find that large portions of my creative mind are simultaneously activated but have little in the immediate to direct themselves towards. For me, this is when internal ramblings, similar to what Jay spouts, race through my own brain. I don't think he's really taking away hours from his responsibilities to write these things. I think they are pretty spontaneous and they these days the public teases, though still as severe when they do occur, are incredibly infrequent.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Frankly Sexy Jay's attempts to be funny or "mysterious" with his vague costume hints mostly just come off as tedious rumor-mongering to me. I sadly suspect if he'd put all that creative energy he wastes in teasing us with cryptic clues about upcoming content into his 'actual' job we might be playing with back items and scabbards by now.
Let's just say I'd rather be entertained by his artistic ability to create new costumes items rather than his lame attempts to poke fun at the people who effectively pay his salary. *shrugs* |
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Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
To be fair, when I personally am deep in production on something--especially during the more tedious and repetitive tasks--I find that large portions of my creative mind are simultaneously activated but have little in the immediate to direct themselves towards. For me, this is when internal ramblings, similar to what Jay spouts, race through my own brain. I don't think he's really taking away hours from his responsibilities to write these things. I think they are pretty spontaneous and they these days the public teases, though still as severe when they do occur, are incredibly infrequent.
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I just think it's safe to say the people on this forum are more than capable of generating rumors and speculation about future content without the Devs randomly tossing in verbal hand grenades to stir things up.
To be fair I'd just rather have more finished products to play with than public "teases" about future possible products. If Jay can't be direct with us on the forums (because of marketing or whatever) then I'd rather him not make any "effort" to try half-baked or otherwise.
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I don't know if I was just blind before, or if this is new, but has anyone else noticed this? Has this been in plane view all the time and I just hadn't really noticed it?
Does this mean we are getting a Vanguard backpack item with the new Vanguard Booster? Or am I just re-noticing something that has always been there?