"Canon" Costume Guide?

In another MMO I play, there's a guide to canon uniforms/costumes (the MMO is based on a TV show that has a plethora of "real" uniforms to recreate). I was wondering if anyone had any costume guides for "canon" uniforms as seen in City of... I know there's been attempts at recreating Arachnos uniforms with the VEATs, but any other groups?

I think that given the fact that the NPCs have traditionally had exclusive costume pieces (Freakshow arms, Council masks, Carnie masks, etc...) people have come to accept that you're only going to get "close enough" to recreating in-game groups. As such, there hasn't been a lot of impetus behind making a guide saying "this is how it is."

If you have something specific in mind, however, The Costume (Re-)Design Threadhas a lot of examples of other peoples' attempts or you can post and ask for help with your own canon group-inspired costume.

Apart from what Basilisk said the only indirect way to have exact "canon" outfits is to make use of the temp NPC costume powers. These were first introduced during the Halloween events but many of them are now purchasable via the Paragon Market.

Beyond that I have the feeling the Devs don't really want to encourage us towards making exact clones of in-game outfits.

I thought they devs intended to port many on the new enemy costumes to players; for instance, we've recently been given the IDF armor. I believe they also mentioned making the new CoT pieces available at some point.

I see no reason a player character shouldn't be able to do a perfect Longbow costume (without the need for a costume temp power).

But, Arachnos and the VEATs makes the issue a little muddy.

Even with the newer stuff like Praetorian IDF and PPD, not all the parts are a perfect match. We don`t get the IDF back pieces and the PPD gloves available to players are wrong.

Also, in some cases, progress of the enemies doesn't keep pace with the player costume parts released; DUST just use PPD parts with a camo overlay, and even though we have the PPD parts already, we don`t have a camo option for them.


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I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to make ourselves look like more of the NPCs either. Since we can't attack or be attacked by other players outside of a PVP zone, we can't really grief others that way. And there's lots of RP possibilities for looking like an NPC- infiltration being only one. In the case of the upcoming CoT booster, why can't we look like an energy mage? We could RP that lots of ways- that mage being one of the parallel universe Orenbagans who are good guys, and this one is here to either try and save, or punish the primal earth CoT. Or given Arachnos's love of infighting, perhaps one of the other patrons has allied with members of the CoT, just to cause trouble for Scirocco and his Mu descendants? Or that energy mage chose to join up because working with Aracnnos might be a path to greater power and resources, all the better to break the demonic pact that the CoT are bound to?

The argument about keeping NPCs exclusive is a weak one, considering that some NPCs can already be perfectly cloned already (especially the praetorian clockwork)
I don't think seeing a player energy mage hanging out in Atlas is going to make encountering the NPC any less special for a new player. After having RPed with the player, they might think "So THAT's what the CoT are all about!" once they encounter the NPC, or "Now I know what that person was dressed up as!"

I think that red side contacts for each of the major villain groups, who would give missions every 5 levels or so, with themed costume unlocks for their group would be useful for giving red siders more of an impression of being able to choose their own career path - working for Arachnos could then be explained as being similar to the undercover stuff in GR - you'd be working for them just to fit in, but you'd really be loyal to, say, the CoT, or the Council, or the Family, and so on.
Using the phasing tech and/or the neutral reticle tech from GR and I21 could also mean that working for a villain group would see their spawns be neutral/friendly towards the player.

Felderburg, to answer your question: If you've done a forum search for such a guide and come up with nothing, then odds are one does not exist, probably because only recently (in relation to the game's inception) have NPC parts been ported over in large numbers.

David (Noble Savage) gave a decent explanation of reasoning behind NPC conversions here.

Longbow, IDF, Praetorian Police, Resistance, and Knives of Artemis are all NPC groups for which a PC recreation can come pretty close. And I am sure I am missing a couple.

I think the problem with the sybil outfits is the multiple cape rigs- three or four, if memory serves. Due to performance issues, players are supposed to get only one.