Anyone Notice....?

Michael Bincolo, the new Signature Arc Contact in Talos, is sporting a wicked cool Sword in a scabbard on his back, unlike ones I've seen in this game before...

Sign of things to come?

Wishful thinking on my part?

Both?

Find out next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel. (assuming some one finds out by next week.)

There's something in his arc I noticed that I wanted to ask about, but I didn't want to spoil anything.

Part of the running argument for why things like back scabbards have always been a hard thing for the Devs to give us was this idea that our character body models only have a limited number of "anchor points" and as the story goes the Devs only had like one or two of those points left over after you accounted for all the other existing types of costume items.

I can understand why the Devs may have wanted to conserve that resource over the years because once they used them all then they'd have no further room to expand. But let's be a bit realistic here by considering that the game is now well over 7.5 years old. How much longer are the Devs going to hold back from using those last anchor points? What are they being saved for?

I would argue that people have been wanting/suggesting more back items for this game for so long that there's really no benefit in reserving the last anchor points for anything else. So what if giving us something like back scabbards prevents us from getting anything else like it? I would rather get something new knowing there's no room for anything else than to know there's room for a "potential addition" and never get any benefit from that potential. An unused anchor point gives us nothing to play with. I think it's high time we get as much as the system will allow for.

What I noticed was that his last name means "two eyes". Which, given his eyepatch, is either ironic or a hint that something is not as it seems.

There's an eye theme in this part of the story

It clips with his butt, specifically his back pocket

Specifically, I recall the most insurmountable issue being that the variable differences afforded to us through the use of body sliders would make it a coding nightmare to have our character realistically reach for an item on their back and pull it free from a scabbard. Characters whose body sliders were too far outside the intended animation would very obviously grab thin air, have their weapon 'teleport' from its' scabbard to their hand, and then resume fighting. The entire thing would look... Tacky.

I am unsure why we can have jetpacks, backpacks for back to school, wings and steam punk back packs, but can't get back items like scabards etc.

But then again...Im not a dev.

I ran through the arc several times getting HVMs and don't know what you guys are talking about.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.