Any celestial armor fix coming?

I'm sure it's been brough up before, but this costume set could really use a looking at as far as it's color palette is concerned. Most of the pieces all keep a underlining Silvery/chrome color to them when you try to color them anything but a shade of grey.

We'll get a fix for Celestial Armor around the time we get a non-refelective option for things like the Metallic or Armored pieces. Which is never. However the devs did say that our dislike of the heavy pretinting on Celestial was taken to heart and they'll not try to repeat that mistake again in the future, so there's that.

Well that still doesn' fix the issue. The costume pieces are great looking, but the fact they don't hold any color that weel makes them very hard to use with anything other then the set itself.

If they can fix other costume piece issues why won't they fix this one?

Because, as far as they are concerned, the Celestial set always looking chrome-y with the color washed-out is not something that should be fixed, because it isn't broken. It's intentional. It's an intentional thing that a fair number of people (myself included) dislike, but changing it now would take away the chrome-y look from the people that already are using it for that, which would suck too.

I don't see why they couldn't keep the current option but add the more color tinable version. it wouldn't be the only costume piece int he game with different "skins" you can apply to it. Just like all of the spikes and bone pieces we were given when COV went live. They have a flat skin and a metallic skin.

I would love that, but it's apparently not very high on the "player-requested costume things" list, and that is a VERY long list.

Up to us to raise it on the list then isn't it? :P

"Pre-colouring" is why I've always maintained that better graphics don't necessarily make a game look better. Yes, costume pieces in City of Heroes have been looking better of late, but a lot of this has to do with their higher polygon count, higher-resolution textures and a more focused art direction. But every time new tech comes into the mix, it seems to ruin pieces rather than make them better. As far as I'm concerned, "reflective" textures have done nothing for my characters but make them look uglier and less consistent because reflective pieces don't take colour well and don't match other, non-reflective pieces. And Celestial is the most striking example.

This started with Steampunk, where nearly every piece was either pre-tinted to be brown or had untintable brown parts to it. It seems the art team learned their lesson and they're making a LOT fewer mistakes like this with new costume pieces... But these still exist in older costume pieces. And our chances of getting those fixed via adding non-chrome options are pretty much down to Dink's charity in granting player requests in her lunch breaks, because the studio will pretty much never budget for that. Fixing outright broken old costume pieces is like pulling teeth. Fixing costumes that are working as intended and just aren't very good? That's unlikely.

Oh, and by the way - the same is true of Mecha Armour. Roughly half the armour colours correctly, but the other half is chrome and colours barely at all.

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Fingers crossed they go back to look at it, but, at the rate they keep making new stuff, it's not likely.

This sounds like a Tier-9-unlocked problem =D


Sorry, I couldn't help myself

or .... turn the graphic settings down.

i have the graphics toned down till recently, and there was not such tinting

I did a quick test and I think I can fix this but I need to get the ok from Clockwork O1 to slot me some time.

Got the ok, sent a bug to myself. I will do this when I wrap up Post Apoc.