Civ-specific unit skins?

[insaneweasel]

Is anyone else disappointed that Chinese, English and Aztec longswordsman look the same? I think it really breaks immersion, to see ancient and medieval units looking the same. BtS had semi-unique skins for knights, swordsmen, archers, etc., and it looked great.

Why didn't they do that in this game, and do you think that they will change it with a new patch?

 

[Villager720]

Are you suggesting regionalized skins for each unit type? Cause they probably wouldnt do that simply because thats 4 regions minimum theyd have to inplement a ton of new artwork into the game for. So, in my opinion I doubt we'll ever see aztec, english, and chinese archers look distinguishable beyond color.

 

[awesome]

no, he's suggesting civ-specific ones. so, for example, the american ones would look different than the english ones, or at least different than the spanish. so that just adds to your point, i guess. i don't think regionalized skins would be too bad, actually, especially since they already have that for cities. it doesn't really bother me too much either way, though.

 

[cccv]

YES, that disappoints me. It's one of the things that made V seem like a step back in some ways from IV. I doubt it'll be patched, but if they ever do an expansion, maybe. Otherwise it could be DLC when they run out of other ideas.

 

[Villager720]

i don't think regionalized skins would be too bad, actually, especially since they already have that for cities. it doesn't really bother me too much either way, though.

Cities are just one thing though, a skin for every unit would be a massive undertaking. Or so it seems to me.

 

[BobDole]

Region-specific skins might make a return (what was used for some units in BTS) but civ-specific would require a lot of work.

 

[RPG]

The modders did it for civ4, I have no doubt that eventually, modders will do the same for civ 5. Just take a look at R.E.D. mod. It's a good start to civ specific units.

 

[awesome]

YES, that disappoints me. It's one of the things that made V seem like a step back in some ways from IV. I doubt it'll be patched, but if they ever do an expansion, maybe. Otherwise it could be DLC when they run out of other ideas.

well, it wasn't in civ 4 until an expansion, either:

Spoiler :

but yeah, i'd normally say they'd do it in an expansion too, but there have been some pretty big patches. it depends on the demand, i guess.

 

[cccv]

well, it wasn't in civ 4 until an expansion, either:

Spoiler :

Yeah, I'm aware. I'm just not used to the "two steps forward, one step back" way of thinking inherent with expandable video games. I keep imagining that things should pick up from where they left off. Not saying it's evil and greedy that it doesn't work that way, just that it's not the way I tend to think.

I still don't think it'd be in a patch because like people are saying, it would be a lot of new artwork.

 

[insaneweasel]

Are you suggesting regionalized skins for each unit type? Cause they probably wouldnt do that simply because thats 4 regions minimum theyd have to inplement a ton of new artwork into the game for.

That's what I meant. They could probably do it, but they would have to re-prioritize and maybe release a few DLCs later than expected.