Consolidate Locust Character Selection

[Kung Fu Kantus]

Hello People

On Gears Judgment I think they should consolidate the Locust character selection and allow you to select the armor from them instead of having them as individual characters since they are so similar.

From a development point of view I would say that their current setup with the Drone variants is inefficient because the cooking process works in such a way that they have to have lets say a Drone's skeletal mesh cooked with each type of variant of Drone (Miner, Cyclops eg) just for a simple helmet addition or shoulder pad. From your point of view you could be like "But what if I wanted Miner's helmet mixed with Spotter's shoulder pads on a Grenadier's body?" and this is possible if they went the route of modular pawns that they did with UT3.

In their current form this isn't possible because they don't use modular pawns (Which allows the player to choose armor attachments and what not). But if they did this you could choose between a Grenadier Beast Rider or a Drone Beast Rider and everyone's happy and in the end result you've got more room on the disc because the Drone or Grenadier skeletal mesh isn't being cooked 6 times over or whatever so there wouldn't be multiple copies of the guy.

EDIT:
The people suggesting stuff like Shirtless Kantus, the armor system doesn't work like that since the Armor for Kantus and Myrrah and what not are hard attached to them as part of the model. The Drones use separate meshes for armor and helmets though and the Therons use separate helmets too.

[sH4k3nB4ke]

I'd like this. Too bad no one else has commented so far.

[SnarledRhyme780]

I'd like this. Too bad no one else has commented so far.

I just did lol I support all custom character threads

[Tensesquirrel01]

I dont understand the technical words here but saving space in the game by not having redundant and unecessary characters sounds nice, also because it makes the difference between cog and locust a little more fun.

[Xraidernation15]

i would love any type of more characters or customization in judgement

[SnarledRhyme780]

I'd like this. Too bad no one else has commented so far.

I just did lol I support all custom character threads

[Yamato Kakashi]

Shirtless Kantus.....

[Father Russia]

Not trying to bash you, but I made a thread exactly like this before you did. http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...e-Character-UI

[Kung Fu Kantus]

Not trying to bash you, but I made a thread exactly like this before you did. http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...e-Character-UI

It's not the UI I am on about, it's more of the technical aspect of things since using modular pawns would allow the user to select individual armor and face masks for the Drone or Grenadier and not just selecting a sub variant.

[The Nice Guy]

Every locust wearing queen myrrah armor... Also lol at your sig Kung Fu Kantus

[Kung Fu Kantus]

Every locust wearing queen myrrah armor... Also lol at your sig Kung Fu Kantus

Well if Drone wanted to express himself by wearing female armor, then I would understand.
Also before CowboyLocust reincarnated himself as a self trained Kung Fu master Kantus, he would like your sig

[Gnashty NaS]

I think armor customization would be very cool, for COG and Locust.

[Kung Fu Kantus]

I think armor customization would be very cool, for COG and Locust.

If I remember correctly, originallly in GOW1 the Redshirt/Carmine used the Marcus body so had the Marcus armor instead of Minh's. So it would be cool to have a Carmine helmet on another variant of armor or something.

[c SPARTAN117 c]

I'd like this to happen as long as it stays 'true to the franchise' or 'realistic'. In this sense, I mean that you can only select what is known in the universe i.e. Theron variants with known colour choices. I seriously don't wanna see pink or purple guys running round like in Halo. It's the only thing that gets me with Halo as well.

[Goat Stealer]

I really like this idea of customization, as having this implemented would satisfy A LOT of requests others players made for their locust characters, Original Theron Elite, Theron Guard with the classic helmet, Grenadier Beast Rider, Cyclops with the shoulder piece, ect. But as Spartan said, we need to have a few boundaries in place as to what kind of armor or color we can choose; I like having some kind of immersion in games that aren't intentionally being wacky and one thing I don't want to see are a bunch of people playing Horde mode that look like something that'd be more fitting in Saints Row.

[IIIHindleIII]

i like the locust as they are and i dont want to add that feature. just my opinion

[joal0503]

a kantus, with sniper goggles, superstar cole's hat.

[Maaaaaz]

This sounds good. +1

[DaRkNeSs]

Yeah I'd like this. Most Locust in GoW3 are easily categorised - Drone, Grenadier, Grenadier Elite, Theron, Kantus. Savage Locust's are all mainly unique.

[SilentCO1]

Customizable COG Gears would be cool too, I liked the look of Recruit Clayton but wanted a different helmet.

[FreshNikes2424]

Sounds pretty cool. But, if you go that far, why not go the whole 9 yards and ask Epic if we can just make our own Cog/Locust. Now i have no idea how this would be done, but would be cool.

[RoboSeal1]

I would like this especially for cog, i hated having MARCUS* UNARMORED MARCUS* as teammates while i was Classic Marcus in friend private matches

[Kung Fu Kantus]

Sounds pretty cool. But, if you go that far, why not go the whole 9 yards and ask Epic if we can just make our own Cog/Locust. Now i have no idea how this would be done, but would be cool.

This isn't possible.

[RoboSeal1]

This isn't possible.

It was possible to make your own character for PC version of UT3, why not? Same engine, there could be a custom option for drones/cog gears