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I tried Cataph's magic mod, but dear lord does it make Burning Skull ludicrously overpowered. I had a bright wizard regularly scoring 500-900 kills per battle with it. If Skull was toned down a bit, it would be a good magic mod from what I've seen
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 18:39 |
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If Wood Elf women are riding side saddle, that's dumb as hell. I can understand for Brettonians, that's kind of their THING is being 100% chivalric arthurian ideal 24/7, but it makes no sense for woad covered celtic berserkers to have the first gently caress to give about courtly mannerisms.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 18:41 |
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The side saddle drama is dumb as hell. If it's that big of a deal it'll be modded out in a week. Also a lot of Bretonnian spellcasters interact with the wood elves. So there's that. Heck, it's a plot point that "special" (IE: Magic capable.) girls are offered up to the forest and sometimes come back different once they've grown up. Maybe they're just rubbing off on each other?
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 18:44 |
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Spellsingers riding sidesaddle makes about as much sense as pistoliers doing it. God I wish I was in a universe where some manly empire dudes were riding sidesaddle just to see the shitstorm.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:00 |
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I like how there were a bunch of complaints about there being a few posts about multiplayer every other page but now everyone's fine to talk about this.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:02 |
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CA had a female mounted model already and decided to reuse it - makes perfect sense.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:08 |
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Trujillo posted:I like how there were a bunch of complaints about there being a few posts about multiplayer every other page but now everyone's fine to talk about this. See, I think you don't actually like it.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:08 |
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An idea I had for Tomb Kings campaign goals is to recover artifacts stolen by other races so they gotta go tromping out of Not-Egypt to get them. So if you were a faction like Lizardmen or something you'd see them occasionally in your home territory. Don't Lizardmen hate Chaos? That could give them an incentive to wipe out any corruption-generating factions. I agree they need to make factions less isolationist because it makes them much less of a threat to the player that in spite of some enemy faction doing insanely well due to emergent diplomatic behavior, they don't bother to build up beyond their own backyard ;at that point for a human player will have an easy time dismantling them at his leisure.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:09 |
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fnordcircle posted:Spellsingers riding sidesaddle makes about as much sense as pistoliers doing it. It makes way more sense than that. For example, Spellsingers don't need to ride properly for balance because they can fly.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:15 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:If Wood Elf women are riding side saddle, that's dumb as hell. That's not how the wood elves are though? They're much more classically fey. They have nobles and a civil society, they just also ritually sacrifice a younger noble every year and go on an orgy of violence known as the Wild Hunt with their living God. They're alien, not slavering berserkers. Except when they are
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:19 |
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Who do we blame for starting this dumb debate in this thread? I hope the elven archers draw their bows from the correct side also.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:20 |
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I didn't think this thread could get as bad as the official forums but then people got mad over how units rode their mounts. It's not like you are going to notice it while playing, jesus.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:26 |
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Kainser posted:I didn't think this thread could get as bad as the official forums but then people got mad over how units rode their mounts. I'm sure when Ogre Kingdoms DLC gets released people will be about Ogre bellybutton diameter or something as well.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:27 |
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All I know is I want my medieval grimdark fantasy be realistic.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:29 |
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Rygar201 posted:That's not how the wood elves are though? They're much more classically fey. They have nobles and a civil society, they just also ritually sacrifice a younger noble every year and go on an orgy of violence known as the Wild Hunt with their living God. "When they are" is at least 50% of the time and "always" in the case of when they are at war. Guess what this game focuses on
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:31 |
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Kainser posted:I didn't think this thread could get as bad as the official forums but then people got mad over how units rode their mounts. This is literally a conversation worse than anything that's going on in totalwareddit right now. Just think about that...
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:32 |
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brocretin posted:This is literally a conversation worse than anything that's going on in totalwareddit right now. Just think about that... Yeah it's kind of shocking that both reddit and the official forums are more open to discussing female representation in video games than goons in this thread
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:38 |
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Deified Data posted:Personally I see nothing wrong with subtly reusing an asset. No one seems upset they've reused the basic wolf template 3 times. Women > Dogs imo
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:43 |
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peer posted:Yeah it's kind of shocking that both reddit and the official forums are more open to discussing female representation in video games than goons in this thread Who is saying representation is bad/unnecessary ITT? The TW reddit is a so slow. It's kind of lame.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 19:47 |
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Fangz posted:Who do we blame for starting this dumb debate in this thread? Right here, let's fight.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:18 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:"When they are" is at least 50% of the time and "always" in the case of when they are at war. They're not all slavering beserkers when at war. The Wild Riders, Wardancers and monsters like Orion yes, but Eternal Guard, Waywatchers, Wildwood Rangers etc. are of the more typical level-headed Elven mould. There aren't many one-note factions in Warhammer. Just Dwarfs. Riding sidesaddle is a perfectly apt way to represent fair and perilous elf maidens high on pollen and ready to blow stuff up in the name of a giant tree. Especially when they already had the animations to hand.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:26 |
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All debates are good. Post without limits.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:26 |
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Make chaos ride sidesaddle
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:30 |
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Do the elf wizards wear dresses or something similar that would clip through the horse in the default pose? The one picture on lexicanum has one in a long narrow skirt that looks completely impractical for any kind of locomotion other than a segway so that would solve the mystery.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:35 |
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All elf clothing is completely impractical, so yes.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:37 |
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Elves themselves are impractical.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:38 |
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It's only sexist if they are weaker than Empire Wizards on the field.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:40 |
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Whoever is keeping track, please put me down for SpellSlingers riding side saddle is bad. Thank you Also any estimate on the release of the Wood friends? I heard someone say awhile back a week or two after the info drops, but that seems short.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 20:57 |
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Truecon420 posted:Whoever is keeping track, please put me down for SpellSlingers riding side saddle is bad. Thank you Next Thursday, December 8.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:01 |
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Rygar201 posted:Who is saying representation is bad/unnecessary ITT? Nobody's saying exactly that, but there seems to be about a 50% split between "elf sidesaddle is dumb" and "elf sidesaddle is fine/who cares", plus about twice as many posts complaining that anyone's even talking about it. It's an issue of female representation in games in the same way that (say) boob armour is, and as someone pointed out earlier there would be a storm of complaints if a male unit like Pistoliers or knights used the animation.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:07 |
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:18 |
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Deified Data posted:CA had a female mounted model already and decided to reuse it - makes perfect sense. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" Substitute laziness This is what mods are for, at least. Somebody'll fix it.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:23 |
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I just don't care cuz it's really clearly CA reusing rigging from the damsel, not them trying to say anything. If all the Sisters of the Thorn were riding sidesaddle or something I would be rather troubled, but this is just a weird little thing that's a result of normal game dev economization. There're much more objectionable portrayals of women in many other games, and the limited female presence in Total Warhammer is almost entirely GW's fault, not CA's, so there's just not much to say besides 'yeah that's a bit strange'.
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:24 |
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Hello, TWCenter. How's it goin... wait, WHAT THE???
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:26 |
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How do Vampires ride?
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:27 |
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Have all cavalry ride sidesaddle imo
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:31 |
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Zaphod42 posted:"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" Unrelated to the discussion at hand, that's actually a really dumb motto. Politics and management are full of malicious acts that are camouflaged as general incompetence that just so happens to benefit those responsible for it. Um, back to sidesaddles, I guess. my dad fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Ravenfood posted:How do Vampires ride? Like the male characters, which means their dress looks weird and their legs clip through the mount. Still Better Than Sidesaddle
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:33 |
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Funky Valentine posted:Have all cavalry ride sidesaddle imo
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# ? Nov 30, 2016 21:37 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:38 |
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peer posted:Nobody's saying exactly that, but there seems to be about a 50% split between "elf sidesaddle is dumb" and "elf sidesaddle is fine/who cares", plus about twice as many posts complaining that anyone's even talking about it. It's an issue of female representation in games in the same way that (say) boob armour is, and as someone pointed out earlier there would be a storm of complaints if a male unit like Pistoliers or knights used the animation. It really isn't like boob armour, and there might be complaints but it would still be silly. Edit: the point of boob armour is that it's read as compromising the setting for the gratification of an assumed male audience, who would also spend much of the time zoomed in close enough to ogle the result. In this case it's at worst inappropriate (unless there's some side saddle fetish I haven't heard of) and you spend most of the game zoomed out so it's super, super easy to ignore, like lots of TW's deviations from history has been ignored. This is a stupid controversy. The lack of female legendary lords is an actual thing, if you care about representation. Fangz fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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