Female Armor

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As a woman, given what we have seen from pre-order packs I am not worried. There are so many women in vocal positions at Intrepid and it shows in the costume concepts. I'm appreciating the lack of sexualization in armor sets and the general stylishness of them. If I want to look pretty give me a good costume. I have buckets of other games for when I want to wear 'thot' armor.

But in the end I personally don't mind having both in a game. It's just that when you have both the demand for the 'thot' armor goes up drastically compared to the nonsexualized and the devs rightfully make the business decision to invest in the cosmetics that sell best. Intrepid is already taking a stance by saying no in the first place. It's harder to resist greed when the results are more tangible. But hey if they did manage to 'keep producing both types despite that' more of my money to them.

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I strongly disagree. If it isn't in store only it's going to be wildly popular in cities and pollute the over all world feel. Im ok with this, but only if it means the devs are getting paid for said pollution. I have other games I can go to if I want to see hundreds of dancing avatars in skimpy clothing.

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Yeah. I missed your endearing outrage and figured it was the easiest way to get it.

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I just want the devs to make as much money off it as possible to the point that it stifles demand for it. If it goes against ashes design philosophy its the fairest solution to still allowing for it.

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Ah well it is easy to miss sometimes. I get busy with life and all that jazz. Hope you are having a good day mate.

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Yeah I generally preffer if there is any sexualization they go the Dead or Alive route and give both sexes eye candy options. Most games don't tend to though because the male sets sell less and over time they just make what sells most. I want more than a token set for male avatars if they are going to be in the game.

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Ah your in lockdown? Sorry to hear that.

Edit: Oh you edited after I responded. If that was all you said in the Tulnar thread you wouldn't have gotten the response you got. That's really off topic though. Wanna talk about what female armor you'd like to see in game?

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Yeah the first image is pretty close to 'thot' armor. I wouldn't say it quite cross my threshold though so you wouldn't get complaints from me if ashes added something similar, though the left (her right) chest piece on the female would look /better/ and slightly further from my personal 'line' imo if there was more cover where the armor already is. My actual complaint with the picture is the female models proportions aren't anatomically correct. But art is hard and it isn't /that/ far off, just very slighty too thin a waist.

The second picture looks cool to me.

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Yeah no worries. Your ideas came across fine.

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These are all really good examples of stuff I hope is in ashes.

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I also agree that Sword and Sorcery tend to be high fantasy, but the genre is unique and can definitely be low fantasy.

I also agree everyone has different definitions of what feels sexualized vs not. It's largely a 'know it when I see it' type thing for me.

For example midriff exposure in some contexts do depending on the rest of the armor set, but sometimes it doesn't.

Inner thigh exposure when there is outer thigh protection almost never registers that way to me because of the mobility and heat ventilation required for certain agile fighting styles.

Chest exposure is probably the most easy to trigger the feeling of 'this is sexualized' to me.

Face exposure varies a lot depending on class for me. But is also the most forgivable if there are covered options.

I'm sure some people agree on all those points, others only some, others none.

It's not as easy as 'what percentage of skin is showing' to me. Context matters a lot. And as a result, is hard to have a singular standard, hence why I am happy intrepid has so many female voices who have a strong influence in the input. More perspectives the better.