Cobalt skins

(frostyvampire) #1

I have 2 things to say:

First of all, the Shard skin for enemy players is just bright blue, I understand that shard is supposed to be blue but it’s not rare for me to mistake an enemy with a teammate and it happened to me a few times where the enemy didn’t shoot me because they thought I’m their teammate (and I’m not talking about noobs, together this happened to me with a level 40 Aura that I was trying to knife).
I think changing the enemy clothes color to red for this skin would help

Second, Fragment skin is really boring compared to Shard. Why not make it a bit cooler? I like the idea of platinum on guns but it’s still pretty meh compared to solid blue. I don’t mind if the guns stay the same much but still maybe add a bit more shine to them, like sparks or something.
The main problem with it is the merc clothes, they are 90% gray and have a tiny bit of blue somewhere, Phoenix for example has a blue helmet and a bit of blue in the arms area, but everything else is boring gray, and Vassili is just all gray with a bit of blue that is barely visible. It’s not too bad but it’s really ugly if you take shard vs fragment
Can we please have more blue on the the fragment skins? Or maybe instead of the current boring gray make it shiny gray with a lot of sparks. Something that will give people a reason to prefer fragment over shard.
In gold we have Crown, Bamboo and Swiss. Some people like the wooden parts on the guns so they like bamboo the most, others really like the black and red combo so they take Swiss and some like gold a lot so they take Crown. Why don’t we have it in cobalt too? Why is cobalt always better? Why is the M4 the only weapon that fragment looks really good on (it might not only be the M4 but on 90+ % of the guns shard is still better)

And last thing for all skins (all tiers): Make the skins also affect gloves and stuff you have on your hands (for mercs that have something, like Sparks’s gloves or Vassili’s bandage) which will be visible in first person too
I won’t say anything about melee skins because SD knows everyone wants them

(OatmealFox) #2

I actually think the opposite. For me, a shiny, solid blue gun looks ridiculous. I largely prefer the sleek look and cool geometry and angles of the chrome fragment. Just my two cents.

(Supersneaky) #3

I definitely prefer shard too, the old shard use to be like a paint splash of blueish dots anyone remember?

What I’d like to see is new skins on melee and unique weapons/deployables like naders launcher or bushwhackers turret!

(blufflord) #4

and this is the perfect example of why these 2 skins exist, because OP like one, and you like the other. Meanwhile im just chilling here, unable to have HQ graphics to even see the platinum.

(frostyvampire) #5

@OatmealFox
Like I said, I have no problem with the gun skins, the main problem is the clothes. Admit it, you prefer shard clothes over fragment, I doubt anyone thinks the opposite.

@BufflordAFK
Another reason as to why shard is better. If you have HQ materials off, shard is still solid blue, just not shiny while fragment is just night sky or something which is kinda meh

(Jostabeere) #6

I like the grey armor theme more than the blue.

(KUST__LunarTM) #7

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

(RobLovesNa) #8

^ depends on the merc for me. I love the shard on skyhammer, but fragment is SO sweet on phantom.

(dlux) #9

Are you the sawbonez that gave me a medpack earlier and then got stabbed in the face? :stuck_out_tongue:
There was also an aura involved.

(Drac0rion) #10

RED IS BETTER COLOR THAN BLUE!

But in all seriousness it’s all up to preference, I like Fragment a lot as it is, but I also like the default skins and iron skins for some mercs, yet for some reason Bronze and higher are better color and I can’t have my 3rd augment. You know, cause of reasons…

(grandioseCutlet) #11

Same with the Culprit Proxy (not sure if it’s the Obsidian or the other one, maybe both) I keep shooting at them when they’re in my team because they’re entirely red.

Who doesn’t want to shoot a Proxy though?

(frostyvampire) #12

^ depends on the merc for me. I love the shard on skyhammer, but fragment is SO sweet on phantom.[/quote]

@RobLovesNa
Yea, for Phantom fragment does look good, but he’s the only merc for which frag > shard

(Mrarauzz) #13

Hmm I have never had the problem of not shooting an enemy because the blue, but I can see how for some people that could be a problem. The new event skins have the enemy variant which helps I wonder if they will do that to cobalts, also Fragment camo FTW!

(ClemClem7) #14

@BufflordAFK
I prefer the fragment with hq off than on. It’s look like space with few stars. With hq on, with some weapons, you don’t see the few white points in the platinium color.

(Nibbles02) #15

Yeah, I’ve been confused in firefights because of the blue enemies, when normal enemy skins are lighter and greyed out or red entirely, but the blue is just confusing.

(KUST__LunarTM) #16

They could do something like they did with the ReV skins, but I don’t want it to be so hard to tell if they have a cobalt.

(Captain_Forward) #17

It’s all about preferences, I like shard merc skins and fragment weapon skins, so both cobalt variants is a win/win for me :slight_smile:

(bontsa) #18

I cant see the merc skin myself so obviously I’d pick the one gun looks cooler in :wink: Might be minority, but Fragment “nightsky” (due lowQ materials) looks goddamn awesome, I’d pick it over chrome any day.

As far as changes to colour-tone go I haven’t had issues myself but wouldn’t care if cobalt enemy variant is changed to something more red-ish. ReV skins are indeed good example as variants are red for enemy and blue for friendly to begin with.

(RectalTerror) #19

[quote=“FrostyVampire;30668”]I have 2 things to say:

First of all, the Shard skin for enemy players is just bright blue, I understand that shard is supposed to be blue but it’s not rare for me to mistake an enemy with a teammate and it happened to me a few times where the enemy didn’t shoot me because they thought I’m their teammate (and I’m not talking about noobs, together this happened to me with a level 40 Aura that I was trying to knife).[/quote]

I was laughed at the last time I complained about the same thing. Not many will admit it, but yeah, that’s the whole point of cobalt skins. Now I won’t complain anymore, because I use a cobalt proxy (& it does wonders, many times I plant or repair right at the nose of noobs).
(& not just noobs - I’m lvl24 and sometimes I still don’t shoot at a blue enemy)

But yeah, quite an heresy to mess with team colors in a fast team-based FPS.
The worst is those red humble bundle skins, it’s the opposite for those.

Cobalt skins are useless for long-range players, though. It’s for proxy & aura that you want them.

(Supersneaky) #20

Honestly just look at your minimaps more often, a good player should always keep track of thier team.