Just look at Arty, how does that guy look threatening?
He looks like a newbie airsoft player.
And Aura? Medic with long hair and no helmet… what?
They don’t look like mercs at all.
Why do the mercs look so ridiculous?
Szakalot
(Szakalot)
#2
its a design choice and i like it. mercs are unique and identifiable, its not about the muddy-gritty look in the game, just look at how colorful the maps are
irishrOy
(irishrOy)
#3
[quote=“peculiarPaladin;1292”]Just look at Arty, how does that guy look threatening?
He looks like a newbie airsoft player.
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and still he can kick ass all day long with his head-shot-monster-semi-auto-rifle and the airstrikes.
IMO, his “newbie-airsoft-player-look” combined with in-game-capabilites makes him truly bad@ss in a weird, but funny way.
I understand your concerns. @ first I also thought: Why does Fragger have a backpack that looks like a hardcase-trolley is strapped to his back? Why does Phoenix wear a rain-poncho? Why does Rhino have a Minigun and a whole “bomb-suit”, but wears no helmet? Why does Fletcher run around with only a tank-top and a thin utility-vest on?
Why, why, why?
Just deal with it.
That’s how the Mercs are designed and that’s what makes them unique, isn’t it?
rapidEgg
(rapidEgg)
#4
It’s all about making them easy to identify at both close range and far away.
cosmopolitanSponge
(cosmopolitanSponge)
#5
Funny enough the game is called dirty bomb but there is no ‘dirt’ on anyone 
but yea when you think of Brink, you can barely tell who is who and what class is what, it was all gritty and slow and just all over the place, while this game is all over the place, but cleaner
Reddeadcap
(Reddeadcap)
#6
Funnily enough, He actually mentions that in a taunt.
It’s pretty obvious, Assaults all wear large, funny backpacks some way or another, all merc are meant to be easy to identify, most medics have a lot of white, recons “look sneaky” like catsuit wearing spies, and field ops all have a lot of bullets hanging off of them, as for engineers they all are meant to be seen as mechanics or engineers of somekind.
cosmopolitanSponge
(cosmopolitanSponge)
#7
recons “look sneaky” like catsuit wearing spies, and field ops all have a lot of bullets hanging off of them, as for engineers they all are meant to be seen as mechanics or engineers of somekind.[/quote]
meanwhile aura and proxy, they aren’t exactly ‘recons’ but they do act very fast (according to their personality and shotties) but I haven’t seen what the other ‘recons’ do since I haven’t tried out the other test 
Reddeadcap
(Reddeadcap)
#8
recons “look sneaky” like catsuit wearing spies, and field ops all have a lot of bullets hanging off of them, as for engineers they all are meant to be seen as mechanics or engineers of somekind.[/quote]
meanwhile aura and proxy, they aren’t exactly ‘recons’ but they do act very fast (according to their personality and shotties) but I haven’t seen what the other ‘recons’ do since I haven’t tried out the other test
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Proxy, compared to other Engineers wears the least armor, shes dressed more like a sprinter with a small toolbelt, that along with all her melee responses, along with her melee weapon
by default is the cricket bat suggests she must have been an athelete or is on her free time, All medics are dressed really lightly, with the only most combat oriented medic, Sawbonez wears more “on the go” gear, compared to the others who look like they want to keep their gear sterile.
As for the other recons Phantom is dressed like a cross between a hightech ninja and a samurai, with big ballistic armor plates covering most of him, along with wearing a ballistic mask, considering the way he talks, as far as I remember is very “Haha, I’m a badass cause I have this sword” similar to how Vasili speaks in some lines like a FPS player who left home not to hear his parents complain that playing games wont get him anywhere, He has a katana, which as far as I remembered was both his primary and melee weapon and a silenced pistol and had the ability to turn invisible.
Red-Eye is almost like an english Solid Snake/Old Snake Analogue with a infrared monocle, He has a bunch of really high tech gear hanging from his back, like a large container for his smoke grenades but also wears a beret in a fight, he throws smoke grenades and uses his monocle to see through the smoke, tagging enemies for his teammates who cant see through the smoke either.
Aimee As far as I remember is dressed in a catsuit, not an exageratedly tight one but a catsuit and and a bandana with her symbol on the forehead, like a third eye, she has another way to detect enemies similar to Vasili but I’ve never used her, her default rifle is the semiautomatic one.
irishrOy
(irishrOy)
#9
[quote=“Redcap;6581”]
Proxy, compared to other Engineers wears the least armor,[/quote]
I wouldn’t say so 100% 
Fletcher hasn’t a lot of armor either. He has a utility-vest and an orange tank-top.