Heres an author explaining why and how as well. This topic is anninteresting rabbit hole. On one hand you have performative western media where game studios intentionally make women look butt ugly when they used to just use them primarily as eye candy. Somewhere inbetween is a more authentic character design.
at one point “sex” is such a common, menial thing that you don’t want to deal with anything less than “pleasant to look at” if you’re already bored banging it.
after all the “loadout” is always the same, such is the result
as eye candy in a beautiful environment of vicious slaughter and grim dark gore that is 40k, its nice to look at before it gets torn into shreds by a tyranid horde or a whatever chaos flavor of the month is currently trying to erase mankind
after that, only a heap of red mush remains anyways.
well at least tyranids use the bio mass
so hooray for renewable energy?
I think I’ll dip before this topic gets locked again. Fatshark has already made their position clear. I’ve made mine. Not everything is made to cater to our desires, nor should it be.
after some thoughts on bigger boobs and asses, i’ll refer to my previous post here and say that this issue is likely at the lowest end of fatshark’s to do list, if at all. understandably so, considering the number of existing issues, additions to be made, like missions, weapon balancing etc that actually impact gameplay.
imo the only way to make this economically viable would be to sell separate skins for male and female models, that is twice the expenses except for ogryns, and another outcry of “how dare they”.
a minimalist solution would be to have just separate upper bodies, because butt and legs don’t look that different in baggy pants or rags (especially on zealots)
so what can be done then? i haven’t found any mod that uses 3rd party graphics, like replacing models client-side, so at least players using such mod can see other players as they like. seems there are bigger technical hurdles, perhaps involving more server-side shenanigans that fatshark won’t allow, and they also might not like that players using 3rd party models won’t be interested in buying cosmetics that don’t fit.
also, the player models and animations themselves are quite high quality, no matter how attractive, so replacement models would need to be at least as good.
given how long any change takes, we can expect at most a couple faces and wigs. hopefully some healthy looking guys and gals, and also more normal looking hair styles. maybe also separate eyebrows from beards. and we would all like to paint our stuff, but then see all the recolor collections at the vestures.