Just in case you were still not sure with how much love and care the premium cosmetics are made, it appears for this one someone copypasted a russian coat of arms off google and ran it through some filters. I guess whoever this was outsourced to did not realize that there could be plenty of 40k references to copy an Aquila from, if he was really this averse to making something original.
The backpack:
The exact image the artist copypasted (the Russian Coat of Arms) off google:
I hope FS reconsiders how they do cosmetics from the ground up
sighs
adds it to the book as further evidence of Fatshark’s outsourced cosmetics team being lazy
I would pay untold amounts of money for this.
(don’t believe me, I’m lying)
i mean they mostly don’t do them, they hired a chinese studio to handle the cosmetics.
Finally, Vostroyan cosmetics.
С нами Император.
“Redistribution of wealth, comrades!”
And most people will never see this forum post, and are all too happy paying for this trash. What incentive does FS have for changing anything? What are we, like 100 active posters and readers on this forum? Does this have any chance of dipping noticeably into their cosmetics profits? I doubt it.
The complaint has been filed, they will deposit fat logs of unspeakable brown material on it. Then they will get AI to do more shirty skins for them. It demands less pay that the chinese.
Not really seeing it. The headpart is definitely different. A lot of coat of arms used to look similiar, so having it look similiar shouldn’t be unexpected.
They could have easily pasted a 40k symbol on there, though. So I give you that.
Who knew outsourcing salable cosmetics to sweat-shop studios, in single-party police states on the other side of the planet that are actively supporting a fascist neighbor in a war of aggression, would result in questionable elements being included? 
Like, I get that a huge amount of the 40k universe is commentary on fascism, but having the literal Russian Federation coat of arms on fantasy cosmetics is a wee bit too far.
@FatsharkStrawHat I know FS is typically pretty loathe to change anything with cosmetics unless its clipping or hair/voice related, even when they’re really badly executed, but this is probably needs to be addressed.
Looking at it in-game, they the heads on the backpack are identical to the Russian emblem, as is the rider on horse in the center. I can’t get a good screenshot because HDR is causing the Snip tool to bloom out the detail, but they’re absolutely the same thing.
Alright, if you say that I believe you. I haven’t looked at it in detail ingame yet. Was just going by the lowres picture here.
It’s definitely 1:1 the same, other than the filter put over it. I don’t understand how you could disagree. Circle the differences and show them side by side, I really don’t see it.
Like don’t get me wrong but you’re suggesting that the rider, the dead dragon, the staff, the 3 hats, the holy hand grenade or whatever that thing is actually called are all just by coincidence aligned 1:1 with the reference image? I dunno how to get a higher res image cause I can’t zoom in ingame but if you go ingame and look close you’ll probably see it.
I saw this posted over on Reddit - people don’t care. Most of the replies were - okay so what?
Fun fact: I personally know a Russian guy who worked as a freelance artist for Darktide cosmetics. He told me that they have made so much copy-paste low effort kitbashes and reskins for the premium shop, it will be enough “for years to come”.
As for the Russian Heraldy – it is most likely low effort copy-paste, rather than an “easter egg” of some sort. I may ask him about this tho lol
In fairness, Reddit’s also just a terrible place in general, both for gaming hobbies and the presence of FasciFanbois. There’s a reason the warhammer/40k stuff is so fragmented across dozens of myriad subreddits, and that’s because the subsquatting mod crew on the original “warhammer” subreddit were the types that would tell teenagers to kill themselves when posting their first paintjobs because it was “low effort posting”, harass/stalk users they didn’t like across multiple subreddits, wouldn’t link or allow links to other related subreddits without banning people, and it fractured that community hard. That platform almost single-handedly killed my interest in the hobby for years.
Whoever is engaging with a store this bad in the first place deserves exactly what they are offered.
I strongly agree.
Unrelated, but… The Witcher subreddit’s definitely in an echo chamber phase right now following the reveal of Witcher 4. I said that Ciri being the protagonist of Witcher 4’s “a bit banal” and the downvotes are already rolling in.
The “father passes the torch to daughter/son” trope’s REALLY overdone in media at this point and while it’s definitely a safe and respectable option that I’m on board with… what about a Witcher game set somewhere in the 1600s-1700s Western Continent (Witcher universe’s analogue to Colonial America) with muskets that fire silver balls for monsters and steel balls for everything else?
And I’m already being downvoted for wanting something unique? Something different? Something that’s maybe a little bit risky? Reddit’s a laughing stock. Downvotes are a horrible system of interaction, apologies about my weird tangent.
I’m starting to get the feeling the Chinese sweatshop workers who make the cosmetics
Don’t know what warhammer 40k is
I’ll be honest I would have preferred if they just did it like cyberpunk and allowed you to actually create a class.
Having ciri be the protagonist looks like they had to nerf her into being a standard Witcher with one unique thing of drawing magical power from elements to do with her elder blood. I don’t see it as any of the bitching a moaning about muh woke I think it’s simply Witcher 3 has an ending where she’s set up to be the next game’s protagonist and since the franchise is called the Witcher they had her be a standard Witcher.
Rather than the dimensional jumping killing machine that we see in Witcher 3.
Hopefully the explanations for her going though the trial of grasses and learning signs are actually good the previous games respected the books pretty well hopefully they continue that.
Yeah, I was thinking something like this! Maybe even letting me RP as a human Witch Hunter so that I can do my sworn duty of oppressing Elves and such.
100%. I think that Ciri looks perfectly fine in the reveal trailer and, in fact, her looks never even crossed my mind while I was watching it. People are stretching that nonsense so far for literally no reason.
It’s Ciri, she kinda just does what she wants whether Geralt objects or not 
