Visor has been removed from free vet cosmetic, is now a paid cosmetic

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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So a while ago they enhanced this free vet cosmetic on the commissary with a cool visor:

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I was happy and thought “cool, they’re finally updating the commissary” and enjoyed the way it actually makes my Vet look like a guardsman. Was pleasantly surprised that they did something like this. These are the sort of things that people have been wanting to be added to the commissary.

Today I logged in and the helmet now looks like this again:

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Where did my visor go, I wonder? Is it a bug? Did they accidentally take it out again?
Investigation reveals it was probably not an accident:

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That nice little free visor on the commissary helmet is now a paid cosmetic it seems.

I just wanted to tell people who may have missed this about it and express my disappointment. Not only did I get baited and thought they did a nice thing for the commissary, they also turned this commissary-appropriate minor edit of a free cosmetic into a paid one, doubling down by making it a really low effort paid cosmetic, like the Arbites helmet with the visor up.

I am aware, in retrospect, that they may have added the visor to the free store by mistake. It could’ve been a happy little mistake though, and it happened to align exactly with what a lot of people wanted out of the commissary (free small edits) and what people dislike about the paid shop (low effort edits of existing cosmetics)

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Worse is that the red visor is now also gone for good. :enraged_face:

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Wrong.

Here’s the most likely thing that happened:

  • Copy mesh of the comissary helmet in order to create the ‘premium’ version of it
  • forget to rename the export into something else
  • it gets bundled into the new files to be patched in
  • overwrites the original comissary helmet
  • FS fails to notice due to QA not existing
  • Weeks pass
  • They remedy their error just before the new slop is supposed to drop
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Am fully aware and mentioned this, I’m simply reciting the sequence of events the way they played out at the time.

It’s one of those things where they made a good move on accident and decided to correct that.

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and here it is to no one’s surprise. Though anyone who was around for shirtless knows nothing cool and free is intentional to fat shark.

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Inventing bold new ways to fumble your in game store. Good to see they can be market leaders in something.

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Scamshark

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Yet people cry WHEN ARBITES COSMETICS. Some people are unable to learn.

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You’d have thought the visor clipping through the top of the Helmet would be sufficient clue that it wasn’t an intentional change.

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It’s honestly hard to tell with Fatshark.

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Not sure I’d take clipping to mean that when many even paid cosmetics have some sort of self-clipping issue.
I get it though, it’s always really obvious (in hindsight) and everyone smart knew the moment it was added but chose not to speak up.