Originally Posted by
BiTzSam
Gun skins didn't even exist when I was originally hired, if I was never given the position there is a very high chance you wouldn't have gun skins in the first place. As I have also previously stated, things such as gun skins are all additional things that if are added it is because I went out of my way. The gun admin position to all before me required only to make up stats and balance guns, nothing more.
The reason why other people don't do the skins is because for starters, the graphic themselves isn't the issue, it's the animating and editing the guns scripts to allow for skins, and then adding them to the levels. Things that players can't do, and because I don't want it to be a staff priority when again, nobody will ever be satisfied with the skins they have (again using the same example where bar/m4 both have the most skins in the game, yet people still ask for more).
The reason why I don't accept player skins is because most of them are just basic recolours or minor edits, and the rest to be honest, just aren't good enough to be used in game- which would ruin what I have been going for where the majority of guns all have similar styles to create unity. Just look at ol west/ zone, most of their guns are made by different people and it just looks like an ugly mess.
Don't think that means player made content will never be added, if I see something I think is a very good concept or is a good design (that is made originally and not just from an edit of one of my previous guns) then I may add it. One example of a gun that a player made and had added was the fmg9 by ghost/#5. The original graphic wasn't even properly shaded but the shape of the gun/the case flip views were good enough that I edited it and added it to the game for them.
Also the "lazy" comment is just funny to me. Using what I said earlier about anything i've done other than just scripting and balancing (graphics, ganis, skins, more attachments, different types of guns- snipers-lmgs) wouldn't be in the game if I was "lazy".
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For starters, the vector only has 3-6 gani files so 4-5 skins could be made in the time it took for 1 m4a3 skins. Also I wasn't even the one who did those vector skins
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I don't block people, but yea ak74u already has a light so it won't get a suitcase
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Just to reiterate, "gun contests" are not something that I have to host. It was something I decided to do because I wanted to give some players a chance, name 1 gun related contest that happened when I wasn't in this position.
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An additional reason why m4a3 isn't getting another skin is because whenever gun skins are added, especially to exclusive guns there is a butterfly effect. If m4a3 was given another skin, p2k users would go "m4a3 got a new skin, why can't p2k" same for psg, vector owners will probably complain etc. It's what happens everytime, and the main reason why only 200k guns that are store guns get the gold camo, because it is more fair if they get it for being the most expensive, instead of adding it to shipka or m4. Because then people would say "why does m4 get a gold skin but not my aa12 etc etc"