Pistoleer Archive
Thread: How could dev's miss this?
Something was bothering me the other day as I walked into the cantina after a hard day of vaping small furry animals and whatever else struck my fancy, I couldnt quite put my finger on it and looking at everyone around me I realized what it was. All these blasters out and at the ready in peoples hands, we dont have any holsters to put them in! In my opinion we're missing out on some major cool points here, wearing your blaster on your hip is part of the atmosphere of SW itself. How can you not have holsters for you blasters! Am I crazy in this or do other people agree with me?
I completely agree. We already have belts, so adding holsters shouldn't be that much harder. Even if they had to make them look like they already have a pistol in them (i.e. it wouldn't look like your pistol in the holster), they would still be cool to have. There could be several different types, like the low-hanging ones Han Solo uses or hip holsters, like the ones Imperial officers use. I hope the devsadd this in the near future, but they probably won't.
Another thing I'd like to see, personally, is eye-patches. I know it's the future and they have cybernetic implants, but an eye-patch would be another cool little flourish we could add to our characters to make them look more distinct. I suppose it could be made as a type of 'hat'.
Anyways, my two creds worth.
Slim Vargo, Mos Eisley, Corbantis
I made a proposal about this awhile back. In fact, in beta, until the very end, if you unequiped your weapon you would do a holstering animation then the weapon would poof at your side. This was removed near the end and my guess is because the same animation was also used for carbines and rifles so it looked rediculous for them, and given the time constraints, it made more sense to just take it out for the time being and reimplement it later.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if you see something along the holstering idea making it back in...be it actual holsters, or at least looking like you are holstering when you unequip your gun.
/agree
What's particularly disturbing is foraging with a pistol equipped. I was horrified to be using such an expensive FWG5 to turn over rocks looking for grubs.
dispro wrote:/hood
Oh wait, this is SWG.
Oh man. that cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh
Never did think about that before now, but good idea!
PS - Lol on the /hood
I also noticed the lack of holsters. This was very conspicuous since I just spent a year and a half playing DarK Age of Camelot where you always sheath a readied weapon (at your side or on your back) and it appears in your hand only when you start combat.
I hope they add that...seeing all these people with their weapons out when they're just standing around kinda throws me.
Kidding, holsters would be great!
The original (pre-beta) movies of SWG as well as the screenshots showed pistol holsters on the characters, as well as pistols in them when the person was not in combat.
I remember a bothan that was wearing a pistol belt with 2 holsters as well... so who knows if those were really screenshots or just faked graphics to hype the game.