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tyler002tyler002 Member Posts: 1,586 Arc User
edited April 2014 in The Academy
A couple of questions about EV suits:
  1. Why don't NPCs use the faction-specific ones instead of the generic ones?
  2. Can we have transparent visors like the NPCs?
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  • altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    1. Not sure, probably a technical issue.
    2. Customizable headsizes and clipping issues. You can kinda see this already in the Romulan Reputation cutscenes when their heads clip through the EV suits while they are talking. So instead, they make it reflective.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,557 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Some of the npcs use the faction-specific ones. Especially, the contacts at the Nukara Base.
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    tyler002 wrote: »
    A couple of questions about EV suits:
    1. Why don't NPCs use the faction-specific ones instead of the generic ones?
    2. Can we have transparent visors like the NPCs?

    1.) That'd be more work for Cryptic. So...
    2.) No. Not unless player head sizes are normalized or Cryptic makes changes (See #1) :D

    Though I do enjoy the tiny toons I see around wearing Omega armor and 'bobble-head' helmets.:D
  • maskedmarvel1maskedmarvel1 Member Posts: 119 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Whats the story on the EV suits in the dilithium store , at 350k dil each ive never dared to buy one to see what makes them so special
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Whats the story on the EV suits in the dilithium store , at 350k dil each ive never dared to buy one to see what makes them so special

    There's really no need when you can run through "a step between stars" and get the free solanee suits.
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  • exa12exa12 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Whats the story on the EV suits in the dilithium store , at 350k dil each ive never dared to buy one to see what makes them so special

    they come in fancy colours, thats it, same stats as the free one from the 2800

    they were a cosmetic option when the only EVA you could do was Boldly They Rode and Vulgata


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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    talonxv wrote: »
    There's really no need when you can run through "a step between stars" and get the free solanee suits.

    It would be nice if Cryptic fixed the EV suit issue for the KDF faction.

    When I put on the Solanae EV suit just the helmet and flashlight appears. The upper body still wears the KDF uniform and the legs disappears.
  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    tyler002 wrote: »
    Can we have transparent visors like the NPCs?

    Currently, the EV suits replace your character's head completely (as I understand it).

    So if the visor were transparent, you'd just be looking into the howling abyss. :D

    The EV suits from the FE would be a special case, with special character models to accomodate the "transparent" visors (and, as noted, the heads clip through the helmets).
    You're right. The work here is very important.
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