New Head/Frame

[Marquiss]

Everytime I visit Japan and see the cherry blossoms, I think of new life, hope, and the future of PUP. I hope that one day we can at least have an AOE attack to help maintain control of enmity of large groups of monsters similar to a beastmasters "snarl", and that we can have an update to the number of automaton attachments we can add to the currently existing limit of 12.

[xiozen]

Thanks for the looking into it Sicycre.

[nyheen]

iam guessing a support frame, maybe some geo/cor/brd. wonder what else we getting. we already got a tank pet (mp,cure would be sweet but k) whm, blm, rdm(make him cast refresh on others and more debuffs would be nice), blm, rng. so it a high chance if they giving us another frame, it would be a geo/cor or they may throw a nin and a run at us.

[Siviard]

RDM head + RNG body = Corsair Automaton! I mean, both those frames currently exist in the game, all the Dev. Team would need to do is add some sort of Corsair type AI to the Automaton and possibly make a way to let Maneuvers determine what rolls are used.

Well, one can dream. I wonder how well a COR puppet would work?

[Urmom]

Well, one can dream. I wonder how well a COR puppet would work?

It would probably have a crazy AI that would double up on a 9 without snake eye but not double up on a 7 because it "likes to take risks"

[Siviard]

It would probably have a crazy AI that would double up on a 9 without snake eye but not double up on a 7 because it "likes to take risks"

But 7 is a lucky number tho!

[Nyarlko]

We're not talking about only adding a few numbers to assign new spells/abilities, there would be new graphical assets required for new heads/frames which is the primary reasoning behind not implementing. This is the overarching stance that the dev team has taken. It's not just PUP that isn't getting new stuff, it's everyone and everything. ><;; Since RoV was completed and the current dev team took over, how many graphical assets have been added to the game? All that I can think of would be the 3x cosmetic weapons from the Master Trials. They've already explained before how there is a dire shortage of devkits remaining alive at this point and that adding new assets is not something that can be easily done anymore.

Since all that we can expect are reskins / palette swaps of existing models, would you be OK with a recolored model for new parts? Would you complain that they don't look different enough? How about the PUP community in general? Does anyone have any objections to recoloring existing models in order to get your hands on new heads/frames? Genuinely asking since I would like to know. ^^;;
If there was a concerted effort from the community to make it clear to the devs that reskins/swaps of existing models would be acceptable, then it might have a chance of actually happening. What they understand is that we want something they can't give us. And "can't" is quite applicable here since they "can not" work outside of the limitations of the PS2 framework.

[Selindrile]

There are many, many, community created models, animations, and skins that were created without the use of the PS2 devkits that work just fine when swapped into the game, I'm no expert, but is it not possible for the dev team to use similar alternative tools now that console compatibility is no longer an issue?

[Jakuk]

There are many, many, community created models, animations, and skins that were created without the use of the PS2 devkits that work just fine when swapped into the game, I'm no expert, but is it not possible for the dev team to use similar alternative tools now that console compatibility is no longer an issue?

It's more whether it's worth the time and money to do so.

[Selindrile]

It's more whether it's worth the time and money to do so.

That's not what they're saying though. >.>, if it's in part due to the idea that they'd have to create new tools, I'm saying they're already out there, if it's the actual manpower of creating the models/animations, well perhaps that's something that can be discussed with the community about what they'd rather have with the limited dev time we have available. Either way, I think we should have an honest discussion about it.

Also, I'm absolutely SURE the community would be happy to submit user-created models, animations, and skins, which would save dev time and they could simply handle the side of things they're already handling now, that's how a few games create content, Trove comes to mind.