Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Evergrey]

I'd laugh if I saw a bunch of Lupins doing this with a Magitek Armor.

I never thought about that, and you're right, I would laugh aswell.

[Cidel]

Believe me when I say I'd rather see this race, or anything else over Viera; but from a design perspective, I'd fully understand why the devs wouldn't/couldn't upgrade them to playable. And no, I'm not talking about their legs; the Lupin NPCs I've seen so far have very "normal" looking legs (and a cat-boy/Au'ra run), albeit armored-covered.

For one, from what I can tell so far, they all pretty much have the same face. And not just face, like same model, clothes (there are exceptions), eyes, etc. The kind of thing you see on most beast tribes save for special NPCs. Which leads me to believe that the devs really have no intention of giving them to players to customize if none of them is set apart from the rest so far.

Which leads me to my 2nd issue: I don't think they'd customize well. I mean I could be proved wrong, but clearly this race wouldn't have as much customization options as the current ones. Well, I suppose they could, but I don't know how much out of their way the devs would go for a single race. I do fear if they gave color options for their fur like current races' hair, there'd be a rainbow of wolves running around...


tldr: while I wouldn't mind, I don't find it remotely likely or plausible.

[Pent]

I would prefer Lupin over any other race. Seems like they have the core stuff in place. Maybe it's plausible?

[Warlyx]

who cares about lupin we we can have the real new cool race

[Shougun]

Said it in another thread but I could see them adding Majora Mask sort of deal to the game, this could allow them to create lore friendly "beast races" for players AND get around gear clipping issues.

For example "but we have to redo shoes and helmets" becomes doesn't matter, because you're glamouring the equipment on lol. Also could mean they bring some of the Au Ra's more wild concept art images.

Could get a lot of options from this with comparatively less work than doing a race (since the lore is just in talking something about the masks, and then adding whatever you wanted).

[GrizzlyTank]

life size minion would sufice.

[Brightshadow]

I wouldn't mind a wolf type race but the lupin looks like they took a dog head and put it on a human body I don't like it. But if they redesign it to something like this I'll be all over it.

[Rysir]

I wouldn't mind a wolf type race but the lupin looks like they took a dog head and put it on a human body I don't like it. But if they redesign it to something like this I'll be all over it.

If they looked like that then they would have no chance at all of having potential to be a player race. Also that looks ugly.

[RyuDragnier]

You aren't getting anything that's not in some way a humanoid character. They aren't going to make new helmet designs or boot designs or gloves to fit around the model of a unique race.

They have normal legs, feet, and hands. Literally the only thing that would need to be deal with is the head. As people have pointed out, there are ways around it.

[Clethoria]

Nah.

Beastmen are shunned regardless of their intelligence, unless we got c@'s 2.0, they would get chased out of Ul'dah in a second. I could honestly only see them being locked to start in Limsa.

Also, consider the player base. Square would have nothing to gain from making another race for people to barely play.