The MCH Box that never changes

[Raylazer11]

Does anyone else think that SE should somehow change the box on the MCH hip? Like The weapons look awesome but the stupid box on every MCH's hip is a eye sore. I kinda wish they would change with the weapon itself. It doesn't have to be a huge change or super extravagant box or whatever. Just a nice subtle change would be 100% welcome.

[Grimoire-M]

Yes. And while we're at it add books that don't have ridiculous covers/fold out bookmarks/pens in them.

[Shiroe]

the thing on the hip is easy to animate / skin, since it probably just uses the sch/smn book animations , when those are sheathed..

SE could maybe use the Ast and Pld animation (golbe or shield on the back), if they tried to turn the "hip" box into a "backpack" box...

I probably prefer a backpack over the hip box for Mch.., and when using the flamethrower (!) with a backoack, it could really look cool..

(and like mentioned, the animation change could be done easily thanx to the already existing Ast and Pld globe and shield skins / animations)

[MicahZerrshia]

I wish they would get rid of the box and just let us dual wield guns. Having the box made sense for what Yoshida said they originally wanted to do with a variety of barrels and turrets. But it is just out of place for a simple gun class.

I assume it was something more like engineer from gw2 they were going for and when they couldn't make it work so they just reduced it to its bare minimum but didn't have time to replace all the animations or assets already created.

Shame too, something like gw2's engineer would make the job x10 more fun to play

[Shiroe]

guess SE likes to highlight the hips of players (so sexy.. or something)

still think a packpack would be cooler than just getting rid of it completely

[TheMightyMollusk]

If the aetherotransformer at least matched the gun, I wouldn't mind, but as is, it feels like an afterthought. Wish we could just hide it.

[Velhart]

They can make time for unique sheaths for each katana, but can't make unique lunch boxes and Gauss Barrels for MCH. I even remember they had concept art of different attachments for the weapons.

Might be little too late at this point since it would likely take a lot of resources to greatly alter it. The least they could do however is let us hide some of these things and not just client side.

[Kurando]

It's seems to have been a HW thing doesn't it. I mean AST has the clip-on pouch containing cards... which I never really understood because I thought the cards were taken from the rotating Astrometer. As for MCH, I imagine it contains turrets but even those seem to magically appear when you throw them.

Having secondary arms may not be the best idea, but maybe allowing the MCH to have a 2nd arm could allow you to customise it more and possibly even give it the ol' PLD Spirit Shield treatment and hide it.

[Raldo]

They can make time for unique sheaths for each katana, but can't make unique lunch boxes and Gauss Barrels for MCH.

I'd much rather see different gauss barrels before different hip-boxes, but both/either would be nice.

[Canadane]

It would be lovely to have a matching set.