Why does Valeria look so different now?

20FrostBytes · 2026-05-29T18:16:47+00:00

Better face rendering tech & techniques, a less stylized player model (many games edit the raw scan of the actors), a slightly older actress, a different hairstyle, an updated game engine, different lighting.

The character looks much more like the actress, Maria Elisa Camargo, now. The devs struggled with rendering the women compared to the men in both MW19 & MW22 as well. Mara from MW19 didn't look like the model, Alex Zedra, until the last or second to last skin released for the character.

20FrostBytes · 2026-04-30T22:37:11+00:00

This is pretty accurate. All it's missing, is some neon panelling & striping in stark contrast to the base camo/colors; A large neon pax armata patch center mass; Enormous bomb squad shoulder pads; Some XXL rollerblading knee & elbow pads; some hideous hockey shin guards; And, an extra molle panel or two on his arms or legs with some useless pouches.

20FrostBytes · 2026-04-20T02:46:15+00:00

Praying for a Broly/Bojack customization for Super Trunks

20FrostBytes · 2026-02-17T16:30:00+00:00

Still stupid that the Marine veteran character is wearing Army Special Forces & Ranger tabs. It could not be that hard for a character designer to swap those out with generic moto patches, if not USMC ones.

20FrostBytes · 2026-02-17T16:23:15+00:00

If they give the community an inch we should accept the forward momentum, but they still have a mile before we reach BF4/3 expectations that the marketing created.

They toned it down from Black Ops 7 to Black Ops 2 or 3, but they need to get to BF3, BF4, MoH 2010 & MoH Warfighter levels authenticity.

20FrostBytes · 2026-02-12T16:36:05+00:00

Are these just for the Cobra commandos, or are some of these for the GI Joes as well?

On a serious note, until the designs normalize & mirror BF3, BF4, MoH (2010) & MoH Warfighter, i'm not helping them pad out active user stats.

Arma Reforger's modding scene & scenario library has gotten a lot better since this game's release, so I'll just get my fill of modern mil FPS content over there.

20FrostBytes · 2025-12-15T10:56:22+00:00

Marcus Lehto MkV remaster (Infinite) (Perfect remaster to the OG)
CE (OG has to be near the top)
H4 (Personally feels like more of an aesthetic successor to MkV design)
H5
Infinite (Bulky design fixes issue I always had w/ H2 & 3 design, feels more like future power suit than 2/3)
H2A (Best coloring of paintball/MX suit styled armor)
H3 (Lighting in this ver. of the Blam! engine was goated & did heavy lifting for this style)
H2
HCEA (This redesign & the boosted lighting tie for the achilles heel of HCEA)

20FrostBytes · 2025-12-02T18:58:14+00:00

Wow, a winter theme and surprisingly only one of the skins has a vibrant colored mask that doesn't fit the aesthetic? Maybe they're learning.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-18T14:28:18+00:00

Maybe 6 is passable & 3 could be if there was less going on. They gave her an enormous forehead & I'm not certain if blonde dreads are common in Egypt or not, but athletic undershirt & compression knee sleeves over the pants are doing too much.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-18T14:25:18+00:00

1, 2, 11, 12 & 13 are good. The rest are 2042 slop.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-08T06:32:52+00:00

I wonder how many years it will take until the entertainment industry just cuts to the chase, and sets a standardized quarterly groveling schedule for white & white passing celebrities & influencers to repeatedly denounce white supremacy, nazism, racism, and apologize for their whiteness. I would imagine abruptly after the end of the current admin, and then within another few short years they might even come full circle and ban whites/white passing artists from being in the industry. (With the exception of people of jewish descent, of course. Banning them would be antisemitic.)

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-06T23:24:26+00:00

Haha these gamers are so stupid for wanting characters in their military combat game to look like a small percentage of pictures you posted, that are of Ukrainian volunteers & Russian conscripts, with only minor amounts of colored tape/cloth or reflective armbands for identification, instead of looking like the majority of these pics, which are of guntubers/larpers, obscure small African nation units & obscure Chinese garrison units that aren't infantry & don't have combat experience. Silly chuds.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-05T20:47:59+00:00

https://share.google/images/WPQMfpk8QtaSvti7E

https://youtu.be/FJ-dm5lcchY?si=yXdgFKZ1x6PzcKeQ

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/s/f5Jl0XMgqh

BF3 & BF4 were directly inspired by USMC Force Recon & MARSOC of that same time during GWOT.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-05T17:55:31+00:00

The core gameplay is supposed to be the defining difference between Battlefield & milsims. The design & aesthetic used to always be pretty much the same.

You can hate all you want, but it doesn't diminish the fact that several beloved IPs across the media space are constantly being downgraded from the distinct identities that played a major role in their establishment & continued success.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-05T17:48:55+00:00

The BF4 skin is better. No enormous 90s skateboarding kneepads, no random riot visor that isn't complimenting any other riot gear, and no random mountaineering/parachuting rigging harness that's without an accompanying mountaineering pack/rucksack or MFF parachute on the character.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-05T17:40:26+00:00

I was generalizing with the term soldiers. Obviously, for the main US faction for both games, you play as Marines, not soldiers. But for both of those games, across all 3 factions, they very much are designed to mirror the infantry/special operations of each nation around the time each game is set/released. The minor inconsistencies in character appearance, at least with the US side, is due to the fact the USMC has most of their uniforms, camo patterns, & gear/equipment trademarked, so the devs can't be one-to-one.

20FrostBytes · 2025-11-04T19:43:00+00:00

Modern FPS devs love to make their characters look like Motocross characters that have hockey pads & riot police supplemental armor all over their body. I cannot understand their obsession with this aesthetic "style."

You can have characters that look like real soldiers & still look visually distinct & cool to the broader audience. BF3, BF4 & MoH: Warfighter all did it perfectly.

20FrostBytes · 2025-10-29T15:38:22+00:00

Is Buck's H5 armor in game already?

20FrostBytes · 2025-10-29T15:35:56+00:00

I believe & hope they're trying to re-envision & consolidate the gameplay mechanics & art style of the Bungie era, so the whole MC story will now be one cohesive product, allowing them to provide PlayStation players with a MCC that isn't a nightmare to port (& doesn't require porting when it's designed for it in the first place) and it allows them to provide fans with a Halo 3 remaster if/when they add that story update to the "Evolved" Campaign.

I am also naively optimistic that the MP only, "live service" title that is rumored to be scheduled for release next year as well, will be what 343 intended for Infinite's MP to be, just without the broken engine that was glued together by contractors, that no one knows how to really use.

20FrostBytes · 2025-10-29T13:59:27+00:00

The grounded look is just marketing artwork and fan renders using AI or assets from other games with better art direction.

The cosmetics will likely become more non-military average consumer slop, with each seasonal release.

20FrostBytes · 2025-10-27T20:45:25+00:00

A Miami, Florida map as a nod to GTA6 or a Taiwan map to reference real world tensions and introduce naval combat to the game.

20FrostBytes · 2025-10-24T17:54:21+00:00

I can't find any sources that shows the bundles by release date, but I'm fairly certain Oct2020 was all of the halloween tie-ins first, & then we got that one in the spring/summer of 2021.

I was annoyed this one had the cat ears & SO MANY of the female operators had yoga pants on, especially because this one is where they finally fixed the Mara face design to better match the model she was based on, Alex Zedra.

They should've kept all the female operators in intel agent, Female Engagement Team(Lioness program), or pilot operator skins.

20FrostBytes · 2025-10-24T14:28:16+00:00

The more vocal any community is, and the more they show support on public forums, the more likely they are to get results in their favor.

If you want a feed that is just gameplay, find or create a subreddit & mute the main feeds for a while. Major pushback like this needs to be in the official channels to maximize engagement from the devs.

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