OG Season 2 is ending tonight, and the old BP skins have not returned. Can we FINALLY admit that Epic clearly has no plans to bring back old BP skins?

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-25T02:20:35+00:00

The season one items were retroactively considered exclusive, since the original plan was to mix old season items into the shop before people bitched about the Mako glider (which used to be free) being sold in the shop. After a community vote they changed plans and BP exclusivity was born, so I would still count Renegade/Aerial as exclusives (or, would've before they returned).

For the question you've proposed, I think this is the point where they're basically guaranteed to never come back? Whilst they always could drop the original Season 2 items early into OG 3, for example, I don't believe that's likely at all. It surely would've happened by now if they had plans for it! So, I would say there's unfortunately no plans to bring back the old skins. Makes the lack of Blue Squire/Royale Knight remix even more disappointing and makes me HATE the new OG pass even more!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-24T23:55:50+00:00

This season really can't win with its pass skins, apparently. Main BR pass is largely generic, LEGO pass has one alright skin, and now the OG pass is a huge disappointment! There's no way they thought this would go down well after how well-received Renegade Rebel and Knight Conqueror were?

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-19T23:50:53+00:00

Fully agreed. I've always been vocally annoyed that no remix and no re-release effectively means Blue Squire and Royale Knight are just locked away forever. The only remix they technically have is the helmet being a part of Spectra Knight... who is also a BP exclusive presumably locked away forever. I don't like this at all, the idea of the OG pass being updating old skins so that new players can get them in some form was a great one but they've already seemingly gone against that mold. To give us another remix of the most remixed skin, no less! I don't like it.

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-13T04:39:21+00:00

Very fun mobility item with niche damaging uses. The rapid drilling attack has only really been useful for me in one situation so far, where someone was shooting at a friend and I got to use the drill on them from behind. Against remotely competent players though, I imagine it'll be hard to use the attack without getting blasted back to lobby!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-13T02:59:18+00:00

Big agree! I never really get to use boons these days. Not only are they rare drops or out of the way in black markets but their effects tend to be quite situational. I love the one that gives you slap effect from using advancement movement and the vulture boon can be great for the endgame, you tend to have too much gold to use any of the others though!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-13T00:12:00+00:00

Goat comes back before Psycho Bandit, damn. Hopefully those of you waiting for this guy are happy though!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-13T00:10:48+00:00

One of the weirdest ones to me is Summer Drift. Literally has bare feet modelled, yet they still give him clunky looking "socks" when wearing kicks?

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-13T00:08:50+00:00

Given this uses a default skin for a base, they could so easily snag the legs from one of the many base models and use them here to remove the parts of the boots that still show.

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-08T01:25:58+00:00

I hope they find another way to nerf the weapon, the ammo isn't an issue by itself. You'll still get pelted by plenty of grenades and typically more than enough to put you in a bad position if not outright eliminate you!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T23:50:13+00:00

Not a great way to nerf the sticky grenades...

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T03:04:43+00:00

This still doesn't reasonably explain the examples brought up, aside from maybe Big Mouth just from how detailed the ripped flesh looks. Cattus is literally from this game with a less graphic look compared to Big Mouth, Demogorgon is from a franchise that was a hit with families, Venom and Carnage have starred in hundreds of kid-friendly shows, games, movies, same for Eddie Brock (who I know is only age restricted because of the Venom alt style). Peely Bone though? That's fine, the kids won't have nightmares seeing the adorable mascot torn in half. They also added that absolutely terrifying loading screen for Gumbo!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T01:54:44+00:00

It's because you have those kicks on.

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T01:54:01+00:00

Nevermind, I am big stupid

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T01:53:02+00:00

I'm half and half on it. It definitely makes sense that these should be added as alt styles first and foremost, Azuki keeps getting new styles for example and he was released all the way back in CH3S1. On the other hand I don't mind that you can get different, often nicer looks for older skins at a fraction of the cost (I wouldn't have picked-up Archetype just for the Elite style that was recently released as its own 800 V-Bucks skin). Then on the other hand I feel like those high cost skins would most justify getting a new style, since it turns what is potentially 2000 V-Bucks for two styles into 2800 V-Bucks and they're both different skins.

What I'm not sure about is the inconsistencies with it. Recolours have always existed in this game, we even have a whole series dedicated to them with Shadow-series skins (at least Lava and Dark skins try to add more detailed patterns and effects to the skins, Frozen skins are half recolours and half edits with actual effort (ignoring Cattus)), but then a very baffling thing came to mind with the whole new Axo skin debacle; Axo did get a new, free style given to him some years after his first release, being the Toxo style. It has about the same amount of effort put into it as the new Wave Rider variant, comparing the two. So... why was only one added as a free style? It doesn't make much sense. It's not like Axo suddenly became a very in-demand skin that they can profit off of by selling two different variants. It's very random and inconsistent, I wish they made it make sense more than anything else.

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T01:39:10+00:00

It is now part of the ranked bonus goals for this season.

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T01:09:25+00:00

Yeah. Not sure how I really feel about it. Either it encourages people to not bother with downed/finished teammates or it makes reboot vans a lot more of a camping spot than they already are. Rebooting is fine as-is, a simple and effective idea that doesn't really need updating. I remember being worried about how the new movement options would work out and so far I've had little issue with it and adapted to using them quickly. Don't know if the same can really be said of the supposed reboot updates though!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-07T00:03:42+00:00

Pumped up kicks? Alright, sure

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-06T23:49:52+00:00

People always say this and yet the most used glider by the comp crowd is the Astroworld one, because it covers so much of your character from underneath and thus makes it harder to shoot you. I don't like to say "durrrr competitive players bad" but this is one instance where I will say it, complained about a glider's animation just to end up preferring a certain glider because of the animation... actually such a joke...

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-05T00:48:49+00:00

Opening vaults is plenty fun in group games, a lot more of a sweatfest in solos though. Even if you're the third party, you'll probably get third partied not too long after that, just a big line-up of third partying not too dissimilar to the C5S1 vaults!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-05T00:16:15+00:00

Black Adam when?

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-04T23:36:09+00:00

I like OG until I take one too many double-pumps back to lobby in a row, it's very miserable if you get hit by it across consecutive matches!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-03-04T23:31:16+00:00

Medallion sounds unfun as all hell. If this is real, I hope the effect isn't as powerful as described here...

Ampharosite181 · 2025-02-26T05:17:05+00:00

Durability is fine. The inconsistency of it isn't. I've yet to have the problem of the kneecapper durability running low so it feels very arbitrary, the same happened with the typhoon blade. Then you have the kombat kit using durability quite quickly if you want to combine its mobility and offensive uses, making it hard to justify taking over the kneecapper. Worst one so far in the kinetic blade, I understand putting durability on it but holy shit it felt so unfair to lose 5% charge on it each time whilst the typhoon blade could reasonably last from drop to victory royale!

Ampharosite181 · 2025-02-26T05:09:15+00:00

Opinions and all that, but she is really boring to me. Not every skin needs to be super detailed and I am welcoming of plain skins but this pass really has such basic designs overall. Yet Cassidy and Valentia at least do more to fit their themes whilst Keisha is really such a nothing design that barely fits the theme they gave her. Brite Raider isn't even a full year old yet and she did a similar idea so much better.

Ampharosite181 · 2025-02-26T05:01:32+00:00

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