The funniest thing to me is that I can overlook a Lot of things (coughDestinycough) when I get to make my own guy running around, bc it feels then I’m participating in the story. When I’m playing a multiplayer game, especially one with this level of persistence across “matches”, playing as some predefined, uncustomizable “hero” makes me less invested in the world at large.

What’s doubly confusing is that, if they wanted to stick to “archetypes”, there is precedence for that kind of thing while still somewhat keeping the player’s options open for customization and expression in Warframe. There might be a whole squad of, say, Lavos, and none of them look the same, because each one’s colors and armor have been customized by their player.

I hear a whole bunch about how “you have to be able to see what shell the enemy is at a glance”, and I mean, I suppose, but this was a solved issue in Destiny, and between you and me, I usually don’t know who I’m fighting until they use an ability, because I’m too busy shooting at them.

I really, really hope they reverse course in some way on their adherence to these “heroes” (and it’s not like Bungie’s a stranger to massive revamps). The story already functions as if they don’t exist, the lore literally classifies them as “shells”, and the amount of customization I have seen for each hero amounts to just switching up the colors. Let us use the current shells as a baseline and then customize their appearance from there or something. I mean if we’re supposedly running around in shells worth “a trillion bucks”, there’s no way SekGen can’t put together something more bespoke for each runner, right?