Camelot Unchained: Actually Armored

[Zeli]

[SOURCE]

Massively exclusive: Camelot Unchained dev blog discusses armor, part 1
by MJ Guthrie
on Feb 24th 2014 12:00PM

If you are hoping for dental floss-inspired metal bikinis, you're going to be disappointed; Jacob's vision espouses realistic ensembles befitting warriors who depend on their armor for survival. Read the team's vision and see some of the concept art right here in this first installment of this series, exclusively on Massively.

SO MUCH MORE & PICS: massively.joystiq.com

PART 2: massively.joystiq.com



This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone who's played Dark Age of Camelot. Mark Jacobs has always been open about the fact that he prefers a more rational armor style. Even if you did decide to "go nekkid" in DAoC, you weren't showing off anything more than your ability to do something without armor stats since your base model was rather well dressed.


Screenshot -- Guild "Nekkid Race Across Albion" Event -- Most of those DAoC models are naked.


If you're more familiar with his name from Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, this may be news to you, since the armor there could be quite revealing (witch elves, sorceresseseses, lady-zealots). Keep in mind that the style of that game was already dictated by a long established IP. The game did celebrate some 'no pants gaming' with a variety of titles you could earn by playing without armor on, but that exposure was completely voluntary. Camelot Unchained's fashion, while pulling on some amazing creative elements, is more in keeping with DAoCs actually-armored style. You shouldn't have to worry about awkward underboob exposure as you lay dead on the field in Camelot Unchained.

For those who enjoy the view of the less dressed characters, we'll just have to see what the base models offer for our nekkid-race events.

[Maric]

I absolutely love the more historical, less extravagant art direction of Camelot Unchained. I've sat for hours and watched Michelle and Sandra create concept art on Twitch. Mark Jacobs has a vision for CU and the artists are perfectly in tune with that vision.

I love love love the Viking designs. The Arthurian bard art is also jawddropping. I pledged a tier which will award me with a signed piece of original concept art. I can't wait!

[Aberrant]

I am kind of, sorta, mildly optimistic about this project (I really really want it to be something great), but I love these armor designs. Definitely reminds me of DAoC.

[Zeli]

Part 2: massively.joystiq.com/2014/02/26/massively-exclusive-camelot-unchained-armor-dev-blog-part-2/