Roxx, I understand there could be technical limitations on certain skins, but the first Ark Pass weapon skin box did not have the limitations.
Most weapons released so far explicitly had “For X class” applied to them, and excluded weapon models for unreleased classes even when they existed in other versions.
The Ark Pass 1 weapon skin had no explicit exclusions though. Two weeks ago I fished the Ark Pass 1 weapon box out of roster storage and I was able to preview Lofty Noble style weapons for Arcanist and Machinist, and neither of those were available when Ark Pass 1 released.
Maybe the models were loaded in subsequent patches specifically because the Ark Pass 1 is special but what seems more likely is the majority of skins we’re getting are adjusted to specifically contain only classes which were released in the West.
Someone is coding the items explicitly to leave off unreleased classes. Maybe it’s a miscommunication, maybe the original idea was to not give players false hope that their favorite class was coming out soon.
But it’s possible to code them to have everything. At minimum they could be patched later on to include additional skins.
I’m NOT ASKING FOR NEW SKIN MODELS, THIS IS SPECIFICALLY PREEXISTING SKINS which are being ‘turned off’ when the base class isn’t out in the West, like the Omen Glavier spear.
The skins will likely be available for specialist. Just get them and throw them into storage. The worst that can happen is they goof it up and you get to use it on one of your other 13 characters.
Generating scarcity, so people will feel forced to buy the skin that releases with Artist. I’m sure a lot of players would be satisfied with this Ark Pass skin if it could be saved for Artist, because it’s a players’ favourite one.
I don’t want to be HOPIUM dealer or anything and don’t want to discredit CM statment BUT…
When Ark Pass Season 1 launched, there was no Arcana YET, but if someone saved box from this pass, when Arcana launched there was costume avaiable in this box for her - and… oh well… look you can even open right now Machinist from this box.
The reason is simple - Arcana was available when first pass was in KR, same is for this pass - Artist was available during this pass and you can clearly see her costume on KR promotion site, so I would highly assume that when Artist will launch, same will happen to this boxes and they will get updated - of course there is possiblity that wonderful company such as Amazon Games will have great idea to lock it out - but tbh, doubt that personally.
I know you shoudn’t tell things like “100% it will be Artist costume in this box” because if CM say something like this and it won’t be happening, there will be backlash, but like cmon… it’s better to say nothing than missleading community, not knowing you are doing it.
Hi Roxx! I just made a post asking about the weapon skins, but I wanted to reply here to get your input because you mentioned that the weapon skins will not work for future classes. There is one weapon skin chest that has worked for all future classes, which was the ark pass season 1 skin. It has been opened for arcana and scouter. Are the ark pass weapon chests different and will work for future classes?
Might be different this time around, the head, top and bottoms skin chests all show as bound to roster when obtained, The weapon chest small print shows “Binds when obtained”. So it’s either a bug, or it’s been changed for this pass and you’ll have to make sure to claim it on a character you want a weapon skin on.
lol been here since the beginning, still not sure why people cry like babies about every single thing. Compared to KR, NA/EU cry over every single tiny irrelevant thing lol and then make giant paragraphed posts saying their “good bye” like any of us care.
