Ok, since Cryptic is going back and reevaluating every item in the game, I have to ask: what's going to happen to the items that unlock costume pieces? Will they be removed? Are they still going to be in? I'm asking because ever since I heard about the itemization, I've been running around like crazy trying to unlock as many costume pieces as I can, playing the game to the point of being near sick of it looking for a specific weapon. (blast you, Striker blaster...blast you open mission "A bullet bound for Biselle"!!!!)

so it's simple: are we gonna be losing costume unlocks that are tied to power replace items, or not?

I'm pretty sure that only offense, defense, an utility items are the pieces that are getting a review. Costume unlock items shouldn't be affected.

Maybe not straight up costume unlocks, but what about Power Replacers that unlock costume pieces? That's what I'm really concerned about.

There are some old items that unlocked costume pieces as well. For instance the purple crafted items would unlock costume stuff, and there are several items in Therakiel's that unlock costumes as well as being stat items.

I am not sure, but I think the conversation that was had was that power replacers will be getting removed. No idea what will happen to the costume unlocks associated with them. They might just end up becoming new dropping costume unlocks. Over all, not 100% sure, I didn't catch the full conversation.

I'm hoping they just become costume drops - I just wish a Dev would take the time to ask and see what's gonna happen, so we can stop guessing.

The problem with that is that if the dev says A and they implement B instead, then people will complain that they were promised A, even if the dev states that it probably will change in the same post.

Eh, yeah, you're right, but people complain either way, so what'cha gonna do? ^^;

I think the difference is that in one scenario people complain entirely on their own, while on the other one it may at least seem like the Dev's played a hand in it by making statements that later get misconstrued as "promises" by players that choose to ignore the "this may or may not be implemented this way, but as of this time looks like we may do it this way..." disclaimers. So the Dev's tend to go the pass of least resistance and least likely to create a PR mess by simply not giving out any information until they're sure.

That being said, I wouldn't be surpried if some of the costume unlocks that may be affected by the coming itemization changes find their way into some sort of new token-based in-game vendors or as new drops somewhere in the game. Hoping its either of those, or a mixture of both (assuming there's a reason to get rid of the pieces that currenty unlock them at all).

...Ugh, at this rate I'm due to just give up on the bloody rifle, I'm gonna play myself sick of CO at this rate.......

x.x

The one that doesn't result in accusations of dishonesty, bait&switch, or anything of the sort...