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Willards is a great server, do not get me wrong! However, one thing I cannot stand is how the citizen models are still in the same old 2004-era style besides a few chance reskins. The option to select your hair and beard is wonderful, but I could easily do without it if my citizen's model was in a higher definition similar to the Civil Protection models and other factions.
It has come to my attention that many players and staff of Willards are relatively new to the gamemode, so I'll provide an introduction for y'all. Take into account the detail of the citizen models in the HL2TS2 pack, which you can easily look up on the steam workshop. There's no giant grocery list of models, in fact, they're very similar in size and selection to the OG HL2 Citizen models, but each skin is a vital difference and characteristic change that allows for any sort of character to be played. I got a normal 'bald' citizen model, but with one skin change, he can go from looking like some blonde English skinhead to a young Latino or Arab guy. It's amazing and it was done years ago, whereas while Willard is years ahead of many other servers in functionalities like GUI, crafting, etc. But woefully behind in terms of graphical design for citizens. When I see people who want to RP as creative concepts and diversify their portfolios, wanting to play characters from Latin America, the Middle East, and Hell, even just wanting to play someone that looks different from the HL2 models that in several European countries, are old enough to drink, and they're unable to properly convey or make their character unique due to the graphical limitations enforced by the age and lack of variety of the models and skins? That itself disappoints me.
HL2TS2 models are definitely protected by the owner and you cannot use them for obvious reasons (though I would look into it, Willards is a huge server and the servers these were originally used for have gone the way of the dodo.) But I'd love to see any developer in this server perform a graphical update or reskin of the models, and make them look good.
This was more of an unstructured rant than an actual suggestion, and I apologize, so I will restate what I'd love to see in my conclusion: Update the citizen models, especially the male ones, as they're all in a bad need of a facelift. It'd probably take several days of constant admin requests asking for skin changes and whatnot if you can't think of any other way for a quick customization and adaptation for all players joining a server post-update, but once that's over with, general roleplay would be a lot more immersive. We all want to see our characters look the way they do on the big screen, we don't want to have to pretend and imagine what they look like. I wanna play as a young Arab guy and have his model LOOK THE PART man, I wanna play as a black chick with dreads. I wanna play as a gruff Asian guy with scars and a natural-looking beard that doesn't look like he had armpit hair glued to his face. Detail FTW!
ATTACHED are some general photos of the models I am suggesting Willards should either base their facelift off of, or use entirely. I am just a messenger, so I can't imagine how difficult reworking it with all the clothes/meshes/etc. would be, but I think it'd be for a great cause. I'll also attach the workshop link for anyone that would like to review the models, either as a developer looking for inspiration or as a player wanting to see if my suggestion/critique is in the right place.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444734535&searchtext=ts2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=150041615&searchtext=city+74
Thanks for reading, and I hope you can share a critique!
It has come to my attention that many players and staff of Willards are relatively new to the gamemode, so I'll provide an introduction for y'all. Take into account the detail of the citizen models in the HL2TS2 pack, which you can easily look up on the steam workshop. There's no giant grocery list of models, in fact, they're very similar in size and selection to the OG HL2 Citizen models, but each skin is a vital difference and characteristic change that allows for any sort of character to be played. I got a normal 'bald' citizen model, but with one skin change, he can go from looking like some blonde English skinhead to a young Latino or Arab guy. It's amazing and it was done years ago, whereas while Willard is years ahead of many other servers in functionalities like GUI, crafting, etc. But woefully behind in terms of graphical design for citizens. When I see people who want to RP as creative concepts and diversify their portfolios, wanting to play characters from Latin America, the Middle East, and Hell, even just wanting to play someone that looks different from the HL2 models that in several European countries, are old enough to drink, and they're unable to properly convey or make their character unique due to the graphical limitations enforced by the age and lack of variety of the models and skins? That itself disappoints me.
HL2TS2 models are definitely protected by the owner and you cannot use them for obvious reasons (though I would look into it, Willards is a huge server and the servers these were originally used for have gone the way of the dodo.) But I'd love to see any developer in this server perform a graphical update or reskin of the models, and make them look good.
This was more of an unstructured rant than an actual suggestion, and I apologize, so I will restate what I'd love to see in my conclusion: Update the citizen models, especially the male ones, as they're all in a bad need of a facelift. It'd probably take several days of constant admin requests asking for skin changes and whatnot if you can't think of any other way for a quick customization and adaptation for all players joining a server post-update, but once that's over with, general roleplay would be a lot more immersive. We all want to see our characters look the way they do on the big screen, we don't want to have to pretend and imagine what they look like. I wanna play as a young Arab guy and have his model LOOK THE PART man, I wanna play as a black chick with dreads. I wanna play as a gruff Asian guy with scars and a natural-looking beard that doesn't look like he had armpit hair glued to his face. Detail FTW!
ATTACHED are some general photos of the models I am suggesting Willards should either base their facelift off of, or use entirely. I am just a messenger, so I can't imagine how difficult reworking it with all the clothes/meshes/etc. would be, but I think it'd be for a great cause. I'll also attach the workshop link for anyone that would like to review the models, either as a developer looking for inspiration or as a player wanting to see if my suggestion/critique is in the right place.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444734535&searchtext=ts2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=150041615&searchtext=city+74
Thanks for reading, and I hope you can share a critique!
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