Concept Art: Character Armor

These are the first of many new character armor types we are developing for you with your input! Thank you for all the excellent ideas! I am trilled to be bringing them to life and can't wait to see them in game.

They painted over a static male character provided by the character team. As with all armor each type will be available for male and female. As I finish each of the ideas I'll be posting them here. These are the turnovers to the character team so they include color variations and material call outs and are not for public consumption.

Please share your thoughts and ideas.

You can watch the initial process on Pen of the Avatar.
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=43837

 

YES!! More of these kinds of armor! Now...the real thing I'm waiting on... what is your concept on other variations of the heavy/plate armor...? I'm loving your references for the head pieces.

 

First off, this is really exciting. Amazing work!

Secondly. Some day, some, day. (robes)

 

Very excellent work Stephen!!!


edit: Also the Skull shoulders are nice, but I think it would make sense if only one side had a skull and the opposite side would have a leather or plate guarding.

I dropped a massive amount of imagery for "air" armor (as well some weapons) and jewelry/decorations here.

 

Awesome! Consider some plummed helmet with horse hair variations of the guards. Perhaps for officers, etc......

 

I love the last two! Can't wait to try them out in game!

 

I love their final look. They've come a long way from the concepts shown in the pen of the avatar.

 

Absolutely dead on!

 

Thanks for using my wheat and boar ideas, Stephen... have more ideas that i sketched for fun this month that I didnt bring up during that Pen of the Avatar.

 

I like all of the armor types. My only suggestion would be to maybe have the ring mail helmet come down further to at least cover ears.

 

Really love the new common guard armor Can't wait to see more varieties of plate and studded leather armor too

 

Love love love!

 

Some nice looking armours, but one of the most useful functions of armour is to deflect attacks and some of these armours fail to do so. E.g. the shoulder pads on the last image. I mean armour can be made to intimidate your opponent or wih similar function in mind, but if impractical bits are added I want it to have lower stats ingame.

 

It would be nice to see a penalty of some kind for wearing odd non-functional combinations of armor. For example in UO when people wore a plate mail helm with robes.

 

Thanks for all the great feedback and suggestions! I appreciate it.

I think we will work on more armor variations again for PotA. I'm excited about all the options and your ideas!

What I know; robes and clothes are on the list just further down and asymmetrical armor is more expensive tech/time wise and is on the list to be developed at some point. The original Avatar concept had asymmetrical armor and was tabled for the time being early on in development.

Skull armor looks cool but could be less effective, I agree. How this translates to gameplay I don't yet but it makes sense that it will at some point.

Thanks again!

 

Ooh... robes (for mages, I hope ) and clothes (definitely need more options there - kind of boring wearing merchant clothes or just underwear when not in armor ) . Looking forward to those as well

 

These are awesome!

 

Looking good. Very exciting stuff.

 

Want this...