The only item in the store that i think has an impact on the tactical choices, is the attack bike ( or what it is called for the other factions ). A 2seated fast vehicel can be very usefull. The Hero, will be locked at the load out we are given. Normal Heros can choose the same items, but wont look so cool. Thats what they mea. Same with the weapons, ingame the normal weapons could be modified to be as the Heresy ones (or following ). But again, they wont look so cool
Now I'm cool with an Elite/Hero with static abilities for us Founder exclusives, but I really REALLY want to cosmetically change them. I need my LotD to have customizable armour...i need it. I mean, come on, my chaplain ass needs a skull helm on that guy, PLEASE! Although, the ability to teleport (I am assuming is all) would be pretty siiiiiiiiiiiiick. The prospect of being an Elite who wields a bolter as their MAIN is a dream. Its like being a Sternguard, except your a flaming ghost marine/fire hawk thingie and you shoot fire bullets.
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Things that are okay to put behind a paywall in a pay-to-play game: Cosmetics That's it. Making exclusive sidegrades is an extraordinarily bad move and the community is wrong on this. If someone goes out and buys this game once it's released and sees these exclusive vehicles, weapons and classes and finds out that they're unobtainable, despite having paid the full price for the game and that the reason they were unable to get them is because they were late in hearing about the game, they're going to be pissed. The simple fact that any sidegrade is behind a paywall is going to get the game labeled as P2W outright, especially after the fact that they already paid to play the game. I browse 4chan's video game board and over the last few weeks there have been a few Eternal Crusade threads and in each thread this topic has come up. Within the first few posts this game is generally labeled as "P2W bullshit", and we're barely into alpha? Not a good sign. It's not too late to fix this. Make these "sidegrades" available to everyone, just give the Founder's versions a unique and shiny look. Non-founders get access to great gear, Founders get to feel like speshul snowflakes and it kills the talk of being labeled as "p2w".
A half dozen polls and hundreds of pages of discussion later, it is shockingly still unclear where the community actually stands on this subject. Almost every poll has been "biased" in some way, and thus they frequently lean in completely contradictory directions to one another, leaving even more confusion than when they started. I don't know how this one got so out of hand, personally. The text seems pretty clear to me. Maybe it's that people didn't bother to read it, or that english isn't their first language, or they got it mixed up with the other dev questions at the time. But a good deal more than half of the people I've talked to who voted "yes" or "ok" actually meant cosmetics only. They just somehow ended up voting in a completely contradictory way to what they intended. ...go figure.
