All they would need to do is some work on the character screen and then copy and paste the normal human model over. Do you seem to think they need to remake humans all over again for some reason?
The only real problem would be that the Heritage armor is only made for the fat human model but aside from that, it’s not that much work.
The discussion ended right here to be honest. OP, your points are all valid but this is neither the first nor last time you will be denied a choice of subrace/customizability due to blizzard just saying no.
You cannot play as a forsaken dark ranger despite it sharing the exact skeleton and animations as a regular blood elf. Likewise, you cannot play as the Krokul, a subrace of the draenei.
With enough complaining they might change their minds, but so far it doesn’t look too promising.
I think them getting additional faces is a bit higher priority.
I would like additional customization options for Kul Turans. At this point, I do not know if the unlock is worth the time.
YES FULL BEARD.
Hey, don’t get ahead of yourself. They’re coming.
What’s the explanation?
That’s not the issue. The issues is Blizzard decided that most Kul Tirans looked like average ones, but the Kul Tiran playable character can only be big.
The Gnome you’re describing that is slightly larger and has one extra digit isn’t a Gnome, it’s a Dwarf.
Blizzard themselves decided that most Kul Tirans were averaged sized. The player character should reflect that as well, and at least have the option. Is there a reason why it shouldn’t?
It’s the first time that the in-game races’ representation was overwhelmingly more prevalent than the alternative, or what the player had access to.
You can’t play an Undead elf or a Krokul because they can be argued away as a small handful of the overall population. The average-sized Kul Tirans are not that. They massively outnumber the larger bodies. This is a new precedent.
They need to be 10-15% shorter. They shouldn’t be larger than Draenei or Orcs, nor taller than Night Elves.
If they were shorter, they probably wouldn’t look as fat proportionally, either.
we’ll see if the live version is just a giant panda or it does have unique moves.
Why is that an issue? The model you want is quite literally in the game.
It’s not the model that I want.
It’s consistency in the visual language that I want.
Blizzard showed that Kul Tirans are multiple sizes. Those sizes should be playable for the Kul Tiran player character.
So no, the average model is in the game, but not available to the Kul Tiran.
But it’s a game with limitations.
Racial uniqueness is something they’ve always strived for. Plus I’m not sure there’s any race that has vastly different body types despite that disparity most likely existing. We get one body type for everyone.
Obviously it’s a game with limitations. I’m not arguing that at all.
I’m not the one saying that Kul Tirans are diverse in size. Blizzard said that when they made the vast majority of Kul Tiran characters and NPCs the same size as most other humans. Blizzard made this bed, I think they should lay in it, and own up to their own choices with the visuals of a particular race, especially when the customization options of the race when playable actually constitute the minority of what’s visible in game.
What’s the reasonable gameplay rationale for why there can’t be two races with the same model? Visibility? Because that’s certainly not true for the dwarf, orc, and draenei races.
Can you give me a good reason why it has to stay that way?
I would be happy if Kul-Tirans weren’t the fat race. They are all fat people. Yay what a joy, let’s play the fat humans. I mean seriously this is what passes for “stocky” and “hardy”?
Hey guys let’s all be hardy folks with paunch bellies and so much fat you can’t even see our shoulders or chins.
On point though yes silhouettes went out the window the minute Blizzard introduced Panda’s for both factions.
Some people like the bigger model. I think it’s fine, and I don’t have a problem with it.
I probably wouldn’t play a Kul Tiran anyway, truth be told. But as long as Blizzard won’t commit to their own presentation of the race, I’m never going to.
I hear you. I am an altaholic so there is a chance i might play 1 eventually just to see if i like the models movements.
My point was just lets call it what it is, they are the fat people. They are the tubs and obese humans, they are NOT “hardy” and stocky". First time i saw the main guy in Boralus at the map i was like lol this dude is an old fat dude and i am supposed to think he is some badass?
I’m not a part of Blizzard but if I had to guess, it’s probably easier to have everyone be one size on this old rig they have.
The game is filled with toys that replace your model with something else entirely.
I don’t think model swaps are at all that complicated.
I feel like this would be different.
Maybe it is, but I think it’s speculation to assume it’s actually a hardware/server-side issue.