RoR 2013 skin as Monsoon Reward

[robust kettle]

There's currently no special skin reward for Monsoon like there is in RoR2.

A pretty cool (and relatively easy) idea would be to reward players with the lower-res pixel art skin of their character from the first game, like shown in the credits.

[keen nova]

I’d love the option for skins that aren’t just recolors, too

[robust kettle]

technically the judgement skins have funny lil crowns

[terse bear]

Wouldn't be relatively easy to implement since every single animation would have to be recreated with the basic old sprites which is a lot more work than one would imagine with how intricate all the animations are now and all the new abilities

Would be cool yes, but wouldn't be worth the excessive dev time

[grave cobalt]

Is this the reason for lack of unique skins

[terse bear]

100% yes

In ror2, the character animations and their models are separate. Hence why it's easy for modders to make new skins, since they don't have to worry about making new animations

But when working with pixel art(2d art in general), you have to go one by one on each frame of every animation to make sure it works and looks right

So making new skins in this game wouldn't just be creating a new base look, you'd have to go through every frame of every animation and either have to tweak or fully recreate it in order for it to work an look proper

Not to mention the extra work it'd ask for modders to do if modders want to add more alt abilities with new animations for characters in the future. Then they'd be expected to have the animations for the most distinct alt skills

The best you can reasonably get with unique skins is just distinct color palettes + bonus lil anim stuff like judgement crown that isn't directly part of the skin

[grave cobalt]

[robust kettle]

wdym? half the work would be done for them, they'd only have to make new animation sprites for the new characters and new alts, not to mention these skins are like 15x15, just look at the silly lil commando image attached