#Illuvial Skins in Overworld

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umbral willow
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  • I saw a year old+ thread on this, but I'm creating a new thread considering how much has changed and current priorities being worked on in game post-launch compared to 2023.*

  • General idea: Have cosmetic skins for illuvials in the overworld. They should not permanently bond to illuvials, you can slot them in and out (allows you to buy several skins for 1 illuvial and swap them for holidays or based on your mood). You can see them in the OW with the skin applied, and in your inventory (2D high res view and 3D view).

  • Reasoning:

  1. When we get OW combat, seeing your illuvial slightly customized to a skin you chose will make it feel more like your illuvial (pikachu wearing Ashes hat being the easy example, or in our case, Axodon wearing a trench coat and hat, I've seen a picture of it on the main illuvidex page). The illuvial skin can be used to help match your personality or preferences.
  2. Adds value as a player, (fun, customization) and adds $ value to illuvials because they have another feature tied to owning one.
  3. Multiplayer is coming. I think seeing players in Sanctum Mesa with the same illuvials will be cool, but seeing 3 of the same illuvial with 3 different owners and different skins would add a nice visual flare.
  4. Additional revenue stream, and slightly changes the visuals you're looking at while grinding regions with your favourite illuvials out by your side.

Caveat:

  • I would suggest we do not let the skins carry into Arena, because you need opponent illuvials to be quickly identifiable, but you could let the skins be used in a future kart game etc.
cursive fox
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Skins always sell
Look at league of legends
I agree

grave nexus
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This has been discussed many times over the years, the team doesn't like it. Some decent points why not:

  • many different skins can create confusion on the battleboard
  • cool skins will make holo/dark holo pointless
  • after set1 is done, we will have illuvial 'variants' of pre existing illuvials, which will also have a different skin color/model from my understanding
cursive fox
grave nexus
umbral willow
# grave nexus This has been discussed many times over the years, the team doesn't like it. Som...
  • Battleboard confusion would only pertain to Arena though right? Overworld combat wouldn't be an issue, and PvE battleboard with NPC's or capturing wouldn't be an issue. So just exclude Arena which is in the original post.
  • Skins won't hide the holo/dark holo effects fully because the illuvial wouldn't be completely covered in whatever outfit/accessory set you equip to it. It would also be fine if people did not buy skins for their holo/darkholos, but only for their regular illuvials, because finding a holo is already a fun variant to show off and enjoy as is.
  • I think by skin I'm talking more about outfits or accessories, similar to beyond but in a less silly/lighthearted direction. Not fully changing the features/colour/vfx of the illuvial.
umbral willow
cursive fox
grave nexus
cursive fox
grave nexus
cursive fox
crimson temple
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u know whats confusing? ethereal illuvials

sterile oasis
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I'm happy with skins just on ranger/drone. We need the ranger in Arena so theres a place to show them off