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Legendary/Ultra Rare Sets: How solid did this concept evolve?

kDarko
kDarko Member Posts: 70
in General Discussions

Over 1 year ago I published my first thread talking about the division between "Legendary" and "Ultra Rare" sets; in a moment in which only "Legendary" rarity was meant to distinguish those skins which actually change the base character's identity and model, from the usual skins in the shop.

Soon after my thread, and as it was officially announced by BHVR, "Legendary" outfits were split into 2 different rarities:

-Legendary Sets: Featuring all those characters (in the shape of skins) that belong to an external licence.

-Ultra Rare Sets: Featuring all those characters (in the shape of skins) that DIDN'T belong to an external licence, but was inspired by mythological/folklore creatures.

The split ended up being quite a solid idea. At the end of the day, to split those rarities in order to distinguish "licenced" from "not-licenced" wasn't a bad idea at all, and we soon got used to it.

Nevertheless, one year passed since that "split", and the addition of new characters as "Legendary/UR" Sets continued the legacy of this concept, but also took it into questionable directions much different from the original idea, sometimes making from an original and clear premise, a simple tag for any kind of skins.

In this thread I'd like to check one by one every "Legendary/UR" Sets currently in game for KILLERS (Since survivors only have "Legendary" Sets and all of them work fine with the concept); and commenting why they are well implemented or why not. All focusing on 3 parametres: Character's Identity, Character's origin and Additional Features. Let's start =)!


UR - The Minotaur (Oni): Changes the concept and appearence of the character radically. It's based on a mythological character, so it's a legit "UR". It has no additional features, but that's not a base pillar on a "Legendary/UR" determination.

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UR - The Krampus (Trapper): Changes the concept and appearence of the character radically. It's based on a Folklore character, so it's a legit "UR". It has no additional features.

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L - The Look-See (Doctor): Changes the concept and appearence of the character notably. It's based on a licenced character from CryptTV, so it's a legit "Legendary". It has no additional features.

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L - The Mordeo (Huntress): Changes the concept and appearence of the character notably. It's based on a licenced character from CryptTV, so it's a legit "Legendary". It has no additional features.

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UR - Ferryman of the Underworld (Blight): Changes the concept and appearence of the character notably. It's based on a mythological character, so it's a legit "UR". It has no additional features.

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L - Chatterer (Cenobite): Changes the concept and appearence of the character radically. It's based on a licenced character from Hellraiser, clearly differenced from PinHead (The Cenobite). It also adds different voicelines from its base character. So it's a legit "Legendary".

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UR - Baba-Yaga (Huntress): Changes the concept and appearence of the character radically. It's based on a Folklore character. It features a totally reworked audio, lobby animations and a completely different lobby music. It's a legit "UR" and probably the most complete one currently in game.

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UR - God of Desire (Trickster): DOESN'T change the character in any sense. It's simply another outfit for the Trickster, so no identity is replaced. it's based on "Cupid", so it'd be a legit "UR" if it wasn't a mere cosplay for Trickster. The only reason for it's increased rarity is on its additional features, being these a different "in-queue" animation and a voiceline changed during the mori. From the original concept of an "UR" Set, this one has NO real justification of being "Ultra Rare". It should be a "Very Rare" with some little additions.

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UR - Rotten Remains (Onryo): Physically changes the character's visuals, but doesn't actually change hers identity, since she keeps being Sadako. Apart from that fact, and even if we could actually say it's different enough to be differenced from "Sadako", it's based on an external licenced character, so it should be "Legendary" instead of "UR". So it's NOT a legit "Ultra Rare". It has no additional features either.

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UR - Warhammer Titan (Spirit): Changes the concept and appearence of the character slightly but enough. It's clearly based on an external licence (Attack on Titan), so I can't find a reason to tell why it's "UR" instead of "Legendary". It features a different lobby music.

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UR - Armored Titan (Oni): Changes the concept and appearence of the character radically. It's clearly based on an external licence (Attack on Titan), so I can't find a reason to tell why it's "UR" instead of "Legendary". It features a different lobby music too. (Also, please BHVR, fix its visual bugs xD).

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L - Hunk (Legion): Changes the concept and appearence of the character radically. It's based on a licenced character from the Resident Evil, so it's perfectly set as "Legendary". It features a modified audio in game, a completely new lobby animation and music. A very legit Legendary.

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And that's all for now. In my opinion, there's been such a distortion on the concept that BHVR itself created. What do you think about it? Do you think any of the Sets I marked as "unlegit" are actually "legit" to have those rarities? Let me know your thoughts =) !

Peace!

Comments

  • TheNTT777
    TheNTT777 Member Posts: 24

    Great breakdown, it really does seem like the distinction between Legendary and Ultra Rare is becoming a little blurry.

    I fully expected the Attack on Titans killer skins to be Legendary and yet they aren't, seemingly breaking the trend of Legendaries being licensed. I guess they could be considered cosplay, but Hag's Crypt TV skin "The Birch" was updated after its release to become "Very Rare" since it was more cosplay than a new model, which just confuses me even more.

    If it were up to me, both Ultra Rare and Legendary skins should always have new animations / voice lines to distinguish them from lower rarities, with Legendaries being tied to a licensed property. Whether or not the Killer is a different character entirely when donning an Ultra Rare skin shouldn't be that important, imo.

    Before reading this post I had no idea Trickster's UR skin had new voicelines and animations, but at least under my definition I think it's justified in being labeled as Ultra Rare, even if it's lackluster compared to something like Huntress' Baba Yaga.

  • OrangeBear
    OrangeBear Member Posts: 2,849
    edited September 2022

    Mordeo for the Huntress is actually Very Rare suprisingly.

    My bad, it is actually legendary, but The Birch for The Hag is Very Rare for some reason.

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