Also, other games will put hoodies down if a headpiece proves to be too large or it clips too much and guess what, it's not counted as a separate cosmetic. They wouldn't have to count it as a separate one if they knew what they were doing because it's just changing the position of one minor piece of the set. If that somehow proves to be too much for them, then I just relay you back to the previous easier idea.

Lots of people care about clipping... Theres plenty of complaints regarding clipping of even smaller details, let alone something like abunch of hair just sprouting out of a hood or jacket.

oh well good for me cause i truly dont like anything of the new outfit, my wallet thank you whoever designed it

I'm not going to lie if they just wanted it to be a money making the decision I wouldn't mind if they made cosmetic set something you have to buy the whole thing but still give you the option to mix and match after you bought the entire cosmetic.

Don't get me wrong I'd throw a couple of toys out of the pram but still

The ponytail came with her base outfit iirc, which also came with an ugly triple braid(that clips a ton on it's own btw). Almost every hairstyle since is a side shave or masculine looking hairstyle. Besides you know it's not like I could say the words I would really call those hairstyles because feelings. The only really decent hairstyle she has is Fortune Teller.

As for Legion, while that's true for killer cosmetics, the mask could have easily been tied to the hood that came with it. It makes the mask itself quite less valuable to me.

If they wanna worry about clipping, they can do the work to fix it. It's not like the cosmetic sets aren't already 10 dollars each. Lisa Garland is 15 dollars and most League of Legends skins that are 1350 RP(13 dollars and 50 cents) have custom particle effects and sound effects usually and they're 2 dollars cheaper(and are usually still better looking).

I generally stick with the default Legion mask since the majority of the value comes with the 2nd slot. You get the hood, hair, ect. Now though I have the one from the rift and the event ones, so might swap it up.

And because the sheep continue to purchase this crap money grab it will get worse thank you for helping make their minds up to continue to screw us with these ######### micro transactions I refuse to buy anything linked and tbh they will not get a single penny more from me till they actually FIX THIS GAME instead of pumping out this crap!

this is so disappointing..i main nea and was excited to see nea get a cosmetic after quite a while. i like to mix and match certain pieces with my legacy but you cant even do that with this.. i'll literally never buy a locked set. e.e

i've seen someone bug the hair and you can wear it on its own. they said to equip the outfit, the switch to a brown outfit or piece of clothing (they wore the red leather jacket) and the head stays but the rest of the outfit goes. This goes to show that the hood is not attached to the hair, therefore should not be a linked outfit set whatsoever

this concept is not what anyone wants though. We want to be able to mix and match; at least let us have the hairs from these outfits to have fun with. This was the same issue with Cheryl and everyone complained about it. The linked outfit sets are not it.

Its part of their deal with konami they can add fun items and cool cosmetics but are limited to not being allowed to have them mix and match

Yep, you're well within your rights to give money to directly support stingey business practices, and screw the rest of us over in the process. Keep that head held high you absolute martyr.

If they just kept the head and torso locked together, but made the legs customizable, I'd be more than down. As for the hood, make it linked to the head like Bunny Feng, or only worn up with that corresponding hairstyle. I don't see why people are so against this being mix-and-match. I'd like to be able to diversify it if I go in a lobby with one or more other Neas with the same skin so we actually LOOK different and not look like some toxic stack that're all wearing the same cosmetics.

This is not ok. The Silent Hill ones, since it was a demand from Konami, ok, we had to take and no complaints would do anything. But now it's Nea. There is no reason to make the costumes linked. It ruins the fun of mixing the cosmetics.

Maybe, but in the future this might change, you never know when they will come to you with a statement like this one for "better skins"

https://www.paladins.com/news/parts-pieces-and-a-unifying-vision-for-better-skins

The only issue I have with this is pricing. Like, sometimes I would buy just one piece of an outfit cuz I liked the outfit, but didn't want to spend all my auric cells in one place. I think that if the devs want to make it so that you have to buy the entire outfit to get any of it, they should lower the price another 10% compared to each piece cost for that rarity.

You'd think at 10 BUCKS for a COSMETIC (a virtual ware, virtual as in you are paying REAL MONEY for PIXELS because they look pretty) they'd at least give you some freedom to mix and match however you feel like. But nope, long live capitalism

i guess

oopsie devs

EDIT NOTE: don't do this, the head in the back looks so bad, I can't unsee it

I hate this kind of cosmetics too, im a fan if mixing stuff, but with those legendary skins u take us our freedom to wear what we want, pls dont bring more of this ######### we dont need it.

I think these linked skins are more of a technical necessity than a marketing choice. This skin looks great but if you look at where the hood attaches and how high the waist is on the pants you can see that it crosses the usual lines where cosmetics switch. I'm guessing that the character model artists are running through their wishlist of "this would look great but can't be done as separate pieces" right now and we will start seeing normal skin pieces after or along with the 4.1 release

Truth, but you and many others noticed that and it makes behavior look like amateurs. Those kind of issues have even been included in patch notes in the past. I dont think they are going to exclusively release locked sets, just some skins where they would definitely have issues if mixed with others. It just gives the artists at behavior more creative freedom without eating into testing and debugging time

i still think you could make the head usable with other cosmetics as it's just hair and a mask but if you equip the body/legs the head will be equipped automatically like normal.

If the last part "We will continue releasing ''normal'' outfits like we were before" is implying something like "at least 50% of them" I'm fine. Personally, I totally don't understand the need for the Nea outfit. For Lisa Garland I can understand it. Or for the Legion Bunnies, even when the Clown elephant also was working without being a set.

Just as advice, regarding the massively negative feedback. The Nea outfit might have been easier to create and release, but as customizing is the big point in cosmetics, many people might be prevented from getting these. Sure I don't know the numbers, but regarding forum feedback I would guess so. I for example like Nea's hair, but not the rest of it. So I'm not gonna get anything of that, because even if I got it for free I would not be using it in this combo.