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Legendary and Visceral Rarity
This is a decently long post relative to what I've written before, so thank you in advance for taking the time to read it.
I don't like the standard that the new Houndmaster Legendary/Visceral outfit sets for other Legendary and Visceral outfits spoke about during the Doomed Course livestream on November 28.
My impression of Ultra-Rare and Legendary outfits is that they were 'transformative' in the sense that it transforms the character into a wholly different character. The Ferryman, The Baba Yaga, the Minotaur and the Were-Elk outfits for Blight, Huntress, Oni and Huntress again turn them from their original DBD killer selves into creatures from myth, which I can understand since the models (and sometimes though it should be every time SFX and lobby animations) are new.
With Houndmaster though, it isn't a transformation so much as a vanity change. I don't think the "lavish look" warrants an ultra-rare outfit on its own for being an outfit change when it's still the same Houndmaster. Yeah, she has new lobby animations, but it breaks the established pattern already. I can excuse the Houndmaster outfit being Ultra-Rare for having the dog be changed into another breed though; that is a "transformation" of Snug into another dog, consistent with the other Ultra-Rare and Legendary outfits.
For the three/four outfits so far that have Visceral rarity, they all include unique moris, which I can excuse for raising the price even further. But suddenly denoting the Visceral for changing the look of a killer's power leaves a really sour taste in my mouth, and leads me to believe that this kind of excuse will be used in the future for other cosmetics. To me, it seems then like they'd have no problem giving a Visceral price for the novelty of changing the look of the Hillbilly's chainsaw, the Huntress' hatchets, the Trapper's traps, or whatever else, just for the game considering on a technical level it to be the power.
TL;DR: The new Houndmaster outfit should at most be Ultra-Rare, and they shouldn't use Visceral to justify the highest cosmetic prices for the novelty of changing the look of what the game considers to be the killer power prop.
I also personally feel that either the developers should add a unique mori to the outfit to justify the price, or reduce the price and offer refunds or the difference in price change to those who already purchased the outfit.
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