[2020] A Twitter thread of all the Elderflame skins and their variants...

omg. u/oniram177 you called the Judge "the chonky dragon" too???

probably at one point. i mostly called the frenzy the bb

nah elderflame is its own thing made separate from Reaver. there are always going to be some similarities between skin animations for key points of contact on the guns.

the melees are still something that we've never really explicitly talked about but the way we internally think about them is sort of in an archetypal format. in the same way a skin like the luxe vandal or aristocrat ares adheres to the base animations and vfx, traditionally a melee would do the same unless we built it to do something it wasnt meant to do.. sort of how we take the Prime Vandal and give it a transforming reload animation.

rather than limit ourselves to using the same 1 melee slot and finding different ways to fit new shapes and features into the same motions, we created archetypes to fit into new versions of a melee so that some can feel like a fresh take. this way we dont have to make everything from scratch every single time. like i mentioned with the guns, we do redesign the shapes and textures but in all cases we dont completely redo the anims and vfx, they're more additive. and melees are no different.

so the base knife, you'll see that set with things like luxe, kingdom, prism, etc. we call that our tactical set.

prime and sovereign, the one handed swing archetype we call our aggressive set.

and now with the elderflame (and previously reaver), we call that our assassin set.

from that frame of mind when we're making new skin packs we always look at what are opportunities to add (like the VFX upgrades for elderflame, prime, or sovereign) and when is the right time to make a new set (TBD). ideally though if we did make a new set it wouldnt be a one off, and we'd find ways to fit more thematics into that archetype.

yeah ideally at some point when there's enough we've talked about splitting up or making a collections filter to categorize them that way. also at some point that carousel is generally gonna get too big anyway :P

i get pinged on these so ill see them and if there's something i can respond to ill try :)

for community skins, i dont think we'd ever just take something thats made by the community, but its very possible at some point in time we would make something with the community. League did a similar thing where they had a tristana skin that the community voted on and it was basically made with the community's input.

for the twitch drops and such im not sure on that one since thats a strategy well beyond my realm. we're always down to support content being made for events or new methods of acquisition but its up to the folks who actually run that to handle that part of the planning of it

We've internally called this one Fury