Hey guys!
I was thinking about how people are wanting more character skins and more ways to show off their achievements, and I had an idea.
They should make a set of "Elite" or "Hero" parts for each faction, and make earning each piece a huge achievement! After all, there are 6 different pieces for character customization. Such pieces could be given out for insane things like...
Head-- Reach maximum prestige level.
Torso-- Get 10,000 kills.
Hands-- Get 200 "Victory" medals.
Legs-- Get 75 "Survivor" medals.
Boots-- Destroy 1,000 enemy hawks in the air or on the ground with any weapon.
Accessory-- Earn Gold on every level of the Campaign.
(Note: these are all off the top of my head, feel free to suggest your own in the comments)
Each achievement should give you 2 of each respective part, one for each faction. Every part should be visually distinct, like the beta gift is, so that everyone thinks "OH! That guy's got one of THOSE!?!"
Also, each part should look good with the rest of the parts, as most people will never get more than one or two, but they should also look REALLY impresive together. This would attract more attention to those players commited enough to earn the complete set, while also creating a sort of "Collect them all!" mentality.
What do you guys think of this? Also, please take a moment to post what you think each Rifter and Outcast skin should look like, to give LBI ideas 
Shouper2273 wrote:maybe not 1k hawl kills in a hawk, maybe just 1k hawk kills. gold difficulty is hard, mercineary would be mroe adviced. the visctory count needs to be pumped up, aswell as survivor (inless people don`1t play co-op anymore) but yes i do like the idea.
Oh, yeah, I meant kill a hawk 1,000 times by any means, and that the enemy hawk still counts regardless of if it's in plane or mech form. I ought to reword that some time.
And I'm noticing that some of these will come easier than others depending on your play-style. I never play Co-op, as none of my friends really play this game, and so I think I've only gotten one survivor medal since the beta lol.
Do you guys have suggestions for different requirements? And what exactly should these skins look like (I'm thinging something cyborg-like, we don't have enough of those 
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EzraMajor wrote:
I like it. I don't really like any of the Rifter skins right now..
Honestly, I like the armored Rifter skins, but I agree, many of them are silly (plad shirt anyone?). Even the good ones all look a little too similar. Hopefully something like this would throw something fresh into the mix
Hey again guys! I had a great idea for what these "Hero" skins could look like, but as I am much better at writing than drawing, I will describe it for you guys below. (Feel free to only skim this)
Rifter skin.
I'm picturing a very valient looking cyborg, yet one that is also run down enough to blend in with the game's setting.
Picture a very muscular, heroic looking guy wearing a costume much like Emmet's, with lots of leather armor, belt buckles, and a functional holster for the revolver (it just remains empty when you don't have one). Now picture him after 5-10 years of brutal combat, in which he has become a grizzled veteran and much of the left side of his body has been replaced with prosthetic implants. These implants look as if they were designed by the people who create the Rifters' extractors, meaning that they are solid steel with various pistons and exhaust pipes which sporadically spew little puffs of smoke and rift energy.
Head-- His mouth is completely gone, and has instead been fitted with a armored gas mask in place of his jaw, much like that villian in the new Starwars MMORPG. He has somewhat long, ragged hair and his right eye is still intact, but his left eye has been replaced with a spooky looking, functional spotlight.
Torso-- He wears a black sleeveless shirt with lots of leather armor like Emmet's. His right arm and shoulder is very buffed up and muscular, while his whole left sholder and arm have been replaced with armored prosthetics. Perhaps pipes on his right sholder could fire puffs of smoke, and over his heart could be something resembling an energy core. It would be awesome if they could give the torso a cape, but I think this would conflict with the jetpacks.
Hands--His right hand wears what looks like a smaller version of the "Power-Glove" in which the tips of his fingers stick out like a biker's glove. His left hand could either look like the something out of "The Terminator" movies, or perhaps be a giant, bulldozer-like claw (assuming this doesn't conflict with the animations).
Legs--His right leg is still intact, and could more or less just be a copy of Emmet's right leg, including the holster. I'm think that this holster could even be functional, as they already have animations for removing/returning the pistol to the holster that they could carry over from the story mode, and the holster could just be empty until you acquire the pistol (this would be a nice easter-egg for people who earn it). The left leg should look pretty armored and robotic, yet still human enough to blend in with the normal feet.
Feet-- I'm think that the right foot should just be a pretty standard boot (couldn't think of anything creative here ) but the left leg should be a very rugged looking peg leg like thing with tire-like treads on the bottom, perhaps even looking like it has a hop joint and/or having pistons that connect it to armored leg pieces.
Accessory--I'm thinking that the accessory would be like the "hand of the founder" in that it uses the basic knife (or perhaps a cooler one) but it gives the hand this cool electrical look, with vicious blue sparks constantly flying and arking across it, which should look great with the "power-glove" pieces.
Outcast Skin.
I am picturing the outcast skin looking something like an "evil twin" of the rifter skin. Imagine if the guy I described above were to become heavily infected by rift energy and joined the outcast. Much of his clothing has been torn away and his flesh has devolved into bare musles and perhaps even just floating bones in some places. Much of the armor on the prosthetics is now gone, reducing them to an eery skeleton of wires and pipes with Rift crystals jammed in amongst the circuitry. He still has his pistol holster, and the spotlight of his eye still shines, but the glass has chipped off to reveal the flickering filament within. The cover of his gas mask has been fractured as well, and the jagged pieces of metal make it look more like a toothy jaw similar to that of Bane in the new Batman movie. His hair is gone as well, leaving him with either Rift flames coming out of his head like Sweet Tooth, or perhaps with pipes bellowing rift energy from the back of his head. Also, instead of the accessory having electrical sparks, I'm thinking that it would cause the hand to emit whiffs of flaming rift energy, similar to Emmit's but big enough to be compatable with all the different types of Outcast hands.
What do you guys think of this? (And could someone with drawing abilities maybe sketch this up and post it on here if they have spare time? 
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Do you have any suggestions for this design or maybe even for a whole new one?
