Another update!

Was kind of bummed that, with the armors I chose to replace, some people didn't have access and literally just had to wait for it to be in the store. Decided I wanted to replace some other armors but figuring that out wasn't the easiest choice. While I kind of considered the armor trait, I really cared more about accessibility (but traits did pay some influence). I would see the occasional comment for other armors, and specifically ones that affect light or heavy armors, and decided this would be worth the time spent.

B-01 Tactical armor was just an obvious one to go with that had absolutely no barrier to use. Simply own Helldivers 2 and you got it. It conflicts with, a lot of armors which doesn't make me happy, but it effectively is the most accessible while maybe also serving as a demo to someone who might want to buy a warbond to use this armor, or purchase an armor in the store.

I-09 Heatseeker was kind of a no-brainer. Visually similar, relevant armor trait, and a light armor on the first page of the Freedom's Flame Warbond. I wanted to replace the second armor as well but since it was medium, it was a no-go. Thankfully, there's only 3 other armors that have clear visual conflict with it (TR-117, CM-14, and SA-04). There are other armors it affects, but since the mod essentially hides the shin/forearm armor, it's not as noticeable the other armors it affects.
Ran into an interesting issue on this one where one piece of geo relied on two different materials. Initially not setting up a second material caused skin weighting issues, but making a brand new material duplicated 3 of my textures and bloated the file size. I had to make an entire new UV layout just for the neck and bake the textures down to a new set of 512 textures. Overall happy that it only made the compressed zip 1mb larger, whereas previously it was 40mb's larger.

CW-36 Winter Warrior was another that kind of grew on me. It's a heavy armor (check), it only visually conflicts with one other armor (check), and was on the first page of the Polar Patriots Warbond (check).

Ultimately, I hope folks are stoked for more options here and are more excited than disappointed with the choices. I've already identified some armors I want to use for the GDI soldier through this process (the AC-2 is an obvious choice for a full unique, but the Urband Legend warbond has my attention.) Ultimately, I may end up supporting both the Nod and GDI soldier on both the AC-1 and AC-2 once this is all done.



Finally thanks again for all the love, and glad folks are enjoying this mod :)