Tracer needs skins that make her look feminine. Also she needs skins that not only change the color of her outfit, but that change the chronal accelerator its self. For example, make it in to a necklace. Another idea is to change the concept of the skin; make it different. For example, give her light stealth armor with a chronal accelerator built in to the wrist or chest… Or just give her a dress and necklace. Just a few ideas.
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Why does she need to be more feminine?
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Because she looks better, it also suits her more than non feminine.
I really don’t get it why Tracer should look more feminine. The belief that it would look better is a rather weak reason.
Her design was thought out. It suits her role as a quick flanking hero, her character as an optimistic, happy and goofy person, and her backstory as an ex pilot with an accident, “giving her time travel powers”.
Since you generally would prefer tracer to be more feminine, let me ask you this: How would you change her deafult skin to be more fiminine, which still suits tracer as a hero and as a character?
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I should have clarified more, the skin I was referring to was her new epic skin “Lightning”. It does not suit her. Her new skin is just different colours and different hair that does not suit her at all, after a year you would have thought they would have made more effort.
Something like changing the coronal accelerator; making her outfit more unique, changing things instead of just the colours. Give her female stealth armour or something, because after all she is a flanker. That was just an idea for an outfit.
If your wondering, “How can they change her chronal accelerator?” They could make it in to a wrist band or a necklace.
Her default skin is perfect, i agree with you. It’s just the new skin that does not quite suit her.
To be fair, Blizzard did in fact put more effort than usual because the epic skin a reskin with remodeled hair and not just a reskin. However, her hair does look odd, maybe just because I got used to her vanilla hair. All in all, as an epic skin, it suits tracer, the hero faster than a blink of an eye, pretty well.
About the chronal accelerator: I do reckon you can redesign it as an accessory like a necklace or bracelet. However, that would lose the importance of it. Lorewise, it is a vital part of tracers mere existence. She literally would be lost in time without it. That’s why Blizzard chose the chest as the location for the chronal accelerator: To emphasize how vital this machine is for Tracer. Changing it to an accessory would imply that it’s just a gadget or a tool that is not really necessary.
There could be issues with the model, too because of the trail caused by the chronal accelerator. That has to be relocated and might cause confusion for the enemy. The trail usually leads to the center of tracer after all.
The chronal accelerator would only work as an accessory if its importance is emphasized well enough. A remodel would be necessary though, because of the leather jackets collar that hides tracers neck and the “gun station” gauntlets, which blocks the braces.
Lastly, the idea of stealth armor would work for a flanker but not for Tracer. Stealth armor would imply that the wearer works in the shadows and finishes their job silently. Tracer, on the other hand, is ready for combat and goes right into a fight with a surprise. Both cinematics starring her shows how her personality suits her fighting style: quick, flashy and somewhat joyful.
One hero that might fit stealth armor would be Sombra, a flanking infiltration that tries to do her mission undercover. Noone shall know her real identity after all.
Its an outfit, it does not mean that they do what that outfit symbolises. For example, Winston wears a diving outfit, it does not necessarily mean he is a diver. Zenyatta wears a cultist outfit, it does not mean he is in a cult. Outfits in Overwatch don’t mean the exact thing they symbolise in real life.
The stealth armour was just an idea, they could do lots of things and make her skins truly unique and stand out.
Moving her chronal accelerator might work it might not, but they could at least change the shape of it like they do in Tracers Punk skin.
Her outfits just need a little bit of spice added to them, change somethings about them and make them unique, her vanilla hair style is Tracer, she is not Tracer without her hair, but you can change her outfit as much as you want, it was just a thought that crossed my mind when seeing the new epic skin.
The only thing that was changed, was her hair and colours of her outfit “Lightning”. They need to make more outfits like Cadet Oxton. I know Lightning was an epic but they could at least change more about her outfit, like they did with Soldier 76’s outfit “Venom”.
Wow a dress sounds interesting, not sure about the practical use, but I’d love it
Default skin without glasses? Something like cadete oxton, or grafitti. i generally liked any skin, but the only chance to see her without the goggles, is the sitting victory pose. but let’s see what blizzard comes up with.